Tragedy strikes when the family TV dies ("Maybe you should give it mouth-to-mouth," offers Katz). Ben, of course, is most stricken by this event, unable to live even a day without it. He also can't wait for Katz to get home so they can go buy one together; instead, he has a 72-inch TV delivered to the house. "This is, bar none, the best thing that's ever happened to me," he tells Todd. (Todd asks, "How much did it set you back?" Ben replies, "Set who back?") When Katz gets home, he's angry to see such a huge TV set, though he's impressed with its features (such as being self-cleaning). "I'm sure it couldn't have cost more than $600," he says. "That's funny," says Ben. The next day at the office, Katz won't talk to Ben, the TV gets taken back and smaller one purchased -- but now this one seems TOO small, so they get the huge one back again. (Although it is small again in the episodes after this one.) Meanwhile, Katz goes to a seminar about wearing goggles to use one part of your brain over the other, or something like that. NOTES: We learn Katz's middle name in his session with Dom Irrera. It's Jonathan Paul Katz.

• Dom Irrera: "Hi babycakes, how's my Laura?" he says to Laura; wants to get just a smirk from her, which she points out she has given him in the past; just now getting over "this Yoko thing"; wants to sit on Katz's lap ("Not in a gay way"); wants to do Tae-Bo because it's like being "a Broadway dancer with lethal blows"; says his middle name is Orangutan Anus Hair; wants to play in a marching band; wants mambo music to end the show (which we get, but can't hear because of the stupid Comedy Central announcer blabbering about how we're watching "Dr. Katz," as if we didn't know that already).
• Al Lubel: Says his name, Al Lubel, is all one word; thinks even newlyweds aren't that excited to get married; has a fear of aging; if you have a heart attack at 39, they say, "Oh, he was only 39!"; if you have one at 60, they say, "Well, he was 60"; took a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon and feared that maybe his donkey would think he was "Mighty Mule" and leap over the side, making him the first casualty of a "donkey delusion."

Review:

A fine episode, hearkening back to the freshness and wackiness of the old days -- even to the very first episode (which also had Dom Irrera as a guest), in which Ben also wasted a lot of Katz's money on something stupid. His evasion of Katz's questions is great ("You can't really put a number figure on it," he says of the price), but even better is Laura being a really bad go-between for the bickering father and son in the office. ("Dad, look me in the eye and tell Laura to shut up.") We also love the delightfully silly opening exchange, where Ben says, "Good burrito, Dad," and Katz replies, "Good burrito to you, too." Dom Irrera, as usual, does only a little of his very stand-up comedy, opting instead to act weird. And Al Lubel doesn't exactly shine. The lackluster performance from both guests keeps this from getting an A.GRADE: A-

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