Tim Allen hasn’t been having the greatest year. A rare, outspoken Hollywood conservative, shortly after the election the Home Improvement star caught flack for suggesting that Trump supporters are unfairly bullied, and — instead of learning from that mistake — later doubled down on those remarks by telling Jimmy Kimmel that being a Hollywood conservative is akin to “living in 1930’s Germany.”
A couple of months later, Last Man Standing was canceled by ABC, and although it seemed possible that CMT might pick up the family sitcom, the cable network made like Lucy with the football when it became apparent that it was too expensive to continue producing.
That’s a rough shake for anybody to go through within the span of just six months or so, and as of Wednesday, Allen’s name was trending again and not for a flattering reason. Late Tuesday night, the Tool Man gifted the world with this deep thought on evolution.
It was his real Kirk Cameron banana moment, you could say.
If we evolved from apes why are there still apes.
— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) August 16, 2017
I’m not going to get into all of the issues with Allen’s logic, because most people learned about this in high school and this is a pop culture website and I don’t have all day, so let’s cut right to the jokes, because, of course, Twitter had jokes.
"Actually, Tim, humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor that existed over 5-8 million years ago." pic.twitter.com/LJCL08uDCm
— Rob Wesley (@eastwes) August 16, 2017
what idiot called it evolving from apes and not homo improvement https://t.co/Xhd8Puaym7
— suss– 🥌 (@suss2hyphens) August 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/domlegaspi/status/897847792533618688
Tim Allen tweeting questions with a period and not a question mark. Perfect corporate email formatting
— Chris Gaines fan (@trillballins) August 16, 2017
Tim Allen just woke up from a 20 year long coma to checkmate the biologists pic.twitter.com/isMv0C3rQg
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) August 16, 2017
Why do they call it taking a dump, when really, you're leaving one
— Vince Mancini (@VinceMancini) August 16, 2017
Tim Allen said, leaning back in the La-Z-Boy in his den and taking a hard pull on the vape https://t.co/r925ogOLpr
— Charlotte Wilder (@TheWilderThings) August 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/897831810633170944
This is the day that Tim Allen became the 5th member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour pic.twitter.com/YAHCdbs91W
— landon (@LandonVanBus) August 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/boanus/status/897852124704493568
Tim Allen is a national treasure pic.twitter.com/O69ictr8LD
— trev (@TLoccisano) August 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/mrheckleton/status/897849894383345666
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/897709726540210176
Anyone looking for more brilliant insight from Tim Allen should head over to the Tim Allen Quotes Twitter feed, which — trust me — is worth your while.