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From living with his deadbeat son, Ben, to his day-to-day dealings with his stunningly sarcastic secretary, Laura, join therapist Jonathan Katz as he picks the brains of your favorite stand-up comedians.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 1 - Ben Treats
    8.3/10(65 votes)

    #1 - Ben Treats

    S4:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 2 Episode 5 - Bees and SIDS
    8.2/10(60 votes)

    #2 - Bees and SIDS

    S2:E5

    A bee traps Katz in his office, while his honey of a secretary offers stinging sympathy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 3 Episode 8 - Studio Guy
    8.2/10(50 votes)

    #3 - Studio Guy

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 2 - Memoirs
    8.2/10(45 votes)

    #4 - Memoirs

    S4:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 5 Episode 3 - Metaphors
    8.2/10(46 votes)

    #5 - Metaphors

    S5:E3

    Katz brings up the job issue with Ben, and a series of metaphors ensues.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:H. Jon Benjamin, Loren Bouchard, Will LeBow, Julianne Bond, Bill Braudis, Carl W. Adams, Lisa Gillim

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  6. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 3 Episode 7 - Day Planner
    8.1/10(51 votes)

    #6 - Day Planner

    S3:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 3 Episode 13 - Reunion
    8.1/10(47 votes)

    #7 - Reunion

    S3:E13

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 1 Episode 5 - Everybody's Got a Tushy
    8.0/10(66 votes)

    #8 - Everybody's Got a Tushy

    S1:E5

    Dr. Katz worries that he and Ben's mother failed to provide their son with everything he needed to know about the opposite sex.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 12 - Ben-Centennial
    8.0/10(39 votes)

    #9 - Ben-Centennial

    S4:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 5 Episode 18 - Thanksgiving
    8.0/10(54 votes)

    #10 - Thanksgiving

    S5:E18

    It's Thanksgiving, and something big happening: Katz's ex-wife Roz is coming for dinner

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:H. Jon Benjamin, Loren Bouchard, Will LeBow, Julianne Bond, Laura Silverman, Bill Braudis, Carl W. Adams, Lisa Gillim

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  11. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 1 Episode 2 - Pretzelkins
    7.9/10(78 votes)

    #11 - Pretzelkins

    S1:E2

    Dr. Katz is down in the mouth about his less-than-social life after Ben tells him that they're spending too much time together.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bill Braudis

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  12. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 3 Episode 11 - Big Fat Slug
    7.9/10(48 votes)

    #12 - Big Fat Slug

    S3:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 3 - Electric Bike
    7.9/10(48 votes)

    #13 - Electric Bike

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 2 Episode 1 - Bystander Ben
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #14 - Bystander Ben

    S2:E1

    Ben gets his 15 minutes of fame when he witnesses a crime and is quoted in the paper.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 3 Episode 3 - Fructose
    7.8/10(52 votes)

    #15 - Fructose

    S3:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 3 Episode 10 - L'il Helper
    7.8/10(47 votes)

    #16 - L'il Helper

    S3:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 4 - Broadcaster Ben
    7.8/10(42 votes)

    #17 - Broadcaster Ben

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 5 - Trash Day
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #18 - Trash Day

    S4:E5

    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"").

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 7 - Mask
    7.8/10(45 votes)

    #19 - Mask

    S4:E7

    Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 4 Episode 9 - Wild Weekend
    7.8/10(40 votes)

    #20 - Wild Weekend

    S4:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 5 Episode 4 - Movies
    7.8/10(42 votes)

    #21 - Movies

    S5:E4

    Katz and Ben try to decide on a movie. Katz wants to see ""Love Strings"" (a chick flick), while Ben wants to see ""Fire Power.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 6 Episode 1 - Sissy Boy
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #22 - Sissy Boy

    S6:E1

    Jeff Goldblum and Ted Alexandro are patients; Ben considers joining the military after being called a "sissy" by a boyhood chum.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 6 Episode 10 - Garden
    7.8/10(45 votes)

    #23 - Garden

    S6:E10

    Mitch Hedberg and Matt Siegel are clients; Katz takes up gardening as a hobby, but Ben discovers his secret motivation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Todd Barry, Paulo Santucci, Adam Simha

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  24. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 6 Episode 16 - Bakery Ben
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #24 - Bakery Ben

    S6:E16

    Ben gets a job at a bakery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Todd Barry, Paulo Santucci, Adam Simha

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  25. Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Season 1 Episode 4 - Cholesterol
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #25 - Cholesterol

    S1:E4

    After a checkup shows that he's a prime candidate for a heart attack, Dr. Katz asks Stanley and Laura to help him shape up.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Ben Treats" is the best rated episode of "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist". It scored 8.3/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/9/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bees and SIDS".