

Mike then spends some idle time on his shift sharing neighborhood gossip that Vanessa had relayed to him in private.

Vanessa encourages Mike to join the neighborhood watch. Meanwhile, Kristin tries to stand up to her boss for a raise, but ends up saving his life instead. Mike then visits the family of Mandy's boyfriend Travis after he discovers that the semi-nude pictures Mandy took for the modeling competition have been forwarded to Travis' phone. Mike is reluctant to give up his role as the "good cop", but this changes when he views the revealing pictures Mandy wants to send in. Sick of being the "bad cop", Vanessa persuades Mike to stop Mandy from entering. Mandy intends to enter a teen modeling competition, a plan which Vanessa does not approve of. Mandy begins filling out college applications, but is stumped by the essay she has to write, and Kristin ponders what her own future holds while she helps her sister. The move backfires when Eve usurps Mike's role as star pitcher with her far-superior skills. Meanwhile, Mike is afraid of Ed's reaction when he finds out that Mike voted for co-ed, so he has Eve join the team to make up for it. Mike's boss Ed is irritated when the Outdoor Man company softball team votes to go co-ed, and he vows to track down the 'for' votes one-by-one. Mike also gets a costume for Mandy but not quite as revealing as the one she wanted, while Vanessa's 'pirate princess' costume draws the attention of the Baxters' neighbor Bill ( David Anthony Higgins). When calling on Ed, Mike meets his friend Elvira. So Mike decides to dress up Boyd and take him trick-or-treating, directly disobeying Kristin's wishes. Mike is upset when Eve tells him that she does not want to continue their annual tradition of trick-or-treating because of her crush on Victor Blake ( Kenton Duty), who has told her he thinks Halloween is immature and for kids. Meanwhile, when an older grandmother compares Vanessa to herself, Vanessa attempts to make her style more youthful, with some help from Mandy. However, Mike's comments about a boy dressed as a fairy princess get Boyd expelled from the center, so, rather than apologize, Mike takes his grandson to work with him. It is grandparents' day at Boyd's daycare center, and Vanessa insists that Mike attend with her. Meanwhile, fed up with Mandy constantly taking his money, Mike decides to get her a job as a pizza delivery girl, but when Vanessa takes issue with this, Mike and Kyle secretly follow Mandy. Tompkins) for their home to protect Boyd, and when Vanessa sides with their daughter, they go ahead despite Mike's opposition. Kristin decides that the Baxters need to hire a baby-proofer ( Paul F. However, Kyle mistakes Kristin for Mandy, and dates Kristin instead.

He also arranges that Kyle, a young employee at the store, will date Mandy because Mike doesn't approve of her current boyfriend. At work, Mike is told there will be no more field trips and he is given a new assignment to promote the company's website. At home, Mike manages to upset all of his daughters.

Mike Baxter, a director of marketing at an outdoor sporting goods store, returns home from traveling to greet his wife Vanessa and his three teenage daughters: the eldest Kristin is a single mother caring for her son Boyd in the Baxter family home, middle daughter Mandy is not academic but more concerned with her popularity with the boys at school, and the youngest Eve is a tomboy inspired by her father. ĭuring the course of the series, 194 episodes of Last Man Standing aired, concluding on May 20, 2021.Įpisodes Season 1 (2011–12) No.
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In May 2020, Fox renewed the series for a ninth and final season which premiered on January 3, 2021. In April 2019, Fox renewed the series for an eighth season. In 2018, Fox picked up the series for a seventh season. Héctor Elizondo also stars as Ed Alzate, Mike's boss at his sporting goods store "Outdoor Man", while Christoph Sanders appears as Kyle Anderson, a young employee of Outdoor Man and Mandy's boyfriend and later husband. Created by Jack Burditt, the series stars Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, previously a widely travelled outdoorsman but now a director of marketing at an outdoor sporting goods store in Colorado, whose home life is dominated by women: his wife Vanessa ( Nancy Travis) and their three daughters Eve ( Kaitlyn Dever), Mandy ( Molly Ephraim for seasons 1–6 and Molly McCook from season 7 onward), and Kristin ( Alexandra Krosney for season 1 and Amanda Fuller for the remaining seasons). Last Man Standing is an American sitcom that premiered on ABC on October 11, 2011.
