History Main / BorrowingTheBeatles

* In ''ComicBook/SupermanTrueBrit'', the Rutles serve as the local stand-in for the Beatles; the comic was co-written by Creator/JohnCleese, a friend of Rutles co-founder Creator/EricIdle.

** Both groups are named after living creatures in MyspeldRokband fashion.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': the episode with Dudley Moore has "The Bug Band", which is a quartet of beetle-like bugs who sing "She Loves You." Afterwards backstage, they try deciding on a better name: a couple options include Music/TheWho and Music/TheGratefulDead.

* One TV/video advertisement of the Spanish insurance company Occident, which aired between September and October of 2023, is about a little girl starting a band with three friends. Said band appears to be a tribute to the Beatles, given the subsequent shots of the four children doing an AbbeyRoadCrossing and wearing SgtPeppersShoutOut costume.

* ''Greatest Hits'', a 2008 mini-series published by Creator/VertigoComics, features a SuperTeam called The Mates who that are basically the Beatles reimagined as superheroes.

* The Oliver Twists from "Dead Until Proven Alive!" return (sort of) in an ''All-New [[Comicbook/TheAtom Atom]]'' story in which Xotar the Time Commander sends Ivytown back to the sixties. In the "real" timeline the Twists' poster is instead advertising a Saul Cartwright solo tour (with an image based on the cover of ''Music/PaulMcCartney: The Gold Collection''.

* The Oliver Twists from "Dead Until Proven Alive!" return (sort of) in an ''All-New Comicbook/[[TheAtom Atom]]'' story in which Xotar the Time Commander sends Ivytown back to the sixties. In the "real" timeline the Twists' poster is instead advertising a Saul Cartwright solo tour (with an image based on the cover of ''Music/PaulMcCartney: The Gold Collection''.

* The Oliver Twists from "Dead Until Proven Alive!" return (sort of) in an ''All-New Comicbook/{{Atom}}'' story in which Xotar the Time Commander sends Ivytown back to the sixties. In the "real" timeline the Twists' poster is instead advertising a Saul Cartwright solo tour (with an image based on the cover of ''Music/PaulMcCartney: The Gold Collection''.

* ''[[VideoGame/NipponSafesInc The Big Red Adventure]]'' has as a random gag the UsefulNotes/Russia}}n TV show the "{{Teenage Mutant|SamuraiWombats}} {{Ninja}} Beetles": four cockroaches with the heads of the Fab Four.

Music/TheBeatles are said by many to be the single most influential music group of all time. They led UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, legitimized RockAndRoll as an art-form, led the countercultural march of TheSixties into the revolutionary renaissance of TheSeventies and are the most successful example of a band to ever name themselves after a noun preceded by the word "The". While The Beatles spawned too many copycats to mention in the real world, the world of fiction has its own Beatles {{Expies}}.

* ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'', dating from TheSixties, finds Asterix and Obelix crossing the English Channel and casting a French eye over the peculiarities of those crazy people to the North of Gaul. Among all the warm beer and bad cooking, they encounter a group of bards who are being mobbed by hysterical screaming girls. The four mop-topped bardic singers have a suspicious resemblance to...

* ''Greatest Hits'', a 2008 mini-series published by Creator/VertigoComics, features a superteam called The Mates who that are basically the Beatles reimagined as superheroes.

--> Disney lightened it up by having the vultures bearing a physical and vocal resemblance to The Beatles, including the signature mop-top haircut.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has The Beetles, a band of insectoid Anything Muppets whose songs spoof actual Beatles songs, but are mostly about letters of the alphabet.

* ''[[VideoGame/NipponSafesInc The Big Red Adventure]]'' has as a random gag the Russian TV show the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Beetles": four cockroaches with the heads of the Fab Four.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': The episode "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes" has a cameo by a band called the Four Insects, whose "bug music" is the only thing that annoys Fred's hillbilly cousins. Since the Flintstones want to get rid of the Hatrocks, they put on moptop wigs and play bug music themselves, joined by the Rubbles and the Gruesomes.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "All You Need is Narf", Pinky's SimpleMindedWisdom has him confused for a guru when he and Brain are in India to collect sandalwood. They become especially popular with The Feebles, a Beatles {{Expy}} that Pinky happens to be a fan of. When they begin to get in the way of the plan by booking a 6-month sit-in, Brain meets the tone-deaf singer Yoyo Nono and pairs her with the John Lennon stand-in Jim Lemon, leading to the band's break-up.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls Meet the Beat Alls]]", Townsville's top four super villains -- Mojo Jojo, HIM, Princess Morbucks, and Fuzzy Lumpkins -- all meet at the Powerpuff Girl's house by coincidence, each of them sick of losing to the girls and wanting to fight them. When they all manage to win when they work together, they team up and call themselves The Beat Alls. It works out perfectly for them, repeatedly trouncing the Powerpuff Girls... right until the Yoko analogue, Moko Jono, shows up, and Mojo Jojo starts eagerly going with her increasingly bizarre "evil" plans until the group falls apart from the strain. The episode is notable for cramming as many Beatles references as the creators could think of into the dialogue and visuals.

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By virtue of this trope, examples of AbbeyRoadCrossing, BiggerThanJesus and SgtPeppersShoutOut abound.

-> ''"Yes, screaming girls everywhere ran screaming whenever the Beat Alls made the scene. Individually, it had been a long and winding road. But together, the Beat Alls, or the 'Bad Four,' as they were also known had finally conquered Townsville. Their rise to fame can be attributed to their ability to deliver hit after hit after hit... to the Powerpuff Girls. With Mojo Jojo on blaster rays, the acidic spit stylings of HIM, Princess accompanying Mojo on blasters, And Fuzzy, the shy one, provides the rock. Thus the Brutish Invasion had begun."''