Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 02, 2016

At least with a root canal you get anesthesia.

At least we aren’t dealing with zombies anymore. Or are we…

Way back then, one could laugh about her “eccentricities.”

The dentist would have been less painful.

I think he would prefer a 3-hour kindergarten Christmas pageant.

Or, to paraphrase Woody Allen, I prefer cremation to burial in the earth, and both to visiting a modern art show.

A Chicago DJ once described attending the 8½ hour-long performance of Nicholas Nickleby because his wife wanted to see it. During the performance he performed a bodily function into a bottle.

I had those same overalls in 1986.

Looks like they skipped past some of the Duke-Zombie-revival installments. The one I was waiting for had Zonker tell Duke that he had paid $17 million to ransom him, and Duke says “YOU IDIOT!” (but no gratitude, needless to say.)

Are you a masochist or was your dentist a sadist?