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Help Me Help You Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

13 Episodes 2006 - 2007

Episode 1

Pilot

Tue, Sep 26, 2006

Dave is a screw-up who actually manages to bungle up his suicide attempt after being chewed out by his office boss by - falling on top of him. So Dave joins group therapy with Dr. Bill Hoffman, who flaunts his 12 diploma's, tries to put everything into perspective and has such a collection of assorted disturbed weirdos as clients that Dave sort of fits in.

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Episode 2

The Mattress

Tue, Oct 3, 2006

Dave's treat for the colleagues makes them all sick. Dr. Bill Hoffman gives his therapy class a daring assignment: to take a social risk. The consequences differ for each, from Inger discovering she can taste New York--literally--to Dave sitting naked in every chair in the office and passing the unruly-prankster bug to an intern. Meanwhile Bill's own neighbor and colleague, Dr. Pete "Petey" Spiller, draws him and a patient Lenny into an ethically dubious attempt to "get over" his mean wife Anne, pressing for a separation by stealing back his mattress--only to catch his daughter having sex with Ira, who's Bill's age.

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Episode 3

Fun Run

Tue, Oct 10, 2006

Dr. Bill Hoffman realizes in his own group--for therapists--that his competitive nature is a problem, and hopes overcoming it will get his ex Anne back, but despite a convincing show he finds that her present partner is a problem, and a winner. Bill takes out his frustration in a park race against Jonathan, with surprise results. Inger has "wed" an Internet-game partner. When she meets "him", he turns out to be three teenage nerds--who are extreme fans of her programming.

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Episode 4

Pink Freud

Tue, Oct 17, 2006

Bill rushes through the group session, telling everybody to "find your voice", to revive his shrinks rock band to impress his near-ex Anne, pretending that he landed a gig and wrote a song for her. Jonathan's rudeness about "inappropriate" locker-room nudity first makes him feel manly, then wrecks the male ease in his gym. Dave regrets learning he was named after his mother's first flame, a gym teacher she didn't forget after marrying his dad.

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Episode 5

Sasha's Birthday BBQ

Tue, Oct 24, 2006

Dr. Bill Hoffman rushes through group therapy to attend his daughter Sasha's birthday barbecue, which his ex Anne thinks is just another ploy to hit on her. He finds himself rivaled in generosity with Anne's new guy and Sasha's own boyfriend, but finds the girl's "practical" attitude a turn-off.

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Episode 6

Inger Management

Tue, Oct 31, 2006

Dr. Bill Hoffman is offended when Inger announces she also consults a 'life coach', and makes Inger bring the amateur along. Coach Krista however overcomes her utter lack of qualifications and knowledge, hence Bill, by exploiting her shameless sexual services. Bill even gets his peers' commendation to keep enjoying her sexually, provided he ignores her nonsense. Meanwhile Bill's patients try helping themselves and each-other. The results surprise everybody.

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Episode 7

Raging Bill

Tue, Nov 28, 2006

Feeling frustrated himself, Bill tells his patients never to give up. He takes on as client failed boxer Kevin, who mainly lacks rage, but discovers in group his natural dislike for Dave overcomes his generally gentle manner. Kevin uses the willing 'assistant therapist', frustrated himself as his boss hired another to double his job, as rage-catalyst- or is that innocent punching ball? Michael works out his frustration not to excel at a silly computer game on colleagues who do. Inger persists pretending to be a Jew when fellow Chinese Paul plays the same fraud on their dating service, but can't win the pretense as well as the cute kid.

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Episode 8

Perverse Psychology

Tue, Dec 5, 2006

Dr. Bill Hoffman encourages his group to "get involved", in Dave's case to try to get serious with his latest girlfriend, only to learn that his own daughter Sasha won't be told off by dad. Told he can't be Bill's in-law and patient, Dave resigns from therapy. Bill changes tactics to reverse psychology (while explicitly denying it), which Dave believes but gets Sasha furious with both of them: mission accomplished. Alas, Dave doesn't take that lying down, except in a literal sense. Involvement doesn't work better for the other patients, except accidentally with Inger's ever-bickering noisy neighbors.

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Episode 9

Perserverance

Tue, Dec 12, 2006

Dr. Bill Hoffman finally feels single again and is ready to start dating. He hopes to attract the attention of a colleague's assistant, Francesca, by throwing a party. Unfortunately, not only is the party lame and lacking in attractive females, but his new female neighbor calls the police. Dave is elated that his office flame finally invites him to a party, but by way of revenge he eats his roommate's "special" brownies. Bill's other patients have a depressing "yogurt birthday splash" with Jonathan.

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Episode 10

The Sheriff

Tue, Dec 19, 2006

Michael's beloved pet bulldog has "loved to death" a building board member's dog, so he must be castrated or it's eviction. Michael decides to give his good "boy" a fabulous final week, yet there's a twist in the tail. Bill gets intimidated because his latest conquest Linda, a famous UN diplomat, excels in just about everything and her huge adoptive cosmopolitan family "adopts" him.

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Episode 11

Working Women

Sat, Jan 31, 2026

As Dr. Bill Hoffman encourages the group to embrace change, now he has swallowed his objections and tries it with his famous lover Linda. They end up at a home-owner meeting to plan a park picnic--hosted by his ex Anne. Dave has taken in his unemployed, immature older brother Brandon; Darleen's big mouth got her fired, so she offers to become Inger's personal assistant.

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Episode 12

Boxer

Tue, Jan 9, 2007

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Episode 13

Moving On

Tue, Jan 2, 2007

Jonathan becomes buddies with a new guy in the men's room, Michael's sentence in the group ends, Inger helps Dave to attain Legendary status, and Bill must choose between Linda and Anne.

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