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* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: Lord Mayor, the Blue Meanies are coming! What will you do? "Finish the solo!"
* [[Arc Words]]: "It's all in the mind." Thanks, George.
** Also a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[The Goon Show (Radio)|The Goon Show]]'', which the Beatles were fans of.
* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: The vacuum monster eats everything in its universe; as a last resort it eats itself, mouth last.
* [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]]: The Blue Meanies.
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'''Paul:''' Lovely. }}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: George's is "It's all in the mind."
** This may be a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[The Goon Show (Radio)|The Goon Show]]'', which sometimes used the phrase in its closing narration.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: The nine catlike Blue Meanies are particularly cruel. (These are known as "Butterfly Stompers")
* [[The Cavalry]]: [[The Seventh Cavalry|The U.S. Seventh Cavalry]] rescues Ringo from attacking Indians.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The hole in Ringo's pocket. {{spoiler|He later gives half of it to Jeremy.}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: All four of the Beatles.
* [[Clown Car Base]]: Ringo's house! Complete with [[Scooby -Dooby Doors]]!
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
{{quote| '''John:''' Hey lads. Now Ringo's gone. What do we do?<br />
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: The Blue Meanies, especially the Chief.
* [[While Rome Burns|Fiddling While Rome Burns]]: Parodied, literally. (Justified in that Pepperland is a [[Planet of Hats]], and their hat is music.)
* [[Follow the Leader]]: This film was arguably a strong influence on 1974's ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]],'' and thus indirectly on ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'', and pretty much all of modern [[Space Opera]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Getting the Blue Meanies' hats past the [[Disney]] Legal Department radar, and the brief nudity in "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"?
** Not to mention lines like:
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* [[Grotesque Gallery]]
* [[Harbinger of Impending Doom]]: The Meanies are coming!
* [[Head -in -The -Sand Management]]: The Old Mayor is a sympathetic example.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: This is one of those movies that turns these [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bad puns]] into magic.
** "Today...Pepperland goes blue-y!"
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* [[Parental Bonus]]: See if you can find one kid who can even see the [[Stealth Pun]].
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Pepperland is a musical realm.
* [[Plot -Driven Breakdown]]: Two in quick succession, in fact.
* [[Product Placement]]: One of the Meanies weapons is the symbol of Apple Records.
* [[The Power of Love]]: ''Literally'' the power of love when John defeats the Glove with "All You Need Is Love." Then the movie ends with everyone holding hands to "It's All Too Much" and "All Together Now" written in various languages, set to the song of the same name.
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* [[Renaissance Man]]: Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D. He describes himself thusly: "Eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist -- good dentist, too."
** Lousy poet.
*** "[[Take That, Critics!|Critic's voice! Take your choice!]]"
* [[Rhymes On a Dime]]: Jeremy again. As he explains: "If I spoke prose, you'd all find out / I don't know what I talk about."
* [[Rotoscoping]]: In the "Eleanor Rigby" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" segments
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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Ringo and the lever. (Granted, of course, [[Stealth Pun|he's a born lever-puller.]])
** And again with Ringo and [[Ejection Seat|the button]]. Poor guy never gets a break in this movie.
* [[Scooby -Dooby Doors]]: At least three different points in the film could be legitimately claimed as Scooby Dooby Doors moments, though only one features doors outright. In the Beatles' mansion, a weird alien creature, a floating hat, a black guy in a yellow suit, a butterfly, a woman's hand, an eggcup, a tobacco pipe with a face, a rocking horse, a skull and crossbones, [[Batman]], an umbrella and pair of glasses. All going in and out of doors in about five seconds.
** Another moment occurs when the Blue Meanies chase the Beatles through Pepperland, after the band inadvertently awakens them from their sleep.
* [[Shout -Out]]:
** Ringo and Fred pass through a room containing various pop-culture heroes, including [[The Avengers (TV)|John Steed]] and [[The Phantom (Comic Strip)|The Phantom]].
{{quote| '''Fred:''' Can't we take one of these?<br />
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{{quote| '''Ringo:''' Poor little guy.<br />
'''Paul:''' I dunno, Ringo is just a sentimentalist. }}
** He fixes the submarine's propeller (so well, unfortunately, [[Stop Helping Me!|that Old Fred can't turn it off and is forced to leave without the Beatles]]), and later helps {{spoiler|take down the Blue Meanie Leader at the end and the Meanies into making peace.}}
{{quote| '''Ringo:''' First time I saw that "Nowhere Man"...that "Nobody" ..... ''I'' knew he was Somebody.}}
** This troper always thought that Jeremy started crying at the thought of them leaving him alone. He really only started to get upset when they began to leave.
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