Emergency Questions Bonus Round: How Do You Brush Your Teeth?

This isn't one of Richard Herring's questions, but it follows on from Friday's post regarding brushing hair...

How do you brush your teeth?

Or, more specifically, what do you use to brush your teeth?

Smart Alecs will already be shouting "a toothbrush, duh!" at the screen... but what I mean is: do you use an electric toothbrush or an old-fashioned manual one?

For many years now, we've all used electric toothbrushes at Top Ten Towers. And indeed, every time I visit the dentist, she encourages me to do this.

However, have you noticed...? NOBODY on TV uses electric toothbrushes.

Couples brushing their teeth together or having a conversation while one of them is brushing their teeth is a TV director's shorthand to demonstrate domesticity. It happens all the time in TV shows. Yet nobody ever uses an electric toothbrush. Now clearly, there's an obvious reason for this - the noise of the toothbrush makes it harder to have a conversation / hear the dialogue. But this is one of the TV quirks that, once you've noticed it, you see it all the time.

Most recently it came up in an episode of the new John Hamm show Your Friends & Neighbours. Here are a bunch of rich Americans with perfect teeth, living lives of obscenely excessive wealth (which is why Hamm has started stealing from them all)... yet they still use bog standard bargain shop toothbrushes. This has become a bit of an obsession of mine lately, so please let me know if you ever see anyone on TV using an electric toothbrush. 

Mama Cass - Talkin' To Your Toothbrush

Brad Paisley - Toothbrush

Harry's Gym - Toothpaste

The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses

Blancmange - Don't Forget Your Teeth

All good tunes, but the main reason for this post was to give me a chance to play this...