Or they could just have an angle where he has to change his image (shave, cut his hair, better wardrobe, etc.). His character isn't completely retarded since he seems to understand every word that everyone says, and he responds, so it wouldn't be so far-fetched for him to learn how to be suave and charismatic and elequent, the same way he learned how to wrestle so well.
This guy's one of my favorites now, too.
