In the 1940 screwball comedy film His Girl Friday, Cary Grant's character Walter Burns shouts at another character, "Get back in there, you Mock Turtle!" Steely Dan recorded a demo entitled "The Mock Turtle Song;" this song was never recorded for a studio album but has been released on compilations and the band has played it live. The lyrics were directly taken from a song in the section in the book ("The Lobster Quadrille"). Jazz fusion band Bruford recorded a song entitled "Fainting in Coils," which is included as the fifth track of the band's 1979 release One of a Kind. The song includes narration by Sam Alder, Anthea Norman Taylor and band founder Bill Bruford as the Mock Turtle, consisting of a 74-word excerpt from "The Mock Turtle's Story." In this excerpt, the Mock Turtle tells Alice about some of things he studied in school, which among other things included "...Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils." The Mock Turtles are an English indie rock band. Their most famous song "Can You Dig It?," which was released in the UK in 1991, charted at number 18; and then, slightly remixed, it again reached number 18 when re-released in 2003. The Mock Turtle appears as a character in the 1997 video game "An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire". References Turtles in literature Fantasy creatures Fictional turtles Literary characters introduced in 1865 Lewis Carroll characters