"The Squirt and the Whale" is the nineteenth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. The 460th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 25, 2010. In the episode, the Simpson family attempts to save a beached whale that washed up onshore, only for it to die.

The twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons aired on Fox from September 27, 2009, to May 23, 2010. It was the first of two seasons that the show was renewed for by Fox, and also the first season of the show to air entirely in high definition.