Crocodile Dentist is based on a toy from the early 1990s. The day I got one was the first time I was ever grounded. I don't really remember what I did, only that the image of the Crocodile Dentist box and "grounded" are forever linked in my mind. Also I think I was thinking about this and staring at the box while going through the McDonalds drive-through with my grandmother or something. ... And I'm pretty sure my parents aren't going to remember what I was grounded for. ... Why can't I remember that? Remembering minutia from when I was 3 is, like, my other mutant power (the other being hopelessly confusing).
Ahem.
The original Crocodile Dentist looks more like an alligator. Once all the teeth are in (just the bottom row; the top is just a sticker), you press a button in the back of the mouth, and the mouth locks in the open position. The mechanism for releasing it moves to a random tooth; if you pull that tooth, the mouth will snap shut, and I think the crocodile might even roll forward a bit. (It also comes with some kinda yellow pliers to pull out the teeth.)
So it's kinda like Russian Roulette, but for ages 3 and up. ... Maybe I was 4 and think of it as 3 because it said it was for ages 3 and up? Or maybe I wasn't 3 yet and I got my grandmother to buy it anyway and that's why I was grounded? ... I don't think so. Gah, episodic memory, why aren't you properly organized?
"If you want utopia but reality gives you Lovecraft, you don't give up, you carve your utopia out of the corpses of dead gods."
MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.
