Katz gets glasses, although he doesn't think he needs them. He points out the irony in a store whose job it is to sell you glasses telling you after an examination that you need glasses. He makes Laura help him look at an eye chart ("I'll do it, but it makes me feel kind of dirty"), which he wrote himself. Julie laughs when she sees him in his glasses, and Stanley is no help either. He stops wearing the glasses, after Ben thinks it would be funny to move the furniture around to mess him up. ("What's so funny about growing old?" he asks Ben. "Memory loss? The way they walk?" is Ben's reply.) Katz misreads "Jaws" as "Jews" in the TV Guide (and gets the year wrong, too -- he says 1972, but "Jaws" came out in 1975).
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