Tooth and Consequences

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16th episode of the 1st season of The Twilight Zone

"Tooth and Consequences"

The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from Tooth and Consequences

Episode no.| Season 1
Episode 16c
Directed by| Robert Downey
Written by| Haskell Barkin
Production code| 47
Original air date| January 31, 1986 (1986-01-31)
Guest appearances

* Kenneth Mars as Tooth Fairy
* David Birney as Dr. Myron Mandel
* Martin Azarow as Man
* Nat Bernstein as Hobo
* Oliver Clark as Dr. Walter Pinkham
* Mina Kolb as Mrs. Taylor
* Teresa Ganzel as Lydia Bixby
* Jack Lindine as Hobo #2
* Mitzi McCall as Middle-Aged Woman
* Ermal Williamson as Mr. Frank
* Peggy Pope as Mrs. Schulman
* Jane Ralston as Receptionist
* Ron Ross as Hobo #3
* Harry Stephens as Eating Hobo

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"Tooth and Consequences" is the third and final segment of the sixteenth episode of the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone. In this segment, a terminally depressed dentist is granted his greatest desire by the tooth fairy.

## Plot[edit]

Dentist Myron Mandel has problems with self-esteem. He even feels the necessity to discuss it with office neighbor Walter Pinkham who is a psychiatrist. Mandel states that it feels like his patients shrink from his touch but the psychiatrist shoos him out of his office after attempting to convince him to let it go. Upon returning to his own office, Mandel tells his receptionist to send home the waiting patients, and he claims he is sick. The receptionist has had enough of his self-loathing and quits her job. Mandel goes out and dismisses his patients and says that he's going to do missionary work with Eskimos. In reality, however, he makes the decision to commit suicide.

As he tries to hang himself, a patient named Lydia comes to the office looking for a hairbrush that she lost the day before. Mandel gets the nerve to ask her out but she rejects him. After Lydia leaves, he again tries to hang himself but the light fixture breaks. He is caught by a burly man who identifies himself as the tooth fairy. When the tooth fairy asks Mandel if he can do anything for him, he wishes that Lydia would fall madly in love with him and that all of his patients would like him. His wish is granted, and yet it does not turn out as he had hoped. He becomes tired and overworked and Lydia constantly wants to make love. Mandel decides to run away from his new life and boards a freight train. On the train are a group of hobos who identify themselves as ex-dentists. They tell him that, with them not around, the tooth fairy gets more business.

## External links[edit]

* "Tooth and Consequences" at IMDb

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The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1|

* "Shatterday"
* "A Little Peace and Quiet"
* "Wordplay"
* "Dreams for Sale"
* "Chameleon"
* "Healer"
* "Kentucky Rye"
* "Little Boy Lost"
* "Wish Bank"
* "Nightcrawlers"
* "If She Dies"
* "Ye Gods"
* "Examination Day"
* "A Message from Charity"
* "Teacher's Aide"
* "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
* "The Burning Man"
* "Dealer's Choice"
* "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"
* "The Shadow Man"
* "Opening Day"
* "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"
* "Her Pilgrim Soul"
* "I of Newton"
* "Night of the Meek"
* "The Star"
* "Still Life"
* "The Little People of Killany Woods"
* "The Misfortune Cookie"
* "Monsters!"
* "A Small Talent for War"
* "A Matter of Minutes"
* "The Elevator"
* "To See the Invisible Man"
* "Tooth and Consequences"
* "Welcome to Winfield"
* "Quarantine"
* "Gramma"
* "Personal Demons"
* "The Leprechaun-Artist"
* "Profile in Silver"
* "Button, Button"
* "Red Snow"
* "Take My Life...Please!"
* "Devil's Alphabet"
* "The Library"
* "Shadow Play"
* "Grace Note"
* "A Day in Beaumont"
* "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2|

* "The Once and Future King"
* "What Are Friends For?"
* "Aqua Vita"
* "The Storyteller"
* "Nightsong"
* "The After Hours"
* "Lost and Found"
* "The World Next Door"
* "The Toys of Caliban"
* "The Road Less Traveled"
* "The Card"
* "Joy Ride"
* "Shelter Skelter"
* "Private Channel"
* "Time and Teresa Golowitz"
* "Voices in the Earth"
* "Song of the Younger World"
* "The Girl I Married"

Season 3|

* "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon"
* "Extra Innings"
* "The Crossing"
* "The Hunters"
* "Dream Me a Life"
* "Memories"
* "The Hellgramite Method"
* "Our Selena Is Dying"
* "The Call"
* "The Trance"
* "Acts of Terror"
* "20/20 Vision"
* "There Was an Old Woman"
* "The Trunk"
* "Appointment on Route 17"
* "The Cold Equations"
* "Stranger in Possum Meadows"
* "Street of Shadows"
* "Something in the Walls"
* "A Game of Pool"
* "Room 2426"
* "The Mind of Simon Foster"
* "The Wall"
* "Cat and Mouse"
* "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
* "Many, Many Monkeys"
* "Love Is Blind"
* "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
* "Special Service"
* "Father and Son Game"

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