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A list of references to a creative work by Franchise/TheBeatles. These references mostly will be to one of the group's songs but also includes their album covers and movies. It also encompasses the solo projects of Music/JohnLennon, Music/PaulMcCartney, Music/GeorgeHarrison, and Music/RingoStarr.

For examples pertaining to ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', go [[ReferencedBy/YellowSubmarine here]].

For specific visual examples common enough to deserve their own subtropes, see:

* AbbeyRoadCrossing
* SgtPeppersShoutOut

For in-universe [[{{Expy}} expies]]/parodies of the Beatles, see BorrowingTheBeatles
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/DiGiCharat'':
** ''Anime/DiGiCharatNyo'' has two musician characters named John and Paul. The voice actors in the English dub even do an impression of the respective Beatles when voicing them.
** Another from ''Nyo!'', Episode 51 is called "[[Music/MagicalMysteryTour The Magically Mystical Tour]]". The title card also recreates the album's cover with Dejiko, Rabi~en~Rose, John, and Paul taking the place of the four Beatles.
** ''Reiwa'' has the character Gema use an attack called "Yellow World". The WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine can be seen in the background when the attack is used.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]], Joseph can be seen inserting a Beatles cassete tape into his Walkman in the epilogue. The end of Part 3 shows the tape again, revealed to be [[Music/LetItBe "Get Back"]].
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]], the minion of DIO wielding the tarot card of Temperance is named Music/RubberSoul.
** In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]], one of the Stands is named [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum White Album]], with one of its abilities being called White Album Gently Weeps (after the song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps").
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Part 7]], the Stand of Lucy Steel is known as [[Music/{{Help}} Ticket to Ride]].
** In [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion Part 8]], a Rock Animal known for puncturing the skin of its victims is referred to as [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum Obladi Oblada]].
* The core cast of ''Anime/KOn'', the Houkago Teatime band, is believed to be a GenderFlipped one for the Beatles - Yui the eccentric and kind guitarist (John), Ritsu the goofball loudmouth drummer (Ringo), Mio the good-looking well-ordered left-handed bassist (Paul), and Mugi the quiet sensitive multitalented one (George). Yui was also taught how to play guitar from scratch by Mio, much like John was taught from scratch by the left-handed-bassist of his band, Paul. In TheMovie, Houkago Teatime even do an AbbeyRoadCrossing, as well as a recreation of the final rooftop concert on their classroom's tabletop.
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[[folder:Comedy]]
* Creator/PeterSellers recited the lyrics of "A Hard Day's Night" in a [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespearian]] voice, while wearing the outfit of Theatre/RichardIII. It was released as a single in 1965, with a version of "Help!" on the B-side (where Sellers plays a priest asking his congregation for monetary assistance).
* Creator/DennisMiller's 1988 album is titled ''The Off-White Album''. Its plain beige cover is a parody of ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', complete with four photos of Miller replacing the photos of the band members.
* Creator/BillHicks cited the Beatles as an example of drugs being good, joking that they were so high they let Ringo sing on a couple of tracks.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Comicbook/{{Animaniacs}}'' had in its 60s issue Westernanimation/PinkyAndTheBrain hiring some musicians named "Fab Four" for their plan. Between [[https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/09-animaniacs12b-580x635.jpg his dialogue]] and dismissing them as "a bunch of beetles!", turns out Brain basically gave them all the ideas for success.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'' (1966) Asterix and Obelix visit Britannia, where they observe ''the four most popular bards of the country'', all caricatures of The Beatles.
* Creator/MarvelComics' [[Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Rocket Raccoon]] is a direct shoutout to "Rocky Raccoon."
* Creator/VertigoComics' ''Greatest Hits'' is about a Beatles-like band who also have superpowers.
* According to [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/328/ this]] eight part blog post, Creator/DCComics' "Scooter" is based directly on Paul [=McCartney=].
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': One of the early stories, a short story, has Agent 327 escorting a pop group arriving on the airport who are obviously based on the Beatles. The story was made in the 1960s too.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'': In ''Tom Poes en de Bombardonder'' Olivier B. Bommel blows a tuba which calls up a ghost. The ghost likes beautiful music and will ask people to play something for him. Whenever they play false notes or awful noise he gets mad and transforms into a demon. At one point in the story the tuba is used by a pop group who look suspicously like The Beatles in their mob top period. When Tom Poes begs them to play beautiful melodies only they dismiss him with the line: ''Melodies? Man, you're years behind! This is the music of today'', whereupon huge cacophonous pop music is played, making the ghost only angrier.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** In ''De Apekermis'' Wiske hears that all apes have turned intelligent and starts laughing. Lambik tells her: ''Don't laugh, some of them are even able to talk.'' She keeps laughing and says: ''Yeah, sure, I also know some who can sing!'', whereupon she lets her hair loose and starts playing guitar while singing: "Yeah, yeah, yeah!", obviously mimicking the Beatles, who were very popular when this story ran in the newspaper.
** In ''De Kale Kermis'' Lambik meets three long haired troubadours from biblical times named [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvisius]], [[Music/RingoStarr Ringorius]] and Humperbrum.
* ComicBook/{{Batman}} #222 [[https://www.cbr.com/batman-robin-broke-up-beatles/ features the band]], or rather a legally-distinct fictional band called The Oliver Twists, in a riff on the "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy theory.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* A ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'' comic published shortly after Hammie's birth has a parody called "Here Comes The Son" about Hammie turning out to be a boy after Wanda and Darryl were expected to have a girl.
* A 1967 cover of ''Magazine/{{MAD}} Magazine'' shows the Beatles and the Maharishi hold up Alfred E. Neuman in the air as their guru.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'':
** In ''De Paarse Futen'' Adhemar teaches at Oxford. The pupils in his class are caricatures of The Beatles.
** In the album ''Arthur de Vetvogel'' (''Arthur the Fatbird'') Nero and his friends are in the jungle where they start singing ''All You Need Is Love'' to keep their spirit up. The song was in the hit parade when this story ran in the newspaper.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' Walt gets angry at a song Jeremy is listening to, resulting in this exchange,
--> '''Walt:''' Did I hear what I think I just heard?!\\
'''Jeremy:''' Dad, it's just a song lyric.\\
'''Walt:''' Don't give me that! I'm sick of this new music that's [[MoralGuardians nothing but drugs and sex]]!\\
'''Jeremy:''' You mean like, "[[Music/NashvilleSkyline Lay Lady Lay]]", "[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Lucy in the Sky]]", "[[Music/AreYouExperienced Purple Haze]]", "[[Music/StickyFingers Brown Sugar]]"?\\
'''Walt:''' [[MoralMyopia Hey, that's different! Those are classics!]]\\
'''Connie:''' Ouch. Score one for the teenager.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* At the end of the "Deadly Life" part of Chapter 1 of the ''VideoGame/PapaLouieArcade''[=/=]''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' Crossover Fic ''[[https://fliplinestudios.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Zoomer3539/Danganflipa:_Chapter_1_-_Gravity,_and_Luau_(Deadly_Life) Danganflippa]]'', Monokuma makes a play on the title of ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'' while welcoming the students to their first class trial, which Utah lampshades.
-->'''Monokuma:''' Okay, everyone! Brace yourselves for the Spectacular Trial Arrival Magical Mystery Tour!\\
'''Utah:''' You didn't need to put a Beatles reference in that title, you know.
* The ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' FanFic ''FanFic/ThoseLackingSpines'' references a NoodleIncident in which [[GreenThumb Marluxia]] was said to have dumped a bunch of dead herbs into the castle's water supply, leading to an Organization-wide MushroomSamba thereafter referred to as "Luxord in the sky with diamonds".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Crossover Fic ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'', Twilight Sparkle gave the entire town of Ponyville psychedelic hallucinations for a week, an event she refers to as "Derpy in the sky with diamonds" in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/159019/2/starbound/the-first-day one chapter]].
* ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossing'' has several references throughout the work, mostly to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band:
** One of the main characters is named Tank Pepper (after Sgt. Pepper), while a one-off character is named Lucy Diamondsky.
** Another chapter is titled 'Lava's All I Need', a pun on "Love is All You Need".
** A different chapter has a character saying they got by with "a little help from my friends".
** One of the characters goes by 'Eleanor Rigby' as a disguise name.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyThereItsYogiBear'': Not in the film itself, but ad spots had the bear quartet that performs "St. Louie" referred to as "The Bear-tles". Appropriately, the film came months after Beatlemania hit the U.S.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist2010'', among the new entertainments that are killing off traditional variety acts like the title character is a parody of the Beatles called Billy Boy and the Britoons.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'': The four vultures are very obvious parodies of The Beatles, down to the mock British accents and harmonizing singing voices. Reportedly the studio had the idea of letting the band voice themselves, which all four had shown an interest in, but Brian Epstein, their manager, refused. So voice actors did the job instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'':
** When Rarity is showing off potential band outfits, one of them is styled like The Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper'' band costumes.
** In the [[WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocksShorts follow-up short "Friendship Through the Age"]], Rarity is wearing again the ''Sgt. Pepper''-style vest she tries in the movie, along a more complete outfit, and the whole background of her segment is typical of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' has a one-off character called Sgt. Pepper.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'': Shrek describes the herald and trumpeters at his house as "Sgt. Pompous and the Fancypants Club Band".
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Music/TheRutles film ''All You Need Is Cash'' is a very detailed spoof of The Beatles' career, made by Creator/EricIdle (Creator/MontyPython). Music/GeorgeHarrison has a small cameo in it as a journalist interviewing Creator/MichaelPalin. Harrison loved this movie so much that he frequently quoted lines from it during interviews and named it the ''most accurate cinematic depiction of The Beatles' lifestory ever made''. Music/JohnLennon was in the same boat, reportedly refusing to return the VHS tape he had been given to review. Music/RingoStarr enjoyed the film as well, but noted that some of the more personal scenes hit a little close to home. Music/PaulMcCartney, however, always gave the answer "no comment" when asked about it in interviews. According to Eric Idle, he met Paul at a gala dinner and felt a little bit of the cold shoulder from him. His late then-wife Linda, however, loved it.
* In ''Film/AlmostFamous'', Penny Lane, one of the Band-Aids, is named after the song. Also, when Jeff finds out his band, Stillwater, made the cover of ''Magazine/RollingStone'', he mentions the first time he bought the magazine, The Beatles were on the cover.
* The opening of ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'', with Austin running in the street followed by hundreds of screaming fans, is a direct reference to ''Film/AHardDaysNight''.
* Creator/JohnHughes was a big fan:
** In ''Film/SixteenCandles'', Farmer Ted sings "Hey, Jude" to Sam in the shop room at school.
** ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'':
*** Brian mumbles to himself with a pen clipped to his lower lip: "Who am I? Who am I? I'm the Walrus…"
*** Carl the janitor says that when he was a kid he wanted to be John Lennon.
*** Principal Richard Vernon is named after Richard Vernon, the actor who played the gentleman in the train compartment scene in ''Film/AHardDaysNight''.
*** A deleted scene had Brian and Claire singing "All My Lovin'" during the pot smoking scene.
** ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'':
*** Ferris, while in the hall after his shower, says:
---->It's not that I condone fascism....or any 'ism' for that matter. 'Isms' in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an 'ism', they should believe in themselves. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles... I just believe in me". A good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus, I'd still have to bum rides off of people."
*** Another reference could be the number of absences Ferris has had, 9, a reference to "Revolution 9".
*** Cameron's Detroit Red Wings jersey references Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings}}, as his Epiphone Texan acoustic guitar (which he played on "Yesterday") sported a Detroit Red Wings sticker from the mid-1970s onward.
*** Ferris lip-synchs to "Twist and Shout" in the big parade.
** ''Film/PrettyInPink'':
*** Duckie is singing "Woman" by John Lennon in Andie's bedroom while she is getting him a juice box.
*** The book Andie hands to Blaine the second time he comes into Trax is ''In His Own Write'' by John Lennon.
* Music/HansZimmer's film score to ''Film/{{Inception}}'' features a composition titled "#9 Dream Within a Dream" which is a reference to John Lennon's "#9 Dream" from his ''Walls and Bridges'' album.
* Film/JamesBond:
** In ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', James Bond complains that drinking Don Perignon '53 when it's lost its chill is as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs. This became HilariousInHindsight nine years later when Music/PaulMcCartney did the theme song to ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', which was scored by George Martin.
*** Speaking of ''Live and Let Die'', the crescendo just before the main title sequence was deliberately meant to invoke "A Day in the Life".
** In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', the first name of the doomed Agent Fields (which is only revealed in the closing credits) is [[EmbarrassingFirstName Strawberry]] (a reference to "Strawberry Fields Forever").
* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'' someone asks Julius Levinson if they have everything they need to flee the city by plane. He answers: "All you need is love. Music/JohnLennon. Smart man. Shot in the back, very sad."
* In ''Film/NickAndNorahsInfinitePlaylist'', Nick's bandmate Thom tells him The Beatles had love all figured out. It seems to build up a reference to "All You Need Is Love", except that the song he has in mind is "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' has scenes taking place in the 1960s. An orchestral arrangement plays the melody of "Yesterday" to indicate the time change.
* The AIP 1964 movie ''Film/BikiniBeach'' has star Frankie Avalon in two roles, as his recurring character and as geeky British pop star Potato Bug.
* In the film ''Film/NothingInCommon'', David tells his boss Charlie he has no intention of jumping to another advertising firm because they wouldn't make him partner, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Charlie:''' Partner? Boyle, Gargas, Lionel and Basner?\\
'''David:''' Like...John, Paul, George and Ringo.
** Becomes an IronicEcho later, when Charlie writes David telling him he's free to pursue an airline account, and signs the letter, "John, Paul, George and Ringo".
* In ''Film/GrandCanyon'', Mac and Claire say goodbye to their only child, Roberto, as he goes off to be a counselor at a summer camp. When Mac sees how sad Claire is, he sings, "[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand (S)He's leaving home, bye-bye.]]"
* In the ''Film/SteveJobs'' movie, when Jobs and Wozniak are getting into a bitter argument near the end of the film, Woz wants to know why everyone assumes Woz was [[Music/RingoStarr Ringo]] and Jobs was [[Music/JohnLennon John]]. Jobs points out it wasn't as if Lennon hit Music/GeorgeHarrison over the head and somehow took his place as the talented one in the group.
* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'':
** The scene where the store detectives chase Renton down the street is reminiscent of the scene in ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' where The Beatles are pursued by fans.
** The scene where Renton wakes up on the couch in the morning at Diane's home and says hello to someone passing through the hallway while covered with a blanket to his chin, is reminiscent of a scene in ''Film/{{Help}}'' where Ringo is found in a trunk of a car covered up with a blanket, and upon being found, says hello.
** The "Mother Superior's" written in the dealer house is a reference to "Happiness is a Warm Gun", a song about heroin, which has the line "mother superior jump the gun".
** All this is HilariousInHindsight, as Creator/DannyBoyle would later direct ''Film/{{Yesterday|2019}}'', which features an AlternateUniverse where nobody's heard of the Beatles. And Creator/RobertCarlyle cameos as an eldery Music/JohnLennon.
* In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', two of Dog's gang are named John and Paul.
* ''Film/IWannaHoldYourHand'' is a fictionalised account of the day of the Beatles' first appearance on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow''.
* The title character of ''Film/IAmSam'' is a Beatles fan who regularly brings the band, their lives, and their songs up as a means of relating to others, to the point where he named his daughter Lucy after "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Lucy's idyllic early years are accompanied by "Across the Universe". We see Sam and Rita's relationship grow to "Golden Slumbers". Sam's lawyer's name comes "Lovely Rita", a point made by Lucy. At the end of the film, "Two of Us" is used.
* In ''Film/WalkHardTheDeweyCoxStory'', Dewey Cox meets The Beatles who are purposefully portrayed satirically by Creator/JackBlack as Paul, Creator/PaulRudd as John, Creator/JasonSchwartzman as Ringo, and Creator/JustinLong as George.
* "Baby You're a Rich Man" plays in the final scene of ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' in a mocking, ironic sense as we linger on Mark Zuckerberg.
* In ''Film/WithnailAndI'', Wheezin' Ed listens to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in the bath. The film was made by Creator/HandMadeFilms, which was founded by Music/GeorgeHarrison.
* "When I'm Sixty Four" plays during the ending scene of ''Film/TheWorldAccordingToGarp''.
* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': In a flashback showing how Peter first Wendy's granddaughter Moira, sometime in the 1960's, a poster for ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' can be seen above her bed.
* In ''Film/TheTrip1967'', John tells Paul, "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream."
* ''Film/{{Fletch}}'': When the title character goes undercover as a doctor at a hospital, he faints during an operation. When a nurse revives him, and asks if there's anything she can get him, Fletch replies, "Do you have ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''?"
* ''Film/RainMan'': When Charlie was a toddler, Raymond used to sing "I Saw Her Standing There" to him.
* In ''Film/MyScienceProject'', Bob eagerly describes going to Beatles concerts during his time warp tour of TheSixties.
* ''Film/{{Boyhood}}'': For Mason Jr.'s 15th birthday, his father makes him a mixtape called ''The Black Album'', made up of solo tracks by all four of the Beatles. (In RealLife, Creator/EthanHawke [[ActorInspiredElement made the mixtape for his daughter following his divorce from]] Creator/UmaThurman.)
* Sara from ''Film/{{Hitch}}'' wears a Beatles t-shirt in her first scene.
* In ''Film/BreakingAndEntering2006'', Liv lists the Beatles as one of England's exports. Will sings, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
* ''Film/TheCommitments'': Joey claims to have played in the horn section on "All You Need is Love".
* ''Film/MrSaturdayNight'': Apparently, Buddy Young Jr. (the stand-up comic who's the main character of the movie) went on ''after'' the band performed for the first time on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'', and he was booed off the stage as a result (his heckling the audience didn't help). This is a BerserkButton for him.
* ''Film/GlassOnion'' is titled after the Beatles song, which plays during the end credits. Partway through the film, Miles Bron plays a snippet of another song from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', "Blackbird", on the guitar that Music/PaulMcCartney used to compose it.
* In the 1968 film ''Duffy'', the title character (played by Creator/JamesCoburn), a retired criminal, is in Tangiers, and is visited by Stefane (Creator/JamesFox), a playboy who wants him to participate in a robbery. Stefane tells him Tangiers is nice, "with tangerine trees and marmalade skies", and Duffy, chuckling, sings the first part of the chorus of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
* In ''Film/TopSecret'', Nick and Hillary are taken to a hideout at one point by a horse-drawn carriage. As the carriage leaves the house, the horse starts singing, "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog".
* In ''Film/DoctorInClover'', before the nurses' party, Sir Lancelot Spratt tells Dr. Grimsdyke he's ready for "a hard day's night".
* ''Film/Water1985''. A TV director expresses amazement that "[[Music/RingoStarr Ringo Whosit]]" and "[[Music/GeorgeHarrison George Whatsit]]" have reunited as the backing band for Delgado song appeal to the United Nations. "It's Whosit and Whatsit, back together again!"

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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Creator/FrederickForsyth's novel ''Literature/TheOdessaFile'', the main character (a journalist in 1960's Germany) recalls how he was able to afford his sports car; he saw a magazine with The Beatles on the cover, recognized all of them except for Ringo, tracked down the club they played in Hamburg (back when Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe were still in the band), and wrote a story about their time in Germany, which became famous in Germany and all over.
* Creator/WilliamGoldman has referenced the band in a couple of novels:
** In ''Literature/{{Tinsel}}'', one of the characters, Noel Garvey (son of film producer Julian Garvey), is, along with his friend, working on a project that argues the Beatles' lyrics are all connected. This is to the exasperation of Noel's parents, and Julian hopes his new film project will snap Noel out of this (it does).
** In ''Literature/TheColorOfLight'', Chubb Fuller, the main character, remembers the night when Music/JohnLennon was murdered, and he had come back from mourning him that night when he was attacked by a deranged former student of his, which led him wondering how his death would be ignored on the night of Lennon's murder (luckily for Chubb, a cop friend of his who walks the beat in his neighborhood happens to be there, and saves him).
* Creator/CarlHiaasen has referenced the band several times as well.
** In ''Literature/TouristSeason'', the main bad guy lets known his intentions to the hero and his boss with a telegram that reads, "You say yes, I say no, you say stop, I say go go go", referencing the lyrics of "Hello Goodbye" from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''.
** The protagonist of ''Literature/SkinTight'', Mick Stranahan (who also shows up in ''Skinny Dip'') will only go out with women who know who all four members of the Beatles are (he tells the person who remembers Pete Best that he loves her).
** In ''Literature/NativeTongue'', Skink is obsessed with the murder of Music/JohnLennon, and the hero briefly thinks Skink might go up to the Dakota and wreak havoc (though he doesn't).
** In ''Literature/SickPuppy'', a RunningGag about Palmer, one of the bad guys, is his tendency towards {{Mondegreen Gag}}s, introduced when he says, "I read the newspaper today, oh boy".
** Finally, in ''Literature/BadMonkey'', Andrew Yancy, the main character, claims he was conceived while his parents were listening to "[[Music/AbbeyRoad Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]".
* The Band With Rocks In in ''Literature/SoulMusic'' have several references to the Beatles, most notably that they perform in a Cavern Club (which ''The Streets of Ankh-Morpork'' reveals is on Quarry Lane, as a bonus reference to the Quarrymen). The AnimatedAdaptation gives Glod a Scouse accent.
* Wendy from ''Literature/IThinkILoveYou'' mentions the factoid that Creator/DavidCassidy had a bigger fanbase than Music/ElvisPresley or the Beatles.
* Johnny from ''Literature/DogsDontTalk'' communicates mostly in Beatles lyrics. His first words were "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah," sung perfectly on key.
* In the novel ''Literature/InCountry'' by Bobbie Ann Mason, Sam, despite being a child of the 1980's, is a big fan of the Beatles, and gets excited when she hears the band's version of "Leave my Kitten Alone", which she had never heard before.
* David from ''Literature/WhatToSayNext'' listens to the Beatles on his headphones while he eats lunch because the music is social in the way a midday meal should be.
* In ''Literature/RememberDippy'', the protagonists listen to a Beatles CD in Holly's car while driving from the hospital back to Hull.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretLifeOfKittyGranger'', Diana puts on a Beatles record after dinner. Overwhelmed by all the social interaction, Kitty lies on a sofa and listens to "Penny Lane" while staring at the ceiling.
* The ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' "Literature/BloodOnTheReik'' novel series has a long and complicated sequence of events that culminates in a Sigmarite priest exorcizing the main character with his deity's sacred weapon, all for the sake of the line:
-->Markzell’s silver hammer came down upon his head.
* Wats from ''Literature/MoojagAndTheAuticodeSecret'' SpeaksInShoutOuts of Beatles songs.
* In ''Literature/TheMer'', "Yellow Submarine" is Will's favorite song, since the Beatles were big when he was a human.
* In ''Literature/RainbowMagic'', [[Literature/RainbowMagicLucyTheDiamondFairy Lucy the Diamond Fairy]] was named after the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'': One episode has Patsy and Saffy search for lost tapes by The Beatles. In the Abbey Road Studios Patsy accidentally erases the tapes while pressing the recording button and tapes Saffy's singing over it, causing the tape engineer to faint.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'': The episode title "Hard Day's Pete" is a reference to the song and movie, ''Film/AHardDaysNight''.
* ''Series/TheBill''. The police find children playing at being drug dealers, selling plastic bags of grass clippings as 'grass'. June Ackland muses, "And my mother thought the Beatles were a threat."
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E20TheYokoFactor}} The Yoko Factor]]", comparisons are drawn between the split up of the main characters and to the Beatles in a speech by Spike.
* ''Series/ClassicAlbums'': One episode was devoted to ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]", the TARDIS crew watch the band play "Ticket to Ride" on ''Series/TopOfThePops'' (which is the only surviving footage of any of their appearances). Vicki mentions their memorial theatre in Liverpool and while she's a fan, she had no idea they played classical music. Bonus points -- her actress Creator/MaureenOBrien is from Liverpool.
** "Paperback Writer" plays during the café scene in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]". Official releases of the surviving audio have to edit the track out due to rights issues.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", the Third Doctor and Jo quote "I am the Walrus" while explaining the fact that he and the Second Doctor are different incarnations of the same person.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", two of Sgt. Smith's squad are named John and Paul.
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In "Battle of Panthatar", Drake gets his hands on a copy of ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' signed by all four Beatles (this being well after Paul and Ringo became the only surviving members). This becomes a key part of the episode's plot when Drake is forced to give it to Thorton in an attempt to quell a falling-out between the two. It doesn't work, and Thorton takes the album and runs, leading Drake and Josh to sneak into his birthday party to steal it back.
* ''Series/{{ER}}'': In the first season episode "Motherhood", when Chloe is having her baby, she orders Susan to put on ''The White Album'' during her delivery. As there's no time, Susan instead sings "Blackbird" along with Chloe. Becomes a MeaningfulEcho near the end of the episode when Susan, sitting with Chloe's baby, sings "Blackbird" to her.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' episode "Don't Bug the Mosquitoes". The title musical group (which is clearly based on the Beatles) arrives on the island hoping for some peace and quiet. Boy are they in for a disappointment.
* ''Series/TheGoodies''
** In "The Goodies Rule -- OK?" it's revealed that in 1961 the Goodies tried to start a band called ''The Bootles'' which wasn't very popular. After they give up its revealed that the founding members of the Beatles were in the audience and decided to copy their look and songs.
** In "The Stolen Musicians", the Music Master had kidnapped all the musicians in the country, and even boasts of having brought the Beatles back together. When his minion opens their cell, we just hear angry shouting and a guitar goes flying out the door.
* ''Series/HenryDanger'': The beginning of "Captain Jerk" has Jake Hart being interviewed outside a massage place called Rub Me Do, which sounds a lot like Love Me Do. The musicians there are also caricatures of the Beatles themselves.
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': In the second season episode "Star Struck", Cerreta believes the person who beat up Lucy Neven, a soap opera actress, and left her for dead was an obsessed fan, and Logan refers to that idea as Cerreta's "John Lennon" theory.
* There's [[http://mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listbeat.html an entire page]] listing the numerous Beatles references on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
* ''Series/MadMen'' has a couple of brief mentions of the Beatles in season 4 (when Don gets Sally Beatles singles for Christmas to tick off Betty, and when he calls Sally to tell her he's taking her to see them at Shea Stadium), and then in the fifth season episode "Lady Lazarus", Don puts on ''Music/{{Revolver|BeatlesAlbum}}'', listens to "Tomorrow Never Knows" at Meghan's suggesting. While the song plays, we see a montage of Peggy working and Pete, on his way home from work, looking forlornly at Beth, the woman he's becoming attracted to...and then Don stops the record, clearly not into it. The rest of the song then plays over the closing credits.
* ''Series/MySoCalledLife'': In the episode "Father Figures", Patty mentions she believes The Beatles broke up not because of Music/YokoOno, but because Music/PaulMcCartney wanted his father-in-law to be the band's manager, instead of Allen Klein.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'':
** On the first season episode "Meet John Smith", when Duncan is acting blasé about Veronica, his ex, seeing someone else, Logan quips, "Okay, nowhere man, you be the fool on the hill".
** In the episode "Silence of the Lamb", a string quartet plays "Birthday" for Madison Sinclair on her birthday at school.
* The first episode of ''Series/TheMonkees'' had Music/MichaelNesmith throwing a dart at a picture of the Beatles and hitting Ringo. Another episode has one of them ask "What have the Beatles got that we don't?" The reply: "Oh, six million dollars".
** The Beatles and the Monkees would later become good friends, with Lennon calling the Monkees "the greatest talent since the Marx Brothers" and Harrison, noting that the Monkees were both making albums and a TV series, opined that "once they get it all sorted out, they might turn out to the be the best."
* "All You Need is Love" was played in [[Recap/ThePrisonerE17FallOut the final episode]] of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967''. The band were fans of the series and allowed its use.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIFutureEchoes Future Echoes]]", Lister's mechanical goldfish are named Lennon and [=McCartney=]. Naturally, given Lister's a Scouser.
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIParallelUniverse Parallel Universe]]", Holly ponders an AlternateUniverse where Ringo was a really good drummer.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' featured numerous Beatles songs throughout its run, with possibly the most compelling being the scene in "Grilled Cheesus" where Kurt sings a tearful rendition of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to his father, who had just had a heart attack and is now in a coma. Later on the show had a two-parter entirely devoted to Beatles songs: "Love Love Love" and "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds".
* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'':
** In "Boring", the lads do an AbbeyRoadCrossing on their way to the pub.
** In "Bomb", Rik sings the first line of "Revolution".
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[[folder:Music]]
* As early as 1964 the band The Young World Singers and also Rolf Harris recorded a single called ''Ringo for President''.
* The Saturn V recorded a song called "I Wanna Be A Beatle".
* [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand The Rolling Stones]]: After being saluted by the Beatles on the cover of their album ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' the Rolling Stones made a similar salute on the cover of ''Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest''. However, during "Look What The Cat Dragged In" from ''Music/ABiggerBang'' they sing:
--> ''You look like a tumble of spades''
--> ''It must get a horrible taste''
--> ''You look like a fucker, Sergeant Pepper''
--> ''Are you going to throw up all over my face?''
* Music/FrankZappa:
** Beatles manager Brian Epstein is namedropped in the influences list inside the sleeve of ''Music/FreakOut''.
** He spoofed the album cover and the gatefold sleeve of ''Sgt. Pepper's'' on ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''.
** The song "Oh No" from ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh'' is a direct attack on "All You Need Is Love":
---> ''You say that love is all we need''
---> ''You say with your love you can change all of the world, all of the hate''
---> ''If think you're probably Music/OutToLunch''
** Beatle boots are referenced during the title track of ''Music/JoesGarage'':
---> ''We got matchin' suits and Beatle boots''.
** In 1988 his band covered three Beatles songs, "Norwegian Wood", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" but changed the lyrics to mock televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Due to copyright issues these songs can only be heard on bootleg copies.
* Music/CaptainBeefheart's song "Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones" from ''Music/StrictlyPersonal'' is a parody of "Strawberry Fields Forever" that didn't amuse Music/JohnLennon, who had previously liked Beefheart's debut album ''Music/SafeAsMilk''.
* April Wine's song "I Like to Rock" includes the riff of "Day Tripper" along with The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction".
* Music/ElvisCostello's "The Other Side of Summer" contains a TakeThat reference to Lennon's "Imagine" ("Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions'?").
* The verses in Music/DefLeppard's "Rocket" contain references to the group along with Music/TheRollingStonesBand, Music/DavidBowie (twice), Music/EltonJohn (also twice), Music/ThinLizzy, Music/{{Queen}} and others.
* Speaking of Music/DavidBowie, the backing singers in the TitleTrack to ''Music/YoungAmericans'' (which incidentally features Music/JohnLennon on two other songs, including a CoverVersion of "Across the Universe") sing the opening line to "A Day in the Life" during the breakdown.
* Early in Music/FlamingLips' career, they made a habit of referencing The Beatles: "The Spontaneous Combustion Of John" quotes "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" ("Like the first time Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes"). Oh My Gawd!!! is book-ended with Beatles samples -- opening track "Everything's Explodin'" starts with a Spoken Word In Music clip from "Revolution #9" ("Take this, brother, may it serve you well") and closer "Love Yer Brain" ends with a loop taken from "Tomorrow Never Knows". And "Out for a Walk" includes a clip of "La Marseillaise" that seems to be taken straight from the intro of "All You Need Is Love".
* The parade theme adopted by Music/MyChemicalRomance during their performances of Music/TheBlackParade is an allusion to The Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''.
* Music/PatoFu has a song called "Mamãe Ama Meu Revólver", "Mommy Loves My Revolver". The last verse reveals that it's not about a gun, but the album ''Music/{{Revolver}}''.
* Music/PeterPaulAndMary's "I Dig Rock-And-Roll Music" name-drops the group.
* Music/TheRutles' career is basically an AffectionateParody of the Beatles.
* During Sugarloaf's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You", the signature riff of "I Feel Fine" is heard when the song's lyrics mention "John, Paul and George".
* Music/VerucaSalt have made a number of Beatles shout outs.
** ''Eight Arms To Hold You'' was a WorkingTitle for the Beatles album that became became ''Help!'' instead.
** Another Beatles reference, the bridge to "Volcano Girls" parodies "Glass Onion":
--->''Told you 'bout the Seether before\\
You know the one who's neither or nor\\
Well here's another clue if you please\\
The seether's Louise''
* The line "how does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" in Music/MarilynManson's song "Beautiful People" from ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' is a reference to the song "Baby You're A Rich Man".
* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' album cover for ''Music/DemonDaysAlbum'' is a homage to the album cover of ''Music/LetItBe''. Inside the album's booklet, the pages for the song "Every Planet We Reach is Dead" has another shout-out in which the band members strike poses that mimick the album cover of ''Music/{{Help}}''.
* Music/TheResidents also spoofed the group a couple of times.
** The album cover of ''Meet the Residents'' is a parody of ''[[Music/WithTheBeatles Meet the Beatles]]''.
** On ''Music/TheThirdReichNRoll'' the final song covered is "Hey Jude", intertwined with "Sympathy for the Devil" from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' by Music/TheRollingStonesBand.
* Music/DanielJohnston is a huge Beatles fan. He recorded a {{Homage}} called "The Beatles" on his album ''Music/YipJumpMusic'' and his song "Hey Joe" from his album ''Music/HiHowAreYou'', despite its title, borrows a line from "Hey Jude".
--> ''Hey Jude, come on, Joe''
--> ''Don't make that sad song''
--> ''Any sadder than it already is''
* ''Music/AmericanPie'' by Music/DonMcLean references The Beatles at least twice:
--> ''And while '''Lenin''' (John Lennon) read a book on Marx''
--> ''While '''Sergeants''' (Sergeant Pepper) played a marching tune''
* Music/TheAnimals' "The Story of Bo Diddley" references the Beatles (along with other early-[[TheSixties 1960s]] icons such as Music/BobDylan and Music/TheRollingStonesBand). It even includes a snippet of "A Hard Day's Night".
* The Music/BeastieBoys referenced "Eight Days A Week" from ''Music/BeatlesForSale'' during "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" from ''Music/LicensedToIll''
--> ''(...) Cause I'll be rocking this party eight days a week''.
** Their song "The Sounds of Science" from ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' also borrows samples from "Sgt. Pepper's", "When I'm Sixty-Four" (''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''), "Back in the USSR" (''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'') and "The End" (''Music/AbbeyRoad''). "Johnny Ryall", from the same album, has samples from "Helter Skelter" (''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'').
* Roger Glover's "Love Is All" also has lyrical references to the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love".
* "Breakdown" from ''Music/IRobot'' by Music/TheAlanParsonsProject makes a lyrical reference to "With A Little Help From My Friends" (''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'')
--> ''Any time it happened, I'd get over it''
--> ''With a little help from all my friends''
* Music/{{Nirvana}}: In the music video of "In Bloom", from ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'', the band mimicks the Beatles' performance during the Ed Sullivan Show, complete with the members dressed up in costumes (with Music/KurtCobain wearing glasses), archive footage from ''Series/AmericanBandStand'' and a TV presenter describing them as "fine, young men and decent fellows from Seattle."
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers: In the music video of "Dani California" from ''Music/StadiumArcadium'' the band dresses up as several rock bands, representing different music genres, one of them naturally being the Beatles.
* Music/CheapTrick: there are numerous Beatles references throughout their music, including…
** "Taxman, Mr Thief", an entire-song homage to The Beatles' "Taxman"
** "Baby Loves to Rock" uses airplane sound effects over the line "not in Russia", a reference to "Back in the USSR", which opens with a verse about an airplane trip to Russia, and "World's Greatest Lover" has Robin Zander doing his best John Lennon impersonation. For bonus points, both songs are from the album All Shook Up, which was produced by "fifth Beatle" George Martin.
** "If You Want My Love" is so Beatlesque that bassist Tom Petersson jokingly called it "the best Beatles song we've ever done."
** "Miss Tomorrow", a Robin Zander solo song that eventually resurfaced on Music/CheapTrick's The Latest, quotes "All You Need is Love" and compares The Beatles and The Rolling Stones:
---> ''Love, you said that love is all you need''
---> ''Cold, you taught The Beatles Music/LetItBleed''
* "Randy Scouse Git" by Music/TheMonkees contains the lyric, "The four kings of Creator/{{EMI}} are sitting stately on the floor".
* Music/TheRamones got their name from an alias Music/PaulMcCartney used to check into hotels.
* "London Calling" by Music/TheClash contains the lyric, "Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust". This was a TakeThat towards a failed JukeboxMusical of the same name.
* The Raconteurs, a band involving Music/JackWhite, has secret cover art on the album ''Help Us Stranger''. On the vinyl release beneath the lenticular version of the common cover art is a parody of the Butcher cover art staged by the members of the Raconteurs.
* The Beatles' songs occasionally show up as Music/SilvaGunner jokes. A few times they've [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uv7r1epDyA even referenced]] Billy Cobb's fake Beatles song "It's Okay to Leave a Dog in a Hot Car".
* In the Music/BadCompany song "Shooting Star," Johnny hears "Love Me Do," which inspires him to take up music.
* Music/TheWho: The song "The Seeker" references the band:
-->''I asked [[Music/BobDylan Bobby Dylan]]''\\
''I asked The Beatles''\\
''I asked Timothy Leary\\
''But he couldn't help me either''
* Music/DanBull's "John Lennon" is a tribute to Music/JohnLennon himself, with almost every single lyrics in the song referencing a song by Lennon himself or The Beatles. An excerpt (references are italicized):
-->''[[Music/PleasePleaseMe Do you want to know a secret]]'', ''from me to you''?[[note]]"From Me to You", a non-album Beatles single[[/note]]\\
''[[Music/MagicalMysteryTour All you need is love]]'', so ''[[Music/PleasePleaseMe love me do]]''\\
And whether the music was acoustic, or ''rock and roll''\\
He walked ''[[Music/LetItBe the long and winding road]]'' 'til it wore out his ''[[Music/RubberSoul rubber sole]]''
* Bob Segarini recorded a song, "I Like the Beatles And My Baby Loves The Rolling Stones". It references songs by both bands, including "I Wanna be Your Man", which the Beatles gave to the [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand The Rolling Stones]], as well as recording their own version.
* Music/SteveTaylor, in his song "Meltdown (At Madame Tussaud's)", delivers a TakeThat to the band, as well as other musicians:
-->''[[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] and the Beatles have seen a better day''\\
''[[Music/NeilYoung Better off to burn out than to melt away]]''\\
''[[Music/BobDylan Dylan]] may be fillin' the puddle they designed''\\
''Is it gonna take a miracle to make up his mind?''
* ''Music/SolidStateSurvivor'' by Music/YellowMagicOrchestra contains a CoverVersion of "Day Tripper".
* Rodney Crowell's song "Lovin' All Night" quotes partly from "I've Got a Feeling":
-->''Everybody had a hard year''\\
''Everybody had a good time''\\
''Everybody had a wet dream''\\
''Everybody saw the sunshine''
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has used the band's music a few times:
** When Creator/VincentPrice was guest host in Season 1, a trio of ghosts sang "I'm Looking Through You".
** When Twiggy was the guest host, she sang "In My Life" while looking at photos of her past career.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Sesame Street had an anything muppet insect band spoof called ''The Beetles''. And they sang ''Letter B'', ''Thinking of U'', and ''Hey Food (with Cookie Monster)''. The songs are based on ''Let It Be'', ''Here, There, and Everywhere / P.S. I Love You'', and ''Hey Jude''.
* ''Series/SpittingImage'': Both Paul and Ringo were made into puppets, as were Yoko Ono and Linda [=McCartney=].
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[[folder:Sports]]
* Canadian figure skater Nam Nguyen performed to a Beatles medley for [[https://streamable.com/mlsxw his long program]] during the 2019-2020 competitive season. The songs are "Come Together," "Let It Be" and "Get Back."
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'', among the many saints who get anachronistic shout-outs is St. Jude, "who took a sad song and made it better."
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife'' has an oscillator named "[[Music/MagicalMysteryTour penny lane]]".
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Beedle, a recurring character throughout the series, is a merchant whose name and appearance takes after the band.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' has a Dream Eater named the Skelterwild, named after [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum Helter Skelter]].
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Swarm_of_scarab_beatles Swarm of Scarab Beatles]], one of several music-themed monsters that live at the Oasis. There are several shout-outs to Beatles' song titles and lyrics in its description and attack messages, and it drops items such as Maxwell's Silver Hammer, a Rocky Racoon, a warm gun called 'happiness', and a set of Jackets with names that reference ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''.
* Defeating a giant beetle boss in ''VideoGame/SacredOdysseyRiseOfAyden'' unlocks an achievement called "Beetle in the Sky with Diamonds". Beetle, because - [[DontExplainTheJoke Beatles? With Diamonds? Get it?]]
* Putting the game disc for ''VideoGame/SewerShark'' in a CD player brings up a secret audio track in which a Digital Pictures employee receives a phone call consisting of backmasked audio. Playing said audio in reverse reveals a voice chanting "number nine," nodding to [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Revolution 9"]]; it's even uttered in the same cadence to boot.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/{{Strife}}'', [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Blackbird]] says, "Let's make Mr. Ugly twist and shout!" Blackbird's code name could itself be a reference to the Music/PaulMcCartney song on Music/TheWhiteAlbum.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': [[Characters/SonicTheHedgehogDrIvoEggmanRobotnik Dr. Eggman's]] name and walrus-like mustache may be a reference to "I Am the Walrus" and its "I am the egg man" lyric. At the very least, his recurring VillainSong "E.G.G.M.A.N." (first appearing in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'') quotes the lyric several times.
* In the ''[[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft III]]'' ExpansionPack ''The Frozen Throne'', the Crypt Lord HeroUnit (and Anub'arak in the Undead campaign) has "I'm the Fifth Beatle!" as one of his StopPokingMe lines. It's also a {{pun}} since the unit looks like a giant beetle (the insect).
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''The Crossoverlord'', when the heroes meet the floating white mask, Webcomic/{{Dasien}} decides to call it Ringo.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The very first ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' has Music/JohnLennon, dressed in his Sgt. Pepper getup, battle against conservative TV pundit Creator/BillOReilly.
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' ''WebAnimation/ButReallyReallyFast'', the Joestar group's submarine is modeled after the Yellow Submarine.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'': A cheap 1960s animation series made to cash in on the band's success.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes", a rock band playing "bug" music sings a song called "She Said Yeah Yeah", which sounds like "She Loves You". Later, to scare away the Hatrocks, the Flintstones, Rubbles and Gruesomes don black mop-top wigs and sing the song.
* ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'' gives the Beetle, a character who's American in the comics, a Liverpudlian accent as a ShoutOut to the group.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The Season 3 finale is called [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure "Magical Mystery Cure"]].
** In "Party Pooped", during Pinkie Pie's long trek to Yakyakistan, she narrates she once joins a band made up of ponified versions of the Beatles, with Pinkie taking Ringo's place; the photos shown parody their appearances at the Cavern Club, the Royal Command Performance of 1963, a SgtPeppersShoutOut, an AbbeyRoadCrossing, and ending with them breaking up over their CreativeDifferences just like how the real Beatles broke up.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** The "Meet the Beat-Alls" episode is one long string of Beatles references. Just about every other sentence is a direct Beatles quote and evoked imagery.
** In "Mo Job", Princess lures the Girls to Mojo Jojo's lair by calling for help in a line that quotes the song "Help!" This line was later repeated almost word-for-word in "Meet The Beat-Alls" by Sgt Pepper.
** At the end of "Knock It Off", the Narrator comments "I guess the love you take ''is'' equal to the love you make."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' have made countless Beatles references during their long run.
** Music/RingoStarr was special guest voice in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E18BrushWithGreatness Brush with Greatness]]" where he answers a fan letter Marge send him in 1966, encouraging her to take up painting again.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield Last Exit to Springfield]]", Lisa's surreal dream under narcosis parodies ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]": Homer's flashback to his time in a barbershop quartet is basically a WholePlotReference to The Beatles' career - from their first album ''Meet the B-Sharps'' (one wonders if it was called ''With the B-Sharps'' in the United Kingdom) to the impromptu rooftop concert. Music/GeorgeHarrison even makes a guest appearance.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]", Music/PaulMcCartney and his then wife, Linda, were special guest voices. They live above ''Apu's garden in the shades'' (a reference to "Octopus' Garden"). When Paul hears Lisa ran away from home he asks: "She's leaving home?", in reference to the eponymous song from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', the title song which he also dances to when sang by Apu. Near the end [=McCartney's=] song "Maybe I'm Amazed" from his solo album ''Music/McCartney'' is played, with a backwards text in which Apu reads a soup recipe and Paul adding: "By the way, folks, I'm not dead", in reference to the "Paul is Dead" urban legend.
** In "The Bart Of War" Ned Flanders is revealed to have a collection of Beatles memorabilia, and Bart and Milhouse end up ruining his collection with their shenanigans.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** There is an episode called [[Music/AbbeyRoad "Krabby Road"]].
** In the "Atlantis [=SquarePantis=]" episode, the citizens of Atlantis resemble the [[WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine Blue Meanies]].
** Another episode is called "A Life in a Day", clearly a reference to [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand "A Day in the Life"]].
** There is an album based off the show called [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum The Yellow Album]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E9FreeHat Free Hat]]", Stan and Kyle compare ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' being remade with Music/TheBeatles changing ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' every year.
** The Blue Meanies from ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' have a cameo among other fictional characters in "Imaginationland".
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E19RentAEd Rent-a-Ed]]", after sinking down into the ground and breaking the see-saw in the process, Ed shouts out "[[Music/TheWhiteAlbum Ob-la-di! Ob-la-da!]]"
** In the episode "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E3OnceUponAnEd Once Upon an Ed]]", Johnny complains that he wants to hear stories about "[[Music/AbbeyRoad Octopuses gardens, silver hammers,]] and [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Mr. Kite]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Wakko's voice was based on Ringo's.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': In "All You Need Is Narf", Pinky becomes a guru and meets a parody of The Beatles, in reference to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
* ''WesternAnimation/LosTrotamusicos'': In the opening sequence, Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians at one point appear dressed up as The Beatles. Fittingly, Tonto plays the part of Ringo.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': In the episode "[[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode19TheBalladOfLittleJoe The Ballad of Little Joe]]", when Jude is introduced by the narrator, all of his brothers (sans Benjamin and Little Joe, since they weren't seen yet) say to him, "Hey, Jude!"
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Baljeet leads a band called "The Baljeatles" in the episode of the same name.
** In "Oh, There You Are, Perry", the kids play a concert on a rooftop with Phineas playing the same guitar as John Lennon.
** In the MadeForTVMovie, Doof and Doof-2 briefly appear dressed as John and Paul.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode “[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E15MyThreeSunsMagnetPI My Three Suns]]”, Jet says "Sun, sun, sun, here we come!", a reference to "Here Comes The Sun".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The episode title "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E22FryAmTheEggMan Fry Am the Egg Man]]" references a lyric from "I Am The Walrus".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonder Pets}}'' episode "Save the Beetles!", the titular heroes journey to UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}} to rescue a band of beetles from being trapped in a yellow submarine. After they're saved, the band invites the Wonder Pets to a concert and preform the song "Kelp!", a parody of the song "Help!"
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* In the 1970s the fossil of a prehistoric hominid was found in Africa. During the discovery the radio played "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", prompting the archaeologists to name the skeleton ''Lucy''.
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