I’ll take “jokes you can’t make today”, for a thousand.
So many anti-dentites back in the 80s and 90s.
Like jesus, I’m undecided if this is supposed to be a corporal punishment joke or a sexual abuse joke. The punchline doesn’t even land; why would breaking a lamp necessitate a dental exam?
The joke is literally just “everyone hates dentist appointments, therefore a dentist could use it as punishment for his son”. I really don’t think the overtones were meant to go deeper than that.
He was playing baseball inside and broke the lamp. A standard trope for a child doing something wrong and getting punished. His father is a dentist. Going to the dentist is torturous (or so the commonly agreed joke goes) so that’s the punishment doled out to him.
Does your username imply you haven’t discovered the basics of human comedy traditions?
