Home Improvement ran from 1991 to 1999 and made Tim Allen's grunt the defining sound of Tim Taylor, the overconfident host of the fictional Tool Time show. The noise became a running catchphrase, used in the opening, in conversations and whenever a project went wrong. Clips later circulated widely on soundboards and in meme edits, where the grunt survived the show itself because it is short, expressive and understood without any context or dialogue.