Yellow Submarine (1968)
Lance Percival: Old Fred
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Quotes
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Old Fred : "H" for "Hurry," "E" for "'Ergent,'" "L" for "Love me," and "P" for "P-P-P-Please help!"
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Old Fred : [after they have all been turned into much younger versions of themselves] Now I don't mean to alarm you, mates, but the years are going backwards.
George : What does that mean, Old Fred?
Old Fred : It means that if we slip back through time at this rate, pretty soon we'll all disappear up our own existance!
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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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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 : 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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Old Fred : Not polite to point!
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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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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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Lord Mayor : Four scores and 32 bars ago, our four fathers
Old Fred : A quartet?
Lord Mayor : And four mothers
Old Fred : Another quartet?
Lord Mayor : Made their way in this yellow submarine.
Old Fred : What, that little thing?
Lord Mayor : To Pepperland.
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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.