While in the bathtub, Ben gets a phone call ("Stop joking, Dad." "It had to happen sometime, Ben!"). It's Ann Howard, from high school ("She's still in high school?"), and there's a five-year reunion coming up. Ben is afraid to go. "They don't need me anymore," he says. "They never needed you," replies his father. Katz tells Julie and Stan that Ben thinks he wasn't there for him after the divorce, even though his mom -- whose name is Roz, we learn -- abandoned him. Ben finally goes to the reunion and loves it.
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