CALLING DR. RODENT

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CALLING DR. RODENT
Nasty Rabbit gets busted with money that doesn't exactly belong to him, and decides to use an agency to find legitimate employment. After washing out in a number of honest jobs, Nasty hits on the idea of impersonating a doctor, and tricks a real doctor into leaving the country and freeing up his office.

UNAUTHORIZED CAMEO: Gypsy, Crow, and Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000

COVER:

The concept of Nasty's involvement with medicine - albeit, as a turn of the century huckster selling a useless elixir - is represented for the cover of the (as yet unreleased) book, ''Dr. Rodent's Original Threebear Rejuvenator. ''The cover picture is a framed portrait of Nasty in the guise of a frontier explorer holding a rifle, with suspicious legs of a dead Indian seen in the background.

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"For the book title, I tried to find an ingredient or substance that would produce only one result when looked up on the internet; something completely useless or totally phony, when claimed to be any kind of healer. I settled on "threebear," which in every internet search I did, came up with one result: dirt. I totally cracked myself up with that. Since then, I've noticed searching "threebear" on the internet brings up hundreds of results, thereby ruining the joke."

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Rabbits are not rodents; they're lagomorphs. Nasty stumbles for a false name when a patient asks who he is, and after considering and rejecting several TV series titles, blurts out "Rhoda...Rodent! Dr. Rodent!"

The scene in which Nasty Rabbit steals money from a tip jar is an homage to Nasty's birthplace, a Pizza Hut in Orlando, Florida. The waitresses protesting the theft are depicted as wearing the company uniform of the time. There are no tip jars in Pizza Huts.