dentistry-2
Original: dentistry-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Patient (in dentist chair): How're my teeth?
Dentist (bald, with glasses and a mask): Your teeth are so bad their condition cannot be conveyed in straightforward language. I've constructed a list of elaborate metaphors instead.
Panel 2
(The patient sits in the chair reading a sheet of paper. The dentist stands holding a sheet of paper.)
Panel 3
Patient (reading from the paper): As the windswept pillars of ancient Babylon? The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire? The Soviet leadership structure circa 1983?
Panel 4
Dentist: Perhaps you could read some history in all the time you spend not flossing?
Patient: Just fill my mouth with plastic so I can go home.
Votey:
Patient (thought/speech): Flossing will only make my teeth overconfident!
Patient (in dentist chair): How're my teeth?
Dentist (bald, with glasses and a mask): Your teeth are so bad their condition cannot be conveyed in straightforward language. I've constructed a list of elaborate metaphors instead.
Panel 2
(The patient sits in the chair reading a sheet of paper. The dentist stands holding a sheet of paper.)
Panel 3
Patient (reading from the paper): As the windswept pillars of ancient Babylon? The fall of the Eastern Roman Empire? The Soviet leadership structure circa 1983?
Panel 4
Dentist: Perhaps you could read some history in all the time you spend not flossing?
Patient: Just fill my mouth with plastic so I can go home.
Votey:
Patient (thought/speech): Flossing will only make my teeth overconfident!
Alt text
A four-panel comic set at a dentist's office. A patient with curly dark hair reclines in a dental chair; a bald, masked dentist with round glasses stands beside him. Panel 1: the patient asks "How're my teeth?" and the dentist replies that his teeth are so bad their condition cannot be conveyed in straightforward language, so he has constructed a list of elaborate metaphors instead. Panel 2: both silently hold sheets of paper. Panel 3: the patient reads the metaphors aloud, comparing his teeth to "the windswept pillars of ancient Babylon," "the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire," and "the Soviet leadership structure circa 1983." Panel 4: the dentist suggests the patient could read some history in all the time he spends not flossing; the patient, unimpressed, says "Just fill my mouth with plastic so I can go home." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the patient declaring "Flossing will only make my teeth overconfident!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.