Great story.
I recall an old New Yorker cartoon:
Timmy was grasping to a branch while dangling from a cliff. “Lassie get help!” he said.
In the next frame Lassie was laying on a couch while a psychiatrist analyzed him...
Lol!
Danny Shanahan. Good cartoonist, later fired from The New Yorker after he was arrested for possession of child pornography.