After Jim is diagnosed with high blood pressure, Cheryl decides to do everything to help him. She makes him special food, give him backrubs, and keeps asking about his day in order to free him from stress. But Jim doesn't know how to share so much and tells her an old financial problem of the firm. Cheryl stays up all night doing math to figure out a way out of the problem. Jim says she has a disease and is always trying to help people, which Cheryl responds with stop caring about him. In the end, they finally settle their issues when Jim says he loves her and would be a total mess without her.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 16 of According to Jim resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

According to Jim Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - No Nookie
• s01e03 - The Cat Came Back
• s01e04 - Anniversary
• s01e05 - Unruly Spirits
• s01e06 - The Crush
• s01e07 - Cheryl's Old Flame
• s01e08 - The Turkey Bowl
• s01e09 - Andy's Girlfriend
• s01e10 - An According to Jiminy Christmas
• s01e11 - The Bad Word
• s01e12 - Model Behavior
• s01e13 - The Money
• s01e14 - Blow-Up
• s01e15 - Racquetball
• s01e16 - Under Pressure
• s01e17 - Date Night
• s01e18 - Birthday Boys
• s01e19 - The Receipt
• s01e20 - Old Friends
• s01e21 - Cheryl's Day Off
• s01e22 - No Surprises

According to Jim Show Summary

Jim, the macho everyman, with a soft spot for his beautiful wife, Cheryl, and their three precocious kids - Ruby, Gracie and Kyle. A success at his construction business and the family breadwinner, at home Jim seems to keep Cheryl in constant turmoil with his boyish bravado and ever-willful antics. But their underlying love for each other guarantees they are in this marriage for keeps.

Cheryl, for her part, instinctively aims for the straight and narrow, but secretly enjoys it when Jim coaxes out her playful side. It's an odd-couple tug-of-war of happily-married opposites yet equals. This is a love story couched in a family comedy.

At the conclusion of last season, Cheryl's high-strung sister, Dana, a career woman who seemed destined to remain forever single, finally met and married a doctor and the man of her dreams.

Jim's brother-in-law and partner in the Ground Up design/building firm, Andy, is Jim's foil but also his truest friend. Andy doggedly covers for his pal whenever Cheryl gets close to uncovering Jim's incessant schemes.