# Chapter 05 Comedy Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_05.comedy_doctor.md`

## Blocking Findings Accepted

1. Portable Luis/liability quip:
   - Replaced `the strap on hers was... a lawsuit` with Luis's direct material diagnosis: `"Weight's wrong."`

2. Portable scarf/scar simile:
   - Cut `the way some people show you a scar`; the gray wool proof now stands without narrator overlay.

3. Portable old-building quip:
   - Replaced `dance school or a sweatshop or both, depending on which decade you asked` with visible room evidence: old screw holes and a darker varnish stripe.
   - Follow-up continuity cleanup: replaced the later unsupported `former sweatshop` reference with `the plank-floored studio`, keeping the chapter from converting room-evidence texture into a canon fact.

4. Craft-false tin callback:
   - Replaced `I premoistened nothing... after the tin incident` with `I did not pocket any new stubs... after last week`, directly paying Ch03's charcoal-stub beat.
   - Replaced June's unsourced `sealed correctly` reply with `The count came to eight. The evidence was mixed.`

5. Portable ugly-drawing tag:
   - Cut `attached by optimism`; the outboard ear remains as the concrete visual joke.

6. Rubber-band personification:
   - Cut `the band stretched to its last good idea`; the physical resistance and two-drawings-in-one-cylinder image remain.

## Mechanical Follow-Up

Post-repair `bash scripts/quality_gate.sh`: PASS open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=326.
