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13The cover for Music/TheBeatles' album ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' is an image that is instantly recognizable. Four people (usually), belonging to the same group, cross a road single file. If the author is really [[ShownTheirWork showing their work]], they will be crossing to the right, in this sequence: dressed in a white suit, dressed in a black suit, dressed in a dark blue suit, and entirely in blue denim. Whomever is third in line will be barefoot and walking off-step from the others (and, for extra points, will be holding a cigarette or pencil in their right hand). The one in front wearing white will have their hands stuffed in their pockets. For bonus points, there will be a 1960s Volkswagen Beetle and a man walking a dog in the background.
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15Often used as a cover or poster. Expect [[LongRunners long-running bands]] to use it sometime in their career.
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17Movies or episodes discussing long-gone GloryDays of a Bob & Alice's band will often feature this pose as well.
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19For some collections of these images ([[SturgeonsLaw some better than others]]), go [[http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/abbey-road-parodies/ here,]] [[http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/abbey-road-hommage-covers here]] or
20[[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/abbey-road-40-years--40-imitations-1761487.html?action=Popup&ino=1 here.]]
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22And for the live web cam feed of Abbey Road [[http://www.abbeyroad.com/Crossing go here]] to see people disrupt traffic for their own personal recreation. Make sure you go to the right Abbey Road in London - the DLR station is several miles away (although TFL have produced a {{Pun}}-laden [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Abbey_Road_DLR_Station_Beatles_Sign.jpg poster]] there directing you to the right place in St. John's Wood).
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24SgtPeppersShoutOut is another trope based on parodies of [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand another specific Beatles album cover]]. Also compare BorrowingTheBeatles, for parodies of the band as a whole.
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32* Seen in an American Express commercial with Jerry Seinfeld touring England.
33* A line of 4 ''Toys/{{Barbie}}'' dolls cross a road single-file in the commercial [[https://youtu.be/mib0kxkLM7g "Who is Barbie?"]]
34* Cover band "The Bootleg Beatles" used [[http://pixhost.to/show/139/118604307_52797675_2406561199355329_8439518162914902016_n-jpg-_nc_cat-111-_nc_oc-aqlkhkyes.jpg this]] image for their posters promoting their tour with an orchestra for the 50th anniversary of the release of the "Abbey Road" album.
35* In spring 2014, British online food-delivery-ordering service Just-Eat did a version with four Indian-restaurant chefs crossing a zebra crossing in a quiet country road, with the punning caption "Tikka To Ride". The "John" figure in the front is wearing an all-white outfit, and although the four are in step, "Paul" is wearing sandals whilst the rest have shoes.
36* [=McCain=], a British manufacturer of potato products, did it with their four guys walking across a (potato?) field, striped with alternate strips of potato plants and strips of bare earth. [[ShownTheirWork The clothes are similar to those on the album cover, and the guy second from the back is out of step with the others.]]
37* UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} Transit Authority used a cartoon version of this to advertise a family pass where four people ride for the same price. They also used ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' imagery for the same campaign.
38* [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/18858892159148238/ VolksWagen]] did it with 4 [[VisualPun Beetles]].
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42* The cover page of chapter 99 of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'' has this with four of the Cross-Eyes' top lieutenants.
43* The cover of a ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' Platform/BluRay set packaged in [[http://www.rightstuf.com/cms/action/ItemDescription?ItemDescriptionTypeName=ALTERNATE_IMAGE_2&ItemName=aoa0704&LanguageIsoName=en a lunchbox.]]
44* An illustration from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' which was used as the cover image for the season 1 DVD set (in the US, at least).
45* The cover art for ''Manga/HidamariSketch'''s original soundtrack.
46* Referenced in ''Manga/KOn'' (season 2) episode 27, when Mio fantasizes about a trip to England—the land of rock bands! Apparently Mio really is a classic rock fan. As the [[TheMovie movie]] has them going to England, they get to reenact this trope at [[RealPlaceBackground the real Abbey Road]].
47* In the anime of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', as Deku, Ochaco, Tsu, and Kirishima head to a heroes' meeting, one shot has them reproduce the trope.
48* One is featured, along with a [[ReferenceOverdosed barrage of other music references]], in the music video "Help! We are Angels" from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. In this instance, [[IronButtMonkey Chuck]] gets flattened by the white Volkswagen.
49* [[http://www.animeyume.com/tenchi_muyo/tmabbeyroad.jpg This]] back cover for a ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' soundtrack CD (which was entitled ''Meet The Tenchi Muyo!'' and featured several other Beatles cover pastiches).
50* ''Manga/{{The World God Only Knows}}'' has a special chapter about the 2-B Pencils Band, in which Elsea and the rest of the band cross a road Abbey Road style.
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54* A series of spoof Cacofonix album covers in the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' MilestoneCelebration ''Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book'' includes ''Roman Road'', [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/26/64/11/26641142e0132a716f4d443bbf987ef5.jpg with Cacofonix and three other bards.]]
55* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' Volume 3, Issue #27 does this when Logan, Kurt,[[note]]who appeared to spend the ''whole'' comic barefoot[[/note]] and Adsit accompany Wade to his wedding.
56* [[http://www.idwpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAN120478_11.jpg This cover]] for one of Creator/IDWPublishing's ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' collections.
57* French comic book ''Hamster Jovial'' by Creator/{{Gotlib}}, about a clueless scoutmaster who's fond of rock and pop music, has [[https://berichtenuithetverleden.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/gotlib-hamster-jovial-et-ses-louveteaux/ several homages/spoofs]] of famous album covers from the 60s and 70s, including this one.
58* Brazilian comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' has [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/monica/images/f/f1/190522_1862205391309_1126187624_3728787_6381029_n.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120316155800&path-prefix=pt-br one promotional image]] (with the guy next to the Beetle being a CreatorCameo), and [[https://beatlescollege.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/002.jpg some]] [[http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/foto/0,,22741346-EX,00.jpg others]] [[http://trabalhosujo.com.br/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/penadinho-beatles.jpg in-story.]]
59* Used as a cover for the 2013 SDCC exclusive edition of the ''ComicBook/{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic|IDW}}'' comic.
60* [[http://www.comics.org/issue/89889/cover/4/ The cover]] for ''[[ComicBook/XMen X-Men Unlimited]]'' issue #30. This one plays with the "Paul is Dead" symbolism. Nightcrawler (in John's position), a devout Christian, is wearing Lennon's white suit as the preacher, Storm (in Ringo's place) in her black costume as the mourner, Colossus (Paul) is barefoot and out of step, playing the part of the corpse (Colossus had previously [[HeroicSacrifice given his life to stop the spread of the Legacy Virus]], but he got better), and Wolverine (George) takes the role of the gravedigger.
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64* ''WesternAnimation/TheElectricPiper'': Referenced during the second half of the film during the London on the Moon music sequence.
65* The French poster for ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' is staged like [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/b85542d34d297a3823c22582d158a1d5/tumblr_pt3mylMpsV1rqpeebo1_640.jpg an Abbey Road crossing]], but here, it's Elsa, then Anna, then Kristoff, and Sven carrying Olaf, walking past the shore of a lake.
66* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'': One scene has the Minions come out of a sewer right as ''The Beatles themselves'' are crossing Abbey Road. The song "Love Me Do" even plays as this happens.
67* In ''[[WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep Shaun the Sheep Movie]]'', this is done twice by the sheep in the Big City.
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71* ''Film/AspergersAreUs'': The titular troupe has a couple of photos of them doing crossings like it.
72* One of the [[https://pics.indavideo.hu/videos/002/803/655/7-2.jpg posters]] of ''Film/TheBoatThatRocked''.
73* The actual crossing pops up in ''Film/GetHimToTheGreek''.
74* Towards the end of ''Film/TheHangover'' Part III, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug briefly do this while walking across a road in the Las Vegas strip.
75* Appears in the Creator/LindsayLohan version of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}''. Taken a step further because "Here Comes the Sun" is playing in the background.
76* Creator/EricIdle's {{Mockumentary}} about a FakeBand with a career that very much mirrored Music/TheBeatles' history, ''Music/TheRutles: All You Need Is Cash'', gave us the album ''Shabby Road''. While Paul was barefoot on the original cover, Stig (who is actually a stand-in for Music/GeorgeHarrison) is not wearing pants on the joke cover.
77* The poster for the 2021 French film ''[[https://fr.web.img4.acsta.net/pictures/21/09/24/11/11/1430693.jpg Si on chantait]]''.
78* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' has a scene where the four lads cross the road to their hotel in London in this manner.
79* The poster for ''Film/Yesterday2019'', in which the main character Jack Malik is the only person who apparently remembers the Beatles, depicts Jack recreating this.
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83* [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/710pYaGWzsL.jpg Marc Simonetti's cover]] for the French translation of ''Literature/SoulMusic'' shows the Band With Rocks In on a bone zebra crossing, with Susan on Binky in the place of the white car and Buddy in Paul's place, complete with bare feet. (Note that the plot of ''Soul Music'' really kicks off when Buddy ''should'' have died, and didn't.)
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87* The cast of ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' during the ending theme, the scene of which was homaged/parodied in ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger''.
88* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' uses an Albuquerque-style imitation of the crossing in one episode with Jimmy and his camera crew.
89* ''Series/BigTimeRush'' did this for their movie. Carlos gets excited that they get to sing a Beatles song, and Logan doesn't believe so...until he's the one who notices that they just crossed Abbey Road. Kendall is wearing white, Logan is somewhat barefoot (he's in a dog costume), Carlos is in black and James brings up the rear in dark blue.
90* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - during the filming of [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E16Doppelgangland "Doppelgangland"]], Creator/AlysonHannigan and three doubles (two each dressed as human Willow and vampire Willow) posed this way for a photo.
91* This was the promotional poster for one ''Series/{{CSI}}'' season,season 8, with Grissom in the white suit. It led to speculation he might die that season, but his departure (still alive)came the next season, season 9.
92* In 2015, Creator/PeterCapaldi, Creator/JennaColeman and two Daleks [[http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/doctor-who-abbey-road-the-beatles-1201597783/ did a crossing]] to promote the revived ''Series/DoctorWho'''s ninth season. [[spoiler:Coleman is barefoot in the "Paul" position, foreshadowing Clara's death during the season.]]
93* This appears in the MadeForTVMovie ''In His Life: The John Lennon Story'', before the Beatles go auditioning on Abbey Road Studios. The most justifiable example of this page, apart from ''Paul Is Live''.
94* The ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' episode "Aaron Carter's Coming to Town" has Lizzie, Miranda, Gordo, and Matt cross a crosswalk in conspicuous to the studio where Aaron Carter is recording a music video. Everyone is out of step with each other and Gordo in the front isn't wearing white, but Miranda is third in line and barefoot (she had taken her shoes off because [[LoonyFan she was walking on ground Aaron Carter had walked on]]).
95* On ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the opening for the KTMA-era episode "Legend of Dinosaurs" has Forrster & Ehrhardt putting together a "Joel is Dead" hoax as a money-making scheme. It involves Forrester re-touching the ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' cover, putting Joel in Paul's spot. (Forrester explains that he did similar work for the National Enquirer.)
96* ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' do the lineup, with the image of it pasted over the the same road, in "[[https://youtu.be/kRxbl9M13uw The Power Rangers MEGA Album Playlist]]", a video with the Rangers spoofing famous album covers. They also did it on location [[http://www.parkproductions.co.uk/zeoranger/season/prs/prsp/05London/prsp33.htm during a London visit.]]
97* ''Series/SesameStreet'' had ''[[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Sesame_Road Sesame Road.]]''
98* The ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' did it [[http://pasttensesarepasttenses.tumblr.com/post/35481178752 on Wall Street]] during a visit to New York.
99* Used in the ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' episode "Boring" (season 1, episode 3).
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103* The shot of the original ''Abbey Road'' album cover was Music/PaulMcCartney's idea. Photographer Iain Macmillan spent ten minutes snapping only six photos as the band walked back and forth across the street a few times, and the fifth was selected because it was the only one where they were mostly in step with each other. The crossing was [[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/abbey-road-crossing-steps-into-safer-future-2167516.html designated a Grade II English Heritage Listed building]] in 2010.
104** [=McCartney=] has referenced the ''Abbey Road'' cover several times in his solo work.
105*** The cover of the [=Paul McCartney=] album ''Paul Is Live'' showed an older Paul walking a dog through the crossing, digitally edited into the famous 1969 photo in place of Music/TheBeatles. It contains visual {{Take That}}s against the Paul Is Dead rumors sparked in part by the ''Abbey Road'' cover:
106*** The white Volkswagen's number plate, which originally read in part "281F" (misread as "28IF" and interpreted as "Paul would be ''28 if'' he were still alive"), was changed to "51IS", as in "He ''is'' still alive, and he ''is 51''."
107*** He's wearing shoes and his left leg is forward. (It was suggested that being barefoot and out of step [[FauxSymbolism was symbolic]]. Paul actually ditched his shoes because it was a hot summer's day. If anything has symbolic value, it's the fact that the cover depicts the Beatles walking ''away'' from Abbey Road Studios.)
108*** He's holding the leash in his left hand. (Noted lefty Paul having a cigarette in his right hand was seen as evidence it wasn't really him.)
109*** Paul did a variant at the end of the music video for ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''. It has Paul, Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/DanAykroyd at the crossing, but it's done at night with spotlights on them, so that it's a homage to ''Abbey Road'' AND Music/{{Wings|Band}}' ''Music/BandOnTheRun''.
110*** Paul re-enacted it again in 2018 to promote his new album ''Egypt Station.''
111* Agnelli & Nelson's ''[[https://images.app.goo.gl/s8PekrHvJJGAtmiV9 Hudson St]]'' album cover parodies this with a wide-angle traffic cam shot of a crosswalk on the eponymous street in New York City, the pedestrian's shadows greatly elongated by the lens distortion, and a yellow taxi cab in the ''foreground''.
112* ''Bach on Abbey Road,'' an album of Beatles covers in the style of Bach, by pianist John Bayless, features a photograph of the iconic crosswalk with a superimposed drawing of Bach walking across.
113* Beatallica, being Beatles meets Music/{{Metallica}}, had ''[[http://store.oglio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Beatallica-Abbey-Load-Cover-Mini-RGB.jpg Abbey Load.]]'' Not done in the actual road, but with plenty of in-jokes - the Paul stand-in is in [[StealthPun bear slippers]], and the licence plate becomes a reference to a deceased Metallica bassist, "28KLIFF".
114* Creator/BennyHill on the cover to a 1992 ''Best Of'' album. Uses the actual crossing, but in winter and without the wide angle lens.
115* The members of Music/{{Blur}} recreated the crossing in their video for "Parklife".
116* Booker T & The [=MGs=] were somewhat timely with their homage, which is the UrExample of this trope. They released the album ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLemore_Avenue#/media/File:Mclemoreavenue_album.jpg McLemore Avenue]]'' half a year after the original album, complete with a shot of the group walking across the titular street, which is outside of [[Creator/StaxRecords Stax Studios]] in Memphis. The album is more or less an instrumental take on Beatles songs, played in the band's usual style.
117* The Music/{{Enya}} song "My! My! Time Flies" mentions "four guys across Abbey Road, one forgot to wear shoes." You can find the song on her ''...And Winter Came'' soundtrack.
118* Filipino rock band Music/TheEraserheads -- themselves compared to the Fab Four -- were on the cover of an ''Esquire'' magazine issue in 2014 featured the band at the famous zebra crossing, that included a CD that featured two new songs as part of a one-off reunion.
119* Music/ImagineDragons performs a short homage to this in their video for "On Top of the World". As the band strolls down a crosswalk past some cars from The60s, the scene slows down right when they strike the same pose from the album. This part also gives a nod to the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy, through a FreezeFrameBonus in which the license plate of a car reads, "BENISDEAD".[[note]]referring to bassist Ben [=McKee=][[/note]]
120* [[http://www.last.fm/music/Abbath/+images/9b77f38ebb101c60a34a857c1c4f02a3 This picture]] by BlackMetal band Abbath (project of the former front man of Music/{{Immortal|Band}}). The choice of location is, of course, also a {{pun}} on the band's name.
121* The Music/KanyeWest live album ''Late Orchestration'', which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in front of a standing room audience of 300 people, features the signature Dropout Bear mascot (which previously appeared on his ''College Dropout'' and ''Late Registration'' album covers) walking across the famed crossing.
122* ''[=LadBaby=]'' crosses it in his video for "I Love Sausage Rolls" to break into the Abbey Road studio to record the song. The single cover shows him following his wife chasing their children across it.
123* Music/McFly cross it a couple of times in the video for "5 Colours In Her Hair".
124* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers repeated the image for ''The Abbey Road EP''. Being the Chili Peppers, they did so wearing only the wang-covering gym socks.
125* A variant of the walk is shown in the clip for "Talk" (by Why Don't We).
126* An official Music/{{Vocaloid}} [[https://img.goodsmileus.com/image/cache/data/productimages/HatsuneMiku/MensTees/13/MHU043GL1_Zebra_NVY-1200x1200.png t-shirt]] depicts Miku, Rin, Len, and Luka doing their own homage.
127* The cover of the soundtrack to ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', ''[[http://www.souleye.se/pppppp PPPPPP,]]'' has the V-men crossing the road... upside down, of course.
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131* [[http://www.bigfinish.com/img/release/178-fanfare-for-the-common-men_cover_large.jpg The cover]] of the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio play "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1781963FanfareForTheCommonMen 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]", which is about the Beatles being [[TimeyWimeyBall timey-wimeyly]] replaced by "The Common Men."
132* Fan art for a ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' contest depicts [[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario, Bowser]], and [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Dedede]] crossing the road. BITF cartoonist Matt Taranto liked the image but noted that those four wouldn't sing very well.
133* Music/OneDirection did a version much to the horror of most of Music/TheBeatles fans.
134* A tote bag labeled "Tabby Road" depicts three orange cats in shoes and a barefoot gray cat making the crossing.
135* Abbey Road's iconic cover was remade on [[DepthDeception Perspective 3D Street art]] with ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} characters at [[http://www.thehighdefinite.com/2012/01/abbey-road-x-peanuts/ Universal Studios Japan.]]
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139* One piece of [[http://shshatteredmemories.com/greenvale/wp-content/gallery/concept-art/gdc2011_14.png official art]] for ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' shows the four members of the game's "investigation team" in this pose, crossing a street in [[TownWithADarkSecret Greenvale.]] The leader isn't in white, but the second from the back, York, ''is'' out of step! [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Fitting, really.]]
140* In one of the many random cutscenes of ''VideoGame/LEGOIsland'', four of the island's citizens cross a street in this pose. They even swap their normal hats and hairpieces for dark colored shoulder-length hair for this scene only, making the allusion even more clear.
141* ''The VideoGame/MarioPaint Player's Guide'' features Mario, Yoshi, a red Koopa Troopa, and a Bob-Omb reenacting this in the Table of Contents.
142* One of several fake CD covers in ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles 15: The Black Veil'' is a shot of four men in black robes making the crossing, labeled "The Alisters."
143* In ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'', the album cover for robot boy band 1010 depicts them in this pose, though all in step and with a more abstract background.
144* Parodied in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', one of the collectables you can find is a [[Music/TheBeatles Die Käfer]] record ''[[Music/YellowSubmarine Das Blaue U-Boot]]. The cover features a silhouette of the band in the Abbey Road Crossing pose.
145** In a more sinister example, some of the promotional material for the game depicted four German soldiers doing the crossing.
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149* ''Webcomic/DeadDuck'' does [[http://www.jayfosgitt.com/deadduckcomic/?p=191 a 19th century one in all places.]]
150* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' presents [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk1209.html Aby's Roadkill.]]
151* [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-08-02 This]] ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' strip features spoofs of three famous album covers, including ''Abbey Road''.
152* ''[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=257 Pokemon]]''-style, courtesy of ''WebComic/VGCats''.
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156* This [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140228154317/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axb2sHpGwHQ Flash-animated video]] for Music/TheBeatles "Come Together" features the Beatles as they appeared on the Abbey Road cover (John in white, George in denim, Ringo in black and Paul barefoot), and even references the zebra crossing on the cover. The video was made for beatles.com, and is quite well-made.
157* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has featured three: one in a brief parody in their "Ponies" music video, the second in an in-game picture purchase called "Crabby Road", and the third in a promotional poster for the "Music Rox" album, complete with a barefooted Zommer (maybe also an extra "Paul is Dead" rumor as well, since Zommers are zombie monsters) out of step with the others and Bonkers in place of the photobomber.
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161* [[https://youtu.be/zeWJoA4JnB8?t=67 Unintentionally foreshadowed]] in the mostly lost film ''15000 Dibujos'', from 1942.
162* One of the many variations of the intro song of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' had Yakko, Wakko and Dot walking on a road a la ''Abbey Road''. "''Penny laney...''"
163* A [[https://occ-0-1001-999.1.nflxso.net/art/e5f00/ba9dfc795c21d88d779e28cbadfd0b418d4e5f00.jpg Netflix thumbnail]] for ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' added around Season 4's release depicts the five main characters in this pose.
164* ''WesternAnimation/TheBremenAvenueExperience'' did this during a MusicVideo that contained multiple {{Shout Out}}s to British pop culture.
165* One of the records released by WesternAnimation/ElTigre's mother Maria during her stint as a mariachi singer. It featured Manny, Maria, and a goat.
166* A ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' T-shirt making the rounds has Popeye, Bluto, Wimpy and Swee-Pea affecting the Abbey Road crossing.
167* One of ''four'' Beatles album cover parodies seen briefly in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Meet the Beat Alls"[[note]]The other three being ''Please Please Me'', ''With/Meet The Beatles'', and ''A Hard Day's Night''[[/note]].
168* The cover for the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy]]'' album ''You Eediot!'' had Ren, Stimpy, Muddy Mudskipper and Mr. Horse walking down a live-action road.
169* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
170** Done in the Beatles parody "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". One of the records Homer shows to Bart and Lisa, titled "BiggerThanJesus" (a ShoutOut to an infamous joke Music/JohnLennon made during an interview). Homer's barbershop quartet (including a barefoot Barney) is even ''walking on water''.
171** The cover to November 2002's ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Simpsons-Rolling-Special-Collectors-Postcard/dp/B001JKSGTW Rolling Stone.]]'' Said cover provides the trope image.
172* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama:''
173** The Drama Brothers are seen crossing Abbey Road during their segment in the ''Celebrity Manhunt'' special.
174** In the intro to ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'', Leshawna and Noah are walking over the Abbey Road Crossing.
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178* The zebra crossing was given official Grade II Listed Building status (along with the studio) in 2010. It is arguably the most famous street crossing in the world, with only the scramble crossing in front of Shibuya Station in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} coming close to matching it. As noted above, it has become a pilgrimage destination for Beatles fans who want their picture taken there. Like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassini_team_Abbey_road.jpg the Cassini space probe imaging team.]]
179* Abbey Road Studios' website has [[http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 a live webcam stream of the crossing]]. On a good day you can see fans and tourists stopping to do their own re-creations of the shot every few minutes or so. On a bad day you can see those same fans [[LookBothWays desperately trying to dodge traffic]] as the unamused locals try to get to work.
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