The Beatles: Get Back has filled a giant hole in the history of The Beatles. This era in the band's run has long been rumored about, but nobody completely knew the whole story. However, these eight hours of unearthed footage reveal everything from the band's crumbling relationships to their daily eating habits.
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Because of the broad range of topics the documentary covers, there are so many more memes than the usual "Yoko broke up The Beatles" affair. Between Ringo just being happy to be there, George constantly sitting on the fence, and the band's love of toast, The Beatles: Get Back has become the most meme-able documentary ever.
The 8+ hour documentary shows The Beatles as the band works on their final album, Let It Be. But while it's their final album, it isn't actually the final album they recorded. The final album they made was Abbey Road, which "Octopus's Garden" features on, and the documentary sees Ringo Starr working on it in its early stages.
What the meme hilariously depicts is the way that Ringo happily tinkers away on a song while the band emotionally breaks down in the background. John and Paul fight over the power they have over the band, and Ringo's just sitting there, making daydreamy songs about octopuses.
There are loads of great documentaries about the music industry, but few have given such great insight into bands' dietary requirements. It seemed as though during this period in time, the band was living exclusively off marmalade and toast. They aren't seen eating anything other than that, and the documentary chronicles their lives over a period of one month.
This meme brilliantly shows just how much of a diplomat Geoge Harrison is. One of the best moments of the documentary sees George playing the band a new song, "I Me Mine." He follows the song by saying that it could work on the new album, but if the band doesn't want to use it, then that's fine too. And that same approach is perfectly applied to his toast request.
As all of the members of the band have so many infamous quotes that are all full of wisdom, there's a lack of memorable life lessons coming from Ringo. But there's one quote from the documentary that sticks out, even more than any meaningful monologue about struggle or creative differences from John or Paul.
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Ringo speaks the least in the documentary, and it isn't even close, as he quietly sits there on his stool ready to play the drums on demand. But at one point in the documentary, the drummer announces to the room, "I've farted," using the Queen's English in the way that only a Beatle member would.
As the documentary has been so popular, it has been all any fan can talk about online, which has led one to use the classic Harry Potter meme. And in an insult to Ringo, the drummer has been completely neglected. But Ringo being the worst member of the band has been a running gag for decades. John Lennon even once said that Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles, which has become a meme itself, as seen on StareCat.com.
Though it's funny, it should have been a Lord of the Rings meme. There's a long history between the LotR series and the Beatles. And it's ironic because, as Peter Jackson directed the new documentary, he also directed The Lord of the Rings movies, and at one point in time, The Beatles were set to star in Stanley Kubrick's unproduced Lord of the Rings.
This meme brilliantly insinuates that anybody who has had Get Back on a loop since it was released on Disney+ has some deep emotional problems. The joke stems from the fact that the documentary isn't simply about the making of an album, but it's about the falling out of lifelong friends.
A lot of the eight hours are spent with the band arguing, telling each other what to do, and members simply looking depressed. But as the documentary also ends optimistically and there are all of these wonderful songs throughout, the show could also be used as some kind of coping mechanism.
There are so many Beatles documentaries, but none of them have depicted the band in such an honest and raw way that Get Back does. And with no filter, showing the warts-and-all process of four men who are drifting apart yet have to record an album together, it's a surprisingly emotional experience.
The humor of the meme mostly stems from the fact that George is one of the least emotional fictional characters that exist, and even when his fiancee died in Seinfeld, he showed no remorse whatsoever. But when he sees the four members of The Beatles, who are considered some of the greatest musicians who ever lived, he can't help but get teary-eyed.
Of all the thousands of facts that have been unearthed about the band since their break-up, there were a surprising amount of new facts fans learned from watching The Beatles: Get Back. However, one thing every Beatles fan knew from this era is that George left the recording studio and briefly quit the band.
But as the meme points out, that didn't stop those very fans from being shocked when it happens. It's surprising what happens at the end of the first episode because of the way George says, "I think I'll be leaving the band now," in such a cavalier way. And it's so upsetting too.
After George leaves the band, the remaining members are in disarray, but they end up messing around like kids on a playground. In one ridiculous moment, Paul McCartney even starts swinging on a bit of scaffolding in the first studio.
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Though the meme is funny, it's a fascinating moment in the documentary, as it leaves viewers to assume the roles of psychologists and attempt to understand what's going on in their heads. They're clearly trying to show that they aren't affected by the loss of George, but at the end of the day, the recording process comes to a crashing halt.
There are some classic uses of Beatles' music in movies, but when listening to them, most people wouldn't know that there's probably more than just the fab four who have worked on it. In the second episode, keyboardist Billy Preston arrives at the studio to simply catch up with his old friends, but he's quickly inducted into the Beatles by John Lennon.
The meme perfectly points out how informal and random the whole agreement was. Preston didn't just contribute to a song, but he played on every track of the album, and he even performed with them on the rooftop.
The Beatles had two behind-closed-doors meetings after George left the band, and as in-depth as the documentary is, nobody knows what was said at those meetings. But regardless, whatever Paul, John, and Ringo said to George, they managed to convince him to return to the band.
However, this meme revises history in the best way, by showing George being dragged back to the studio against his will by Paul. The documentary depicts Paul McCartney as the "frontman" of the band, or as close to that as possible. And part of the reason George was unhappy was because of the dictatorship-like way Paul was running the sessions.
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