Episode

According to Jim: ABC's and 123's

Name: According to Jim: ABC's and 123's
Released: 2003-10-21
Duration: 23 min
Cast: Jim Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Joe Campbell, Taylor Atelian, Billi Bruno

According to JimSeason 32003-10-21

Overview

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.

Details

Series: According to Jim
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 6
Air date: 2003-10-21
Runtime: 23 min

Episode context

ABC's and 123's is Episode 6 in Season 3 of According to Jim. It aired on 2003-10-21. The runtime is 23 min.

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Episode 5: The Lemonade Stand 2003-10-21 | 23 min 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.

Episode 7: Dana Dates Jim 2003-10-28 | 23 min It's Halloween and Cheryl is trying to host "the" party so she can own Halloween in the neighborhood. Dana brings in her newest date, Hank, who carries an awful lot of similarities to Jim. While refusing to admit she's dating Jim, Dana realizes the truth when she accidentally pinches Jim's butt thinking it was Hank. The next day she and Cheryl have a fight over the whole situation, which leaves it up to Jim and Andy to fix the friendship between the two sisters.

More episodes from this season

Episode 4: Getting to Know You 2003-10-14 | 23 min Cheryl says a friend of hers got jewelry for his wife for no reason and Jim says he's probably cheating on her. After Cheryl takes it offensively that Jim won't buy her jewelry because he doesn't think he has to – after all, they are married and he isn't cheating – he goes out to shop for earrings, only to find out he knows nothing about Cheryl. After spending three days dedicating himself entirely to paying attention to Cheryl – with a bit of Andy's help – Jim finds out that Cheryl's friend was indeed cheating and they finally make up.

Episode 8: Scary Movie 2003-11-04 | 23 min Gracie and Ruby have nightmares after Jim secretly takes them to see a scary movie. (ABC)

Episode 3: We Have a Bingo 2003-10-07 | 21 min Jim wrestles with his conscience after he cheats at a church fundraiser bingo game.

Episode 9: The Imaginary Friend 2003-11-11 | 22 min Jim creates an imaginary friend to avoid going to a couple's baby shower with Cheryl.

Episode 2: The Packer Ball 2003-09-30 | 23 min 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.

Episode 10: Paintball 2003-11-18 | 23 min Cheryl cajoles Jim into attending a couples cooking class, which turns into a disaster, so she lets Jim pick out the next couples activity – paintball.

Episode 1: The Errand 2003-09-23 | 23 min When Jim finds out that Cheryl has been paying 7 dollars to have the groceries delivered to their house, he insists that he does the shopping himself in order to save that incredible amount of money. Once at the supermarket, he sees how married men are "domesticated" by their wives and decides to rebel against Cheryl by shopping everything but the items on the list. Cheryl decides to turn the table on Jim and he does the same, until they end up going to a formal party on robes and underwear with their bodies all painted with lipstick. Cheryl finally gives in and they settle on paying the delivery boy the seven dollars in order to spare the Spice Channel subscription.

Episode 11: The Empty Gesture 2003-11-25 | 23 min 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.

Episode 12: Rules of Engagement 2003-12-02 | 23 min Cheryl caters to Jim's every whim to make amends for a big fight they had the night before-except Jim doesn't remember the fight at all.

Episode 13: Secret Santa 2003-12-09 | 23 min Dana admits to Cheryl that she can't afford to buy Jim a Christmas present, so Cheryl lets Dana put her name on one of the presents she bought for him. Dana innocently picks out Cheryl's big present to Jim, but when Jim is thrilled with the gift, Dana is ready to take all the credit for it.