History Main / TheToothHurts

* In ''Film/ThePerfectWeapon'', Johnny Messner lose a tooth to the TortureTechnician played by Vernon Wells. ''After'' his [[{{Fingore}} toenails]]. With an uncomfortable close-up of his teeth on some bloody pliers dropped on a tray.

* During [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch17/ch17_94.html a flashback]] in Chapter 17 of ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' we get to see how younger [[AmbiguouslyHuman Sette]] got her fangs. Turns out she had normal teeth that then dropped out. All at once.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Nothing but the Tooth" had Mr. Bumpy suffer a toothache and end up having all of his teeth come out and go on a feeding frenzy when he and Squishington attempted to remove the painful tooth. In the end, Bumpy used toothpaste and a toothbrush to tame his chompers and get them back in his mouth.

** In "Nuttin' but the Tooth", [[SweetTooth Nutty]] goes to a rather inexperienced dentist to get rid of his rotten tooth. Said dentist tries the old-fashioned method of tying one end of a string to the tooth and the other to a doorknob. This procedure ends with Nutty's whole lower jaw being ripped off, with the rotten one being one of the few teeth ''not'' to fall out. The dentist? [[IronicName Toothy]].
** In "Snow Place To Go", Toothy chips one of his buckteeth trying to open a can of beans. Later on, he's so hungry he tries eating snow, with predictable results.
** They made an entire episode dedicated to this called "An Inconvenient Tooth". Three guesses who's the one starring in this episode.

* In the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} game ''VideoGame/PlaqueAttack'', you're a tube of toothpaste trying to shoot down various foodstuffs before they reach your teeth, which, if they do, will rot them into oblivion if not shot down fast enough.

* ''Series/AlteredCarbon''. In "Shadow of a Doubt", Colonel Carrera tortures a Quellist sympathizer by yanking out her teeth.

* In ''Series/ChannelZero: Candle Cove'', children who are [[TheCorruption affected]] by ''[[ShowWithinAShow Candle Cove]]'' tend to lose teeth [[spoiler: which seem to be absorbed by the [[HumanoidAbomination Tooth Child]]]]. It's later revealed that they remove the teeth themselves as a "toll" for "entering Candle Cove".
** In Episode 5, [[spoiler: Mike starts growing an extra tooth out of his gums, which was the only way to tell him and his dead twin Eddie apart, as a prelude to Eddie's spirit pulling GrandTheftMe on him. To try and stop this, he ''rips it out with pliers''.]]

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Mac and Charlie plan to fake their own deaths in a car crash and leave some of their own teeth behind, believing it will be enough to identify their "remains." Mac takes a pair of pliers to Charlie's mouth, but [[ThePigpen Charlie's oral hygiene is so bad]] that the tooth comes with no resistance. Charlie casually starts pulling out more teeth - ''with his fingers'' - while Mac pleads with him to stop.

* In ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' episode 5, Jessica punches Kilgrave in the face while he's knocked out by the anesthetic. When Kilgrave wakes up, he feels around the bruise, then pulls out a broken tooth. With his bare hands. And then he ''smiles.''

* On ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Hal hurts his tooth while eating some snacks during a poker game, and one of his friends who works as a dentist treats it. However, after getting a huge bill (when he assumed it would be free because the friend said something along the lines of, "I'll take care of it"), Hal eventually rips out his tooth as protest but passes out. He spends the rest of the episode swallowing his food whole.

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', it's mentioned that at the time of his AccidentalMarriage to Joy, Earl was 3 weeks into a relationship with a woman named Jessie. Since he felt guilty, he avoided Jessie for days, and during this time, Joy found the Music/{{Metallica}} tickets that Jessie had gotten for her and Earl's 3-week anniversary, assuming that Earl had purchased them for his and Joy's honeymoon. Since Earl figured that what was done was done, he went to the concert with Joy and met up with Jessie again at the Crab Shack afterwards. Jessie wondered what was going on, and Joy showed her their wedding rings. Jessie angrily questions, "You married this...whore?" and Joy punches out her two front teeth. Six years later, Joy gets a bounty on her head for failing to appear in traffic court following a NoodleIncident wherein her car got stuck in reverse. Jessie becomes a bounty hunter in order to exact revenge on Joy for a) stealing her boyfriend and b) knocking out her two front teeth. [[spoiler: During their CatFight, it's shown that while Jessie learned to fight, she didn't learn to fight ''dirty'' the way Joy did, and Joy knocks out Jessie's gold fake teeth, which she then tells Earl to melt down for her bail money.]]
* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "The Admiral's Daughter" the VictimOfTheWeek is said to have "suffered extreme periodontal trauma reminiscent of the movie Film/MarathonMan." Near the end, they rescue a man that has blood coming out of his mouth and on the area surrounding it, implying he got the same treatment.

* In ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' episode "The Tooth Fairy", one of Johnny Crawfish's lines is "Tell me, are cavities allowed?", hinting that he could have a few.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. CIA hitman John Reese is sent to kill a supposed traitor but finds out he's only being killed because YouKnowTooMuch. Reese gives him a ticket to Canada and says he will fake his death, then takes out some pliers.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Malleus Maleficarum", a witch uses magic to make a woman's teeth fall out. An episode earlier, Dean narrowly escaped having a tooth pulled out as part of a pagan ritual. Another episode had the shapeshifter shed his skin and lose teeth in the process while new ones grew in.

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* The subject of "The Interfaith Dental Clinic" story Music/TownesVanZandt tells on the album ''Together at the Bluebird Cafe''. The one saving grace is that everyone involved would have been too drunk to feel any pain. Until they sobered up.

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* The video of Music/GreenDay's "Geek Stink Breath" has scenes of a very gruesome dental surgery.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Moor's Baby", one of Lord Balthazar's goons has a tooth that's hurting. Also Baby Smurf and the titular moor's baby are both going through teething pains as they are about to have their first tooth.

*** In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS4E19SisterActHouseFlip Sister Act]]", where [[PolarOppositeTwins Lana and Lola]] [[TwinSwitch switch places]] to get out of things one twin dislikes but the other enjoys, they try dressing up as each other once more so the former can avoid a dentist appointment and the latter can avoid a doctor's appointment. [[DidntThinkThisThrough It backfires on both of them the next day]], with Lana getting an abscessed tooth, preventing her from eating [[AndYourRewardIsEdible a massive sundae]] she won in a recycling contest, and Lola [[SickEpisode coming down with a nasty case of the flu]], preventing her from competing in a pageant. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Had the twins gone to their respective appointments as themselves in the first place, their respective medical professionals would've caught and immediately treated the early warning signs of these ailments before they got any worse]]. The twins are forced to fess up to their parents of what they did so their doctor and dentist don't lose their medical licenses for negligence and [[GrowingUpSucks get a big scolding for their irresponsibility]], and then have to attend the appointments they avoided so they can get healthy again, with Lana stating she can't go back to Auntie Pam's until they see her dental x-rays.

* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story "Dark Justice", Judge Dredd smashes up Judge Death's teeth during a fight. However, since he's a zombie he can't feel pain, so all it does is annoy him.