Yellow Submarine (1968)

Lance Percival: Old Fred

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Quotes 

• Ringo : Hey, I wonder what'll happen if I pull this lever.

  Old Fred : Oh, you mustn't do that now.

  Ringo : Can't help it. I'm a born "Liver-pooler."

• Old Fred : Oh! Frankenstein!

  Ringo : Yeah, I used to go out with his sister.

  Old Fred : His sister?

  Ringo : Yeah, Phyllis.

• Old Fred : Help! Help! Help!

  Ringo : Thanks, we don't need any.

  Old Fred : Help!

  [singing] 

  Old Fred : Won't you please, please Help me?

  Ringo : Be specific.

• [after Ringo ejects himself from the submarine] 

  Paul : Poor Ringo.

  George : Poor lad.

  Paul : Never did no harm to no one.

  John : Hey, lads, now that Ringo's gone, what do we do?

  Old Fred : Learn to sing trios.

  Paul : Naw, let's save the poor devil.

• Old Fred : Hey, what would your friends be doing here?

  Ringo : Displaying.

  Old Fred : Displaying what?

  Ringo : Dis-playing around.

• Old Fred : "H" for "Hurry," "E" for "'Ergent,'" "L" for "Love me," and "P" for "P-P-P-Please help!"

• Old Fred : Now whatever you do, don't touch that button!

  Ringo : Which button?

  Old Fred : That button.

  Ringo : This button?

  [presses the button and is ejected] 

  Ringo : Aaaahhhhh!

  Old Fred : That was the panic button.

• Old Fred : You've got to steer clear.

  Ringo : Steer clear?

  Old Fred : Yes, steer. Clear?

  Ringo : Yes, dear.

• 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!

• 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.

• [being swallowed by the vacuum monster] 

  John : The motor's packing in!

  Old Fred : By all the sea nymphettes! We're losing power!

  George : We're being swallowed!

  Paul : What should we do?

  John : Serve tea?

  Paul : Lovely.

• Old Fred : [the motor has conked out]  By Neptune's knickerbockers! She's puttered out!

  George : Maybe we should call a road service?

  Paul : Can't; no road.

  Ringo : And we're not sub... scribers.

  George , Paul , John : [cringing]  Subscribers! Oh.

• 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.

• Ringo : Oh, your story has touched me heart. Jump in. We'll get me friends.

  Old Fred : Oh, bless you.

  Ringo : Did I sneeze?

• Old Fred : All right then. Let's get this vessel shipshape.

  George : I kind of like it the way it is. Submarine shape.

• 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.

• George : Hey, it's seen us!

  Old Fred : Fire the boxing button!

  Paul : Whoever heard of a "boxing button"?

  George : Who cares! Find one!

• Old Fred : Not polite to point!

• 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?

  George , Paul , John , Ringo : I've forgotten.

• Old Fred : [George tries to fix the sub's motor; receives a huge electric shock instead]  What do you think?

  George : I think I burnt me finger.

• 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?

• 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.

• Old Fred : [Ringo is driving the submarine]  You've got to steer clear!

  Ringo : Steer clear?

  Old Fred : Yes, steer. Clear?

  Ringo : Yes, steer.

• Old Fred : [parking Ringo's car]  Just park it here.

  Ringo : I'll just park it here.

• [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.