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British Teeth

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British Teeth	comment	Brits in (usually American) media are commonly stereotyped as being completely indifferent to the physical appearance of their teeth. Expect much joshing by the pens of non-Brits at this, portraying British teeth as being a horrific monstrosity. The reasoning behind this trope has its roots largely in cultural differences. In the United States, having bad teeth is associated with extreme poverty, slovenliness, and/or drug addiction. Braces are a rite of passage for American teenagers whose parents can afford them. Thus there is an enormous cultural stigma to not having perfect teeth. In Britain on the other hand, for various reasons, there is no such class stigma. Indeed the reverse seems to be true: having one's teeth artificially straightened and/or whitened is considered the height of vanity, and cosmetically perfect teeth are often considered unsettling. The American emphasis on flawless teeth is viewed as an expensive indulgence in the UK, the sort of thing that only "Essex girls" (Americans, think Jersey Shore) get done. The reason for Britain's more lax standards on dental beauty are mostly related to the National Health Service (NHS). Basic dentistry is only partly covered by the NHS and the cosmetic side isn't covered at all; the NHS is only concerned with making sure your teeth are healthy, not pretty. British people tend to resent having to pay anything for medical care, leaving dentistry a lower priority than in other countries. But as far as actual dental health goes, a 2009 study by the OECD found that the UK, ironically, has the healthiest teeth in the industrialized world, ahead of the United States even, something backed up by a 2015 study for the British Medical Journal. For obvious reasons, this is almost exclusively an American and British trope, as not everyone outside the English-speaking world has the same views regarding British dental health if they even care about the topic. Also note that this is a national trope, not an ethnic one; a plurality of Americans are of British descent. For actors having a gleaming smile no matter what kind of character they are playing, see Eternally Pearly-White Teeth, and see Twinkle Smile for a visual effect used to emphasize this. Compare with Asian Buck Teeth.
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British Teeth / int_10254bd5	comment	Peter Capaldi (who was also speaking with Craig Ferguson) once referred to The Thick of It as "The West Wing with bad teeth and swearing."
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British Teeth / int_109f7814	comment	The title character in Sherlock correctly identifies someone as American on the basis of his tan and his teeth (they are indeed flawless and spectacularly white).
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British Teeth / int_11a7b7e1	comment	Lampshaded and inverted in A Good Year when Max observes that Christie must be American because of her perfect teeth.
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British Teeth / int_11b7db91	comment	Finn from Adventure Time has rather wonky teeth (according to Word of God, it's because "he bites trees and rocks and stuff"). This got lampshaded in the MAD parody, "Avenger Time", when Captain America gets redesigned to look like Finn:
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British Teeth / int_141a7410	comment	In Over the Garden Wall, Auntie Whispers (played by the very British Tim Curry) has teeth are sparse, crooked, and tar-black.
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British Teeth / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack's ally the Scotsman has a really bad tooth decay problem, visible whenever he smiles. (Which he tends to do a lot more often than Jack). His wife as well has teeth just as bad as his, but somehow this didn't pass down to their Amazon Brigade of daughters.
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British Teeth / int_19ac548b	comment	The British adult comic Viz mercilessly turned the trope on its head in a one-off strip called Crystal's Big Chance. This was about an American girl who wanted to become a cheerleader but was regarded as hideously ugly because one of her front teeth was just slightly out of line. She eventually got her happy ending and was hailed as beautiful at the end despite the enormous braces she now wore.
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British Teeth / int_22532d78	comment	Fargo season three has V. M. Varga, who owes his dental hygiene to bulimia.
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British Teeth / int_25d97c04	comment	Similarly, James Bond opens his battle against Austin Powers with this blistering insult:
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British Teeth / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Last Exit to Springfield", a dentist terrifies Ralph Wiggum into healthy dental habits by showing him a book titled "The Big Book of of [sic] British Smiles".
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British Teeth / int_2675c915	comment	Mentioned in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., when the I Am Very British Leo Fitz mentions watching lots of American TV partially because of their nice teeth.
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British Teeth / int_29e77392	comment	Horrible Histories: Used as a contrast between American and British soldiers in a WWII sketch. Also implied by a few Horrible toothpaste recipes, including one whose main ingredient is sugar-paste.
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British Teeth / int_2aaa6ba	comment	And the jokes continued in The Grand Tour when, in one promo, Clarkson points out his and May's teeth immediately mark them as British. After getting "Americanized", their new super white teeth are terrifying. Meanwhile, Hammond and his pearly whites escape completely untouched.
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British Teeth / int_2abd5315	comment	Comes up every so often in Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Both versions, thanks to the recurring American cast members in both. One example from Scenes From a Hat:
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British Teeth / int_3558eaa2	comment	John Oliver's character is the butt of these jokes in Community.
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British Teeth / int_3b34143f	comment	Downplayed in Harry Potter, where Hermione has buck teeth but otherwise unremarkable dentition since her parents are dentists. They're not too happy that she gets her front teeth shrunken down by magic (after an incident where they're cursed to grow out), but there's not much they can do about it.
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British Teeth / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Slightly different take as George Sr. describes the British as having bad breath. Played straight as referenced by a pub called "The Crooked Fang".
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British Teeth / int_3f4c86db	comment	Sir Raleigh the Frog of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is a Welsh frog who boasts some horrific dental hygiene in his intro cutscene.
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British Teeth / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	The Austin Powers films pull a few jokes of this nature on the eponymous spy, who has atrocious teeth. The joke is not just that Austin is British, but that, coming from the 1960s, beauty standards were different from what they are when the film was made. In the 1990s, it becomes clear that Austin's personality is what has always made him attractive, not his looks. In the end, he gets his teeth fixed to conform to modern standards, though the sequels give him back his old teeth.
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British Teeth / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked did a list of severely incorrect stereotypes, with #3 being this trope. Which linked to us. Hi, Cracked!
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British Teeth / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: The Second Book of Jove (Part 1):
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British Teeth / int_474397c1	comment	The Mickey Mouse (2013) short "One Man Band" takes place in England and many of the background characters have imperfect teeth.
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British Teeth / int_47dfc6f	comment	Alluded to in the Total Drama season three episode "I See London..." which takes place in the Tower of London. Courtney finds a golden toothpick and an emerald-studded toothbrush in the banquet hall and scoffs, "What is wrong with these royals and their dentistry?"
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British Teeth / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood lampshades this stereotype with Captain Jack Harkness saying, "You want scary? Compare teeth with a British guy." The Brits return the favour by mocking Jack for his perfect, and presumably American, set of teeth. Indeed, Eve Myles (Gwen) has a notable gap between her two top front teeth, which some American fans made hostile comments about.
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British Teeth / int_52eecc0c	comment	British Kyle of Fanboy and Chum Chum has large buck teeth as well as braces. Though it's not as if the non-British titular duo has perfect teeth...
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British Teeth / int_5fd4696	comment	Balthazar, an overweight Pirate Captain boss from Jitsu Squad, have seriously gawd-awful teeth on him. It's not visible during gameplay, but pretty obvious during a cutscene that has a Gross-Up Close-Up. To be fair, pirates aren't known to have healthy teeth because of scurvy.
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British Teeth / int_60e46926	comment	in MAD Magazine's parody of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry and Cho's romantic arc is summed up in one panel:
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British Teeth / int_61714657	comment	Salad Fingers: The titular character. The appearance of his teeth actually varies from frame to frame — sharp, tiny, huge, missing, etc. — but they are always ugly, yellow and somewhat crooked. Of course, Salad Fingers' nationality isn't known for sure to be British, but he is from a British flash series and has a British accent.
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British Teeth / int_6893ed4f	comment	The Ladykillers (1955): Professor Marcus has very... unusual teeth (that thankfully weren't the actor's real ones).
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British Teeth / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: While there's obviously no Britain in Runterra and it's downplayed since Caitlyn only has a very tiny gap in her front teeth, it's noticeable that the British-accented daughter of such a wealthy family has an imperfection with her teeth while someone like Vi who grew up in the slums has perfect teeth.
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British Teeth / int_7899c84f	comment	In an Adrian Mole book, Adrian's Australian dentist comments on how bad British people's teeth are.
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British Teeth / int_78ae0d07	comment	The Chucky the Chipmunk commercial for British Choco Corn Puffies that come on during the credits for You Don't Know Jack Volume 1 will be loved by mothers because it contains one important ingredient...floride!
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British Teeth / int_7c038c18	comment	At the end of Ferb's grandfather (who is British)'s flashback scene in the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Flying Fishmonger", a woman claims that she has to go home and not brush her teeth.
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British Teeth / int_8125b468	comment	Batman has Jervis Tetch, or the Mad Hatter. His teeth are especially noticeable in The Animated Series, and he sports a rather nice Brit accent to boot.
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British Teeth / int_841ff687	comment	Chop in My Mad Fat Diary. The rest of the gang has normal teeth.
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British Teeth / int_89bf8ce	comment	On 30 Rock, trying to lighten the tension on an awkward date, Liz jokes about this to a British man she met in the orthodontist's office. He's never heard the stereotype before and is offended. It's Liz Lemon, what do you expect?
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British Teeth / int_8fa1064	comment	MediEvil: Sir Daniel Fortesque's most noteworthy feature both in life and in undeath is his oversized, awkwardly spaced upper set of teeth. Hilariously, Resurrection reveals his face from when he was alive and he had an overbite so absurdly exaggerated he may as well not had a jaw at all.
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British Teeth / int_976efc02	comment	On the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Santa Claus (1959):
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British Teeth / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama, "All the Presidents' Heads":
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British Teeth / int_a8729c90	comment	This happens to nearly the whole cast in an episode of The Fairly OddParents! when Timmy accidentally prevents the Revolutionary War from happening and causes the USA to remain an English colony.
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British Teeth / int_a9a55e0b	comment	They Shall Not Grow Old features a lot of archive footage of British soldiers smiling at the camera during World War 1, providing a very clear view of the poor state of dental hygiene in the 1910s. One veteran notes that the only use soldiers found for their toothbrush was cleaning their buttons.
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British Teeth / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Deal", Gumball says that Richard's attempt to rap about his day (where the only thing he did of note was finding a fry under the sofa) was the rap equivalent of British dental work.
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British Teeth / int_b0fc9724	comment	An old SNL episode had a "commercial" with Mike Myers playing the pitchman for "Hedley & Wyche, the British toothpaste." Each tube contains two teaspoons of pure cane sugar, for a smile that says, "Yum! That was good."
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British Teeth / int_b132ebd8	comment	Life's Too Short: One of Johnny Depp's anti-Gervais jokes uses this as its punchline.
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British Teeth / int_b5efd918	comment	In Harley Quinn (2019), Clayface is depicted as an Evil Brit whose Shapeshifter Default Form has a gob full of crooked yellow teeth.
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British Teeth / int_bc1dc95a	comment	The two English pirates from Pirates of the Caribbean qualify. Apparently, everyone else who spent months at a time on a ship in the Caribbean had access to a really good dentist. Of course, most of the characters in the films are English so maybe it was just a part of those two pirates' character.
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British Teeth / int_bc8b07	comment	Epic Rap Battles of History: Frank Sinatra started out his battle against Freddie Mercury with a joke about the latter's huge teeth. He also addresses Mercury as "Jaws of Life" in the second verse. Similarly, James Bond opens his battle against Austin Powers with this blistering insult:
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British Teeth / int_be143785	comment	Despite being set in the UK, Pumpkins only has one example of this in the uncle, who's teeth are yellow, and half of which seem to have fallen out of his mouth.
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British Teeth / int_c2273334	comment	The cover blurb for Planetary's second volume claims that this trope couldn't possibly be true because how else could Warren Ellis have ripped out eight people's throats and bit out their hearts?
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British Teeth / int_c47a07c7	comment	In the Sealab 2021 episode "Let 'Em Eat Corn", Captain Shanks gets his hands on some nukes from two British guys in exchange for paying to have their dreadful teeth fixed.
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British Teeth / int_c5959aee	comment	Richie Rich: Richie's English butler, Cadbury, has really sensitive teeth.
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British Teeth / int_d68df17d	comment	British attitudes on both ends are seen in Top Gear. The hosts mock both Jeremy Clarkson for his yellowing teeth and Richard Hammond for supposedly getting his teeth whitened. And the jokes continued in The Grand Tour when, in one promo, Clarkson points out his and May's teeth immediately mark them as British. After getting "Americanized", their new super white teeth are terrifying. Meanwhile, Hammond and his pearly whites escape completely untouched.
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British Teeth / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In "Tsst!", the British nannies summoned to curb Cartman's behavior all have this. "The Snuke" shows America getting invaded by Britain, and the British army (decked out in Redcoats of course) have noticeably terrible teeth.
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British Teeth / int_ded0e62f	comment	Seems to come up in The Count of Monte Cristo. Despite rotting in prison for over a decade, Dantes/The Count has perfect, white teeth, but in his persona as English aristocrat Lord Wilmore, he wears a fake jaw/teeth which are the opposite of this.
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British Teeth / int_ea4f62db	comment	Just about every British character who appears on Family Guy, to the point of a Running Gag. The Griffins' British counterparts have these in a "Viewer Mail" segment.
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British Teeth / int_f17cf66c	comment	The Goldfinch: Theo notes that Boris, who has lived all around the world, has grey, crooked and "un-American" teeth. By contrast, he notes that a man who looks like the quintessential Texan has flawlessly white and straight teeth.
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British Teeth / int_f1da64b5	comment	Joked about in The Lord of the Rings DVD commentary (the one with Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan, a.k.a. "Merry and Pippin"). When commenting on the scene of Smeagol turning into Gollum, including a close-up of him devouring a fish with his mangled teeth, Dominic and Billy (who are English and Scottish, respectively) joke that the English Andy Serkis used his real teeth and nails for that scene, then claiming that Scotsmen have perfect teeth used for eating haggis and biting the ends of kilts.
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British Teeth / int_f3e1f424	comment	Bradley James (Arthur in Merlin) has crooked teeth. Note that this does not stop his status as a Mr. Fanservice.
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British Teeth / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier. In "Rdwrer", Daphne is upset at businesses sending Christmas cards after Christmas:
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British Teeth / int_f9be6f1b	comment	When Nettie visits Britain in The Color Purple, she notes that English people tend to have crooked and decaying teeth.
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British Teeth / int_fa7099e2	comment	Played with in Across the Universe (2007), when Jude, a Brit, notes of the American Lucy, "My god — you have perfect teeth!" He tells her that people back home have horrible teeth, and feigns not knowing what braces are.
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