2014-05-18
Original: 2014-05-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Doctor (in scrubs): You'll be all right, Mister Pigliucci. But I'm afraid...
Panel 2:
Doctor: Your anus will never be the same.
Panel 3:
Patient (in green shirt, glasses): What?! But it was a routine colonoscopy!
Panel 4:
Patient: My God! Aaah! What went wrong?!
Panel 5:
Doctor: Oh, sorry. I meant that in the philosophical sense. You know, Heraclitus once said 'you can never step in the same river twice.' Well, the molecular makeup of your anus changes, just like a river!
Panel 6:
Patient: You use this joke on your patients, don't you?
Doctor: Technically it's never exactly the same joke.
Votey:
Doctor: You were made to take one of my philosophy classes in pre-med, weren't you?
Patient: Oh yes.
Doctor (in scrubs): You'll be all right, Mister Pigliucci. But I'm afraid...
Panel 2:
Doctor: Your anus will never be the same.
Panel 3:
Patient (in green shirt, glasses): What?! But it was a routine colonoscopy!
Panel 4:
Patient: My God! Aaah! What went wrong?!
Panel 5:
Doctor: Oh, sorry. I meant that in the philosophical sense. You know, Heraclitus once said 'you can never step in the same river twice.' Well, the molecular makeup of your anus changes, just like a river!
Panel 6:
Patient: You use this joke on your patients, don't you?
Doctor: Technically it's never exactly the same joke.
Votey:
Doctor: You were made to take one of my philosophy classes in pre-med, weren't you?
Patient: Oh yes.
Alt text
A six-panel comic in a doctor's exam room. A doctor in scrubs tells his patient, 'You'll be all right, Mister Pigliucci. But I'm afraid... your anus will never be the same.' The alarmed patient, in a green shirt and glasses, cries, 'What?! But it was a routine colonoscopy! My God! Aaah! What went wrong?!' The doctor calmly explains, 'Oh, sorry. I meant that in the philosophical sense. You know, Heraclitus once said you can never step in the same river twice. Well, the molecular makeup of your anus changes, just like a river!' The patient deadpans, 'You use this joke on your patients, don't you?' The doctor replies, 'Technically it's never exactly the same joke.' Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the patient's face. The doctor asks, 'You were made to take one of my philosophy classes in pre-med, weren't you?' The patient answers, 'Oh yes.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.