According to Jim
TVPG
Sitcom
A loving blue-collar dad in Chicago family man finds himself in comedic situations while attempting to balance his laid-back personality with the demands of fatherhood and his relationship with his strong-willed wife.
Cast & Crew
Jim Belushi Jim
Courtney Thorne-Smith Cheryl
Kimberly Williams-Paisley Dana Gibson
Larry Joe Campbell Andy
Taylor Atelian Ruby
Billi Bruno Gracie
Conner Rayburn Kyle
Tracy Newman Creator
Jonathan Stark Creator
Suzanne Bukinik Executive Producer
Marc Gurvitz Executive Producer
Tracy Newman Executive Producer
Jonathan Stark Executive Producer
Jim Belushi Executive Producer
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Thursday, April 2
Trashed
Season 3 • Episode 25
Cheryl asks Jim to put the kids' artwork in storage, but he disposes of it elsewhere.
Thursday, April 2
The Marriage Bank
Season 3 • Episode 26
Jim agrees to go to a couples seminar, hoping Cheryl will then OK a fishing trip.
Thursday, April 2
Everyone Gets Dumped
Season 3 • Episode 27
Jim develops a friendship with Dana's new boyfriend.
Thursday, April 2
The Swimming Pool
Season 3 • Episode 28
Cheryl protests when a heat wave sends the family sneaking into a vacationing neighbor's pool.
Thursday, April 2
The Devil Went Down to Oak Park
Season 7 • Episode 18
The devil comes to collect on a deal Jim made with him back when Jim was courting Cheryl.
Thursday, April 2
The Blankie
Season 8 • Episode 1
Jim guilts the older kids into doing household chores after Jonathan's special blanket goes missing.
Friday, April 3
A Vast Difference
Season 3 • Episode 29
Jim chickens out of having a vasectomy but cannot admit it.
Friday, April 3
A Hole in One
Season 4 • Episode 1
Cheryl wants Jim to give up all his vices so they can try to have a baby.
Friday, April 3
The Effort
Season 4 • Episode 2
Cheryl surprises Jim with a romantic evening, but it cuts into his planned TV boxing match.
Friday, April 3
The Grill
Season 4 • Episode 3
Jim offers to give Andy an old barbecue grill, then decides Andy should pay for it.
Friday, April 3
The New Best Friend
Season 8 • Episode 2
Jim tries to find Cheryl a new best friend after her sister moves away.
Friday, April 3
Jami McFame
Season 8 • Episode 4
Jim's band wins the chance to play backup for child pop sensation Jami McFame.
Saturday, April 4
The Garage Door
Season 4 • Episode 4
Cheryl and Dana are forced to smash their way out of a locked garage.
Saturday, April 4
Dress to Kill Me
Season 4 • Episode 5
Jim is worried Kyle is turning into a sissy when he insists on dressing as Cinderella for Halloween.
Saturday, April 4
Father-Daughter Dance
Season 4 • Episode 6
Jim is hurt when Ruby invites Andy to the father-daughter dance instead of him.
Saturday, April 4
Plot Twist
Season 4 • Episode 7
Cheryl's mother has plans for the afterlife that would put everyone in a large family plot.
Sunday, April 5
Slumber Party
Season 2 • Episode 16
Cheryl gets sick, and Jim is forced to entertain a gaggle of little girls at Ruby's slumber party.
Tuesday, April 7
The Hunters
Season 4 • Episode 8
Jim becomes the prey of a 40-pound psychotic turkey during a hunt.
Tuesday, April 7
Poking the Bear
Season 4 • Episode 9
Cheryl's doctor puts sex off-limits until the time is right for conception.
Tuesday, April 7
Stalking Santa
Season 4 • Episode 10
Jim gets into an accident with a department store Santa.
Tuesday, April 7
Sympathy From the Devlins
Season 4 • Episode 11
Jim comes to believe that his former neighbors, the Devlins, bring good luck to the Bulls.
Tuesday, April 7
Andy's Proposal
Season 8 • Episode 3
Jim urges Andy to propose to Emily or risk losing her.
Tuesday, April 7
Two for the Money
Season 8 • Episode 5
Jim lands the twins in a movie role opposite Steve Guttenberg.
Tuesday, April 7
Cabin Boys
Season 8 • Episode 6
Andy and Jim plan a retreat at Andy's fiancee's cabin in the woods.
Wednesday, April 8
Nanny-Cam
Season 4 • Episode 12
Jim buys a nanny-cam to spy on the sitter he did not want Cheryl to hire.
Wednesday, April 8
The Jealous Husband
Season 4 • Episode 13
Jim tries to teach Dana's new beau how to make women feel desirable.
Wednesday, April 8
A Crying Shame
Season 4 • Episode 14
Cheryl is turned off by Jim's tears.
Wednesday, April 8
Guess Who's Cooking Your Dinner?
Season 4 • Episode 15
When Cheryl cooks for Dana and her boyfriend, she lets him believe Dana actually did the cooking.
Wednesday, April 8
The Ego Boost
Season 8 • Episode 7
When Jim runs into an ex-girlfriend, he becomes convinced she wants to rekindle their romance.
Wednesday, April 8
The Yoga Bear
Season 8 • Episode 8
Jim joins Cheryl's yoga class after getting jealous of her male instructor.
Wednesday, April 8
Kyle's Crush
Season 8 • Episode 9
Kyle and Andy both fall for Ruby's piano teacher, Mandy (Jackie Debatin).
Wednesday, April 8
The Meaningful Gift
Season 8 • Episode 10
Andy tries to find a perfect birthday present for his girlfriend (Jackie Debatin).
Wednesday, April 8
The Daddy Way
Season 8 • Episode 11
Jim turns baby-sitting into a sporting event by staging baby races.
Thursday, April 9
The Wedding Dress
Season 4 • Episode 16
Cheryl offers to let Dana wear her wedding dress, unaware that the gown was destroyed years earlier.
Thursday, April 9
The Mustache
Season 4 • Episode 17
When an attractive woman suggests that Jim grow a mustache, he does, to Cheryl's dismay.
Thursday, April 9
Shall We Dance
Season 4 • Episode 18
Andy decides to learn how to dance for his sister's wedding.
Thursday, April 9
Take My Wife, Please
Season 4 • Episode 19
In order to avoid going to an opera with Cheryl, Jim asks an elderly widower to be her escort.
Thursday, April 9
You Gotta Love Somebody: Part 1
Season 2 • Episode 13
Jim and Cheryl try to play Cupid for a shy police officer and his female partner.
Thursday, April 9
Physical Therapy
Season 8 • Episode 12
Despite Mandy's warnings, Andy plays snow football with Jim and gets injured.
Thursday, April 9
The Cooler One
Season 8 • Episode 13
Jim tries to be a cool dad to impress Ruby and her friends.
Friday, April 10
Spelling Bee
Season 4 • Episode 20
Jim is dismayed when he has to drive Gracie to spelling bee tournaments all over the state.
Friday, April 10
Kentucky Fried Beltzman
Season 4 • Episode 21
Jim's friend is buried with a baseball card.
Friday, April 10
The Clock
Season 4 • Episode 22
Jim and Cheryl try to get the kids to bed earlier so they can have more quality time together.
Friday, April 10
The Competition
Season 4 • Episode 23
Confident Jim is crushed when he loses a hot-dog-eating contest to a petite woman.
Friday, April 10
You Gotta Love Somebody: Part 2
Season 2 • Episode 14
Jim and Cheryl try to play Cupid for a shy police officer and his female partner.
Friday, April 10
Happy Jim
Season 8 • Episode 14
Jim is unusually mellow when he is prescribed pain pills for a back injury.
Friday, April 10
King of the Nerds
Season 8 • Episode 15
Jim tries to bond with his son Kyle, but Kyle identifies more with Andy, a fellow sci-fi nerd.
Friday, April 10
I Hate the High Road
Season 8 • Episode 16
Cheryl makes Jim donate time to charity; Jim tries to test Cheryl's integrity.
Saturday, April 11
The Bachelorette Party
Season 4 • Episode 24
Jim and Andy treat Dana to a rowdy night she will never forget.
Saturday, April 11
Geronimo Jim
Season 4 • Episode 25
Cheryl and Dana worry when Jim wants to take up skydiving and Ryan wants to race fast cars.
Saturday, April 11
The Scrapbook
Season 4 • Episode 26
Jim and Cheryl's botched anniversary moments from years past.
Saturday, April 11
Wedding Bell Blues
Season 4 • Episode 27
Jim accidentally knocks out the minister with the car door on Dana's wedding day.
Saturday, April 11
The Smell of Success
Season 2 • Episode 15
Cheryl disapproves of Jim's latest invention, a flatulent doll named Gassy Gus.
Saturday, April 11
Slumber Party
Season 2 • Episode 16
Cheryl gets sick, and Jim is forced to entertain a gaggle of little girls at Ruby's slumber party.
Sunday, April 12
The Ring
Season 2 • Episode 17
Jim worries Cheryl will learn the truth about her engagement ring from his old girlfriend.
Sunday, April 12
Wonder Woman
Season 2 • Episode 18
Jim goes into protective overdrive after Cheryl is mugged while shopping.
Monday, April 13
The Pass
Season 2 • Episode 19
Jim's new employer, his former schoolmate, makes a pass at Cheryl over dinner.
Monday, April 13
Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend
Season 8 • Episode 17
Jim is haunted by a ghost when he buys Cheryl a diamond necklace that was taken off a dead woman.
Monday, April 13
Heaven Opposed to Hell
Season 8 • Episode 18
Jim must stand trial in heaven after he chokes on a shrimp puff.
Tuesday, April 14
Foul Ball
Season 5 • Episode 1
Jim gets Kyle out of his first day of kindergarten to go see a Cubs game.
Tuesday, April 14
The Tale of the Tape: Part 1
Season 5 • Episode 2
Jim fears that Cheryl's romantic expectations will increase as Ryan showers Dana with gifts.
Tuesday, April 14
The Tale of the Tape: Part 2
Season 5 • Episode 3
Jim fears that Cheryl's romantic expectations will increase as Ryan showers Dana with gifts.
Tuesday, April 14
Charity Begins at Hef's
Season 5 • Episode 4
Cheryl wins two tickets to visit Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion and takes Dana instead of Jim.
Tuesday, April 14
Dana Gets Fired
Season 2 • Episode 20
Jim stands up to Dana's boss and gets her fired.
Tuesday, April 14
Bo Diddley
Season 2 • Episode 21
Jim must decide between helping Cheryl through surgery or meeting his hero, Bo Diddley.
Wednesday, April 15
The Race
Season 5 • Episode 5
Jim tries to teach Kyle a lesson about quitting by running a 10k marathon.
Wednesday, April 15
Anec-Don'ts
Season 5 • Episode 6
Jim makes up a story about his construction office catching fire.
Wednesday, April 15
The Chick Whisperer
Season 5 • Episode 7
Jim helps Andy pick up a beautiful woman at the bar, but she turns out to be crazy.
Wednesday, April 15
James and the Annoying Peach
Season 5 • Episode 8
To teach Jim the value of communication, Cheryl does not speak to him for three days.
Wednesday, April 15
Deal With the Devlins
Season 2 • Episode 22
Jim and Cheryl's new friends turn out to be obnoxious, but they benefit from the relationship.
Wednesday, April 15
The Helmet
Season 2 • Episode 23
An online bidding war reveals to Cheryl that Jim is spending money on memorabilia.
Wednesday, April 15
Pilot
Season 1 • Episode 1
A loving husband and father (Jim Belushi) tries to adhere to family ideals.
Wednesday, April 15
No Nookie
Season 1 • Episode 2
Cheryl convinces Jim to abstain from sex until their romantic getaway.
Wednesday, April 15
The Cat Came Back
Season 1 • Episode 3
Jim promises to give Cheryl's cat a respectable burial.
Thursday, April 16
The Dream
Season 5 • Episode 9
Jim tries to blackmail Dana when he learns she is having erotic dreams about him.
Thursday, April 16
Lean on Me
Season 5 • Episode 10
Cheryl urges Jim to meet an old girlfriend for lunch, but has second thoughts.
Thursday, April 16
The Gift of the Maggie
Season 5 • Episode 11
Cheryl and Dana's mother visits for the holidays.
Thursday, April 16
Sex Ed Fred
Season 5 • Episode 12
Jim and Cheryl preview a sex education video to be shown to children at Ruby's school.
Thursday, April 16
No Harm, No Fowl
Season 2 • Episode 24
The household is annoyed when Gracie adopts an abandoned bird.
Friday, April 17
Renewing Vows
Season 5 • Episode 13
Cheryl lets Gracie and Ruby get their ears pierced.
Friday, April 17
The Stick
Season 5 • Episode 14
Jim accuses Cheryl of choosing gifts intended to change him instead of to please him.
Friday, April 17
Mr. Right
Season 5 • Episode 15
Cheryl and Jim get into an argument about Erik Estrada, and Jim sets out to prove Cheryl wrong.
Friday, April 17
Get Your Freak On
Season 5 • Episode 16
Cheryl learns a party's hostess is selling sex toys.
Friday, April 17
About a Girl
Season 2 • Episode 25
Dana pretends to be Ruby's mother to attract the attention of a single father she met in the park.
Friday, April 17
Mom's Boyfriend
Season 2 • Episode 26
Cheryl and her siblings are wary of their recently widowed mother's new fiance.
Friday, April 17
Vegas, Baby: Part 1
Season 2 • Episode 27
Cheryl secretly plans a reunion between Jim and his sister while they are on a family trip.
Friday, April 17
Anniversary
Season 1 • Episode 4
Jim presents Cheryl with yet another perfect gift for their 10th wedding anniversary.
Friday, April 17
Unruly Spirits
Season 1 • Episode 5
On Halloween, Jim sneaks out Gracie for trick-or-treating.
Saturday, April 18
The Grumpy Guy
Season 5 • Episode 17
Jim learns he is the model for a grumpy character.
Saturday, April 18
Polite Jim
Season 5 • Episode 18
Jim makes a neighbor cry with a blunt remark at his backyard barbecue.
Saturday, April 18
Daddy Dearest
Season 5 • Episode 19
Jim thinks he has found his father, who abandoned him.
Saturday, April 18
The Thin Green Line
Season 5 • Episode 20
Cheryl urges Jim to behave on St. Patrick's Day.
Saturday, April 18
Vegas, Baby: Part 2
Season 2 • Episode 28
Cheryl secretly plans a reunion between Jim and his sister while they are on a family trip.
Sunday, April 19
The Errand
Season 3 • Episode 1
Jim performs tasks for Cheryl but soon tires of being her errand boy.
Sunday, April 19
The Packer Ball
Season 3 • Episode 2
Jim panics when his son becomes a Packers fan and tries to convert him to a Bears fan.
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