- 8.3/1062 votesLoading...
#1 - Ben Treats
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/1997
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.
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- 8.2/1047 votesLoading...
#2 - Studio Guy
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1/19/1997
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.
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- 8.2/1043 votesLoading...
#3 - Metaphors
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/29/1998
Katz brings up the job issue with Ben, and a series of metaphors ensues.
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- 8.1/1054 votesLoading...
#4 - Bees and SIDS
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/1996
A bee traps Katz in his office, while his honey of a secretary offers stinging sympathy.
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- 8.1/1048 votesLoading...
#5 - Day Planner
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/1997
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.
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- 8.1/1042 votesLoading...
#6 - Memoirs
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/1997
Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.
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- 8.1/1042 votesLoading...
#7 - Garden
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1999
Mitch Hedberg and Matt Siegel are clients; Katz takes up gardening as a hobby, but Ben discovers his secret motivation.
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- 8.0/1045 votesLoading...
#8 - Reunion
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/9/1997
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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- 8.0/1053 votesLoading...
#9 - Thanksgiving
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 11/23/1998
It's Thanksgiving, and something big happening: Katz's ex-wife Roz is coming for dinner
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- 7.9/1069 votesLoading...
#10 - Pretzelkins
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/1995
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.
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- 7.9/1045 votesLoading...
#11 - Big Fat Slug
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/1997
Katz thinks Ben is watching too much TV, which he is. But he says TV influences people.
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- 7.9/1046 votesLoading...
#12 - Electric Bike
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/29/1997
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.
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- 7.9/1037 votesLoading...
#13 - Ben-Centennial
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 9/7/1997
Katz wants to do something big for Ben's 25th birthday, but Ben doesn't want any fuss.
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- 7.8/1089 votesLoading...
#14 - Pot-Bellied Pigs
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/1995
Ben entertains a business venture that he knows will bring home the bacon: raising pot-bellied pigs--at home.
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Writer: Loren Bouchard
- 7.8/1059 votesLoading...
#15 - Everybody's Got a Tushy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/1995
Dr. Katz worries that he and Ben's mother failed to provide their son with everything he needed to know about the opposite sex.
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- 7.8/1049 votesLoading...
#16 - Fructose
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1996
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.
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- 7.8/1045 votesLoading...
#17 - L'il Helper
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/1997
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.
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- 7.8/1040 votesLoading...
#18 - Broadcaster Ben
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/1997
Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.
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- 7.8/1039 votesLoading...
#19 - Trash Day
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 7/13/1997
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"").
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- 7.8/1040 votesLoading...
#20 - Movies
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/1998
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.
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- 7.8/1039 votesLoading...
#21 - Sissy Boy
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/1999
Jeff Goldblum and Ted Alexandro are patients; Ben considers joining the military after being called a "sissy" by a boyhood chum.
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- 7.8/1040 votesLoading...
#22 - Bakery Ben
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/2002
Ben gets a job at a bakery.
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- 7.8/1035 votesLoading...
#23 - Uncle Nothing
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/2002
Ben learns of Laura's engagement.
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- 7.7/1058 votesLoading...
#24 - Cholesterol
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/1995
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.
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- 7.7/1061 votesLoading...
#25 - Family Car
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/1995
In the never-ending struggle to help his son grow up, Dr. Katz suggests that if Ben had his own car, jobs--and dates--might naturally follow.
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The Best Episodes of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Every episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist!
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...
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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 62 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/9/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Studio Guy".