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May 26, 2012

Tim Allen's scary Internet avatar

by Richard Keller, posted Apr 20th 2008 11:03AM

The very scary Avatar from Timallen.comA few weeks ago, while doing some research on stand-up comedians who became sitcom stars, I ended up Googling a whole bunch of names to get some additional pre-television history on them. One of these was Home Improvement's Tim Allen. While looking up Tim's information I came upon a listing for his personal website. It was a weird listing though -- something like Tim Allen -- T'Avatar. Well, since I know Tim's not a Romulan, I thought this was just an abbreviation of something. Needless to say I clicked in.

Turns out, T'Avatar was short for Tim Allen's Avatar, which appears in an opening video to his website. Folks, this Avatar freaks the living piss out of me.

It's just a picture of Tim, with his computer animated eyes, eyebrows and mouth. They have just the right amount of exaggeration to them that it makes the Avatar a tad bit scary. At first, I thought this was just an initial reaction to Allen's Avatar. But, when I pulled his site up again for this post the initial appearance was just jarring.

Heck, maybe I'm being a tad too sensitive here. So, I would like you to take a look and let me know. Just click on this link and tell me if you feel the way I do about this. By the way, a less scary Tim Allen can be seen regularly on Nick at Nite's daily airings of Home Improvement.

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lucyfan62

I thought it was funny. The thing with the eye was hilarious!

April 20 2008 at 2:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jordancda

Yeah, it is freaky. But its also weirdly awesome. I found it very amusing. Frawsomemusing.

April 20 2008 at 2:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
erroneous_nick

Richard, the second link is the same as the first. I think you wanted to link to this:
http://www.timallen.com

Yes, the avatar is freaky, but it looks more like Mr. Allen went gonzo with the botox and then caked makeup on his face. I didn't find it all that scary, but I can't believe Tim Allen would've approved of THAT being the first thing guests see when they visit his site!

Oh, notice when he says "look at my left eye" he's really referring to his right. I suppose they did that on purpose since most people would look to their left.

April 20 2008 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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MCW

I noticed the mistake about the left eye thing too.

Tim Allen is really hurting these days without Home Improvement. I'm not creeped out by that, but it screams "Old actor who doesn't know what an internet is". Sad to see how far you've fallen Tim. Uh Uh Uhh.

April 20 2008 at 12:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
erroneous_nick

He needs neither the money nor the exposure, but I'd love to see Tim Allen back on TV. I'd even offer to explain how the internets are a series of tubes, etc.

I'm nice like that.

April 21 2008 at 12:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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