"Oh, I'm fine," Ford replies, bright and cheery. "Just making sure the time away didn't do too much harm to Algernon."
He gestures inside to the rat in the cage. The rat squeaks and rubs its cheeks with its hands.
If this were a cartoon, and comedic subtitles could appear, the squeaks might be translated as I've always thought that name far too on the nose, Stanford. You might have picked something a bit more creative.
But it isn't a cartoon, and pets with more-than-average intelligence aren't allowed on the Barge, so that sight gag, regrettably, does not happen.
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"Much better," Laura echoes. "Are you ...?"
He looks normal. Smells normal. Everything seems to be exactly as it should be, without any lingering ... modifications.
"How are you?" she asks instead, since she's not quite sure how to finish the initial question.
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He gestures inside to the rat in the cage. The rat squeaks and rubs its cheeks with its hands.
If this were a cartoon, and comedic subtitles could appear, the squeaks might be translated as I've always thought that name far too on the nose, Stanford. You might have picked something a bit more creative.
But it isn't a cartoon, and pets with more-than-average intelligence aren't allowed on the Barge, so that sight gag, regrettably, does not happen.