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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American adult animated sitcom that originally aired on Comedy Central for six seasons from May 28, 1995 to February 13, 2002note The last season mostly aired in 1999, but the final three episodes of the series were held over. Produced by Tom Snyder Productions (which would later become Soup2Nuts), and starring Jonathan Katz, H. Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman, it was the first-ever original animated cartoon series to be shown on Comedy Central, paving the way for South Park and the like.The show was computer animated in a crude, easily recognizable style called Squiggle Vision, in which all persons and animate objects are colored and have constantly squiggling outlines, while all inanimate objects are static and usually gray in color. The show also utilized "retroscripting", where each episode has a basic outline but the actors improvise the dialogue. This technique would also be used on the first season of Home Movies.The show focuses on the title character, Dr. Jonathan Katz, who is voiced by, and visually based on, the comedian of the same name. Dr. Katz is a professional psychoanalyst who has famous actors and comedians as patients, usually two per episode. The comedians' therapy sessions generally consist of them doing their onstage material while Dr. Katz performs as a kind of milquetoast Straight Man, while those featuring actors and actresses offer more interpersonal dialogue between Katz and his patient to better suit their predisposition.Interspersed with the sessions are scenes involving Dr. Katz's daily life, which include his interactions with his aimless Manchild son, Ben (Benjamin); his disinterested and unhelpful receptionist, Laura (Silverman); and his friends, businessman Stanley (Will LeBow) and barmaid Julie (Julianne Shapiro).South Park did a Crossover where Mr. Garrison sought therapy from Dr. Katz. Also referenced in Arthur, of all shows.Revived in 2017 as the audio series Dr. Katz: The Audio Files, available via Audible.com.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: Discussed.
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I Will Show You X!
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I Will Show You X!: In "Bees and S.I.D.S.":
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Bad Impressionists
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Bad Impressionists: In "Movies", Ben asks Dr. Katz to do an impression of Marlon Brando from The Godfather, and Katz starts his line with a wheezy grunt. Ben makes fun of how bad his impression is. Gilbert Gottfried did a mash-up for Laura: Jackie Gleason in Casablanca, which sounds nothing like Gleason and was basically just Gilbert shouting like he usually does (of course, that's part of the joke):
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Dr. Katz asked Richard Jeni if he ever thought about getting married. Jeni replied, "No, I've never even been drunk enough to get a tattoo."
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: In "Everybody's Got a Tushy", the head-scratching title is finally explained when Dr. Katz remarks to Stan that when Ben was a kid, he gave him a book called "Everybody's Got a Tushy". "It Takes Some Getting Used To" is the nickname Dr. Katz gives his strong-smelling cologne. "Drinky the Drunk Guy" is the name Dr. Katz gives to a film that's going to be airing on TV. "You're Belinda" is a confusion over the name of Yorba Linda, California.
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Tonight, Someone Kisses
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Tonight, Someone Kisses: In a promo for the episode "Community Theater", Julie says, "Jonathan, do you know how long I've dreamed of this moment?", followed by Julie kissing Dr. Katz while Barry White-esque music plays. In the actual episode, the two were merely rehearsing for a play Dr. Katz was going to audition for.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: The guy Laura is going to marry in "Uncle Nothing". We never see him.
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No Sympathy
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No Sympathy: Guest Dave Attell had a bit about how he had no sympathy for dyslexic children:
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Heh Heh, You Said "X"
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": Guest Elayne Boosler had a bit about ice cream flavors for dogs. She remarked that if there were an ice cream that tasted like doodie, dogs would be robbing stores with guns. To which Dr. Katz remarked: "You said "doodie"."
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"No. Just… No" Reaction
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"No. Just… No" Reaction: In "Glasses", when Dr. Katz first wears his glasses in front of Ben:
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Tongue-Tied
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Tongue-Tied: In "Pot-Bellied Pigs", Dr. Katz says: "One smart fellow, he felt smart." Stanley tries to say the same thing but instead says, "One fart smellow..."
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: In one episode, Dr. Katz told a joke to Stan and Julie: A guy calls his wife from the office, and the maid answers the phone. He tells the maid to put his wife on the line, but the maid says that she's busy having sex with another man. The man tells the maid to go upstairs and kill both of them. She does so, and comes back to the phone, asking what she should do with the bodies. The man says to throw the bodies in the pool. The maid asks, "What pool?" The man then asks if he has the right number.
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Like Father, Like Son
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Like Father, Like Son: In "Lil' Helper", Dr. Katz throws out his back. Later in the episode, Ben also throws out his back.
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Immediate Self-Contradiction:
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: Dr. Katz actually started as a series of bumpers on Comedy Central before becoming a full-fledged series in 1995.
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May–December Romance
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May–December Romance: Steven Wright told a story about how he had a brief affair with someone older than him when he was a teenager.
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Speech-Centric Work
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Speech-Centric Work: The titular character and his patients in therapy. That's it.
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Crappy Holidays
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Crappy Holidays: A mild version. In "Thanksgiving", Ben accidentally burns the turkey (and almost sets the kitchen on fire). So he, Dr. Katz, Laura, and Roz (Katz's ex-wife) have to eat TV dinners instead. Also, Ben gets diarrhea from the TV dinner he ate.
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Sick Episode
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Sick Episode: Sort of. The episode "Wisdom Teeth" featured Ben recovering from having his wisdom teeth removed, which, as anyone who's gone through this would know, is almost the same as being sick. Hilarity Ensues when Dr. Katz accidentally gives Ben a bunch of antihistmanies instead of painkillers.
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Domestic-Only Cartoon
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Domestic-Only Cartoon: Animated entirely in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Special Guest
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Special Guest: Obviously, each episode featured a different guest star on Dr. Katz's couch, but a rare instance of a guest star playing a character was in "Bakery Ben", where comedian Steve Sweeney played Steve, the owner of the bakery where Ben gets his first job.
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Same Content, Different Rating
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Same Content, Different Rating: In the very earliest days of the TV Parental Guidelines system (early 1997), the show was rated TV-G. During season 5, it was bumped up to TV-PG.
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Small Name, Big Ego
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Small Name, Big Ego: Ben, particularly when talking to Laura. It doesn't impress her.
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Hurricane of Puns
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Hurricane of Puns: Demonstrated in "Mourning Person" between Dr. Katz and Ben, who keep making up puns using the word "pun".
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: The Cold Open to "Cholesterol" has Dr. Katz and Stanley speaking Spanish to each other, with a few English words thrown in.
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Lampshade Hanging
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As mentioned in Lampshade Hanging above, a couple of the patients have been bleeped for language, though sometimes Dr. Katz himself merely talks over the offending words.
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Limited Wardrobe
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Limited Wardrobe: Dr. Katz always wears a yellow shirt and red tie; Ben always wears an open blue shirt and white T-shirt; Laura always wears a pink sweater. Frequent guest Dom Irrera is something of an exception; while he usually wears a yellow sweater, he's also worn numerous flamboyant outfits. Averted with the first episode, "Pot-Bellied Pigs"; Ben wears a flannel shirt instead of his usual blue shirt.
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Analogy Backfire
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Analogy Backfire: Dr. Katz asked guest Steven Wright what he thought certain phrases meant. One of them was "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." His response:
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Chain Letter
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Chain Letter: An entire episode revolves around Ben wondering what to do with a chain letter, with Dr. Katz and Laura both immediately telling him to throw it away.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Laura cared for an injured baby bird in "Ben Centennial".
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Freudian Couch
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Freudian Couch
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Chain of Corrections
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Chain of Corrections: In "Monte Carlo":
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The Unintelligible
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The Unintelligible: Guest John Pinette had a bit about how a friend of his becomes unintelligible when he has a few beers. Everyone just agrees with him. Jeffrey Ross had a bit about how people are incomprehensible on voice answering messages. Robert Schimmel said he heard about someone who's parachute didn't open and they lived to tell the story. He would love to hear that story, and imitated a guy in bandages who was so battered that he could barely be understood.
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Shotgun Wedding
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Shotgun Wedding: In an season 6 episode which didn't air until 2002, Laura abruptly announces that she's engaged to a musician. Ben tries to be mature about it and wishes her the best of luck, until he's motivated to stop the wedding, or he'll never get another chance to confess his love for her. Laura cancels the engagement before Ben realizes what happened, though; Hilarity Ensues.
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TrailersAlwaysLie
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Trailers Always Lie: The original commercial for "Community Theater" featured a Barry White-esque voice saying that Dr. Katz finally gets some with Julie, followed by a clip of Julie saying, "Jonathan, do you know how long I've dreamed of this moment?" and the two kissing while the narrator said "Oh baby." While this actually happened, in the actual episode they were rehearsing some lines for a play (which ended on a kiss) and the plot wasn't about a romance between Dr. Katz and Julie like the commercial made it seem.
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Note to Self
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Note to Self: During "Ben Treats", Dr. Katz has a phone therapy session with patient Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who was pregnant at the time the episode aired. She frequently put the session on hold to go to the bathroom. While Katz waited for her to return, he would talk into a tape recorder with inane comments like, "Note to self: How are you?" and "Put a live fish in the fishbowl."
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Title-Only Opening
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Title-Only Opening: The show has no opening sequence aside from the title and Katz head graphic. Further, the show doesn't feature opening credits superimposed over the action like is typical on TV shows. All credits are reserved for the end of the episode.
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Flipping the Bird
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Flipping the Bird: Louis C.K. had a bit about how he repeatedly gave the finger to two snot-nosed brats in the back seat of a car in front of him. At one point, the father of the car caught Louis, but instead of getting angry, he gave him a thumbs up in the rear-view mirror. Louis concluded that parents must want to give their kids the finger all the time.
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Stalker Shrine
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Dom Irrera claims to be one of Dr. Katz, and even states he has a Dr. Katz Stalker Shrine.
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OnceAnEpisode
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Once an Episode: It's a given that Laura sighs in exasperation at least once an episode. Usually when talking to Ben.
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Instrumental Theme Tune
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Not a Date
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Alma Mater Song: Ted Alexandro began singing his school song for St. Francis Prep.
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The Slacker
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The Slacker: Ben Katz, obviously. Nearly every episode focuses on how he gives up on whatever he was interested in pursuing, and his unemployment is brought up very often.
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Conspiracy Theorist: Dom Irrera. Marc Maron had traits of this as well, such as when he asked why they needed his name at Radio Shack: "I'm buying batteries, do you understand what I'm saying? I'm buying batteries." Dave Attell asked: "Doctor, prostate cancer: Did the CIA invent that?" Parodied in "Undercover Ben": Ben is convinced that the local bakery is purposefully pumping out odors to get people to come in and buy their bread.
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: Emo Phillips had a routine:
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: One occurs in-episode: The action keeps cutting between Dom Irrera's session with Dr. Katz and an unrelated scene between Ben and Laura. After one of the Ben/Laura scenes, it cuts back to the Dom/Dr. Katz scene. Dom is shown crying, who says "I've never had you snap at me like that..." For such an Extreme Doormat as Dr. Katz, one wonders just what Katz said to Dom.
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Courtesy of Emo Phillips:
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Captain Obvious
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Parodied in "Undercover Ben": Ben is convinced that the local bakery is purposefully pumping out odors to get people to come in and buy their bread.
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Strictly Formula
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Strictly Formula: Nearly all episodes follow this formula when it comes to guest placement: Act 1: Guest #1. Act 2: Guest #2. Act 3: Guest #1 again. Act 4: Guest #2, followed immediately by guest #1, who closes the episode. There were a small handful of episodes which featured three guests, so the formula was varied a bit for those episodes. Most episodes feature Dr. Katz visiting Stan and Julie at the bar at the end of act three, though a few episodes (such as "Community Theater") have him visiting them more than once per episode. Nearly every episode opens with Dr. Katz and Ben at home. There are exceptions, though: "Radio Katz" opens with Dr. Katz and Ben in a restaurant; "Ticket" opens with Dr. Katz getting pulled over by a policeman; "Bakery Ben" opens with Ben visiting the bakery where he's hired by Steve.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: In "Chopper", when Ben, runner-up in a radio contest, is dismayed that nothing happened to the contest winner (and thus, was unable to take his place in riding the helicopter):
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Instant Seduction: Guest Caroline Rhea did a routine about what would happen if women actually married construction workers who shouted come-ons to them:
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Malaproper: In "Ben Treats":
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Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
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Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Invoked. Gilbert Gottfried is annoyed that his dreams have no symbolism. He says other people have dreams where abstract things represent something profound. But Gilbert's dreams are basically: "Me, I have this dream where I'm walking down a street, and it's just a street."
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Sound-Effect Bleep
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Sound-Effect Bleep: Often a patient's swearing will be completely replaced by dr. Katz saying "whoah!". Other times, they are simply bleeped In "Phone Luv", Ben told Dr. Katz to "use the (fuck)ing door." Amusingly, if you listen closely, the word in question can still be heard underneath the bleep. In "Thanksgiving", much of Ben's swearing, heard from the kitchen as he burns the turkey, is bleeped, although like with Phone Luv the swear words CAN be heard if listened to closely. As mentioned in Lampshade Hanging above, a couple of the patients have been bleeped for language, though sometimes Dr. Katz himself merely talks over the offending words. Barry Sobel is repeatedly bleeped when he does a routine about honoring commitments to meet up at the movies. Jim Gaffigan is bleeped when he does his "manatee on Ricki Lake" routine.
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Have We Met?
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Have We Met?: Guest Ted Alexandro is convinced that he knew Laura from college.
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Ask a Stupid Question...
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Ask a Stupid Question...: In a therapy session with Joy Behar: In a session with Emo Phillips, Emo mentioned that he liked to go to the zoo. Dr. Katz asked him what he liked most about the zoo, and this followed: Jeff Ross told about how he was buying some clothes for a toddler and the clerk actually asked him, "Is this a gift?" In one episode, Ben gave a survey to Laura. One of the questions:
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I'll Be in My Bunk
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I'll Be in My Bunk: Kevin Meaney: "I do have sexual desires! I DO! I have to go to the bathroom now."
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Informed Attractiveness: Laura is incredibly off-model in the first episode. Nevertheless, Ben is smitten.
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Long Song, Short Scene: Most of the scene transition music, which we never hear the full versions of because most scene transitions are only about five seconds long. Averted with the credits, where we get a few full transition melodies back to back.
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I Can't Dance
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I Can't Dance: "Waltz" reveals that Dr. Katz can't dance (and he will have to dance at an upcoming wedding). He pays Laura $200 to teach him to dance, only he's not allowed to touch her.
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Love Confession
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Love Confession: Played for laughs, with frequent patient Dom Irrera frequently saying he loves Dr. Katz, even going so far as to ask him to marry him. Guest Margaret Smith also admitted she had a crush on Dr. Katz. Katz quickly begins to worry that she will stalk him (despite assurances from Smith that she wouldn't):
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Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first season especially, the interplay between Dr. Katz and Ben was a little more serious and subdued, with the "get a job" a common topic between the two. Over time, the dynamic lightened up. In the first few episodes, there isn't a framed painting hanging over Dr. Katz's office chair.
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I Have This Friend
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I Have This Friend: In "Waltz", Ben tells Todd the video store clerk that today, unlike normally, he's here for somebody, if Todd knows what he means. Todd jumps to conclusions:
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Seinfeldian Conversation
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Seinfeldian Conversation: Happens all the time in the show.
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Live-Action Adaptation
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Live-Action Adaptation: The show has been revived onstage in 2007, 2015 and 2017. The live shows are set after the series, and touch on Jonathan Katz's Multiple Sclerosis.
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Treasure Chest Cavity
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Treasure Chest Cavity: Kevin Nealon had a bit about how he likes to bring his cats with him on vacation, but they're not allowed to be checked. So what he does is puts the cats in balloons, swallows them, and craps them out later. He says it's unpleasant for himself and the cats, but it's worth it.
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I Resemble That Remark!
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I Resemble That Remark!: In "Movies", Dr. Katz and Ben have this exchange:
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Mathematician's Answer
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Mathematician's Answer: In "Expert Witness", Dr. Katz's response to the courts if Roger is sane enough to stand trial is simply, "No."
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Logo Joke
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Logo Joke: "Ticket" begins with the usual Dr. Katz head graphic, but after only a couple seconds, Katz's head is replaced by a police siren and accompanying sound effect. To those unprepared for this anomaly, it can be quite startling.
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Rube Goldberg Device
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Rube Goldberg Device: Andy Kindler explains obsessive-compulsive behavior using this trope: He leaves the house, but has to go back into the house, because maybe he left a piece of paper on the table, and a breeze could blow the paper onto the stove, where a pilot light causes the paper to set the house on fire.
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: Ted Alexandro had a bit about this:
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: David Stanick, Dr. Katz's old ping-pong rival. Guest Patton Oswalt wanted Dr. Katz to act as his arch enemy, his logic being that his life seems to go better when he has an enemy. Katz tried but couldn't get the hang of it.
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Visit by Divorced Dad
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Visit by Divorced Dad: Reversed: Dr. Katz raises Ben, and the mother comes visit during a season finale.
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Improperly Paranoid
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Improperly Paranoid: Dr. Katz in "Paranoia". After hearing a scratching noise outside the door in the middle of the night, he gets new locks for the door, buys pepper spray, wants a home security system that only he knows the code for, and even considers bars on the windows. You know it's bad when Ben looks reasonable by comparison.
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Ambiguous Syntax
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Ambiguous Syntax: Laura complains that the strong cologne Dr. Katz is wearing is making her eyes water. Dr. Katz replies, "It takes some getting used to." Laura observes, "That's a good name for it."
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Talk About the Weather
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Talk About the Weather: Guest Andy Kindler tries to initiate some casual conversation with Laura, and one of the things he says is: "The weather seems to changing on a seasonal basis."
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Audience-Alienating Premise
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Audience-Alienating Premise: Invoked; Gilbert Gottfried claims that Hogan's Heroes was this, and imagines what the pitch session was like:
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Long List
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Long List: In "Movies", guest Sam Brown rattles off a list of chick flicks he'd be willing to sit through just to watch a woman make breakfast with a top off. Among those listed: Nell, Carrington, Sister Act 1 and 2, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In "Day Planner", Katz lists off the areas that Ben could look for his missing day planner. After listing a bunch of areas, Ben remarks, "This is a beautiful apartment, dad." Louie C.K. imagines what it must have been like to live in the old west, when you can just go into a saloon and rattle off what you need.
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Parental Incest
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Parental Incest: Or, rather, grandparental incest: Emo Phillips mentioned how his grandmother gave him a big, sloppy kiss whenever she visited him as a child:
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The Trouble with Tickets
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The Trouble with Tickets: Dr. Katz, with Ben's help, decides to fight his traffic violation, where he ran a stop sign. Ben took hundreds of photographs of the stop sign in question, claiming they were obscured by tree leaves/branches. However, on the way to the court, they're pulled over again, this time for speeding. And Ben was the one driving, and didn't have his license on him.
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Kids Are Cruel
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Kids Are Cruel: The cold open to "Monte Carlo" features Dr. Katz telling about a boy when he was growing up who used to shake him down for his lunch money. However, one day he was worried because he came to school without any money. Luckily for him, the bully didn't beat him up.
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Did You Get a New Haircut?
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Did You Get a New Haircut?: In "Henna", A red-haired Dr. Katz brings Laura into the office and asks her if she notices anything different. After a couple guesses unrelated to his hair color, he asks about his appearance specifically. Finally, she says in a disinterested tone, "Well your hair's bright red."
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Mind-Control Eyes
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Mind-Control Eyes: Guest Mitch Fatel briefly gets these when he imposes hypnosis on himself. "I am now hypnotized!"
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Erotic Dream
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Erotic Dream: Joy Behar admitted to having sex dreams about Dr. Katz, although she wasn't sure if it's accurate to call them "sex dreams". One dream involved Dr. Katz's head sticking out of a turtle's body; the Katz turtle was placed in a bowl of other turtles, and one of the other turtles bit Dr. Katz's head off.
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Formula-Breaking Episode
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Formula-Breaking Episode: A few examples: "Bakery Ben" is the only instance in the series of Ben being employed. It's short-lived. "Vow of Silence" has Sam Brown in therapy with two members of his family; group therapy never happens in any other episode. The therapy sessions in "Thanksgiving" feel like an afterthought; the main focus is on Roz (and Laura) coming over for Thanksgiving. "Community Theater", since it has Dr. Katz and Ben interacting with someone outside of the main cast of characters or guest stars, a rarity in the series. In a way the last scene almost feels proto-Home Movies. A few episodes- notably "Ticket", "Ben Centennial", "Ben's Partay", "Walk for Hunger", and "Mourning Person", don't end with Katz and a guest in therapy that's ended by the music, but a different scene entirely.
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Embarrassing Damp Sheets
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Embarrassing Damp Sheets: A rare variant involving poop is brought up in the first Kevin Meaney episode. When he talks about how housekeeping ladies leave chocolate in beds, he says that if you come to your hotel room late and don't notice the chocolates, you would mistake it for having pooped in the bed when you wake up.
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Shockingly Expensive Bill
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Shockingly Expensive Bill: The restaurant bill in "Ben Treats", which is more than $500. Dr. Katz jokes that Ben acts natural while he goes to warm up the car. Guest Ray Romano is informed that, since he missed payments on the last two therapy sessions, he now owes $450 for his three sessions.
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Like an Old Married Couple
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Like an Old Married Couple: Dr. Katz and Ben are basically one, and Katz even admits it in one episode, "Ball and Chain" when he says he's trying to salvage what's left of this "marriage". In "It Takes Some Getting Used To":
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Christmas Episode
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Christmas Episode: Season 2's "Office Management".
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Fauxdian Slip
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Fauxdian Slip: In "Ball and Chain", Dr. Katz encourages Ben to get out there and meet women, saying he could envision him as the marrying type. Ben disagrees:
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In "Mourning Person" while Dr. Katz is giving a eulogy:
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New Job Episode
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New Job Episode: More accurately, FIRST job, as Ben is hired as a baker's assistant in a season 6 episode which didn't air until 2002. He's quickly fired before the week is up for coming to work four hours late, though.
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Sticky Fingers
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Sticky Fingers: One of the plots of "Sticky Notes": Dr. Katz is suspicious that Laura is stealing office supplies. Stanley thinks he's being paranoid and penny-pinching, saying that when you work in an office, "you have some at home".
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Squiggle Vision
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Squigglevision
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Curse Cut Short
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Curse Cut Short: In "Snow Day", Todd the video store clerk is about to say "pigeon shit" but Ben interrupts him before he can say the offending word. Guest Jake Johannsen was about to swear, but Dr. Katz cut him off. Jake observed: "My other therapist let me swear." Dr. Katz replied, "That's up to him."
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In "Reunion", Ben remarks that it's easy for Dr. Katz to attend reunions because his title commands respect. Dr. Katz refutes this: In another episode, guest Dave Attell didn't address him by his title:
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All Love Is Unrequited
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All Love Is Unrequited: Laura and Ben are the most obvious, but more subtly, Dr. Katz seems into Laura, and there's the Stanley/Julie/Katz triangle, meaning almost the entire male cast is into a girl, without reciprocation from any of the girls. (There's a few episodes that shows that Julie may have feelings for Dr. Katz. The episode where they practice Dr. Katz's part in a play includes a kiss that seems very well-requited. This is never mentioned again.)
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Comic-Book Adaptation
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Comic Strip Adaptation: There was a Dr. Katz newspaper strip from 1997 to 1999.
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Potty Failure
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Potty Failure: In "Sissy Boy", Ben has to use the bathroom but Todd the video store clerk won't let customers use it. But he strikes a deal with Ben: If he can punch him, he'll look the other way. Ben asks to be hit in the ass, because it's the most padded part of his body. However, the instant Todd hits him, Ben remarks, "I peed."
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "Movies", Dr. Katz and Ben play a game where they pitch movie ideas to each other. Ben proceeds to insult Katz in his pitch, but it's more facetious than deadly serious: Dom Irrera gave one to Dr. Katz during the credits of "Chopper": Dom also gave one of these to his cousin Louie: And in a later episode: Yet another example:
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Animation Bump
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Animation Bump: Ben taking a fire extinguisher to the burning Thanksgiving dinner. He actually has walking animation! The cutaway gag of Mitch Hedberg as a foosball player. He's given a front flip animation, more movement than is usual for the show. (trivia: This scene is animated by Karla Zimonja)
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: The very first line uttered in the show is from Ben Katz: "Dad, the problem is, there's just no work for me right now in my chosen field." Ben's chosen field? Daredevil. That... doesn't leave him with a whole lot of options for employment.
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Mamet Speak
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Mamet Speak: In "Studio Guy", Dr. Katz and Ben keep trying to talk at the same time, both trying to overpower the other until Ben shouts, "No you shut up!"
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Motor Mouth
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Motor Mouth: Guest Bobby Slayton falls into this. Dr. Katz even explores this, and Bobby realizes that he talks so much during the day that he is out of words by the evening.
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Straight Man
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Straight Man: Dr. Katz, in most instances.
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Dodgy Toupee
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Dodgy Toupee: One of the first jokes Dom Irrera told:
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Psychic Powers
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Psychic Powers: In the season 2 finale, Ben is convinced he has ESP after watching a show about it on TV, even though he obviously has no such ability. Typical impressionable Ben.
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Truth in Television
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Truth in Television: Laura and Ben's voice actors were actually dating at the start of the show, and broke up around halfway through the run of the show.
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Wrong Side of the Tracks
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Wrong Side of the Tracks: Implied in "Used Car" when Laura abandoned Dr. Katz and Ben in an unknown part of town; it wasn't exactly a nice neighborhood. But Dr. Katz wasn't too worried because he spotted a Taco Bell in the distance.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: A common joke-telling technique from Bill Braudis. One example:
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Non-Answer
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Non-Answer: In "New Phone System", Andy Kindler asked Laura if she knew he was Jewish or Italian just by looking at him. Laura's response? An awkward, "Uh.... yeah."
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Bank Robbery
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Bank Robbery: Guest Don Gavin mentions that he tried to rob a bank once, but failed: He accidentally put the gun in the drive-up drawer with the threatening note.
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Parental Sexuality Squick
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Parental Sexuality Squick: Lizz Winstead said that the way to get your child to abstain from sex is to tell them:
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Hypochondria
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Hypochondria: Ben gets this in "Bees and S.I.D.S." when he browses through Dr. Katz's medical journals. Of note, he's convinced he has Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, despite being 24 years old. Also of note, Dr. Katz mentioned it took a bunch of doctors and lab tests to convince Ben that he didn't have an ovarian cyst. In "Drinky the Drunk Guy", Laura accuses Ben of letting his hypochondria extend to his father.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush: Ben, to a new tenant in "Sticky Notes". Dom Irrera claims to be one of Dr. Katz, and even states he has a Dr. Katz Stalker Shrine.
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One-Shot Character
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One-Shot Character: Cindy from Tele-Purchases in "Phone Luv"; the community theater director in "Community Theater"; the dentist in "Wisdom Teeth"; the teacher from "Past Lives"; Roger from "Expert Witness"; and if she counts, ex-wife Roz from "Thanksgiving", despite that there's been much talk about her in previous episodes.
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Ultimate Job Security
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Ultimate Job Security: Both Laura and Dr. Katz qualify—Laura is completely unhelpful as a secretary and only avoids getting fired because Dr. Katz is a milquetoast pushover. Meanwhile, Dr. Katz is a terrible shrink and is very often called out on it by his clients. Somehow this doesn't stop them from coming back though.
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I Am Big Boned
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I Am Big Boned: Guest Dom Irrera thinks this is a lame excuse for being fat: "Yeah, that’s a big bone you’ve got in your butt there."
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: In "Real Estate", Ben puts the cart before the horse:
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Private Detective
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Private Detective: In the season 4 finale "Undercover", Laura is taking multiple afternoons off without explaining where she's going, leading Ben to become a detective to find out. He's horrible at it, though.
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The Voiceless
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The Voiceless: This was actually the case for a lot of one-shot characters in the show, presumably because they had such a small stable of regular voice actors. It wasn't until roughly the fourth season that one-shot characters began to actually talk. Whoever did their voices were still uncredited, though. Examples of voiceless characters: The guy with the sock puppet who is occasionally seen in Dr. Katz's office. The clerk at the hardware store in "The Particle Board". Though somewhat justified in that the scene begins with Ben on the store phone with Dr. Katz. The priest at the funeral in "Mourning Person". The cop who pulls Dr. Katz over in the season 5 episode "The Ticket": He just gives him a cold stare and lets Katz stammer. Laura's friends in "Walk For Hunger".
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...And 99¢
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...And 99¢: In "Pot-Bellied Pigs", Ben says that he has a job of buying pigs, breeding them, and then selling the babies for profit. Dr. Katz asks what each pig costs, and Ben says, "Twenty-nine... ninety-nine... ninety-five."
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Overly Long Name
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Overly Long Name: Frequent patient Dom Irrera reveals his middle name: "Orangutan Anus Hair".
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: During guest Patton Oswalt's long tirade about how he wants Dr. Katz to be his enemy, he recommends that Katz tell him: "I'm tired of you; you no longer amuse me!"
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Shaped Like Itself
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Shaped Like Itself: In "Movies", Ben wants to see movies on the big screen. Why? Because "it's bigger".
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In "Pullman Square", guest Ed Crasnick had a routine about how a relative would take photos of people throwing up after going on The Rotor, and actually had a "throw-up gallery". Photos of people vomiting are displayed. Guest Kathy Griffin also had a bit about vomit; she once was a waitress whose customer ate a pie and then vomited it up (which is shown). What struck Kathy as odd was that the woman didn't seem all that physically distraught afterwards; she just calmly paid her check and left.
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You Are Grounded!
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You Are Grounded!: Dr. Katz grounds Ben after Ben lied to the papers and school about being an eye witness to a crime in "Bystander Ben".
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Pacifist Run
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Pacifist Run: Bob Odenkirk wishes all video games were this way, as he doesn't like feeling upset and violent when playing them.
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Hit Me, Dammit!
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Hit Me, Dammit!: During the closing credits of "Cholesterol", we hear Dr. Katz proud of himself for getting through some push-ups. With a new-found sense of pride about himself, he asks Julie to hit him in the stomach. After trying to back out of it, Julie finally hits him, and Dr. Katz is heard keeling over. In "Sissy Boy"; Ben asks both Dr. Katz and Laura to hit him to prove he's strong enough for the military.; Katz is hesitant but Laura has no reservations about doing it, and in fact asks "Again?" after she slugs him. Later, Todd the video store clerk wants to hit Ben as part of a deal to let Ben use the restroom, turning this into a Running Gag.
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Homoerotic Dream
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Homoerotic Dream: Louis C.K. tells Dr. Katz about one he had, where he didn't realize it was a gay dream until he started making out with a guy. Dom Irrera has plenty of these - all starring Dr. Katz.
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Practical Joke
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Practical Joke: In the season 2 episode "Glasses", Dr. Katz gets a pair of glasses. Ben thinks it's amusing that he's "slowly going blind" and pulls pranks like hiding Dr. Katz's cell phone and removing all the chairs from the kitchen, hoping he'll accidentally sit on the floor.
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Mooning
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Mooning: In "Anniversary", as Katz is leaving for work:
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Sassy Secretary
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Sassy Secretary: Laura, although she is more bile than sass.
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CloudCuckooLander
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Guests Steven Wright and Mitch Hedberg certainly qualify.
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This Is Gonna Suck
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This Is Gonna Suck: Guest Tom Agna had a routine about wondering if you can take stuff with you when you die. Upon arriving at the pearly gates, St. Peter says, "Hey, where's your stuff?" Tom replies, "Oh man, this is gonna suck."
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Fridge Logic
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Fridge Logic: Invoked for laughs: Patton Oswalt says Star Wars is his favorite movie of all time, and mentions that, like the Kennedy assassination, everyone remembers where they were when they first saw the movie. A puzzled Dr. Katz asks: "Weren't they in the theater?" Robert Schimmel, on identifying plane crash victims by their dental records: "If they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
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Stealing from the Till
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Stealing from the Till: A subplot point in "Sticky Notes", when Dr. Katz is suspicious that Laura is stealing office supplies.
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Get Out!
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Get Out!: In "Phone Luv", Ben repeatedly says this to Dr. Katz when he wants some privacy on the phone with Cindy. Barry Sobel had a bit about how living in New York was like a Neil Simon play, since everybody shouts. "GET OUTTA HERE!" "I'm not leavin'!" "You're leavin'!" "Don't tell ME to get out!" Don Gavin said he lost his grandmother recently. He clarified:
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Sarcasm Mode
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Robert Schimmel said he heard about someone who's parachute didn't open and they lived to tell the story. He would love to hear that story, and imitated a guy in bandages who was so battered that he could barely be understood.
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Ray Romano had a routine about this in one episode: Despite guest Dom Irrera frequently performing invokedHo Yay actions towards Dr. Katz, he makes it clear that he's not in love with him, and in a later episode, Dom warned him: "You're not getting me in the sack." Additionally, he frequently asks: "That don't make me gay or nothing, right?"
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly-Long Gag: Ben trying to get Dr. Katz out of earshot from his private phone conversation in "Phone Luv". He sure kept Cindy waiting for a while.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Said by Dr. Katz in the episode "Bully" when he realizes how much he hurt Ben by throwing away Ben's childhood stuffed animal.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Dave Attell lamented that every date he ever goes on always ends with the woman shouting, "My eye!!!"
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Confusing Multiple Negatives
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Confusing Multiple Negatives: Guest Barry Sobel said that his dad once told him, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do"... but his dad wouldn't do anything. Barry and Dr. Katz got into a discussion on whether that limited Barry or freed him.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: In "Studio Guy", Dr. Katz plays a guitar while singing a melancholy song about feeling left out. After he concludes, Ben remarks, "That sucked." In "Bully", Dr. Katz abruptly realizes how much he hurt Ben when he threw out his stuffed toy and apologizes to Ben in front of the audience that he's performing for. It's a serious moment until Ben reminds the audience, "Show's up there, folks. Show's on the stage."
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I Want My Jet Pack
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I Want My Jetpack: Guest Paul F. Thompkins had a bit about how he feels gypped that many of the inventions predicted in the past never came to pass, like the rocket pack. He claims that if you owned a rocket pack, it would be the last thing you thought about when you went to bed, and the first thing you thought about when you woke up.
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City with No Name
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City with No Name: The name of the city Dr. Katz takes place in is never made clear; at times it evokes images of New York City; other times, it seems more like Boston. In one episode Conan O'Brien is a client who uses one of Dr. Katz' jokes on Late Night, based in New York.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: In "Movies", Ben grills Laura about the date she was on: In "Sissy Boy", Ben is punched three times: First by Dr. Katz, in the stomach, then by Laura in the arm, and finally by Todd in the ass.
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Status Quo Is God
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Status Quo Is God: Nothing really changes in the show; at the beginning and end of the series, Ben Katz is unemployed and living with Dr. Katz, who runs a professional therapy practice, and neither are in a serious romantic relationship.
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Separated by a Common Language
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Separated by a Common Language: Jeffrey Ross observed that people have their own pet nicknames for things when they get older. Brian Regan had a bit about how he had a roommate in college who wanted to "go halves on a pie". He found out later he meant "pizza", but at the time he thought his roommate wanted to split a fruit-based pie.
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Worst. Whatever. Ever!
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Worst. Whatever. Ever!: Ben, to Dr. Katz at the end of "Mourning Person" after Katz stumbles through his eulogy.
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Disappointed in You
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Disappointed in You: Dr. Katz is this to Ben when Ben reveals that, despite being an eye witness to a crime, he admitted to Katz that he didn't actually see the crime.
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IneffectualDeathThreat
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Ineffectual Death Threat: In "Babysitting Ben", Laura passes along the message that someone on the phone threatened to kill Dr. Katz, though the individual was just blowing off steam, not being literal. Laura didn't bother to pass that important bit of info along, leaving Katz a nervous wreck for the episode.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: All of the characters talk this way at least sometimes, especially Laura to Ben, and also Dr. Katz and Ben to each other.
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Thanksgiving Episode
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Thanksgiving Episode: The season 5 finale takes place during this holiday.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: Dom Irrera's first bit in the show is complaining to Laura about how many people butcher his name.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: "Oops, you know what the music means: Our time is up."
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Extreme Doormat
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Extreme Doormat: Dr. Katz in general. In "New Phone System", he confronts Laura over some foreign calls she made, saying that he pays the bills and to be respectful of that. After a brief pause, he caves: "I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm talking about. Can I buy you lunch?" Dr. Katz lets Dom Irrera ride in his car after a therapy session after Dom pesters him about it.
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Could This Happen to You?
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Could This Happen to You?: Tom Kenny did a routine about sensationalism in the media, where even if a natural disaster is averted, the news reporters will milk the story by doing the "what if" news:
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Toilet Humour
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Toilet Humour: Dr. Katz on coffee: "I wonder what people did before coffee, if they were just constipated?" Dom Irrera had a bit where he discussed how his cat peed in his gym bag: Dom also asked Dr. Katz if it's normal for your urine to have chunks in it.
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Hand Puppet
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Hand Puppet: Ron Lynch uses one to communicate his feelings. Eventually the hand puppet brings out its own hand puppet.
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Tough Room
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Tough Room: Dr. Katz never laughs at his patient's jokes. This is strange because he laughs very easily otherwise. The one exception is when Dom Irrera made him laugh by tickling him.
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Epic Fail
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Epic Fail: Ben gets these pretty frequently. In one instance, he assumed the world only had about 2-3 million people in it ("Actually, Ben, it's in the billions."), and in another instance, he said that pigeons were mammals. In "Theory of Intelligence", Ben can't solve a math problem that a kindergartener could do: Dr. Katz is no stranger to this, either; in "Wisdom Teeth", he accidentally gave Ben antihistamines instead of painkillers.
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ColdOpen
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Cold Open: More common in the earlier seasons.
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Jewish and Nerdy
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Jewish and Nerdy: Dr. Katz and Ben.
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The Tag
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The Tag: Utilized in a few episodes, when dialog is still heard over the closing credits. Some examples include "Pretzelkins" (Dr. Katz at the bingo parlor, where the bingo caller reads off the numbers), "Cholesterol" (Katz coaxes Julie to punch him in the stomach to prove his strength), "Everybody's Got a Tushy" (Dr. Katz and Laura have problems with the intercom), "Bystander Ben" (with Dr. Katz and Ben discussing things they're not proud of), "Office Management" (Dr. Katz and Ben sing Jingle Bells), "Koppleman and Katz" (Dr. Katz and Ben discussing songs where you almost say a dirty word but say something else instead), "Reunion" (Katz gives patient Dom Irrera a ride home), and "Ben Treats" (Ben realizes the check is a little over $500 and asks Katz and Laura to pay for the rest).
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Double Standard
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Guest Jann Karam had a Double Standard bit about how women's basketball players are allowed to act tough but she isn't:
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: In "Snow Day", Dr. Katz and Stanley both deride the news stations for hyping up snowstorms, claiming they get people overexcited. Seconds later, both say they can't wait for the massive snowstorm to hit. In "Wisdom Teeth", Ben enters the office after getting his wisdom teeth pulled and is talking funny because of the gauze in his mouth. Dr. Katz can't help but giggle at him; Laura admonishes Dr. Katz for laughing at Ben, but seconds later imitates Ben's mumbled sentence. In "Office Management", Ray asks Dr. Katz if something is normal. Dr. Katz replies, ""Normal" is not a word I like to use, Ray." Then Ray describes the issue and Dr. Katz replies, "Yeah, that's normal."
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Class Reunion
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Class Reunion: Ben gets an invitation to a high school reunion in the season 3 finale. He's reluctant at first but ultimately decides to go.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: In "Phone Luv", Ben wants some privacy on the phone with Cindy. After much back-and-forth about privacy, Ben tells Dr. Katz to "use the fucking door!" In "Old Man", Ben starts talking about hypothetical names for boats, and one of them is "This Piece of Sh*t's Gonna Sink". Guest Jann Karam had a Double Standard bit about how women's basketball players are allowed to act tough but she isn't: In "Ben-Centennial", Ben vows to never eat cereal again, and he's heard crunching over the phone. Dr. Katz asks what he's eating, and Ben says "Cereal." Katz asks, "What about your oath?" Barry Sobel did a bit about the difference between East Coast and West Coast friends, specifically that on the East Coast, if you and your friends make plans to attend a movie, it's not a suggestion of what "could happen"; it's an actuality. He then imitates a hypothetical scenario on what would happen if you make plans but don't show up:
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Must Have Caffeine
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Must Have Caffeine: One episode, "Metaphors", concerns Dr. Katz and Ben drinking more coffee than usual. This addiction catches up with Ben, though, who gets severe cramps towards the end of the episode.
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Brief Accent Imitation
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Brief Accent Imitation: Dr. Katz tries to sound like an evil villain for guest Patton Oswalt, but accidentally produces a Scottish accent instead.
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That Makes Me Feel Angry
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That Makes Me Feel Angry: Guest Joy Behar once told Dr. Katz, "I feel hostile towards you now."
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Wingding Eyes
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Wingding Eyes: In "Pot-Bellied Pigs", upon meeting Laura, Ben briefly displays heart eyes.
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Jump Scare
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Jump Scare: Not a severe case, but the Dr. Katz head logo abruptly changing to a wailing police siren at the start of "Ticket" can be surprising if you're not expecting it.
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Corpsing
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Corpsing: In-universe, this is why Dr. Katz is unable to get through an audition in "Community Theater"; the play director uses a strange accent that gives Dr. Katz the giggles.
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Large-Ham Announcer
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Large-Ham Announcer: Richard Jeni observed that auto racing is more popular than Sunday mass, and surmised it must be because of their exciting radio commercials. He thought church would be more popular if it adopted that technique:
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: There are a bunch of fictional movies at the theater Dr. Katz and Ben visit during "Movies", such as "Hams on the Run", "Lovestrings", and "Firepower".
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My Hair Came Out Green
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My Hair Came Out Green: "Henna" involves both Dr. Katz and Ben's hair turning bright red upon using the hair tonic.
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By the Lights of Their Eyes
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By the Lights of Their Eyes: Used a few times in the show when characters are in the dark.
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Ho Yay
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Ho Yay: Invoked. Dom Irrera constantly hits on Katz.
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Pilot
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Pilot: "The Biography of Mr. Katz", from 1992. It had even more primitive animation, if that can be believed. Also, Dr. Katz was incredibly Off-Model.
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Sting
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Sting: Dr. Katz rarely used dramatic stings or any kind of music outside of scene transitions; however, one exception did occur in the episode with Jeffrey Ross. He did a routine about going on a blind date, and mentions that he admires her ugly fingernails. The camera then focuses on her fingernail, while a two-note dramatic pipe organ plays.
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Yank the Dog's Chain
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Yank the Dog's Chain: In "Cholesterol", Dr. Katz admits he's embarrassed about showering in front of other guys at the gym. When Stanley asks why: In one episode, guest Lew Schneider asked Laura if she could be nicer.
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Informed Judaism
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Informed Judaism: Dr. Katz and Ben are Jewish, but it's rarely addressed.
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Shout-Out
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In "Snow Day", there's a subtle Shout-Out to Show Biz Bugs when Ben lets Duke (a pigeon) out of his rooftop cage, with the intention of showing off his flying skills. Instead of coming right back to the cage as expected, however, Duke just keeps flying and never comes back.
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Brainy Baby
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Brainy Baby: Steven Wright had a bit about how his first memory was as a 8-month old in a doctor's office. He realized he had the power of speech and told the doctor, "Do you mind shutting the window? I think my feet are getting cold." He noted that the doctor's reaction was so horrifying (i.e. fainting) that he better hold off on speaking again for at least a few months.
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: In "Mourning Person":
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My Eyes Are Up Here
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My Eyes Are Up Here: Guest Joy Behar accuses Katz of staring at her large breasts; Katz denies noticing the size and the shape of them, but that only makes Joy more angry.
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Coat Full of Contraband
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Coat Full of Contraband: Robert Klein mentions that he was once approached by a man who used the "Wanna buy a watch?" line. Robert refused, and it's revealed he was standing at a urinal when he said it.
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Harassing Phone Call
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Harassing Phone Call: Dom Irrera is convinced Dr. Katz is doing this to him.
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Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle
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Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle: In "Fructose":
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Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him
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Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: In "Big TV", Dr. Katz refuses to talk to Ben when Ben bought a big screen TV without his permission. The trope is initially played straight (with Laura being the party relaying the messages), but is subverted in short order when both parties forget who they're not talking to.
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Every Episode Ending
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Every Episode Ending: Dr. Katz telling his patient that the therapy session is over (see Catchphrase), as prompted by the music cue. There are some exceptions: "Thanksgiving", which ends with Dr. Katz and Ben on the couch after Thanksgiving Day dinner. "Ben Treats", which ends with Katz, Ben, and Laura in the fancy restaurant. "Walk For Hunger", which ends with Dr. Katz and Laura carrying Ben the rest of the way in the hunger walk. "Ben Centennial", which ends with Laura giving Ben a birthday present. "Ticket", which ends with Dr. Katz and Ben getting pulled over on their way to fight a traffic ticket. "Mourning Person", which ends with Dr. Katz's horrible eulogy. "Community Theater", which ends with Dr. Katz's failed audition. "Lil' Helper", which ends with Ben pitching a massage business to Dr. Katz.
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Broken Base
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Broken Base: In-universe, Bobby Slayton says he's angry because there are some people out there who prefer Roger Moore over Sean Connery for James Bond.
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What, Exactly, Is His Job?
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What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Stanley, though some of his past jobs have been mentioned.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": In "Real Estate", Laura's trying to sell her apartment over the phone, but Ben keeps talking. Finally, she tells him, "Could you shut up?" Ben talks some more and Laura reiterates: "SHUT UP!"
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Frivolous Lawsuit
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Frivolous Lawsuit: One time, Laura threatened to call her lawyer when Dr. Katz asked her to look something up in the Yellow Pages.
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Professional Butt-Kisser
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Professional Butt-Kisser: Guest David Mamet sucks up to Laura, saying that he likes her strict demeanor and going so far as to say she should be the therapist and Katz should be the receptionist. Laura is at first flattered by this ("It's funny, I didn't used to like you, but I kinda do now."), but after another suck-up remark, Laura asks him: "Are you just blowing smoke up my ass?" Mamet replies: "What do you mean just?"
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Writers Cannot Do Math
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Writers Cannot Do Math: Or rather, the actors cannot do math (since the show is mostly ad-libbed). In "Ben Treats", Ben brags about the fact that he won $500 and prompts Laura to guess how many pennies he won. After much goading to say "a penny", Laura says "a penny", but Ben replies: "No, five million pennies!" Laura corrects him: "It's 500,000." She's incorrect, though; there are 50,000 pennies in $500.
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Finishing Each Other's Sentences
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Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Subverted in "Sharon Myers":
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Sixth Ranger
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Sixth Ranger: Todd the video store clerk, who debuted in the second half of season 5.
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Rule of Animation Conservation
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Rule of Animation Conservation: Dr. Katz could easily be done in live action due to its limited movements, but the show was so inexpensive to produce in the first place anyway.
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Mondegreen Gag: Invoked by guest Laura Kightlinger. She once dated an Irish guy and because of his thick accent, she often thought he was saying something else: Ted Alexandro observed how kids don't really understand the words to the Pledge of Allegiance: In "New Phone System", Dr. Katz mentioned to Stanley and Julie that as a kid, Ben thought "the line is busy" was "the lion is busy".
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Unfortunate Names
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Unfortunate Names: Louis C.K. had a bit about how he wishes there was a man named "Farty McCrablice" who became famous for curing diseases, because then people would have to give thanks to Farty McCrablice.
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Limited Animation
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Limited Animation: Somewhat masked with the Squigglevision technique, which caused the otherwise static characters to constantly vibrate.
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Fluffy Cloud Heaven
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Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Seen during Tom Agna's "can't take it with ya" bit.
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Yiddish as a Second Language
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Yiddish as a Second Language: During one of guest Jeffrey Ross's stories, he mentions how his mother's Jewish friends are always trying to set him up on dates with people they know. One remarks: "You should meet my Marie. Not much to look at, but she'll bop on your shmeckel, boy."
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Stock Animal Name
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Stock Animal Name: Brian Kiley mentioned how he named his dog "Patches", because he was always trying to stop smoking.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: Season 1 featured character animations not used in any other season, probably because they were so ugly and off-model. Season 5 got a new batch of reusable character animations; most notably for Laura. Certain guests who were featured in the early episodes got new looks when they appeared in later episodes. Most notable is Dave Attell, who was originally drawn with bushy hair but was given a bald head when he appeared in season 6. Laura Kightlinger and Wendy Liebman were also drastically re-designed for their later appearances.
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Letterbox
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Letterbox: The first two seasons, as well as roughly half of season 3, were presented in letterboxed format. Starting with "Studio Guy", episodes were presented in the more typical (at the time) 1.33:1 ratio.
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The "Fun" in "Funeral"
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": In an episode appropriately titled Mourning Person.
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Beat
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Beat: Guest Garry Shandling accused Dr. Katz of using too many pauses in the sessions, which has dragged out his therapy for longer than it needs to.
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Insistent Terminology
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Insistent Terminology: Eddie Brill hates the Yellow Pages because he can never guess the word to look up for the service he needs. For example, he wanted to find a clothing store, and the book said "See "Apparel"." He sarcastically said that nobody since the early 1900's has used the word "apparel" in a regular sentence.
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Pokémon Speak
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Pokémon Speak: Guest Dave Chappelle had a bit about how boring it would be being Aquaman, since fish wouldn't have anything interesting to say:
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Fauxtivational Poster
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Fauxtivational Poster: "Hang in there, baby!"◊ What makes it a little off is that the cat looks genuinely troubled.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "Bystander Ben", guest Steven Wright decides to throw a penny at the back of Ben's head. When it hits, Steven remarks: "It fell off the ceiling or something; I wasn't paying attention. God, he's nuts."
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Freudian Slip
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Freudian Slip: Used a couple times in the show. In one instance, Dr. Katz recommends his ex-wife Roz stay at a hotel instead of their apartment for the weekend because it contains a "hated [heated] pool". In another instance, Dr. Katz is practicing with Julie for a play and Julie accidentally calls Dr. Katz "Jonathan" instead of his character's name during a passionate sequence.
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Scary Stinging Swarm
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Scary Stinging Swarm: Dr. Katz has a fear of bees; in one episode, he talks about therapy that is supposed to cure you of your phobia. For Katz, the final step is to put him in a room with thousands of bees. He couldn't get past the first step, which was putting him in a room with a dead horse.
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Subverted Catch-Phrase
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Subverted Catchphrase: In "Mourning Person", during Dr. Katz's eulogy, pipe organ music plays and Dr. Katz says, "I know what the music means."
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Motionless Chin
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Motionless Chin: Averted most of the time; surprising, considering that the rest of the animation is bare bones.
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NO INDOOR VOICE
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No Indoor Voice: Kevin Meaney frequently shouts during his sessions (and even lampshades this: "Why am I always screaming?!").
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Last-Second Word Swap
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Last-Second Word Swap: Heard in the credits of "Koppleman and Katz" when Katz sings a song and keeps swapping the end of a verse ("Even though I know everything you touch turns to sh...") with a non-dirty word.
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IncrediblyLamePun
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Incredibly Lame Pun: In "Mourning Person", Dr. Katz said that he's not thrilled about having to give the eulogy for Estelle, because he's not a "mourning person". Laura was disgusted, both that he would make a joke during such a time, and because the joke itself wasn't funny.
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Cliché Storm
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Cliché Storm: Invoked. Guest Don Gavin said he was seeing another therapist; Dr. Katz asked if he was a second opinion, but Gavin said the other theraist was the first opinion, and Katz was the second.
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Too Much Information
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Too Much Information: In one episode, Ben tells Laura that one weird thing about him is that he has leg hair but doesn't have chest hair. Laura remarks, "That is something... I did not want to know." In "Lerapy", Conan O'Brien used one of Dr. Katz's jokes on his show: When he wanted to talk to Katz about a subject, Katz replied, kidding: "Let's not open up that can of worms."
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Deadline News
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Deadline News: Guest Eddie Brill had a bit about how unfair it is that the meteorologists get to sit in their comfy studio while some unfortunate shmuck has to be in the field, covering really bad weather, yet the meteorologists get paid immensely more money.
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Verbal Backspace
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Verbal Backspace: In "New Phone System", when Dr. Katz and Ben are waiting a long time getting the third person in their conference call to join:
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Insult Backfire
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Insult Backfire: In "Movies", when Laura is talking to Ben on the phone, she says he's pathetic and just wants to pinch him. Ben takes this the other way and an exasperated Laura remarks, "Oh God." while Ben is eager for a pinch. During a therapy session with Tom & Dick Smothers, Dick said that being with Tom has been one of the most amusing experiences of his life. Tom thanks him, but Dick assures him: "That's not a compliment."
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Mushroom Samba
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Mushroom Samba: Mike Rowe had a bit about how all '70s anti-drug film strips were the same: A guy takes one drag of marijuana and won't be able to stop hallucinating.
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High-School Sweethearts
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High-School Sweethearts: When Janeane Garofalo was a guest, she did a bit about how dumb she thinks people who got married in high school are.
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Faking the Dead
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Faking the Dead: Patient Tom Agna has a routine about faking a heart attack to get out of a boring dinner with a couple. He realizes the bit had gotten away from him when the couple phoned 911, which prompted Tom to get up and state he was just kidding. The couple was not amused.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: In the season 6 episode "Used Car", Ben keeps trying to convince Dr. Katz that they should take a trip to the Mall of America. This subject even comes up out of nowhere during a discussion about how Laura ditched Katz and Ben on a city street during her test drive of a used vehicle.
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Split-Screen Phone Call
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Split-Screen Phone Call: Rarely used; it was more common to just cut back and forth between the two on the phone. There were a couple exceptions, though, such as when Dr. Katz had a phone therapy session with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Don't Explain the Joke
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Don't Explain the Joke: In one episode, Dr. Katz tells a joke to Julie, who doesn't get it. He proceeds to explain the punchline. Stan remarks, "You gotta stop explaining the joke. If you do that, life's not worth living."
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Exhausted Eye Bags
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Exhausted Eye Bags: Dr. Katz sports these in "Day Planner" when the malfunctioning air conditioner kept him up all night. He has lost the bags when he got to work, though.
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Comically Missing the Point
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Comically Missing the Point: Done many times in one of the Gilbert Gottfried sessions:
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Department of Redundancy Department
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Department of Redundancy Department: During Dr. Katz's eulogy speech in "Mourning Person": In "Office Management", Dr. Katz tells Laura that he's having a Christmas party with the whole company. All two of them.
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Ephebophile
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Ephebophile: Joked about in "It Takes Some Getting Used To":
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