Tooter Turtle (sometimes spelled Tudor or Tutor) was a cartoon about a rather dopey-looking, Mortimer Snerdish talking turtle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUvj8jRf3I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUvj8jRf3I)
Tooter's segment was always a simple morality play, which involved Tooter calling on his friend, Mr. Wizard the Lizard, to change his life to some other destiny. He usually accompanied his request with the phrase "Please, Mr. Wizard; it's what I want to be!" Since none of Tooter's alternate lives ever worked out, the moral of each segment was always the same: "There's no place like home", or perhaps "Be satisfied with your lot."

When Tooter's trip finally became a catastrophe, he always called out the same thing, the famous, "Help me, Mr. Wizard!" Mr. Wizard would rescue him with the incantation, "Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome; time for zis one to come home." Then, Mr. Wizard would always give Tooter the same advice: "Be just vhat you is, not vhat you is not. Folks vhat do zis are ze happiest lot." Tooter never learned, though.

One major pop culture reference to Tooter Turtle comes from The Matrix. In a scene where Neo is attempting to find a way to return to the real world, he contacts his operator and says to him, "Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of here!" This is a reference to Mr. Wizard's rescuing abilities.

I admit I used to watch it!

wow, it's one I never heard of.

Huh. I had previously thought it was a reference to the old science show for kids. Though yours makes a lot more sense.