History WesternAnimation / TheBeatles

'''Paul:''' I don't think they're quite ripe yet. ''[points to a little girl standing nearby]''

-->'''John:''' But...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint but one of us is liable to get hurt!]]

--> '''Paul:''' Help me to find that doll, boys, I want to take it home. It belongs to me.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Chances of this ever getting an official DVD release are slim to none. Episodes can be found here and there on YouTube for the morbidly curious.

* {{Uberwald}}: The Beatles visit Transylvania in one episode.

* DownerEnding: Some of the episodes end with injuries. And the first episode ends with them fainting from the effects of KnockoutGas.

* DownerEnding: Some of the episodes end with injuries. And the first episode ends with them fainting at the sight of spooks.

* FullBodyDisguise: 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 [[OhCrap into panic]] when he sees an equally panicky John, Paul and George in the stands (who are trying to warn Ringo of [[NotMeThisTime the danger he's in]]).

* LetsSeeYOUDoBetter: 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 DeathCourse, and forcing him to save the lead actress from various traps.

* FullBodyCostume: 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 [[OhCrap into panic]] when he sees an equally panicky John, Paul and George in the stands (who are trying to warn Ringo of [[NotMeThisTime the danger he's in]]).

* YourSizeMayVary: 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. [[hottip: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.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Paul would like you to know that Hollywood is fake and phony. And RobinHood? He never happened.

The show got a brief revival in the 1980's when it was rerun on cable television, most notably {{MTV}} and the Creator/DisneyChannel.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Quite a few.
* AccidentalMarriage: One of the stock plots for this show.
* AllClothUnravels: 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 sweater.
* TheAllegedCar: In "Drive My Car".

* AnnoyingLaugh: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9B4MTXpo_o 'Uhuhuhuh Yeah']]

* BigFriendlyDog: Gunther from "Gib Mir Deine Hand".

** Certain episodes of the show never aired when the show was re-run on the Disney Channel in the 1980's, likely thanks to ValuesDissonance, though a few of the more...um, [[UnfortunateImplications dated]] ones did make it through.
** One of the sing-along intros was also edited, the one where George tells Ringo the song goes "like gangbusters" and Ringo returns with a machine gun to shoot up the stage; the edited version has George come out and say it's time for the sing-along, and then goes straight into the first song. This edit was probably due to Disney's heavy anti-violence status.
* BoxingKangaroo: John receives a black eye from one of these in a singalong intro.
* BritishStuffiness: John, bizarrely enough, considering he was the antithesis of this trope in reality. Likely done to make him clearly the "leader." Like everything else, [[DependingOnTheWriter it depends on the episode]]).

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: George thinks he's this to Ringo. Ringo thinks he's this to George.

* ComedicSociopathy:
** The Beatles' general reaction to seeing a friend 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 [[HonorBeforeReason force him to fight]], even though George's hand is swollen from signing too many autographs.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint

* CrashingThroughTheHarem: 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 girls' unveiled faces, and have to sing their way out, all the while flirting with the girls.

* DisneyAcidSequence: "Strawberry Fields Forever". There is a plot to the episode, about a depressing orphanage or something, but it 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.
* DistressBall
* DistressedDamsel: 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 more straight in "I Feel Fine" when Paul has to repeatedly rescue an actress from a DeathCourse of a movie set.
* DistressedDude: OncePerEpisode, usually. One of the Beatles will end up in trouble, and the others will have to come to his rescue. Or they'll just stand around and sing while he gets himself out.

* TheDoorSlamsYou: "She Loves You".

* DuelToTheDeath: "I Saw Her Standing There".

* DumbAndDrummer: Ringo.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: All. The. Time.

* ExecutiveMeddling:

* ExtremeOmnivore: Ringo eats ''actual'' drumsticks (and possibly other instruments as well: "Guitars taste terrible.")
* TheFaceless: Brian Epstein. Mentioned in a couple of episodes, and his hand was visible and voice actually heard in one.

* HiccupHijinks: The Beatles employ these on Ringo when he...loses his voice.

* IKissYourHand: John does this to an octopus in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".

* InteractiveNarrator: 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, and he politely obliges.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Chances of this ever getting an official DVD release are slim to none.

* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: Attempted in "I Saw Her Standing There", "Taxman", and "All My Loving".

* NotQuiteStarring

* OffModel: They're hardly ever on model. The Australian episodes are particularly problematic about this, and Paul is often the worst offender.

* RashomonStyle: "Paperback Writer".

* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Ringo. Partial TruthInTelevision.

* SecurityCling

** "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 Film/JamesBond films.
** Also in that episode, they face a Generic Archvillain and a very obvious Mook. He's the spitting image of Oddjob from ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.

** Their performance in "I'm Down," makes a lot of references to their Shea Stadium performance.

** "Can't Buy Me Love" is arguably another reference to ''{{Help}}''--they should probably know by now [[AesopAmnesia that taking strange rings from foreign tribes is a bad idea]]. (And at the end, John [[spoiler:gives the ring to Ringo to take the heat off himself]].)
** Speaking of ''Help!'', "All My Loving" is practically a WholePlotReference to the scene in which a tiger is dangerously close to Ringo and the others have to [[MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast ward it off by singing]]. Plus, the episode depicts them on a "goodwill trip" to India.

* SimpletonVoice: Ringo.

*** And 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.
* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen: John at the end of "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party".

* StockFootage: Often used when the Beatles start playing.

* TakeThatKiss: "I Saw Her Standing There".

* ThrowTheBookAtThem: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Ringo]] whacks Paul with a book on English pronunciation in one of the sing-a-long intros.

* TooDumbToLive: Ringo, [[IdiotBall usually]]. George, sometimes. The boy can't even read!
** Why Ringo never sued King Features is completely unknown to us. In comparison to his [[OnlySaneMan actual]] [[TheQuietOne persona]], the show's [[TheDitz portrayal]] of him borders on libel.
* TropeMaker[=/=]UrExample: As mentioned above.

* UnexplainedAccent: George's, which is not even British, let alone Liverpudlian.
* WalkingTheEarth: The Beatles, apparently. Usually explained as they're constantly on tour.

* MirrorCrackingUgly: Ringo, who wasn't the most conventionally handsome Beatle to begin with and likely isn't flattered by his portrayal here.

* TheFaceless: Brian Epstein.
* FacialProfiling: Their trips to Japan. Just...[[ValuesDissonance their trips to Japan.]] 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 them in World War II. Ironically, the show was broadcast and dubbed in Japanese.

* FollowTheBouncingBall: Averted.

** "Long Tall Sally" being used for an episode. It's about ''adultery''. Although the story subverts this by referring to a sword with that as its nickname, and merely playing the song in the background during a fight scene.
*** The sing-a-long segment based on the same song, however, makes it pretty clear that Long Tall Sally is a woman Uncle John is into.

* TheGhost: The prop man during the Sing-Alongs.

* GroupieBrigade: The Beatles even have nicknames for them: the Screamer, the Clipper, and the Fainter.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Ringo's props in season 3.

* HilarityEnsues

* ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext

* KnifeOutline: "She Loves You".

* LiteralMinded: Ringo.

* MirrorCrackingUgly: [[ButtMonkey Ringo]].

* [[NotNowKiddo Not Now, Ringo]]

* ObsessedWithFood
* OffModel: They're hardly ever on model. Paul is often the worst offender.

* PungeonMaster: Ringo, especially in the singalong intros.

* ScheherezadeGambit: "The Word".

* ShoutOut: "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 Film/JamesBond films.

* StrawFan: Of course.
* SuperDeformed: Well, basically.

* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: George's reaction to winning the role of Mr. Hollywood in "Boys".
* UnexplainedAccent: George's.
* WalkingTheEarth: The Beatles, apparently. Could be that they're constantly on tour.

* YourSizeMayVary

** Brian, despite only being onscreen ''once,'' gets in on the action, too. In one episode, he thinks the boys are getting [[HollywoodPudgy too fat]] and decides the best solution is to lock them in their hotel room with no food.

* [[HurricaneOfPuns Hurricane of]] {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s: One of the things that carried over to ''YellowSubmarine''.

* AllClothUnravels: "Hold Me Tight".

* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: A sign for a miniature garden "It Won't Be Long" introduces "Dr. Ah-So" as the "Honoulable Ploplietor".

* BeautifulAllAlong: The receptionist in "Thank You Girl".

* BornUnlucky / TheJinx: In "Good Day Sunshine", Ringo is ''both''. (Subverted at the end, though, when his luck appears to change for the better.)
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Certain episodes of the show never aired when the show was re-run on the Disney Channel in the 1980's, likely thanks to ValuesDissonance, though a few of the more...um, [[UnfortunateImplications dated]] ones did make it through.

* BritishStuffiness: John, bizarrely enough, considering he was the antithesis of this trope in reality (although like everything else, [[DependingOnTheWriter it depends on the episode]]).
* ButtMonkey: Ringo.

* ChickMagnet: All four Beatles, needless to say.

* ComedicSociopathy: The Beatles' general reaction to seeing a friend 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 [[HonorBeforeReason force him to fight]], even though George's hand is swollen from signing too many autographs.

* DisguisedInDrag: George, in "What You're Doing", to get Ringo out of a Gypsy wedding. It backfires spectacularly.

* DistressedDude: OncePerEpisode.
* TheDitz: Ringo.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The Bat-Woman from "Baby's In Black" originally had a lot more...[[MostCommonSuperpower curves]], but the higher-ups saw the pencil test and thought that that was a bit much for a kids' show, so the animators had to redraw her.

* FacialProfiling: Their trips to Japan. Just...[[ValuesDissonance their trips to Japan.]]
** 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 them in World War II.
** Ironically, the show was broadcast and dubbed in Japanese.

* FourFingeredHands: Much of the time, the characters have four fingers, but they often have five, and on one occasion, even six fingers.
* FrogsAndToads: Ringo's pet frog Bartholomew.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The mere fact that "Run For Your Life" is in a kids' show. The lyrics to that song are basically saying, "If you ever cheat on me I will hunt you down and kill you."

* GroupieBrigade

* LamePunReaction: In "Not a Second Time":

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Not with a Liverpudlian one, at least. The creators decided to use a generic British accent so the viewers could understand them more easily.

** Ooh, and "James Blond" in "Penny Lane"!

* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy:

* TitleDrop: 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 ([[NotNowKiddo and note that Ringo's actually bothering them for a good reason]]).

* TruthInTelevision: In "Anna", a mysterious JAPANESE woman captivates John, psychologically controlling him to the point where he abandons the group. Oh, wait -- not John, but ''Paul''. What was I thinking??

* BandToon: The TropeMaker.

* ChildhoodBrainDamage: In an episode, [[JohnLennon John]] sews the money from last night's concert into [[RingoStarr Ringo]]'s pocket to keep it from getting lost.

* ChickMagnet: All four Beatles, needless to say.