Additional Outtakes
GEORGE: I quit!
PAUL: You can’t quit, you’re fired!
GEORGE: You can’t fire me, I quit!
JOHN: I might quit, too.
RINGO: I’m just waiting to be replaced by Pete Best.
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[ The lads jam to “Happy Wanderer”. ]
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RINGO: I have a new song!
JOHN: Let’s hear it!
RINGO: [ sings at piano ]
I’d like to be
Up in a tree
In a jungle bungalow
With the apes.
PAUL: I have a few suggestions.
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[ The lads jam to “Mack the Knife”. ]
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YOKO: [ primal scream ]
JOHN: You should hear her in bed, mate.
PAUL: She’s faking it, you know.
JOHN: No.
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PAUL: I need a name that rhymes with orange.
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MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG: I’m Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
JOHN: You’re kidding, right?
MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG: No, really. That’s my name. Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
RINGO: I’ll bet that was fun at school.
MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG: I went to Choate.
GEORGE: You’re Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and you went to Choate.
MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG: Is there a problem with this?
GLYN JOHNS: Lay off him, lads.
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[ The lads jam to “The Monkees”. ]
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RINGO: In fifty years, two of you will be dead, Mick and Keith will still be alive, and millions of people will be watching us waste rehearsal time on a Walt Disney channel.
GEORGE: What?
RINGO: Sorry, I was tripping with Sellers last night.
I guess we can stop blaming Yoko for blowing up the Ruttles?
There goes Roe
Oh! Run, Stacey! RUN! she’s getting allll my pennies!
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