Joe's dimwitted neighbor Marvin (Rodney Bell) has earned a dentistry certificate from a correspondence school, and he wants Joe to be his first patient. Joe wants none of it, but after he unthinkingly bites down into some peanut brittle proffered by Marvin, he doesn't have much of a choice.
I have a soft spot in my heart for dentistry satires. Everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Steve Martin has known you can't go wrong wringing comedy from people's fear of dentists. (George O'Hanlon gets a story credit on this short. He must have had some bad dental experiences himself.) Having dealt with some incompetent dentists in my day, I can just about believe they all came from the same dental school as Marvin. The nice twist here is that Marvin has previously been like a lapdog in terms of his friendship with Joe, but as soon as Marvin puts on that dentist's apron, Joe is just another customer to be drilled and filled. A laugh riot.
Our rating: (C) 2012, Steve Bailey.
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