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According to Jim (2001)
Popularity 50.4
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Jim is the typical all-American guy — a macho "everyman" — with a soft spot for his beautiful wife and children. Jim's boyish bravado and humorous antics keep a certain level of turmoil in their home, but there's never a doubt that this "opposites attract" couple are in their marriage for keeps!
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Jim BelushiJim
Courtney Thorne-SmithCheryl
Larry Joe CampbellAndy
Taylor AtelianRuby
Billi BrunoGracie
Conner RayburnKyle
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Specials
13 episodes · First aired 2005-05-11
E01
Season 1 Special
2005-05-11 · 30 min
E02
Season 1 DVD Extra: According To Jim
· 30 min
Season 1 DVD extras. A featurette with Jim Belushi discussing different aspects of the series, specifically season one. He opens with a reflection about how easier it was to come up with material in the beginning. He continues talking about specific season one storylines. While I was not a big fan of the show, I enjoyed Belushi's dissection of the season one episodes.
E03
Season 1 DVD Extra: Tour the According to Jim Set
· 30 min
Season 1 DVD extras. A featurette with Jim Belushi giving a tour of the set (from season eight). He talks about some of the props, camera angles, where they do jokes, wardrobe, etc.
E04
Season 1 DVD Extra: Comedy begins at home
· 30 min
Season 1 DVD extras. A behind the scenes featurette about the show. Jim Belushi opens with a dialogue about how he got involved on the show. It continues with cast and crew members discussing different aspects from storylines to writing to characters to its success.
E05
Season 1 DVD Extra: Outtakes
· 30 min
A short bloopers reel with the cast messing up during filming.
E06
Season 2 DVD Extra: According to Jim
· 30 min
Jim is talking about this second season. He gives great information and details. This was recorded recently as he is not on the set.
E07
Season 2 DVD Extra: Acting Out Behind Camera
· 30 min
Interviews with the entire cast and how and why they each directed episodes of the show! Interviewed are Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Joe Campbell and Kimberly Williams-Paisley even. These interviews seem like were shot during the series finale last season (season eight).
E08
Season 3 DVD Extra: According To Jim
· 30 min
In this nine minute featurette, Jim Belushi talks about some of his favorite episodes and what made season three so great. He also talks about the shows ratings, filming locations, the cast, writers, and guest stars. With some clips from the season, this feature offers a nice look back with Jim Belushi at a memorable season.
E09
Season 3 DVD Extra: Live On Tape
· 30 min
Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Joe Campbell and Kimberly Williams-Paisley talk about the importance of performing in front of a live audience and how they feed off their reactions. At fifteen minutes, there's a lot of discussion including the use of four cameras, writing for TV, set design, performing for TV vs. theater, keeping the audience entertained and more. There's a decent amount of interviews, footage of the tapings, Jim Belushi entertaining the audience, and warm up comedian Michael Burger interacting with the audience. Overall, this is a fun, entertaining behind-the-scenes look at what goes into taping a live sitcom.
E10
Season 4 DVD Extra: According To Jim
· 30 min
At just over 11 minutes, Jim Belushi talks about season four including what it meant to him, the 100th episode, guest stars, behind-the-scenes information, some episodes and more. Footage from the season is included throughout.
E11
Season 4 DVD Extra: According to Kids
· 30 min
Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Larry Joe Campbell talk about the kids who played Ruby (Taylor Atelian), Gracie (Billi Bruno) and Kyle (Conner Rayburn) and interacting with them. Additionally, Atelian, Bruno and Rayburn talk about the audition process, what it was like working on the series, and more.
E12
Season 5 DVD Extra: According To Jim
· 30 min
Similar to previous DVD releases of "According to Jim," the featurette is a look back at the season. The feature begins with Jim Belushi talking about coming into season five and how American Idol came along and began to take away ratings from them as well as others. He goes onto discuss other aspects of the season including getting raises, moving to smaller sets, guest stars and more. There are clips from some of the episodes, and Jim talks about several of them including "Foul Ball" that features his real life son, Robert Belushi, and "The Race" that features his real life daughter, Jamison Belushi.
E13
Season 5 DVD Extra: The House That Jim Built
· 30 min
The feature has interviews with Jim Belushi and Director of Photography, George Mooradian about lighting a comedy, creating a set/look with warm tones, building the sets on a soundstage (including Mooradian walking through an empty soundstage and pointing out where pieces of the set go) and more.
Season 1
22 episodes · First aired 2001-10-03 · ★ 7.0
E01
Pilot
2001-10-03 · 22 min
Jim and Cheryl are the perfect middle class American couple. Happily married, living in a suburban house with two adorable (but loud) little girls and a baby boy, they really can't complain much about life – except for those couple fights that neither one can ever let go, like the time Jim shut the car door on Cheryl. This time the problem is their daughter, whom Cheryl can't leave alone on her first week at kindergarten. Jim says it's because she's a woman and decides to take Ruby himself, but he also can't leave her behind. Things heat up when Cheryl discovers that not only has he been hiding it from her, but he also changed Ruby's school without talking to her. Meanwhile, Jim and Cheryl try to help Andy make up with his girlfriend.
E02
No Nookie
2001-10-10 · 22 min
Cheryl convinces Jim to forgo sex until their anticipated romantic getaway. Will abstinence relight Jim's passion, or just drive him up the wall?
E03
The Cat Came Back
2001-10-17 · 22 min
Cheryl's 15 year-old cat Mr. Feeney dies and she wants Jim to bury it on the backyard, but Jim desperately wants to go to the Bears game. He sticks the cat in the garage freezer, planning on burying it after the game, but Cheryl finds out before he comes home. She is hurt that Jim doesn't listen to her nor care about a cat that has been longer with her than anything in her current life. Jim, feeling guilty, provides a proper funeral for Mr. Feeney and gets her a brand new dog, which she doesn't like very much at first, but starts to accept it later.
E04
Anniversary
2001-10-24 · 22 min
On Jim and Cheryl's 10th Anniversary, Jim pays Dana to buy him an anniversary gift to give to Cheryl. However, Dana buys a beautiful and touching charm bracelet, going over the spending limit in the process, and Cheryl finds out that all her anniversary gifts over the past ten years were bought by Dana.
E05
Unruly Spirits
2001-10-31 · 22 min
It's Halloween, and Cheryl has forbidden Gracie to go trick-or-treating. However, not wanting his daughter to miss out on the fun of the halloween spirit, he sneaks her out anyway. Meanwhile, Andy becomes convinced that he's being stalked by an ex-girlfriend.
E06
The Crush
2001-11-07 · 22 min
Jim sets Dana up with a guy so perfect that even Cheryl falls for him.
E07
Cheryl's Old Flame
2001-11-14 · 22 min
When Andy decides Dana is responsible for his inferiority complex, he asks her to join him in his therapy - but she falls for his therapist. Jim and Cheryl disagree about letting the kids to have their own TV; Jim admits to riding his motorcycle, breaking a promise he'd made to Cheryl earlier; and Ruby innocently divulges a secret of Cheryl's, exposing a broken promise of hers to Jim.
E08
The Turkey Bowl
2001-11-21 · 22 min
It's Thanksgiving and Jim and Andy are going bowling. Cheryl doesn't like the idea very much, so she sends the girls with him. Jim has a perfect game, but just when he was about to bowl his final strike, the power goes off and he is left with either waiting for it to return or giving up being perfect. Cheryl surprises him by bringing the Thanksgiving dinner to the alley so Jim's family and friends can witness his perfect game.
E09
Andy's Girlfriend
2001-11-28 · 22 min
Andy has a new girlfriend, and Cheryl wants Jim to treat her nicely because not only is she Andy's first girlfriend sine Carrie, but also Ruby's piano teacher. During dinner, Alicia tells Jim she's a vegetarian, and not only that, but also a Peckers fan – a big insult to Jim. Alicia and Andy break up and get back together, but she keeps turning down invitations to have dinner at Jim and Cheryl's. The reason? She doesn't like being around Cheryl. Jim rubs it on her face until Cheryl confronts Alicia, who reveals it's only because she thinks Cheryl's too perfect.
E10
An According to Jiminy Christmas
2001-12-12 · 22 min
Cheryl's mother is coming to visit them for Christmas and wants to stay at their house. Jim and Cheryl, however, prefer that she stayed at a hotel but don't know how to bring it up without insulting Maggie. After Jim tells Maggie that Cheryl wants her in a hotel, Maggie gives her grandma's pearl necklace to Dana. Cheryl's upset and goes to the airport to ask her mother' forgiveness, where she learns Dana only got the necklace because she doesn't have anyone in her life like Cheryl has Jim. Meanwhile, the girls think Andy is Santa.
E11
The Bad Word
2002-01-16 · 22 min
Cheryl leaves Jim in charge of their kids and some other kids who were there to play with the girls during a Bears game. The next day, one of the kids mom calls Cheryl saying her daughter dame home repeating a swearing she heard from Jim. Cheryl apologizes for him and Jim is insulted that she always automatically takes the other person's side. Cheryl apologizes, and not too later Grace repeats the exact same word. Jim decides to teach her not to repeat it by making her say it non stop until she can't say it again. It works. 5 days later, at Ruby's ballet presentation, she slips, falls and says the word, unmasking Jim's guilt.
E12
Model Behavior
2002-01-23 · 22 min
Jim and Cheryl agree to let Ruby model for a print ad as a one-time thing, but when the photographer calls her a natural, Jim gets Ruby an agent.
E13
The Money
2002-01-30 · 22 min
Cheryl decides to go behind Jim's back and loan Andy $1,000 for a downpayment on a new condo.
E14
Blow-Up
2002-02-13 · 22 min
When Cheryl has a revealing photo of herself taken as a Valentine gift to Jim, he proudly shows it to all his friends.
E15
Racquetball
2002-02-27 · 22 min
When Cheryl reminds Jim that she beat him at racquetball years ago, he claims he was only letting her win to gain her affections, so Cheryl challenges him to a no-holds-barred re-match.
E16
Under Pressure
2002-03-06 · 22 min
After Jim is diagnosed with high blood pressure, Cheryl decides to do everything to help him. She makes him special food, give him backrubs, and keeps asking about his day in order to free him from stress. But Jim doesn't know how to share so much and tells her an old financial problem of the firm. Cheryl stays up all night doing math to figure out a way out of the problem. Jim says she has a disease and is always trying to help people, which Cheryl responds with stop caring about him. In the end, they finally settle their issues when Jim says he loves her and would be a total mess without her.
E17
Date Night
2002-03-13 · 22 min
While out for dinner and a movie, Jim loses a parking spot, and later loses Cheryl when he can't let go of it.
E18
Birthday Boys
2002-03-20 · 22 min
It's Kyle and Andy's birthday, and Andy is feeling a little left out of his own special day. They decide to take him to a restaurant that serves a 4,5 lbs steak, and Jim offers to pay for the check because Cheryl isn't feeling equal to Dana, who's spending a lot of money on their kids. On the table, Dana says she doesn't mind paying the check because she makes more money than Jim, which enfuriates him. He buys a donkey for the girls so they can know he's the one they should go to if they want stuff (in this case, they wanted a poney, but "they'll never know the difference"), and it isn't until the donkey ruins a painting Dana bought for Kyle's room that they talk it out and settle their issues.
E19
The Receipt
2002-04-24 · 22 min
When the new DVD player breaks, Jim must find the receipt in order to exchange it. He can't find it anywhere and blames Cheryl of losing it. She says he was the one who lost it, and in order to "win" the fight, Jim buys another DVD player and tells Cheryl he exchanged the broken one. Later, Dana shows up with the receipt, in which Cheryl wrote her a recipe, and Cheryl - after realizing it was her fault after all - burns it. They get into a fight but soon decide to drop the point scoring and just be happy again.
E20
Old Friends
2002-05-01 · 22 min
Jim has a run-in with an old friend from his wild and crazy days who is now a cop. Jim sets out to prove he's not an 'old married guy' by staying out all night and partying. Unfortunately, this has bad consequences for both of them...
E21
Cheryl's Day Off
2002-05-08 · 22 min
Jim agrees to take the girls for the day while Cheryl and Dana go to a doctor's appointment. At the park, Jim leaves the girls with another mom and goes to the movies... where he's busted by Cheryl. Things go from bad to worse when he tries to retrieve the kids and can't remember who he left them with.
E22
No Surprises
2002-05-15 · 22 min
Jim plans a surprise party for Cheryl's birthday, but gets angry and cancels it when Dana spills the beans. To make it up to him, Cheryl plans a party for him... but he's too busy bowling to show up.
