It's Thanksgiving, and something big happening: Katz's ex-wife Roz is coming for dinner

Dr. Katz applies his expertise to a criminal trial.

A bee traps Katz in his office, while his honey of a secretary offers stinging sympathy.

Teri Garr and Ed Crasnick are featured; Ben opposes gentrification of his old neighborhood and tries to form a grass-roots movement to stop it.

Dom Irrera and Al Lubel take the couch; Ben buys a big-screen TV to replace their failed set.

While rummaging around in search of his birth certificate, Ben comes across evidence of Katz's former life: as a hippie folk singer.

Katz decides to keep a bowl of fruit at the office, but it goes rotten pretty fast. He talks about it at the bar, and Stanley pronounces ""fructose"" as ""fruck-tose."" Meanwhile, Ben considers a variety of career options, after being told by his dad that he's ""pissing his life away"". He tries cake decorating and makes a cake made purely of frosting; takes up roller-skating; considers being a truck driver; and asks if there's a job for what he used to do as a kid: put on a pair of dad's pants, pull them way over his head, and stumble around the house.

Ben thinks his dad may have a drinking problem.

Ben wins first runner-up in a WFEN radio contest to ride in the traffic helicopter. He hopes the real winner can't make it and he gets all psyched up for the possibility.

Katz wants to take up recording again, because he's writing a new song. Ben is opposed to the idea, until Katz tells him he can be the producer.

A new tenant catches Ben's eye.

Tom Hertz and Al Lubel are featured; Ben throws a big party, and asks his father to make other plans.

Katz's wedding anniversary is approaching, so Ben wants to do something for him.

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.

Katz thinks Ben is watching too much TV, which he is. But he says TV influences people.

Ben decides to go into the celebrity limo business. He moves into Katz's office to do this, which of course annoys Laura.

Dr. Katz worries that he and Ben's mother failed to provide their son with everything he needed to know about the opposite sex.

Ben wins $500 in the Sir Pay-a-Lot scratch-off lottery and takes Katz and Laura out to dinner. Soon enough, Ben and Laura both get drunk and start to act goofy.

Katz and Ben try to decide on a movie. Katz wants to see ""Love Strings"" (a chick flick), while Ben wants to see ""Fire Power.

Dom Irrera and Mitch Hedberg are featured; Ben and Dr. Katz explore past-life regression, and Katz learns he was once a barmaid in the Old West.

Katz puts his back out while putting on his shoes, and Ben, as usual, is a wealth of help. He eventually becomes Katz's primary care-giver, though, driving him to work, carrying him into the office, and turning him over to Laura, warning her that he's heavily doped up on medication.

Katz goes to an open-mic night to sing, play guitar and embarrass Ben.

Dr. Katz is skeptical of a new therapy technique suggested by Ben.

Ben's goes to visit his cousin Sarah, in an unnamed city, from whom he once stole money when he was 6 (""It was over a dollar,"" he says as he worries whether she's still upset).

Disaster does little to color Ben's penchant for samples of hair-care products.

Laura starts taking a lot of time off, but won't say why. Ben is curious and so is Katz, and they speculate.

Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

Conan O'Brien uses Dr. Katz's jokes on TV.

Greg Behrendt and Ian Bagg are featured; Dr. Katz and Ben "help" Laura buy a used car.

Katz gets a phone call from Sharon Meyers, a woman he dated briefly two years ago, when she was also his patient. She was very attractive, and a dancer (""She was a Rockette. She can kick her own face,"" Ben says).

Katz gets Ben to play ""Guess Who,"" the old game from Ben's childhood. However, Katz accidentally sees Ben's card via the reflection in the TV, and he uses that information to win, without telling Ben that he had cheated.

Katz and Ben decide to reorganize their closet space, and they hire a company to do it.

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"").

Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.

Ben points out, ""When we spend time together over breakfast: boring,"" leading to a discussion of the old games he and Katz used to play when Ben was a kid. Katz asks him to take the London broil out of the freezer, and then goes to work. When he gets home, Ben greets him with a clue -- the first in a series of 54 -- for a game of Treasure Hunt

Ben is surprised to get a letter from boyhood friend Lance Garcy. Turns out it's a chain letter, and Ben is quite awed by its power of causing tragedy to strike those who ignore it.

Dr. Katz doesn't see that he needs glasses.

Ben gets a job at a bakery.

Katz is disturbed to learn that the city alderman he voted for is corrupt. He talks about what HE would do if he were alderman: ""I'd like to bring crime back into the streets and out of the home,"" and get rid of the ""criminal element"" (Ben: ""Criminal element? What, are you Batman?""). Ben immediately begins being his dad's campaign manager, despite Katz's insistence that he is NOT running. (Ben's platform: handicap parking for everyone.) He makes signs and harasses Laura, inviting her over to help with the ""campaign"" (he tells her he used air quotes on the word ""campaign"").

In the never-ending struggle to help his son grow up, Dr. Katz suggests that if Ben had his own car, jobs--and dates--might naturally follow.

Merrill Markoe and Dana Gould visit the doctor; Ben cares for a neighbor's rooftop pigeons as a snowstorm approaches.

Dr. Katz hosts a radio show.

Katz seems to be losing energy and is sleeping later in the morning. He wonders if he's feverish, but in fact, he feels a little cold.

Ben decides to write his memoirs, dedicated to the ""loving memory"" of his father.

Ben entertains a business venture that he knows will bring home the bacon: raising pot-bellied pigs--at home.

Dr. Katz is down in the mouth about his less-than-social life after Ben tells him that they're spending too much time together.

Katz gets a death threat, via Laura, who is unclear on the details; she didn't press for more information because ""I didn't want to make him angry--er.""

Julie sets Katz up on a blind date with her friend Beth, who makes her own clothes. Stan put in a good word for Katz, telling Beth that Katz's nickname was ""Scootch.""