Monday PSA: Casper Says Don’t Give Plaque a Ghost of a Chance!
November 26th, 2007
A Casper the Friendly Ghost PSA about brushing your teeth and visiting your “friendly” dentist. It also features Wendy, the Good Little Witch, as well as two random passerby kids, a happy tooth, and some anthropomorphic toiletries (so the floss is alive but not the toothbrush? It’s a little creepy when you think about it…take the toothpaste, is he going to say, “Kid, I want you to squeeze my innards onto that toothbrush and then clean your teeth. Do it every day, repeatedly. And don’t worry, when I’m empty, just throw me out in the trash with the empty cat food cans!”) Plus there’s the plaque monster painting the tooth yellow(?).
All in all, I think I prefer Crest Team, who defended Toothopolis against the Cavity Creeps…
November 27th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Regular checkups. Man. I tried those once. This is Estonia here. Up and coming 2nd world country, famous for Skype and Kazaa and wireless internet everywhere.
Went to a dentist for a checkup. He pokes around in my mouth for a while. “So what’s the problem?” — “No problems.” — “Okay. Any symptoms? Pain?” — “No.” — “Then why are you here?” — “Well, I thought I’d get a checkup.” — “But there’s nothing wrong with you.” — “That’s what I wanted to hear.” — “What do you mean?” — “I’m here for a checkup. To see if there’s anything wrong with my teeth.” — “But you didn’t have any complaints.” — “No, I didn’t.”
The guy looked at me like I was trying to con him out of his house.
“Socialized medicine” is nice and convenient, but you need to be bleeding out of at least two orifices to get treatment without prejudice. Anything less and you’re just wasting the doctor’s valuable time.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Someone told me that dentist have the highest suicide rate out of any profession does anyone know the validity/reasons behind that fact?
November 27th, 2007 at 3:17 am
[...] From Polite Dissent comes a nice little PSA from Harvey comics, featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost. I’ve never really quite been hep to the whole Casper rationale. What’s he saying anyway : “Ghosts are bad, except this one ?” That needs a bit more spin, methinks. [...]
November 28th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Jonathan: it’s because of all the screaming and the guilt of inflicting pain, so the (likely not-true) urban legend goes.
Language question: would it be correct or incorrect to refer to a tooth as anthropomorphized? The tooth itself is an object, yet it is part of a living, breathing person. Perhaps one can only use the term once the tooth has been separated from the person itself?
If so, what would be the correct term to use when you attach human features, emotions and responses to “people parts” that don’t, you know, have them? I’m sure I’ve seen on a Sesame Street or some such program two teeth, still firmly attached to gums in a person’s mouth, “speaking” to one another. Also, I just caught a rerun of the “Family Guy” episode where Chris Griffin had an evil pimple that spoke, and at one point threatened people with a gun.
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