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 411 - Friday, August 3, 1979

    Episode  |  October 13th, 2017  |  23 mins 55 secs
    alternative milks, ana ng, annette funicello, basketball, bouncing, circling things on each other's screen, flubber, gesamtkunstwerk, jerry lewis, katherine ng, metroid prime 2: dark echoes, perspective, raymond ng, refusing to talk about flubber, respective roles of the teenage mutant ninja turtles as outlined in the theme song, richard wagner, shouting

    In which Garfield is an early pioneer of New Orleans bounce music

  • Episode 410 - Thursday, August 2, 1979

    Episode  |  October 12th, 2017  |  12 mins 33 secs
    cereal box design, kiergegaard, nocturnal pet/snack confabulations, pets, pets and snacks, sexy jon arbuckle, snacks

  • Episode 409 - Wednesday, August 1, 1979

    Episode  |  October 11th, 2017  |  27 mins 4 secs
    bathtime, garfied, john carpenter

  • Episode 408 - Tuesday, July 31, 1979

    Episode  |  October 10th, 2017  |  25 mins 41 secs
    cats, oatmeal

  • Episode 407 - Monday, July 30, 1979

    Episode  |  October 9th, 2017  |  35 mins 38 secs
    bath day, cats, digressions

  • Episode 406 - Sunday, July 29, 1979

    Episode  |  October 8th, 2017  |  29 mins 47 secs
    podcasts!

  • Episode 405 - Saturday, July 28, 1979

    Episode  |  October 7th, 2017  |  17 mins 12 secs
    clipboard ownership, garfield, jon arbuckle, liz the veterinarian, sen, sex work, tachyons

    A podcast about Garfield, by Jim Davis.

  • Episode 404 - Friday, July 27, 1979

    Episode  |  October 6th, 2017  |  25 mins 18 secs
    biological vs. adoptive sons, gross drinks, secret content, some other stuff

  • Episode 403 - Thursday, July 26, 1979

    Episode  |  October 5th, 2017  |  11 mins 9 secs
    garfield, jon arbuckle, liz the veterinarian, something something something, the "battle of the sexes"

    Hey, you like podcasts about Garfield don't you?

  • Episode 402 - Wednesday, July 25, 1979

    Episode  |  October 4th, 2017  |  23 mins 13 secs
    degrees of inappropriateness in behavior, liz the veterinarian, liz the veterinarian just going about her day, modern dating etiquette (circa 1979), standard terminology for medical headgear, standard veterinary practice

    Hey, I wonder how long these summaries can be?

  • Episode 401 - Tuesday, July 24, 1979

    Episode  |  October 3rd, 2017  |  16 mins 6 secs
    garfield podcasts, other stuff

    Y'all probably thought we'd stop after 400, right? Well, you were wrong!

  • Episode 400 - Monday, July 23, 1979

    Episode  |  October 2nd, 2017  |  43 mins 46 secs
    400, big anniversaries, big days, four centuries, four hundred, special days, very special anniversaries, whatever

    FOUR HUNDRED, BABY!

  • Episode 399 - Sunday, July 22, 1979

    Episode  |  October 1st, 2017  |  16 mins 57 secs
    dr. seuss, it's a garfield, jim davis' drawing skills, mixing up ari fleischer and charles fleischer, scott mccloud

    Now with locust bean gum!

  • Episode 398 - Saturday, July 21, 1979

    Episode  |  September 30th, 2017  |  21 mins 57 secs
    condiments, even more p. t. barnum, karl popper, p. t. barnum, potato memories, reappropriating 19th century racial slurs for potential snack food names

    Irma back

  • Episode 397 - Friday, July 20, 1979

    Episode  |  September 29th, 2017  |  25 mins 52 secs
    2nd-order sex, dr. who, garfield being kinda rapey, judy greer, look who's talking, negging, pies, raison d'etre, sonata-allegro form, steam lines, trivets

    Sexual innuendo!

  • Episode 396 - Thursday, July 19, 1979

    Episode  |  September 28th, 2017  |  10 mins 25 secs
    food, negging, pick up artistry, tex avery

    Podcast stuck in a tree