"Well, I'm down here, looking right at them. Besides, I've been rehearsing a gay dude for the past few weeks, playing him all weekend, maybe I'm paying a little more attention to shoes than I would normally." He was then up on two feet again, his joke told and his point made until the next time he had to be silly and non-human.
"Don't worry too much, though," added Gar, leaning in conspiratorially. "I haven't yet caught the gay. I know you were concerned there for a moment. It would have been a blow for all womankind but quite a coup for all gay kind."