Beatles references
Similarities between the Be Sharps and Beatles (many contributors):
- The name: Be Sharps, Be-atles
- The number of band members (four) and their sexes (all male)
- Moe's Cavern (the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles
played their first live gigs)
- Barney replacing Wiggum (Pete Best was dropped in favor of Ringo)
- "Meet the Be Sharps" ("Meet the Beatles") plus the similarities
between the covers of the two
- Apu's (Ringo's) name shortening
- Apu being Indian (one of the members of the Beatles' rip-off band,
"The Rutles", was Indian)
- The control room of the Baby on Board studio (the Abbey Road
studio during the 60s)
- "You have just recorded your first number one."
- Homer's (John's) marriage as a source of disappointment for women
- Interview at JFK in 1986 (Beatles: 1964)
- Barney's clothes (John Lennon: glasses, hairy coat) and Barney's
girlfriend (Yoko Ono)
- "Yoko Ono" responsible for Barney quitting the group (cf. the real
magillah with Lennon)
- "Number Eight" ("Revolution No. 9" from the White Album)
- "Bigger than Jesus" album (John Lennon's remark about the Beatles
being "more popular than Jesus", AND the resemblance to the "Abbey
Road" cover)
- "Poo poo pa-doop" from the "Surgeon General song" (similar to "I
Am the Walrus")
- The photo on the back of "Meet the Be Sharps" where Barney's back
is turned ("Sgt. Pepper" photo where Paul's back is turned)
- Homer (Ringo) wearing a red jacket
- The rooftop performance (the Beatles did this for "Get Back", the
last track on "Let It Be", atop Apple Records. Hence George
Harrison's dismissal, "It's been done.")
- Wiggum says "Get the tear gas"; the police were actually called to
the original rooftop performance, but only to ask them Beatles to
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- Homer's comment, "...and I hope we passed the audition" (John said