Eric D. Snider

Blind Date

Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist - 302

Episode #21

"Blind Date"

Season 3: 10/13/96

Julie sets Katz up on a blind date with her friend Beth, who makes her own clothes (Ben: "Is that code for something?"). Stan put in a good word for Katz, telling Beth that Katz's nickname was "Scootch." He lies on his couch to reflect, like a patient (Laura: "Want me to sit in the chair and doodle a little and pretend to care?"), and ultimately chickens out on the date. Fortunately, Beth had weaseled out too. Meanwhile, Ben plans a 10th anniversary party of the day Katz and his wife got divorced. ("I'll start today, I'll make a big stew, and then I'll RUIN IT!!") He and Katz wind up eating dinner and toasting a lot of things ("To the pain," says Ben).

  • Jeffrey Ross: Bought his little nephew a cute little sailor suit, and the saleswoman said, "Is this a gift?"; he replied, "No, I'll wear it out. I have a job interview in an hour, so can you hurry up before I make doody caca in my diaper, you freak of nature?!"; needed a record player needle; might as well have asked for a cannonball; raised by his grandfather and had to learn the old people language ("Put on that show I like, 'Oscar and Bunkie'." "'Starsky and Hutch'?" "Yeah, that's the one"); went on a blind date who had a talking hairy mole and whose name was Heinous; grandpa's answering machine: "How the hell does this thingBEEP!"; grandma's friends always "pimping off" their granddaughters on him.
  • Cathy Ladman: Good day is when she gets the lint off the screen in one piece; mom saves everything from Thanksgiving -- Cathy went to school in a turkey carcass vest; boyfriend's kids are half-Swedish, half-Norwegian: "They're see-through"; she's Jewish, but her boyfriend isn't; they have arguments: "I say we never go out anymore, he says the Holocaust never happened. You know how couples pick."
 
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