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 423 - Wednesday, August 15, 1979
25/10/2017 Duration: 13minToday we shout at each other about the podcast spreadsheet for what I can only assume is the first time ever. Hope you enjoy it! Please ensure that you are following @FasterDuckworth on Twitter. I do NOT want to have to tell you people again. Today's strip
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Episode 421 - Monday, August 13, 1979
23/10/2017 Duration: 57minThis episode has Danny Gibson in it. Today's strip
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Episode 419 - Saturday, August 11, 1979
21/10/2017 Duration: 22minHere's an unrelated thing: Today's strip
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Episode 415 - Tuesday, August 7, 1979
17/10/2017 Duration: 18minToday's episode was published several hours late -- for reasons! Today's strip
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Episode 413 - Sunday, August 5, 1979
15/10/2017 Duration: 21minRemember that time I watched John Carpenter's The Fog instead of listening to the entire week of podcasts I was supposed be writing about? Such fond memories. Anyway, since I didn't listen to this episode, I have literally NO WAY of knowing that we spent about 50% percent of it talking about Watership Down. I guess you'll have to tell me that. Today's strip
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Episode 412 - Saturday, August 4, 1979
14/10/2017 Duration: 19minIt's Saturday, and the horrible memory of John Carpenter's The Fog is but a pale shadow. Here is Prince, singing that Prince song that Prince wrote. Here's another Prince song. Prince wrote this one while thinking about what it was like to be Prince, about which he as Prince knew a great deal. And this is one of my absolute favorite songs written by Prince, who wrote the following Prince song by Prince. Today's strip
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Episode 411 - Friday, August 3, 1979
13/10/2017 Duration: 23minToday's strip Hey, you know what I haven't done in a while? Embedded a video, that's what. Let's see if I remember how to do that. If anyone's curious, I rate both versions of The Absent Minded Professor higher than John Carpenter's piece of shit movie The Fog.
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Episode 410 - Thursday, August 2, 1979
12/10/2017 Duration: 12minToday's strip I regret watching The Fog.
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Episode 409 - Wednesday, August 1, 1979
11/10/2017 Duration: 27minToday's strip Okay, halfway through The Fog now and it's becoming pretty clear that, honestly, it's kinda shitty. Sorry about hyping it up before. In retrospect, maybe I should have listened to this week's episodes while doing these write-ups instead of watching The Fog. #regrettablelifedecisions If memory serves, today's Garfield> is still about bathing.
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Episode 408 - Tuesday, July 31, 1979
10/10/2017 Duration: 25minToday's strip Okay guys, I'm like a third of the way through watching John Carpenter's T/he Fog on Mubi and honestly, it's really not that great. Like, it's just some pretty classic B-movie shit, with a lot of uninspired dialogue and half-assed cinematography. To be completely frank with you, I'm not really paying that much attention. But the point is, Mubi is really great. If there were a super artsy indie version of Garfield, and also I guess it was a movie, it would be on there. But only for 30 days. Because that's how it works. Garfield & Oatmeal!
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Episode 407 - Monday, July 30, 1979
09/10/2017 Duration: 35minToday's strip This episode is NOT brought to you by any particular sponsor (read: any sponsor at all), but if it WERE, it would probably be Mubi. I really like Mubi. Do you guys know Mubi? It's like Netflix, except it's curated. That means it ISN'T full of a bunch of absolute horseshit that sucks. Also I heard Netflix is raising their prices soon; did you guys hear that? What a bunch of total crap that shit is. So like, not only do you not gotta deal with sifting through a bunch of lame-ass fuck bullshit movies & TV that no one in their right mind would ever give a flying ass-fuck about, but also it means that you won't be spending an extra hour of your evening arguing with your SO about what to watch. I'm guessing her name is Claire. Hi Claire! No, instead you get straight the fuck down to actually watching something that rules. Like John Carpenter's The Fog, which I might have watched while doing this write-up instead of listening to the podcast episode I'm supposed to be talking about since it was about to
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Episode 406 - Sunday, July 29, 1979
08/10/2017 Duration: 29minOur sincere thanks go to special guest host Sen Cantor for appearing with us all week! You should follow her on the Effervescence Network and Patreon. Today's strip
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Episode 405 - Saturday, July 28, 1979
07/10/2017 Duration: 17minThanks to special guest host Sen Cantor, who you can find on the Effervescence Network and Patreon. Today's strip
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Episode 404 - Friday, July 27, 1979
06/10/2017 Duration: 25minThe only bright spot to today's episode was guest host Sen Cantor, who (whom?) you can find on the Effervescence Network and Patreon. Today's strip