Allusions in Popular Culture
- A teacher in Lev Grossman's The Magicians relays the Russell version of the story while discussing the nature of magic.
- Far-Seer, Part One of Robert J. Sawyer's three-part novel, the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, retells the story, replacing turtles with armourbacks (ankylosaurs).
- Thomas King uses the story to frame each of his five Massey Lectures collected in The Truth About Stories.
- "Turtles All the Way Down" was the title of the final episode of Awake, and was the final line of the female psychiatrist at the end.
- "Turtles All the Way Down" is the title of a song on Buffalo hardcore punk band Every Time I Die's fifth studio album New Junk Aesthetic.
- Wearscience.com is one of a few T-shirt companies spoofing Intelligent Design with with an image of a world-turtle, captioned "Teach the Controversy".
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