Sean, your Homer's Phobia review from 1997 Is so Comic Book Guy, I love it. Hoo!

Yep. That was my take too. Haunted by his own hubris. And maybe the first inclination of him seeing his patients as a person. (Which he's noted as a character flaw in his line of work).

Those toughs were the nerds from the movie! Casting a level 5 charm spell on us all again.