Comments on: Did you notice the dancing Walrus in this video?

Did you notice the dancing Walrus in this video?

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:48:47 -0800

So anyway, here's a walrus dancing to Smooth Criminal.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:51:36 -0800

Well I'll be dipped. That's what it is, all right.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:51:54 -0800

WILL DANCE 4 BUKKIT

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:52:34 -0800

Walrus needs to be exposed to this version of Beat It. He looks like he could thrash it up.

By: fusinski

fusinski — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:53:53 -0800

Coo coo ca choo

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:54:04 -0800

I've seen more than a few walruses dancing in my time.

By: kbanas

kbanas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:55:57 -0800

Aw, god dammit. I totally wanted to make the first bucket joke.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:55:58 -0800

Man, those Flygirls have really let themselves go.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:57:02 -0800

Damn, that walrus represents! [So awesome. So, so awesome. I'm nearly wordless]

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:58:52 -0800

And in the meantime I would like to see his partner work out an equally slinky routine with a border collie.

By: found missing

found missing — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:00:55 -0800

I love that walrus.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:02:15 -0800

You mean you can train animals to do stuff? Wow, amazing.

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:02:31 -0800

That walrus looks like the one I rode to work this morning, though mine dances better.

By: ericb

ericb — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:02:34 -0800

Previously - 1, 2 (but as posts, as FPP).

By: ericb

ericb — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:03:04 -0800

*(but as comments, not as FPP)*

By: anthill

anthill — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:04:38 -0800

Poor walrus.

By: bastionofsanity

bastionofsanity — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:05:35 -0800

Where is this walrus performing? It's Friday and I've got a wad of ones ready to go.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:06:18 -0800

OK, TALK TO YOU LATER

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:12:15 -0800

maybe if my job involved dancing with walruses, i wouldn't always feel like offing myself.

By: Help, I can't stop talking!

Help, I can't stop talking! — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:12:24 -0800

Maybe I just set the bar too low, but I was 100% expecting this to be a crappy flash animation of a walrus. I had my snark gun cocked and loaded, but then I clicked the link, and oh shit it's a real walrus! It's really more enjoyable than it has any right to be.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:17:47 -0800

well, there goes my excuse that I'm not built for dancing.

By: HighTechUnderpants

HighTechUnderpants — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:18:59 -0800

Help, I can't stop talking! Is correct. I thought it was going to be animated for sure. Love it. Very funny stuff.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:21:50 -0800

...maybe if my job involved dancing with walruses... Calling Kevin Costner.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:23:41 -0800

That walrus gets around.

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:24:34 -0800

Kevin's too laid back to dance with walruses.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:32:27 -0800

You want to know my deep personal shame? That walrus has better rhythm than I do. No wonder he gets all the ladies.

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:38:19 -0800

In time, the ruins of fame come and gone, it will look upon these salad days with a melancholy longing uncommon in tusked pinnipeds.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:40:08 -0800

GO WALRUS! GO WALRUS! GO WALRUS! *dances almost as well as the walrus in celebration*

By: Muddler

Muddler — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:40:46 -0800

Technically, isn't it more appropriate for The Walrus to be dancing to John Lennon?

By: turaho

turaho — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:43:30 -0800

Yeah yeah, let me know when elephants start painting self portraits, then I'll be impressed.

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:44:14 -0800

What if it turns out that the walrus has trained the woman to dance to a popular 1990s walrus-screeching noise and it's just a coincidence that it syncs up with Smooth Criminal?

By: norabarnacl3

norabarnacl3 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:45:38 -0800

All I can see when I watch that is the hours and hours of training for each and every step that went into accomplishing the dance. I would like to believe the walrus is a happy go lucky aquatic life form but I just don't feel such is substantiated. There is nothing but tedium and mechanism in that video. The girl was faintly attractive but she would never go out with me and probably has a high testosterone alpha male boyfriend.

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:46:44 -0800

Metafilter: A happy go lucky aquatic life form.

By: found missing

found missing — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:47:59 -0800

All I can see when I watch that is the hours and hours of training for each and every step that went into accomplishing the dance. We're talking about Dancing with the Stars, right?

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:49:00 -0800

I could be the Walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off of people.

By: FelliniBlank

FelliniBlank — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:52:21 -0800

I want to see that walrus doing "Thriller" with Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo.

By: BobFrapples

BobFrapples — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:02:21 -0800

Please let's send another Voyager probe up, and put this video on it. That'll give other intelligent life in the universe something to ponder.

By: splice

splice — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:05:31 -0800

This video is shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time.

By: papercake

papercake — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:07:47 -0800

Yeah, it was awesome and everything, but he totally missed some hand gestures in there, I think. Keep working on it, walrus. Why YES, I AM having a shitty day at work. How did you know?

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:20:42 -0800

You know who else danced like a walrus...?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:25:29 -0800

These comments are much better than the YouTube comments.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:26:49 -0800

John Lennon?

By: notashroom

notashroom — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:29:06 -0800

If someone finds a way to relate this to Rule 34, I don't want to know about it.

By: flotson

flotson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:42:36 -0800

Pretty awesome, but it's no dog on a pony.

By: found missing

found missing — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:48:08 -0800

If someone finds a way to relate this to Rule 34, I don't want to know about it. I'd hit it.

By: enkiwa

enkiwa — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:57:42 -0800

I have never seen a tusked pinniped move like that. It's like dancing otter run through an exponential awesome function.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:03:30 -0800

Sure, first it's just a harmless Michael Jackson dance. It always starts so innocently. But mark my words... it's only a matter of time until there's a hornywalrus webcam.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:17:20 -0800

There is nothing but tedium and mechanism in that video. Whatever. If you can dance, and make it look half as good as that walrus, I'll give you the fish.

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:19:38 -0800

OH MY GOD HE FELL OFF THE STAGE INTO THE WATER AND oh wait...

By: 15 step

15 step — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:03:13 -0800

It thinks it's ~~people~~ Michael Jackson.

By: marble

marble — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:48:58 -0800

Just waiting for Blizzard to implement this for my druid.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:40:41 -0800

That is, without a doubt, the best dance by a walrus I have ever seen.

By: TomMelee

TomMelee — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:52:25 -0800

This so confirms it. I've been thinking about it, but now it's totally decided. I'm teaching my walrus to dance to thriller.

By: hortense

hortense — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:55:56 -0800

2nd life dolphin (stacked)

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:32:39 -0800

2nd life dolphin (stacked) So, did whatever Daily show writer who wrote the "Ha ha second life is for people who don't have a first one" joke think he was actually writing something new and original? I'm pretty sure that joke is as old as the first press release announcing the evental launch of Second Life.

By: fuit ilium

fuit ilium — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:39:00 -0800

Yeah, sure, it starts with the cute dancing. Then it gets a tusk job, wears a fin cast, buys Neverland and has young kids sleeping over. Will you still think it's cute then?

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:04:01 -0800

Rendered is almost as good as real.

By: FelliniBlank

FelliniBlank — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:27:14 -0800

Next up on the walrus's To Do list.

By: bibliowench

bibliowench — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:53:20 -0800

You know, when the walruses rise up and enslave us, this is going to be Exhibit Fucking A.

By: Unicorn on the cob

Unicorn on the cob — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:56:25 -0800

I demand a chinese MC Hammer/dancing walrus collabo NOW.