The extremes some men will go to.
As wild as today’s digital dating world is — sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.
One woman posted on her dating app profile asking potential suitors to give her their best impersonation of actor Tim Allen’s grunts from the show “Home Improvement.”
The popular sitcom ran for eight seasons in the early 1990s. Allen’s character, Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, was known for expressing himself through a very specific grunt sound.
Kathenn (@kathenn25) first shared a video on TikTok, putting many desperate eligible bachelors on blast who responded to her Hinge prompt that read: “I get along best with people who can do the Tim Allen “awrhoo” impression. Let me see what you got,” earlier this year.
To give context to viewers, she wrote in overlay text on her video: “My version of the 4B movement includes making men on Hinge do an impression of Tim Allen before they’re allowed to speak to me.”
She played each hilarious impression one by one — and that was only the beginning.
Several other videos of grunting impressions followed, and the most recent one, captioned: “They’re baaaaaaaack (they never left they literally do not stop coming in),” has gone viral — garnering almost 500,000 views.
Over 500 people commented on the humorous clip.
One curious person asked: “Is this a kink thing?”
Another person couldn’t believe how well some of the contenders sounded like Allen: “i refuse to believe that the first one was not sampled directly from the tv show.”
One honest commenter gave a bit of an explanation as to why Kathenn is getting a ton of action on this prompt: “I have no idea why but the tim Allen grunt is the REAL Roman empire for men. I’ve been doing this shit since I was a kid.”
Someone else thought the journey was better than the destination in this situation: “This is better than dating.”
“Absolute cinema,” another one chimed in.
The video even made its way to X (formerly Twitter) where one user shared the video, writing, “I’m absolutely losing it.” The Tweet received over 1 million views.
In a YouTube short clip while on stage at the famous Laugh Factory comedy club, Allen explained that the inspiration for his famous grunt came from a time he was performing a show to a predominantly male audience.
While Allen was trying to do his bits on stage, the men were all grunting as they ate their meal, barely paying attention to the comedian.
“I couldn’t get their attention. All I was doing on stage, I hear men [grunting]. So I started doing that [grunting]. And these men actually went, ‘Huh?’ and a career was built,” Allen jokingly explained.
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