Episode
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Earring
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1996-10-27
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Earring is Episode 4 in Season 3 of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. It aired on 1996-10-27. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 3: Fructose
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.
Episode 5: Koppleman and Katz
While rummaging around in search of his birth certificate, Ben comes across evidence of Katz's former life: as a hippie folk singer.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Blind Date
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.""
Episode 6: Guess Who
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.
Episode 1: Monte Carlo
Ben decides to go into the celebrity limo business. He moves into Katz's office to do this, which of course annoys Laura.
Episode 7: Day Planner
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.
Episode 8: Studio Guy
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.
Episode 9: Mourning Person
92-year-old Aunt Estelle (wife of Uncle Morty) dies, and Katz is asked to give the eulogy.
Episode 10: L'il Helper
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.
Episode 11: Big Fat Slug
Katz thinks Ben is watching too much TV, which he is. But he says TV influences people.
Episode 12: New Phone System
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.
Episode 13: Reunion
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