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[[File:Beatles_cartoon.jpg|frame| From left to right: [[John Lennon (Music)|John Lennon]], [[Ringo Starr (Music)|Ringo Starr]], [[George Harrison (Music)|George Harrison]], [[Paul McCartney (Music)|Paul McCartney]]. Just in case...]]
 
 
{{quote| ''"Yeah yeah yeah!"''}}
 
A cartoon series that ran from 1965 to 1969 following the [[Hilarity Ensues|wacky hijinks of]] [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]]. Notable for [[Trope Maker|being the first]] [[Celebrity Toons|cartoon about actual people]] made for television.
 
The series followed a [[Three Shorts|Two Shorts Format]], with each short separated by two singalong segments. The singalongs would always start with either John Lennon, Paul McCartney or George Harrison trying to introduce the song and encourage the viewers to sing along, and Ringo Starr interrupting to try and "set up the proper mood" with props.
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Although the series was a colossal success when it debuted, it faded quickly as the Beatles themselves evolved their music and personalities. Eventually, the show was quietly scooted out of the way to make room for ''[[Jonny Quest]]'', as [[ABC]]'s Saturday Morning lineup was being dominated by action/adventure shows at the time, while the cartoon was getting more surreal.
 
Produced by Al Brodax (who would later go on to produce ''[[Cool McCool]]'' and ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]]'') for King Features, who produced a number of other cartoon series based on its own popular comic strips. Notable in that making the show was literally a world-wide effort, and an early example of farming out animation overseas to save money. A majority of the production was done in England, but episodes were also farmed out to studios in Australia, Canada, and Holland. This lends the show a bit of discontinuity when it comes to animation style; the Australian episodes are particularly prone to poor quality because Australia had a limited animation industry before the show arrived there and therefore fewer experienced professionals to draw from.
 
Many of the same people from the English studio who worked on the cartoon, as well as the American producers, went on to work on ''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Yellow Submarine]]'' (including Lance Percival as Old Fred), one of the many reasons why the Beatles initially wanted nothing to do with the film.
 
YMMV page [[The Beatles (Animationanimation)/YMMV|here]]
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* [[Annoying Laugh]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9B4MTXpo_o 'Uhuhuhuh Yeah']
* [[Band Toon]] - The [[Trope Maker]].
* [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] - Obviously.
* [[Beautiful All Along]] - The receptionist in "Thank You Girl".
* [[Big Friendly Dog]] - Gunther from "Gib Mir Deine Hand".
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* [[Boxing Kangaroo]] - John receives a black eye from one of these in a singalong intro.
* [[Butt Monkey]] - Ringo.
* [[Captain Obvious]] - The third opening constantly reminds us who [[The Beatles (Musicband)|the stars]] of the show are.
* [[Celebrity Toons]] - Also the [[Trope Maker]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - John Lennon's opinion of the show before [[The Seventies]].
* [[Covered in Kisses]] - Paul (sans lipstick) in "Eight Days a Week".
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]] - Paul would like you to know that Hollywood is fake and phony. And [[Robin Hood]]? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7mXMEyHbM He never happened].
* [[Depending Onon the Writer]] - The quality of the writing, characterization and animation varies wildly from episode to episode.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]] - Actually, going by the model sheets and the way ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' turned out, they actually did do the research, something just got lost during production.
* [[Disguised in Drag]] - George, in "What You're Doing", to get Ringo out of a Gypsy wedding. It backfires spectacularly.
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* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Normal Skinned Space Babe]] - One of these tries to "save the universe from The Beatles" by stranding them on a random planet in "Day Tripper".
* [[No Swastikas]] - The Iron Cross option was used in "Paperback Writer", [[Anachronism Stew|when John Lennon was fighting the Nazis]].
* [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]] - Not with a Liverpudlian one, at least. The creators decided to use a generic British accent so the viewers could understand them more easily.
** Lance Percival has said in interviews he gave Ringo a hint of a [[British Accent|Birmingham]] accent.
** For some reason Paul Frees plays George with a...completely indescribable accent. The closest one can come is that it's a bad [[Peter Lorre]] impression by way of Asia and Ireland.
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* [[Real Song Theme Tune]] - "Can't Buy Me Love" for season 1, "Help!" for season 2 and "And Your Bird Can Sing" for season 3.
* [[The Runt At the End]] - Ringo. Partial [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Shout-Out]] - "Don't Bother Me" uses the "Ringo sleeping on the wrong end of the bed" gag from ''[[Help|Help!]]'', and the second opening is a big shout out to [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] films.
** Ooh, and "James Blond" in "Penny Lane"!
*** On a related note, in the "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" episode, the evil competitors in the race are a Generic Archvillain and a very obvious Mook. He's the spitting image of Oddjob from ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]''.
** Their performance in "I'm Down," makes a lot of references to their Shea Stadium performance.
** The Beatles imagine themselves as [[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]] in "Any Time at All".
{{quote| "Athos!" "Porthos!" "Aramis!" "And Ringo!"}}
* [[Simpleton Voice]] - Ringo.
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