The Beatles - Yellow Submarine Movie - 5/10

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The dialogue is littered with puns, double entendres, and Beatles in-jokes, many scripted by poet Roger McGough. "Blue Meanies" is sometimes used as a slang term for the police, although many viewers will have missed this (see List of slang terms for police officers). The term "Blue Meanies" is actually a metaphor for bad people in government and corporations, who force their wills on good people (Pepperlanders), and deplete and ruin the natural environment, resources, colour and landscape. They are uncaring about their destructive ways and will do whatever necessary to crush those who oppose them. This negative view of corporations may also be reflected by many of the Blue Meanies having Mickey Mouse ears, reflecting a negative commerical pervasiveness of Disney Corporation, or alternatively an in-joke reference to Fantasia (described above).

The imagery, character names, and vocalisations also include numerous in-jokes, such as the character Max being blue and having a German accent, possibly being a reference to the 1966 movie "The Blue Max", who also refers to escaping to Argentina, as some Nazis had done.

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  • So Long, Sucker! haha man I love puns.

  • 0:32 Rolling Stones flag lol

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  • tell me that's not a big ass blunt.

  • around 2:00 did anyone else notice how the thing had one arrow in his hand, yet threw 3? gotta love the beatles physics.

  • You've gotta be one kick-ass band to make a hugely popular cartoon like this. :D

  • i love the surreality (is that a word?) of this film! it is so awsome cos of it's surrealism! i wish half the beatles hadn't died, they could've made more films like this!!

  • 2:05-2:32

    John: "press a button."

    Submarine army rescues Ringo

    John: "how was it, Ringo?"

    Ringo"'Arrowing!'"

  • beatles greatest band of all time

  • "what do ya think?"

    " i think it burnt me finger."

    "dont go tellin everybody"

    "ya but hes a nobody"

  • poor Ringo. we love him anyway :)

  • Ringo almost took an arrow to the knee

  • Should we really. Show him our motor. 

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