Katz comes in, having just gone for a walk ("Don't lie, Dad," says Ben). Ben points out that for old people, everyday things like walking, chewing and swallowing become hobbies. Katz wants to get a plot at the municipal gardens. Ben finds this odd, until Laura says that lots of old people do it. Those are old WOMEN, Ben says: the old men are in the Turkish baths. Ben snoops around and finds Greta, a Scandinavian woman at the gardens, and determines that's why Katz wants a plot there. Laura thinks that's sweet; Ben thinks it's ridiculous ("You don't know where she's been," he says. "She's been in the garden," Laura replies). Katz suddenly gets a plot -- and, irony of ironies, it's Greta's, because she's moved out. "You save yourself from getting hurt later," Ben consoles his dad. NOTES: For the first time this season, Todd does not appear.

• Mitch Hedberg: Has no cell phone or pager: "I just hang around everyone I know all the time"; got a receipt for a donut, which he can't imagine needing; on a banana, green means wait, yellow means go, and red means "Where did you get that banana?"; yogurt said "Please try again," which he took to be very philosophical ("Fruit on the bottom, hope on top"); at a restaurant, if a group doesn't answer when their name is called, they move on to the next on the list -- "But what happened to the Dushanes? Who can eat at a time like this?"; "If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit"; escalators never break, they just become stairs; Foosball is a cross between soccer and shish-ke-bobs; loves Kinko's because it's open 24 hours; looks forward to his LifeSavers, because pineapple is next up.
• Matt Siegal: Has a radio show, on which he said he's divorced, and on which he's "very popular with the dullards"; asks "Do you ever help any of your patients?"; as a kid, had to compete for attention ("I like to feel like we all lost").

Review:

Like we said with the last review, it's the patients who give strength to a show like "Dr. Katz," which is very much based on formula (especially after 70+ episodes, where Ben has already done every wacky thing he can do and annoyed Laura in every possible way). Mitch Hedberg is fantastic here, with his rapid jumping from one topic to another and marvelous way with words -- often, it's not his ideas that are funny so much as the words he uses to express them. Matt Siegal, on the other hand, I suspect is a local celebrity and got on the show that way, because he's not too funny. As for the storyline here: so-so. Ben's being so proud of himself for being an investigator ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume!") is funny, but not much else is done with this rather gentle little story.GRADE: A-

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