Dr. Katz Professional Therapist – The Complete SeriesDr. Katz, a divorced psychologist living with his grown son, must handle the problems of his patients and his own quirky family.
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Review by Barno for Dr. Katz Professional Therapist – The Complete Series
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I remember watching this show late at night with my college roommates and laughing hysterically. Over the past few years, I have been looking for it. I was happy with the first two seasons coming out of DVD and caught a few episodes on Comedy Central “On Demand” through my cable. I was not disappointed. It is still hilarious. It looked to be in jeopardy of being shelved, but thankfully the full-set is coming.
For anyone wondering, the animation is crude, bordering on annoying. But that isn’t the selling point. It could be a radio show and it would be hilarious. About 1/2 of the show takes place in Dr. Katz’s office as he has therapy sessions with well known stand-up comedians. Most of it is them doing some of their stand-up material and Dr. Katz reacting. This is the most hit or miss part of the show for me. 75% of the comedians are funny. Big names too. Ray Romano, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, etc. The part of the show that never missed for me was the storyline surrounding Ben Katz. Perhaps my favorite character of all time on television. He never misses. He makes me laugh every episode. His interactions with Dr.l Katz, Laura (the receptionist), and anyone else he encounters are very funny.
Review by John Emm for Dr. Katz Professional Therapist – The Complete Series
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This is one of the funniest series born of American television, in my opinion, and I will certainly purchase this SOME day.
HOWEVER: As another reviewer has written, I’ve already bought Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, and it’s a manageable purchase for $15-20 per set. But now, to have Seasons 3-6, I will have to purchase the first two seasons AGAIN. And the purchase price (while certainly competitive for the number of discs involved), is a power of 10 higher than I usually put out for DVD entertainment. So that’s a bit of a letdown.
Review by Patrick Ranieri for Dr. Katz Professional Therapist – The Complete Series
It was surreal to see the characters in real life doing what they do best. Totally amazing! I’ll treasure this box till the day I die! AND don’t forget, at this time you can only individually purchase seasons 1+2 on DVD! This box is the ONLY way to get everything ever made in this series on DVD! One of the best, if not THE best, program Comedy Central ever aired! ONLY drawback is lack of audio commentary track for most episodes.
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This 13(!!) disc “raised” coverart box set contains a booklet, all 48 (44?) original episodes, plus lost episodes, shorts AND a Comedy Central special featuring a REAL LIFE Dr. Katz skit! Damn, is Laura HOT!
Review by JBinDC for Dr. Katz Professional Therapist – The Complete Series
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This DVD set is well designed. All the disks are stored in a single case that’s easy to flip through. Each season is split into 2 DVDs of 6-7 episodes each and the seasons have matching colors. The complete series DVDs don’t have the obnoxious advertisements that you had to skip through before the menu in the previously released DVDs.
The menus are fairly easy to navigate and provide the names of the comedians and air date of each episode. The video looks good in either widescreen or 4×3 aspects (to me anyway) and none of the image is cut off in either aspect. I can’t tell if that’s due to the original format or anamorphic formatting on the DVD, but it seems to work.
The only nit I have to pick, and it’s a small one, is that they may have purposefully split each season to two disks to jack up the price but it’s not enough of a drawback to drop a star.
Regarding the show itself, it had been a while since I’d seen the last episodes and I was pleased that the show was pretty consistent from season-to-season. Some additional background music and transition scenes are mixed in around the 4th-5th seasons and some color creeps into the original b&w backgrounds, but the style of dialogue remains about the same which is impressive over so many seasons.
Review by R. M. Self for Dr. Katz Professional Therapist – The Complete Series
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Feels like a ripoff…they release seasons 1 and 2, then suddenly decide to just stop releasing seasons and give us the whole package at once? Guess I’ll be buying seasons 1 and 2 yet again, as part of this set.