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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    According to Jim Season 3 Episode 6 - ABC's and 123's
    10.0/10(197 votes)

    #1 - ABC's and 123's

    S3:E6

    Trying to lighten Ruby's homework load – and therefore look like he's helping her – Jim tells Ruby's teacher that Cheryl can't read.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 2 - The Packer Ball
    9.0/10(199 votes)

    #2 - The Packer Ball

    S3:E2

    Jim is horrified when he sees his son Kyle with a green Packers ball. He tries by all means to change it for a Bears one, but the kid just can't let go of the green ball. Jim has nightmares about it and takes Kyle to his work in another attempt to get rid of the Packers ball. When he realizes there's nothing he can do about it, he does a little alteration on the ball so they can go to the Bears game peacefully.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. According to Jim Season 1 Episode 22 - No Surprises
    8.5/10(227 votes)

    #3 - No Surprises

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 1 - The Importance of Being Jim
    8.5/10(222 votes)

    #4 - The Importance of Being Jim

    S2:E1

    Cheryl and Jim clash when he breaks a promise to save a digital photo she values.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Bob Nickman

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  5. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 2 - Cars and Chicks
    8.5/10(239 votes)

    #5 - Cars and Chicks

    S2:E2

    Jim claims women aren't capable of getting a good deal on a car, and prophetically, when Cheryl helps Dana buy a new car, it turns out to be a lemon. Dana begs Jim to use his macho influence at the dealership to help her, but instead he allows sexy sales manager Gretchen to talk him into trading the family van in for a sports car — without consulting Cheryl.

    Director:Mark Cendrowski
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 7 - The Bachelor
    8.5/10(218 votes)

    #6 - The Bachelor

    S2:E7

    When Dana is picked to be a bachelorette on the reality series The Bachelor, Jim gives her a little advice on how not to be herself.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 8 - Father Disfigure
    8.5/10(239 votes)

    #7 - Father Disfigure

    S2:E8

    The charismatic new preacher at Cheryl and Jim's church holds a grudge against Jim for a childhood dodge-ball incident.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 3 - We Have a Bingo
    8.5/10(218 votes)

    #8 - We Have a Bingo

    S3:E3

    Jim wrestles with his conscience after he cheats at a church fundraiser bingo game.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 5 - The Lemonade Stand
    8.5/10(211 votes)

    #9 - The Lemonade Stand

    S3:E5

    Jim and Cheryl encourage the girls to make a lemonade stand and raise money for their scooters. What was supposed to be a lesson about the value of the dollar turns into a racy competition among neighbors when Bill and his next door neighbor Driscoll set up little amusement parks in their years. Dana and Andy pitch in, while Cheryl tries to stay out of it – until she gets into a catfight with the neighbor's wife. Once the police is called in, Jim realizes he's lost the purpose of the lemonade stand and decides to give the girls the rest of the money for the scooters.

    Director:Mark Cendrowski
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 11 - The Empty Gesture
    8.5/10(202 votes)

    #10 - The Empty Gesture

    S3:E11

    Cheryl starts to feel taken for granted as she prepares Thanksgiving dinner. She suffers the ultimate insult when she gets stuck on the roof after retrieving her tablecloth that Jim had fashioned into a ghost for Halloween, and no one notices her absence until she unhooks the satellite. To apologize, Jim tells her that he, Dana and Andy will prepare the dinner. Jim never thinks that Cheryl, being the control freak that she is, would allow that to happen, so he doesn't make dinner. Unfortunately, neither does Cheryl.

    Director:Mark Cendrowski
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 24 - The Toilet
    8.5/10(203 votes)

    #11 - The Toilet

    S3:E24

    Cheryl promises to take Jim's opinions seriously when she decides to remodel the bathroom, until Jim insists it include a hideous high-tech stainless steel toilet – that talks.

    Director:Jim Belushi
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 29 - The Vast Difference (2)
    8.5/10(195 votes)

    #12 - The Vast Difference (2)

    S3:E29

    Jim chickens out of having a vasectomy, but Cheryl is so effusive in her praise that he's unable to admit he didn't go through with it.

    Director:Charles T. Kanganis
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. According to Jim Season 4 Episode 5 - Dress to Kill Me
    8.5/10(221 votes)

    #13 - Dress to Kill Me

    S4:E5

    Kyle wants to be Cinderella for Halloween. Jim is against it because he thinks he's growing up to be a sissy. Jim buys Kyle a manly costume (a dinosaur) but Kyle changes back into the dress. Jim, Andy, and Kyle all sit on the couch, Jim and Kyle persistent. Jim goes in the kitchen, sees an older Kyle who convinces Jim to let Kyle go as Cinderella. In the end, they all go as ladies and they trick-or-treat.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. According to Jim Season 4 Episode 16 - The Wedding Dress
    8.5/10(183 votes)

    #14 - The Wedding Dress

    S4:E16

    When Cheryl offers Dana the use of her wedding gown, Jim and Andy try to cover up the fact that the dress was destroyed in a fiery sports celebration years ago.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. According to Jim Season 4 Episode 17 - The Mustache
    8.5/10(191 votes)

    #15 - The Mustache

    S4:E17

    A hot delivery girl gives Jim some fashion advice, prompting him to grow a mustache, which Cheryl hates. Cheryl retaliates by becoming a brunette - but Jim loves it. After a chance meeting with the girl, Cheryl asks her to give Jim suggestions that will make him look ridiculous.

    Director:Mark Cendrowski
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. According to Jim Season 4 Episode 23 - The Competition
    8.5/10(192 votes)

    #16 - The Competition

    S4:E23

    Jim, certain he will win the annual hot dog eating contest, is humiliated when instead he loses to a petit woman (Suzy Nakamura), and his problems are further compounded when Andy decides to date the female champion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. According to Jim Season 5 Episode 1 - Foul Ball
    8.5/10(190 votes)

    #17 - Foul Ball

    S5:E1

    The fifth season premieres with Jim sneaking off to a Cubs game with Kyle instead of taking him to his first day of kindergarten.

    Directors:Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. According to Jim Season 5 Episode 2 - The Tale of the Tape (1)
    8.5/10(189 votes)

    #18 - The Tale of the Tape (1)

    S5:E2

    Jim worries that Cheryl's romantic expectations will increase when his new brother-in-law, Ryan, showers Dana with flowers and gifts. But then Jim learns that a special blues tape Cheryl supposedly made for him when they were dating, and that made him fall in love with her, was actually made for her by an old boyfriend

    Director:Jim Belushi
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. According to Jim Season 5 Episode 8 - James & the Annoying Peach
    8.5/10(182 votes)

    #19 - James & the Annoying Peach

    S5:E8

    To teach Jim the value of communication, Cheryl doesn't speak to him for three days.

    Director:Gerry Cohen
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. According to Jim Season 5 Episode 9 - The Dream
    8.5/10(195 votes)

    #20 - The Dream

    S5:E9

    Jim tries to blackmail Dana when he finds out she’s having erotic dreams about him.

    Director:Jim Belushi
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. According to Jim Season 5 Episode 15 - Mr. Right
    8.5/10(181 votes)

    #21 - Mr. Right

    S5:E15

    Cheryl and Jim get into a disagreement about Erik Estrada, and Jim tries to prove that the incident that occurred ten years ago was not wrong.

    Director:Steve Zuckerman
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 14 - You Gotta Love Somebody (2)
    8.0/10(220 votes)

    #22 - You Gotta Love Somebody (2)

    S2:E14

    Cheryl and Jim try to play matchmaker to a cop and his female partner , and Jim and Cheryl's memory of how they met doesn't mesh with the recollections Andy and Dana have, on a special one-hour episode.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 16 - Slumber Party
    8.0/10(206 votes)

    #23 - Slumber Party

    S2:E16

    When Cheryl gets sick on the day of Ruby's birthday party, Jim is stuck trying to entertain a house full of little girls.

    Director:Philip Charles MacKenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. According to Jim Season 2 Episode 19 - The Pass
    8.0/10(206 votes)

    #24 - The Pass

    S2:E19

    A childhood buddy of Jim's who "has it all" hires Jim to design his expensive new home. A resentful Jim doesn't want to take the job at first, until he learns the guy wants something that "belongs" to Jim — Cheryl.

    Director:Mark Cendrowski
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. According to Jim Season 3 Episode 8 - Scary Movie
    8.0/10(202 votes)

    #25 - Scary Movie

    S3:E8

    Gracie and Ruby have nightmares after Jim secretly takes them to see a scary movie. (ABC)

    Director:Mark Cendrowski
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"ABC's and 123's" is the best rated episode of "According to Jim". It scored 10/10 based on 197 votes. Directed by Philip Charles MacKenzie and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/21/2003. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Packer Ball".