Yellow Submarine (1968)
Paul Angelis: Ringo Starr, Chief Blue Meanie, George, Narrator
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Quotes
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Ringo : Liverpool can be a lonely place on a Saturday night, and this is only Thursday morning.
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Narrator : Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland. 80,000 leagues beneath the sea it lay, or lie. I'm not too sure.
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Chief Meanie : Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe. It must be scratched. Right, Max?
Max : Yes, your Blueness.
Chief Meanie : WHAT? We Meanies only take "no" for an answer! Is that understood, Max?
Max : No, Your Blueness!
Chief Meanie : That's better!
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Chief Meanie : A thing of beauty; destroy it forever!
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Ringo : Move over, I'm driving.
George : No, I got here first.
Ringo : We'll drive if you like.
George : No, you sit in the middle.
John : No, I'm sitting in the middle.
George : Who said you were driving?
Ringo : I am driving.
George : I'll get in the back, then.
[they drive off camera]
George : [Crash!]
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George : Ok, men all aboard. Lets go somewhere.
Ringo : [Indicating Jeremy] What about him?
John : He's happy enough going around in circles.
Ringo : Aw, poor little fellow.
Paul : I don't know. Ringo's just a sentamentalist.
Ringo : Aw, look at him. Can't he come with us?
[he goes over to Jeremy]
Ringo : Hey, Mr Boob! You can come with us if you like.
Jeremy : You mean you'd take a nowhere man?
Ringo : Yeah, come on. We'll take you somewhere.
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[Jeremy is cornered by the Chief Meanie]
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : He does, in truth, seem quite annoyed. Some reference material be-be-before I'm destroyed!
[reading]
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : "Where ground is soft most often grows, arise! Arise! Arouse! A rose!
[a rose sprouts on the Chief Meanie's nose]
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : A rosy nose?
Chief Meanie : Speak your last piece!
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : Peace! Peace! Supplant the doom and the gloom! Turn off what is sour! Turn into a flower and bloom! Bloom! Bloom!
[roses sprout all over the Chief Meanie]
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Chief Blue Meanie : Hee, hee hee hee hee! Oh, I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii.
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Chief Meanie : Ah, the hills are alive...
Max : [sings] ... with the sound of music!
Chief Meanie : [Punches Max] Who did it? Who is responsible for this?
Max : Rimsky-Korsakov?
[Chief Meanie shoots him, Blue Menial #3 stomps him into ground]
Max : [Poking his head up from ground] Guy Lombardo?
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John : Hello, there, blue people! Won't you join us? Hook up, and otherwise co-mingle? What do you say?
Chief Meanie : Max.
Max : Your Blue-, uh, I mean, er, Your Newness?
Chief Meanie : It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?
Max : Argentina?
John : Are you with us? Will you join?
Chief Meanie : Shall we?
Max : [nodding] No!
Chief Meanie : [threatening] Aargh!
Max : [hastily] N-n-y-y-y-y-Yes, Your Newness!
Chief Meanie : Yes, Max!
Jeremy : Yes! Ah, yes is a word with a glorious ring! A true universal utopious thing! Engenders embracing and chasing of blues, the very best word for the whole world to use!
Chief Meanie : Yes, let us mix, Max. I've never admitted it before, but my cousin is the bluebird of happiness!
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John : [Frankenstein's monster has turned into John Lennon] Hey, Ringo, I've just had the strangest dream.
Ringo : I warned you not to eat on an empty stomach. Now listen to Old Fred.
Old Fred : [speaking gibberish] Submarine! Explosions! Blue Meanies!
[calmer]
Old Fred : What do you think?
John : [to Ringo] I think he needs a rehearsal.
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Chief Meanie : Go, glove! Point, and having pointed, pounce!
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Paul : Groovy! How do you start this thing?
Old Fred : It starts with a Blue Meanie attack.
John : Well, supposing there are no Blue Meanies in the neighbourhood?
Old Fred : Oh, er, well, then you, um, start looking for a switch.
Ringo : [Ringo pushes a button that starts playing the first few notes of the song "All Together Now"] Perhaps this is it.
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Ringo : Hey, would you believe me if I told you I was being followed by a yellow submarine?
Police Officer : Um, uh, no. No, I would not.
Ringo : I, uh, didn't think you would. I could've sworn it was a yellow submarine. But that isn't logical now, is it? It must've been one of them "Unidentified Flying Cupcakes". One of the figments of me imagination. But I don't have an imagination.
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Chief Blue Meanie : [as Blue Minions are routed] You're advancing the wrong way! Retreat backwards!
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Ringo : George, what are you doing up there?
George : [driving in Ringo's car] Now, what is it, Ringo? Is there a matter you'd like to take up or down?
Ringo : [indicating Fred] This chap, here.
Old Fred : [crazy gibberish] Submarines! Explosions!
Ringo , Old Fred , John : Blue Meanies!
George : Aww, you're nuts, the pair of you.
[drives off]
Ringo : Hey, that's my car, lad.
George : How do you know it's your car, lad?
Ringo : I know it anywhere. Red with yellow wheels.
[the car changes colors]
Ringo : I mean blue with orange wheels.
[the car changes colors again]
George : It's all in the mind.
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Ringo : Nothing ever happens to me. I'd jump in the River Mersey but it looks like rain.
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Chief Meanie : My dear friend let us not forget that heaven is blue.
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Chief Meanie : Ah, here you are my glovey-dovey. Go get thee hence, and destroy yon upstarts. Smash them, squash them, crush them! O-blue-terate them!
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Chief Meanie : What, what, what! The glove is losing his touch!
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Old Fred : Well, lads, what do you think?
George : I think that...
Old Fred : Remember, there'll be rough seas ahead! What do you think?
Paul : Well, um...
Old Fred : Pounding overwhelming waves! What do you think of that, eh?
John : Well, I think that...
Ringo : As a matter of fact, I think that...
George , Paul , John , Ringo : I think...
Old Fred : Well?
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Ringo : [singing] And the band begins to play. We all live in a Yellow Submarine. Yellow Submarine. Yellow Submarine.
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Chief Meanie : Are the troops in readiness?
Max : No, Your Blueness!
Chief Meanie : The bonkers?
Max : Nope!
Chief Meanie : Clowns?
Max : No!
Chief Meanie : Snapping Turks?
Max : No!
Chief Meanie : Anti music missiles?
Max : No!
Chief Meanie : The Dreadful Flying Glove?
Max : No!
Chief Meanie : Splendid! Today Pepperland goes blue-y!
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Chief Meanie : [confronting Jeremy] I think I'll tear him up into little pieces.
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : Oh, he does, does he?
Chief Meanie : Yes, I think I'll make a blue burger out of him.
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : I don't care what you think.
[tries to leave, but the Chief Meanie grabs him]
Chief Meanie : Oh, you don't, eh? We'll soon see about that!
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Old Fred : Now, whatever you do don't touch that button.
Ringo : Which button?
Old Fred : That one.
Ringo : This one?
[Ringo presses the button and is ejected from the submarine, ending up on a creature that gallops away.]
Old Fred : Oops, that was the panic button.
Paul : Poor Ringo.
George : Poor lad, never did no harm to no one.
John : Hey lads, now that Ringo's gone, what are we gonna do?
Old Fred : Learn to sing trios?
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[repeated line]
Ringo : I've got a hole in me pocket.
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Ringo : [seeing Jeremy captured by the Blue Meanies] Jeremy! Can it be you?
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : Can it be me? I think you had better inquire of the guards, for when I was captured, they took all my cards.
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Paul : Gosh, look at all this dust.
[Paul picks some of the dust up]
George : Where does it come from?
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : A chemical error, I'm quite imprecise. This is a condiment...
Ringo : Condi...
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD. : ...a spice
Ringo : Ohh. He's right, ya know. It's a pepper.
Paul : Pepper?
[John blows the dust off Paul's hand]
John : Pepper.
Ringo : ACHOO!
George : ACHOO!
Headland Heads : AAA... .AAACHOO!
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Ringo : [sadly] I want me mom.
[Blows his nose]
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Chief Meanie : Tomorrow the world!
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Chief Meanie : Let us not forget that Heaven is blue.
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[the Beatles just saw duplicates of themselves in a second yellow submarine]
George : Maybe we're both part of a vast yellow submarine fleet.
Ringo : There's only two of us.
John : Well, then, I would suggest that yonder yellow submarine is none other than ourselves...
Old Fred : Going backwards.
John : In time.
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Chief Meanie : FIRE!