H. Jon Benjamin — Additional Writing
Episodes 41
Bystander Ben
Ben gets his 15 minutes of fame when he witnesses a crime and is quoted in the paper.
Read MoreReal Estate
Katz's ex-wife comes to visit Ben, prompting Katz to threaten to move out.
Read MoreOffice Management
Katz decides to throw an office Christmas party.
Read MoreBees and SIDS
A bee traps Katz in his office, while his honey of a secretary offers stinging sympathy.
Read MoreDrinky the Drunk Guy
Ben thinks his dad may have a drinking problem.
Read MoreSticky Notes
A new tenant catches Ben's eye.
Read MoreIt Takes Some Getting Used To
Ben disapproves of his father's sleep-over date.
Read MoreThe Particle Board
Ben and his father think they're up to building a set of shelves in the living room.
Read MoreA Journey for the Betterment of People
Ben decides he wants to help people and begins mapping out a strategy to do so.
Read MoreTheory of Intelligence
Dr. Katz piques his brain committing his theory of intelligence to paper for an adult-education class.
Read MoreMonte Carlo
Ben decides to go into the celebrity limo business. He moves into Katz's office to do this, which of course annoys Laura.
Read MoreBlind Date
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.""
Read MoreFructose
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.
Read MoreKoppleman and Katz
While rummaging around in search of his birth certificate, Ben comes across evidence of Katz's former life: as a hippie folk singer.
Read MoreDay Planner
Katz got practically no sleep because the air conditioner ""shimmies"" and keeps him awake. He asks Ben to fix it. Then, at work, Katz realizes he's forgotten his day planner and asks Ben to find it.
Read MoreStudio Guy
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.
Read MoreMourning Person
92-year-old Aunt Estelle (wife of Uncle Morty) dies, and Katz is asked to give the eulogy.
Read MoreL'il Helper
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.
Read MoreBig Fat Slug
Katz thinks Ben is watching too much TV, which he is. But he says TV influences people.
Read MoreNew Phone System
Katz gets a new phone system at the office with all kinds of great features, supposedly. He has Ben call it, but finds that calls are being forwarded to Laura's house.
Read MoreBen 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.
Read MoreElectric 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.
Read MoreBroadcaster Ben
Apparently not having learned from his previous experience with journalism, Ben goes to a broadcasting school audition.
Read MoreTrash 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"").
Read MoreSharon 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).
Read MoreWild 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.
Read MoreAlibi
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.
Read MoreBen-Centennial
Katz wants to do something big for Ben's 25th birthday, but Ben doesn't want any fuss.
Read MoreUndercover Ben
Laura starts taking a lot of time off, but won't say why. Ben is curious and so is Katz, and they speculate.
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