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 | September 27th, 2017 | 21 mins 48 secs

garfield, garfield continuity, garfield holding an ice pick, garfield strips that take place in muncie in, some things that don't have anything to do with garfield, strips with garfield in them, things having to do with garfield

Episode | September 26th, 2017 | 19 mins 55 secs

airports, bill clinton, boners, bragging about how we're "big in indonesia", class warfare, deforestation, drinks roundup update, indonesia, mail carriers, pitting various islands of indonesia against each other, slap bracelets, unusual sound effects

Episode | September 25th, 2017 | 29 mins 56 secs

aliens, anal probing, andrew lloyd webber, caesar salad dressing, cheese, drinks roundup, funny sound effects, hovercar, interior/exterior ambiguity, lazy editing, newman's own, references, rocket cat, t. s. eliot, text painting, trees, weird shadows

Episode | September 24th, 2017 | 25 mins 22 secs

caterwauling, counterforce vs. countervalue strikes, fence, higher order polynomials, jeffrey lewis of the middlebury institute of international studies at monterey, north korean missile test specifics, other things, secret hosts, whether or not there is such a thing as "implicit time signature"

Episode | September 23rd, 2017 | 13 mins 2 secs

a sandwich with eyes, eating unpalatable baby food, garbled quotes from the movie "my blue heaven", humorous revelations, jon's friend andy, jumping out of trees, quantum mechanics, things about stuff, tree details

Episode | September 22nd, 2017 | 9 mins 51 secs

friday the thirteenth, garfield, rené magritte, surrealism, the postures of jon arbuckle, the show "too many cooks"

Episode | September 21st, 2017 | 11 mins 19 secs

calling things "ducky", good morning america, subjectivity, terror vs. anxiety, unpalatable baby foods

Episode | September 20th, 2017 | 18 mins 7 secs

beer, fraudulent things that did not happen, kinds of bean gum, macadamia milk, made up things, things to do with ropes, ways of throwing ropes

Episode | September 19th, 2017 | 20 mins 28 secs

cat thoughts, cats in trees, garfield, hokusai, josh gates' supposed wife, salvador dali, seasonal anomalies, thoughts, trees

Episode | September 18th, 2017 | 27 mins 6 secs

probably some other stuff -- perhaps garfield?, stan getz

Episode | September 17th, 2017 | 18 mins 45 secs

badmouthing garfield.com, celebrityheights.com, christine, daniel manning, food, food spreads, garfield, inconsistent turkey sizes, laundry, slovenly behavior

Episode | September 16th, 2017 | 17 mins 31 secs

2nd sino-japanese war, appositive phrases, auguste rodin, badly drawn fowl, cabbage, daniel manning, diegetic speech bubbles, family guy, gilbert ryle, jowls, normal everyday events, ontology of the dog and baby on family guy, paws inc., scott mccloud, skinny garfield, vanity

Episode | September 15th, 2017 | 12 mins 34 secs

bilocatin' odie, blender play, cheese plates, cinematography, dieting, discussing our sexual preferences apparently, furniture, greek statuary, grenadine, pianos, silhouettes, single 8th note, weird shadows

Episode | September 14th, 2017 | 13 mins 47 secs

candy, conspiracy theories, daniel manning, diet candy, diets, fallacious reasoning, garfield, lying, podcasting, santa fe nm, señor murphy's, shapour bakhtiar, snack wars, the falklands war

Episode | September 13th, 2017 | 23 mins 26 secs

blondie, cool hand luke, daniel manning, deep fryers and deep fryer-focused stories from our childhood, guns "and" roses, guns & roses, independence day, misplaced limbs, sandwiches, sous-vide, the falklands war, the kelvin scale

Episode | September 12th, 2017 | 30 mins 41 secs