Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played the role of Randy Taylor in the television series Home Improvement, left the series in the middle of the eighth season. Thomas reportedly decided to leave the program to pursue other opportunities and focus on his education. He appeared in a total of 156 episodes of the series. Jonathan Taylor played Randy Taylor in Home Improvement for seven seasons, but this is the reason he left the series and didn't appear in the final.
Thomas began his television career in 1990, playing the role of Kevin Brady, Greg Brady's son, in The Bradys, a spin-off of the 1970s television series The Brady Bunch. In 1991, Thomas appeared in three episodes of the Fox comedy series In Living Color. That same year, he was chosen to play the middle son Randy Taylor in the ABC comedy Home Improvement. Despite looking much younger, in reality, Thomas was one month older than Zachary Ty Bryan, who played his older brother Brad.
Thomas stayed on Home Improvement well into his teens, but left the series in 1998 to focus on academics. Home Improvement also gave Allen a film career, and he starred in Toy Story and The Santa Clause, which will have a television sequel, while doing the comedy. Allen considered that Thomas's refusal was due to the fact that the young actor was upset with him for questioning his motives for leaving Home Improvement. He is known for playing Randy Taylor in Home Improvement and for playing the voice of young Simba in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King and Pinocchio in the 1996 New Line Cinema film, The Adventures of Pinocchio.
It was announced that Thomas would leave Home Improvement, which showed Wilson's face in the final, after season 7, and Randy left the series during the second episode of season 8 when he and his girlfriend went to Costa Rica for a school program. Home Improvement debuted on ABC in 1991 and became one of the most important comedies of the decade. However, Jonathan Taylor Thomas' refusal to return for the Home Improvement finale caused some tension between him and the cast. After becoming a major child star, Thomas became famous for leaving Home Improvement in 1998 to focus on going to college, a decision that surprised most of his colleagues.
Off-screen, Taylor revealed that she wanted to focus on college and education, and the workload of Home Improvement wouldn't have allowed it.
