I'm pretty sure that guy was my childhood dentist. To this day, I can hardly floss without having heart palpitations.
oh my god that psychadelic part KILLED me.
I remember seeing this book when I was a kid. He looks like he's in pain in half those photos!
The "pinchers of peril" reference from The Goonies made me laugh.
This guy looks just like my hometown dentist, who at nearly 70 still proudly wears his Nixon era polyester pants. Until recently his office was straight out of the seventies also. Lots of wood paneling in the waiting area. If you were there just for a cleaning, you went tothe 'Blue Room'... but if you needed a cavity filled you were sent to the 'Orange Room'. That room was like a small version of the Brady Bunch kitchen but with giant scary tools wherever you dared to look. Definitely some overtones of heaven versus hell in that whole office's setup, if you ask me.
Oh the amount of time I spent atoning for my sins in the 'Orange Room'- I shudder at the memory.
You call him Dr. Jones, Doll.
out of this world. i love this series.
oh no! I actually remember this book! It really did scar me.
Geez, my childhood dent-tist in Terre Haute never gave me the good stuff. I'll have to pass the link along to him.
My daughter has her first dentist appointment today. Thanks in advance. Oh, and many years ago my wife was told never to come back to her family dentist, she was five.
@ Christian, the Dr. Jones line was from an Indiana Jones movie. 
@Jim, thanks for the laugh! My kids go at 7 and 7:30 next Thursday morning.
Strawberry Alarm Clock before 7 a.m. was all the trippiness I needed for one day. Thanks for the gentle reminder that I have an appointment next week. Bring on the gas!
By the way, I am one of those readers who actually checked OUT those books and learned how to take shelter under my desk during bomb drills. No wonder I found things to take the place of the gas when I was in high school so that everyday was like looking through the inside of a giant soap bubble. I once thought that since I was going to speed reading class that must mean I had to take speed before I got there. HA!
Pinchers of Power! Pinchers of Power!!!
OMG. They made a book about my dentist in the 1950's in Kalamazoo (except there were no Asians there at the time, as I recall) and you found it? Small world.
Thanks to Dr. Dentist Mengele, I still have to be knocked OUT to just get me teeth cleaned.
Trauma!
awwwwww...
what a sweet bedtime story that would make!
the psychedelic stuff made me bust a gut....
Ay yi yi, flashbacks to the 162-year-old SEVEN FINGERED dentist of my childhood who wanted to gas me for anything and everything. This guy's operation is a piece of cake compared to that shit. Hysterical post!
Love this!
Good Lord! I had to skip parts--it was too scary. Gotta go brush and floss now.
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Oh man. I am speechless. This is the funniest one yet. I really do not know what to say. This is so unlike me.
Were those Strawberry Alarm Clock lyrics? I swear I could hear the jangly psychedelic music in my head. Please, if you do want to ever be ambitious again, please, please make films. Or something.
It's just...so goshdarn funny. Brilliant.
It was funny at first...but then I actually got scared and remembered how much I really hate going to the dentist.
Aaak!
I just saw your name on the front page of CNN.com - the blurb about Where the Wild Things Are!
oh my god. i'm going to run and floss and bring the family along, as well!
Going to the Dentist was just like that. I've read this book too - didn't make me feel any better then or now.
I don't like these posts. Snarky judgment of the past from the enlightened hipster present. The books stand as interesting historical documents in themselves.
This is why I am a woman in her mid-thirties without any teeth.
The dentist makes me poop my pants.
Oh, i'm totally going to buy that book once my kid gets teeth.
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