Héctor Elizondo also stars as Ed Alzate, Mike's boss at his sporting goods store "Outdoor Man", while Christoph Sanders appears as Kyle Anderson, a young employee of Outdoor Man and Mandy's boyfriend and later husband.
[28] Beginning this season, Amanda Fuller now plays Kristin, replacing Alexandra Krosney.
[29] Flynn Morrison was also added to the main cast as an age-advanced Boyd, replacing twins Evan and Luke Kruntchev.
[30] Jordan Masterson recurs as Ryan, Boyd's father, replacing Nick Jonas, who guest starred in one episode in the previous season.
[33] Tim Allen's former Home Improvement co-star Richard Karn guest starred in the episode "Attractive Architect", playing the character Bill McKendree.
[36] Jonathan Taylor Thomas, another Home Improvement co-star of Allen's, guest starred in the season finale, "College Girl", as the character John Baker.
After a work colleague dies, Vanessa gets that person's position over an equally qualified but "plain" looking woman, and she questions whether she got the job based on her looks.
Notes: 1) There is a reference to Tim Allen's previous Home Improvement, in which Richard Karn co-starred, when Bill tells Mike to say "Hi" to his three boys.
Kristin is shocked to hear that Mandy has been accepted into not one, but two colleges, causing her to re-evaluate where she is in her own life.
This is further reinforced when Kristin runs into a previous co-worker from the diner named John Baker (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) who now owns a hip new restaurant.
Eve gets help preparing for her Junior ROTC drills from neighbor and former Marine, Chuck Larabee.
Kristin gets a better paying job which enables her and Boyd to move out of her parents home and into a new apartment.
[58] Beginning this season, at the start of each episode a different cast member narrates that the series is recorded in front of a live studio audience.
[88] Thomas also made a cameo appearance at the end of the "Helen Potts" episode, not as John Baker (the character he previously played on Last Man Standing), but as Helen's son Randy, a reference to his character from Home Improvement.
[113][114][115][116] Patricia Richardson reprised her role as Helen Potts in the episode "Tanks for the Memories".
When she does so, a mystery person leaves a note in her copy of Jane Eyre and Eve sets out to track them down.