{"id":28624,"date":"2025-07-01T01:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28624\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T01:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:45:11","slug":"woman-asks-for-tim-allen-impressions-on-dating-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28624\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman asks for Tim Allen impressions on dating app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extremes some men will go to. <\/p>\n<p>As wild as today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/29\/lifestyle\/3-common-ways-people-break-up-with-someone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital dating world<\/a> is \u2014 sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. <\/p>\n<p>One woman posted on her <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/26\/lifestyle\/easy-way-to-determine-a-high-body-count\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dating app profile<\/a> asking potential suitors to give her their best impersonation of actor Tim Allen\u2019s grunts from the show \u201cHome Improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The popular sitcom ran for eight seasons in the early 1990s. Allen\u2019s character, Tim \u201cThe Tool Man\u201d Taylor, was known for expressing himself through a very specific grunt sound. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66601563;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36398390\" width=\"393\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/home-improvement-tim-allen-1991-107436498.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Allen on Home Improvement holding a steaming iron.\" class=\"wp-image-36398390\"  \/>Allen\u2019s character had a famous grunt \u2014 that is clearly still being thought about today. Touchstone Television\/courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>Kathenn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kathenn25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kathenn25<\/a>) first shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kathenn25\/video\/7458839607178759466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video on TikTok<\/a>, putting many desperate eligible bachelors on blast who responded to her Hinge prompt that read: \u201cI get along best with people who can do the Tim Allen \u201cawrhoo\u201d impression. Let me see what you got,\u201d earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>To give context to viewers, she wrote in overlay text on her video: \u201cMy version of the 4B movement includes making men on Hinge do an impression of Tim Allen before they\u2019re allowed to speak to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She played each hilarious impression one by one \u2014 and that was only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.59381238;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36398389\" width=\"350\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/woman-asks-tim-allen-grunts-107436355.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a dating app conversation referencing Tim Allen's grunts from Home Improvement.\" class=\"wp-image-36398389\"  \/>The responses to this prompt are hilarious. TikTok \/ @kathenn25<\/p>\n<p>Several other videos of grunting impressions followed, and the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kathenn25\/video\/7521218499688008991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent one<\/a>, captioned: \u201cThey\u2019re baaaaaaaack (they never left they literally do not stop coming in),\u201d has gone viral \u2014 garnering almost 500,000 views.  <\/p>\n<p>Over 500 people commented on the humorous clip.<\/p>\n<p>One curious person asked: \u201cIs this a kink thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person couldn\u2019t believe how well some of the contenders sounded like Allen: \u201ci refuse to believe that the first one was not sampled directly from the tv show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One honest commenter gave a bit of an explanation as to why Kathenn is getting a ton of action on this prompt: \u201cI have no idea why but the tim Allen grunt is the REAL Roman empire for men. I\u2019ve been doing this shit since I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone else thought the journey was better than the destination in this situation: \u201cThis is better than dating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolute cinema,\u201d another one chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>The video even made its way to X (formerly Twitter) where one user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrillBroDude\/status\/1939447765794226640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared the video<\/a>, writing, \u201cI\u2019m absolutely losing it.\u201d The Tweet received over 1 million views.<\/p>\n<p>In a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/s7r08n_IY58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> YouTube short clip<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t get their attention. All I was doing on stage, I hear men [grunting]. So I started doing that [grunting]. And these men actually went, \u2018Huh?\u2019 and a career was built,\u201d Allen jokingly explained. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The extremes some men will go to. 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