You’ll never see lazier drawing than what you’ll find in this show. The characters don’t move apart from their eyes and lips. Everything around them is coloured in grey except the things they’re using or going to use. It’s like Schindler’s List, but with more Jewish people.
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was the first animation to introduce Squigglevision. Which means that the characters’ outlines constantly move and wave, making everyone look like they were drawn by nervous, jittery meth heads. Their noses also look like smiles, which can get distracting and downright freaky.
It’s a comedy that mostly revolves around a therapist Dr. Katz (Jonathan Katz) who listens to the problems of his many clients, most of whom are well-known comedians including Ray Romano, Louis C.K. Emo Philips, Jeffrey Ross, Jon Stewart, Patton Oswalt, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Sarah Silverman, Dave Chapelle and a lot of others you don’t know. As you can see from the inclusion of Emo Philips and Dave Chapelle, this show is not recent, first aired in 1995 and ending 1999. It also included the voice actor messiah, H. Jon Benjamin’s (Archer, Bob’s Burgers), first TV role.
The therapy sessions serve as a stage for the comedians to perform their comedy routines with cartoon representation (a bit like The Ricky Gervais Show) and Dr. Katz replying to their words. This just makes everything more funny because whatever jokes are made just make them sound stranger. You’ll understand when you watch it. Or not, but to be honest, I couldn’t give less of a fuck.
These therapy sessions are absolute gold. Listening to Ray Romano talk about not remembering whether he shampooed his hair in the shower cannot be presented in a funnier way than this show allows. The back-and-forths between the characters outside of the therapy sessions aren’t always as good though, especially the scenes between Ben (H. Jon Benjamin) and Laura (Laura Silverman). Although Dr. Katz’s conversations at the bar with his two friends are usually pretty awesome.
As the ultra-observant may have spotted, I’ve included lots of links to clips of the show in this post because this show could easily be enjoyed through clips of the therapy sessions alone. Check out one of the clips and tell me why this show isn’t more well known.
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