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6	* AccentDepundent: The following pun only worked thanks to Music/RingoStarr's Liverpool accent:
7	--> '''Ringo:''' Hey, I wonder what would happen if I pulled this lever.\
8	'''Old Fred:''' You mustn't do that.\
9	'''Ringo:''' Can't help it. I'm a born lever-puller.
10	* ContractualObligationProject: Music/TheBeatles only agreed to the project in the hopes that it would fulfill the three-picture deal they'd signed with Creator/UnitedArtists in late 1963. The band had no interest in participating the film's actual production, as they were too busy experimenting in the studio, studying transcendental meditation in India and desperately trying not to break up, especially since it was being produced by the same team who had made the [[WesternAnimation/TheBeatles Saturday morning]] BandToon, which they hated (they were impressed enough by the finished film to make a cameo at the end). It's never been confirmed whether or not this film fulfilled the contract, as the band didn't actually star in it and their final film, ''Film/LetItBe'', despite being released by United Artists, was not part of the original contract.
11	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: It's quite amazing how many people think that the Beatles are living in [[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]] during the film's early stages -- even though Ringo's first line is about how ''Liverpool'' can sometimes be a lonely place.
12	* CreatorsApathy: The reason the film was made into an animated feature was because Music/TheBeatles didn't want to make another movie since they weren't happy with [[Film/{{Help}} their previous one]], but by having it animated they could exploit [[LoopholeAbuse a loophole]] in their contracts (which said they had to star in another movie, yet didn't specify that it actually had to be ''them'' on screen) which, other than a live action appearance at the end, would allow them to continue touring India while their animated counterparts were voiced by sound-alikes instead. It wasn't until they saw the finished film that they fell in love with it, and in the years after their breakup, the surviving band members still consider it to be one of their favorite projects to be involved with.
13	* DVDCommentary: By production supervisor John Coates, with clips from interviews with Heinz Edelmann.
14	* TheMerch: There was a considerable amount when the film was originally released, most notably a comic book adaptation and a few toys. Unfortunately, because they were all released before the script was finished, they either looked nothing like the finished film or contained story points and that were cut out. A new line of more accurate vinyl toys was produced in 1999 by Todd [=MacFarlane=] to coincide with the film's release on DVD. The 2012 blu ray similarly had a digital storybook and a more faithful comic adaptation released alongside it.
15	* NonSingingVoice: Save for Paul briefly singing "Any Old Iron" and John reciting the "you're such a lovely audience" part of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," all of the Beatles' singing comes from the original recordings, while all their dialogue comes from the actors.
16	* RealitySubtext: There are few trivial references to the individual Beatles' personal lives.
17	** When the sub's motor breaks down, George comments that he "knows something about motors." He would, as Music/GeorgeHarrison's brother was a mechanic.
18	** The aforementioned ContrivedCoincidence.
19	--->'''Lord Mayor''': Your faces...
20	--->'''Paul''': [[MythologyGag They're quite cute, really.]][[note]]Paul was known as "the cute one."[[/note]]
21	** Aged-down Ringo crying "I want me mum!" Ringo was known to be [[MamasBoy very close with his mother]].
22	* TheOtherDarrin: Peter Batten, the one-time actor who voiced George, was in reality a deserter from the British Army, unbeknownst to the staff of the movie. When he was arrested for deserting, Paul Angelis, the voice of Ringo and the Chief Blue Meanie, stepped in to finish the rest of George's lines.
23	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The original home video release in 1987 was pulled after a couple of years due to a lawsuit between MGM/UA and Subafilms (who produced the film) over the rights. Music rights issues were also said to be a factor, as the VHS release lacked the "Hey Bulldog" musical number (though that wasn't in the US theatrical release, either). The parties eventually settled and the VHS was put out again in 1999 via a new restoration, with the "Hey Bulldog" number restored.
24	* StillbornFranchise: According to the book ''The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made'' by Chris Gore, a sequel called ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' was being worked on at one point and planned as the first computer-animated feature. Ten minutes of footage allegedly exist, but have never been publicly released.
25	* ThrowItIn: The animators claimed that the multiplane pan-down of Liverpool at the beginning of "Eleanor Rigby" was an accident and that they had no idea how to recreate it.
26	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In 2009, Disney and Apple Corps announced a 3-D computer animated remake, with Creator/RobertZemeckis as director. Motion capture would be used, as with Zemeckis' previous animated movies. Disney planned the movie for a summer 2012 release, to coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Peter Serafinowicz would voice Paul, Dean Lennox Kelly would voice John, Creator/CaryElwes would voice George, and Adam Campbell would voice Ringo. Creator/DavidTennant was in talks to play the Chief Blue Meanie. California-based Beatles tribute band Fab Four was cast to do the motion capture performance for The Beatles. If the movie had been successful, it would have spawned a Broadway musical and a Cirque de Soleil show. Disney shut down Zemeckis' digital film studio, ImageMovers Digital, in May 2010 due to the successful yet unsatisfactory performance of ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009'', and pulled the plug on the project in 2011 due to the massive failure of ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms''. Criticism of motion capture technology was a factor. Zemeckis tried to pitch the project to other studios, but ultimately lost interest. He later said "That would have been a great one to bring the Beatles back to life. But it's probably better not to be remade. You're always behind the 8-ball when you do a remake."
27	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants:
28	** The film began production without an ending and was produced in only 11 months.
29	** The song "Hey Bulldog" was basically just a John Lennon work-in-progress that he hurriedly finished up because the promo film for "Lady Madonna" was going to show them recording at Abbey Road, and they needed a song they could actually be recording (preferably with a piano, since "Lady Madonna" features the instrument prominently) while they were being filmed.

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