Pretend Play Lover Prints

"I'm getting a bit concerned. He's been 'pretend telemarketing' all day."

"Dad, there's nothing good on TV. We're bored.

"Can I borrow a knife, Mommy. . . Stevie and I are playing doctor, and I want to be a surgeon!"

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

Pirate

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Little doctor.

A Punch and Judy Professor is visited by Death as a puppet.

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

'It would never work out, Blackfire — our alignments are too different.'

Imagination

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

"I tested very high in playing."

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

"Jonathan! I've told you not to put your space toys in the freezer and pretend they're on the ice planet!"

'AQ popgun? I want a field model Browning pump chambered for the 3-inch magnum load.'

"Tea parties are passé. I'm opening a craft brewery."

'Let's play doctor. You be the primary care giver and I'll be the doctor you refer patients to.'

A little boy is crawling through a sandbox towards his mother as though he were dying of thirst in a desert.

"Take a pill in the morning, in the afternoon and at night."

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

Kid to sister: 'I never play doctor anymore. There's too much paperwork.'

'I'm not playing with Kevin anymore. He's suing me.'

"So Dr. Gracie...how are your patients today?"