web01.fireside.fm Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:34 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Being Jim Davis - Episodes Tagged with “National Fat Week” https://www.beingjimdavis.com/tags/national%20fat%20week Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:00:00 -0600 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. en-us episodic The Tagline Goes Here Jonathan Gibson 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. yes Jonathan Gibson fancypegleg@gmail.com Episode 462 - Sunday, September 23, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/462 c5ab5fb7-e8f3-43c2-b3b0-ca158ec1d4e3 Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/23” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-23.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 17:47 yes <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gXb_WuLCD8g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><br><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/23" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/23" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-23.gif"></a> </p>



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]]> Episode 461 - Saturday, September 22, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/461 72840a35-6bac-4362-864f-577821d383d6 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/22” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-22.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 10:25 yes <p>Blah blah blah blah blah Garfield.<br> <br><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-22.gif"></a> </p> Blah blah blah blah blah Garfield.


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]]> Episode 460 - Friday, September 21, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/460 7c38d323-53ff-45f0-af79-b44d6f5dc5f3 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/21” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-21.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 7:11 yes <p>Hey! Don't forget to go to <a href="https:www.beingjimdavis.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"></a><a href="http://www.beingjimdavis.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.beingjimdavis.com</a> to buy your tickets to our Christmas Eve live show in Lebanon, Missouri! We're concerned you might forget to do that.</p> <p><br><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-21.gif"></a> </p> Hey! Don't forget to go to www.beingjimdavis.com to buy your tickets to our Christmas Eve live show in Lebanon, Missouri! We're concerned you might forget to do that.



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]]> Episode 459 - Thursday, September 20, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/459 32832f76-3625-4f07-83a3-d26365d9470a Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/20” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-20.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 12:48 yes <strong>WARNING! TODAY'S EPISODE INVOLVES GARFIELD!</strong> <p><br><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-20.gif"></a> </p> WARNING! TODAY'S EPISODE INVOLVES GARFIELD!



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]]> Episode 458 - Wednesday, September 19, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/458 99ee112f-a023-463d-885a-2dac8e0856b9 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/19” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-19.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 26:05 yes <p>In today's episode of <i>Being Jim Davis</i>, something goes wrong with the upload and the episode isn't available for a while and then when it finally IS available again, the episode description has changed. Sorry!</p> <p><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/19" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/19" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-19.gif"></a> </p> In today's episode of Being Jim Davis, something goes wrong with the upload and the episode isn't available for a while and then when it finally IS available again, the episode description has changed. Sorry!


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]]> Episode 457 - Tuesday, September 18, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/457 b06c60b1-5359-4d46-88ec-62d2c1580dd8 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/18” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-18.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 12:35 yes <p>In today's episode, Jon continues to be a big dumb moron who's wrong about everything all the time.</p> <p><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/18" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/18" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-18.gif"></a> </p> In today's episode, Jon continues to be a big dumb moron who's wrong about everything all the time.


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]]> Episode 456 - Monday, September 17, 1979 https://www.beingjimdavis.com/456 1ea07ba9-2168-4cb3-8700-7e66ac0bbfa7 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0600 Jonathan Gibson full Jonathan Gibson Hey, it's National Fat Week! <br><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/17” target="_blank"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-17.gif" border="0" width = 300></a> 28:58 yes <p>In today's episode we debate whether or not Jim Davis can be classified as "fat." I say no. Check it out:<br> <br><a href="https://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/item/jim-davis-autographed-trading-card-garfield-artist-creator-2004-pacific-13.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d3d8y6yhucfd29.cloudfront.net/sports-product-image/Array.cdseo_url%7Creplace:'.html':''-3-t7073633-575.jpg"></a></p> <p><br><br>Plus we talked about historical American BMI values and -- as usual -- Jon was just embarrassingly wrong about stuff:<br> <br><a href="http://voxeu.org/article/100-years-us-obesity" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="http://voxeu.org/sites/default/files/image/FromAug2010/KomlosFig1.gif"></a><br> <br><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_adult_09_10/obesity_adult_09_10.html#table1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="http://cdn1.theodysseyonline.com/files/2015/11/20/6358359882436216361965175721_obese.gif"></a></p> <p><br><br></p><p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/17" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Today's strip</a></p> <p><a href="https://garfield.com/comic/1979/09/17" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://d1ejxu6vysztl5.cloudfront.net/comics/garfield/1979/1979-09-17.gif"></a> </p> In today's episode we debate whether or not Jim Davis can be classified as "fat." I say no. Check it out:



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