(beeping)
(yawn)
(yawn)
Hello!
(scream)
Thanks for seeing me this early, Professor.
Well, it's not like I had anything better to do.
Really?
No.
Open your mouth.
Ahhhh.
Good lord!
Yeah, I know
and it's in MY mouth!
Is there anything we can do about it?
Perhaps we can communicate with it.
Open again.
Ahhhh.
I am the Professor.
Whom by addressing?
I'm a tongue!
(Roger making noise)
Quiet, Roger!
Where do you come from?
The mouth.
What exactly are you?
I'm a tongue!
Do you intend to harm Roger?
I'm just a tongue.
You can close your mouth now, Roger.
So is it going to kill me?
I don't think so.
It's just a tongue, so it says.
We visited the Professor today.
He told us about your little problem.
Hey, I am not impotent!
I meant your tongue.
Oh, that.
Yeah...
Can we see it?
What the hell is that?!
Hello!
Hmm, I feel like I've seen it before.
I know what you're talking about, Liz.
It looks like those parasites that replace the tongue of a fish.
Are you called my tongue a parasite?
Maybe it ate your tongue and took its place, like it does to the fish.
It ate my tongue?
It ATE my tongue?
Why should it bother you?
You've got the parasite as your tongue now.
Yeah, it can do what your tongue can do plus it can talk.
But this means there's a parasite in my mouth!
(laugh)
I think you need to change the approach to your painting.
It looks like you're inspired by Cubism
but I think if you chose the Neo-Realist approach
with a dash of Baroque
it'll look better.
You really think so?
I know so.
I have several art degrees.
Well, can't argue with that!
Thanks, uhh...do you have a name?
Not pronounceable by humans.
Can i call you Herman?
I used to have a little hermit crab by that name.
Please, be my guest.
Well, gee. Thanks Herman.
Then one of the green blob things stung me.
Hey, Roger, what the hell are you doing starting lunch without us?
Herman was REALLY hungry.
Who the hell is Herman?
It's what I'm calling my parasite tongue.
Hi!
It's good to see you're getting along.
Yeah, we've been getting to know each other, and--
(Roger's stomach grumbles)
Sorry, guys.
Was that your stomach?
How the hell can you still be hungry after eating all that?!
Hungry! Hungry!
Hold your horses, Herman. Food's coming.
Hey, did you guys know that Herman has a tongue, too?
Isn't that kind of weird?
My tongue having a tongue?
Food!
Okay, okay.
Roger, is that you?
Uggghhh!
You look like crap.
It's Herman.
He's eating all the food my mouth.
I haven't eaten in over a day!
We need to get you to the nurse's office.
Maybe she can give you a shot or something.
We can't. They're closed for the day.
Then we'll get the next best thing.
(Professor)
I wish you'd stop treating me as a surrogate medical practitioner.
You have a science degree
close enough!
Well?
You're starving and most likely anemic.
I could have told you that.
What should we do about it?
What do YOU think?
The cause is obvious.
The parasite.
All we have to do is destroy it.
DESTROY him?
What, you thought it attached itself to your mouth because it wanted to be friends?
But we ARE friends.
I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner.
We have to destroy it.
Or rather, you do.
But...I can't!
Don't kill me, Roger!
Don't kill me!
Shut up!
Roger, if this keeps up you're going to die.
But--
Is it worth dying for a talking parasitical tongue?
No...
Then kill it.
How?
It's YOUR tongue.
Just bite it until it stops moving.
Won't that hurt?
It will definitely hurt the parasite more than it hurts Roger.
So are you gonna do this, Roger, or what?
Okay, okay.
Uhh...
Herman?
Yes, Roger?
It's time to say goodbye, little buddy.
Little Hermy.
No, don't!
Don't kill me, Roger!
Don't kill me!
I'm sorry, Herman, but this is how things have to play out.
Goodbye, friend.
Did I get it?
Ugh!
(Professor)
I'll say
So do we have to cut it out now?
Am I going to have to get a prosthetic tongue?
No, you can leave it in.
But Professor, it's a dead parasite.
Which can still act as Roger's tongue.
It's still got legs and eyes.
Visit the nurse tomorrow.
She can amputate its limbs and sew its eyelids shut.
You can't be serious.
Well, at least now Hermon will never leave me.
His corpse will stay in my mouth for the rest of my life.
Goodbye Herman.
I'll never forget you and our friendship
and the time we shared.
(Roger)
Goodbye Herman.
(Roger)
Herman...goodbye.
