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When Eric Idle guest-hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' a year later, he brought over two ''RWT'' segments to air as shorts: "Pommy", a parody of ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', in which the hero tries to escape from a Creator/KenRussell film, and the Rutles. Idle was especially proud of Pommy, but naturally Creator/LorneMichaels chose the Rutles; ''SNL'' was in the midst of publicly "wooing" the Beatles to reunite on the show. The short proved to be a wild success, with many viewers calling in to ask about the Rutles (some of them even believing they were actually the Beatles incognito). After Idle returned to England, he began writing a feature-length {{Mockumentary}} for the BBC, but when Michaels offered him a larger budget with Creator/{{NBC}}, he committed to doing it with them.[[note]]Idle was fed up with shoestring budgets. ''RWT'' wasn't given the funding for a BBC light entertainment (comedy/sketch) show, but that for a chat (talk) show, which meant that they had to make props and do shoots for the money it takes to tape talking heads. Not fun.[[/note]]
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When Eric Idle guest-hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' a year later, he brought over two ''RWT'' segments to air as shorts: "Pommy", a parody of ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', in which the hero tries to escape from a Creator/KenRussell film, and the Rutles. Idle was especially proud of Pommy, but naturally Creator/LorneMichaels chose the Rutles; ''SNL'' was in the midst of publicly "wooing" the Beatles to reunite on the show. The short proved to be a wild success, with many viewers calling in to ask about the Rutles (some of them even believing they were actually the Beatles incognito). After Idle returned to England, he began writing a feature-length {{Mockumentary}} for the BBC, but when Michaels offered him a larger budget with Creator/{{NBC}}, he committed to doing it with them.[[note]]Idle was fed up with shoestring budgets. ''RWT'' wasn't given the funding for a BBC light entertainment (comedy/sketch) show, but that for a chat (talk) show, which meant that they had to make props and do shoots for the money it takes to tape talking heads. Not fun.[[/note]]
[[/note]] The film was actually constructed as a parody of the Beatles episode of ''All You Need is Love'', a documentary series about popular music which was quite successful at the time.
