According to Jim

According to Jim ( in Austria Jim is always right! , Original title According to Jim ) is an American sitcom that is tailored to the lead actor James Belushi and aired from 2001 to 2009 by the U.S. television network ABC.

Action

Jim is married, has three children ( Ruby, Grace and Kyle ) (as of end of season 7 five children, added Jonathan and Gordon) and tried with a lot of humor to get his life under control. In addition to his wife Cheryl and his children also play his brother's wife Dana, whose husband Ryan and his brother-in stand-alone Andy, who is also his work colleague, an important role.

The action takes place in a suburb of Chicago. Jim and Cheryl live in a house at the address 412 Maple Street. Jim is a big fan of the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls and Cubs, and he hates the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago White Sox.

In most episodes Jim gets, mostly through his own fault, in a precarious situation. He then tries to herauszumogeln and to cover up his own mistakes, which also succeeded him, would not always come behind his wife Cheryl. At the end, but his honest and warm-hearted character is often seen.

Broadcast

According to Jim aired in the U.S. a week in prime time. End of December 2008 was Larry Joe Campbell announced that the sitcom ended and the entire set was dismantled; there was no 9th season.

The German Original Air Date was from 14 October 2005 under the title Jim is always right! weekdays in the afternoon instead of the program on ORF 1. In the German Free TV German-language dubbed version was Jim weekdays aired under the title by RTL II.

For the last broadcast on 2 June 2009 watched 4.1 million people in the United States.

Occupation

Main Characters

Supporting Characters

Guest appearances

  • Many former colleagues of James Belushi, for example, from his days on Saturday Night Live, who guest-starred in the sitcom. Dan Aykroyd occurs, for example, in four episodes of the series as Danny Michalski, policeman and friend of Jim, on.
  • The son of James Belushi, Robert Belushi played a few times the adult Kyle and also had small guest appearances as a pizza boy, waiter or as a husband who can give Jim advice.
  • Even James Belushi's daughter Jamison has several guest appearances in the series. They usually plays a cheeky girl on the edge of history.
  • A guest appearance was also the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner, playing himself. Also the blues musician Bo Diddley and Mike Ditka, the Chicago Bears in 1986 led to victory in Super Bowl XX and the Bears players Brian Urlacher had brief appearances. Actress Julie Newmar played Catwoman in a sequence neighbor Julie. In this episode, there were some allusions to the Batman series of the 60s. Nicole Sullivan made ​​a guest appearance as a piano teacher.
  • Jane Lynch plays in season 3 the wife of Jim's neighbors.
  • Lee Majors had in episodes Heaven or Hell ( 8:18 ) and God's work and Jim's contribution (7.01 ) a guest appearance as God.
  • Erik Estrada also occurred in the last episode ( 8:18 ) as a devil, and in Season 5 ( 5.15) than himself
  • Dylan and Cole Sprouse had a brief cameo at the end of the episode " The Tribunal " ( 7.13).
  • Berglind Ólafsdóttir has a brief appearance as a Swedish stewardess in the episode " Bad role models " ( 2:06 ).
  • Kevin Sorbo had a cameo in which he plays Jim's old school friend Daryl Buckner ( 2.19).
  • Steve Guttenberg has a guest appearance as a play partner Jim twins in Season 8.
  • Cindy Crawford has a guest appearance as the manager of a car dealership ( 2.02 "cars and women ").
  • Soleil Borda, known from the sitcom Still Standing, has several guest appearances as a friend of Ruby and Gracie.
  • Jackie Debatin had several guest appearances as Andy's girlfriend and Ruby's piano teacher Mandy, episodes 173, 174, 176, 181, 182 (season 8, episode 9, 10, 12, 17 and 18).
  • Ray Romano had a brief guest appearance in the episode " The family grave " ( 4.7).

DVD Release

  • Season 1 was released on October 21, 2008
  • Season 2 was released on 4 May 2010
  • Season 3 was released on 3 May 2011
  • Season 4 was released on July 5, 2011
  • Season 5 was released on October 4, 2011
  • Season 1 was released on May 2, 2013
  • Season 2 was released on August 8, 2013
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