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  • 1996-10-07T00:30:00Z on Comedy Central
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Comedy
Dr. 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. Katz's patients on stand-up comics for the first several episodes, simply having them recite their stand-up acts. The secondary challenge was how to affordably animate on cable TV at the time. Snyder had Squigglevision, an inexpensive means of getting animation on cable, which could not afford traditional animation processes. A partnership between Popular Arts, Tom Snyder Productions and Jonathan Katz was formed and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist was born.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1996-10-07T00:30:00Z

3x01 Monte Carlo

Season Premiere

3x01 Monte Carlo

  • 1996-10-07T00:30:00Z30m

Ben decides to go into the celebrity limo business. He moves into Katz's office to do this, which of course annoys Laura.

1996-10-14T00:30:00Z

3x02 Blind Date

3x02 Blind Date

  • 1996-10-14T00:30:00Z30m

Julie sets Katz up on a blind date with her friend Beth, who makes her own clothes. Stan put in a good word for Katz, telling Beth that Katz's nickname was ""Scootch.""

1996-10-21T00:30:00Z

3x03 Fructose

3x03 Fructose

  • 1996-10-21T00:30:00Z30m

Katz decides to keep a bowl of fruit at the office, but it goes rotten pretty fast. He talks about it at the bar, and Stanley pronounces ""fructose"" as ""fruck-tose."" Meanwhile, Ben considers a variety of career options, after being told by his dad that he's ""pissing his life away"". He tries cake decorating and makes a cake made purely of frosting; takes up roller-skating; considers being a truck driver; and asks if there's a job for what he used to do as a kid: put on a pair of dad's pants, pull them way over his head, and stumble around the house.

1996-10-28T01:30:00Z

3x04 Earring

3x04 Earring

  • 1996-10-28T01:30:00Z30m

Ben wants to change his image, and he decides to get an earring, after considering developing a tic, or getting allergies, or dressing like a pirate and calling everyone Captain.

1996-11-04T01:30:00Z

3x05 Koppleman and Katz

3x05 Koppleman and Katz

  • 1996-11-04T01:30:00Z30m

While rummaging around in search of his birth certificate, Ben comes across evidence of Katz's former life: as a hippie folk singer.

1997-01-06T01:30:00Z

3x06 Guess Who

3x06 Guess Who

  • 1997-01-06T01:30:00Z30m

Katz gets Ben to play ""Guess Who,"" the old game from Ben's childhood. However, Katz accidentally sees Ben's card via the reflection in the TV, and he uses that information to win, without telling Ben that he had cheated.

1997-01-13T01:30:00Z

3x07 Day Planner

3x07 Day Planner

  • 1997-01-13T01:30:00Z30m

Katz got practically no sleep because the air conditioner ""shimmies"" and keeps him awake. He asks Ben to fix it. Then, at work, Katz realizes he's forgotten his day planner and asks Ben to find it.

1997-01-20T01:30:00Z

3x08 Studio Guy

3x08 Studio Guy

  • 1997-01-20T01:30:00Z30m

Katz wants to take up recording again, because he's writing a new song. Ben is opposed to the idea, until Katz tells him he can be the producer.

1997-01-27T01:30:00Z

3x09 Mourning Person

3x09 Mourning Person

  • 1997-01-27T01:30:00Z30m

92-year-old Aunt Estelle (wife of Uncle Morty) dies, and Katz is asked to give the eulogy.

1997-02-03T01:30:00Z

3x10 L'il Helper

3x10 L'il Helper

  • 1997-02-03T01:30:00Z30m

Katz puts his back out while putting on his shoes, and Ben, as usual, is a wealth of help. He eventually becomes Katz's primary care-giver, though, driving him to work, carrying him into the office, and turning him over to Laura, warning her that he's heavily doped up on medication.

1997-02-10T01:30:00Z

3x11 Big Fat Slug

3x11 Big Fat Slug

  • 1997-02-10T01:30:00Z30m

Katz thinks Ben is watching too much TV, which he is. But he says TV influences people.

1997-03-03T01:30:00Z

3x12 New Phone System

3x12 New Phone System

  • 1997-03-03T01:30:00Z30m

Katz gets a new phone system at the office with all kinds of great features, supposedly. He has Ben call it, but finds that calls are being forwarded to Laura's house.

1997-03-10T01:30:00Z

3x13 Reunion

3x13 Reunion

  • 1997-03-10T01:30:00Z30m

While in the bathtub, Ben gets a phone call. It's Ann Howard, from high school, and there's a five-year reunion coming up. The only thing is that Ben is afraid to go

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