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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2025-05-29 13:40:24

Expositron 9000 and Omniscient Database depending on proactive the computer is in magically finding the right answer.

Find the Cure! for someone having some mystery ailment that they are desperate to diagnose, which in television land can lead to a right answer as often as All-Natural Snake Oil.

Edited by Scorpion451
Someone1981 Since: Aug, 2022
2025-05-29 23:25:59

More details: a kid has terminal bone cancer, but his parents—wanting him to enjoy what little lifetime he has left (no more than a year at diagnoses, which was 7 montgs before the episode)—was told that everything is okay. Recognizing this as Blatant Lies, he looked up his symptoms, and got 2 possibilities; bone cancer was the only one which would be consistent with his parents' behavior.

Edited by Someone1981
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