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Guest Starring: Jenny O'Hara, Arthur Malet, Oliver Clark, Estelle Omens]

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Guest Starring: Jenny O'Hara, Creator/JennyOHara, Arthur Malet, Oliver Clark, Creator/OliverClark, Estelle Omens]
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A Ms. Omens comes in to the squad room and reports that she was felt up by her dentist while she was under anesthesia. Barney arranges for the temporary transfer of a female detective, Holly Scofield, from Manhattan South. Holly is icily formal and standoffish to everyone, which makes it funny when she comes back from the dentist's high as a kite from the anesthesia and makes a sexual advance towards Captain Miller. It turns out that the dentist, Dr. Gesslin, didn't do anything wrong with Holly, but when he's caught red-handed molesting his next client, he's arrested.

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A Ms. Omens comes in to into the squad room and reports that she was felt up by her dentist while she was under anesthesia. Barney arranges for the temporary transfer of a female detective, Holly Scofield, from Manhattan South. Holly is icily formal and standoffish to everyone, which makes it funny when she comes back from the dentist's high as a kite from the anesthesia and makes a sexual advance towards Captain Miller. It turns out that the dentist, Dr. Gesslin, didn't do anything wrong with Holly, but when he's caught red-handed molesting his next client, he's arrested.



* IncrediblyLamePun: Dietrich can't resist describing a dentist molesting his clients as "oral hijinks." (Get it? "Oral hygiene"?)
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: How Harris, when he first comes in to the squad room, tells everybody about his problems with the book. "I! Have! Had it!".

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* IncrediblyLamePun: {{Pun}}: Dietrich can't resist describing a dentist molesting his clients as "oral hijinks." (Get it? "Oral hygiene"?)
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: How Harris, when he first comes in to into the squad room, tells everybody about his problems with the book. "I! Have! Had it!".
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* ContemptibleCover: Harris throws a temper tantrum when he sees the lurid, sensationalistic cover for "Blood on the Badge". (Given how the publisher already insisted on changing the title from "Precinct Diary", he really should have seen it coming.)
-->'''Harris''': The title--it's hemorrhaging all over my name!
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* BlowingARaspberry: Mr. Creighton defends the seriousness of his craft, saying "This is art!". After Wojciehowicz responds by blowing a raspberry, Mr. Creighton says "Buddy, that's pretty good!".
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Barney's patience finally runs out during Mr. Creighton's performance of the "Blue Danube" waltz and Barney finally yells for him to stop, Mr. Creighton says "Oh, you don't like classical? I can do show tunes!"
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Episode: Season 6, Episode 11\\
Title: The Dentist\\
Directed by: Noam Pitlik\\
Written by: Frank Dungan and Jeff Stein\\
Air Date: December 27, 1979\\
Previous: The DNA Story\\
Next: People's Court\\
Guest Starring: Jenny O'Hara, Arthur Malet, Oliver Clark, Estelle Omens]

"The Dentist" is the 11th episode of the sixth season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.

A Ms. Omens comes in to the squad room and reports that she was felt up by her dentist while she was under anesthesia. Barney arranges for the temporary transfer of a female detective, Holly Scofield, from Manhattan South. Holly is icily formal and standoffish to everyone, which makes it funny when she comes back from the dentist's high as a kite from the anesthesia and makes a sexual advance towards Captain Miller. It turns out that the dentist, Dr. Gesslin, didn't do anything wrong with Holly, but when he's caught red-handed molesting his next client, he's arrested.

The second wacky case involves one Mr. Creighton, a musician with a rather unique talent: he plays "music" by making farting noises with his hands. Mr. Creighton, charged with making a public disturbance by playing at a restaurant, starts teaching the skill to Wojo, much to Barney's irritation.

In personal news, Harris has gotten the design for the cover of "Blood on the Badge" from his publisher. He isn't happy with the lurid cover illustration.

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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Det. Scofield is upset and indeed is offended when Dr. Gesslin does ''not'' molest her, complaining about how she put in the effort and made herself pretty. (She's also high when she says this.). The story ends when she asks him why and he says he never feels up a patient on the first visit.
-->'''Det. Scofield''': You had your chance, pervert!
* ContemptibleCover: Harris throws a temper tantrum when he sees the lurid, sensationalistic cover for "Blood on the Badge". (Given how the publisher already insisted on changing the title from "Precinct Diary", he really should have seen it coming.)
-->'''Harris''': The title--it's hemorrhaging all over my name!
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Everybody makes fun of Harris, who does not smoke a pipe, for posing with a pipe for the back cover author's photo of his book.
-->'''Wojo''': You don't smoke a pipe!
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: A dentist is arrested for molesting his female patients while they're under anesthesia.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Mr. Creighton, who plays music by making farting noises with his hands, and takes his skill very very seriously, describing himself as "an artist." (The farting hand music was provided by a man named John Twomey, who made a name for himself in the 1970s doing this for an act.)
* IceQueen: Detective Scofield is coldly formal and businesslike when she shows up to the 12th, alienating the other detectives. This of course sets up the gag where she comes back from the dentist tripping balls.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Dietrich can't resist describing a dentist molesting his clients as "oral hijinks." (Get it? "Oral hygiene"?)
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: How Harris, when he first comes in to the squad room, tells everybody about his problems with the book. "I! Have! Had it!".
* UnrevealAngle: Although the back cover illustration with the silly photo of Harris smoking a pipe is shown, the front cover that has him so upset is not revealed to the audience.

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