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* In the ''[[VideoGames/{{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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* In the ''[[VideoGames/{{Warcraft}} ''[[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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* In the ''[[VideoGames/{{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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---> '''Walt:''' Did I hear what I think I just heard?!\\

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* 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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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. The evil 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.

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** 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.
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* ''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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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. The evil 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.
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* 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.
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* ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'' gives the Beetle, a character who's American in the comics, a Liverpudlian accent as a ShoutOut to the group.
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* Music/{{Nirvana}}: In the music video of "In Bloom", from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', 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."

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* Music/{{Nirvana}}: In the music video of "In Bloom", from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', ''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."
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* Music/TheRollingStonesBand: 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:

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* Music/TheRollingStonesBand: [[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:



* 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, as well as recording their own version.

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* 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, [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand The Rolling Stones]], as well as recording their own version.
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* In ''Literature/RainbowMagic'', [[Literature/RainbowMagicLucyTheDiamondFairy Lucy the Diamond Fairy]] was named after the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

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* The Season 3 finale for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is called [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure "Magical Mystery Cure"]].

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The Season 3 finale for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is called [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure "Magical Mystery Cure"]].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.
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* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' album cover for ''Music/DemonDays'' 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}}''.

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* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' album cover for ''Music/DemonDays'' ''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}}''.
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* 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?]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonder Pets}}'' episode "Save the Beetles!", the titular heroes journey to ''UsefulNotes/Liverpool'' to rescue a band of beetle from being trapped in a yellow submarine. After they're saved, the band invites them to a concert and preform the song "Kelp!", a parody of the song "Help!"

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonder Pets}}'' episode "Save the Beetles!", the titular heroes journey to ''UsefulNotes/Liverpool'' UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}} to rescue a band of beetle beetles from being trapped in a yellow submarine. After they're saved, the band invites them the Wonder Pets to a concert and preform the song "Kelp!", a parody of the song "Help!"
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For more parodies of the Beatles, see BorrowingTheBeatles

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For more parodies in-universe [[{{Expy}} expies]]/parodies of the Beatles, see BorrowingTheBeatles
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For examples pertaining to ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', go [[ReferencedBy/YellowSubmarine here]].


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For more parodies of the Beatles, see BorrowingTheBeatles
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* ''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.


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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The episode title "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E22FryAmTheEggMan Fry Am the Egg Man]]" references a lyric from "I Am The Walrus".

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* ''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.



* 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.
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* 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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** 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.

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