Fun With The Fab Four
Fun With The Fab Four is one of my favorite Beatles films. It might even surpass the almighty
First U.S. Visit in terms of the lulz. This thing is nothing but laughs from beginning to end, intentional or not.
While watching it the other day (for the first time in nearly a year!), I took some notes, as I intended to write a review. After looking over my notes, I decided that rather than write a long, rambling review explaining why I think it's so effing awesome, I'd just type up my notes. I think these alone would entice anyone to check it out. These are my actual notes. This is everything I wrote down, word for word, as I watched it. So excuse me if it seems kind of confused or confusing.
Although I'm unable to screencap different scenes to help you out, these are pretty much in the order of the film's progression. So...yeah. Print them out or some shit.
· Beatles fans are INSANE.
· "We came here...we came here..." What? To get some speech therapy?
· "I got every Beatle record at home..." Do you gnaw on them with your giant beaver teeth?
· In. Sane.
· OMG EARPLUGS! hahaha Those poor, poor guys.
· I love the screaming girl in the checked shirt that looks like she's having a seizure.
· Groucho is my effing hero. "Are you going in to listen to Beatle music?" "I'm going in to get drunk...whenever I can get a free drink I'll go anywheres."
· The dumb blonde doing the interview looks like she's taken one too many Vicodin.
· George's response to said dumb blonde is hilarious in both his tone and look. First, he looks over like "Is this bitch for real?" and his almost sing-songy, "I like the American audience" is just fabulous.
· This woman makes me want to kill myself. Is this how all female reporters/TV hosts were? God damn. And stop bobbing your head! WTF are you doing?!
· "How does that differ from your music (English)?" Because he doesn't know he's fucking English, you moron.
· AMERICAN COLORED GROUPS. HAHAHA
· I love how honest John is. "I just wanted to be rich." Awesome answer. Seriously.
· How does she expect him to respond to "How do you define a Beatle?" I mean, really. WTF kind of question is that? I hate these stupidass questions. Just punch her already.
· In...sane...
· Um...so...Bill Harry invented The Beatles' look? Wow. OK then.
· "Ladies hairdressing salon." BARRY WOM!
· Pete Best is a loser. You didn't "leave" your job. You were fired.
· "Oh heck, I was hoping you were their barber." HAHA I love that guy.
· I also love the guy who says nothing in this clip, but is sitting there looking annoyed and tapping his pencil.
· I wonder how much Pete got paid for this. He was cute, though. Damn.
· The Dutch interview in its entirety is hilarious.
· "What makes a girl good?" HAHAHAHA Is there any suitable-for-TV answer they could possibly have?
· Jimmy always makes me sad for some reason.
· I love that Paul still does the "football match" analogy to this day.
· "Will you ever go along with any changes...?" "NO." haha John.
· The "we want Paul" girls make me sad.
· "What do you expect to find here in Australia?" "Australians." Seriously, I LOL'd. It's not even the joke really, it's just his tone.
· Paul's face on the "leader" question is PRICELESS.
· I wonder if anyone picked up those fingernails Paul bit off and threw on the ground and if so, how much they sold for. Ugh.
· The MBE interview. John is fucking hot. Even with the messed up hair. Because of it?
· Seriously, Paul looks like a girl. WTF.
· Oh God, the Beatle Boycott. WHAT WOULD JESUS DO, RADIO GUY?
· LITHP. LITHP. LITHP. LITHP. LITHP.
· Um, I like the commie racist.
· "SELL 'em." AWESOME HAHA
· "THEY'AH GAWGEOUS!" hahaha
· WWJD?
· I want to be best friends with that chick with the painting. I love her voice. Everything she says is funny because of that voice. "WELL..." Oh God. I hope she got to meet him.
· Brian is awesome. I just love him.
· OMG look carefully. When they're getting off the plane, and John sees the chicks running at them, he literally does a duck and run. haha Fucking awesome. Way to leave your homeboys hanging.
· This press conference really shows how totally
awkward these things can be.
· "Good to see you sweetheart." "Is he talking to us?"
· "How do you sleep at night with it that long?" Um...apparently women don't sleep? Women had long hair at that time (and still do!), so that question is retarded. Go die.
· "You'll never get anywhere if you listen to me." haha Ringo. That kid was adorable.
· John predicts the future: "By the time he learns it they'll have machines doing it." DRUM MACHINES ARE SEXY.
· "John?" *looks up* "Pardon? Where are you?" HAHA
· John looks really affronted that they didn't get a guitar for him. haha "Where's mine?!"
· OMG HAHA This is basically a guy reading a police report of finding Paul having sex with a possibly underage girl. HOT. hahahahaha
· "One of their group with a British accent remarked they would never come back to Minneapolis..." *cough*John*cough*
· The Swedish interview about John's book. Oh God haha. The interviewer is obviously not listening to a goddamn word of their responses, and John is just AWESOME. Shit like this is why I love him.
· "In fact you are the first author from Liverpool I have ever seen." "Great."
· The lack of audio/visual synch in the Japanese interview freaks me out.
· Pyramus & Thisbe makes my life complete. This will never cease to make me LOLx1000.
· John in a dress is always hilarious.
· Paul is a nerd. Seriously. Let's stop trying too hard, Paul.
· I've never been sure if those hecklers were for real or a setup. Either way, hilarious. And the chick who keeps smacking the guy and pulling his hair. haha LOL get a grip, woman!
· "Tha-his-a-beeee" "WHA'?!"
· George = fucking awesome.
· John lifting the skirt up. JESUS HAHA.
· "Not a word, not a word."
· "SHADDUP!" Oh John. haha
· "Come trusty, uh...SWORD." hahaha OMG This makes me laugh more than it should.
· "And so farewell friends, thus Thisbe ends..." Everytime I see this I have that last line stuck in my head for days.
· I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER. GOD. DAMMIT.
