509 (#55) - "London Broil" - 8/17/98
Ben points out, "When we spend time together over breakfast: boring," leading to a discussion of the old games he and Katz used to play when Ben was a kid. Katz asks him to take the London broil out of the freezer, and then goes to work. When he gets home, Ben greets him with a clue -- the first in a series of 54 -- for a game of Treasure Hunt. The hidden treasure? The London broil, cleverly hidden in the freezer. "You did figure out an inventive way not to do the one thing I asked you," Katz says. "That's part of my charm," Ben replies. Now the fever catches: Katz hides M&Ms in Laura's Walkman, ruining it ("I owe you an apology." "And a Walkman." "Apology accepted."); Ben hides Katz's reading glasses; Katz tapes a clue to Ben's forehead in his sleep; Ben tapes one to Katz's butt in HIS sleep; Ben hides the toilet paper, Katz's hand, and India. Katz also discusses knock-knock jokes and the telephone game with Stan and Julie.

· Kevin Kataoka - Often the only Asian person wherever he goes; seeing another one in San Antonio was like when he was a kid on Halloween, seeing another kid dressed as Batman; grew up with single dad and all brothers -- "like a reverse 'Joy Luck Club'"; terrible dinner party because it's all flashbacks; for father/son picnic, his dad invited HIS father; to feel like a homeless person, just ask strangers for jumper cables; Life cereal is presumptuously named: "Gentlemen, there's only one things we CAN call it: LIFE!!"; guy at the gym who screams way too much when he's working out, like Charlton Heston ("Damn you all to hell! It's a madhouse!").

· Brian Kiley - Earliest childhood memory: the doctor slapping him, when he was 12; school bully was passively aggressive; hard to discipline son because everything he does is so funny, like when he had a knife and was stabbing his in-laws repeatedly; in kindergarten, slept naked during naptime; dad, now retired, has gone back to college: "We're really proud of him. Except when he comes home from keg parties and pees out the window. Then we're not as proud."

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