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  • Non Sequitur Scene: "The Exciting Adventure of Paul on the Floor", in which Paul shrinks to a minuscule size and has a brief exciting adventure on the floor.
    • Intermission. Seven seconds of pure "what the heck was that?"
  • Crowning Music of Awesome - Should go without saying in a Beatles movie!
  • Flanderization - The film versions of the band were supposed to exhibit exaggerated versions of their own personalities: John as a snarky smartaleck, Paul as a smooth lady killer, George as a miserly spendthrift, and Ringo as... well, Ringo. Most of this gets lost in the finished version, though.
  • Fridge Logic: How does owning a ring that can't be removed from one's finger help one gain global domination? Perhaps one could argue the value of replicating the metal, but it appears that there's no way to cut it and take samples...
    • It does seem to be acknowledged: "With a ring like that, could I interest the military? No, I could not."
  • Funny Aneurysm Moment - This is the film that got George Harrison, and the rest of the Beatles through him, interested in Eastern religion.
    • Seeing John being threatened with a gun would probably be a much bigger FAM.
      • Especially since Foot actually fires it right at him, of all people, though it jams.
    • There is also the scene where a bunch of vaguely Middle Eastern/South Asian cultists are rounded up and put into a prison camp and a Caribbean island.
    • Due to their morbid and surreal humor, most of the Beatles movies are full to bursting with FAMs to varying degrees.
    • George saying "I've never seen any drummers with one, you know..." doesn't seem as silly in light of what happened to Rick Allen.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight - Ringo, George, and John's disguises in the airport make them look much like they would later in life.
    • Everything about the Beatles being on the run from (essentially) Indians and making (joking) comments about their 'filthy Eastern ways', considering they would later embrace that culture. In particular, a scene where the cultists quickly replace a band in a restaurant and start playing an Indianised instrumental version of A Hard Day's Night.
      • George Harrison first got interested in the sitar seeing it used in that scene.
    • At a certain point, the Beatles dress as a military band...
    • Contrast the band members' stories that they were stoned on marijuana when they filmed the movie, with this bit of dialogue, as Ahme is attempting to inject Ringo's finger with a formula designed to shrink his finger so that the ring will fall off:

Paul: But is it mainlining, or habit-forming?
George: (sticking gum in his mouth) Not as long as you don't swallow it.

Ringo: "What was it that first attracted you to me?"
John: "Well, you're very polite, aren't you?"

  • So Bad It's Good: It was supposed to be, but not necessarily for the reasons that it actually is...