I feel old when people don’t recognize the FarSide. No offense, but 15 yrs ago (when I was 27) The FarSide was everywhere. Ah well, one of those generational things …
The scene reminds me of a victorian cartoon about London’s drinking water just after the discovery of the microscope:
http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/march2004/Fig4.jpg
The fish and the pirate skeleton go back into Lio’s brain to be brought out at an opportune time. Thankfully Lio is good natured, otherwise that sadness could turn to anger and that brain could find ALL KINDS of uses for that gascan!
Alice in Wonderland just got creepier by two orders of magnitude!