Eric D. Snider

Trash Day

Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist - 404

Episode #37

"Trash Day"

Season 4: 7/13/97

Katz finds a chair sitting outside on the curb and takes it home ("You wouldn't believe the kind of stuff people throw away." Ben: "You mean crap?"). However, he realizes his folly and sends Ben to take it to the dump, which proves to be difficult, because the dump is no longer open to the public ("It's all digital now"). They wind up keeping the chair, another tribute to the Katz resourcefulness. (When Katz and his wife first moved into an apartment, they decorated it entirely in trash. "You were squatters," says Ben.) Meanwhile, Katz is concerned because one of his patients saw him getting the chair out of the trash. However, it turns out that she found it helpful to see him as a regular person, and as a "rodent digging through the trash." Katz establishes with Stan with three dilemmas equal one crisis.

  • Dave Attell: No sympathy for dyslexics: "Oh, baby mixes his letters up? Tell that to the man in the iron lung!"; pretends he has a girlfriend by standing alone in his apartment and shouting "That's not what I said!"; hates egg nog ("I want to get a little drunk, but I also want pancakes"); "I don't need to drink to have a good time. I need to drink to stop the voices in my head. And the voice in my head has a stutter"; entire family full of bald men and fat women, like a Metallica concert; saying "I need to use the plop-plop machine" instead of "the restroom" always stops conversations; he mocks Katz big-time: "Can't you figure it out, Healer?" "Come on, Sir Pause-a-Lot"; "You bloodsucker, how long are you gonna suck off my teat before you cure me?!"; "Why am I such a cranky baby? You're a cranky baby"; watches the Discovery Channel; the more you watch, the less likely you are to meet a girl ("Did you know that Hitler was ticklish?").
  • Lew Schneider: Insurance won't pay if there's no specific diagnosis; asks Laura, "Can you be nicer?" She says, "Sure." Then: "Oh, to YOU?"; would only go to the opera if it's about him ("Der Schneidermaus"); parents rushed him into adulthood by giving him a grown-up name; men hug, but they pat too -- "I'm hugging you, but I'm hitting you!"; being a parent is "like being in jail, but you really love the warden"; uses SPF 80 ("You squeeze the tube and a sweater comes out"); Chinese food always comes really fast; the highest honor bestowed on a Chinese general is to have some kind of chicken named after him.
  • Fred Stoller: Doesn't get to see Katz at all because he misses two appointments; wants to listen at the door to somebody else's session ("Use the intercom," recommends Laura); talks to the guy with the sock puppet, who does not respond.

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