NASTY'S PAIN

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NASTY'S PAIN
Nasty wakes up suffering from severe pain from a tooth that broke while eating candy that has been off the market since Ford was President. The episode chronicles his delirium while trying to remember the date of his dental appointment, and getting no help or sympathy from the dentist's office.

Nasty's Pain is the first of two Nasty Rabbit episodes written entirely in rhyming quatrains (see: Nasty Nocturne).



"It's totally an homage to Bill Watterson, and his sort of bonus rhyming story at the beginning of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes. I used a shorter format, though. It wasn't until long after I did the second one, "A Nasty Nocturne," that I realized Bill Watterson's was called "A Nauseous Nocturne!" I inadvertently ripped off the title, with my poor memory."

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"There's a Richard Scarry moment in this one, too. It's in the "pull your thumb out, lady" panel. When Nasty Rabbit is physically overtaken by his own excitement...it comes out Richard Scarry."

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A list of items Nasty employs to alleviate his pain:
 * non-prescription antihistamines
 * rubbing alcohol
 * beer (notably, Dinkel Acker)
 * asparagus
 * matchbox
 * beets
 * milk
 * pencil sharpener
 * deal with Satan
 * random pills
 * "amateur" pain pills from the dentist (which he complains are no stronger than Flintstone vitamins)