History Trivia / Help

* OldShame: Music/JohnLennon hated this film when he looked back on it in 1970. In fact, the band as a whole wasn't too fond of the end product, feeling they were extras in their own movie. By 1980, John's opinion had cooled on the film and he positively compared it to ''Series/Batman1966''. He noted that his main problem was that no one really explained to the band what the movie was about or the tone it was going for, but also admitted that all four of them were "smoking marijuana for breakfast" during the filming, and probably ''were'' told, but didn't listen.

* FakeNationality[=/=]{{Fauxreigner}}: All the cultists from 'the East' are played by English actors. This is {{Lampshaded}} when the Beatles visit the Indian Restaurant "seeking enlightenment as to rings" from someone from "the mystic East" but quickly learn that everyone working there is English.

** "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much" are the only Music/GeorgeHarrison-composed Beatles songs that don't have their lyrics reprinted in the song-by-song commentary section of his memoir ''I Me Mine'', suggesting that he didn't think they were very good.

** "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much" are the only Music/GeorgeHarrison-composed Beatles songs that he doesn't discuss in the song-by-song commentary section of his memoir ''I Me Mine'', suggesting that he didn't think much of them.

** Music/JohnLennon wasn't fond of the way "Help!" turned out, as its lyrics were meant to be serious. He wanted it to be a piano ballad.

* CreatorBacklash: Music/JohnLennon wasn't fond of the way "Help!" turned out, as its lyrics were meant to be serious. He wanted it to be a piano ballad.

* OldShame: Music/JohnLennon hated this film when he looked back on it in 1970. In fact, the band as a whole wasn't too fond of the end product, feeling they were extras in their own movie. By 1980, John's opinion had cooled on the film and he positively compared it to ''Batman1966''. He noted that his main problem was that no one really explained to the band what the movie was about or the tone it was going for, but also admitted that all four of them were "smoking marijuana for breakfast" during the filming, and probably ''were'' told, but didn't listen.

* OldShame: Music/JohnLennon hated this film when he looked back on it. In fact, the band as a whole wasn't too fond of the end product, feeling they were extras in their own movie.

* WorkingTitle: The name "Help" was taken by something else so the name ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was considered. [[WritingAroundTrademarks However, they were able to use the name]] "Help" anyway by ]]ExcitedShowTitle adding an exclamation mark.]]

* WorkingTitle: The name "Help" was taken by something else so the name ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was considered. [[WritingAroundTrademarks However, they were able to use the name "Help" anyway by adding an exclamation mark.]]

** A scene cut from the film was to have been within the attempts to kill Ringo, (within the five attempts), it involved Ringo making a phone call in a phone box, and a blotched sacrifice attempt made within the phone box.

* OldShame: Music/JohnLennon hated this film when he looked back on it. In fact, the band as a whole wasn't too fond of the end product.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to still photos included in the "making of" documentary on the new Special Edition DVD, one of the features in Ringo's apartment space that was not used in the movie was a little dining room table and chairs in the vending machine wall that would pop out in the same manner as Paul's organ.

* DeletedRole: A sequence featuring Frankie Howerd (as Sam Ahab) and Wendy Richard was filmed but left out of final editing owing to its length. However, the sequence was left in the film novelisation.

* InTheStyleOf: "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" sounds like a Bob Dylan song. There's a good reason why: Bob Dylan befriended the Beatles when he pointed out that part of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"--the repeated line "I can't hide" at the end of the chorus--sounded like "I get high."

* OldShame: John Lennon hated this film when he looked back on it. In fact, the band as a whole wasn't too fond of the end product.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Footage for a few deleted scenes has been floating around. One of the most prominent ones is for a scene in which the Beatles attend The Sam Ahab School of Transcendental Elocution. While there, they, Sam Ahab, and another student known as "Lady Macbeth" are hypnotized by the cult's "Go to the Window" music, except for George, who was wearing earplugs. They try to chop off Ringo's hand while most of the room is in a trance, but George knocks the axe (!!!) they were using out of their hands and into a mirror. The cult flees and everyone wakes up to see the axe left behind. The scene ends with John removing the axe and asking Lady Macbeth "[[ShoutOut Is this a chopper]] [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} that you see before you?]]". This scene would have explained why Ringo withdrew his hand so quickly the next time they tried to cut it off, as well as how the boys knew to plug their ears in the Scotland Yard scene.
** The name "Help" was taken by something else so the name ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was considered. [[WritingAroundTrademarks However, they were able to use the name "Help" anyway by adding an exclamation mark.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** The easily amused patron at the Indian restaurant also appeared in ''Film/AHardDaysNight'' as the guy jumping up and down with Ringo during the nightclub dance sequence.
** Algernon is portrayed by Roy Kinnear, alias [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Mr. Salt]].
** Depending on who you ask, Clang is either ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'' or [[Series/ThePrisoner Number Two]].
** The cross-channel swimmer asking John for the directions to the White Cliffs Of Dover was Mal Evans, The Beatles' friend and road manager/assistant. He, or rather, his bare chest, later appears in ''Film/MagicalMysteryTour'' in the "Blue Jay Way" sequence.
** The jeweller is Dr. Warlock from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Pyramids of Mars."

* HeyItsThatGuy: The easily amused patron at the Indian restaurant also appeared in AHardDaysNight as the guy jumping up and down with Ringo during the nightclub dance sequence.

** Depending on who you ask, Clang is either Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey or [[Series/ThePrisoner Number Two]].
** The cross-channel swimmer asking John for the directions to the White Cliffs Of Dover was Mal Evans, The Beatles' friend and road manager/assistant. He, or rather, his bare chest, later appears in ''MagicalMysteryTour'' in the "Blue Jay Way" sequence.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Footage for a few deleted scenes has been floating around. One of the most prominent ones is for a scene in which the Beatles attend The Sam Ahab School of Transcendental Elocution. While there, they, Sam Ahab, and another student known as "Lady Macbeth" are hypnotized by the cult's "Go to the Window" music, except for George, who was wearing earplugs. They try to chop off Ringo's hand while most of the room is in a trance, but George knocks the axe (!!!) they were using out of their hands and into a mirror. The cult flees and everyone wakes up to see the axe left behind. The scene ends with John removing the axe and asking Lady Macbeth "[[ShoutOut Is this a chopper]] [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} that you see before you?]]". This scene would have explained why Ringo withdrew his hand so quickly the next time they tried to cut it off, as well as how the boys knew to plug their ears in the Scotland Yard scene.

** The jeweller is Dr. Warlock from the ''DoctorWho'' story "Pyramids of Mars."

** Algernon is portrayed by Roy Kinnear, alias [[WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Mr. Salt]].

** The name "Help" was taken by something else so the name ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was considered. [[WritingAroundTrademarks However, they were able to use the name "Help" anyway by adding an exclamation mark.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The name "Help" was taken by something else so the name ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' was considered. [[WritingAroundTrademarks However, they were able to use the name "Help" anyway by adding an exclamation mark.]]

* ShoutOut: There's a couple of references to Film/JamesBond; a parody of the Bond theme plays as Clang and his cult prepare to pursue the Beatles in their car, and Bhuta distracts a chef by imitating [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob's hat toss attack.]]

** Depending on who you ask, Clang is either Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey or [[Series/ThePrisoner Number Two]].