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'''Bart:''' What did you do? [[Lampshade Hanging|Screw up like]] [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] and say you were [[Bigger Than Jesus]]?<br />

'''Homer:''' All the time! It was the title of our second album!|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}

* A song by band What I Like About Jew (now Good For The Jews and Jewmongous) describes how they are physically taller than Jesus.

* Source of the name for rockers Joe Christ and the Bigger than God.

''But I've got the height on The Beatles too.''<br />

''If genes determine the size of your bod,''<br />

* In the [[Animated Adaptation]] of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', Buddy says, "We're bigger than cheeses," in a dairy-oriented village. Buddy's band is run out of town.

* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Brian Writes a Bestseller", after Brian does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly that]], he remarks about his new found fame by sharing his thoughts on [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' controversy.

** Also played with in the episode "I Dream of Jesus". When Jesus becomes famous, one newspaper ran the headline "Jesus Is Bigger Than Jesus!"

** This bit from "And I'm Joyce Kinney":

'''Lois:''' Okay, yes, [[Tina Fey]], your're better than Jesus. }}

* In the ''[[Tripping the Rift]]'' episode "Cool Whip", Whip becomes an instant celebrity on a planet, and the king proclaims him "Bigger than Jesus" but not the Beatles. {{spoiler|Though he learns that he is [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|going to be hunted]] and mounted.}}

* In [[The Nineties]], music periodical ''The New Music Express'' (''NME'') spoofed [[Oasis]]'s thrall to The Beatles and their tendency to plagiarize with a fictitious interview in which Noel Gallagher claimed to be "bigger than God." Just one year later, in [[Real Life]], [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Noel Gallagher made exactly the same claim]], though the entire point of John Lennon's original remarks in 1966 were completely lost on him.

* Strangely enough, [[Jesus]] himself used this trope, at least in the eyes of the Jewish priesthood at the time. From [[The Bible|Luke Chapter 11:]]

 

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