a laugh. Long's character is a funny man on the Internet after all, and there is no censorship unless it's self-censorship.

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The premise for the film was ignited during his SModcast episode #259,"The Walrus & the Carpenter", when Smith and his partner Scott Mosier discussed an article featuring a "Gumtree ad where a homeowner was offering a living situation free of charge, if the lodger agrees to dress as a walrus." The discussion went on from there and Smith asked his Twitter followers to tweet "#WalrusYes" if they wanted to see that concept turned into a film, or "#WalrusNo" if they didn't. #WalrusYes won.

The listing was written eloquently and briefly mentioned that the writer had once been lost at sea with a walrus he nicknamed Gregory ashis only companion. The author writes of being heartbroken by the separation from the walrus and identifies the whiskered beast as better company than any humans he'd ever known. To this end, the author is interested in recreating the best time of his life with a would-be lodger in a realistic walrus costume standing in for the beloved Gregory. The listing got my creative juices flowing, and I began reconstructing the whole thing as an old British Hammer horror film, in which a mad scientist intends to sew some hapless lodger into counterfeit blubber, creating a chimera in an effort to answer the ultimate riddle, "Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?!" Mosier and I took the tale in more and more ridiculous directions, cracking ourselves up. And