History Trivia / YellowSubmarine

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** The voice of the film's leading villain, the Blue Meanie Chief, would be an inspiration for ComicBook/TheJoker (as voiced by Creator/MarkHamill) from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and HIM (voiced by Creator/TomKane) from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

-->'''Lord Mayor''': Your faces...
-->'''Paul''': [[MythologyGag They're quite cute, really.]][[note]]Paul was known as "the cute one."[[/note]]

** 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 while they were being filmed.

* FollowTheLeader: This film was arguably a strong influence on 1974's ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato,'' and thus indirectly on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'', and pretty much all of modern SpaceOpera.

* 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.[[note]]This ended up not working for them, since Creator/UnitedArtists wouldn't count this movie [[AnimationAgeGhetto on the fact it was animated]].[[/note]] 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.

** The voice of the film's leading villain, the Blue Meanie Chief, would be an inspiration for ComicBook/TheJoker (as voiced by Creator/MarkHamill) from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and HIM (as voiced by Creator/TomKane) from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

* BigNameFan: This was reportedly one of the favorite movies of UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen, who owned her own film copy.

* 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 recreated it.

* ContractualObligationProject: Music/TheBeatles signed a contract with Creator/UnitedArtists in late 1963 to make three movies, two of which were the very well-received ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' and ''Film/{{Help}}''. The Fab Four was dissatisfied working on the latter film, however, so they agreed to have ''Yellow Submarine'' made as an easy way to fulfill their contract, since it's an animated movie NotQuiteStarring them. Many fans have assumed that the cartoon did not satisfy the contract, but ''Film/LetItBe'', also released by United Artists, was not part of the original three-picture deal.

* 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. It was to be first computer-generated movie ever, utilizing many songs from The Beatles. Ten minutes of test footage was shot, and has never been seen.
* ThrowItIn: The three-dimensional effect in the pan down to Liverpool was created by accident, which the animators tried in vain to duplicate.

* ContractualObligationProject: Music/TheBeatles signed a contract with Creator/UnitedArtists in late 1963 to make three movies, two of which were the very well-received ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' and ''Film/{{Help}}''. The Fab Four was dissatisfied working on the latter film, however, so they agreed to have ''Yellow Submarine'' made as an easy way to fulfill their contract, since it's an animated movie Not Quite Starring them. Many fans have assumed that the cartoon did not satisfy the contract, but ''Film/LetItBe'', also released by United Artists, was not part of the original three-picture deal.

* ContractualObligationProject: Music/TheBeatles signed a contract with Creator/UnitedArtists in late 1963 to make three movies, two of which were the very well-received ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' and ''Film/{{Help}}''. This was intended by the band to be their third, but as it was an animated film and was Not Quite Starring the Fab Four themselves (they decline to voice their likenesses, and appeared exclusively in a short cameo at the end of the film), the studio said it didn't satisfy their contract. Eventually, UA wound up distributing ''Film/LetItBe''.

* BigNameFan: This was reportedly one of the favorite movies of UsefulNotes/TheQueen, who owned her own film copy.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A remake by Creator/RobertZemeckis did not surface due to ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'' [[BoxOfficeBomb tanking at the box office]].

* FollowTheLeader: This film was arguably a strong influence on 1974's ''SpaceBattleshipYamato,'' and thus indirectly on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'', and pretty much all of modern SpaceOpera.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A remake by Creator/RobertZemeckis did not surface due to WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms [[BoxOfficeBomb tanking at the box office]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The remake by Creator/RobertZemeckis, due to [[WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms his previous film's]] [[BoxOfficeBomb poor performance]].

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The film began production without an ending and was produced in only 11 months.

* NonSingingVoice: Since the Beatles' voices where provided by voice actors, but all the singing is their original recordings from the albums. Averted, briefly, when Paul sings "Any old Iron", and during the "you're such a lovely audience" part of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", both of which were done by the voice actors.
* RealitySubtext: 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.

-->'''Paul''': [[MythologyGag They're quite cute, really.]]

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The film began production without an ending.