flossing
Original: flossing on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Dentist (leaning over a patient lying back in the chair): There's a huge piece of floss left in your teeth, Mr. Sanderson.
Patient (mouth held open, hands raised): Oh thad? I jusd dought I'd jusd leave dad. Take id. The id musd've god lefd in my mouf.
Panel 2:
Dentist: You have 7 cavities and need 2 crowns, Mr. Sanderson, but if you want me to pretend you flossed this whole time, I'm happy to play along.
Panel 3:
Patient: Now, no problems ad all? And maybe do a little drilling and filling jusd in case.
Dentist: Yup. Very good then.
Votey:
A caption written in small handwritten text reads: "I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS DRUNK." Below it stands a dentist character looking down/away, with a smaller figure (a patient) clinging to or being pulled toward the dentist's leg.
Dentist (leaning over a patient lying back in the chair): There's a huge piece of floss left in your teeth, Mr. Sanderson.
Patient (mouth held open, hands raised): Oh thad? I jusd dought I'd jusd leave dad. Take id. The id musd've god lefd in my mouf.
Panel 2:
Dentist: You have 7 cavities and need 2 crowns, Mr. Sanderson, but if you want me to pretend you flossed this whole time, I'm happy to play along.
Panel 3:
Patient: Now, no problems ad all? And maybe do a little drilling and filling jusd in case.
Dentist: Yup. Very good then.
Votey:
A caption written in small handwritten text reads: "I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS DRUNK." Below it stands a dentist character looking down/away, with a smaller figure (a patient) clinging to or being pulled toward the dentist's leg.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic set in a dentist's office. Panel 1: a dentist leans over a patient reclined in the chair; he says there is a huge piece of floss left in the patient's teeth, calling him Mr. Sanderson. The patient, mouth held open so his speech is slurred, claims he just thought he'd leave it there, that it must've gotten left in his mouth. Panel 2: the dentist says the patient has 7 cavities and needs 2 crowns, but adds that if the patient wants him to pretend the patient flossed this whole time, he is happy to play along. Panel 3: the patient cheerfully asks whether there are no problems at all, then suggests maybe doing a little drilling and filling just in case; the dentist replies, 'Yup. Very good then,' going along with the polite fiction. The votey aftercomic shows the dentist standing with a small caption above reading 'I DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS DRUNK,' a patient figure clinging to his leg, implying the dentist is drunk on the job to cope.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.