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"With the Mupples" - Calendar parody of With the Beatles album cover

Sesame Road (CD)

Sesame Road

Beatles jim sketches

Jim Henson's ideas for puppets based on the Beatles for The Ed Sullivan Show.[1]

Paul McCartney as The Count for Halloween

Paul McCartney as The Count for Halloween, as posted to his Facebook page in 2015. [1]

George Harrison and Michael Frith November 19, 1976 Saturday Night Live studios

Olivia Trinidad Arias, George Harrison, and Michael Frith at Saturday Night Live studios, November 19, 1976.

Johnny-sergeanttony
Elmoabbeyrd

Elmo crossing Abbey Road.

5235e

Elmo's family crosses Abbey Road.

Telly-Sub

Telly encounters a yellow submarine.

ShalomSesame-Beatles

Shalom Sesame

SingingwiththeStarsSgtPeppersParody

Spoof for Singing with the Stars

Sesamebeatles

Illustration by Bruce McNally.

Dinosaurs Big Songs poster Abbey Road

Dinosaurs: Big Songs

Elmo Strawberry Fields

Elmo at NYC's "Strawberry Fields" tribute to John Lennon in Central Park (tweeted from @sesamejapan on September 21, 2017) [2]

Paul McCartney Phone Call

Lips ignores a call from Paul McCartney in The Muppets Mayhem

The Beatles were a British rock music group from Liverpool, England held in very high regard for both their artistic achievements and their huge commercial success, and have amassed an enormous worldwide fanbase that continues to exist to this day.

The Beatles comprised of John Lennon on rhythm guitar and mouth organ, Paul McCartney on electric bass, George Harrison on lead guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums, with all four on vocals. The group shattered many sales records and charted more than fifty top 40 hit singles. They disbanded in 1970.

Some of the former Beatles were originally slated as guests for different episodes of The Muppet Show, but due to budget and schedule conflicts, these episodes were never produced. McCartney's band, Wings, was considered for an episode. Jerry Nelson said in a 1999 interview, "They tried their best to get the Beatles, Paul was willing to do it, but we had to hire the whole band… When he was with Wings. It was too big time. We just didn’t have the money. I think George would have done it, but they kept trying to negotiate with Paul... Ringo probably would have too. If they had asked me, I would have said, 'Hey! Get them! Don’t dicker... Get the ones who are ready to commit.'"

Sir Paul McCartney appeared on stage with Kermit the Frog to celebrate Golden Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II.

Ringo Starr appeared in a February 2008 Disney Xtreme Digital video with Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn during the Muppets' coverage of the Grammy Awards ceremony.

Beatles producer George Martin appeared on The Ghost of Faffner Hall episode, "Sounds Become Music."

Songs[]

  • Let It Be
  • "Hey Jude"
Beatles covers

References[]

The Muppets[]

  • A 1960s IBM film, in which Rowlf demonstrates the IBM electric guitar, uses audio snippets of The Beatles' recording of "Roll Over Beethoven" for Rowlf's guitar solo. (video)
  • Sgt. Floyd Pepper's name and usual attire references the Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Zoot: Say, do you wanna come to my place and listen to the beetles?
Janice: Oh, I love their music!
Zoot: Not music, I mean real beetles!
  • The Muppet Show band is dressed as the Beatles from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in a 1977 puzzle.
  • In episode 106 of Muppets Tonight, Johnny Fiama shows off his Tony Bennett album, Sergeant Tony's Lonely Hearts Club Gang, which he claims came out a week before the album with "those other guys" (referring to the Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
  • In episode 201, Rizzo jokes that the only song that 20px-Prince_symbol.svg.png can possibly come up with in the commissary is "I Wanna Hold Your Ham," referencing the Beatles' song "I Wanna Hold Your Hand."
  • The title of The Green Album is a reference to The Beatles' record, "The White Album."
  • During The Muppets Take the O2, a musical performance of "Hair" is cut short. To fill time, Scooter calls for their "Plan B," which Sweetums states is having Paul McCartney come out and sing "Let It Be" (while releasing several bees into the crowd). However, McCartney backs out due to the bees, and the bees back out when McCartney quits.
  • The Muppets Mayhem episode "Eight Days a Week" parodies Peter Jackson's documentary The Beatles: Get Back. Floyd's guitar is marked with a sticker reading "Mr. Bassman," in the same style as Paul McCartney's "Bassman" sticker seen in the Let It Be film. Various Beatles song titles are peppered into the dialogue throughout the episode.

Sesame Street[]

  • "I Wanna Hold Your Claw" is one of the hits played on Oscar's favorite grouch radio station in Episode 0068.
  • In Episode 0297, the Mudman can be heard singing, "I am the Mudman, they are the Mudmen..." to the tune of the Beatles' 1967 song "I Am the Walrus."
  • In The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook, the story "Six Monsters in the Restaurant" concludes with the six monsters eating a wooden table. One remarks, "Isn't it good?" to which another responds, "Norwegian wood!" quoting the Beatles' 1965 song "Norwegian Wood."
  • When the Little Theatre of the Deaf demonstrates various words in Episode 0896, several of the cast and others start to sing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" when the group pretends to be a jukebox.
  • Count von Count inundates Maria with deliberately off-base answers while playing "Guess Who?" in Episode 0899 (so he can count them). One of the names is Yoko Ono.
  • The Sesame Street song "Elbow Song" questions why other body parts have well-known songs about them, but elbows do not. Gordon sings the title lyric of the Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" as an example of a "hand" song.
  • In a section of Elmo Through the Looking-Glass, the player can click on Elmo asking Telly (dressed as a walrus) if he's the Eggman, a reference to "I Am the Walrus". Telly confirms this and then says, "but everyone knows me as Telly." One of Telly's later phrases is "coo coo ka-choo," a lyric from the same song.
  • In Episode 4067, 1970s band The Electric Three (consisting of Bob, Luis, and Gordon) is practicing, but Luis is distracted by a girl he's met, named Maria. The rest of the band worries she'll break them up in a reference to Yoko Ono.
  • In Episode 4068 after Humpty Dumpty falls, the first of the king's men who rushes to the scene yells "coo coo ka-choo," a lyric from "I Am the Walrus."
  • On the "Things That Go Day" introductory video on Sesamestreet.org, among the forms of transportation that go by Telly is a yellow submarine.
  • In the web video "I Spy (Rainbow)," Telly Monster appears in a yellow submarine.
  • A photo behind Louie seen in Episode 5235 shows he, Mae, and Elmo crossing Abbey Road in homage to the album cover.

Other[]

  • At the end of The String Quartet sketch from the Ed Sullivan Show, Mahna Mahna sings a few stanzas from the chorus of "With a Little Help from My Friends".
  • On an appearance on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, a group of reindeer perform their roll call. The last one, Blitzen, instead calls out, "Ringo!"
  • A promotional poster for the Dinosaurs album Big Songs spoofs the Abbey Road cover.

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Spoofs[]

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