472 - FCF: Smile

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sit back and say ‘Aaaahhhh!’ For this month’s</span> <strong>Four-Color Flashback</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Paul and Arlo take a trip to the dentist with Raina Telgemeier’s 2010 autobiographic novel</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smile</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Raina looks back on how her orthodontic woes served as a marker for her adolescence, from the loss of her two front teeth in 6th grade circa 1989 through finally ditching those braces in freshman year ‘92. This prompts Paul and Arlo to recount their own dental dramas in dramatic (traumatic?) detail before praising Telgemeier’s skillful cartooning, her incisive rendering of middle school social mores, the way historical events are set against the backdrop of teen life, and more. Plus, the boys have thoughts on the</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This Is Us</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">series finale.</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">NEXT: more drama, more trauma.</span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>BREAKDOWN</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">00:00:23  -  Intro /</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is Us</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">00:35:17  - </span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Smile</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt;">01:35:33  -  Outro / Next</span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>MUSIC</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dentist!” by Steve Martin, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold & Tisha Campbell,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Little Shop of Horrors (Original Motion Picture Soundtrac