Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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Episode 443 - Tuesday, September 4, 1979
14/11/2017 Duration: 24minWe talked about this song a little bit in today's episode, but then I cut that part out. You didn't miss much This week's guest-host is Mark Frazier of the popular Magmar Sucks podcast. Check it out! Today's strip
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Episode 442 - Monday, September 3, 1979
13/11/2017 Duration: 31minToday marks the first-ever appearance of Nermal the kitten. So naturally, we kick things off with a reference to Shaq Soda. Also, this week's guest-host is Mark Frazier of the popular Magmar Sucks podcast. Check it out! Today's strip
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Episode 441 - Sunday, September 2, 1979
12/11/2017 Duration: 14minIt's a Garfield. And that means it's both bigger and smaller than a breadbox, depending on your frame of reference. Stylish 1970's pet carrier Today's strip +
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Episode 440 - Saturday, September 1, 1979
11/11/2017 Duration: 09minIt's another Garfield! This one has a turkey in it. You like that, right? How about human adults carrying silverware as around on their shoulder like prospecting implements? That's right up your alley, no? Eh, whatever. Like I said, it's a Garfield. Today's strip
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Episode 439 - Friday, August 31, 1979
10/11/2017 Duration: 11minGarifled has a pet ant. This is normal. Today's strip
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Episode 438 - Thursday, August 30, 1979
09/11/2017 Duration: 13minOh, we're still doing this podcast? Huh, will you look at that. Today's strip
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Episode 437 - Wednesday, August 29, 1979
08/11/2017 Duration: 10minI'm 95% certain that Jon Arbuckle's bed-concealed abdomen is depicted as being more improbably bulbous and distended each and every time it is inflicted upon us. At its current rate of growth, some say, it will by the early 90s have expanded to fill the entire known universe. On the other hand, this is all just speculation; who knows if Garfield will even still be in print by that time? This one's not very good. Today's strip
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Episode 436 - Tuesday, August 28, 1979
07/11/2017 Duration: 15minIn retrospect, I would like to amend (read: change completely) my comments about how recording a daily Garfield recap podcast is akin to the phenomenon in Go of being 'in atari.' Now that I really think about it, this podcast is far, far more reminiscent of the phenomenon in Go of being 'in seki'. Today's strip
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Episode 435 - Monday, August 27, 1979
06/11/2017 Duration: 24minIf you listen to this episode of Being Jim Davis, please write in to the show to tell me what it was about. I don't know because I watched a bunch of Australian cat food commercials instead of editing it. Snappy Tom commercial from 1978 Snappy Tom commercial from 1986 Snappy Tom commercial from 1990 Snappy Tom Radio Spot Today's strip
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Episode 429 - Tuesday, August 21, 1979
31/10/2017 Duration: 14minToday's episode of Being Jim Davis includes no Halloween-specific content -- sorry! Today's strip
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Episode 428 - Monday, August 20, 1979
30/10/2017 Duration: 23minIn today's episode of Being Jim Davis, Jon says that I'll include a link to the podcast My History Can Beat Up Your Politics in the show notes. Well, fuck you, Jon! You can't tell me what to do! Today's strip
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Episode 427 - Sunday, August 19, 1979
29/10/2017 Duration: 24minI'd like to apologize to you, the listener, for forgetting to write anything for today's episode last night before it was published. Clearly it's too late at this point because you've already downloaded it first thing (like you do every morning). Oh well. I suppose at this point it basically doesn't matter what I write, so I won't bother even mentioning the fact that Garfield and Jon are doing a bunch of stuff together today, such as waking up, bathing, eating, reading, watching TV, and sitting before jogging and not jogging respectively. Special thanks to this week's guest host, Danny Gibson. You can follow him on Twitter @FasterDuckworth. Even though it seems self-serving to mention it since both hosts of this podcast are involved in it, you can also check out his YouTube channel here. Fountain Shooting script from the movie Beetlejuice Today's strip
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Episode 426 - Saturday, August 18, 1979
28/10/2017 Duration: 18minLook out! It's another episode of Being Jim Davis. Today's strip
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Episode 425 - Friday, August 17, 1979
27/10/2017 Duration: 30minYesterday we podcasted about the time Garfield stuck Odie's nose in his mouth. You should NOT have listened... It was as insufferable as a typical BJD episode. Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics Today's strip
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Episode 424 - Thursday, August 16, 1979
26/10/2017 Duration: 26minWe liked this one. I don't know if it's possible to hear that through all the eating noises, however. Sorry about that.* * I am not sorry about that. Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast Today's strip