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  • 1997-05-10T00:30:00Z 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

1997-05-10T00:30:00Z

4x01 Ben Treats

Season Premiere

4x01 Ben Treats

  • 1997-05-10T00:30:00Z30m

Ben 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.

1997-06-23T00:30:00Z

4x02 Memoirs

4x02 Memoirs

  • 1997-06-23T00:30:00Z30m

Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.

1997-06-30T00:30:00Z

4x03 Electric Bike

4x03 Electric Bike

  • 1997-06-30T00:30:00Z30m

Dr. 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.

1997-07-07T00:30:00Z

4x04 Broadcaster Ben

4x04 Broadcaster Ben

  • 1997-07-07T00:30:00Z30m

Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.

1997-07-14T00:30:00Z

4x05 Trash Day

4x05 Trash Day

  • 1997-07-14T00:30:00Z30m

Katz 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"").

1997-07-28T00:30:00Z

4x06 Sharon Meyers

4x06 Sharon Meyers

  • 1997-07-28T00:30:00Z30m

Katz 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).

1997-08-04T00:30:00Z

4x07 Mask

4x07 Mask

  • 1997-08-04T00:30:00Z30m

Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

1997-08-11T00:30:00Z

4x08 Closets

4x08 Closets

  • 1997-08-11T00:30:00Z30m

Katz and Ben decide to reorganize their closet space, and they hire a company to do it.

1997-08-18T00:30:00Z

4x09 Wild Weekend

4x09 Wild Weekend

  • 1997-08-18T00:30:00Z30m

Ben 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.

1997-08-25T00:30:00Z

4x10 Chopper

4x10 Chopper

  • 1997-08-25T00:30:00Z30m

Ben 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.

1997-09-01T00:30:00Z

4x11 Alibi

4x11 Alibi

  • 1997-09-01T00:30:00Z30m

While 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.

1997-09-08T00:30:00Z

4x12 Ben-Centennial

4x12 Ben-Centennial

  • 1997-09-08T00:30:00Z30m

Katz wants to do something big for Ben's 25th birthday, but Ben doesn't want any fuss.

1997-09-15T00:30:00Z

4x13 Undercover Ben

4x13 Undercover Ben

  • 1997-09-15T00:30:00Z30m

Laura 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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