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.

Katz goes to an open-mic night to sing, play guitar and embarrass Ben.

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.

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

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.

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

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.""

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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"").

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).

Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.