Q: What's the difference between a dentist and a sadist? A: A sadist has newer magazines. After hearing the joke from Jerry: Kramer: You think that dentists are so different from me and you? They came to this country just like everybody else, in search of a dream. Jerry: Kramer, he's just a dentist. Kramer: Yeah, and you're an anti-dentite.
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So it seems like the joke should boil down to, "even sadists have newer magazines than dentists." The way Jerry phrases it seems to imply that sadists have newer magazines, but Whatley's phrasing implies that dentists have newer magazines. I think Jerry's is funnier and I'm guessing it's what the original interpretation was supposed to be.
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Comic Books
Averted in an Archie Comics story. When Jughead gets a toothache, his friends drag him kicking and screaming to the dentist. From the waiting room, they listen to him howling in agony until Archie decides to intervene.
Fan Fiction
In Chiisai Shoppu, the "anime adaptation" of Little Shop of Horrors, there was Dr. Haru, who is based off of Dr. Farb from the original 1960 movie, who eventually retired to become a surgeon. A biker named Samekiba Orin, based more or less on Orin Scrivello, becomes the new dentist shortly after.
Film
One patient is so anxious she starts screaming as he tries to use the mirror tool and isn't even close to her mouth - screaming enough to send a patient in the waiting room out of there.
Eastern Animation
There is a Russian cartoon called Captain Pronin where the hero is captured by his enemies, and the high ranking one explains that his job is making drugs, and his hobby is inhumane experiments in stomatology. Very few managed to survive more than two fillings...
Professional Wrestling
Years ago, there was a hulking brute of a man whose gimmick was that of being a depraved dentist called Isaac Yankem, DDS (ironically, Isaac's own teeth looked horrible). It wasn't exactly a roaring success. Fortunately, the man behind the gimmick, Glen Jacobs, would go on to be considerably more popular as "the big red machine", Kane.
Tabletop Games
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay had, in its first edition, an adventure called Enemy Within. The Big Bad was called "Zahnarzt", which is the german word for 'dentist'. Sadly he wasn't one, but the name cannot be anything other than intentional.
Theater
Orin Scrivello of Little Shop of Horrors, from whom the page quote is taken. This leather-clad hoodlum literally gets off on torturing patients. In The Movie, he meets his match in masochistic patient Arthur Denton, whom he eventually throws out of his office in disgust. The roles were memorably played by Steve Martin and Bill Murray respectively.