significance in the poem is probably not in his profession, and interpretations of the poem as a commentary on religion are likely false. Gardner cautions the reader that there is not always intended symbolism in the Alice books, which were made for the imagination of children and not the analysis of "mad people". In popular culture Television In the Danger Man episode "The Black Book", John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) uses "The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings" as an introduction to a femme fatale. In The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Underground Terror", James West briefly quotes from the poem when he first meets the episode's villain. In a 1976 episode of The Bionic Woman titled "Black Magic", the poem was used as a clue to find treasure. In the episode "I'm a Poet" from the first season of Arthur, Arthur Read and Buster Baxter read poems at the library. Buster reads lines from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and finds it confusing. In the Doctor Who episode, "The Rings of Akhaten", the Doctor mentions "Shoes and ships and sealing-wax and cabbages and kings", when talking about things made by the stars. Films The quote "'The time has come,' the walrus said" is used as code between Irene Dunne and Clive Brook in the 1933 film If I Were Free. In the 1934 Betty Boop short film Betty in Blunderland, the Carpenter is using a hammer on a saw with two lobsters and three clams and the Walrus is on a board eating fishes out of a fishbowl. Groucho Marx briefly quotes the poem in the film Animal Crackers. "The Walrus and the Carpenter" song is sung by Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Walt Disney's 1951 film Alice in Wonderland with the Moon and the Sun on each side and the oysters. The Walrus is portrayed as an intelligent, but lazy conman, with the Carpenter as a hardworking, but dimwitted sidekick who needs beating with a cane for acting before thinking. All characters in the story are voiced by J. Pat O'Malley. After the Carpenter discovers a family of oysters underwater, the Walrus tries to persuade them to come "walk" with them. The Mother Oyster, on the other hand, knows that the oysters will be eaten, and attempts to stop