Comic #2509: 2012-03-30

Description

Sure! Here’s the transcription of the text in the comic:

Panel 1:

Person 1: "I had to go in for a barium swallow test last week."
Person 2: "And then you watch a video of it going down your throat."

Panel 2:

Narrator: "As far as I can tell, this is the medical equivalent of fraternity hazing."
Text Boxes: "Drink this mystery liquid."
"Now swallow this giant pill."
"Now these crystals which give you gas."
Person 1: "Okay."
Person 3: "Come on!"

Panel 3:

Narrator: "Afterward, I noticed something strange."
Person 1: "Why do I feel like I deserve a reward."

Panel 4:

Person 1: "Oh my god. My entire life, whenever something bad happened to me, I got an ice cream. I have an unnatural Pavlovian association between suffering and reward that's so internalized that I didn't even realize it was there."

Panel 5:

Person 1: "I wonder if this is why people are always suing each other."

Caption: "everything was fine"

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