According to Jim
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Thursday, May 2
The Bachelor
Season 2 • Episode 7
Jim advises Dana not to be herself when she's picked for the TV reality series, "The Bachelor."
Thursday, May 2
Father Disfigure
Season 2 • Episode 8
Jim's new pastor harbors a grudge against him from a childhood game of dodgeball.
Thursday, May 2
Who's the Boss?
Season 3 • Episode 22
Andy resents a wealthy client (Nana Visitor), then ends up dating her.
Thursday, May 2
The Truck
Season 3 • Episode 23
Jim loses his truck in an arm-wrestling match and refuses to ask for it back.
Thursday, May 2
The Toilet
Season 3 • Episode 24
Jim insists that the remodeled bathroom include a stainless-steel toilet that talks.
Thursday, May 2
Trashed
Season 3 • Episode 25
Cheryl asks Jim to put the kids' artwork in storage, but he disposes of it elsewhere.
Friday, May 3
Thanksgiving Confidential
Season 2 • Episode 9
Jim and Cheryl are caught fooling around on the set of the school's Thanksgiving play.
Friday, May 3
The Christmas Party
Season 2 • Episode 10
A neighbor invites Cheryl and the children, but not Jim, to a Christmas party.
Friday, May 3
The Marriage Bank
Season 3 • Episode 26
Jim agrees to go to a couples seminar, hoping Cheryl will then OK a fishing trip.
Friday, May 3
Everyone Gets Dumped
Season 3 • Episode 27
Jim develops a friendship with Dana's new boyfriend.
Friday, May 3
A Vast Difference
Season 3 • Episode 29
Jim chickens out of having a vasectomy but cannot admit it.
Friday, May 3
The Swimming Pool
Season 3 • Episode 28
Cheryl protests when a heat wave sends the family sneaking into a vacationing neighbor's pool.
Saturday, May 4
The Brother-in-Law
Season 2 • Episode 11
Dana's new boyfriend (Brad Paisley) threatens Andy's place in the band.
Saturday, May 4
Moral Dilemma
Season 2 • Episode 12
Jim takes Cheryl on a romantic weekend with money he knows was mistakenly credited to his card.
Saturday, May 4
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.
Saturday, May 4
The Effort
Season 4 • Episode 2
Cheryl surprises Jim with a romantic evening, but it cuts into his planned TV boxing match.
Saturday, May 4
The Grill
Season 4 • Episode 3
Jim offers to give Andy an old barbecue grill, then decides Andy should pay for it.
Saturday, May 4
The Garage Door
Season 4 • Episode 4
Cheryl and Dana are forced to smash their way out of a locked garage.
Sunday, May 5
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.
Sunday, May 5
Father-Daughter Dance
Season 4 • Episode 6
Jim is hurt when Ruby invites Andy to the father-daughter dance instead of him.
Sunday, May 5
Plot Twist
Season 4 • Episode 7
Cheryl's mother has plans for the afterlife that would put everyone in a large family plot.
Sunday, May 5
The Hunters
Season 4 • Episode 8
Jim becomes the prey of a 40-pound psychotic turkey during a hunt.
Monday, May 6
You Gotta Love Somebody
Season 2 • Episode 13
Jim and Cheryl try to play Cupid for a shy police officer and his female partner.
Monday, May 6
You Gotta Love Somebody
Season 2 • Episode 14
Jim and Cheryl try to play Cupid for a shy police officer and his female partner.
Monday, May 6
Poking the Bear
Season 4 • Episode 9
Cheryl's doctor puts sex off-limits until the time is right for conception.
Monday, May 6
Stalking Santa
Season 4 • Episode 10
Jim gets into an accident with a department store Santa.
Monday, May 6
Sympathy From the Devlins
Season 4 • Episode 11
Jim believes that the Devlins bring good luck to the Bulls.
Monday, May 6
Nanny-Cam
Season 4 • Episode 12
Jim buys a nanny-cam to spy on the sitter he did not want Cheryl to hire.
Tuesday, May 7
The Smell of Success
Season 2 • Episode 15
Cheryl disapproves of Jim's latest invention, a flatulent doll named Gassy Gus.
Tuesday, May 7
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, May 7
The Jealous Husband
Season 4 • Episode 13
Jim tries to teach Dana's new beau how to make women feel desirable.
Tuesday, May 7
A Crying Shame
Season 4 • Episode 14
Cheryl is turned off by Jim's tears.
Tuesday, May 7
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.
Tuesday, May 7
The Wedding Dress
Season 4 • Episode 16
Cheryl offers to let Dana wear her wedding dress, unaware that the gown was destroyed years earlier.
Wednesday, May 8
The Ring
Season 2 • Episode 17
Jim worries Cheryl will learn the truth about her engagement ring from his old girlfriend.
Wednesday, May 8
Wonder Woman
Season 2 • Episode 18
Jim goes into protective overdrive after Cheryl is mugged while shopping.
Wednesday, May 8
The Mustache
Season 4 • Episode 17
When an attractive woman suggests that Jim grow a mustache, he does, to Cheryl's dismay.
Wednesday, May 8
Shall We Dance
Season 4 • Episode 18
Andy decides to learn how to dance for his sister's wedding.
Wednesday, May 8
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.
Wednesday, May 8
Spelling Bee
Season 4 • Episode 20
Jim is dismayed when he has to drive Gracie to spelling bee tournaments all over the state.
Thursday, May 9
The Pass
Season 2 • Episode 19
Jim's new employer, his former schoolmate, makes a pass at Cheryl over dinner.
Thursday, May 9
Dana Gets Fired
Season 2 • Episode 20
Jim stands up to Dana's boss and gets her fired.
Thursday, May 9
Kentucky Fried Beltzman
Season 4 • Episode 21
Jim's friend is buried with a baseball card.
Thursday, May 9
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.
Thursday, May 9
The Competition
Season 4 • Episode 23
Confident Jim is crushed when he loses a hot-dog-eating contest to a petite woman.
Thursday, May 9
The Bachelorette Party
Season 4 • Episode 24
Jim and Andy treat Dana to a rowdy night she will never forget.
Friday, May 10
Bo Diddley
Season 2 • Episode 21
Jim must decide between helping Cheryl through surgery or meeting his hero, Bo Diddley.
Friday, May 10
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.
Friday, May 10
Geronimo Jim
Season 4 • Episode 25
Cheryl and Dana worry when Jim wants to take up skydiving and Ryan wants to race fast cars.
Friday, May 10
The Scrapbook
Season 4 • Episode 26
Jim and Cheryl's botched anniversary moments from years past.
Friday, May 10
Wedding Bell Blues
Season 4 • Episode 27
Jim accidentally knocks out the minister with the car door on Dana's wedding day.
Friday, May 10
Foul Ball
Season 5 • Episode 1
Jim gets Kyle out of his first day of kindergarten to go see a Cubs game.
Saturday, May 11
The Helmet
Season 2 • Episode 23
An online bidding war reveals to Cheryl that Jim is spending money on memorabilia.
Saturday, May 11
No Harm, No Fowl
Season 2 • Episode 24
The household is annoyed when Gracie adopts an abandoned bird.
Saturday, May 11
The Tale of the Tape
Season 5 • Episode 2
Jim fears that Cheryl's romantic expectations will increase as Ryan showers Dana with gifts.
Saturday, May 11
The Tale of the Tape
Season 5 • Episode 3
Jim fears that Cheryl's romantic expectations will increase as Ryan showers Dana with gifts.
Saturday, May 11
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.
Saturday, May 11
The Race
Season 5 • Episode 5
Jim tries to teach Kyle a lesson about quitting by running a 10k marathon.
Sunday, May 12
Anec-Don'ts
Season 5 • Episode 6
Jim makes up a story about his construction office catching fire.
Sunday, May 12
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.
Sunday, May 12
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.
Sunday, May 12
The Dream
Season 5 • Episode 9
Jim tries to blackmail Dana when he learns she is having erotic dreams about him.
Monday, May 13
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.
Monday, May 13
Mom's Boyfriend
Season 2 • Episode 26
Cheryl and her siblings are wary of their recently widowed mother's new fiance.
Monday, May 13
Lean on Me
Season 5 • Episode 10
Cheryl urges Jim to meet an old girlfriend for lunch, but has second thoughts.
Monday, May 13
The Gift of the Maggie
Season 5 • Episode 11
Cheryl and Dana's mother visits for the holidays.
Monday, May 13
Sex Ed Fred
Season 5 • Episode 12
Jim and Cheryl preview a sex education video to be shown to children at Ruby's school.
Monday, May 13
Renewing Vows
Season 5 • Episode 13
Cheryl lets Gracie and Ruby get their ears pierced.
Tuesday, May 14
Vegas, Baby
Season 2 • Episode 27
Cheryl secretly plans a reunion between Jim and his sister while they are on a family trip.
Tuesday, May 14
Vegas, Baby
Season 2 • Episode 28
Cheryl secretly plans a reunion between Jim and his sister while they are on a family trip.
Tuesday, May 14
Mr. Right
Season 5 • Episode 15
Cheryl and Jim get into an argument about Erik Estrada, and Jim sets out to prove Cheryl wrong.
Tuesday, May 14
The Stick
Season 5 • Episode 14
Jim accuses Cheryl of choosing gifts intended to change him instead of to please him.
Tuesday, May 14
Get Your Freak On
Season 5 • Episode 16
Cheryl learns a party's hostess is selling sex toys.
Tuesday, May 14
The Grumpy Guy
Season 5 • Episode 17
Jim learns he is the model for a grumpy character.
Wednesday, May 15
The Errand
Season 3 • Episode 1
Jim performs tasks for Cheryl but soon tires of being her errand boy.
Wednesday, May 15
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.
Wednesday, May 15
Daddy Dearest
Season 5 • Episode 19
Jim thinks he has found his father, who abandoned him.
Wednesday, May 15
Polite Jim
Season 5 • Episode 18
Jim makes a neighbor cry with a blunt remark at his backyard barbecue.
Wednesday, May 15
The Thin Green Line
Season 5 • Episode 20
Cheryl urges Jim to behave on St. Patrick's Day.
Wednesday, May 15
Jim's Best Friend
Season 5 • Episode 21
Jim is jealous of Andy playing chess with Ryan.
Thursday, May 16
We Have a Bingo
Season 3 • Episode 3
Jim feels guilty after cheating at a church's fund-raising bingo game.
Thursday, May 16
Getting to Know You
Season 3 • Episode 4
Cheryl is envious of her girlfriend's necklace and entreats Jim to buy her expensive jewelry.
Thursday, May 16
Belaboring the Point
Season 5 • Episode 22
Jim advises Ryan on how to deal with fluctuating hormones when he announces that Dana is expecting.
Thursday, May 16
The Flannelsexual
Season 6 • Episode 2
Jim angers Cheryl by expressing the view that men should not let women feminize them.
Thursday, May 16
The Punch
Season 6 • Episode 1
Jim teaches Kyle to throw the perfect punch to defend himself against the school bully.
Thursday, May 16
Hoosier Daddy
Season 6 • Episode 4
Jim and Cheryl try to celebrate their 15th anniversary in an Indiana motel.
Friday, May 17
The Lemonade Stand
Season 3 • Episode 5
Gracie and Ruby compete with the kid next door to sell the most lemonade.
Friday, May 17
ABC's & 123's
Season 3 • Episode 6
Jim lies to Ruby's teacher in order to lighten her work load.
Friday, May 17
Guinea Pygmalion
Season 6 • Episode 3
Jim must pay for an expensive operation to keep the family's pet guinea pig alive.
Friday, May 17
All the Rage
Season 6 • Episode 6
Raging Jim backs into a police car and chooses anger-management classes instead of paying the fine.
Friday, May 17
Good Grief
Season 6 • Episode 5
Jim takes over housekeeping duties to give Cheryl time to grieve when her favorite uncle dies.
Friday, May 17
Cheryl Gone Wild
Season 6 • Episode 7
Jim, Ryan and Andy learn that Cheryl and Dana have appeared in a "Chicks Gone Wild" video.
Saturday, May 18
Dana Dates Jim
Season 3 • Episode 7
Dana falls for a guy exactly like Jim but denies the similarities.
Saturday, May 18
Scary Movie
Season 3 • Episode 8
Gracie and Ruby have nightmares after Jim takes them to a scary movie.
Saturday, May 18
Deliverance
Season 6 • Episode 8
While Dana is in premature labor, Ryan is in a war-torn country, delivering a celebrity's baby.
Saturday, May 18
Dino-Mite
Season 6 • Episode 9
Ryan and Jim watch the kids and baby Tanner.
Saturday, May 18
Separate Ways
Season 6 • Episode 10
Baby Tanner's crying keeps Jim from going to sleep.
Saturday, May 18
In Case of Jimergency
Season 6 • Episode 11
Jim does not tell Cheryl that their health insurance has been canceled.
