Turtles on The Simpsons
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The Simpsons have a lot of turtle references. It seems unusually high for a non-recurring 'character'. (Each reference is to a different turtle. I've counted two per season on average.) So far I haven't detected a pattern to when the references occur, but I have my suspicions.
Episode list
| Ep # | Episode Title | Reference |
| 04x08 | New Kid on the Block | Decor in the Frying Dutchman includes a turtle in a net |
| 05x17 | Bart Gets an Elephant | The Turtle Wax turtle grabs Homer's hair |
| 06x07 | Bart's Girlfriend | After Bart's new girlfriend pulls a fire alarm, Willy attempts to save the wee tur'les.
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| 06x08 | Lisa On Ice |
When Bart's team wins a hockey game, Homer pulls out a turtle
Meanwhile, Lisa finds she's failing gym class and imagines being impeached from the presidency in the future because she failed gym
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| 06x20 | Two Dozen and One Greyhounds |
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| 08x09 | El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer | Homer goes on a vision quest after eating the Merciless Peppers of Quetzalsacatanango.
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| 08x10 | The Springfield Files | Mulder and Scully, while investigating Homer's claim of an alien sighting, run across Abe who's lost his teeth to a turtle.
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| 09x17 | Lisa the Simpson | Lisa reviews Yertle the Turtle, possibly the best book ever written on the subject of turtle stacking. |
| 10x05 | When You Dish Upon a Star | Snapping turtles chase after Homer |
| 10x23 | Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo | Returning from a trip to Tokyo, the plane the Simpsons are on is shaken.
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| 11x03 | Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner | Another appearance of the turtle decor from the Frying Dutchman |
| 11x15 | Missionary Impossible | Homer wears a turtle-shell helmet in a nod to The Flinstones |
| 11x19 | Kill the Alligator and Run | After hitting an alligator, Homer dives in the swamp to flee the police and comes up with a few animals biting him, including a little turtle. |
| 12x09 | HOMЯ | Homer has a crayon removed from his brain, improving his intelligence. In a visit to the library we run across Cletus about to make some turtle soup.
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| 14x03 | Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade | Bart is demoted to the third grade and Lisa is promoted to the third grade. In the background we see that the third grade classroom has a pet turtle. |
| 14x04 | Large Marge | While Lisa and Homer spend their father-daughter time building a house for Domiciles for the Destitute, Homer paints "El Homo" on the house trying to be cool like "El Barto". Then after realizing how it sounds he desperately paints over it.
Marge thinks she sees Homer flirting and goes to a plastic surgeon to get liposuction, but ends up getting breast implants. Hilarity ensues. |
| 14x06 | The Great Louse Detective | Marge goes to a spa and gets a Turtle Massage after which, the turtles are tossed into a bin marked "used turtles." |
| 14x07 | Special Edna |
(OK, so this reference is cheating since it's referring to the band, not to turtles themselves, but I'm counting it :P) |
| 14x20 | Brake My Wife, Please | A turtle attacks Bart |
| 14x21 | The Bart of War | While cleaning up litter, Kirk Van Houten (leading the Cavalry Kids) accidentally impales a tortoise. |
| 15x12 | Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Milhouse and his mother move to Capital City, leaving Bart to adopt Lisa as his new best friend.
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| 15x16 | The Wandering Juvie | Bart gets sent to juvenile hall. Yard equipment includes a rocking turtle. |
| 16x14 | The Seven-Beer Snitch | In order to find out why Snowball likes another family better than the Simpsons, Bart comes up with an excuse to see in their house.
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| 16x15 | Future-Drama | Bart and Lisa find themselves in Prof. Frink's basement and he uses the science of astrology on his new computer to show them their future, eight years from next Tuesday. At their graduation party, Nelson flees fatherhood on the back of a sea turtle. |
| 16x16 | Don't Fear The Roofer | Homer goes in for electroshock therapy because everyone believes he's crazy. Bart asks him to hold his dead turtle while he's getting shocked to try to revive it. |
| 16x17 | The Heartbroke Kid | (Unconfirmed. Need to get a screenshot.)
Bart was watching itchy and scratchy. and there was an explosion in itchy and scratchy. for a brief second you could see a DEAD TURTLE hurled across the screen. |
| 17x18 | The Wettest Stories Ever Told | In Mutiny on the Barty (a parody of Mutiny on the Bounty), Skinner gets marooned with Willy, who then maroons him on a turtle.
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| 17x19 | Girls Just Want to Have Sums | At the beginning of the episode, the Simpsons are attending Stab-a-Lot: the Itchy and Scratchy Musical (a parody on The Lion King / Spamalot), and an actor in a turtle costume leads the animals down the aisle. |
| 18x04 | Treehouse of Horror XVII | In the You Gotta Know When To Golem segment, Homer mentions Bart's turtle.
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| 18x10 | The Wife Aquatic | Marge goes back to a happy place from her childhood, only to find it's not what she remembered. A carousel she loved has a turtle on it. |
| 18x12 | Little Big Girl |
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| 18x15 | Rome-old and Juli-eh |
(Loved the parody of the Battle of Helm's Deep in this episode.) |
| Unknown |
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Current count: 32 known episodes plus about 3 or 4 references from unknown episodes
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