Jonathan Gibson
Being Jim Davis
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'...
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Jul 9, 2023
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Episodes
Episode 473 - Thursday, October 4, 1979 14.12.2017 12:59
Today's strip
Episode 472 - Wednesday, October 3, 1979 13.12.2017 13:16
Today's strip
Episode 471 - Tuesday, October 2, 1979 12.12.2017 24:53
Today's strip
Episode 470 - Monday, October 1, 1979 11.12.2017 27:45
Today's strip
Episode 469 - Sunday, September 30, 1979 10.12.2017 18:41
No, seriously, I don't listen to these even a little bit. Sometimes I look at the strips a little bit. Something about flowers today. Here's Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole. Today's strip
Episode 468 - Saturday, September 29, 1979 09.12.2017 9:53
Spelling is the combination of alphabetic letters to form a written word. It is a linguistic process of correct writing with the necessary letters and diacritics present in a comprehensible, usually standardized order. While a part of a language's orthography, not all languages have purely phonemic alphabets. Standardized spelling is a prescriptive element. Spellings originated as transcriptions o...
Episode 467 - Friday, September 28, 1979 08.12.2017 13:31
Today things take a dramatic turn when a series of events transpires, leading characters to have various motivations. What will that portend for the future? I don't know; I mainly watch Netflix while writing these. Today's strip
Episode 466 - Thursday, September 27, 1979 07.12.2017 13:03
Odie has brown ears today. Today's strip
Episode 465 - Wednesday, September 26, 1979 06.12.2017 10:32
Here's yet another Garfield strip with no characters that possess mustaches. Today's strip
Episode 464 - Tuesday, September 25, 1979 05.12.2017 17:49
As promised, here are SEVEN clips of Pee Wee Herman. Today's strip
Episode 463 - Monday, September 24, 1979 04.12.2017 18:16
Apparently we are, in fact, still doing this podcast. Today's strip
Episode 462 - Sunday, September 23, 1979 03.12.2017 17:47
Today's strip
Episode 461 - Saturday, September 22, 1979 02.12.2017 10:25
Blah blah blah blah blah Garfield. Today's strip
Episode 460 - Friday, September 21, 1979 01.12.2017 7:11
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. Today's strip
Episode 459 - Thursday, September 20, 1979 30.11.2017 12:48
WARNING! TODAY'S EPISODE INVOLVES GARFIELD! Today's strip
Episode 458 - Wednesday, September 19, 1979 29.11.2017 26:05
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! Today's strip
Episode 457 - Tuesday, September 18, 1979 28.11.2017 12:35
In today's episode, Jon continues to be a big dumb moron who's wrong about everything all the time. Today's strip
Episode 456 - Monday, September 17, 1979 27.11.2017 28:58
In today's episode we debate whether or not Jim Davis can be classified as "fat." I say no. Check it out: Plus we talked about historical American BMI values and -- as usual -- Jon was just embarrassingly wrong about stuff: Today's strip
Episode 455 - Sunday, September 16, 1979 26.11.2017 14:31
I didn't know thirty-something white guys could podcast about Garfield in their sleep! Today's strip
Episode 454 - Saturday, September 15, 1979 25.11.2017 20:21
I do not remember this strip, let alone discussing it on air. It's possible it never came up. Today's strip
Episode 453 - Friday, September 14, 1979 24.11.2017 31:05
Today we both agreed that it's weird how Garfield was half cut off by the edge of the panel in the opening of today's strip. We agreed so much on this point that we had to talk about it for 30 minutes. Today's strip
Episode 452 - Thursday, September 13, 1979 23.11.2017 11:26
Today is Thanksgiving, or so they tell us. Obviously we have no idea what the fuck that means, since it's 1979, which was probably several years before President Woodrow Wilson declares it a national holiday. Corrections to markfrazier@beingjimdavis.com . Did Chris even remember to set up that email address? Why not find out? Today's strip
Episode 451 - Wednesday, September 12, 1979 22.11.2017 15:19
Another perfect goddamned episode. How do these guys do it??!? Probably drugs is my guess. Here, enjoy some 1980s Burger King commercials. Today's strip
Episode 450 - Tuesday, September 11, 1979 21.11.2017 27:23
Ah, now I remember what I stole that line about Jon Arbuckle's 'mournful ears' from. It's this . Today's strip
Episode 449 - Monday, September 10, 1979 20.11.2017 32:32
Yawn. Today's strip
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