The Beatles were a highly influential English rock band formed in 1960 consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They were one of the most successful and critically acclaimed acts in modern popular music. This document outlines the extensive influence and numerous parodies and references to The Beatles that can be found in animated television shows, films, comics, and other media from the 1960s onward.

2. The Beatles were an English rock
band formed in Liverpool, England.
In the year 1960.
The members were:
• John Lennon
• Paul MacCartney
• George Harrison
• Ringo Starr
The Beatles were known as one of
the most influential band in history.
Not only musically, but also for all
cinematographic influences and
cartoons

3. • The Beatles is
an American animated
television series
• It ran from 1965 to 1969
on ABC in the US

5. • The Hatrocks' a version to rock /pop music AKA
"Bug Music" by the group " The Four Insects" ( A
parody of The Beatles)
• This episode the Gruesome singing "She Said Yeah
Yeah Yeah", a parody of The Beatles' song "She
Loves You"

6. • If you watch the
Disney movie Jungle
Book, you may notice
a distinct similarity of
the Vultures to The
Beatles
• The Vultures were
originally going to be
voiced by The Beatles
• There’s no way the
Beatles are going to
sing for Mickey ****-
ing Mouse!”

7. • "Octopus' Garden" The
Muppet Show episode 312
• "She Loves You"
The Muppet
Show episode 407
• "While My Guitar Gently
Weeps“ The Muppet
Show episode 419
• "With a Little Help from
My Friends"The Muppet
Show episode 419
• "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da“The
Muppet Show episode 517

8. • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“
• "All Together Now“
• "Yellow Submarine“
• "Help!"

9. • The parody band The Sesame
Street Beetles.
• Let It Be, parodied on Sesame
Street as "Letter B“
• "Hey Jude“ parodied on Sesame
Street as "Hey Food"

10. Pinky becomes a guru known as the "Mous-arishi" (a parody of the Maharishi)
in 1960s India, which Brain tries to exploit in his latest plan, and they both meet a
musical band called "The Feebles“.

11. There are three parodies of The
Beatles' songs "I am the
Walrus", Magical Mystery Tour",
and "All You Need is Love", plus
a parody of Lennon and Ono's
"Give Peace a Chance".

12. • In the American television
show Animaniacs, the voice
of the character Wakko
Warner is modelled after
the voice of Ringo Starr
• Also in Animaniacs episode
73 contains a skit called "A
Hard Day's Warners", a
parody of the film A Hard
Day's Night.

13. The June 1970 issue of the DC
Comics title Batman, written by
Frank Robbins, parodied the rumour
with a story entitled "Dead...Till
Proven Alive" in which it is rumored
that "Saul" from the band The Oliver
Twists was deceased and replaced
with a double. A twist ending
revealed that an accident had killed
every member of the Oliver Twists
but Saul. The album that Robin is
holding on the cover of the comic
book mimics the back cover image
on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band

14. • The title of "All You Need is Lube" is a
reference to the Beatles song "All You
Need is Love.“
• CatDog protest and claim that their
house is a historical site and the 60's
house of love where CatDog met the
Beatles!

15. • Powerpuff creator Craig McCracken
has always been a Beatlemaniac
• Meet The Beat-Alls
• The “Beat-Alls” look down, mocking
the cover to the first Beatles álbum,
“Please Please Me”
• The álbum With the Beatles

16. • The “Beat-Alls” wanted poster is a
parody of the A Hard days night
Album cover.
• The captain from Yellow Submarine
• The Beat-Alls are seen beating up
the cartoon Beatles

17. • Mojo Jojo and Moko Jono

18. • Parody of the Let it be Album cover.
• Parody of the Abbey Road Album
cover.
• Parody of the Rubber Soul Album
cover.

19. • Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across
the 2nd Dimension.
• Doofenshmirtz and his alternate self
are seen as a number of famous
duos, including John Lennon and Paul
McCartney of the Beatles

20. There are several obvious
references to the animated
Beatles film Yellow
Submarine, including the Sea
of Holes.

22. • The album cover is a reference to
Let It Be by The Beatles
• The album cover is a reference to
Please please me by The Beatles
• The logo from the Gorillaz new
Plastic Beach

24. The Beatles: Rock Band is a 2009 music
video game
The Beatles: Rock Band is the first band-
centric game in the series, and it is centered
on the popular English rock group The
Beatles

25. If you are a Simpsons fan, Beatles fan, or both, you'll love to watch the following episodes!

26. • The cover of The Yellow Album, the second collection
of music from The Simpsons, released on Geffen
records, is a homage to the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club band cover.
• Marge painted many pictures of her schoolgirl crush
Ringo Starr. In this episode he finally gets time to
answer Marge's fan mail.

27. • Last Exit to Springfield
• Lisa's dentist dream sequence turns into a
missing scene from the Yellow Submarine
film.
• Lisa in the Sky without Diamonds

28. • Homer's Barbershop Quartet
• The Be Sharps, a barbershop
quartet founded by Homer Simpson.
The band's story roughly parallels that
of The Beatles. (George Harrison
appears on the episode)
• Their first album, Meet the Be Sharps, is
a parody of the With the Beatles album.
• The cover of Bigger Than Jesus, The Be
Sharps' second album, features the
group walking on water, which is a
direct parody of the art on The Beatles'
album Abbey Road. The name is a
reference to a controversial quote made
by John Lennon in 1966

29. • This is a parody of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP reverse
• Moe's Tavernchanges its name to Moe's Cavern a reference to the Cavern
Club in Liverpool where The Beatles frequently performed in the early 1960s
• Barney's Japanese conceptual artist girlfriend is a parody of Yoko Ono
• Their song repeats the phrase "Number 8" and a burp by Barney, a reference to The
Beatles' "Revolution 9“
• The group performing atop Moe's Tavern at the end of the episode is a parody of The
Beatles' impromptu concert on the Apple Corps rooftop

30. • LISA THE VEGETARIAN, fifth
episode of the seventh
season
Her schoolmates and family
members ridicule her for her
beliefs, but with the help
of Apu, Paul McCartney,
and Linda McCartney, she
commits to vegetarianism.
• Apu sings part of "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band"

31. • The Bart of War: A reference to John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the cover of
Rolling Stones Magazine
• Scenes from Flanders' Beatles room.