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The Beatles
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A cartoon series that ran from 1965 to 1969 following the wacky hijinks of The Beatles. Notable for being the first cartoon about actual people made for television.The series followed a Two Shorts Format, with each short separated by two singalong segments. The singalongs would always start with either John Lennon, Paul McCartney or George Harrison trying to introduce the song and encourage the viewers to sing along, and Ringo Starr interrupting to try and "set up the proper mood" with props.Although the series was a colossal success when it debuted, it faded quickly as the Beatles themselves evolved their music and personalities from the lovable moptops of their early days into the psychedelia of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Eventually, the show was quietly scooted out of the way to make room for Jonny Quest reruns, as ABC's Saturday Morning lineup was being dominated by action/adventure shows at the time, while the cartoon was getting more surreal.note The latest songs to be featured in the cartoon were 1967's "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever," the singles that dropped before Sgt. Pepper. No new episodes were produced after those, and the show went into re-runs for the rest of its run in the 1960's.Produced by Al Brodax (who would later go on to produce Cool McCool and Yellow Submarine) for King Features Syndicate, who produced a number of other cartoon series based on its own popular comic strips. Notable in that making the show was literally a world-wide effort, and an early example of farming out animation overseas to save money. A majority of the production was done in England, but episodes were also farmed out to studios in Australia, Canada, and Holland. This lends the show a bit of discontinuity when it comes to animation style; the Australian episodes are particularly prone to poor quality because Australia had a limited animation industry before the show arrived there and therefore fewer experienced professionals to draw from.Many of the same people from the English studio who worked on the cartoon, as well as the American producers, went on to work on Yellow Submarine (including Lance Percival as Old Fred), one of the many reasons why the Beatles initially wanted nothing to do with the film.The show got a brief revival in the 1980's when it was rerun on cable television, most notably MTV and the Disney Channel. | |
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Cute Witch | |
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Cute Witch: George's love interest in the "Devil in Her Heart" sing along segment. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Apart from the Beatles themselves, nobody. Back in the 1960s The Beatles themselves hated the cartoons when they saw them on TV. George Harrison in particular felt they were awful. Their disapproval may have been the reason why they refused to take Disney's offer to voice four caricatured vultures of themselves in The Jungle Book (1967) and their own animated versions in Yellow Submarine. | |
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HilarityEnsues | |
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Hilarity Ensues: Episodes are set up to put the Beatles in such wacky situations! Whether hilarity actually ensues is up to the viewer and their tolerance for cheesy humor. | |
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Crashing Through the Harem | |
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Crashing Through the Harem: In "The Word," the lads crash into a harem tent, courtesy of an out-of-control camel. They promptly get in huge trouble for looking at the harem's unveiled faces, and have to sing their way out, all the while flirting with the girls. | |
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Boxing Kangaroo | |
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Boxing Kangaroo: John receives a black eye from one named Bertha in a Sing-Along intro. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: In "Don't Bother Me", John repeatedly says "Don't bother me!" to Ringo, cumulating in himself, George and Paul busting out their guitars and actually singing the song. (Note that Ringo's actually bothering them for a good reason.) | |
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That Reminds Me of a Song | |
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That Reminds Me of a Song: Employed to varying degrees of success. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: The prop man during the Sing-Alongs, who is always on vacation. | |
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Mirror-Cracking Ugly | |
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Mirror-Cracking Ugly: Ringo, who breaks mirrors on a couple of occasions. Poor guy. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand!: "Hold Me Tight" is taken rather literally, as it's about Ringo trying to keep George from falling off the Statue of Liberty. | |
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Appease the Volcano God | |
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Appease the Volcano God: A tamer example than usual in "Matchbox": the natives believe that drumming can appease their volcano god, and Ringo lends his skills. | |
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Covered in Kisses | |
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Covered in Kisses: Paul (sans lipstick) in "Eight Days a Week." | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: The Beatles, apparently. Usually explained as that they're constantly on tour. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: One of the things that carried over to Yellow Submarine. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: The Beatles were depicted in their Fab Four era matching outfits and hairstyles even after the Beatles no longer looked like that. This may be why the openings remind you who's supposed to be who. | |
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The Runt at the End | |
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The Runt at the End: Ringo. Partial Truth in Television, as Ringo was the shortest member of the band and the last to join. | |
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"Take That!" Kiss | |
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"Take That!" Kiss: In "I Saw Her Standing There," Jose's girl Rosita plants one on John after she's impressed by his "dancing." | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: Ringo's props in season 3. He rushes around the room, and they just come out of nowhere, man. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: John, quite often. And George is a bizarre mix of Asian-Irish-Peter Lorre. | |
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Beautiful All Along | |
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Beautiful All Along: The receptionist in "Thank You Girl," who lets down her hair and starts dancing when the Beatles arrive at the cooking school. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: According to the episode "I Want to Hold Your Hand", John was once kissed by an octopus "when he was young". | |
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No Swastikas | |
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No Swastikas: The Iron Cross option was used in "Paperback Writer," when John Lennon was fighting the Germans in a World War I scenario. On the other hand, it is World War I. Germany was only associated with the swastika during the next go-round. | |
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Groupie Brigade | |
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Groupie Brigade: The Beatles even have nicknames for some of them: the Screamer, the Clipper, and the Fainter. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: The third opening constantly reminds us who the stars of the show are. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Subverted. A woman in "Any Time at All" claims to be one of these but it turns out that she's an expert jewel thief. Played with in "I Feel Fine" when Paul has to repeatedly rescue an actress from a Death Course of a movie set. Then again, since everything's phony, they're both never really in danger. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: As in reality, Ringo. When a bull gets knocked out in "Please Please Me", he suggests "artificial perspiration". | |
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Was Just Leaving | |
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Was Just Leaving: In "A Hard Day's Night", the boys are in Transylvania trekking to a deserted castle so they can rehearse in private. A graveyard is nearby as a stone in the ground of a gravesite opens and a one-eyed hunchbacked figure emerges and asks them if they want something. Stuttering, John answers that they were just leaving. The stranger, very much aware of his appearance, chuckles and reveals that he's the caretaker and that he likes visitors. | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Not with a Liverpudlian one, at least. The creators decided to use a generic British accent so the viewers could understand them more easily. Lance Percival has said in interviews he gave Ringo a hint of a Birmingham accent. For some reason Paul Frees plays George with a...completely indescribable accent. The closest one can come is that it's a bad Peter Lorre impression by way of Asia and Ireland. | |
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Disney Acid Sequence | |
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Disney Acid Sequence: In "Strawberry Fields Forever," there is a plot to the episode, about cheering up the kids at a depressing orphanage, but the story just ends up completely discarded in favor of John, Paul, George, and Ringo flying around through rainbows and daisies and strawberries and other assorted psychedelic imagery. Complete with a "What the hell just happened?" conversation at the end. | |
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Straw Fan | |
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Straw Fan: Masses and masses of screaming girls are the most frequent fan portrayal, though a few get more characterization. | |
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Not Quite Starring | |
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Not Quite Starring: One of the first major examples of capitalizing on a celebrity with a quickly-made, loosely tied-in animated series. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Ringo, who is constantly picked on and made fun of by the other three. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Often used in the TVC episodes when the Beatles start playing their songs. There are a few band shots that are pretty much Once Per Episode occurrences. | |
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Ãœberwald | |
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Überwald: The Beatles visit Transylvania in more than one episode. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: The Beatles' general reaction to seeing one of the others in a potentially life threatening situation is to sing a song (or worse, stand back and laugh) and wait for the situation to resolve itself. The worst case of this occurs in "I'll Cry Instead". Through a series of coincidences, a black belt in training confuses George for a professional martial artist. Instead of easily clearing this up, the other Beatles force him to fight, even though George's hand is swollen from signing too many autographs. | |
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All Cloth Unravels | |
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All Cloth Unravels: In "Hold Me Tight", George is only saved from falling to his death off of the Statue of Liberty by Ringo grabbing the thread of his unraveling shirt. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Some of the episodes end with injuries. And the first episode ends with them fainting at the sight of spooks. | |
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Great White Hunter | |
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Great White Hunter: The Beatles go on a three-week African safari holiday with great white hunter Alan Watermain in the episode "I'll Get You." | |
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Dumb and Drummer | |
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Dumb and Drummer: Played to a distressing degree with Ringo. The other Beatles often joke that drumming is the only thing he's any good at. | |
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I'm Taking Her Home with Me! | |
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I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Paul, George and Ringo's reactions to the miniaturized John, who they think is a Beatle doll, in "It Won't Be Long". The song itself happens to suit the situation oddly well. | |
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Music Soothes the Savage Beast | |
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Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Attempted in "All My Loving" with a hungry tiger. | |
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Distress Ball | |
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Distress Ball/Distressed Dude: Pretty much Once per Episode. One of the Beatles will do or say something blatantly stupid, get into trouble, and then the others will have to help him. Y'know, after they're done singing about it. Ringo and Paul seem the most frequent holders, but John and George have had it tossed to them quite a few times, too. | |
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I Kiss Your Hand | |
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I Kiss Your Hand: John does this to an octopus in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A non-romantic example. The sing-along for "Anna (Go To Him)" features Paul releasing a female canary into the wild to be with a male canary. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: John (Truth in Television, depending on whom you ask) at the end of "It Won't Be Long". | |
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The Power of Rock | |
| The Beatles / int_6a6c1f35 | comment |
The Power of Rock: Can turn a Deliberately Monochrome orphanage into a psychedelic wonderland! | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6a6c1f35 | |
| The Beatles / int_6c6bde54 | type |
Band Toon | |
| The Beatles / int_6c6bde54 | comment |
Band Toon: The Ur-Example. | |
| The Beatles / int_6c6bde54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_6c6bde54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6c6bde54 | |
| The Beatles / int_6d0b942 | type |
Unexplained Accent | |
| The Beatles / int_6d0b942 | comment |
Unexplained Accent: George's, which is not even British, let alone Liverpudlian. | |
| The Beatles / int_6d0b942 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_6d0b942 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6d0b942 | |
| The Beatles / int_6e92a631 | type |
Four-Fingered Hands | |
| The Beatles / int_6e92a631 | comment |
Four-Fingered Hands: Much of the time, the characters have four fingers, but due to animation inconstancy between the studios, they often have five, and on one occasion, even six fingers. | |
| The Beatles / int_6e92a631 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_6e92a631 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6e92a631 | |
| The Beatles / int_6eaa52fb | type |
Extreme Omni-Goat | |
| The Beatles / int_6eaa52fb | comment |
Extreme Omnigoat: Used as a garbage disposal in "Matchbox". | |
| The Beatles / int_6eaa52fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_6eaa52fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6eaa52fb | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb04f1 | type |
"Everybody Laughs" Ending | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb04f1 | comment |
"Everybody Laughs" Ending: All. The. Time. The episodes that don't end with the Beatles fleeing will end with them having a larf. | |
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1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb04f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6eb04f1 | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb1268c | type |
Extreme Omnivore | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb1268c | comment |
Extreme Omnivore: Ringo eats actual drumsticks. And possibly other instruments as well: "Guitars taste terrible." | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb1268c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_6eb1268c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_6eb1268c | |
| The Beatles / int_725a80b2 | type |
Mistaken for an Imposter | |
| The Beatles / int_725a80b2 | comment |
Mistaken for an Imposter: Happens in "Not a Second Time." When the Beatles escape to a jungle to avoid three Loony Fan girls, they confront what appear to be three crocodiles, but they turn out to be said fangirls disguised in full-body crocodile suits. After escaping them again, Ringo notices three crocodiles poking from behind a bush, and assumes it's the three fangirls in disguise again, leaping on them and tying his drum set to them so they don't escape. After they rehearse the titular song, Ringo tells the crocs they can take off their costumes, to which the fangirls appear from behind trees saying "What costumes" Cue the Oh, Crap! faces from the Beatles AND the fangirls when they realize the three crocodiles are real! | |
| The Beatles / int_725a80b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_725a80b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_725a80b2 | |
| The Beatles / int_74dec4b3 | type |
In One Ear, Out The Other | |
| The Beatles / int_74dec4b3 | comment |
In One Ear, Out The Other: In "I've Just Seen a Face," the only thing Paul and George spot when peering through Ringo's ears on opposite sides are each other's eyes. | |
| The Beatles / int_74dec4b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_74dec4b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_74dec4b3 | |
| The Beatles / int_7593bcd5 | type |
Full-Body Disguise | |
| The Beatles / int_7593bcd5 | comment |
Full-Body Disguise: When a prize bull gets knocked unconscious in "Please Please Me," John and Paul try to get Ringo to play a matador while they don a bull costume. When the costume's zipper breaks, though, Ringo ends up facing a real bull! Which snaps Ringo into panic when he suddenly sees an equally panicky John, Paul and George in the stands (who are trying to warn Ringo of the danger he's in). In "I'll Get You," a supposed man-eating lion threatens the Beatles. But when John and Paul confront it, the lion is revealed to be two local natives in a lion costume that wear it for tourist business. John gets the idea to scare George and Ringo while wearing the lion suit, but then the hunter Alan Watermain arrives and begins shooting at the two in the suit. When the natives come up to George and Ringo asking for the lion costume back, Ringo says "I'm sorry, the lion is busy!" while holding a cup to his ear like a telephone. In "Not a Second Time," three fangirls pursuing the Beatles disguise themselves full-body as crocodiles. The second season opening has the four Beatles disguise themselves as stereotypical big-nosed cartoon spies in full-body costumes, but four female spies unmask them leading into a typical Beatles fangirl chase accompanied by the "Help!" song. | |
| The Beatles / int_7593bcd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_7593bcd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_7593bcd5 | |
| The Beatles / int_76788531 | type |
Just for Pun | |
| The Beatles / int_76788531 | comment |
In "I'll Get You," a supposed man-eating lion threatens the Beatles. But when John and Paul confront it, the lion is revealed to be two local natives in a lion costume that wear it for tourist business. John gets the idea to scare George and Ringo while wearing the lion suit, but then the hunter Alan Watermain arrives and begins shooting at the two in the suit. When the natives come up to George and Ringo asking for the lion costume back, Ringo says "I'm sorry, the lion is busy!" while holding a cup to his ear like a telephone. | |
| The Beatles / int_76788531 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_76788531 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_76788531 | |
| The Beatles / int_7919a45b | type |
Duel to the Death | |
| The Beatles / int_7919a45b | comment |
Duel to the Death: "I Saw Her Standing There". "Long Tall Sally": John and Ringo try on armor as a joke. The suits turn out to be cursed, and the two try to fight each other to the death. | |
| The Beatles / int_7919a45b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_7919a45b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_7919a45b | |
| The Beatles / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
| The Beatles / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: Brian Epstein. Mentioned in a couple of episodes. His hand was visible and voice actually heard in "Thank You Girl". | |
| The Beatles / int_7abba202 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_7abba202 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_7abba202 | |
| The Beatles / int_7bb1296b | type |
"Rashomon"-Style | |
| The Beatles / int_7bb1296b | comment |
"Rashomon"-Style: "Paperback Writer", where each Beatle recounts his own version of meeting the other three. Taken to an extreme in that said versions involve World War I dog-fighting, curing malaria, James Bond-eque antics, and so on. | |
| The Beatles / int_7bb1296b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_7bb1296b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_7bb1296b | |
| The Beatles / int_7d30442 | type |
Knife Outline | |
| The Beatles / int_7d30442 | comment |
Knife Outline: Ringo gets one via a knife thrower in "She Loves You." | |
| The Beatles / int_7d30442 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_7d30442 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_7d30442 | |
| The Beatles / int_7f080f98 | type |
Vague Age | |
| The Beatles / int_7f080f98 | comment |
Vague Age: The Beatles themselves. They're in their moptop-era designs, meaning they're meant to be young adults, yet a couple episodes has them call each other teenagers, and yet another one has them at a legal drinking age. | |
| The Beatles / int_7f080f98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_7f080f98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_7f080f98 | |
| The Beatles / int_801e0eb5 | type |
Facial Profiling | |
| The Beatles / int_801e0eb5 | comment |
Facial Profiling: Their trips to Japan, thanks to some big-time Values Dissonance. Putting things in context, most of the Japan episodes were made by Australians, who at the time were none too fond of the Japanese because of what was done to Australia during World War II a mere twenty years earlier. Ironically, the show was broadcast and dubbed in Japanese. | |
| The Beatles / int_801e0eb5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_801e0eb5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_801e0eb5 | |
| The Beatles / int_86daf505 | type |
Parental Bonus | |
| The Beatles / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: "I'm Down": | |
| The Beatles / int_86daf505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_86daf505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_86daf505 | |
| The Beatles / int_872b9e12 | type |
Chained to a Railway | |
| The Beatles / int_872b9e12 | comment |
Chained to a Railway: In "I Feel Fine," Paul is put in a movie scene with a damsel in distress tied to railroad tracks with a steam train approaching. Subverted in that Paul reveals the the train is a phony cardboard cutout operated by a crew member when he stops it, causing one of the member's teeth to fall out. The actor Dick Dashing is not amused. Then it becomes a Double Subversion near the end of the episode when he attempts to stop the train approaching the damesel, but it turns out to be a real train this time (still with steam locomotive, though it makes the sound of a diesel train). | |
| The Beatles / int_872b9e12 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Beatles / int_872b9e12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_872b9e12 | |
| The Beatles / int_87c7f99d | type |
Sidetracked by the Analogy | |
| The Beatles / int_87c7f99d | comment |
Sidetracked by the Analogy: In "Hold Me Tight": | |
| The Beatles / int_87c7f99d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_87c7f99d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_87c7f99d | |
| The Beatles / int_88cee6e2 | type |
Abhorrent Admirer | |
| The Beatles / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: Several less-than-appealing ladies fall for one (or more) of the Beatles in the course of the show. Most notable are the fat belly dancer who pursues George in "The Word" and the witch in "Devil in Her Heart". The latter is reversed after she falls into her love potion and becomes beautiful; then Ringo chases after her! | |
| The Beatles / int_88cee6e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_88cee6e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_88cee6e2 | |
| The Beatles / int_8ae7eb89 | type |
Real Song Theme Tune | |
| The Beatles / int_8ae7eb89 | comment |
Real Song Theme Tune: "Can't Buy Me Love" for season 1, "Help!" for season 2 and "And Your Bird Can Sing" for season 3. | |
| The Beatles / int_8ae7eb89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_8ae7eb89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_8ae7eb89 | |
| The Beatles / int_8b04eac7 | type |
Body Snatcher | |
| The Beatles / int_8b04eac7 | comment |
Body Snatcher: In "I'm Looking Through You," Ringo's body is stolen by the ghost of an Egyptian pharaoh. | |
| The Beatles / int_8b04eac7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_8b04eac7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_8b04eac7 | |
| The Beatles / int_8d25533e | type |
Your Size May Vary | |
| The Beatles / int_8d25533e | comment |
Your Size May Vary: Size charts were actually made for the Beatles, at least in comparison to each other. John is supposed to be the tallest, Ringo is the shortest, and Paul and George are the same height and somewhere between John and Ringo. note In real life, John, Paul, and George were pretty close in height; John was made taller in the cartoon to emphasize his leadership role. However, due to Off-Model animation, this didn't always come across very well, both with the Beatles in relation to the setting and occasionally to each other. | |
| The Beatles / int_8d25533e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_8d25533e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_8d25533e | |
| The Beatles / int_8f7f2c6a | type |
National Stereotypes | |
| The Beatles / int_8f7f2c6a | comment |
National Stereotypes: Apart from all the racial stereotyping the Beatles themselves are a pretty awful impression of how British people supposedly talk, with lots of Stock British Phrases. | |
| The Beatles / int_8f7f2c6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_8f7f2c6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_8f7f2c6a | |
| The Beatles / int_9858c391 | type |
Chick Magnet | |
| The Beatles / int_9858c391 | comment |
Chick Magnet: All four Beatles, needless to say. Fans coming after them are not only a frequent occurrence, but make up the first show opening. | |
| The Beatles / int_9858c391 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_9858c391 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_9858c391 | |
| The Beatles / int_9a50173f | type |
Follow the Bouncing Ball | |
| The Beatles / int_9a50173f | comment |
Follow the Bouncing Ball: Averted. The appropriate lyric simply appears on screen during the Sing-Alongs. | |
| The Beatles / int_9a50173f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_9a50173f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_9a50173f | |
| The Beatles / int_9fb5d589 | type |
Not Now, Kiddo | |
| The Beatles / int_9fb5d589 | comment |
Not Now, Ringo: In "Don't Bother Me", John keeps ignoring Ringo. Turns out Ringo's actually trying to warn him about some impending death traps. | |
| The Beatles / int_9fb5d589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_9fb5d589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_9fb5d589 | |
| The Beatles / int_a3df8e61 | type |
And You Thought It Was a Game | |
| The Beatles / int_a3df8e61 | comment |
And You Thought It Was a Game: In "Please Please Me", a bullfight's bull is knocked unconscious, so the boys set things up with John and Paul in a bull costume and Ringo as a matador (with George as his picador). John and Paul are delayed because of a jammed zipper, and the bull regains consciousness. He barges into the ring to face Ringo, who thinks it's John and Paul... | |
| The Beatles / int_a3df8e61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_a3df8e61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_a3df8e61 | |
| The Beatles / int_a588cd12 | type |
Cool House | |
| The Beatles / int_a588cd12 | comment |
Cool House: The mobile home in "Matchbox": "Everything's tucked away until you need it!" | |
| The Beatles / int_a588cd12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_a588cd12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_a588cd12 | |
| The Beatles / int_aba0cd10 | type |
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder | |
| The Beatles / int_aba0cd10 | comment |
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: George thinks he's this to Ringo. Ringo thinks he's this to George. For example, in "Devil in Her Heart": | |
| The Beatles / int_aba0cd10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_aba0cd10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_aba0cd10 | |
| The Beatles / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| The Beatles / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: The images they put to the songs are relevant to varying degrees. "Eleanor Rigby" might be the worst offender. The second and third verses play but the actual animation completely diverges from the song's downer nature. In the stanza that describes her death and unattended funeral, she is alive and well, and a group of children decide to throw her a party... Another, more literal-than-usual example from the same short - the boys play their two guitars and a bass when Paul sings the song, but the song itself has no guitars nor bass line. | |
| The Beatles / int_abad35b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_abad35b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_abad35b4 | |
| The Beatles / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| The Beatles / int_ad1db87c | comment |
When a prize bull gets knocked unconscious in "Please Please Me," John and Paul try to get Ringo to play a matador while they don a bull costume. When the costume's zipper breaks, though, Ringo ends up facing a real bull! Which snaps Ringo into panic when he suddenly sees an equally panicky John, Paul and George in the stands (who are trying to warn Ringo of the danger he's in). | |
| The Beatles / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_ad1db87c | |
| The Beatles / int_ae8ac22d | type |
Obsessed with Food | |
| The Beatles / int_ae8ac22d | comment |
Obsessed with Food: In "Thank You Girl", Brian puts them on a diet and takes away their money since they've indulged in too much French cooking. The Beatles try to get around him by taking a free French cooking class. | |
| The Beatles / int_ae8ac22d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_ae8ac22d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_ae8ac22d | |
| The Beatles / int_af921409 | type |
Accidental Marriage | |
| The Beatles / int_af921409 | comment |
Accidental Marriage: In "Can't Buy Me Love", John accepts a "friendship ring" from a chief, which means he must marry the chief's daughter. | |
| The Beatles / int_af921409 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_af921409 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_af921409 | |
| The Beatles / int_b3168fc4 | type |
Let's See YOU Do Better! | |
| The Beatles / int_b3168fc4 | comment |
Let's See YOU Do Better!: In "I Feel Fine", Paul insults an actor by calling his stunts "fake" and "phony". The actor responds by locking Paul onto the movie set, which turns out to be a Death Course, and forcing him to save the lead actress from various traps. She ends up clouting the actor over the head with an umbrella, and Paul over his head with his own guitar. | |
| The Beatles / int_b3168fc4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_b3168fc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_b3168fc4 | |
| The Beatles / int_b3198876 | type |
Simpleton Voice | |
| The Beatles / int_b3198876 | comment |
Simpleton Voice: Ringo, who speaks noticeably more slowly than the other three. | |
| The Beatles / int_b3198876 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_b3198876 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_b3198876 | |
| The Beatles / int_b5e23d81 | type |
The Collector | |
| The Beatles / int_b5e23d81 | comment |
The Collector: Ringo, of all people, in "Ticket to Ride". Fortunately, he's really bad at it. | |
| The Beatles / int_b5e23d81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_b5e23d81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_b5e23d81 | |
| The Beatles / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| The Beatles / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Lots. | |
| The Beatles / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_b707726f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_b707726f | |
| The Beatles / int_b70b1e3b | type |
Institutional Apparel | |
| The Beatles / int_b70b1e3b | comment |
Institutional Apparel: In "Paperback Writer," John, George, and Ringo are briefly shown wearing British prison uniforms during Paul's version of the story. | |
| The Beatles / int_b70b1e3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_b70b1e3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_b70b1e3b | |
| The Beatles / int_b9918c48 | type |
Nobody Here but Us Statues | |
| The Beatles / int_b9918c48 | comment |
Nobody Here but Us Statues: Albeit with wax versions of themselves in "Misery." | |
| The Beatles / int_b9918c48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_b9918c48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_b9918c48 | |
| The Beatles / int_bab7fceb | type |
Incredible Shrinking Man | |
| The Beatles / int_bab7fceb | comment |
Incredible Shrinking Man: John in "It Won't Be Long." The others think he's "some kind of new Beatles doll" and proceed to fight over him. | |
| The Beatles / int_bab7fceb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_bab7fceb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_bab7fceb | |
| The Beatles / int_bb30961 | type |
Born Unlucky | |
| The Beatles / int_bb30961 | comment |
Born Unlucky / The Jinx: In "Good Day Sunshine", Ringo is both. He will cause something lucky to appear, but then it will break or go wrong. It's subverted at the end, though, when his luck appears to change for the better. | |
| The Beatles / int_bb30961 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Beatles / int_bb30961 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_bb30961 | |
| The Beatles / int_bf58b6f5 | type |
Stock Audio Clip | |
| The Beatles / int_bf58b6f5 | comment |
Stock Audio Clip: An unusual variation; dialogue recorded for the show is reused in the manner of a Stock Audio Clip whenever possible, resulting in scripts that are filled with repetition so the exact same voice clips can be played over and over. This is done for no reason other than to save money and time. It can get pretty awkward hearing Paul say "Rob'n Hood? Heneverhappened." about once a minute in "Taxman." | |
| The Beatles / int_bf58b6f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_bf58b6f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_bf58b6f5 | |
| The Beatles / int_c007c53 | type |
Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| The Beatles / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: At the end of "Chains," Ringo punishes his bandmates for trying to mutiny against him (long story) by pushing them off a diving board into a pool full of fangirls. He then jumps off himself. | |
| The Beatles / int_c007c53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_c007c53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_c007c53 | |
| The Beatles / int_c2e295cd | type |
Curse | |
| The Beatles / int_c2e295cd | comment |
Curse: In "Long Tall Sally", John and Ringo try on a pair of cursed armor suits. | |
| The Beatles / int_c2e295cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles / int_c2e295cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Beatles | hasFeature |
The Beatles / int_c2e295cd | |
| The Beatles / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The Beatles / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The Beatles' characterizations were based on A Hard Day's Night, yet dumbed down considerably. "Don't Bother Me" uses the "Ringo sleeping on the wrong end of the bed" gag from Help!, and the second opening is a big shout out to James Bond films. Also in that episode, they face a generic Arc Villain and a very obvious Mook. He's the spitting image of Oddjob from Goldfinger. "James Blond" in "Penny Lane". Rounding out the Bond references, George pretends to be "008" in his daydream in "Paperback Writer." Their performance in "I'm Down" makes a lot of references to their Shea Stadium performance. The Beatles imagine themselves as The Three Musketeers in "Any Time at All". "Can't Buy Me Love" is likely another reference to Help! They should probably know by now that taking strange rings from foreign tribes is a bad idea. And at the end, John gives the ring to Ringo to take the heat off himself. Speaking of Help!, "All My Loving" is practically a Whole-Plot Reference to the scene in which a tiger is dangerously close to Ringo and the others have to ward it off by singing. | |
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Big Friendly Dog | |
| The Beatles / int_c78c0896 | comment |
Big Friendly Dog: Gunther from "Gib Mir Deine Hand," who helps them through the Alps. | |
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And You Were There | |
| The Beatles / int_c8db76f6 | comment |
And You Were There: Inverted in "I'm Only Sleeping": | |
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Scheherezade Gambit | |
| The Beatles / int_c9d80884 | comment |
Scheherezade Gambit: In "The Word." If the Beatles can find the password involving the word "love", they'll be rescued by the harem girls' father; the girls then manage to convince their sheik to let the Beatles play one song before they're thrown to the crocodiles. | |
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Speaking Like Totally Teen | |
| The Beatles / int_c9fa1dbf | comment |
Speaking Like Totally Teen: John at the end of "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party", after chasing the others around to get them to rehearse. They are not impressed. | |
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Lame Pun Reaction | |
| The Beatles / int_cb0743c0 | comment |
Lame Pun Reaction: In "Not a Second Time": Another one in "Please Please Me" when John suggests that he and Paul dress up as the (incapacitated) bull so the bullfight can continue: "We'll pull the bull over their eyes!" Cue Aside Glance from matador. | |
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I Just Want to Be Special | |
| The Beatles / int_cb83d23b | comment |
I Just Want to Be Special: "Bad Boy" has a Swiss boy running away from home because he wants to be a Beatle. | |
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The Door Slams You | |
| The Beatles / int_ceb854cb | comment |
The Door Slams You: In "She Loves You," when the knife thrower storms into his room he crushes all four Beatles behind the door. | |
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Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... | |
| The Beatles / int_d0a48e7 | comment |
Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking...: George's word-for-word reaction to winning the role of Mr. Hollywood in "Boys". | |
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Animals Not to Scale | |
| The Beatles / int_d0c9634e | comment |
Animals Not to Scale: "I'll Get You" features the Beatles riding one tiny elephant. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| The Beatles / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: When Ringo reveals his hobby is catching "birds" (read: women) and putting them in cages in "Ticket to Ride", this is everyone's general reaction. | |
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British Stuffiness | |
| The Beatles / int_d5a1770a | comment |
British Stuffiness: John, bizarrely enough, considering he was the antithesis of this trope in reality. Done to make him clearly the "leader" of the Beatles. (Like everything else, it depends on the episode). | |
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| The Beatles / int_da1211b4 | type |
Security Cling | |
| The Beatles / int_da1211b4 | comment |
Security Cling: The Beatles tend to cling to each other or leap into one another's arms in scary situations. For example, after spooky noises are heard during their rehearsal in "A Hard Day's Night". | |
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Monumental Damage | |
| The Beatles / int_dddbdc26 | comment |
Monumental Damage: The Beatles go to rehearse in the Coliseum and cause it to fall apart. | |
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| The Beatles / int_de085a36 | type |
Green-Skinned Space Babe | |
| The Beatles / int_de085a36 | comment |
Normal-Skinned Space Babe: One of these tries to "save the universe from The Beatles" by stranding them on a random planet in "Day Tripper." | |
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| The Beatles / int_e034faef | type |
Limited Animation | |
| The Beatles / int_e034faef | comment |
Limited Animation: Most of the Beatles' musical performances during the cartoons (mostly by TVC) use the same shots over and over, and not just within the same cartoon. There seem to be several standard shots used in almost every episode (i.e. Paul, George, and John lined up with their guitars, Ringo shaking his head while drumming). It was pretty rare for an episode to have any outright new footage of the Beatles playing unless circumstances dictated otherwise during the song, such as if they were singing in a vehicle or performing while running from danger. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e2a41c3b | type |
Literal-Minded | |
| The Beatles / int_e2a41c3b | comment |
Literal-Minded: Ringo, as aptly demonstrated by the Sing-Along segments. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
| The Beatles / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Ringo, who is completely clueless. George, sometimes. The boy can't even read! | |
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Throw the Book at Them | |
| The Beatles / int_e2de05e8 | comment |
Throw the Book at Them: Ringo whacks Paul with a book on English pronunciation in one of the Sing-Along intros. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
| The Beatles / int_e303d198 | comment |
Speaking of Help!, "All My Loving" is practically a Whole-Plot Reference to the scene in which a tiger is dangerously close to Ringo and the others have to ward it off by singing. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e37f19 | type |
Disguised in Drag | |
| The Beatles / int_e37f19 | comment |
Disguised in Drag: George, in "What You're Doing" to get Ringo out of a Gypsy wedding. It backfires spectacularly when one of the male Gypsies falls for him. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e4cd6f47 | type |
Wedding Deadline | |
| The Beatles / int_e4cd6f47 | comment |
Wedding Deadline: "What You're Doing". Never mind that it's a spur-of-the-moment gypsy wedding and probably isn't even legal. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e53a34aa | type |
Death Course | |
| The Beatles / int_e53a34aa | comment |
Played with in "I Feel Fine" when Paul has to repeatedly rescue an actress from a Death Course of a movie set. Then again, since everything's phony, they're both never really in danger. | |
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Aside Glance | |
| The Beatles / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Another one in "Please Please Me" when John suggests that he and Paul dress up as the (incapacitated) bull so the bullfight can continue: "We'll pull the bull over their eyes!" Cue Aside Glance from matador. | |
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| The Beatles / int_e9702c83 | type |
Opposite-Sex Clone | |
| The Beatles / int_e9702c83 | comment |
Opposite-Sex Clone: Each Beatle gets one in "I've Just Seen a Face". Notably, Paul is the most convincing and...vamp-y. | |
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| The Beatles / int_eade0fb6 | type |
Marty Stu | |
| The Beatles / int_eade0fb6 | comment |
Marty Stu: In-Universe, each Beatle makes himself out to be one in his version of how they met each other in "Paperback Writer". | |
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| The Beatles / int_ec22b1b | type |
Celebrity Toons | |
| The Beatles / int_ec22b1b | comment |
Celebrity Toons: Also the Trope Maker. | |
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Leaning on the Furniture | |
| The Beatles / int_ec993b17 | comment |
Leaning on the Furniture: The model sheets specifically called for both John and George to do this, based on animator's observations of how the real John Lennon and George Harrison acted and moved. | |
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| The Beatles / int_ef478375 | type |
Hiccup Hijinks | |
| The Beatles / int_ef478375 | comment |
Hiccup Hijinks: The Beatles employ these on Ringo when he loses his voice. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
| The Beatles / int_f237981e | comment |
The Alleged Car: The Beatles help fix one that belongs to lovesick young man in "Drive My Car". | |
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Pungeon Master | |
| The Beatles / int_f46fb603 | comment |
Pungeon Master: Ringo, especially in the Sing-Along intros. | |
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Childhood Brain Damage | |
| The Beatles / int_f9c77812 | comment |
Childhood Brain Damage: In an episode, John sews the money from last night's concert into Ringo's pocket to keep it from getting lost. | |
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| The Beatles / int_fa1d0606 | type |
Interactive Narrator | |
| The Beatles / int_fa1d0606 | comment |
Interactive Narrator: The narrator describing the cruise in "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Eventually, the Beatles complain that he's giving away all their disguises and tell him to talk about some other part of the ship. He politely obliges. | |
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| The Beatles / int_fbd285b7 | type |
Comically Missing the Point | |
| The Beatles / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: Often done by Ringo, and to a lesser extent George. | |
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| The Beatles / int_fc151e9d | type |
Department of Redundancy Department | |
| The Beatles / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: Paul would like you to know that Hollywood is fake and phony. And Robin Hood? He never happened. | |
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| The Beatles / int_fd7267dd | type |
Master of Disguise | |
| The Beatles / int_fd7267dd | comment |
Master of Disguise: Anyface from "No Reply." | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
| The Beatles / int_fdc4fab4 | comment |
Depending on the Writer: The quality of the writing, characterization and animation varies wildly from episode to episode. | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish | |
| The Beatles / int_ffaa675b | comment |
Asian Speekee Engrish: All over the series, unfortunately. For example, a sign for a miniature garden "It Won't Be Long" introduces "Dr. Ah-So" as the "Honoulable Ploplietor." | |
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