We love home improvement, our clients are so giving, We love home improvement, and hey,
we've got to make a living, Hi, I'm Andrea Scott, I'm a bath tubber finisher.
At one point I went over to Second City and got into their writing program and I wanted
to take that Second City experience and apply my experience in the home improvement industry,
put it together and come up with a show. I thought it was a great, fun idea for me,
especially since I knew there was a market for it and there were so many things that
had happened to me that I felt it was just a great direction going.
Andrea was a student of mine. Andrea has a great knowledge of the home improvement business,
and so she would come in with these ideas. She would say, okay, this is what I want to say,
and is it funny, you know? I mean, that's always the rule. I mean, is there something there that's
funny? And she found really, she found the funny in a lot of this stuff.
Name of the show is called Home Ruckers. It's about adventures in the home improvement industry.
I'm in the spackle and grout. First scene in the show involves a young man who is coming out.
It's a coming out scene as if someone were telling their parents they were coming out of
their sexuality or something, but it happens we go around the fact that the young man wants to go
into a profession called title repair. Oh men, all young people struggle with their identity.
It's just a phase. I felt funny at the fact that this type of area of work is not considered
esteemed in our society, and those of us that do and love it, we also know that our parents expected
us to go to college, become lawyers and doctors. Well, maybe they weren't as stimulating enough.
Well, I told you you needed to spend more time with them, Sam. Well, they never told us, Marion.
And it comes again from the fact that I got into something that was pretty much
looked down upon in my family. The whole idea that someone would do something
in a trade rather than go take an office job.
Danger wheel, Robinson. That scene is infomercial.
Hi, I'm Jeb Wilson, inventor of the Jeb Wilson do-it-yourself gazebo.
My do-it-yourself project is for you. That's right. If you want to spend thousands in legal
fees, waste unlimited amounts of time, and are looking for a unique way to ruin your relationship,
my do-it-yourself project is for you. People get into do-it-yourself projects,
and then find out they're a lot higher than they thought they were, and they're in over their heads.
So it's all about a product that you can buy that's going to cost you 20 times the amount of time,
3 times the amount of money. It's going to ruin your relationships, your family,
your marriage, and everything in between. I bought the Jeb Wilson do-it-yourself gazebo kit for $49.95.
My expenses have escalated to over $9,000, and I'm nowhere near finished.
Well, I pay someone who knows what they're doing, but you can do it yourself.
Hi, Andrea again. I'm on the job. I'm in the city of Chicago parked in front of a high-rise.
I can't find parking. Customers are very fond of telling you there's parking when there is no parking.
Me, I come down here and it turns into the job from hell, and I get kicked out of the fire lane.
But the one thing I really don't like about coming here today, this is actually a callback.
I hate to tell you this, but that's just Pottery Barn. That's what we want.
Pottery Barn, one of my favorite scenes, this involves trends.
Those of us who go into a live home see the same kind of decor every day. It's the same
all-color, same kind of flooring, same kind of tilework on the bathtub behind the bathtub.
When hurricane sconces like the ones out of Crayton Barrel catalog,
you have gotten to be kidding me. Yeah, Crayton Barrel.
I think there must be a mandate somewhere that's got to be done in Vegas,
and I think it's very funny that people think they're original, and it makes me laugh a lot.
And that's just Ralph Lauren. If you're saying Ralph Lauren, that's what we want.
Pottery Barn is our designer. Pottery Barn is our designer. She couldn't be any finer.
She wants modern, he wants medieval English. Welcome to designing for the sexes.
Simon is an unabashed, dying-in-the-wall angle file who likes everything and anything English.
Including me. I want a moat.
Now my idea is to tear down these burgundy walls and replace them with a palette of
boudoir top sensual velvet. I'll take one pair of spiked ham cuffs.
Right now I'm at the condo of Mr. and Mrs. Micro Perfect. I did their tub a couple days ago
and they called me back. When I gathered there were all these little stickums all over the tub showcasing
where my mistakes were. Guys, it's not a new bathtub. How do I explain this to Mrs. Micro Perfect?
I wrote a training manual. It's for aspiring bathtub refinishers. The only problem is I never
really run into anybody who wanted to be a bathtub refinisher. So I'm going to tell you guys the same
thing I tell everybody else. Here's my book. It's about staying afloat in the bathroom business.
If you're not interested in reading my book, wait for the movie.
Mike's spying. Change. Oh, my Achilles' Hill. Change. Oh, the spirit of the Lord is in me.
My favorite scene was one called The Breakup in which there is a contractor that has been
long overdue in ending his job. I installed and reinstalled the track landing three times.
Mom, don't make this so hard. Initially the audience is led to believe this is a typical
relationship scene. I'd have to hire another contractor to finish your job. And so we played
it very much like a soap opera. Well, this is hard to take. Just, no, that probably just came from
the common thought that contractors take too long. They don't leave. They take forever.
They don't come back. That kind of thing. Does this mean I'm staying for dinner?
Oh, God, yes. I hope so because the sink leaks.
I've got my tools. I'm not on the clock. Oh, God, just the way I like it.
Anybody who's a home builder, home remover, realtor, home designer passes through the show
because it will strike a chord and there's nothing out there like it.
My name is Lucky Gorman. I'm the owner of House Wizard Handyman Surface. And all of the skits
show the foibles of my customers' decisions about how they're going to go about things,
how they're going to do things, and what the result is. The do-it-yourself gazebo kit is the
height of how to go about something with big ambitions and no idea of what you're doing.
The people in the home improvement business, I think, can really relate to it.
For the people that are involved in this industry,
they would be definitely something that they would enjoy.
A home builder's convention, realtor's meeting, large-scale meetings, large-scale
work events. That's what Andrea is captured in this. Sure enough, when the audience heard
certain lines or certain references to tools and whatnot, they didn't really enjoy it,
so I was very pleased with that. A huge variety. That's important when you're doing review style
comment, which this is. It's fallen all over yourself laughing. See you there!
