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Reality Bytes

‘Reality Bytes’

Season 3, Episode 24 -  Aired May 18, 1994

Randy is corresponding with a woman on an online bulletin board by pretending to be a 32-year-old dermatologist. Meanwhile, Tim helps Mark with his science project and welcomes the crew of the NASA space shuttle Endeavour to Tool Time.

Quote from Brad

Brad: Randy, you've gotta write her back and stop her from coming.
Randy: It's too late. She's already left.
Brad: Then you better learn how to remove a growth real quick.
Randy: Oh, man, I am in big trouble. What am I gonna do?
Brad: All right. How about this? Molly's never seen what you look like, so when she gets here, tell her Randy Taylor moved out and we're the new owners.
Randy: OK, OK. That's pretty good. But what if Mom and Dad get to the door before I do?
Brad: Then you don't have anything to worry about... 'cause you'll be dead.

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Quote from Tim

Tim: As you know, it's Specialty Tool Week here on Tool Time.
Al: That's right. And we're going to be showing you tools you won't necessarily find in your neighborhood hardware store.
Tim: As a matter of fact, these tools you might have to go to outer space to find them. And to tell us a little bit about them, the men responsible for fixing the Hubble Space Telescope. They're here in Detroit judging the city-wide science fair at the Detroit Science Center. Let's give a big Tool Time welcome to the astronauts, the crew of the Endeavour space shuttle! I understood there was a woman on the crew.
Richard O. Covey: That's right, Tim. Kathy Thornton. But someone had to stay back at NASA and do all the hard work.
Tim: [chuckles] Let's meet Mission Commander Dick Covey. How you doin', sir?
Al: Well, Dick supervised the entire servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Tim: Well, he's got to tell us. What's it like working with tools in outer space?
Richard O. Covey: Well, Tim, it's a lot like using tools here on Earth, except there's no gravity, so you don't have to worry about droppin' a tool on your foot.
Al: Sounds like the perfect working environment for you, Tim.
Richard O. Covey: He's very funny.
Tim: Yeah. A regular astro-nut.
Ken Bowersox: Tim, it's pronounced astro-naut.
Tim: Yeah, I know that. It was a little joke.
Ken Bowersox: Oh, sorry. I had no idea.

Quote from Tim

Al: Now, this is Ken Bowersox. He is a Navy man, just like me, and his friends here nicknamed him Sox.
Tim: I suppose you got that nickname because up in space you never change your socks? Hoo, boy!
Ken Bowersox: No, Tim, they call me that because my last name is Bower...sox.
Tim: Well, they could call you Bower.
Ken Bowersox: They don't.

Quote from Tim

Tim: Payload Commander Story Musgrave. Story, what's the story?
Story Musgrave: Like I haven't heard that one a million times.
Tim: I hear you're a big fan of the show.
Story Musgrave: Yes, I am. But not as big a fan as my fellow spacewalker, Jeff Hoffman.
Tim: Hi, Jeff. How you doin'?
Jeff Hoffman: Hey, Tim. Yeah, I have lots of friends and family out here, and we think you are the greatest.
Tim: Yeah. [grunts] Safe to see who my favorite astronaut is.
Jeff Hoffman: You know, on one of our spacewalks on the Hubble mission, we all let out a big Tim Taylor grunt.
Tim: [grunts] No!
Jeff Hoffman: [grunts] Yes! I brought a tape.

Quote from Tim

Al: Well, next we have Flight Engineer Claude Nicollier. He's all the way here from Switzerland and he was one of two astronomers on the crew.
Tim: Uh, Claude, my son is doing a science-fair project right now. Any advice for him?
Claude Nicollier: Well, sun in the middle...
Tim: Right.
Claude Nicollier: nine planets...
Tim: Uh-huh.
Claude Nicollier: ...but don't let your father help you.

Quote from Tim

Al: All right. But last, surely not least, we have Tom Akers. He was the Hubble tool specialist.
Thomas Akers: And I brought some of the tools we used to work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Tim: Cool! Wow. Tools from space. What I wouldn't give to have one of these on my shop wall.
Thomas Akers: That's a three-eighths-inch drive McTether ratchet.
Tim: They use this for playing McTether ball out there.
Thomas Akers: And next we have a... Hey, where's my power tool with the adjustable extension?
Tim: You guys probably forgot to bring it.
Al: No, I saw you working with it earlier, Tim.
Tim: I wasn't working with it earlier.
Al: Yes, you were.
Jill: Tim. Tim, is this what you're looking for?
Tim: Oh, that! That's it?
Heidi: Heidi, where'd you find that?
Tim: Doesn't matter where she found it. She found it.
Heidi: It was in Tim's locker.
Tim: Well, I... [clears throat] See, I... [clears throat] I was gonna bring it back. You know, it was just... I thought... Whooh!
Richard O. Covey: Taylor, we're gonna need this back too.
Tim: How did that get in there? [music plays] We'll be right back after these messages from Binford.

Quote from Randy

Jill: Hi, Randy. I'm back.
Molly: Randy?
Randy: She means Andy. I'm Andy.
Jill: Hi. Who is this?
Molly: I'm Molly Lauden. I was looking for Randy Taylor.
Jill: Well, this is Randy Taylor.
Randy: Randy, Andy, Candy, Sandy. I answer to anything.

Quote from Tim

Randy: Mom, you don't understand.
Tim: [enters] Hi, honey.
Jill: Don't "Hi, honey" me, you two-timing tool twit!
Tim: What'd I do?
Molly: You don't have to play dumb. Your wife knows all about us.
Tim: "Us"?
Jill: You can just take your tools and move in with Molly.
Randy: No, Mom...
Tim: Who's Molly?
Molly: I am! Now kiss me like you said you would in your letter.
Tim: I don't know what I said, but what the heck!

Quote from Randy

Randy: Dad, stop! Don't kiss her!
Tim: Mind your own business. Mind your own business.
Randy: Look, I'm the one who wrote the letter. I used your old love letters. I was just trying to have a little fun.
Tim: Are you having a little fun now?
Randy: Not particularly.
Jill: The jig's up, Dr. Taylor.
Randy: You guys set me up! You knew about this all along.
Tim: That's right, doc.
Randy: I can't believe I was outsmarted by my parents.

Quote from Tim

Tim: Mark, how'd the science project go?
Mark: Great. I got an A.
Tim: Congratulations! Did you get to use the modification you put in?
Mark: My teacher wouldn't let me. She thought it was your idea.
Tim: What?!
Wilson: Hi-de-ho, neighbors. Oh, Mark! That is quite a solar system!
Mark: Thank you.
Tim: You ought to see the super-orbital part of it. He used one of my little motors. Show him.
Wilson: Oh, that is very impressive.
Tim: Wait a minute. You haven't seen warp speed yet. Try that one. [the planets fly off]
Mark: Uh-oh.
Tim: Chip off the old block.

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