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Season 4
May 9, 1997

Season 4

01. Ben Treats

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.

30min
May 9, 1997

02. Memoirs

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

30min
June 22, 1997

03. Electric Bike

Dr. Katz buys an Electric Bike because he always wanted one but never got it as a kid. They find that a $1,000 bicycle isn't all fun and games, when it breaks as Ben drove it down stairs. They soon learnm that some inventions just were never meant to be.

30min
June 29, 1997

04. Broadcaster Ben

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

30min
July 6, 1997

05. Trash Day

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"").

30min
July 13, 1997

06. Sharon Meyers

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).

30min
July 27, 1997

07. Mask

Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

30min
August 3, 1997

08. Closets

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

30min
August 10, 1997

09. Wild Weekend

Ben wants to take a bike trip to Nova Scotia, and he and Katz discuss the great outdoors. Several plans are offered, but what they wind up doing is sitting around the house all weekend. Ben gets the whole thing on tape, thanks to Laura's camcorder.

30min
August 17, 1997

10. Chopper

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.

30min
August 24, 1997

11. Alibi

While watching the news, Ben and Katz learn that a mailbox in their neighborhood was struck by a car driven by a bald Caucasian male in his late 40s. Ben assumes it was his dad, despite dad's protests that while he is in his late 40s, he is ""balding,"" not bald.

30min
August 31, 1997

12. Ben-Centennial

Katz wants to do something big for Ben's 25th birthday, but Ben doesn't want any fuss.

30min
September 7, 1997

13. Undercover Ben

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

30min
September 14, 1997