Editing Tooter Turtle (section)

==Critical reception and impact==

Mr. Wizard's phrase "Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome; Time for this one to come home" <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6coPVnJSsPg, Uploaded on Oct 25, 2008, from Season One 1960 Episode "The Unteachables", troydog's original 16mm color film stock.</ref> is echoed in the phrase "Razzle, dazzle, drazzle, drone, Time for This One to Come Home" that was used later by the band [[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]] as a lyric in ''Hold My Life'' from the album ''[[Tim (The Replacements album)|Tim]]''.<ref name="BurkeBurke1998">{{cite book|last1=Burke|first1=Timothy|last2=Burke|first2=Kevin|title=Saturday Morning Fever: Growing up with Cartoon Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NA7TxrK6FkcC&pg=PA94|accessdate=3 December 2012|date=1998-12-15|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312169961|pages=94–}}</ref>

Created and aired during the [[Vietnam War]], although before the [[Gulf of Tonkin Incident]], the episode featuring Tooter traveling back to [[World War I]] as a fighter pilot ("Tailspin Tooter") includes what one historian has called some of "the most gruesome pro-war imagery" in cartoons of the period.<ref name="Lehman2006">{{cite book|last=Lehman|first=Christopher P.|title=American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era: A Study of Social Commentary in Films And Television Programs, 1961–1973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlEjmDkdc08C&pg=PA14|accessdate=3 December 2012|year=2006|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786428182|pages=14–}}</ref>

The 1984 novel ''[[Bright Lights, Big City (novel)|Bright Lights, Big City]]'' includes childhood recollections of the cartoon series by a narrator while in a similar predicament.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bright Lights, Big City |last=McInerney |first=Jay |author-link=Jay McInerney |publisher=[[Vintage Contemporaries]] |place=New York |year=1984 |page=33 }}</ref>

In the 1999 film ''[[The Matrix]]'', Neo ([[Keanu Reeves]]) calls his operator Tank for an exit from the Matrix, saying, "Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of here!".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e7bd2ba5-1349-4363-babc-189722b03cfd |title=Mr. Wizard, get me out of here! |website=Yarn |access-date=September 19, 2022 }}</ref>