Transcript:
ralston: The type on this bottle is so small! you'd need microscopic vision to read it! captain: I have microscopic vision! let me read it for you... ralston: If only you didn't also have microscopic thinking... captain: What's that round letter, again?
Thing is, it’s a medicine bottle. Even knowing the letters and being able to make out the type, most folks’d still feel illiterate trying to read the drug names. Joke feels redundant.