- Perhaps they're Kaleds who weren't mutated?
- Well, he could also be a nephew or cousin, and still a close relative.
The real Old Fred is the Lord Mayor, who is not called that because he is the Lord Mayor.
- Further, the opening line of the song is, "It was twenty years ago today/Sergent Pepper taught the band to play..." And it is "today" that Sgt. Pepper recruited the Beatles to "impersonate" the "real" band. (He didn't teach them how to play music, as they were already brilliant musicians, but he taught them how to play for Pepperland.)
- The opening line has two meanings. "It was twenty-years ago today" and "it was twenty years ago/today." As in, "It was twenty years ago as of this day," and "The event occurred simultaneously on today, just a few minutes ago, and also twenty years ago."
- John's long-winded explanation involves Einstein's theories, which of course involve time. The others brush him off, either because they don't care, or because the time travel is already obvious to them.
- This adds beautiful irony to the line, "we are the 'originals!'"
When we meet Ringo in the film, he's bored to the point of depression, and seemingly alone. Then we learn he has three loyal "mates," but they're each locked in their rooms, busy with their own endeavors. John and George are occupied with their intellect and meditation respectively; and Paul is occupied by his fangirls.But it's Ringo who is approached by the Submarine, and Fred's plea for help. Ringo is the protagonist throughout the adventure, and ultimately the savior of the "Alter Egos." Add to that the above mentioned train and self-narration, and there we have it. Ringo was bored and depressed in the opening because he was the only Beatle who hadn't found a life outside the Beatles yet, and this adventure was the origin story for the post-Beatles Ringo Starr.
- Ringo borrowing Fred's cap (which looks quite similar to the one he'd wear as Mr. Conductor) for a moment is now brilliant (unintentional) foreshadowing.
- John and George were getting high on their own in their rooms, and Paul was partying with fans; Ringo, missing the days when they used to all get high together, dropped some acid and went for a walk. It didn't seem to kick in at first, and he complained "nothing ever happens to me" (when I'm high). Then, finally, the LSD took hold, and he hallucinated a flying yellow submarine.
- The cop Ringo stopped to speak to was a neighborhood officer who knew the Beatles well, and knew it was next to useless to try convicting them of anything, even when they were clearly trippin' balls. "Would you believe me if I told you I was being followed by a yellow submarine?" "Uh...no, I would not." ...was a normal conversation for them.
- A homeless man, also stoned off his ass, followed Ringo, and begged him for "help." They managed to round up the other Beatles, and five very stoned men were now in a car together, which of course crashed while still in the mansion...
- That was when the police arrived, and ushered all the Beatles plus Fred into the cop car, which the stoners took to be their "yellow submarine."
- The ride to jail was trippy and eventful, but the jail itself was very bare and empty and full of nothing. They presumed they were now in "the Sea of Nothing." While waiting their turns for their phone calls, they met fellow inmate Jeremy Hillary Boob PHD.
- They broke out of prison and stole a cop car, which they presumed to be their now fixed submarine.
- The cops re-captured Jeremy and Fred along the way, but the Beatles found their way to a club, overrun by "Blue Meanies"—security officers.
- Ultimately, the Beatles played their music so well, that even the cops joined in.
- But, they still did not escape justice. The final live-action scene had a bare looking backdrop for a reason. They weren't stoned in their living room anymore; they were back in the jail cell. John, observing the security guards through the telescope he'd been permitted to keep with him, declared, "Newer and bluer meanies have been sighted in the vicinity of this theater!" They then sang the rest of it off, before falling asleep and waking up extremely hung over, with some angry relatives, lawyers and managers on the phone.
- The rabbit hole that Alice falls through in Wonderland is probably a hole from the Sea of Holes that got lost or separated.
- While many of Chessland's inhabitants are characters from nursery rhymes, Pepperland and the surrounding seas are inhabited by elements of Beatles songs.
- Perhaps the Blue Meanies are descendants of the caterpillar from Wonderland, who've taken their ancestor's cynicism and all-around grumpyness to extremes and become outright hostile to everything that isn't them.
- The little brooks and streams that divide up Chessland eventually empty into the various seas surrounding Pepperland.
- In one chapter of Through the Looking Glass, the White King asks who Alice sees on the road. She says that she sees nobody on the road, and the King says that he wishes he had the eyes to be able to see "nobody". When the King talks about "nobody", he is talking about Jeremy, who is referred to as a "Nobody" and a "Nowhere Man".
- In one part of Through the Looking Glass, when Alice is talking to the White Queen, the White Queen talks about living backwards. while she doesn't say exactly how she does it, it probably involves going to the Sea of Time and messing with her age like the Beatles do.
- The Jabberwock, Bandersnatch, and Jubjub Bird are mentioned int he books, but never actually shown. This is because their actual living residence is the Sea of Monsters. This might also be the sea where The Walrus and the Carpenter takes place, and where the Mock Turtle went to school.
This footage makes a drastic difference to the film's tone. In the vs. without it which was in circulation in America between release and 1991, the "All You Need Is Love" sequence and its immediate aftermath is an overpowering triumph for the side of good — a practical steamroller. In the restored vs., even when good has mostly triumphed, it is a longer and closer battle.
That there are "Magical Mystery Tour" references in a film which had most of the vocal track recorded before "Sgt. Pepper's" doesn't help.9
- Jossed. The footage always existed but was omitted from most versions due to copyright, however, there is a pre-remastered version which does include it (I think it was aired by the BBC).