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6	* AnimationAgeGhetto: Oddly enough, a positive example. It was intended for teens and young adults, but only became popular when it was released on home video and allowed Baby Boomers to [[GatewaySeries introduce their kids]] to Music/TheBeatles through a trippy cartoon.
7	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: How could a Beatles movie ''not'' have this?
8	** "Hey Bulldog". From the pounding piano riff, the blistering guitar solo that rivals "[[Music/RevolverBeatlesAlbum Taxman]]", its manic barking outro, and the greatest bassline Paul Mccartney ever played in his career, there's a reason this song remains a rock classic.
9	** Harrison's two songs have also won some admiration, with "Only a Northern Song" being a witty swipe at not getting more record time, and "It's All Too Much" as his gleefully over-the-top attempt at a PsychedelicRock SillyLoveSong.
10	** Even the titular song, "Yellow Submarine". Yes, it was originally a song on ''Music/{{Revolver\|Beatles Album}}'' years back, but there's a good reason why it ended up creating its own movie when no other Beatles song did.
11	** "It's All Too Much" can get lost in the shuffle, but the message of recognizing the good in other people still more than holds up.
12	** "All Together Now" may be a simple children's song when isolated, but it being placed at the very end of the film with Fab Four themselves appearing in live-action ''demands'' the audience to participate in its sing-along nature. The lyrics being fairly quirky in nature certainly helps it appeal to any age too.
13	** George Martin's score is no slouch, especially considering [[GenreRoulette all of the musical styles it covers]].
14	** Creator/RogerEbert's review makes the very reasonable point that, with no fewer than eleven songs by Music/TheBeatles, this has a good claim for the best soundtrack of any cartoon ever made.
15	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Oh, where to begin! Ringo's entire house could be called a Big Lipped Alligator MANSION.
16	* BrokenBase: The Beatles' voices. Some find their deadpan reactions to ''everything'' to be part of the humor, others are bothered by it sounding "bored."
17	* HarsherInHindsight:
18	** The clock in the Yellow Submarine speeds up to the year 2009, which only half of the band (Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/RingoStarr) would live to see.
19	** The film was produced during (and indicative of) the summer of 1967, aka "The Summer Of Love," as evidenced by the psychedelic Peter Max-inspired visuals and story about ThePowerOfLove. By the time of the film's release, the movement had devolved into endless street riots, with police brutalizing hippies and their periphery, with UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar on the horizon and its two biggest opponents, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, getting assassinated within weeks of one another. When viewed in the grand scheme of history, ''Yellow Submarine'' ended up, intentional or not, kicking off nostalgia for this specific era ''the year after it happened.''
20	* HilariousInHindsight:
21	** When George sees that the car changes colors, he says, "It's all in the mind." Guess what made it into the ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' series nearly 30 years later?
22	** The Beatles [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros fight a giant flying glove, eh?]]
23	*** Not only that, but the guns that shoot arrows that freeze the the people of the land.
24	** One of the rooms contains a train (and it wasn't Paul's room, and that only leaves Ringo's!). Add to that Ringo seemingly narrating his own life during his first few scenes, and this movie can easily be read as an unintentional prequel to ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. That, and to top it all off, Ringo is voiced by Paul Angelis, whose younger brother Michael would replace Ringo as the narrator for UK syndication after the first two seasons.
25	* HoYay: While both characters are already [[AlwaysCamp pretty flamboyant]] in their own ways, Jeremy rubbing noses with the Chief Blue Meanie, who then sheds a single [[TearsOfJoy tear of joy]], followed by the two of them joyfully dancing together during the "It's All Too Much" sequence clearly indicates something more than just newfound friendship.
26	* NarmCharm: The movie is in for a penny, in for a pound with selling ThePowerOfLove. There's literally a song in it called "All You Need Is Love" which not only defeats but ''reforms'' the villains! In any other movie, that'd be cloying and cheesy, and yet it's all played so sincerely here that you can't help by get swept up in it, certainly helped by the fact that it [[NotQuiteStarring (sort of) stars]] and features SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic by [[Music/TheBeatles a band who sincerely believed this themselves]].
27	* PeripheryDemographic:
28	** As mentioned above, the movie was going for a young adult audience but was much more popular among Gen X-ers and Millennials whose parents used this movie to introduce them to the Beatles' music.
29	** Music/JohnLennon claimed in one of his last interviews that while raising Sean, he and Yoko deliberately tried to keep John's Beatles history away from him, and played down being a millionaire pop star. It was only when Sean saw ''Yellow Submarine'' for the first time while at a sleepover at a friend's house that Sean recognized his dad in the film, and thus his role in the Beatles.
30	* RetroactiveRecognition:
31	** Animator Robert Alvarez got his start as an assistant animator here.
32	** Music/PaulMcCartney is voiced by Creator/GeoffreyHughes, who would later be best known for playing Onslow in ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'' and Twiggy in ''Series/TheRoyleFamily''.
33	* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: As mentioned above, the movie is completely in on the idea of ThePowerOfLove, and all of its humor, fun music and joyful visuals make for just the happiest viewing experience. By the end, you ''will'' believe that "love is all you need."
34	* UglyCute:
35	** Jeremy.
36	** Many of the monsters who appear in the Sea of Monsters, including the one that briefly gets into the submarine.
37	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Funnily enough, the movie had aspects of this right from the day it was released. The film began production in 1967, and thus the animators based the character designs for the four Beatles on their physical appearance in the music videos for "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane"--note John's horseshoe mustache and George's full beard--albeit with Paul's 'stache removed for some reason. However, by the time the group filmed their live-action cameo in January 1968, George had shaved, while John had replaced the mustache with large mutton-chops (his hair was also substantially longer). And when it premiered that summer, all four Beatles would be sans facial hair, one of the few times after late 1966 that they were all clean-shaven at the same time.
38	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Some viewers (particularly kids) may mistake the Chief Blue Meanie for a female character instead of an AmbiguouslyGay male character.
39	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: A less extreme example. It ''was'' intended for older audiences, but there's nothing too vulgar about it that would keep kids from watching, which may be why [[PeripheryDemographic it's become such a popular way for parents to introduce their kids to]] Music/TheBeatles.

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