Someone asked me to compile a list of Beatles references on the Simpsons.  Well I didn't have to, there's one at http://www.snpp.com  Here it is for all those interested.

Season 2

*   [7F04] The opening sequence includes a Paul McCartney gravestone (parodying the 60s 'Paul is Dead' rumours)
*   [7F05] Marge is advising Bart on peace and love stuff, Homer interrupts saying "Enough of all that Maharishi Gandhi stuff" {sc}
*   [7F12] Reverend Lovejoy's call for a public burning of "Krusty related merchandise" echoes the church's reaction to John Lennon's 'Bigger than Jesus' comments in 1966 and the subsequent destruction of 'Beatle Trash' {vc}
*   [7F15] Patty and Selma's co workers Stanley and Martha Peterson's wedding vows include two lines from 'Martha My Dear' {kb,lg}
*   [7F18]
1.   Bart: 'Hey, who's the Mop-Top with the big Schnozz?!'
2.   Marge had a schoolgirl crush on Ringo ('a likely story' notes Homer jealously).
3.   Richard Starkey (MBE) guest-stars. He lives 'somewhere in England' seemingly in a castle(!) still answering his mid-60s fan mail with a butler named Weatherby. His favourite colour is blue and he is partial to 'tea and crumpets' (aren't we all?)
4.   Ringo replies to Marge's letter (sent 1966) and confirms we have 'French Fries' in England (but we call them 'chips'). He thinks her portrait is 'Gear'!
5.   Ringo's 'It Don't Come Easy' is featured.
6.   Monty Burns remembers the Beatles "off-key caterwalling on the old Sullivan Show".

Season 3

*   [8F05] Krusty's office wall contains a photo of Krusty with the Beatles c. 1964; At the Simpsons house, Krusty finds a video-tape of George's 'Concert for Bangladesh'
*   [8F06] An orchestral version of 'Golden Slumbers' accompanies a Homer dream sequence. {dc} This sequence is repeated in [9F17] but with a different soundtrack.
*   [8F11] Vince Chan suggests that Janey's skipping song my be a reference to 'Come Together' ("One and One and Three is Five...")
*   [8F19] After Lureen singed "Finally Bagged Me a Homer" in the studio, the producer says "There's some kind of grinding noise on the track" (Marge, grinding her teeth). This may be an oblique reference to the 'You're Gonna Lose That Girl' sequence in 'Help!' ("Boys, are you buzzing?!") {pa}
*   [8F21] Homer's version of 'Spanish Flea' includes a lyric concerning the Beatles.
Season 4

*   [9F15] Lisa's dentist dream sequence turns into a missing scene from the Yellow Submarine film ("Look, it's Lisa in the sky", "No diamonds though").
Season 5

*   [9F21]
1.   Marge's portrait of Ringo [7F18] is on her swapmeet stall.
2.   'Meet the Be Sharps' LP cover is a parody of 'With the Beatles' (The American edition was, of course, 'Meet the Beatles')
3.   Moe's Cavern!
4.   The sacking of Wiggum and the 'anti-Barney' protests echo the sacking of Pete Best, and his replacement with Ringo in 1962
5.   After recording 'Baby on Board' Nigel says "Gentlemen you have just recorded your first number 1" - allegedly what George Martin said after the Beatles recorded 'Please Please Me'
6.   Nigel getting Homer to keep his marriage a secret echoes Brian Epstein's similar instructions to John Lennon.
7.   The JFK Airport and Press Conference scenes are directly lifted from the Beatles arrival in America in February 1964 (even down to Barney/Ringo combining his hair!)
8.   Homer: "Then came the greatest moment of my life"
George: "Hello Homer, I'm George Harrison"
Homer: "Oh my God! Where did you get that Brownie?!"
9.   The Be Sharps merchandising - lunch boxes, mugs, (poisonous) funny foam (cf. the 60s Beatles merchandising craze).
10.   Bart: "What did you do, screw up like the Beatles and say you were bigger than Jesus?"
Homer: "All the time. It was the title of our second album!"
11.   The 'Bigger than Jesus' cover parodies 'Abbey Road'
12.   The 'Meet the Be Sharps' back cover parodies the back cover of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'.
13.   Peter Vesuwalla suggests Homer getting the idea for 'Baby on Board' from a car sign may refer to John gaining inspiration for 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite' from a poster.
14.   A parody of the infamous 'Get Back' session photo of the Beatles looking sick and glum.
15.   Barney's new girlfriend "the Japanese conceptual artist".
16.   "Number 8"!
17.   The rooftop reunion at Moe's, an (uncannily accurate) parody of the rooftop gig in 'Let it Be'
18.   George: 'It's been done!'
19.   Homer: "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group, and I hope we've passed the audition!"
20.   The shortening (almost) of Apu's name (ala Ringo).
21.   The chorus of 'The Surgeon General Song' could be a reference to 'I Am the Walrus' suggests 'Zed'.
*   [1F14] Homer & Ned visit the 'Helter Shelter'
*   [1F16] Deprogrammer: "My greatest achievement was getting Paul McCartney out of Wings."
Homer: "You idiot! He was the most talented one!"
*   [1F18] Joe Cocker's cover of 'With a Little Help From My Friends' accompanies the 'Wonder Years'/ home-movie opening sequence {dh}
Season 6

*   [1F22] Springfield waxworks contained an exhibit of the Beatles as they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Unfortunately, they've melted in the heatwave.
*   [2F02] Lisa describes Sideshow Bob as 'Ringo to his [Birge Barlow's] rest of the Beatles'
*   [2F06] One of the corrections 'Rock Bottom' offers is "The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick-boxing competitions"
*   [2F14] Barney smokes a cigar without removing the wrapper, and sees "Sgt. Pepper" growing out of Homer's back.
*   [2F22] The wig Bart wears when infiltrating the Shelbyville gang: "makes him look a lot like one of the Beatles"
Season 7

*   [2F20] The DNA database includes the names of Paul, George and Ringo. {kb}
*   [3F03]
1.   Paul and Linda McCartney guest star ('I read about you in history class!')
2.   Apu performs 'Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band' on the tabla.
3.   Apu's claim to be "the fifth Bee-atle" (a 'Help' film reference) cannot entirely be discounted.
4.   The 'Maharishi Period' is mentioned (see [7F05])
5.   Paul *isn't* dead, apparently! (see [7F04])
6.   "She's Leaving Home?"!
7.   Homer looks in an ancient pram in front of a brick-wall, drawn from the imagery of the European cinema trailer for 'A Hard Days Night'. [most obscure reference yet?!]
8.   Linda mentions "Apu's garden in the shade".
9.   'Maybe I'm Amazed' plays over the credits with references to backward messages (sadly *not* "We'll f**k you like a superman" - this *is* a family show after all)
*   [3F10] The Lovejoys' and Flanders' bowling team is called, "Holy Rollers", clearly inspired by the lyrics of "Come Together". {em}
*   [3F09] The Ringo portrait [7F18] is seen.
*   [3F15] A picture of Ringo Starr appears at Pimento Grove (where Troy McClure takes Selma for dinner) {bg}
Season 8

*   [4F02] The Ringo portrait from 7F18 is seen again {bg}.
*   [4F06] The opening 'couchgag' is a parody of the 'Sgt. Pepper's' LP cover {ah}. The opening music segues into the closing A-chord from 'A Day in the Life' {kb}. The entire sequence seems to have been influenced by the opening to the 1987 British South Bank Show documentary 'The Making of Sgt. Pepper' which featured an animatation of the LP cover.
*   [3F24] During Homer's 'trip' Jasper (almost) quotes from 'I Am the Walrus' (Not quite 'Goo Goo Goo Joob', but close enough);
Several viewers have suggested that Barney Gumble's echoing belch when Homer is hallucinating may be a reference to the final chord in 'A Day in the Life';
The pyramid-thing that Homer climbs to see the coyote/fox looks exactly like the one Old Fred had to climb in "Yellow Submarine" {em};
I had a fascinating email from Ken Furphy who suggests that this entire episode is filled with allusions to the Beatles work of the late 60s - citing dozens of examples including the wax that Homer eats being a reference to the waxwork figures on the Sgt. Pepper cover. "The entire theme" Ken writes "of Homer's search for a meaning to life beginning in 'Pepperland' and ending in the harmony of marriage is a clear reference to the course that John and Paul's lives took in the years 1967-1970". I'm not sure I agree with a lot of Ken's assumptions, but it's an interesting take on the episode.
Season 9

*   [5F01] The man behind Sideshow Mel and Moe at the football game is Charlie, Homer's coworker at the nuclear plant. This has nothing to do with the Beatles, though it said so here before.
*   [5F09] The episode is dedicated to Linda McCartney, who passed away prior to its airing.
Season 10

*   [AABF02] The psychodelic song over the credits has references to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (drumming) and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' (Homer says 'I buried Flanders').
*   [AABF16] When Bart turns the senior citizens loose, they re-enact the "Can't Buy Me Love" field sequence from A Hard Days Night. Also, on the end titles an album cover that looks suspiciously like the A Hard Day's Night LP cover is seen, with 4 moptop haircuts and the title "A Bart Day's Night" {dct}
*   [AABF17] Episode title 'Monty Can't Buy Me Love'.
Season 11

*   [BABF07] A mop falls on Lisa's head. Wiggum sees her and says "Yeah, right, mop top, and I'm Ed Sullivan."
*   [BABF19] 'Twist and Shout' plays over footage of fan hysteria over the sudden success of The Simpsons (not the Beatles' version of Twist and Shout, though).
Season 12

*   [CABF04] Bart's chalkboard punishment: "I am not the sixth Beatle".
*   [CABF12] The Beatles are shown in their Sgt. Pepper outfits attacking a dummy, as a way to get teenagers into the army.
*   [CABF17] In the background at the Delaware train station there's a sign that says "20 IF". This, of course, refers to the Abbey Road cover, where a license plate supposedly says "28 IF" (it's actually "281F") and that's interpreted to mean that Paul McCartney would have been 28 years old if he'd been alive, a theory that conveniently forgets the fact that McCartney was 27 when Abbey Road was recorded and released.
Season 13

*   [CABF18] The episode is dedicated to George Harrison, who passed away prior to its airing.
*   [DABF03] Springfield promotes itself as "birthplace of the Beatles".
Season 14

*   [EABF03] Homer asks Lisa if his favorite Traveling Wilbury is Jeff Lynne. In addition to George Harrison being one of the Traveling Wilburys, Lynne was the producer of the two Beatles "reunion" singles, 'Free as a Bird' and 'Real Love'.
*   [EABF16] Ned Flanders has all sorts of Beatles merchandise: dolls, signed posters, Ed Sullivan Show suits, "Learn carpentry with the Beatles" book, lunchboxes, mugs, a yellow submarine, novelty beverages (John Lemon, Orange Harrison, Paul McIcedTea and Mango Starr) and framed album covers, among many others. Bart drinks one of the 40-year-old cans and hallucinates, seeing Milhouse as John Lennon in different stages of his life: 1963 "mop top", 1967 (complete with green Sgt. Pepper outfit), 1969 (as seen in "Let It Be") and 1980 (parodying a scene from his last photo session).
Season 15

*   [EABF20] In England, Homer says "our Beatles are better than your Rolling Stones".
*   [FABF06] Title "Margical History Tour" refers to "Magical Mystery Tour".
*   [FABF11] Bart refers to his prank as "this is my Sgt. Pepper".

It was also suggested to me by one of my fellow Simpsonites from the list that in Grift of the Magi, when Homer invites Gary Coleman back to the house for Christmas dinner, that whole sequence was supposed to be a Yellow Submarine.  It was also brought to my attention that in an interview once, a few years ago perhaps I'm not sure, that Matt Groening was asked about all the Beatles references in the Simpsons, and he replied by saying they try to fit at least one in every episode if at all possible.

Enjoy!

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks Strutter!!

By the way... it was me who asked

wow, I didn't know there were that many references!! Thanks for the list strutter

Wow...very nice. hehe.  Anyone take the time to count up how many times the beatles have been referenced?

Well, me and my fellow Simpsons listers are working on digging up more now.  We're sure there's more than that, since Mr. Groening himself said there's one in every episode.  Don't quite know about the recent crap years though.  However if I come up with more I'll post them.

So how big a fan IS Groening? Has he gone on record about why there are SO many references?

Matt Groening  seems to like the Beatles... a lot!
All I know about him is that he used to be a rock critic for a LA newspaper before he started the whole Simpsons thing, I guess that's why there are so many references not only from the Beatles, but from many other musicians as well

I love the Simpsons. I love it when they use Beatles references. My favourite is the episode where Homer was in a barber shop quartet. It's just jammed packed with so many Beatles references. Even when they show Homer, Apu, Seymour, Barney and Barney's japanese girlfriend sitting in the recording studio it's an exact replica of a picture I saw of John, Paul, George, Ringo and Yoko.

I also like the one where Lisa becomes a vegetarian and meets Paul and Linda in the garden on the roof of the Kwik-E-Mart. Linda says they like to come to "Apu's garden in the shade." a reference to Octopus's Garden. And I loved it when Paul said if you play Maybe I'm Amazed backwards you get a recipe for a real rippen lentil soup.

I don't think there's one in every episode but there are tons of them to be sure.

And of course they never let on what state Springfield is in either.

And they kid about having 5 fingers being a mutant way to be.

Great show.

Quoted from misterchaz, posted April 29, 2004, 7:21pm at here

And of course they never let on what state Springfield is in either.

I think that is the "Paul is dead" of the Simpson world!!!!!

Hmmm...Simpsons.... well it is a show that does pass the time somewhat... It's not too bad when nothing else is on...But I don't think its as great as everyone else says it is.

Quoted from Ssarah, posted April 30, 2004, 2:57pm at here

Hmmm...Simpsons.... well it is a show that does pass the time somewhat... It's not too bad when nothing else is on...But I don't think its as great as everyone else says it is.

Possiby because you're too young to get all the cultural references that tend to belong to the baby boomer generations.

watch chucky don't send you a virus.........

Now now I was making a valid point.  I still have to explain things to my kids.  If you weren't around how would you know?

Unfortunately, I've been around.

Does anyone know if the BBC and ITV still have old t.v shows in their archives, or are they all wiped? e.g has anyone ever seen the Frost show where John and George discuss T.M? what would i give to see the whole show! if they showed a clip on the anthology, surely they have the whole show?

I recently realized that the Simpsons had tons of Beatle references! Now I'm looking for them in evey episode! My favorite (besides the whole barber shop quartet episode) has to be when the Simpsons were over in England and Homer yells out, "Our Beatles are better than your Rolling Stones!" It just cracked me up.

There's the one which Paul and Linda appears themselves and talk to Apu. He told to Lisa that he meet Paul in India and he was called the fifth beatle them. He also sings (or tries to sing) a version of Sgt. Pepper.

I love the Simpsons. I love it when they use Beatles references. My favourite is the episode where Homer was in a barber shop quartet. It's just jammed packed with so many Beatles references. Even when they show Homer, Apu, Seymour, Barney and Barney's japanese girlfriend sitting in the recording studio it's an exact replica of a picture I saw of John, Paul, George, Ringo and Yoko.

I also like the one where Lisa becomes a vegetarian and meets Paul and Linda in the garden on the roof of the Kwik-E-Mart. Linda says they like to come to "Apu's garden in the shade." a reference to Octopus's Garden. And I loved it when Paul said if you play Maybe I'm Amazed backwards you get a recipe for a real rippen lentil soup.

I saw the episode were Homar was in a barbeshop cortet. There were so many refernces in that one.

LOL! Yeah, the Be-Sharpes! I love that episode!

Anyone have any quotes from it? I remember Bart saying something like; "so what happened, did you get big-headed and say you were bigger than Jesus or something?", then Homer says, "No, in fact that was the name of our next album!"

On last Sunday's episode, Bart gets in trouble for mooning the flag. He then goes on a talk show to defend himself and in the course of the interview the interviewer gets him to say that Springfield is better than Jesus. (or something like that) I wonder if that counts as a reference. 

Nobody has said anything about my fav. Beatles episode ever, when Ringo is on.

"Dear Marge, thanks so much for the fab picture of Yours Truely. To answer your question, yes we do have hamburgers and french fries in England but we call fries, chips.

Love,
Ringo Starr

Ps. Forgive the lateness of my reply"

Or something like that (that just came from memory so I dono). I love Ringo sitting there answering letters from the 60s. Its classic.
http://www.duffzone.co.uk/framegrabs/7f18/02192002192056.jpg

I've seen the barbershop episode, but I can't remember cause its been so long ago. And I don't think I've ever seen the episode with Paul when Lisa becomes a vegitarian...I'll have to look out for that one.

Season 11 of the Simpsons: BABF01 (Treehouse of Horror X)
A global "Y2K" meltdown destroys earth after Homer neglects to debug the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's computers. A rocket is headed to Mars and a lot of stars go aboard. Including Paul McCartney! (he didn't say anything...)


'The Sweetest Apu' (DABF14), Apu looks through his records and says "Shankar.....Shankar.....Shankar.....ah! Here we go!" and he pulls out a record named the Concert Against Bangladesh.

In one of the couch scenes, The Simpsons plus many of the townspeople recreate the Sgt Pepper cover.

BABF05 (Take My Wife, Sleaze): The Simpsons go to a 50's diner that has newspapers from the 50's on the walls. One of the larger headlines is "BEATLES FORMED!"

Another one in CABF12 (New Kids On The Blecch): Homer says this "...they're just nonsense words, like 'rama lama ding dong', or give peace a chance."

In 'Treehouse of Horror VI' (1F04): The Devil appears in Flanders-form, and confesses that his deep-down eternally-long secret was to be one of the Beatles.

'Last Tap Dance In Springfield' (BABF15): In the beginning of the episode that Lisa is taught by Little Vicky to become a tap dancer, Homer is at the eye doctors. He looks at glasses and the lady says, "This one is very popular with celebrities, such as Jim Morrison and Yoko Ono." Homer says, "Ewww, she totally ruined the Plastic Ono Band!"

'Bart vs Lisa vs 3rd grade' (DABF20): Principal Skinner had a group of rappers at the school, rapping about the importance of safety, and when they were done the principal said, "Wow, watch out, Beatles!".

'Special Edna' (EABF02): Little Richard is hosting the Teacher of the Year awards. Right when he is about to announce the winner, he says, "I'm a teacher too. I taught Paul McCartney to go OOOOOOOOH!"

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Another one in CABF12 (New Kids On The Blecch): Homer says this "...they're just nonsense words, like 'rama lama ding dong', or give peace a chance."

That's funny. I love that show.

After Homer's Barbershop Quartet, I really liked the Yellow Submarine parody in Last Exit to Springfield, as it was so well animated....

What hasn't been mentioned yet is the "Bart of War" episode from slightly over a year ago....at the start of the ep, Milhouse and Bart break into Flander's house and go into a secret room that has a ton of Beatles memorabillia.

"I didn't know you were so into the Beatles"

Flanders: "Of course I was! They were bigger than Jesus"

And then Milhouse and Bart drank some old Beatle drink and started hallucinating. Bart saw Millhouse as John changing from Mop Top to Hippie.

my favorite reference is in the boy band episode, when lisa questions Homer about the meaning of "Eva Net Niage" and Homer replies, "There meaningless, like 'rama lama ding-dong' or Give Peace a Chance"
The one with Flanders Beatle obsession is good too.

7F05: 'People stop and scream hello in... Capital City.' (Penny Lane: And all the people that come and go, stop and say ‘Hello’.)
It was a song.

BABF18: A young woman named Becky temporarily moves in with the family. Marge become paranoid and starts to suspect that Becky is trying to kill her and steal her family away so she attacks her. She goes on trial for this. One of the judges tries to establish whether she is unstable by asking, "Did you ever have an unhealthy fixation on Ringo Starr?"

BABF01 (yep, I have more info on that episode): Paul McCartney is in the line for the ship headed to "Second Earth" after the earth fails, because Homer screws up Y2K. George and Ringo are on the Suicide rocket. Also, Rev. Lovejoy says, "The earth wouldn't blow up if God liked your miniskirts and Beatle boots!" To which Flanders remarks, "Dang-diddly-ang that John Lennon!"

what is a 'Beatle Boot'

By the way, the title of episode F54546 in Season 14 is Helter Shelter

Quoted from Herecomesyoursun, posted July 6, 2004, 12:57am at here

By the way, the title of episode F54546 in Season 14 is Helter Shelter

Wuzzuh, wuh? Are you trying to mess with us Simpsons nerds? 

Quoted from Herecomesyoursun, posted July 6, 2004, 12:49am at here

what is a 'Beatle Boot'

That's the name 'someone' gave for the Beatles' shoes.

Here's a site that contains Beatles references found on t.v, in movies, advertising, etc. It's kinda cool! I like the Ferris Bueller one!

http://classicrock.about.com/g.....rter%2Feveryday.html

I saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off, great movie...I liked it when Ferris sang (or danced on) Twist and Shout. Even his father does the twist...lol!

I like 'That Thing You Do! too...it has a lot of references in it.
"Come on, Ringo . You shoulda been on five minutes ago."

'I Am Sam' is very touching...and (yes!) more beatles references.
"Daddy, are there long-haired boys, and if there are, what are they called?"
"The Beatles."

Great site Maccalvr.  Lots of fun.