According to Jim, The Complete Series

Jim and Cheryl are the perfect middle class American couple. Happily married with two adorable little girls and a baby boy, they really can't complain much about life – except for those fights that neither one can ever let go.

Jim and Cheryl find their romantic getaway to the Bahamas set to work out perfectly, with Dana babysitting the kids. However, at the last minute, Dana is unable to babysit.

Cheryl's 15 year-old cat Mr. Feeney dies and she wants Jim to bury it in the backyard, but Jim desperately wants to go to the Bears game.

Jim pays Dana to buy him an anniversary gift for Cheryl but Dana goes over the spending limit and Cheryl finds out that all her anniversary gifts over the past ten years were bought by Dana.

On Halloween, Jim sneaks out Gracie for trick-or-treating; Andy thinks a former girlfriend is stalking him.

Jim sets Dana up on a date with a seemingly perfect guy.

Jim sets Dana up with a guy so perfect that even Cheryl falls for him.

Jim has a perfect bowling game interrupted, but Cheryl surprises him by bringing the Thanksgiving dinner to the alley so Jim's family and friends can witness his perfect game.

Jim tries to get along with Andy's new girlfriend, Alicia.

Cheryl gets upset when her mother, Maggie, gives her grandma's pearl necklace to Dana; the girls think Andy is Santa.

When Jim keeps an eye on the kids and their friends while watching a Bears game, the kids begin picking up a few swear words and Jim is forced to stop them from saying it.

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.

Cheryl decides to go behind Jim's back and loan Andy $1,000 for a downpayment on a new condo.

When Cheryl has a revealing photo of herself taken as a Valentine gift to Jim, he proudly shows it to all his friends.

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.

After Jim is diagnosed with high blood pressure, Cheryl decides to do everything to help him, to the point where she starts annoying Jim with her non-stop care.

While out for dinner and a movie, Jim loses a parking spot, and later loses Cheryl when he can't let go of it.

At Kyle and Andy's birthday dinner, Jim offers to pay the check but Dana says she doesn't mind paying because she makes more money than Jim, which enfuriates him; Jim buys a donkey for the girls, even though they ask for a pony, to prove he can pay for anything.

When the new DVD player breaks, Jim and Cheryl blame each other for losing the receipt; Jim buys another DVD player while Cheryl writes a new receipt in an attempt to one-up each other.

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 still the same guy by staying out all night and partying but this has bad consequences for both of them.

Jim agrees to take the girls for the day but 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 can't remember who he left them with.

Jim plans a surprise party for Cheryl's birthday, but 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.

Cheryl hides the digital camera after Jim deliberately deletes a photograph she urged him to save.

When Cheryl helps Dana buy a new car that turns out to be a lemon, Jim is determined to straighten things out at the dealership.

Cheryl and Jim cannot tear themselves away from the baby monitor when they overhear the neighbors engaging in pillow talk.

Jim takes in the pizza delivery boy (Robert Belushi) whose father kicked him out of the house.

Jim wants his own space because Cheryl's stuff is taking over the house.

Jim's behavior at a Bears game is a bad influence on the children, but Cheryl sets a bad example too.

Jim advises Dana not to act like herself when she is picked for the television show "The Bachelor."

Jim's new pastor harbors a grudge against him over a childhood game of dodgeball. Chris Elliott guest stars.

Jim and Cheryl are caught making whoopee on the set of the school's Thanksgiving play. Julia Sweeney guest stars.

A neighbor invites the whole family to a Christmas party except Jim, who has been feuding with the host.

Dana's new boyfriend (guest star Brad Paisley) is an amazing musician who can get Jim the gig of his dreams -- once Andy is out of the way.

Jim takes Cheryl on a romantic weekend with money he knows was mistakenly credited to his card.

Cheryl and Jim's memories of their first meeting conflict when they try to play matchmaker to a cop and his partner (Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman).

Cheryl and Jim's memories of their first meeting conflict when they try to play matchmaker to a cop and his partner (Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman).

Cheryl disapproves of Jim's latest invention, a flatulent doll named Gassy Gus. Andrea Walters, Ben Falcone, Andre Ware and Philip Daniel Bolden guest star.

Cheryl gets sick, and Jim is forced to entertain a gaggle of little girls at Ruby's slumber party.

Jim worries Cheryl will learn the truth about her engagement ring after she invites his old girlfriend (Crystal Bernard) to dinner.

Jim goes into protective overdrive after Cheryl is mugged while shopping.

A successful guy that Jim went to high school with gives him a big contracting job and makes a pass at Cheryl over dinner.

Jim does more harm than good when he stands up to Dana's boss; Andy has trouble making arrangements for his birthday party.

Jim must decide between helping Cheryl through surgery or meeting his hero, Bo Diddley.

Jim and Cheryl's new friends turn out to be obnoxious, but they benefit from the relationship.

An online bidding war reveals to Cheryl that Jim is spending money on memorabilia instead of a new dryer.

The household is annoyed when Gracie adopts an abandoned bird.

Dana pretends to be Ruby's mother to attract the attention of a single father she met in the park.

Cheryl's recently widowed mother (guest star Kathleen Noone) introduces her fiance to the family, drawing disapproval of the whirlwind romance.

Cheryl secretly plans a reunion between Jim and his estranged sister (Jennifer Coolidge) when the family takes a trip to Las Vegas.

Cheryl secretly plans a reunion between Jim and his estranged sister (Jennifer Coolidge) when the family takes a trip to Las Vegas.

Jim starts to resent being Cheryl's errand boy; Andy thinks flashing his wedding ring around will make him a chick magnet.

Jim panics when his son becomes a Green Bay Packers fan, and he tries to convert him to a Chicago Bears fan.

Jim feels guilty after cheating at a church's fund-raising bingo game.

Cheryl is envious of her girlfriend's necklace and entreats Jim to buy her expensive jewelry.

Jim encourages Gracie and Ruby to open a lemonade stand but does not anticipate fierce competition from a neighbor kid's stand.

Jim tells Ruby's teacher that his wife is illiterate in order to lighten his daughter's homework load.

Dana falls for a guy exactly like Jim but denies the similarities.

Gracie and Ruby have nightmares after Jim takes them to a scary movie.

Jim invents an imaginary friend to avoid going to a couple's baby shower with Cheryl.

After Cheryl's cooking class choice proves to be a disaster, Jim gets to pick paintball as the next couple's activity.

Cheryl gets stranded on the roof retrieving a tablecloth for Thanksgiving dinner, and no one notices her absence until she disables the television.

Cheryl caters to Jim's every whim to make up for a fight he does not remember from the night before.

Dana puts her name on one of Cheryl's presents to Jim, then takes all the credit when he raves about it.

The irritating Devlins bid on the house across the street from Jim and Cheryl.

Dana falls for the Rev. Pierson (guest star Chris Elliott) after he sets her up with a promising job lead.

Jim tries to convince his friend Danny (Dan Aykroyd) not to back out on his wedding plans with Laraine (Laraine Newman).

Cheryl brags to her cousin that she is the lead singer in Jim's band.

Dana's boss replaces Jim with a handsome actor (Ingo Rademacher) in a commercial starring Cheryl and the children.

Jim takes umbrage at being replaced as the father in a promotional shoot for a cruise line.

Gracie's recent misbehavior makes Jim think she is lying about a friend giving her a new video game.

Jim's sister (Jennifer Coolidge) shows up on his doorstep -- pregnant.

Andy resents a wealthy client (Nana Visitor), then ends up dating her.

Jim is unable to transport the girls' papier-mache grizzly bear to school because he lost his truck in an arm-wrestling match and refuses to ask for it back.

When Cheryl decides to remodel the bathroom, Jim insists that it include a stainless-steel toilet that talks.

Cheryl asks Jim to put the kids' artwork in storage, but he disposes of it elsewhere, thinking Cheryl will not notice.

Jim agrees to go to a couples seminar, hoping Cheryl will reciprocate by letting him go on a fishing trip with Andy.

Jim develops a friendship with Dana's new boyfriend, despite the fact that the guy dumped Cheryl years ago.

Cheryl protests when a heat wave sends the family sneaking into a vacationing neighbor's pool - until she starts sneaking over on her own.

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

Cheryl wants Jim to give up all his vices so they can try to have a baby.

Cheryl surprises Jim with a romantic evening, but it cuts into his planned TV boxing match.

Jim offers to give Andy an old barbecue grill, then decides Andy should pay for it.

Cheryl and Dana are forced to smash their way out of a locked garage because they ignored Jim's lesson on how to open the door from the inside.

Jim is worried Kyle is turning into a sissy when he insists on dressing as Cinderella for Halloween.

Jim is hurt when Ruby invites Andy to the father-daughter dance instead of him.

Cheryl's mother has plans for the afterlife that would put everyone in a large family plot she reserved years ago, but Jim insists on his own family plot, conveniently located next to that of a star football player.

Jim becomes the prey of a 40-pound psychotic turkey named Angry Pete during a Thanksgiving hunt with Andy.

Cheryl's doctor puts sex off-limits until the time is right for conception; Jim eats crow to win a huge account from a blowhard potential client (Tom Arnold).

When Jim gets into an accident with a department store Santa, an altercation ensues that leaves his on-looking kids fearing Santa will not bring them any gifts.

Jim, a superstitious sports fan, comes to believe that his former neighbors, the Devlins, bring good luck to the Bulls.

Jim buys a nanny-cam to spy on the sitter he did not want to hire but learns something about Cheryl instead, prompting her to buy a camera of her own.

To make Cheryl feel desirable, Jim fakes a jealous rage in a restaurant and tries to teach Dana's date to do the same, but the lesson backfires when Dana fears her new beau is paranoid and possessive.

Cheryl claims to like men who aren't afraid to cry, but when Jim bursts into tears after a movie, she is surprised to find herself turned off by his sensitivity.

When Cheryl cooks for Dana and her boyfriend, she lets him believe that Dana actually did the cooking.

Cheryl offers to let Dana wear her wedding dress, unaware that the gown was destroyed in a fiery sports celebration years earlier.

An attractive woman's suggestion leads Jim to grow a mustache, much to the dismay of Cheryl, who retaliates by coloring her hair.

When Andy decides to learn how to dance for his sister's wedding, he turns to Jim -- a closet dancer -- for lessons.

In order to avoid going to an opera with Cheryl, Jim asks an elderly widower to be her escort.

Jim is dismayed when he has to drive Gracie to spelling bee tournaments all over the state.

Jim is shocked to learn that his recently deceased friend will be buried with a rare baseball card he stole from Jim.

Jim and Cheryl adjust the clocks to get the kids to bed earlier so they can have more quality time together.

Confident Jim is crushed when he loses a hot-dog-eating contest to a petite woman, and Andy compounds Jim's sorrow by deciding to date the winner.

When Cheryl's respectable bachelorette party disappoints Dana, Jim and Andy treat Dana to a rowdy night she will never forget.

Cheryl and Dana worry when Jim wants to take up skydiving and Ryan wants to race fast cars.

In this clip show we revisit Jim and Cheryl's botched anniversary moments from years past.

Jim scrambles to find a replacement when he accidentally knocks the minister unconscious with the car door on Dana's wedding day.

Jim sneaks off to a Cubs game with Kyle instead of taking him to his first day of kindergarten.

Jim fears that Cheryl's romantic expectations will increase as Ryan (Mitch Rouse) showers Dana with gifts, until he learns a secret about a special tape Cheryl may have made.

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.

When Cheryl wins two tickets to visit Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion in a charity-raising contest that Jim secretly entered her in, she decides to take Dana instead of him.

Out-of-shape Jim enters a 10K marathon to teach Kyle, who wants to quit basketball, a lesson about not being a quitter -- but he cheats to get first to the finish line.

Cheryl steals Dana's story about meeting Oprah; Jim makes up a story about his construction office catching fire only to end up setting a real fire.

Jim helps Andy pick up a beautiful woman in a bar, but she turns out to be crazy -- and eventually leaves Andy and stalks Jim instead.

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

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

Cheryl encourages Jim to meet a former girlfriend who wants to discuss business for lunch, and then regrets it when she becomes convinced that the old flame has romantic intentions.

When Cheryl and Dana's mother, Maggie, visits for the holidays, Jim and Cheryl compete with Ryan and Dana for her affection.

When Jim and Cheryl watch an sex education video that is shown at Ruby's school, Jim realizes that he is watching a young him.

Jim and Cheryl renew their wedding vows; Cheryl allows the girls to get their ears pieced even though Jim had forbids it.

Jim's gets upset when Cheryl gives him birthday gifts he doesn't want, but is really happy when Kyle gives him a stick for his birthday.

Cheryl and Jim get into an argument about Erik Estrada, and Jim sets out to prove her wrong about an incident involving the actor 10 years earlier.

Cheryl believes she's attending a tasteful lingerie party, but is shocked to learn the hostess is selling sex toys and Cheryl buys one, but won't tell Jim.

Jim gets mad when he finds out that his neighbor Julie has been writing children books and basing them about him.

Jim makes his own neighbour cry when complaining about his backyard barbeque, so he ends up taking polite lessons from Andy, in order to become a better person.

Jim believes that Bill (Joseph Bologna), the father of one of Ruby and Gracie's classmates, is actually his real father that abandoned Jim when he was a child.

Cheryl gives her best to assure herself a spot on the Church Committee, and in order to get that, she forbids Jim to do his annual "Green Man" routine on St. Patrick's day.

When Andy stars playing chess with Ryan on a regular basis, Jim is convinced that he is losing his best friend.

When a proud and happy Ryan announces that Dana is pregnant, Jim warns him of Dana's upcoming hormone swings, and ends up dreaming that he is pregnant.

Cheryl wants Jim to go to Dana's co-ed baby shower; Jim ends up on a talk show claiming that men shouldn't let women feminize them.

Jim realizes that Cheryl has been spoiling their son Kyle for too long, so he decides to make him a man by teaching him how to throw a perfect punch in self defense; things get out of control when little Kyle gets suspended for repeatedly hitting the school bully.

Cheryl and Jim go to a motel in Indiana to celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary, but Dana's possible labor and a tornado interfere.

When the family pet guinea pig swallows an eraser, Jim is forced to pay for an expensive operation.

Cheryl persuades Jim to attend an anger-management class, but he soon learns that getting mad isn't as much fun as getting even.

When Cheryl's beloved Uncle Donald dies, Jim takes over housekeeping choress but soon starts to suspect that Cheryl is using him.

Andy, Ryan and Jim are stunned when they find out that Dana and Cheryl recently appeared in a Chicks Gone Wild video.

When Dana goes into premature labor, and Ryan isn't able to come because he is delivering a celebrity's baby, Jim has to be the one to deliver Dana's baby.

When Cheryl and Dana allow Jim and Ryan to take care of the kids while they are out, things get out of control; Jim takes everyone to the museum and everything goes great until the Tyrannosaurus Rex display ends up destroyed.

Dana and Tanner stay at Jim and Cheryl's while Ryan is away; Jim starts complaining about the baby so he stays with Andy while Cheryl and Dana enjoy spending time together.

After an argument with a claims representative about his bill, Jim's health insurance is canceled; Jim decides to hide the truth from Cheryl, until she ends up sick and he gets her cold.

Jim toughens up his daughter's basketball team and soon turns them from sweet and peaceful to angry and aggressive.

Jim fails to teach his son how to play softball properly; Andy's ghost from the future shows him that Kyle turns out as a loser, so Jim tries to change his son's future, but only makes things worse.

Andy's new metal detector uncovers Jim's long-lost wedding ring, which causes headaches for Jim, because he bought a fake wedding ring as a replacement a long time ago so Cheryl wouldn't notice he lost it.

Andy and Jim end up at oddds after Andy tries to sell a grill at his garage sale that Jim gave him a few years ago.

After Tim and Cindy announce they're getting divorced, Andy starts spending time with Cindy, which turns into a relationship, and an urge for Cheryl and Jim to break them up.

In order to avoid attending another musical with Cheryl, Jim finds a gay man to accompany her.

Cheryl throws Jim an unwanted surprise party for his 50th birthday; Jim sabotages the party and reveals the real reason why he won't celebrate his birthday.

When Jim bemoans the creation of women, God appears to defend Himself and gives Jim an opportunity to try his job.

After Cheryl can't flirt her way into a reservation at a hot new restaurant, she begins to wonder if her beauty has faded; Jim's attempts to boost her self-esteem by forging suggestive notes from the handsome water delivery guy.

When Cheryl takes a greater interest in safety and health concerns, Jim feels stifled by her new rules and regulations; Cheryl prepares for every possible danger, but realizes she can't prepare for everything; Jim realizes there are precautions he is not willing to take for himself but would gladly undertake for Cheryl and the kids.

Cheryl and Jim's evening alone turns into an all-out food fight; Andy plots revenge on Jim for coaxing his children to play pranks on him.

After Cheryl goes to Florida to take care of her ailing mother, Jim struggles to maintain the household and take care of the kids; the neighbors volunteer to take on Jim's household duties and Jim is more than willing to let them.

Ruby goes on her first date, but Jim, Andy and Aunt Dana are on her tail; Jim, realizing he can't handle all the duties of a mother and father, reassign "mommy power" to Aunt Dana.

Jim and Andy have trouble trying to handle one of the girls' having their first period; Gracie and Ruby are at each other's throats.

With Andy bragging about his hot new sex life, Jim flies Cheryl to Chicago to have a rendezvous, but the kids threaten to thwart those plans.

Jim begins the process of reorganizing the garage by giving away most of the old stuff to charity; things change quickly when Cheryl calls with big news.

With Cheryl's pregnancy forcing her to bed rest, Jim is left in charge to run Gracie's birthday party; Jim changes birthday party plans by staging a game of Capture the Flag.

Jim tries to use Cheryl's forgetfulness to his advantage by creating a new media room in the basement; Ruby and Gracie make life difficult for Jim knowing the basement was meant as a room for them.

After Jim gives Andy a generous gift certificate to a fancy steakhouse for his birthday, Jim obsessively keeps tabs on Andy to figure out if he's used the present; Ruby tries to teach her father and uncle lessons in friendship and generosity.

Jim thinks he is able to stop the kids' bickering by instituting a tribunal system, until he and Andy are subject to the tribunal system themselves.

Andy's concerns about not losing his perfect girlfriend forces him to act in ways that are not himself; Jim takes the girls to a concert.

ana puts Andy under hypnosis to learn why all of his relationships don't last longer than six weeks; Dana decides to boost up Andy's confidence but ends up making things worse when Andy starts flirting with other women while on a date with Emily.

Cheryl insists on playing a game that she somehow always wins, but Dana is aware of the fact that Cheryl is cheating.

Jim anxiously awaits for when Cheryl is off bedrest so she'd take over the chores, but Dana urges him to let Cheryl rest until she goes into labor; after meeting Cheryl's gynecologist, Jim learns that Cheryl was already allowed to be more active, but she didn't tell him.

The Devil himself visits Jim to remind him of the deal they made years ago, when Jim promised to give away his fifth child if the Devil helped him win over Cheryl.

Jim and the kids look after the twin babies while Cheryl takes some quiet time for herself; Jim can't find the "blankie" which keeps the twins quiet and blames the kids for losing it, but he has it in his pocket the whole time.

With her sister moving to Los Angeles, Cheryl has become really boring and looks to Jim to be her new best friend; Jim and Andy hatch a plan to forge a friendship between Cheryl and Andy's girlfriend, Emily.

Jim's band wins an opportunity to open for a teen singing sensation; Jim gets into an argument with the young pop star and threatens to not play.

Jim fears Andy might lose his girlfriend, Emily, so he convinces Andy to propose to her; when Emily is hesitant to answer to the proposal, Jim learns a secret from Emily's past.

While Cheryl is out of town to take care of her mother, the neighborhood moms start coming over to help Jim take care of the kids.

Jim helps Andy get over his breakup with Emily by spending a weekend in the woods; Jim, Andy and Emily's ex-husband, Jerry, end up at a local bar hosting a "ladies' night."

Jim and Andy have dinner with Jim's former flame, Sheila, who begins to take an interest in Andy; Jim feels wounded and tries to thwart Andy's potential romance.

Jim follows Cheryl to her yoga class and ends up enjoying the class and the yoga teacher just as much as Cheryl does; Cheryl and Jim compete to see who can be the best yogi, and who can win the teacher's approval.

After learning Kyle is interested in his piano teacher, Jim decides to take the opportunity to teach Kyle about dating, love, and rejection, not knowing that she is secretly involved with Andy.

When Andy follows Jim's romantic advice in not giving the most expensive gift, Emily scolds him for giving her a gift meant for another woman, prompting Cheryl to realize what Jim's been up to for the last ten years.

Jim starts a baby racing gambling operation with the other fathers; Cheryl is ready to give Jim hell until another mother suggests that her baby is faster than Cheryl's.

Jim and Andy get injured playing snow football after Emily specifically asked them not to and are forced to endure physical therapy to hide their injuries from her.

After Ruby labels Jim as the "cooler" parent, Jim gives his daughter a lot more freedom which she starts to take full advantage of.

After a grumpy Jim injures his back doing housework, he begins taking pain medication which makes him much more patient, thoughtful and sweet-tempered, much to Cheryl and Andy's delight.

Jim tries to push Kyle to have an interest in sports but learns Kyle is more interested in comic books and science fiction; to make matters worse, Kyle seems to prefer spending time with Andy over Jim.

Jim wins a big cash prize for his charity work, but when Cheryl tells Jim he must donate the money to charity, he turns the tables on her and tempts her to take the low road.

After Jim and Andy buy jewelry on the cheap for the respective ladies, they find out the guy they bought them from was actually robbing corpses at a local morgue; Cheryl and Mandy soon begin to take on the personas of the previous owners.

Jim chokes in a restaurant and sees his life flash before his eyes; Jim must defend his life before God (Lee Majors) and the Devil (James Lipton).