The man you know as Kane wasn't always the Big Red Machine - he was originally known as Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS. The whole thing was totally, outrageously wacky though, because the dentist's name could be abbreivated as I. Yankem, which sounds suspiciously similar to "I yank them," meaning teeth! It's a pun, you see! And on top of that, his were in terrible shape! Crazy! While others saw irony, however, we saw only tragedy in the story of a man so committed to the dental hygiene of others that his own teeth and gums went neglected.