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4) The show opens with Sweet Tooth alone,
earing candy. The child working the puppet
puts candies in Sweet Tooth’s mouth, and he
chews them. Crunch, crunch, crunch. “Ahhhh,
I like candy so much! I could spend all day
eating sweets!”
5) “Boy, that made me thirsty.
I think I’ll wash down the
sweets with a Coke.” The
child lifts a Coke to the
puppet’s mouth. “Gulp,
gulp, gulp.”
6) Sweet Tooth’s friend. Pearl, appears. “Hello
Pearl,” he says. “My. you have such pretty
teeth! How do you do it?” “I brush my teeth
every day,” says Pearl. “And I don’t eat a lot of
sweets like you do. Let’s see your teeth. Sweet
Tooth,”
7) Sweet Tooth opens
his mouth very wide.
All his teeth are rotten.
“Do you mean my
teeth are like this
because I eat so many
sweets?”
8) Other puppets appear: Whey. Candy, and
Lolly. “Yes.” answers Whitey, “and because
you drink a lot of sweet, fizzy drinks like
Coke.” “And because you don’t brush your
teeth.” adds Pearl.
“But some of us can’t afford toothbrushes and
toothpaste.” says Candy. “Like Lolly and me’”
Candy and Lolly open their mouths wide to
show their rotten teeth.