Eric D. Snider

Bees and SIDS

Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist - 205

Episode #11

"Bees and SIDS"

Season 2: 1996

Ben gets a sore throat, which then spreads to his legs -- his hypochondria is in full bloom. Katz admonishes him to stay away from the medical books: "Last time it took three doctors and $500 to convince you that you didn't have an ovarian cyst." Ben suspects he may have something genetic, and Katz does some "gene" jokes (gene splicing, the shyness gene). He finally settles on SIDS -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Meanwhile, Katz has a fear of bees, which comes to light when one finds its way into the office. "It's not that I'm afraid of them, it's that I act irrationally around them. I'm afraid I'll do something we'll both regret." Naturally, Laura taunts him.

  • Dom Irrera: Friends are always suggesting stand-up material, like how Vitamin B makes your urine yellow; he quit seeing his last therapist because she hit him; calls and sings a weird love song to Katz on the answering machine; loves his girlfriend very much -- "I just wish she and my wife could get along."
  • Louis C.K.: Because of his red hair, "I don't really tan, I just burst into flames"; can eat anything he wants and he just gets fat; learned after getting drunk that Christmas caroling is best with other people, and in December, and when you're not naked; occasionally sees the same stranger twice, "like God's running out of extras in the movie of (my) life"; doesn't know how to end the conversation after asking a girl out and being told no; loves sex; wants to yell, "Hooray! Hooray for this!" during sex; likes to yell random names in large crowds.
 
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