{"id":4963,"date":"2025-04-19T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2025-04-19T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:05:47","slug":"the-guilt-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"The Guilt Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three scientists \u2014 Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli \u2014 and their assistant Igor work at NASAL. When they begin 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 seem crazy. The first one to enter is Ravioli.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re in Professor Faggioli\u2019s office, where Ravioli is talking about how, in the after-school cafeteria, he managed to avoid punishment by hiding the fish in his backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli had just called him a \u201ccompulsive liar\u201d and mocked him using his sock puppet, Tony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony: Compulsive liar! Compulsive liar! Compulsive liar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: That\u2019s enough, Tony! Try to maintain a professional tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: Tony\u2026 tone! Ha, ha, ha! That\u2019s a good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli regains composure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: So this implies that you were unconsciously feeling guilty about all the lies you told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravioli: Yeah, but it was the only way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: Oh, come on, who are you trying to fool \u2014 me or yourself? Those are just excuses. And you knew it, that\u2019s why you felt guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravioli: Well\u2026 maybe a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: And that guilt gave birth in your subconscious to the nightmare of the boiled fish you told me about \u2014 the one that still haunts you today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravioli: That makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: By continuing to lie, you began to repress that guilt\u2026 which then resurfaces through the nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravioli: That could be true!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: Not could be \u2014 is. It is true!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ravioli (hopefully): Yes, it\u2019s true. But now what? Does that mean if I deal with the guilt, I\u2019ll also fix the emotional eating?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: No, unfortunately, that part is because you\u2019re greedy. But it would be ethical to apologize to your mother and your former teachers, if possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igor (voice-over): Nice try, Ravioli! But at least you gave it a shot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ravioli: I had thought about that too\u2026 but I never had the courage. Are you sure that doesn\u2019t solve the emotional eating?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faggioli: No \u2014 the way to solve emotional eating\u2026 is to shut your mouth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony: Shut your mouth, fatty! Ha ha ha! Shut your mouth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Igor (voice-over): Oh Ravioli, this time I gotta agree with Tony. Your hunger\u2019s got nothing to do with guilt \u2014 it\u2019s that stomach of yours, the size of a school cafeteria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Igor (voice-over): “Unhinged”? Is he talking about the screw holding the puppet\u2019s head in place\u2026 or the one missing from his master\u2019s?<\/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 begin 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 seem crazy. The first one to enter is … 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-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","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=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}