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.

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • Episode 443 - Tuesday, September 4, 1979

    Episode  |  November 14th, 2017  |  24 mins 41 secs
    ball bearings, cat telepathy, correct use of quotation marks, garfield, garfield as art, insane jon arbuckle, jim davis, jon being wrong about stuff, kittens be tiny, magmar sucks, mark frazier, nermal, prescriptivism vs. descriptivism, second viennese school, the breakfast club, the spelling of robobobatron, theme music

  • Episode 442 - Monday, September 3, 1979

    Episode  |  November 13th, 2017  |  31 mins 5 secs
    contrastancopo, immaculate conception vs. virgin birth, nermal, shaq soda, soren kierkegaard, the benefits of detroit, the vinegar tasters

  • Episode 441 - Sunday, September 2, 1979

    Episode  |  November 12th, 2017  |  14 mins 35 secs
    1970s fashion, breadboxes, cat carriers, eighth notes, going to the vet, mailboxes, tardis, torture

    All right, let's do this!

  • Episode 440 - Saturday, September 1, 1979

    Episode  |  November 11th, 2017  |  9 mins 26 secs
    ceiling-based ploys, food theft, gullibility, odd cutlery manipulation

  • Episode 439 - Friday, August 31, 1979

    Episode  |  November 10th, 2017  |  11 mins 1 sec
    cat-ant relationships, lasagna, lasagna extant and not being consumed by garfield, lyle the ant

    Very ultimate.

  • Episode 438 - Thursday, August 30, 1979

    Episode  |  November 9th, 2017  |  13 mins 58 secs
    bathtubs (clawfoot), courting danger, dwight d. eisenhower, failed punchlines, iranian revolution, jimmy carter, liking ike, onomatopoeia, sexual innuendo, sexy eisenhower

  • Episode 437 - Wednesday, August 29, 1979

    Episode  |  November 8th, 2017  |  10 mins 35 secs
    4th wall, failed setups, jazz, jon arbuckle's big fat ass, mauve, nitpicking, non-punchlines, periwinkle, robert de niro, toothpaste

    How hard is it to draw some fucking sparkles?

  • Episode 436 - Tuesday, August 28, 1979

    Episode  |  November 7th, 2017  |  15 mins 47 secs
    antiquated technology, atari, attacks, baduk, deterrence theory, election day 2017, go, go terminology, keyboard layouts, ko fight, mailbag tuesdays, naming keyboard keys, odd pride, path dependence, records, secrecy sleeves, seki, shouting in japanese for some reason, ten-thousand year ko, two eyes to live, typewriters, weiqi, yahoo answers

    A new world's podcast.

  • Episode 435 - Monday, August 27, 1979

    Episode  |  November 6th, 2017  |  24 mins 9 secs
    #where'slouie?, bill waterson, bryan cooley, cat food, drinks roundup, dry heaves, ennui, jogging, louie the cat, misunderstanding each other, office conversations, phoning it in, post-traumatic stress disorder, snappy tom, supposing, things being fine

    I WANT FISH AND MAKE IT SNAPPY

  • Episode 434 - Sunday, August 26, 1979

    Episode  |  November 5th, 2017  |  28 mins 31 secs

  • Episode 433 - Saturday, August 25, 1979

    Episode  |  November 4th, 2017  |  12 mins 29 secs

  • Episode 432 - Friday, August 24, 1979

    Episode  |  November 3rd, 2017  |  14 mins 54 secs

  • Episode 431 - Thursday, August 23, 1979

    Episode  |  November 2nd, 2017  |  16 mins 27 secs

  • Episode 430 - Wednesday, August 22, 1979

    Episode  |  November 1st, 2017  |  10 mins 33 secs

    A podcast!


  • Episode 429 - Tuesday, August 21, 1979

    Episode  |  October 31st, 2017  |  14 mins 52 secs
    garfield, halloween, lorenzo music

  • Episode 428 - Monday, August 20, 1979

    Episode  |  October 30th, 2017  |  23 mins 59 secs
    annette funicello, companionate love relationships, garfield's sexuality, stuff, things, various podcasts