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 427 - Sunday, August 19, 1979

    Episode  |  October 29th, 2017  |  24 mins 25 secs
    activities, andrew lloyd webber, arguing about colors, beetlejuice, breakfast, clip art, eating, improbable cutlery manipulation, inappropriate inter-species relationships, inconsistent bathtime behavior, jogging, marcel duchamp, non-canonical taglines, peas for breakfast, rhythm, saturn, saturn's moon titan, the fed, waking up

    #forgottowriteanythingforthisone

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    Episode 426 - Saturday, August 18, 1979

    Episode  |  October 28th, 2017  |  18 mins 7 secs
    arguing, coffee, dancing, despair, disheveled hair, heroin, humble bragging, pajamas, standcowpo

    Podcast

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    Episode 425 - Friday, August 17, 1979

    Episode  |  October 27th, 2017  |  30 mins 59 secs
    cheez-its grooves, coffee mug topology, creating a ruckus during the podcast, dumb jokes told by pictures of cats, garfield continuity, gaslighting, naming fallacies, reminiscing, saturday night live, scott mccloud, surrealism, uhf, water coolers

  • Episode 424 - Thursday, August 16, 1979

    Episode  |  October 26th, 2017  |  26 mins 51 secs
    brontosauruses, canine verisimilitude, cat-on-dog violence, dog anatomy, garfield as a mascot, gilbert gottfried impressions, isosceles triangles, minimalist dialogue, motion lines, plans, regarding, stink lines, the human condition, the lowest common denominator, things you can do with a dog's nose

    Now with snacks!

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    Episode 423 - Wednesday, August 15, 1979

    Episode  |  October 25th, 2017  |  13 mins 12 secs
    christopher winter acting professionally, danny gibson abruptly leaving the studio mid-session, faceplanting, jon gibson attempting to ruin the podcast by eating into the microphone, podcast bullshit, spreadsheets

    Face v. Table

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    Episode 422 - Tuesday, August 14, 1979

    Episode  |  October 24th, 2017  |  15 mins 6 secs
    crimes of passion, food

    This is another episode with Danny Gibson in it.

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    Episode 421 - Monday, August 13, 1979

    Episode  |  October 23rd, 2017  |  57 mins 4 secs
    insane clown posse

  • Episode 420 - Sunday, August 12, 1979

    Episode  |  October 22nd, 2017  |  13 mins 57 secs

  • Episode 419 - Saturday, August 11, 1979

    Episode  |  October 21st, 2017  |  22 mins 40 secs

  • Episode 418 - Friday, August 10, 1979

    Episode  |  October 20th, 2017  |  20 mins 5 secs
    garfield, laurie anderson, phillip glass

  • Episode 417 - Thursday, August 9, 1979

    Episode  |  October 19th, 2017  |  15 mins 37 secs
    being wrong about poetry, poetry, space exploration, terrestrial exploration

  • Episode 416 - Wednesday, August 8, 1979

    Episode  |  October 18th, 2017  |  19 mins 6 secs
    anatomically modern garfield, enoch root, kinds of flasks, the civil war

  • Episode 415 - Tuesday, August 7, 1979

    Episode  |  October 17th, 2017  |  18 mins 21 secs

  • Episode 414 - Monday, August 6, 1979

    Episode  |  October 16th, 2017  |  35 mins 33 secs
    drinks roundup, early devonian period, garfield history, gondwanaland, history, ichythyostega (sp?), james earl jones, late silurian period, noncanonical garfield, pangea, periodization of garfield, primordial garfield, rap music, rashomon, stephen jay gould, the manticore, voiceover and/or narration

  • Episode 413 - Sunday, August 5, 1979

    Episode  |  October 15th, 2017  |  21 mins 26 secs
    conflict, television, yeomen

  • Episode 412 - Saturday, August 4, 1979

    Episode  |  October 14th, 2017  |  19 mins 21 secs
    boxes, edamame, embouchure, food, food boxes, hindu love gods, inappropriate food behavior, irene from hr, irma, munchies, non-sensical narratives, pcp, prince, self-determination, treats

    Box play.