Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) has a problem on Thursday’s “Last Man Standing” — what else is new, right? — one that he can’t sleep on any longer: Vanessa (Nancy Travis) has started snoring and he is incapable of suffering through it. Of course, he does his best to present this issue to his dear wife in the most loving way possible, but she still doesn’t take the news so well.
In TheWrap’s exclusive clip from tomorrow’s episode, Mike comes home after a “taxing” day at work and slowly tries to broach the topic gently by saying, “You’re beautiful, funny and so understanding,” to which she goes, “Mike?”
Fine. “You snore!” he shouts.
“I mean with an extraordinary amount of gusto, I might add.”
Yeah, no Vanessa doesn’t buy it and now she’s annoyed that this is clearly the reason why earlier he brought up some “nonsense about separate bedrooms.”
“If you just told me I snore I would stop,” she says. Um, what? Yeah, Vanessa tells Mike she’ll just stop.
“People spend billions of dollars a year trying to ease their snoring — but you can just stop?”
Yeah, she can, Mike. Geez.
Watch the clip above.
Here’s the description for Thursday’s episode, titled “Bedtime Story”: Mike tries to avoid hurting Vanessa’s feelings due to her snoring. Meanwhile, Mandy goes overboard preparing for the arrival of Kristin and Ryan’s new baby.
Along with Allen and Travis, “Last Man Standing” stars Amanda Fuller, Molly McCook, Christoph Sanders, Jordan Masterson, Jonathan Adams, Hector Elizondo and Krista Marie Yu.
The series was created by Jack Burditt. Kevin Abbott, Matt Berry, Kevin Hench, Ed Yeagher, Tim Allen, Marty Adelstein, Shawn Levy, Becky Clements, Richard Baker and Rick Messina are executive producers. Abbott serves as the series’ showrunner.
The comedy is produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
“Last Man Standing” airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Fox.