Gums. It's all about gums.

How did my gums get so big? Pulling my lips apart, my gums stretch down all the way to my chin and reach up all the way to just below my eyes. Is this how they'd look if I lost my teeth? No, no, they're not just relatively big... they've grown! My mouth isn't smaller, it's just like.. my lips have come loose from my mouth or something. If you reached down far enough, you could pull off my face now!

Eventually I get tired of poking and prodding and develop the muscular control to make great big freakish Cheshire Cat grins, only with the normal amount of teeth an island in an ocean of gum. I've never spent so much of a dream watching myself in a mirror before.

in our last episode... | p_i-logs | and then, all of a sudden...