Summary
In a truly audacious cinematic gambit born of wartime fervor, "The Kaiser's New Dentist" orchestrates a cunning political satire through the guise of a farcical medical caper. The narrative unfurls with the resourceful duo, Mutt and Jeff, embodying the quintessential American entrepreneurial spirit, yet imbued with a fervent patriotic zeal. Upon learning of Emperor Wilhelm II's pressing dental predicament, these shrewd operatives conceive an elaborate ruse, infiltrating the heart of Berlin to establish a dental practice. Their initial triumph involves ensnaring the German Crown Prince in their therapeutic web, whose subsequent relief from his oral afflictions becomes a potent, if unwitting, endorsement. This success serves as the crucial leverage, propelling the "All Highest" himself into their meticulously prepared dental chair. The climax of this audacious enterprise arrives as Mutt, with calculated precision, grips the Kaiser's notorious "pet molar" with his forceps, an act designed not merely for extraction, but as a symbolic disarming of imperial power, culminating in a communal, cathartic pronouncement of "Good-bye, Kaiser Bill!" from the jubilant audience. The film, therefore, transcends mere slapstick, positioning itself as a potent, if simplistic, allegorical triumph of Allied ingenuity over the perceived tyranny of the Central Powers.
Synopsis
Mutt and Jeff, like the shrewd business men and true patriots that they are, take advantage of the fact that the Kaiser is in need of a good dentist, and, through a ruse, get to Berlin and open an office. First, they prevail upon the Crown Prince to become one of their patients, and their treatment of him is so effective that the greatest long-distance fighter in the German Army persuades his father, the All Highest, to sit in the new dentists' chair. That is what the dentists are waiting for, and shortly after Mutt gets the forceps on the Kaiser's pet molar the audience in any given theatre will be allowed to stand up, and in slow, measured tones chant that ditty: "Good-bye, Kaiser Bill!"
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