Alexandra KleemanAnd as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.
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In the movie "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," Will Ferrell describes this moment as a memory that will haunt him forever. In the movie, Ricky Bobby is a NASCAR driver whose hopes of winning a race are being crushed by his rival. As he races down the track at one point, he sees a huge fan who has been watching him from the stands. As he passes her, his rival is about to pass her and crush her beneath his car.
Desperate, he leans out of his car and attempts to kiss her. His face fills with terror as he realizes that she has become an enormous mouth that swallows him whole while she screams in horror.
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