Tooth or Consequences

Author(s)

Jerry Zezima

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

10-28-2016

Abstract

In one of my favorite Three Stooges shorts, the boys are dentists. When their first patient comes in, Shemp puts on a pair of Coke bottle glasses that render him practically sightless. Then he pries open the hapless man's mouth, grabs a pair of pliers and, while Moe reads instructions from a book titled Carpentry Made Easy, proceeds to extract a tooth in a painfully funny scene that makes me glad I don't have a dentist like that.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

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eCommons Citation

Zezima, Jerry, "Tooth or Consequences" (2016). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1698.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1698