Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

1995

Seasons & Episodes

  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

EP14 Radio Katz Dec 24, 1999

EP16 Bakery Ben Feb 03, 2002

EP17 Uncle Nothing Feb 03, 2002

7.6| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999—with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002—starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman. The show was created by a Burbank, California production company Popular Arts Entertainment, with Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, developed and first made by Popular Arts for HBO Downtown Productions. Boston-based Tom Snyder Productions became the hands-on production company, and the episodes were usually produced by Katz and Loren Bouchard. The show was computer animated in a crude, easily recognizable style produced with the software Squigglevision in which all persons and animate objects are colored and have constantly squiggling outlines, while most other inanimate objects are static and usually gray in color. The original challenge Popular Arts faced was how to repurpose recorded stand-up comedy material. To do so they based Dr. Katz's patients on stand-up comics for the first several episodes, simply having them recite their stand-up acts. The secondary challenge was how to affordably animate on cable TV at the time. Snyder had Squigglevision, an inexpensive means of getting animation on cable, which could not afford traditional animation processes. A partnership between Popular Arts, Tom Snyder Productions and Jonathan Katz was formed and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist was born.

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Tom Snyder Productions

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AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
pkelly-80539 This was a very funny show. Every time I tuned in I found myself in hysterics. Too bad the producers are, seemingly, a bunch of antisocial misfits who were determined to give any potential audience the finger. For some unknown reason they made a conscious decision to animate this so as to alienate people. The jerky, constantly shifting figures seemed designed to induce nausea. I suspect that people who are susceptible, such as those with epilepsy may have been sent into seizure from this show. I wish they would try to revive the show with a more conventional animation technique. How this ever got on the air with the disgusting look of the show is a mystery.
rzajac I have to admit something: I'm giving this series a '10' partly because I think it (may) deserve it, but also partly because I feel a need to do my part to pull it up out of the 7.x doldrums.Dr. Katz is an enigma. On one hand, it's basically a vehicle for standup-comics. Yet, on the other you have to ask whether it lives up in some way to its pretense of opening a window on the therapeutic process. And the answer is delightfully, teasingly close to "Yes".It comes down to whether you can see in Dr. Katz something like a modern urban sage. And I'm banking on just that.The writing is fantastic, keeping in mind that it sometimes verges on an unhingedness that makes it seem often quite ad-libbed, spontaneous, alive, and sizzling.I'm binge watching the series: Can't put it down, and dreading the day I view the last installment. Viva Katz!
Mojo-37 This cartoon was so hilarious, and can't believe it was cancelled. What a shame. It seems strange that Comedy Central would cancel this show, yet run 4 back to back reruns of the insanely unfunny "Kids in the Hall" per day. I am waiting with bated breath for these to come out on video. Very funny and very smart.
Valek-5 This is the most amazing animated series on TV at the moment. It's not just the humor, but the characters are ones that you can identify with and the animation is amazing. The surroundings are completely static (black and white and unmoving). The people are the only animations that move. It's like their outlines are permanently set to "vibrate". This is annoying to some people, but I think it's really great. Laura HAS to be the most amazing receptionist EVER! WATCH THIS SHOW!