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# Episode 182: Smollop: Street Dentist Painless Parker
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-182-smollop/
- Published: 2016-12-10T22:23:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:56:11.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

> Hello, how are you? Do you mind if I go inside your head?  
>  
> –Gareth

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Painless Parker, 1915

Here’s your trigger warning: teeth necklace.

[Painless Parker: A Dental Renegade’s Fight to Make Advertising Ethical](http://amzn.to/2hyNGaJ) by Arden Christen

[The Adventures of Painless Parker](http://www.painless-parker.com), an online comic by Zoe Piel

[seaweed and dental care](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alginic%5Facid)

BBC: [Painless Parker: Part dentist, part showman, all American](http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31704287)

Bob Hope and Jane Russell movies loosely based upon Parker: [Paleface](http://amzn.to/2hSVgcJ) and [Son of Paleface](http://amzn.to/2hABVOM)

clash with his mother, who was a Christian Scientist: [Christian Science and dentistry](http://www.dentistryiq.com/articles/2016/09/christian-science-and-dentistry.html), thanks to DentistryIQ

[National Museum of Dentistry](http://www.dental.umaryland.edu/museum/index.html/), University of Maryland ([find on map](https://www.google.com/maps/place/31%20S.%20Greene%20St.%20Baltimore,%20MD%2021201))

[The Life of P. T. Barnum Written By Himself,](http://amzn.to/2hpw9l0) required coursework for any Rube, obviously

I was going to go deep for you darlings, and started to research odontological paraphilias and fetishes, but I made it through the first page of search results, and I got really skerred. That’s right, skerred. I braved one Yahoo Answers discussion (no I’m not linking), and there was licking and alignment preferences and gaps and I noped the fuck out of there. I will do almost anything for you guys.

*Almost*.

Dental Economics: [The Saga of Painless Parker](http://www.dentaleconomics.com/articles/print/volume-99/issue-2/columns/from-the-laboratory/the-saga-of-painless-parker.html)

Band names from this episode:

- Mouth Regatta
- Headbumps
- Labcoat Authority
- Hydrococaine
- Tools for Your Head
- The Mouth Circus
- Dentistry Circus

Cultural references from this episode:

- [PT Barnum](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375841972)
- [Ed Gein](http://amzn.to/2gQ34P2)
- [tossed salad and scrambled eggs](http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2012/04/story-behind-tossed-salad-and-scrambled.html)

*So much more* of this unicorn sparkle from The Dollop–keep your mouth open:

- [Episode 144: The Fight Over Anesthesia](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-144-dollop/)
- [Dollopween 29: Phobias](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/dollopween-29-phobias/) +
- [tag/odontophobia](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/tag/odontophobia)
- [Episode 13: Colonial Teeth](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-13-dollop/)
- [tag/dentistry](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/tag/dentistry)
- [tag/anesthesia](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/tag/anesthesia)

*plus…*

- [Episode 62: John Brinkley](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-62-dollop/) +
- [Balls, glorious balls, in your balls](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/balls-glorious-balls/)

*and*…

- [Episode 11: Lobotomy](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-11-dollop/)

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I think someone needs to buy me this insane(ly awesome) [phrenology poster](http://amzn.to/2hBR3Ls). I can’t practice therapy any longer thanks to disability, but I can still decorate my environment with kooky history-of-therapy artifacts. Slapped this cutie on [my wishlist](http://amzn.to/2hT9w5q). All it needs to be at home is a jaunty Hello Kittyesque bow. Amirite?