Line #66 WebAnimation/WalrusGuy


1	[[quoteright:350: [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Walrusguy_2943.JPG]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: [[TemptingFate "I just wonder what Ganon's up to"...]] [[HilarityEnsues and then everything goes to hell.]]]]
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4	-> ''[[Funny/{{Walrusguy}} I laughed]], [[TearJerker/{{Walrusguy}} I cried]], [[ToiletHumor I went POO POO]]!''
5	-->-- '''Scratch''', "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)"
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7	Nicholas Walstrom, better known by his [[https://www.youtube.com/user/WalrusGuy Walrusguy]] moniker, is one of the most notable YouTubePoop-ers, often hailed as potentially ''the'' best during his heyday (in the genre's golden age), along with Creator/{{Deepercutt}} (the two were considered by various fans as singular rivals for a long time).
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9	He rose to further fame when [[ScrewedByTheLawyers his account got suspended by]] Colgate-Palmolive because of his heavy {{Adaptational Jerkass}}ery of the company's mascot, the anthropomorphic hare dentist Dr. Rabbit, only for him to come back with even more Dr. Rabbit-centered poops as a response.
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11	Unfortunately, not long after Colgate realized they shouldn't be so strict about the (mis)treatment of their "beloved" mascot, Walrusguy was hacked by anonymous hater(s), resulting in his account being closed. He did return, but with all of his videos gone, and a message that he would quit making poops. His final work, [[ShoutOut "One More Final:]] [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion I need You]][[Website/YouTube (tube]] [[YouTubePoop Poop)"]], is a truly [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]] farewell to the entire world of YouTubePoop.
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13	The [=WalrusGuy=] account still existed by 2011, but was mostly devoted to posting random stuff that wouldn't fit on Walstrom's other page, [=NAveryW=], shifting focus to his own WebAnimation[=/=]{{Webcomic}} series called ''Website/{{Enthalpy}}''... until he came back to the game, that is. After nearly two years of inactivity, he released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2rJiKh5Wx8 An Unimportant Announcement]], and despite being released on [[AprilFoolsDay April first]], he then came out with three more a month later, and since then has released them at slow but definitely certain updates. ''Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe'', for example, is also his longest poop at nearly ten minutes of sentence-mixing majesty.
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15	However, despite the fact that [=WalrusGuy=]'s formerly uploaded Poops aren't on his account anymore, FEAR NOT! A particularly dedicated fan of his created an account, called '''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjAalnNT02prpYXksKfmYuA/videos?disable_polymer=1 WalrusGuy Archive]]''', in order to re-upload said lost poops, thus allowing new generations of poopers to have an example to use as a basis for their work. And unlike what happened with fellow former Pooper Creator/IAmTheGang - who doesn't even want his own, old poops to be re-uploaded again [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes (not that other users such as IAmThaGang or ImTheGang care)]] - Walstrom himself [[ApprovalOfGod approves of the new channel.]]
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18	!!Walrusguy uses the following tropes in his works:
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20	* AbusiveParents: In "Animation/DinoTime Enough For Love," Ernie's mother grounds him for three weeks [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment without food]]... for ''being raped.''
21	* AdaptationalVillainy: Dr. Rabbit is frequently made out to be racist, pedophiliac and/or even a terrorist.
22	* AffectionateParody: The Dr. Rabbit poops started out as this, but after Colgate's flagging of his videos they became ''much'' more venomous.
23	* ArcWords: [[AC:GENDO IS A JERK]]
24	* AuthorAppeal: There are ''tons'' of {{shout out}}s in his poops, but Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion undoubtedly stands above the others.[[labelnote:*]]However, to list the other things Walrusguy is fond of: Series/TheSuperMarioBrothersSuperShow (mostly WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld), VideoGame/HotelMario (obviously), VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames (ditto), WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog, ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatoing}}'' [[Creator/VideoBrinquedo and the like]], Dr. Rabbit (even more than before, after the whole Colgate thing), Series/ICarly, Creator/AdultSwim stuff [[LampshadeHanging ("That's a lot of stuff from Adult Swim, isn't it?")]] and finally Manga/DeathNote.[[/labelnote]]
25	* BittersweetEnding: "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)." Both Link and Mama Luigi overcome their grief for the loss of their loved ones. It's also a bittersweet end for Walrusguy's pooping career, who made it clear he will never return to poop, thus [[EndOfAnAge ending an era in]] YoutubePoop. [[spoiler:Until he returned.]]
26	* BlackComedyRape: Christopher [=McDonald=] gets anally raped by Film/{{flubber}} at the end of "Robin".
27	* BodyHorror: In ''A Partially Uncensored Back to the Past'', Elliot and Steph, our two heroes, get sent back in time by being sucked into a portal in Elliot's ass. FridgeHorror ensues when you realise that this means Elliot [[spoiler:''must have had to turn himself inside out'']] to go into the portal.
28	* BungledSuicide:
29	** How the events of "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)" happen - Link, despondent after Zelda and the King die, decides to take his own life by jumping off a bridge. He lands on Yoshi instead, who slowly dies from the wounds.
30	** "Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe; or, Dino Time Enough for Love". Gwonam attempts to commit suicide early on, but to make a long and senseless (it ''is'' YouTubePoop, after all) story short, he's alive by the end. To be more precise, the first suicide attempt was merely bungled. The second and third times were real; he just [[DeathIsCheap kept getting brought back to life]], one time as a WesternAnimation/{{gargoyle\|s}}.
31	* CantYouReadTheSign: King Harkinian, Mario, Luigi, Light Yagami and the floating Mario Head all ignore the sign at Squadallah Burger saying "We only serve burgers".
32	* ChocolateBaby: In "Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe", the baby Zelda holds when Gwonam wakes from his coma bears more than a passing resemblance to Ganon.
33	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Luigi in the fittingly named poop "Luigi Just Won't Accept The Truth" just doesn't seem to realize that he won't be getting "lotsa spaghetti" at their picnic, even ''after'' Mario tells him that the Princess can't make spaghetti.
34	-->'''Luigi:''' Well, maybe a Koopa will lend us his!\
35	'''Mario:''' No... can't you get the hint?
36	* ContinuityCreep: Especially near the end, culminating in the GrandFinale. Little consistencies such as the Zelda group's dynamic and Dr. Rabbit's lust for Carmen and hatred for black people (particularly [[ButtMonkey Tandi]]) piled up and became more established, resulting in what could almost be called a canon.
37	* CovertPervert: [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} D.W. Read]], of all people, is shown peeping on an undressing woman without anyone but Nadine noticing during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6DJdD-pNko this Arthur YTP]].
38	* CruelMercy: In "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)", Luigi initially tries to kill Link in revenge for Yoshi's death, but after finding out Link wants to die, he decides letting him live would be a worse punishment.
39	* DamnYouMuscleMemory: The credits for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-br5nB8LoA Genesis of Dr. Rabbit]]" note as much, claiming that he used the phrase "brush your teeth" from ''Dr. Rabbit's World Tour'', even though he's absolutely certain the phrase also shows up in ''The Incredibly Ride'' - the source he was actually pooping for that video - because he already knew exactly where to find any given phrase from ''World Tour'' from having watched and pooped it so many times.
40	* {{Deconstruction}}: Walrusguy's last (and [[TearJerker saddest]]) of his original poops, "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)" was a DeconstructorFleet ''for the entire YoutubePoop world'' in the same manner as Creator/IAmTheGang's "The Return To Gamelon: The Final Cutscene". Kinda fittingly, given the deconstructory fleet the poop is named after.
41	* DissonantSerenity:
42	** [[PerpetualSmiler Dr. Rabbit.]] See AlternateCharacterInterpretation on the YMMV page.
43	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TqUbFBhPng The Valley Place What Contains Some Dinosaurs]]" ends with [[WesternAnimation/ValleyOfTheDinosaurs Greg]] being tossed into the air and coming back down [[LudicrousGibs with lethal results]], which garners laughter from everyone [[FunnyBackgroundEvent except for]] the two {{Team Pet}}s.
44	* DownerEnding: The "Bowser the Foodstealer" trilogy unexpectedly concludes with one, which doubles as a ShoutOut to WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} (it even uses the same music in the scene it's making a shout-out to).[[spoiler:The White House has been thrown into the Mushroom Sea by Bowser, Kootie Pie takes over America, all the kids in America have been turned to stone, and Gwonam and Link continue waiting for Dr. Rabbit, the only person who can defeat Bowser - but he never shows up.]]
45	* DrivenToSuicide:
46	** "One More Final" does this twice. Zelda learns that the King was killed by Ganon, which drives her to overdose on sleeping pills. Link finds out the next morning, which drives him to jump off a bridge. He lands on Yoshi, who cushions his fall and is mortally wounded as a result. Once Mama Luigi comes after him with murderous intent, [[SuicideByCop Link puts up no resistance]], but Luigi [[CruelMercy denies Link the death he wants in the end]]. The poop ends in a DistantFinale, with Link visiting Zelda's grave 20 years after these events.
47	** Gwonam, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSBhsvW_zg Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe]], when he learns ''Dino Time'' isn't coming out on the expected date. Fortunately for him, the afterlife is apparently watching the film. ''Un''fortunately for him, he keeps coming back to life, forcing him to keep finding ways to kill himself. Just to drive it all home, each time is accompanied with [[Series/{{MASH}} "Suicide is Painless"]].
48	-->'''Gwonam:''' There is no God! There is no Jesus! There is no Allah! There is no reason for me to go on living!
49	* EvenEvilHasStandards: As shown in "Robotnik Says the N-Word", even Grounder has a problem with racial slurs:
50	-->'''Grounder:''' Ooooh...Dr. Robotnik said a ''bad'' word!
51	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
52	** Played amusingly straight with ''Steamed Hams and Knuckles''; it's a [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield Steamed Hams]] [=YTP=], but right at the very end, an image of Knuckles the Echidna appears as cut-off prevention.
53	** Subverted with ''Mario Farts in Luigi's Face For Twenty Four Seconds While I Play Unfitting Music''.
54	* ExactWords: In "Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe", Link states that his smart sword won't hurt anyone friendly. When Gwonam tells Link to sit and spin, Link was allowed to kill him since he wasn't being friendly.
55	* FakeOutOpening:
56	** Mama Luigi has often been used as this for [[spoiler: Dr. Rabbit-related poops]]. See LampshadeHanging below.
57	** "The Only Mama Luigi Poop Anyone Has Ever Made", appropriately enough, has one of its own. It starts with Yoshi asking Luigi to tell him a story about how [[NoodleIncident he found worms, Peach told them a bedtime story, Yoshi ate Luigi, and Peach died from eating "bad medicine"]]. [[spoiler:Yoshi cracks up laughing and falls asleep six words into the story, but then wakes back up and asks Luigi to tell him a [[SelfDeprecation bad story]], which leads into the actual poop.]]
58	* FissionMailed: "Widescreen ruins Youtube Poop" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]] when it uses a [[spoiler: fake "loading ring".]]
59	* FreezeFrameBonus: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6DJdD-pNko walrusguy where do u get the censorship beep sound effect]]" Zelda and King Harkinian can be seen in a car that drives by as [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} D.W. and Grandma Thora]] walk down the street.
60	* GagPenis: The second half of "Mama Luigi Abandons Yoshi in a Supermarket" involves [[http://youtu.be/4vSeF-7X6BY?t=1m26s the Faces of Evil opening redone with Link, the King and Gwonam sporting massive erections.]]
61	* GhostlyDeathReveal: At the end of "[[https://youtu.be/Gm3H1l-o8RM The Ewoks Go Mad From the Revelation That Their Show Is No Longer Canon]]", [[WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}} Dr. Raygar]] appears to be fine after returning from Endor. Admiral Kaz snidely remarks that he should just consider himself lucky that he survived his mission. Raygar promptly corrects him.
62	-->'''Dr. Raygar:''' But, Admiral Kaz... I ''didn't'' survive my mission.
63	-->'''Admiral Kaz:''' What?!
64	-->'''Dr. Raygar:''' ''(now a Force Ghost)'' So long, Admiral Kaz.
65	* GlassCannon: Arthur, as portrayed in "Arthur's Massive Throbbing Hit". He can [[LudicrousGibs cover a city block in D.W.'s guts in one blow]], yet one quick jab from [[TheBully Binky]] can easily kill him.
66	* GrandFinale: Walrusguy's last poop before being UnCanceled.
67	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jv1Ik2xxBU "The Health Department Shuts Down Schneider's Bakery"]] transitions from using ''Series/ICarly'' as its primary source at about the halfway point to the "King of Everything" sequence from ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'', being tenuously connected only by the fact that [=McNasty=] was the previous champion of "Who's That Weirdo in My Neighborhood" – before [[TakeThat Dan Schneider]].
68	* HesBack: He released a video on April 1, 2013, so understandably, people thought it was a prank until more videos were released in the days that followed.
69	* InMemoriam: PlayedForLaughs, twice:
70	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZQiHeEzD0 "Code Jebus"]] is dedicated to the bee that Shirley swats dead midway through the video, which was earlier given dramatic focus by using a sample of Music/SimplePlan's "Untitled".
71	--->'''IN LOVING MEMORY:''' Buzzy
72	--->2016-2017
73	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoQ7zcWfuO0 "Doremi Successfully Eats Steak"]] is dedicated to "the [[WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken cow]] that died to make Doremi's steak", with the message now being soundtracked by a remixed version of "Untitled."
74	--->''How could this happen to Cow?''
75	--->''I made steaks!''
76	* InterfaceSpoiler:
77	** Reuploads of "Morshu Accidentally Gives Link Plastic Surgery Instead of Lamp Oil" lose their impact because the lower quality of the videos as well as the widescreen resolution [[spoiler:gives away the fact that the intrusive advertisements are fake]].
78	** Reuploads of any of the videos that try to censor [[spoiler:that they're all about Dr. Rabbit]] by making up a title involving Mama Luigi tend to not have the thumbnails they originally had, which kills the surprise.
79	* KillerRabbit: Dr. Rabbit, in some incarnations.
80	* LampshadeHanging: "The Only Mama Luigi Poop Anyone Has Ever Made". The title isn't just an allusion; it's Walrusguy himself admitting that, before then, the opening of Mama Luigi was just [[FakeOutOpening an excuse]] to keep [[spoiler: Dr. Rabbit]] from appearing until later in the video, in order to trick viewers (read: [[spoiler: Colgate]]) into thinking the poop wasn't about [[spoiler: Dr. Rabbit]].[[labelnote:*]]And even then, "The Only Mama Luigi Poop Anyone Has Ever Made" ''still'' contains a reference to D.R., namely Baby Yoshi's first words.[[/labelnote]]
81	--> '''Walrusguy:''' ''[[spoiler: "Have the Colgate guys finished watching yet? [[RefugeInAudacity GREAT! Now onto the REAL poop!]]"]]''
82	* ManipulativeEditing: It's unanimously agreed that the most evident sign of Walrusguy GrowingTheBeard is how ''good'' he got at this. His "last" poop, "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)" is a shining example, but what is widely regarded as the absolute epitome of this among his works is surely "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Link Gets a Job at Gwonam's Restaurant So He Can Earn]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30N1iruh1Vg&feature=channel_video_title Enough Money to Buy a Playstation 3".]] ''It must be seen to be believed.''
83	* NoFourthWall: "Widescreen ruins Youtube Poop", although in a more subtle way, relying on the meta aspect of the trope.
84	* NonIndicativeName:
85	** "Mario Farts in Luigi's Face For Twenty Four Seconds While I Play Unfitting Music". Aside from the title itself, its description tries to confirm that "nothing else happens in the video", which isn't entirely true. Of course, farting in Luigi's face is the point of the video, [[spoiler: but only at the beginning. Then, even within 24 mere seconds, there's a HalfwayPlotSwitch about... er, the outcome of excessive farting]].
86	** Pretty much ''every'' video of his that has "Mama Luigi" in the title; in most cases it's just the first ten seconds of "Mama Luigi" as a FakeOutOpening before switching to Dr. Rabbit, possibly along with another interlude to it halfway through to give the video a Mama Luigi-based thumbnail from back when custom thumbnails weren't an option ("Alright, Koopa, free the princess, or Yoshi here will [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkkfkEkVno eat your pepe]]"). "Mama Luigi Abandons Yoshi in a Supermarket" in particular has nothing to do with Mama Luigi at all outside of its thumbnail and description.
87	** "Miles 'Tails' Prower Dies While Performing an Offensive Minstrel Routine". Tails never appears in the video, no one dies, and there isn't a [[{{Blackface}} minstrel routine]]. The entirety of the video is sex jokes between Sonic, Amy, and Eggman.
88	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Dr. Rabbit.
89	* OverlyLongGag: There's quite a few of these.
90	* ShoutOut: Among others, many, ''many'' to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the most notable of which being in "Arthur's Massive Throbbing Hit", where Arthur's punch to D.W. is interspliced with footage of [[spoiler: the aftermath of Eva-01 going berserk on Eva-03]], alongside turning her into a gory mess. Arthur even bends down to bite off her flesh [[spoiler: like Eva-01 does]].
91	* SophisticatedAsHell: "Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe" sentence-mixes the voiceover from the ''Dino Time'' trailer to recite a few relevant lines from Shakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
92	* SoundtrackDissonance: There's quite a few examples thrown in here and there, but one notable example is his first poop, in that the trope was pulled off ''unintentionally''. Sure, the somewhat jazzy track used for the introduction may be fitting and all for a "Nicholas Walstrom presents" effect, but let's not forget the title of the poop in question is '''''"Link Gets Cancer".'''''
93	* SpiritualSuccessor: WebAnimation/{{Waxonator}}.
94	* StylisticSuck: "The Only Youtube Poop Walrusguy Has Ever Made Removed Because It's Horrible" is a deliberate parody of the incoherent and nonsensical SpecialEffectsFailure that mediocre poopers try to disguise as humor. You can tell it's a parody simply because those aspects are cranked up several notches.
95	* SubvertedKidsShow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLEATLOAW2Y "A Rabbit Puppet Traumatizes Some Schoolkids"]] has shades of this, what with the woman with the guitar introducing Dr. Rabbit by singing about how he can't wait to fuck the kids, Dr. Rabbit later leading the kids in singing one of ''Manga/DeathNote''[='=]s openings, and this exchange:
96	-->'''Woman:''' Dr. Rabbit, do you think we could learn the best way to brush our teeth today?\
97	'''Dr. Rabbit:''' NO!\
98	'''Woman:''' Okay.\
99	'''Dr. Rabbit:''' ''(to the kids)'' [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes Can you say "motherf*cker"?]]
100	* TakeThat:
101	** Two of his poops are entirely dedicated to mock two of Website/YouTube's sometimes-seen-as [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks controversial changes]], namely "Widescreen ruins Youtube Poop" and "Morshu accidentally gives Link plastic surgery instead of lamp oil". The former makes fun of the pillarboxing that the widescreen player added to videos with a 4:3 aspect ratio (which, at the time, were a large majority of videos), while the latter [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] [[InterfaceScrew the effects]] that pop-up ads would have if they could affect the events happening in a video.
102	** A running gag he employs is exaggerating [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Brian Griffin's]] character into constantly going on political tirades, clearly out of disdain for the character.
103	* TimeSkip: Parodied after Gwonam's first suicide attempt in "Gwonam's Gweat Adventuwe", where he wakes up from a coma to see the rest of the cast exhibiting signs that he was out for a long while: Zelda holding a child, Link [[TimePassageBeard with a mustache]], and the King with gray hair. [[spoiler:He was only out for a month.]]
104	* WrongRestaurant: In "Link Gets a Job at Gwonam's Restaurant So He Can Earn Enough Money to Buy a Platform/Playstation3", when Link works at Squadallah Burger, which has a sign that says, "'''NOTICE: We only serve Burgers'''" in no uncertain terms, most of his customers try to order foods that aren't burgers. On Day One, King Harkinian tries to order a pizza; on Day Two, [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] tries to order potato chips; on Day Three, [[VideoGame/HotelMario Mario and Luigi]] try to order spaghetti; and on Day Five, the floating disembodied Mario head also tries to order a pizza. Unfortunately for Link, Duke Onkled's Diner sells all kinds of different foods, and as a result, he ends up not earning any money on Payday.
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