Old celebrity photos have a way of taking on a new life when they reappear online years later. That is exactly what happened with a set of images showing Tim Allen and Pamela Anderson side by side. At first glance, the pictures can look like a surprising modern reunion, but the real story reaches back to one of Hollywood’s most recognizable eras. The photographs were taken at the 2002 Teen Choice Awards on August 4, 2002, at the Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Both stars were already household names by then, and the event brought them together years after they had shared the screen on Home Improvement. A reunion rooted in early-1990s television Tim Allen and Pamela Anderson were connected long before these red-carpet pictures were taken. When Home Improvement premiered in 1991, Allen starred as Tim Taylor, the energetic host of the fictional home-repair program Tool Time. Anderson appeared as Lisa, the show-within-the-show’s first assistant and one of her earliest recurring television roles. The sitcom became a defining part of American network television during the 1990s. Allen’s mix of family comedy and handyman mishaps turned Tim Taylor into one of the decade’s most familiar sitcom characters, while Anderson’s…