Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: Difference between revisions

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[[File:boromir shows us good teeth3 9345.jpg|link=The Lord of the Rings (film)|~~right~~]]

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{{quote|''"Boys, would you take a look-see at these pearly whites! Hell, I ain't seen teeth that straight that warn't store-bought."''~~|'''Buford Tannen''''s henchman, ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future Part III]]''}}~~

{{quote|''"Boys, would you take a look-see at these pearly whites! Hell, I ain't seen teeth that straight that warn't store-bought."''

|'''Buford Tannen'''{{'}}s henchman, ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to the Future Part III]]''}}

Characters in nearly all media are portrayed as having pretty, white teeth, with nary a hint of any kind of tooth decay whatsoever. This makes plenty of sense in the right context—TV personalities, for example, are heavily made-up, so of course their teeth are going to look pretty. The same goes for anyone thoroughly obsessed with personal vanity. Even stretching plausible deniability, there are perfectly normal people in the world who have never had a cavity. Expect variance in the shade of white: American media tends to go for striking white, whereas in some other places the look is considered "Yankee-ish" or even unappealing, and teeth depicted will be a more modest shade of pearly.

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 {{trope}}
-[[File:boromir shows us good teeth3 9345.jpg|link=The Lord of the Rings (film)|right]]
+[[File:boromir shows us good teeth3 9345.jpg|link=The Lord of the Rings (film)|frame]]
-{{quote|''"Boys, would you take a look-see at these pearly whites! Hell, I ain't seen teeth that straight that warn't store-bought."''|'''Buford Tannen''''s henchman, ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future Part III]]''}}
+{{quote|''"Boys, would you take a look-see at these pearly whites! Hell, I ain't seen teeth that straight that warn't store-bought."''
+|'''Buford Tannen'''{{'}}s henchman, ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to the Future Part III]]''}}
 Characters in nearly all media are portrayed as having pretty, white teeth, with nary a hint of any kind of tooth decay whatsoever. This makes plenty of sense in the right context—TV personalities, for example, are heavily made-up, so of course their teeth are going to look pretty. The same goes for anyone thoroughly obsessed with personal vanity. Even stretching plausible deniability, there are perfectly normal people in the world who have never had a cavity. Expect variance in the shade of white: American media tends to go for striking white, whereas in some other places the look is considered "Yankee-ish" or even unappealing, and teeth depicted will be a more modest shade of pearly.
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 See also [[British Teeth]].
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+{{examples}}
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