Season 4

May 9, 1997

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.

June 22, 1997

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

June 29, 1997

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.

July 6, 1997

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

July 13, 1997

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"").

July 27, 1997

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).

August 3, 1997

Katz takes a class in making African ritual masks.

August 10, 1997

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

August 17, 1997

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.

August 24, 1997

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.

August 31, 1997

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.

September 7, 1997

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

September 14, 1997

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