Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for August 18, 2024

A typical Dr. Mel solution.

at least its not the kracken

Quickest way to forget about your feet hurting is to wack your thumb…

The bats will eat the spiders and the snakes will eat the bats. I don’t know why she swallowed the fly.

Next, the buzzing wasps!

Well, the snakes will feast on the spiders, and then the bats will feast on the snakes!!!

The only thing worse than this is being locked in a space station with Dr Mel.

I don’t like spiders and snakes and that ain’t what it takes…

Ensign Kenny don’t like spiders and snakes, and that ain’t what it takes….

Sends in that face hugging alien. That’ll makes him forgets them earthly critters.

Kenny has something a lot worse wrong with him than arachnophobia if he let Dr Mel talk him into getting into that tube!

Wonder how Dr. Mel got Ensign Kenny in the tube?

“Ensign Kenny, I’ve developed a way to help you over your fear of spiders.”

“Wow, great… Uh, what do you do.”

“Just stand in here and let me close the tube.”

Why would anyone who knows Dr. Mel agree to anything he suggests?

Spiders, snakes and bats I could cope with. Stick a two-year-old child in there and I’m a goner.

“Hmm… Weasels? Wolverines? Grizzlies?”

“Um… Ensign Kenny? Hello?” [Knock, knock]

Yeah Doc, maybe you shouldn’t source your supply of spiders and snakes from Australia…

What? No scorpions?

Very mad scientist…

The one to be afraid of is Dr. Mel.

He’s a bad man. A bad man. Send him to the cornfield.

I like spiders. They get rid of bugs I don’t want. I like snakes, they help get rid of rodents I don’t want, except when they manage to crawl into an enclosure with live parts, turning themselves into carbon and taking the station off the air in the process.

Here’s another approach: “Stop it or I’ll bury you alive in a box!”

Time to order some more ensigns

They must an excellent pension plan for Ensign Kenny to take this abuse for so long. It’s obvious they don’t make rank very easily.

Those would all be fine with me, until a snake or bat peed or pooped on me.

In the next universe over, Dr. Mel designed Room 101 for Oceania.

I was afraid of that!

I avoid aversion therapy.

This is known as the Jim Stafford Conundrum.

this should work.