- "Dr." Ken Tuggler is 77 years old
- owns Tuggler and Son, a dentistry practice in the same plaza as the gas station
- sells/uses prescription pills on a legal/illegal basis
- is usually sedated
- usually hard (but also very dry)
- no one is sure where he came from
- purported to have won "most shady" as a high school superlative, but nobody is sure where or how long ago this happened
- hella rich from a massive and totally undeserved out of court settlement
- barely literate anymore
- not a narc but is definitely a fascist
- actively pursued by the Cloumbus County sheriff's department for constant reports of public urination
- wants Cleetus's piss for reasons
- Tuggler isn't as much a dentist as someone whose neurotic pursuit of his own oral fixations lead to the accrual of knowledge about dental terminology and equipment
- maintains beef with the town's only other accredited doctor, the innovative psychologist Jacques Mé
- however, this rivalry is one-sided, consisting mostly of Tuggler whispering to himself about the falsity of professor Mé's emphasis on the anal over the oral
- The one time Tuggler confronted him on this issue by the parking lot dumpsters, Mé answered back with one of his cryptic axioms: "even when clothed, the repressed subject is doomed to a bare ass"
- Tuggler really never recovered from hearing that, what with all his repression issues and such
- to find out how Tuggs goes out you gotta ask the Candy Cane King
meanwhile, on an adjacent plane of reality, it's FIST LAD UNIVERSE