Ben becomes enamored of Cindy, a telemarketer from Telepurchase. He mistakes her powerful sales skills for actual affection, and wants to have a private conversation with her, resulting in an angrily whispered argument between him and Katz ("Just use the f****** door!" Ben says, getting bleeped). Katz tells Julie and Stan about it ("He got flambozled," Stan says), and mentions that not only has Ben been taken in hook, line and sinker, but that he actually bought a hook, line and sinker. He also wants a 50-piece socket wrench set. Ben calls Katz at the office to inform him of "good news and better news": "The good news is, your Visa's tapped out." The better news? "You have other cards." (Katz: "I don't like the turn this conversation is taking." Ben: "Yeah, I didn't think you'd like this one.") Katz calls Cindy himself to explain the situation to her, but winds up flirting with her himself, for which he later apologizes to Ben. NOTE: Cindy is both seen and heard in the first scene, but no actress is credited for playing her. This is a first for "Dr. Katz." Also, we learn in Mitch Fatel's session that Katz once spent a night in jail in the '60s.
- Mitch Fatel: Asks Laura if he can be her boyfriend; boyfriends only go on errands for their women, and they're glad to go because they get to see other guys in the store; must get exactly the right items or get sent back ("That is not for us to ask"); women can only get pregnant two days out of the month, and one of those days "they're already closing the gate"; only really tricky sperm can get in ("I just want to talk to the egg"); afraid of getting caught having sex with a plastic doll; woman said she saw him on Letterman and asked, "Are you retarded?"; got fired as a dishwasher at Denny's, and since they had never fired anyone before, they didn't know how to do it; forced sex in prison ("You can't be, like, 'No thanks, I'm just going to read'"); wants to be so rich he can buy anything, including other people's dogs on the street; when told that the music means he has to stop, he says, "I hate you."
- John Pinette: Irish people are scary with their red noses and faces ("You're a chubby little kid"); in Irish pubs, the music makes you drink; hates when the Girl Scouts don't actually have the cookies with them, but order forms instead; in the "Free Willy" movies, he keeps getting caught; in real life, they sent the whale UPS from Mexico to Oregon; has a Scottish friend who becomes unintelligible after a couple drinks ("We just agree with him"); spoke a tiny bit of Italian at an Italian restaurant ("Feed me, I'm hungry"), and the waiters went nuts.
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