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• Comic Book Adaptation: Gold Key's adaptation e follows the basic premise of the film—the Blue Meanies attacking Pepperland—but it changes the entire continuity. A more faithful adaptation was planned in the late 90s after the movie was re-released on DVD but Apple (the Beatles' corporate entity) nixed it.
• Cut Song: "Hey Bulldog" ended up being cut (at least from US prints - it was included in BBC screenings) and was only released on the soundtrack album, despite being insanely good. The song was added back for the 30th anniversary version of the film, and all subsequent releases.
• Development Hell: The remake by Robert Zemeckis, due to his previous film's poor performance, is basically dead.
• Hey, It's That Guy! Voice!: Keeping Up Appearances's Geoffrey Hughes as Paul.
  • Max's French voice actor (from the '99 dubbing) is Cartman.
  • Almost every person who appears in the "Eleanor Rigby" sequence was a member of the production staff. (The guy with the dog is the exception -- he was the proprietor of their favorite pub.)
• Media Research Failure: It's quite amazing how many people think that the Beatles are living in London during the film's early stages -- even though Ringo's first line is about how Liverpool can sometimes be a lonely place -- with the word "LIVERPOOL" scrawled on the wall behind him.
• Money, Dear Boy: This movie was made solely because the Beatles were contractually obligated to make a third movie. They learned belatedly that, since this was an animated movie that did not quite star them, it didn't count. They did like it enough to make a short cameo appearance, though.
• The Other Darrin: Peter Batten, the one-time actor who voiced George, was in reality a deserter from the British Army, unbeknownst to the staff of the movie. When he was arrested for deserting, Paul Angelis, the voice of Ringo and the Chief Blue Meanie, stepped in to finish the rest of George's lines.
• Vindicated by History: Released near the peak of Beatlemania, Yellow Submarine was nevertheless compared unfavorably to other cartoons of the period, especially Disney product. It took a few decades for the film to eventually gain its tremendous fanbase.