On-stage opening routine: You're 40, She's 10
Lou has a toothache and their boarding house neighbor Hillary Brooke gives him a card for the dentist she works for, Dr. Ralph Prentiss (Sid Fields). In the waiting room they hear Mr. Bacciagalupe in agony at the dentist's hands. Hillary reassures Lou. Lou soon discovers how nearsighted Dr. Prentiss is, drilling into his ear instead of his mouth. Dr. Prentiss comically pulls his finger instead of tooth and flings him out of the chair, with his head going through the wall in the place of a mounted head. Leaving with the tooth still aching, Bud devises a way to pull it. He ties the tooth to a string attached to a dog chasing a cat. It instead drags Lou around. Still hurting, Fields the Druggist (Bud and Lou's boss last week) gives Lou medicine. After Lou drinks it all instead of applying it, Fields belittles Bud about his treatment of Lou in a way that insults him with every line. Unaware of the context, Lou is proud. Bud next schemes to have Lou thrown in jail where they'll pull it for free. The plans comically go awry.