2009-03-13
Original: 2009-03-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older bald man with round glasses, a mustache, and a beard (a therapist figure) sits in an orange armchair holding a notebook, speaking to a younger red-haired man in a yellow shirt seated on a couch. A green vase sits on a table beside them.
Therapist: "Well, I think we all have underlying neuroses of which we are unaware. For example, you could very well have nymphomania, but how would we ever know?"
Caption (below panel): Dr. Stern failed to cure my depression.
Votey:
Close-up of the same bald therapist holding up a small cup/bottle of pills.
Therapist: "I'm prescribing you these sugar pills. They don't do anything worthwhile, so, you have a lot in common."
An older bald man with round glasses, a mustache, and a beard (a therapist figure) sits in an orange armchair holding a notebook, speaking to a younger red-haired man in a yellow shirt seated on a couch. A green vase sits on a table beside them.
Therapist: "Well, I think we all have underlying neuroses of which we are unaware. For example, you could very well have nymphomania, but how would we ever know?"
Caption (below panel): Dr. Stern failed to cure my depression.
Votey:
Close-up of the same bald therapist holding up a small cup/bottle of pills.
Therapist: "I'm prescribing you these sugar pills. They don't do anything worthwhile, so, you have a lot in common."
Alt text
A black-and-purple-toned comic panel shows a therapist scene. An older bald man with round glasses, a mustache and beard sits in an orange armchair holding a notebook, addressing a younger red-haired man in a yellow shirt on a couch; a green vase rests on a side table. The therapist says: 'Well, I think we all have underlying neuroses of which we are unaware. For example, you could very well have nymphomania, but how would we ever know?' A caption beneath the panel reads: 'Dr. Stern failed to cure my depression.' The joke is the therapist's uselessly unfalsifiable, vaguely inappropriate 'insight.' Votey (a black-and-white follow-up panel): a close-up of the same bald therapist holding up a small cup of pills, saying, 'I'm prescribing you these sugar pills. They don't do anything worthwhile, so, you have a lot in common.' The therapist insults the patient while admitting the placebo is useless.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.