If your dad’s gonna use a frickin’ *ROCKET* to pull your loose tooth out, while filming the whole thing with the super-cool-skateboard-video-fisheye-lens on his video camera, shouldn’t he play something a little more butch on the stereo? What is that boring indie song anyway?
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Remind me again why straight people are allowed to have kids?
It’s DCFC- “I’ll follow you into the dark”
#1, kid was happy as shit and thinks his dad is one of the coolest guys on earth. Whats your point again?
Oh, just being bitter? Cool. Keep up the good fight!
A huge improvement on the ‘tie it to the doorknob and slam the door shut’ method my Dad used back in the day.
That was so badass. No amount of mopey background music could make that less than badass. That guy has got to be the coolest parent ever, and now his kid is like the coolest tooth-loser ever.
borderline child abuse
even the other kid knows it is wrong
@6, yea man.. model rockets are extreme force. he could’ve sent his son to space!
What is with some parents’ seemingly gleeful obsession with ripping out kids’ baby teeth with doorknobs, radio controlled cars, and now model rockets? They fall out on their own if you just wait a few more days.
Also, the dad should have used the new Devo “Human Rocket” song. “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” is a disturbing choice for a home video of his son, lyrically.
“Love of mine, someday you will die, but I’ll be close behind.”
Dad?
Yes, son?
Why do you want to illuminate my nose?
Never mind that, son. Now sleep well. In the morning there’ll be a dollar from the Tooth Fairy.
Really, Dad?
Of course, son. IF YOU WAKE UP.
Nighty night, son! The time for sleep is now.
@8 so have you ever had a loose tooth? have you ever swallowed said tooth? Both of these things really suck & are excessively annoying. I’m glad your youth was filled with teeth popping out immediately and never during mealtime landing perfectly in your hand so you could get your next $20.
HOWEVER, most of us weren’t so lucky, often gums don’t like giving up their siblings without a fight
@10 No, I still have all my baby teeth, even though I’m old enough that the tooth fairy gave out quarters, not twenties.
But serious emo points on playing the ‘woe is me, I wasn’t that lucky as a child’ Ask Me About My Therapist card about your baby teeth from elementary school.
@12
ps fuck you
also, Mark Mothersbaugh would be ashamed of his freak offspring
Reminds me of a story my grandmother tells about my uncle: one day he asked her how much money the Tooth Fairy would give him for a loose tooth. My grandma told him he’d get a quarter. Ten minutes later, he cam back and asked, “how much for four teeth?” then opened his hand.
Needless to say, he found a dollar under his pillow the next morning.
@13 Somebody got their directionless angst and some sort of weird unresolved childhood issues about their parents and baby teeth in my peanut butter!
Don’t start a Wavves-vs-Black-Lips brawl here, Green Label Sound Target Demographic Bro. That’s not chill.
Yes, yes, clench-buts, I’m sure most dentists would be appalled by this technique. But they’d probably be appalled by how half of our baby teeth came out.
I invariably wiggled a loose tooth around in my mouth until it was driving me crazy, and yanked it out myself. I only swallowed one that came out when I was eating.
I only wish I’d have used a rocket to yank a couple of my teeth. That would have been so much more fun than anything I did.
For you “child abuse” accusers, did you fail to notice the ear-to-ear grin on that kid’s face? He’ll be telling this story for weeks, or years, maybe decades. And he will always have that grin.
The yanking out part probably isn’t too bad, but isn’t a rocket kinda like a fire cracker? Is it that smart to tie something to your kids face that can explode? Not really.
Reminds me of the time my dad took out my tonsils with a snowmobile.
@18:
It’s hard to tell distance with that goofy fish-eye lens, but I’d venture the kid is a good 30 feet from the launcher, and that snaked line (dental floss?) represents another 50 – 60 feet of slack. Plus, the engine used in model rockets (basically a solid core of black powder with a clay nozzle) have been around for more than 60 years and are extremely reliable.
Frankly, the kid probably would have run a greater risk of injury if his dad had used the more traditional method – such as a pair of pliers for example – to yank the tooth.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Cool dad.
I remember twisting my loose teeth to get them to come out sooner. It was so annoying just having them wiggle around in my mouth, loose and useless. It would have been constant torment to wait several more days for them to fall out on their own.
I love this vid more each time I watch it.