Among the many many milestones “The Simpsons” has achieved throughout its 35-year run, there may be one distinctive factoid that collection creator Matt Groening ought to rank amongst his proudest achievements: Three Beatles have made visitor star appearances as themselves. Sadly, John Lennon was assassinated 9 years earlier than the collection premiered on Fox, so Springfield missed out on 1 / 4 of the Fab 4. Fortunately, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and naturally, Paul McCartney all lent their voices to the Simpsonized variations of themselves, with Ringo showing in “Brush with Greatness,” George showing in “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet,” and Paul showing in “Lisa, the Vegetarian.”
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In “Lisa, the Vegetarian,” Lisa joyfully bonds with a lamb at a petting zoo. Later that night, Marge serves lamb chops for the household’s dinner, shaking Lisa to her core and main her to change into a vegetarian. Regardless of the ridicule she receives from Homer, Bart, and her classmates, Lisa finds assist from Apu, Paul McCartney, and Linda McCartney (who additionally lends her voice). Each Paul and Linda agreed to look on “The Simpsons” below one situation, which the present fortunately obliged.
Each “The Simpsons” and “The Beatles” have a few of the most devoted fan bases in all of common tradition, so it is no shock that “Lisa, the Vegetarian” options some nuggets that these on the middle of the Simpsons/Beatles fandom Venn diagram would discover irresistible. Particularly, the episode’s finish credit have a hidden message from Paul McCartney. (Facet notice: I counsel we name the mixed Simpsons/Beatles fan base a Yellow Submarine!)
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Paul McCartney recites a recipe and playfully debunks a Beatles city legend
In the course of the episode, Paul McCartney tells Lisa that enjoying his 1970 music “Perhaps I am Amazed” backwards reveals a recipe for lentil soup. Paul discovered “The Simpsons” writing employees’s choice to poke enjoyable on the cultish Beatles followers’ conspiracy theories and the backmasking of the band’s songs to be hilarious — a lot so, this specific gag is paid off within the episode’s finish credit.
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As the tip credit on “Lisa, the Vegetarian” roll, an altered model of Paul McCartney’s “Perhaps I am Amazed” performs. When this model of the music is performed backwards, you’ll be able to hear Paul reciting a lentil soup recipe. As enjoyable as listening to him recite the recipe is, maybe the largest spotlight in uncovering this hidden message is that Paul ends with a cheeky message, “…and by the best way, I am alive,” a reference to the “Paul is lifeless” city legend, which claimed that he died in 1966 and was changed by a lookalike.
Between The Simpsons and Yellow Submarine, The Beatles have a outstanding legacy in animation
Together with 75% of the Fab 4 showing as themselves on “The Simpsons,” The Beatles have additionally appeared in one other staple in animation: “Yellow Submarine.” The 1966 movie was directed by George Dunning and featured completely different voice actors enjoying John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Moreover the movie’s music, which consisted of already-released and beforehand unreleased songs, the band’s solely contribution to the movie was showing within the movie’s live-action closing sequence.
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis spent years creating a CGI remake of “Yellow Submarine” for Disney. The movie was to be produced at ImageMovers Digital, the digital studio behind movement seize movies “A Christmas Carol” and “Mars Wants Mothers.” However after the essential and industrial failure of “Mars Wants Mothers,” Disney shut down ImageMovers Digital, and deserted “Yellow Submarine.” Regardless of pitching the challenge to different studios, Zemeckis ended his journey on the lengthy and winding street, expressing that the 1966 movie was higher off and not using a remake.
