The Walrus and the Carpenter

The Walrus and The Carpenter are two characters in Disney's 1951 film Alice in Wonderland, originally created for Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking Glass. They are two travelers whose story was told to Alice by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

The Walrus
The Walrus acts as the leader of the duo. He is in many ways like Honest John from the film Pinocchio: he is a conniving moocher who resorts to trickery to get what he wants. While the Carpenter believes that finding employment will better improve their lives, work is the last thing on the Walrus' mind, regardless of his constant ramblings of "cabbages and kings" (his way of saying that their futures will soon enough be bright). He is also very greedy and self-conceited, not hesitating to eat all of the naive oysters (whom he deceptively convinced to follow him ashore and into a restaurant that Carpenter built out of bits of driftwood) belf, much to the Carpenter's rage of being left out for the feast.

The Carpenter
The Carpenter acts as the Walrus's dimwitted sidekick and talks in an Irish accent. He often acts before he thinks (nearly blurting out to the oysters their plans to eat them), leading to his smarter friend constantly beating him with his cane. Despite his stupidity, he is shown to be less despicable than the Walrus and very eco-friendly when he suggests that they clean up the garbage that was lingering on the beach only to have the Walrus turn down this idea when he knew it involved work. He is also a speedy builder, constructing a small restaurant out of driftwood in seconds as soon as the Walrus lured the oysters inside. However, the Carpenter does not take being swindled himself very well, bringing him to the point of enraged retribution on the Walrus when he devoured all of the oysters himself, leaving none for the Carpenter.

Alice in Wonderland
When Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum warn Alice that her curious nature could get her in trouble they proceed to tell her the story of poor oysters who met their demise because of their curiosity.

The Walrus and the Carpenter were traveling through the beach when the Carpenter discovered a family of oysters. The Carpenter whistles to the Walrus that he found the oysters in the water, and tries to catch the oysters, but the Walrus pulls him back and does it his way. The Walrus tricks them into coming with them on a walk, the oysters being unaware that the duo was planning to eat them. The Walrus used his clever lies to arouse the oysters' curiosity, but the mother oyster knew that the Walrus was planning to eat them, gave her children advice to stay in the ocean, only for the Walrus to shut her up, and, with a merry Pied Piper-like dance and flute solo, lures them to a restaurant built by the Carpenter in less than a few seconds. Once there, the Walrus tricks the Carpenter into preparing some bread and a sauce so he can eat all the oysters himself. When the Carpenter returns, he calls the little oysters and, when they do not respond, he looks for them and, behind the menu, he sees the empty oyster shells and realizes that the Walrus didn't leave any for him. He angrily attacks and chases the Walrus for leaving him out for the feast.

They are later seen in the reprise of the caucus race, and near the end of the film in the final chase sequence when Alice tries to escape from Wonderland. In the scene the Walrus and the Carpenter, along with the other characters in the film chase Alice through a vortex leading her back to the doorway home.

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Only the Carpenter, portrayed by John Prowse, appear in the show. Alice meet him when she finds herself inadvertently in a strange wood while she left on Cyrus's tracks, himself having released itself from the cage where he was prisoner by Jafar. However Alice becomes suddenly euphoric, insane and amnesic concerning her lover. Will Scarlett who joined her, discovers that the wood has a power hypnotizing on people which crosses it, putting them in a state close to hallucinogenic effects and transforms them literally into tree as it was the case for The Carpenter whose legs were replaced by a trunk.

Bonkers
In the episode CasaBonkers, a walrus resembling the Walrus can be seen dancing with a female Dodo at the Rubber Room.

Darkwing Duck
The Walrus and the Carpenter made a cameo appearance in the comics of Darkwing Duck (comic book).

Trivia

 * The Walrus appears as a walk-around character in various Disney theme parks, though he is rather difficult to find.

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