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Three scientists \u2014 Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli \u2014 and their assistant Igor work at NASAL. When they start showing interest in creationism, their superiors send them to a psychologist for evaluation. The psychologist, Professor Faggioli, is a shady character determined to get them fired by making them look insane. Ravioli is the first to enter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re in Professor Faggioli\u2019s office, where Ravioli\u2019s session continues. As he shares memories of his afterschool days, we return via flashback to the classroom, where little Raviolino is trying to get out of punishment for refusing to eat fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the idea of hiding the fish in his backpack, Raviolino wraps it in a napkin and quickly stuffs it between his books \u2014 but then immediately rethinks it and pulls it back out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raviolino: Wait a second! She\u2019ll never believe me like this! I need to leave the bones on the plate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raviolino, with a disgusted look, removes the fish from the bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raviolino: Gross! But imagine if I actually ate it. That\u2019d be worse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, Raviolino leaves the fish bones on the plate and wraps the rest in the napkin, then pushes it all to the bottom of his backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raviolino: Perfect! A masterstroke! Now, even if the teacher looked in my backpack, she wouldn\u2019t see a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igor (voiceover): In this case, the rule \u201cnever leave evidence\u201d didn\u2019t apply. On the contrary, Raviolino figured the key was to leave a clue \u2014 a little \u201cfishbone\u201d for the lunch detectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026Ah, the brilliance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raviolino raises his hand to get the teacher\u2019s attention. She comes over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raviolino: Teacher, look! I ate it all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teacher (surprised): Well done, Raviolino! I can\u2019t believe it! I\u2019m proud of you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flashback ends as Ravioli continues his story in Faggioli\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravioli: \u2026And so that day, instead of sitting out the afternoon, I went out to play with the others. My classmates were surprised to see me too. From that day on, the teachers thought I had started eating fish, and I never got punished for it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igor (voiceover): Ravioli, the great illusionist \u2014 making fish and problems disappear. What he didn\u2019t realize is\u2026 they always float back to the surface!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026And as always, for Ravioli, they do it in the most embarrassing way possible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three scientists \u2014 Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli \u2014 and their assistant Igor work at NASAL. When they start showing interest in creationism, their superiors send them to a psychologist for evaluation. The psychologist, Professor Faggioli, is a shady character determined to get them fired by making them look insane. Ravioli is the first to enter. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}