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When Eric Idle guest-hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', he brought over two segments from ''RWT'' to air as shorts: ''Pommy'', a parody of ''[[Tommy]]'', in which the hero tries to escape from a Ken Russell film, and the Rutles. Idle was especially proud of ''Pommy'', but naturally Lorne Michaels chose the Rutles; ''SNL'' was in the midst of publicly "wooing" the Beatles to reunite on the show. The short was a wild success, and the show received many calls asking about the Rutles (some of them even thinking that these were the Beatles). When Idle returned to England, he began writing a feature-length [[Mockumentary]] for the BBC, but when he again met up with Michaels, who offered a larger budget with NBC, he committed to doing it with them.<ref> Idle was fed up with shoestring budgets. ''RWT'' wasn't given money for a BBC light entertainment (comedy/sketch show), but for a chat (talk) show, which meant that they had to make props and do shoots for the money it takes to tape talking heads. Not fun.</ref>
''The Rutles'' was perhaps the first [[Saturday Night Live|''SNL'' spinoff]] to be made, but because of its initial failure and the nature of its rehabilitation, they aren't consistently linked. It originally aired on [[NBC]]; it was the lowest-rated program on that night. (Apparently, it aired ''just'' before the revival of Beatlemania.) It has since been [[Vindicated by History]] and [[Vindicated by Cable]]. It is also important because it is one of the few films about the Beatles (more or less) that was made before John Lennon was killed and got the [[Dead Artists Are Better]] effect. It is also the only collaboration between members of Monty Python and the original Not Ready for Primetime Players.
The story that ''The Rutles'' tells parallels the history of [[The Beatles]] closely, if inexactly. There are side-stories about how [[The Rutles]] affected the greater world, which is, in fact, more than anyone, including the narrator, will admit.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Eric Idle was a huge fan of the Beatles and a close friend of [[George Harrison]].
** In fact, George Harrison
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]]: Ron Nasty caused controversy when he claimed The Rutles were "bigger than God." Ron, speaking to a slightly deaf journalist, ''actually'' said that they were "bigger than Rod," as in Rod Stewart. Rod Stewart would not make it big for another eight years.
** The protests and album burnings that were sparked by Ron's comment are said to have seen the sales of Rutles albums and merchandise skyrocket as people were buying their products just to have them destroyed. While the movie [[Played for Laughs|plays this for laughs]], it's actually very reflective of the [[Real Life]] protests against [[The Beatles]].
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** Ron Decline: Allen Klein
** Bill Murray the K: Murray the K
*** Played by [[Bill Murray]] himself.
** Arthur Sultan: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
** Corinthia: Cynthia Lennon
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** That's also George saying "This little piggy went to market" ([[Subliminal Seduction|backwards]]) on "Piggy in the Middle".
* [[Rooftop Concert]]: The band's final performance on the roof of their Rutle Corps building where the band notably played "Get Up And Go". {{spoiler|The parodic parallel to The Beatles' "Get Back"}}
** The band (minus <s>
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: It was said that if you play the title track from Sergeant Rutter's Only Darts Club Band backwards, it is supposed to sound like "Stig has been dead for ages, honestly." It in fact says "Dnab Bulc Strad Ylno Srettur Tnaegres."
* [[The Quiet One]]: Taken to an extreme, in that Stig does not get a single line in the entire special.
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