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Post by debjorgo on Apr 1, 2013 21:29:36 GMT -5
This article on Doctor Who, the series about a time traveling hero, is kind of interesting, noting all of the Beatle referencing in the show, including the tv, radio, books and comics. tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Beatles The show ran from '63 through to the present. A continuing theme in the later shows is going back to London 1969 for the roof-top concert. There are alternate story lines where the Beatles don't break up, or replace Paul with Klaus and Billy. One novel has the villian munipulating a pus sucker in 1980 NYC to assassinate John Lennon outside the Dakota. In the 42nd century, the Beatles are conisdered classical music. The Beatles themself had wished to appear on the TV show as themselves in the year 1996 as older versions of themselves. Brian Epstein stopped it. The film of the Beatles doing Ticket to Ride on Top of the Pops only exists now because it was used n Doctor Who. What set me off on the Beatles/Doctor Who connection was hearing that Paul had originally thought of using the musicians who composed the Doctor Who music to score and produce his new song Yesterday. He did not see it as a Beatle song and thought it might work with an electronic backing. I thought I might have heard this on one of Steve's articles but I couldn't find it. Here is one article. www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/mar/22/paul-mccartney-dr-who-yesterdayIt has the Doctor Who music to let you imagine.
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 2, 2013 20:55:50 GMT -5
On the New Normal tonight, the stars had their baby. John's Beautiful Boy was played for the whole sequence. They name the kid Sean.
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 7, 2013 17:43:45 GMT -5
From a Men With Kids episode from Jan 30 (I'm behind in my viewing):
A couple was thrown out of the trivia contest team by their friends. "It was our idea to start the team to begin with. We're like that guy who was originally in the Beatles but got kicked out. You know who I'm talking about." His partner "Yeah, what was his name? Ah, ah, Something with the word fish in it". A third guy in the room frustrated with them for not knowing "It was PETE BEST. His name was Pete Best". The joke being that they were no good at trivia.
Later: "I'm mad at you!. You kicked me out of my own group. Like Pete Fish."
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 7, 2013 20:11:43 GMT -5
Tonight on 60 Minutes:
"When Jeremy Lin, point guard for the Houston Rockets, arrived for a series of tour appearances in Taiwan he was greeted like it was all four Beatles on a reunion tour."
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 30, 2013 21:09:05 GMT -5
Whoa, it's been a while. I was beginning to think the Beatles were over.
On New Girl tonight, everyone was telling about their first time. One of the girls said on prom night, she was in a bar, and Mick Jagger came up. "He was on tour and we started laughing ....". The dude who has always had a thing for her, starts saying over and over again "Beatlemania, Beatlemania. Beatles, Beatles, Beatles", as if to block it out.
Bonus Beatle connection for New Girl: Zooey Deshanel was on both recent Buddy Holly tributes, both as a solo artist and with her band He and She.
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 30, 2013 22:07:42 GMT -5
TWO IN ONE NIGHT! THE BEATLES ARE BACK!
On 20/20 tonight "Amanda Knox Speaks", at trial she was "...once wearing a tee shirt from the Beatles song All You Need is Love". "I didn't realize how very intensely I was being scrutinized".
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Post by John S. Damm on Apr 30, 2013 23:43:01 GMT -5
TWO IN ONE NIGHT! THE BEATLES ARE BACK! On 20/20 tonight "Amanda Knox Speaks", at trial she was "...once wearing a tee shirt from the Beatles song All You Need is Love". "I didn't realize how very intensely I was being scrutinized". Oh yes she did! She damn well knew that she was making a statement with her shirt, cultivating an imgage as a peaceful girl. Foxy Knoxy wearing a Beatles shirt is not unlike Charlie Manson doing so!
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Post by debjorgo on May 1, 2013 17:21:27 GMT -5
On Dave Letterman last night, for the introduction of Dave, Alan Kalter says "And now Traveling Wilbury, David Letterman!!".
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Post by sayne on May 1, 2013 20:00:39 GMT -5
I wrote on the old board about all the Beatles references or allusions that have made it into the Western world's everyday life.
When Hugh Grant got arrested for his, er, "date," the newscaster here in LA started with "Hugh Grant finds out that you "can't buy me love."
There was a story about all the assistance a guy was getting when he lost his house. The newscaster said, "With a little help from his friends." There's "give peace a chance", "yeah, yeah, yeah," "let it be," "magical mystery tour," and tons of other language allusions that find their way in advertising, film, TV, print, and art.
Remember the movie Trainspotting? The whole opening sequence with the guys running is straight out of A Hard Days Night. I've seen numerous versions of the Abbey Road cover. Gilligan's Island had Bingo, Bongo, Bango, and Irving. I've seen many descriptions of the reaction people have had when someone appeared somewhere as being like the Beatles - not Elvis, not Sinatra, not Michael Jackson, but the Beatles.
There's Beatle boots, Beatle haircuts, sitars, paisley, violin basses, round glasses, etc. They crop up everywhere and always evoke the lads.
In addition to the music, the Beatles have had a major impact on culture in a vast array of ways.
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Post by debjorgo on May 5, 2013 17:24:49 GMT -5
The Beatles' Yellow Submarine selves in full cartoon form were on Robot Chicken.
I have to admit, I searched "the Beatles" on my cable box and this episode was from 2009.
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Post by debjorgo on May 10, 2013 20:27:14 GMT -5
On Nikita tonight, looking at satellite, "Whoa, this thing is a Blackbird". "Singing in the middle of the night?" "No, meaning not registered."
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Post by Panther on May 14, 2013 18:50:17 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on May 31, 2013 17:53:42 GMT -5
On Lookout, a new newsmagazine program, a house getting scammed as mold infested has a nice Andy Warhol-ish painting of the Beatles from the Let it Be cover. The colors are really more Dali-ish than Warhol. It looks good except Ringo looks a little off.
Actually I may be thinking of Picaso.
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Post by debjorgo on Jun 1, 2013 23:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 7, 2013 15:02:55 GMT -5
The answer to yesterday's "Cryptoquip" puzzle in the local newspaper:
"RECENTLY UNEARTHED BEATLES TUNE WHOSE SUBJECT DEALT WITH A MARTIAL ARTS SYSTEM: "HEY JUDO."
Feel free to groan.
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Post by debjorgo on Jun 12, 2013 18:12:34 GMT -5
Dana Carvey is wallowing right there with us. On Dave Letterman last night:
"I don't really know (where he got his sense of humor). When I was about 9 years old, the Beatles came on in this very place, (the Ed Sullivan Theater)". (Pretty healthy cheers and appplause from the crowd.) Dana gives both thumbs up. "They did okay." "And that was the first time I realized I could alter my voice. So the next day I came to my mom and said (in thick Beatles' voice)"Do you think you could make me some paaancakes?"
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 1, 2013 19:34:15 GMT -5
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Post by winstonoboogie on Jul 1, 2013 20:05:39 GMT -5
[Sigh....]
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Post by vectisfabber on Jul 2, 2013 8:44:45 GMT -5
Well done for making a fine, well argued point.
Or for taking the easy route to raising the profile of your otherwise irrelevant and pointless article, I'm not sure which.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 3, 2013 21:23:41 GMT -5
Alec Baldwin and his wife at a New York at show, talking to ET: The show was musical star photographs. Alec asked his wife "Do you know any of the bands that are in this room?" Alec winks for the camera. She's obviously a few generations younger than him and Alec is playing our "what does the younger generation know" game. She says she knows the Beatles, John Lennon (Alec adds Marvin Gaye), Michael Jackson.... Alec then says "Is our child going to be more photographed than the Beatles?" She says "Probably, probably".
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Post by sayne on Jul 3, 2013 23:28:11 GMT -5
[Sigh....] Actually, it is kind of a dumb name. Most band names are. One of the worst? No, but I get their point.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 4, 2013 5:56:27 GMT -5
[Sigh....] Actually, it is kind of a dumb name. Most band names are. One of the worst? No, but I get their point. I think it's cool as hell!
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 4, 2013 6:16:59 GMT -5
Actually, it is kind of a dumb name. Most band names are. One of the worst? No, but I get their point. Amazing how it's okay for you, sayne. to speak "factually" here, but you get so irate when others do that! Anyway -- I disagree with the article. I think "Beatles" is a very cool name, and far from "dumb" or "stupid". To me it's a rather clever idea, emphasizing the "beat" and changing it from 'beetles'. To me, their only "point" would be the one atop their heads. They're also probably part of the current "let's tear down the Beatles Classic Legend" brigade that's sometimes in vogue these days.
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Post by sayne on Jul 4, 2013 8:00:00 GMT -5
Actually, it is kind of a dumb name. Most band names are. One of the worst? No, but I get their point. Amazing how it's okay for you, sayne. to speak "factually" here, but you get so irate when others do that! Thank you. Everything I say or do is pretty amazing. THAT's how you use emoticons. Take notes. You're being schooled. Just like when everyone responds to your posts. (Fact)
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 4, 2013 8:39:47 GMT -5
THAT's how you use emoticons. Take notes. You're being schooled. Just like when everyone responds to your posts. (Fact) LOL! If you actually bothered to read and concede all the pearls of wisdom I write, perhaps you'd gain some sense. Hope you're going to have a nice burger today for The 4th Of July. I'll be having one - also some barbecued chicken, using my incisors. Maybe I'll dedicate one of those fallen animals whose purpose on this Earth was to be on my plate to you.
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Post by Snookeroo on Jul 4, 2013 11:09:55 GMT -5
train kept-a-rollin Attachments:
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Post by acebackwords on Jul 4, 2013 16:35:56 GMT -5
Beatles is a great name. Works on several levels. 1. Homage to the great Crickets. 2. "Beat" being the fundamental aspect of rocknroll. 3. Nod to the Best Generation. Plus it looks great on a drum.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 4, 2013 19:15:58 GMT -5
The Beatles 1 has reentered the charts at number 37 for some reason.
Help! (Soundtrack) is 83.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 25, 2013 14:58:01 GMT -5
It's been awhile since I've had a tv reference.
Dave Letterman last night:
Top Ten British Expressions for having a baby.
4. Kicking Out Pete Best
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Post by vectisfabber on Jul 25, 2013 17:38:28 GMT -5
Not an expression this Brit has ever heard.
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