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Poseidon Rex

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Title: Poseidon Rex
Year: 2013
Director: Mark L. Lester
Actors: Brian Krause, Anne McDaniels, Steven Helmkamp, Candice Nunes, Berne Velasquez, Gildon Roland, Pulu Lightburn, Remo, Phillip Coc, Serapio Chun, Paul Hyde, Joe Requena, Aaron Lauriano, Chase Kilburn, Trey Schesser, Curlin King, Jody Adolphus, Garrett Brawith
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, SF, Thriller
Country: USA

Why in Database: There are some little turtle elements in this movie. Two times, a swimming sea turtle is shown, besides, in the veterinary room where the characters go, on the walls you can see posters related to sea turtles.

Author: XYuriTT

Dust of Dreams

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Original title: Dust of Dreams
Author(s): Steven Erikson
Release year: 2009
Publisher: Tor Books

Why in Database: We found turtle elements in eleven fragments of this book (from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series), we quote them all:

Sighing, Deadsmell untied the pack’s leather strings and began lifting out various small dead creatures. A flicker bird, a black-furred rat, an iguana, and a strange blue-skinned, big-eyed thing that might be a bat or a shell-less turtle—he’d found the fox-sized creature hanging by its three-tipped tail on a stall in the market. The old woman had cackled when he’d purchased it, a rather ominous reaction, as far as Deadsmell was concerned. Even so, he had a decent enough—

Deadsmell fixed his attention on the array of carcasses. The fox-sized bat turtle thing seemed to be staring up at him with one giant doe eye.

The blue bat-turtle had bitten off the iguana’s tail and that creature escaped in a slithering dash and was now butting at the window’s shutters as if desperate to get out.

The flicker bird was a mashed heap of feathers on the floor. The bat-turtle had fled through the hole in the door, possibly in pursuit of the wooden troop.

She stepped down on to the main deck. ‘Pretty, where did you get that nose?’
Her First Mate clumped over. ‘Snapper beak,’ he said, ‘stuffed with cotton to hold back on the drip, Captain. I bought it at the Tides Market.’

‘Undisciplined is what they seemed,’ said Yelk. ‘Squatter than I’d expected, and wearing armour that looks as if it’s made of turtle shells.

She stepped up to the warrior and slapped him on one shell-armoured shoulder.

The black water swirled past, oblivious to the maelstrom of his thoughts, carrying what it could down to the distant sea. Cold with the memories of snow and ice in the high mountains, slowing with the silts of overturned earth and stones worn down to dust. Huge turtles slid through the muck far below. Blood-drinking eels— little more than jaws and tail—slithered in the currents, seeking the soft bellies of massive carp and catfish. Silt blooms billowed and rolled over rounded stones and gravel banks. Bedded in muck, amphorae of fired clay, fragments of corroded metal—tools, fittings, weapons—and the smooth, vaguely furry long bones of countless animals—the floor of this river was crowded indeed, unfurled like a scroll, writing a history down to the sea.

– Wątpię, by królowa była zadowolona, gdyby jeden z jej nadwornych poruczników zrzucił z siebie ten strój, by nosić żółwie skorupy i tańczyć nago w świetle księżyca.9

‘Lickeet at,’ muttered Nep Furrow, his blotched brow wrinkling into folds that reminded her of turtle skin, ‘Dasgusting!’

As the horses were being readied, he’d spoken of the belief in convergence, and she had been impressed to discover that behind his white skull paint and turtleshelled armour, this barbarian knew of the world beyond his own tribe and his own people. The notion of power drawing power, however, did not seem to draw close to her sense of what was coming.

Crump was on his hands and knees, a clutch of sharpers set like black-turtle eggs in a shallow pit pushed into the stony floor of the trench.

Source: Mossar, Developed: XYuriTT

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

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Title: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Title: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Year: 1996-2003
Actors: Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nick Bakay, Nate Richert, Jenna Leigh Green, Martin Mull, Soleil Moon Frye
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Viewing method: Selected episodes

Why in Database: We have located various turtles elements in six episodes of this series:
The eighteenth episode of the first season (Sweet Charity) features turtles in the form of chocolate sweets that one of the characters says that she received them from Leonardo DiCaprio You can see them on the screenshots.

– And who sent you the turtles?

– A pleasure to meet you. Turtle?

– Look, I fell for it to. I mean who wouldn’t… Until the DiCaprio turtles.

The seventh episode of the fourth season (Prelude to a Kiss) mentions a turtle being the mascot of the school/rival team for the one in which Sabrina’s boyfriend plays. In addition to the text layer, the animal can also be seen in the episode and on the screenshots.

– I can’t. Some of the guys are gonna kidnap Eastbridge’s mascot. They need me along.
– Why? How many people does it take to steal a turtle?
– A heavily guarded turtle.

Season 4 Episode 12 (Sabrina, Nipping at Your Nose) features Turtle-dove, which we wouldn’t normally include, but this is one of the cases where the creators “play” with that name , so the visualization of this animal are turtles with attached bird wings, you can see them well on the screenshots.

Look at these two turtle-doves. They’re just turtles with wings stapled on. Since when did the eighty-nine cents store start selling cheap and shoddy merchandise?

The second episode of the fifth season (Double Time) has only a verbal mention, the turtle is used in the context of slowness, because spells are used that greatly accelerate or slow down the enchanted persons. The slowdown effect is described with reference to turtles.

Have you done anything between Road Runner and Nurtle the Turtle?

The sixteenth episode of the sixth season (Sabrina and the Kiss) has a verbal reference, the name of the book is Yertle the Turtle.

– Hilda, I’m so proud of you. Who would have thought my sister would direct the charity event for the benefit of Westbridge Library.
– Not me, considering that the last book she read was “Yertle the Turtle”.

The seventh episode of the seventh season (Witch Way Out) has a likely reference in the text layer, it says “Venus on a half-shell” which could be considered a reference to Ninja Turtles, which are sometimes called “heroes in the half shell”, and Venus is the name of one of the turtle characters in the franchise, the fifth turtle member of the core group in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Next Mutation.

Venus on a half-shell.

Author: XYuriTT

Tales from the Darkside

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Title: Tales from the Darkside
Year: 1983-1988
Narrator (this is an anthology series, with no regular actors): Paul Sparer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
Country: USA
Viewing method: Selected episodes

Why in Database: We found turtle elements in two episodes of this series. In the eighteenth episode of the second season (The Old Soft Shoe) there is a turtle belonging to the motel owner, he keeps him in a small aquarium, there is a candle on the back of the animal. From the dialogue we learn that his name is Prometheus. In the tenth episode of the third season (Deliver Us from Goodness) the turtles only appear in the dialogue, when mom tells her daughter she looks nice, she states that she looks like a turtle. So when the mother introduces her moments later, she call her a turtle.

– That’s a… Interesting turtle you got there.
– His, uh, name is Prometheus. It’s, uh, kind of a memorial to my father. He liked turtles. You like turtles? – Yeah, sure. Everybody likes turtle, don’t they?
– Dad sure did.

– You look pretty, baby shucks.
– I look like a turtle.
– Mr. Tabbitt, this is our lovely turtle, Charlotte Rose.

Author: XYuriTT

Quincy M.E.

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Title: Quincy M.E.
Year: 1976–1983
Actors: Jack Klugman, John S. Ragin, Robert Ito, Joseph Roman, Garry Walberg, Val Bisoglio
Genre: Criminal, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Viewing method: Selected episodes

Why in Database: We found turtle elements in one episode of this series. In the sixth episode of the second season (Hit and Run at Danny’s) there is a local where the “turtle races” take place, they are shown at the beginning of the episode and in a scene towards the end, they are also mentioned in dialogues.

Author: XYuriTT

Stranger Things

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Title: Stranger Things
Year: 2016-ongoing
Actors: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, SF, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Viewing method: Whole series

Why in Database: Turtle elements appear in four episodes of this series, one for each season.
S01E07 – Chapter Seven: The Bathtub – In Will’s room, one of the characters, you can see a figurine – turtle shell.
S02E11 – Chapter Three: The Pollywog – Yurtle appears, a turtle belonging to Dustin, one of the main characters.
S03E01 – Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy? – Yurtle reappears.
S04E09 – Chapter Nine: The Piggyback – When Eddie’s guitar pick is shown close-up, it looks like a tortoiseshell.

Author: XYuriTT

Green Acres

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Title: Green Acres
Year: 1965-1971
Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Tom Lester, Pat Buttram, Alvy Moore, Frank Cady, Hank Patterson, Mary Grace Canfield
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Viewing method: Selected episodes

Why in Database: One of the characters, Eb, have a turtle, he cares about him and he sleeps with him in the same bed. Eb appears in most of the episodes, it is possible the turtle has more appearances than in the five episodes that we found:
S01E31 – Uncle Ollie
S02E05 – The Ugly Duckling
S02E23 – The Beverly Hillbillies
S03E08 – Eb Elopes
S03E16 – Eb Returns

Author: XYuriTT

The Silent One

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Title: The Silent One
Year: 1984
Director: Yvonne Mackay
Actors: George Henare, Pat Evison, Teraki Tokorangi, Turi Tama, Anzac Wallace, Rongo Tupatea Kahu, Telo Malase, Joe Pahali, Rangi Staski, Roy Staski, Reg Ruka, Mana Kuroraki, Douglas Hosking, Mareta Tane, Mabel Wharekawa, Anthony Gilbert, Bernard Kearns, Teina Tetoa
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand

Why in Database: The film is about a friendship between a mute boy and an albino turtle. The turtle appears in a huge number of scenes.

Author: XYuriTT

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

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Title: Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Year: 2002
Cast: James MacArthur, Ken Annakin, Mary Hayley Bell, Kevin Corcoran, Peter Ellenshaw, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk, Danny Lee, Dorothy McGuire, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Jonathan Mills, Juliet Mills, Janet Munro
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Why in Database: A document about the making of the film Swiss Family Robinson. Turtles, apart from the scenes coming directly from the movie, are shown in the form of new shots and some sketches.

Author: XYuriTT