The BEST episodes directed by Jim Belushi
#1 - At-Bat
According to Jim - Season 6 - Episode 13
Jim's bad softball game advice to Kyle turns to be Jim's worst nightmare when an Ghost of Andy visits him to show him the Adult Kyle's life as a loser.
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#2 - Good Grief
According to Jim - Season 6 - Episode 5
When Cheryl's beloved Uncle Donald dies, Jim takes over housekeeping, but soon starts to suspect that Cheryl is using him.
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#3 - The Cheater
According to Jim - Season 7 - Episode 16
Cheryl insists on playing a game that she somehow always wins, but Dana is aware of the fact that Cheryl is cheating.
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#4 - Kyle's Crush
According to Jim - Season 8 - Episode 9
Jim prepares Kyle for his first "date" with Ruby's slightly older piano teacher, Mandy, whom Andy has fallen for and is secretly dating behind Kyle's back.
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#5 - The Tale of the Tape (2)
According to Jim - Season 5 - Episode 3
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.
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#6 - Kentucky Fried Beltzman
According to Jim - Season 4 - Episode 21
Jim is shocked to learn that his recently deceased friend will be buried with a rare baseball card he stole from Jim.
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#7 - The Dream
According to Jim - Season 5 - Episode 9
Jim tries to blackmail Dana when he finds out she’s having erotic dreams about him.
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#8 - The Chaperone
According to Jim - Season 7 - Episode 14
Andy finally meets the perfect girl, but things get rough when he lets Jim babysit the woman's daughters, who then end up missing while Andy is having dinner with Emily.
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#9 - Deal with the Devlins
According to Jim - Season 2 - Episode 22
Cheryl makes friends with another mom from the girls soccer team. The woman is sweet, yet a bit obnoxious. Jim is annoyed by her presence, but Cheryl insists on him being nice to her. Little by little, Cindy starts to get into their lives and tell them what to do and not to do. Jim ends up buying a hot tub from her husband, thinking that might drive them away, but instead it only pulls them closer. They show up unexpectedly on the tub, which is the final drop for Jim. He tells Cheryl it's time for her to come clean and confess to Cindy that they don't like her. Just when she finally does that, Cindy's husband offers Jim season tickets for the Bears. In order to undo the break up he asked Cheryl to do, Jim tells Cindy that Cheryl is under medication for mood swings and that he's willing to do them anything. They move in for a week, while Cheryl decides to take some time off at her sister's "for mental health".
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#10 - The Tale of the Tape (1)
According to Jim - Season 5 - Episode 2
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
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#11 - The Toilet
According to Jim - Season 3 - Episode 24
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.
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#12 - Heaven Opposed to Hell
According to Jim - Season 8 - Episode 18
When Jim chokes on a shrimp puff, he dies and arrives at Heaven's gate. With Jim on trial to prove his selfless acts on earth, best friend Andy is summoned to heaven to defend him. As Jim attempts to prove his good works to God, his sister-in-law, Dana, represents the Devil, arguing that Jim's selfishness should mean a certain trip to hell.
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#13 - Dana Dates the Reverend
According to Jim - Season 3 - Episode 15
Dana and Jim both covet their reverend - she for romance, he for the pastor's prowess at bowling.
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#14 - The Rendezvous
According to Jim - Season 7 - Episode 8
When Cheryl returns home for a visit the kids end up occupying her time, so Jim decides to prepare a special date with her at the airport lounge, only to end up mistakenly arrested.
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#15 - Daddy Dearest
According to Jim - Season 5 - Episode 19
Jim believes that Bill (played by Joseph Bologna), the father of one of Rubys and Gracies classmates is actually his real father that abandoned Jim when he was a child.
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#16 - Pregnancy Brain
According to Jim - Season 7 - Episode 11
Jim finds a way to use Cheryl's forgetfulness (a.k.a. "the pregnancy brain") to his advantage by trying to convince her that it was her idea to turn the basement into a media room instead of a room for Ruby and Gracie.
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#17 - Jami McFame
According to Jim - Season 8 - Episode 3
Jim and his band win a chance to play for a child pop sensation Jami McFame, but when the star gives them an attitude, Jim decides to set her straight.
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#18 - Geronimo Jim
According to Jim - Season 4 - Episode 25
Cheryl and Dana think they have cause to worry when Dana's fianc - wants to race fast cars and Jim wants to take up skydiving.
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#19 - Hoosier Daddy
According to Jim - Season 6 - Episode 4
Cheryl and Jim go to a motel in Indiana to celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary, but Dana's possible labor and a tornado interfere.
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#20 - Take My Wife, Please
According to Jim - Season 4 - Episode 19
In order to avoid going to an opera with Cheryl, Jim asks an elderly widower to be her escort.
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#21 - Plot Twist
According to Jim - Season 4 - Episode 7
Cheryl's mother, Maggie, wants Jim, Cheryl and the family to rest someday in a family plot she reserved years ago, but Jim insists on his own family plot--then secretly reserves a a plot for himself next to a star football player.
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#22 - Andy's Proposal
According to Jim - Season 8 - Episode 4
Jim urges Andy to propose to Emily or risk losing her, but when he sees Emily dining with another man, he doubts the wisdom of his advice.
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#23 - Sympathy from the Devlins
According to Jim - Season 4 - Episode 11
Jim befriends his obnoxious neighbors when he believes they bring good luck when he's watching the Chicago Bulls.
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#24 - The Scrapbook
According to Jim - Season 4 - Episode 26
Jim actually remembers his and Cheryl's anniversary - but Cheryl didn't! Improvising, she gives him the photo album that covers years worth of memories. They start reminiscing.
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#25 - The Ego Boost
According to Jim - Season 8 - Episode 7
Jim is convinced that an old flame wants to get back with him until he realizes that she wants to hook up with Andy, leaving Jim with a bruised ego.
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#26 - Renewing Vows
According to Jim - Season 5 - Episode 13
Ruby and Gracie want to get their ears pierced but Cheryl believes that this will lead to the girls growing up too quickly and convinces Jim. Jim and Cheryl renew their wedding vows and Jim walks down the aisle with an earring.
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#27 - No Crime, But Punishment
According to Jim - Season 3 - Episode 20
Gracie's recent misbehavior makes Jim think she is lying about a friend giving her a new video game.
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#28 - The Marriage Bank
According to Jim - Season 3 - Episode 26
Thinking it might get Cheryl to let him go on a fishing trip with Andy, Jim makes a "deposit" in the "marriage bank" by agreeing to go to a couples seminar with her. Jim's plans are foiled, however, when Dr. Ted, the marriage guru, declares the whole marriage bank mentality unhealthy and Cheryl learns Jim's real motives – so that Dr. Ted must intervene.
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#29 - Devlin in Disguise
According to Jim - Season 6 - Episode 16
After Tim and Cindy Devlin's sudden divorce announcement, Andy starts spending time with Cindy, which turns into a relationship, and an urge for Cheryl and Jim to break them up.
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