Nancy Travis broke the transient Gears’ last person standing

Nancy Travis‘Guest place in ABC’s Changed gears Showed a major nod in his time at Tim Allen over Last man standing.

“There’s a Wink in the episode where you know with a past,” Travis, 63, exclusive remark Week of the US about How Sitcom Recognized His past with Allen, 71. “People fans and loyal followers of team’s performances really love to be inside the joke.”

During his appearance on Wednesday, February 12, Travis, Travis played at Charlotte, who connects Allen’s Mat when they two visit their friends in Valentine’s Day. Matt wasn’t sure he was ready to start dating even if he told Charlotte at the end of their second-time encounter.

His response? Charlotte said he didn’t think so was Matt reminded him of the “last man” that he was with before meeting him. The tongue-in-cheek dialogue intended to refer to Travis and Allen’s skwom Last man standingrunning from 2011 through 2021.

“You think about what Nancy Travis returns Changed gears in the world and I think it is a unique and kind way they are engineered, “Travis says us. “I say – either on Last man standing – It’s almost like a trademark of timing shows where there are winks. Because people who follow his career come from Housing Improvementhis standard-up comedy, Last man standing and now Moving from encampment THANKThey know the details of these stories and these extreme characters. “

He continued: “They seek a little joke or nod. They have a lot of Last man standing So I know something is. I never know where it comes or how it comes. Viewers also look for it so it’s a good little bow they wear our scenes. “

Before Matt, Allen knows to play Tim “Taylor in ABC Sitcom Housing Improvementrunning from 1991 to 1999. He moved to Last man standingwhere he played Mike for nine times in ABC. Changed gears allows him to recognize his Last man standing past by bringing Travis, Who plays his wife onscreen almost a decade.

“There’s nothing if it’s not loyal. So it’s good to walk in that set and see most of the crew from the last person standing. The director John Pasquin makes several stages of Last man standing and a personal friend. It was very nice feeling this sense of unity, “Travis told us. “I can’t surprise if everything is from Last man standing Appeared to Moving from encampment THANK one way or another. If the team has his way, he will make sure everything is from (Costar KAT DENNINGS‘) 2 broken girls comes again. “

While Travis enjoys sharing the screen Allen again, he reveals us That he didn’t seek a version of his wife, saying, “It’s so fun to get in and have a whole wealth and healing work with Tim. In terms of comedy rhythm, How to set up a joke and how to tell a story, it’s good to get it and apply it to Charlotte. “

Changed gears Travis and Allen gave space to collaborate without expectations.

“I’m glad to work with her but i think it’s fun to explore new and different relationships between characters. It’s so much meta – maybe too meta,” she told us too. “I really like what they did, that was a friend of the soulmate. Perhaps it was like the ghost of his ex-wife – Vanessa – that would come to the spirit of a man. But I love the nuances what they do with in different relationships. “

As in which Travis thinks that Allen’s characters are from Last man standing now? Actresses do not have a specific idea but more wide possibilities.

“If filming a scene of the last person standing, one can be written and then we’ll change about what is the worst version of this scene. We will call that version of When the slams at the door were covered, “he shared. If this show is on the network TV, it may be Vanessa and Mike to withdraw the chairs stabbing. But who knows what it is when the hoods at the door will end if they are on the cable? “

Changed gears Airs on ABC Wednesday at 8 o’clock ET before streaming the next day in Hulu.