Being Jim Davis

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About the show

Being Jim Davis is the world's premiere daily Garfield chrono-cast. Our mission is to review and discuss each and every strip of the long-running syndicated comic series before eventually dying of old age. We hope you'll come along with us on this journey, and share in the laughter as we catalogue the daily adventures of everyone's favorite indolent feline through a lens of history, humor, and heuristics.

Each episode will be a thorough examination of a single strip. We'll place it in its historical context, then attempt to unravel the morals and meanings hidden under the surface. Finally, we'll consider the question of whether the strip stands the test of time. Above all, we promise to always present you with our sincere, personal, reaction to each Garfield comic strip.

Our only thought is to entertain you.

Episode | March 20th, 2018 | 11 mins 50 secs

#metoo, #russiangarfield, food, gesticulation, horseshoe theory, john winthrop, metallica, miscommunication, newcowpo, ronald reagan, stephen hawking, suicide, the red hot chili peppers

Episode | March 19th, 2018 | 21 mins 48 secs

apathy, bragging about our podcast, chris taylor, coffee, craniofacial dissonance, greek history, onomatopoeia, rex tillerson, seduction, single-takes, standcowpo, temple grandin., the iliad

Episode | March 18th, 2018 | 14 mins 2 secs

Episode | March 17th, 2018 | 16 mins 50 secs

Episode | March 16th, 2018 | 10 mins 3 secs

Episode | March 15th, 2018 | 12 mins 50 secs

Episode | March 14th, 2018 | 7 mins 50 secs

Episode | March 13th, 2018 | 12 mins 28 secs

Episode | March 12th, 2018 | 16 mins 43 secs

decades

Episode | March 11th, 2018 | 35 mins 24 secs

asia, carl palmer, cuteness, elp, europe, food play, george mcfly the dog, karl popper, louie the cat, maurice ravel, military coups, orchestration, pets, realistic cat behavior, togo, twin peaks

Episode | March 10th, 2018 | 15 mins 23 secs

baths, bathtime, cat-on-human violence, deregulation, extremely subtle "breaking bad" references, eye parentheses, lyman, old-timey phone practices, where'slyman

Episode | March 9th, 2018 | 16 mins 13 secs

boners, cinematography, david brooks, inaccurate biology, missing furniture, poetry, reverie, rhyme schemes, slovenly jon arbuckle, spiders, vincent van gogh

Episode | March 8th, 2018 | 16 mins

cat axioms, false assertions, high school choir, impossible furniture, metahumor, munch, the goonies, will slade

Episode | March 7th, 2018 | 11 mins 34 secs

boxing day, disgust, improbable food physics, ira glass, kabob, strange christmas day behavior (implied), strange eating behavior, the 1970s, things that are both weird and gross

Episode | March 6th, 2018 | 12 mins 47 secs

christian ethnocentrism, christmas, garfield's butthole, holiday greetings, sentimentality, shakespeare, soviet invasion of afghanistan, starbucks, symbolism vs. representation, the dutch fur trade pagan traditions, war on christmas

Episode | March 5th, 2018 | 15 mins 57 secs

cleavage, cold roast countertop chicken, going through the motions, improbable biology, knot theory, strange eating behavior, threats, violence