Am I going deaf? Are they?

It looks like the explosion might have rattled a few more things than Dr. Noll thought and I have a strange feeling that what had begun as separate formulas for perfume and fuel combined into one that is neither fuel efficient nor good for the skin.  Case in point: Sally's burnt skin.  (I feel for her, I really do, but there's still a part of me that's thinking that she deserved it if it smelled funny and she still put it on.)  We can only hope that she put it on a small spot as test and didn't immediately drench herself in the stuff like so many of the people walking around the mall seem to feel the need to do.

Yet all of this talk of burning skin pales in comparison to the real problem that has just been revealed: the entire cast is going deaf (or I am).  Apparently there was the sound of a gunshot coming from the direction of Dr. Noll's house (and if he dies, it just figures that I'd started getting attached to him.  This happens all the time on television series and movies.  Yes sir, if someone is going to have an early departure there's a good chance that I will have decided that I liked that character.  Sometimes I don't know why I watch anything anymore).  The oddest thing about this supposed gunshot is that if Tess hadn't said something, we'd have never known that it had happened.  Usually in these types of things, if there's a gunshot, there's a BAM! or BANG! or something like that.  Here there is nothing (which is really kind of disappointing and inexcusable seeing as how Dick Tracy often finds himself in the line of fire and the strip as a whole is no stranger to gunfire).  I guess whoever fired it made sure to put the silencer on beforehand.  (I'm sorry.  I couldn't resist.  I just couldn't.)