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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist : Season 4
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Air date: 09 May '97 - 13 episodesDr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999—with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002—starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman. The show was created by a Burbank, California production company Popular Arts Entertainment, with Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, developed and first made by Popular Arts for HBO Downtown Productions. Boston-based Tom Snyder Productions became the hands-on production company, and the episodes were usually produced by Katz and Loren Bouchard. The show was computer animated in a crude, easily recognizable style produced with the software Squigglevision in which all persons and animate objects are colored and have constantly squiggling outlines, while most other inanimate objects are static and usually gray in color. The original challenge Popular Arts faced was how to repurpose recorded stand-up comedy material. To do so they based Dr....
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List of Episodes (13)
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1995)
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1. Ben Treats
09 May '97Ben wins $500 in the Sir Pay-a-Lot scratch-off lottery and takes Katz and Laura out to dinner. Soon enough, Ben and Laura both get drunk and start to act goofy.
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2. Memoirs
22 Jun '97Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.
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3. Electric Bike
29 Jun '97Dr. Katz buys an Electric Bike because he always wanted one but never got it as a kid. They find that a $1,000 bicycle isn't all fun and games, when it breaks as Ben drove it down stairs. They soon learnm that some inventions just were never meant to be.
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4. Broadcaster Ben
06 Jul '97Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.
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5. Trash Day
13 Jul '97Katz finds a chair sitting outside on the curb and takes it home (""You wouldn't believe the kind of stuff people throw away."" Ben: ""You mean crap?""). However, he realizes his folly and sends Ben to take it to the dump, which proves to be difficult, because the dump is no longer open to the public (""It's all digital now"").
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6. Sharon Meyers
27 Jul '97Katz gets a phone call from Sharon Meyers, a woman he dated briefly two years ago, when she was also his patient. She was very attractive, and a dancer (""She was a Rockette. She can kick her own face,"" Ben says).
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7. Mask
03 Aug '97Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.
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8. Closets
10 Aug '97Katz and Ben decide to reorganize their closet space, and they hire a company to do it.
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9. Wild Weekend
17 Aug '97Ben wants to take a bike trip to Nova Scotia, and he and Katz discuss the great outdoors. Several plans are offered, but what they wind up doing is sitting around the house all weekend. Ben gets the whole thing on tape, thanks to Laura's camcorder.
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10. Chopper
24 Aug '97Ben wins first runner-up in a WFEN radio contest to ride in the traffic helicopter. He hopes the real winner can't make it and he gets all psyched up for the possibility.
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11. Alibi
31 Aug '97While watching the news, Ben and Katz learn that a mailbox in their neighborhood was struck by a car driven by a bald Caucasian male in his late 40s. Ben assumes it was his dad, despite dad's protests that while he is in his late 40s, he is ""balding,"" not bald.
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12. Ben-Centennial
07 Sep '97Katz wants to do something big for Ben's 25th birthday, but Ben doesn't want any fuss.
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13. Undercover Ben
14 Sep '97Laura starts taking a lot of time off, but won't say why. Ben is curious and so is Katz, and they speculate.
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