The Funniest Memes and Tweets about The Beatles: Get Back
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What do you do when a nine-hour documentary about the world’s most documented rock band just kind of hanging out over a half century ago becomes the biggest pop culture event of a long holiday weekend? Well, you make fun of it, obviously. Not out of malice or derision or condescension, but because of the sheer weirdness of the whole thing. Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back packs a few revealing glimpses into the collapse of the Beatles’ personal and professional relationship into a marathon of mundane ephemera. If you’ve ever been in a band you know how soul-deadening it can be to make a record—it’s like 90% sitting around, just waiting—and Get Back captures the absolute boredom of that experience better than anything else I’ve ever seen. Good job, Jackson: you’ve turned boring the hell out of people into something kind of fascinating.
Since the first episode of Jackson’s three-part epic landed the day before Thanksgiving, social media has been full of memes and jokes about the thing. Many have been about how unwieldy Get Back is, many have been about specific moments in the movie, many have simply been about the general atmosphere in the room as the four Beatles and their entourage try to prep material for their first live show in three years. Here are our favorites—the funniest memes and tweets about The Beatles: Get Back.
their process was incredible pic.twitter.com/QvDfameTM7
— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) November 29, 2021
my favorite moment from the beatles doc pic.twitter.com/UWaeoKV0gi
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) November 26, 2021
incredible to watch history unfold before your eyes pic.twitter.com/CRbet2ah7t
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 26, 2021
absolutely love that while paul is coming up with Get Back for the first time ringo is sitting there looking like his dog just died and george harrison is yawning and ready for bed pic.twitter.com/fuwGOprWI6
— hard mike (@buffetbreaker) November 25, 2021
I’m only half an episode into The Beatles documentary but so far I can really relate. I also sometimes went and sat extremely quietly with men I was dating while they played music with their friends and I also did not break up those bands.
— Wendy Molyneux (@WendyMolyneux) November 28, 2021
Watching Yoko Ono in Get Back and having the realization that if I were her and was invited to quietly sit beside my husband’s band while they jammed and made history, I … would’ve absolutely stayed home.
— Kristen Bartlett (@kristencheeks) November 26, 2021
— cassidy xcx (@olsencassidy) November 27, 2021
Been hearing “Get Back” completely glosses over this murder attempt, so…hard pass. pic.twitter.com/hYZt9UC3Ys
— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) November 25, 2021
People who’ve never played in a band: “You can tell the Beatles were about to break up, so much tension!”
People who’ve played in bands: “Wow, they had a very healthy group dynamic!”
— @ACNewman (@ACNewman) November 26, 2021
I keep forgetting that every single member of the Beatles looked like a serial killer.
— Tom Brennan (@Brennanator) November 27, 2021
[Every scene in GET BACK]
Michael Lindsay Hogg: Let’s move this production to Libya!
George Harrison: You’re an idiot. Everyone here is an idiot.
Ringo Starr: I love all of you.
John Lennon: [Stoned]
Paul McCartney: [working out yet another incredible song on piano/bass]
— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) November 26, 2021
About to start the Beatles doc. Don’t have Disney+ so I’m watching it through a neighbor’s window and playing the songs I think they’re working on in my earbuds. pic.twitter.com/IREOT59Y6j
— Ryan H. Walsh (@JahHills) November 26, 2021
really wish Peter Jackson didn’t name his Beatles doc after a ludacris song
— Joshua Rivera (@jmrivera02) November 28, 2021
the beatles – get back (2021) pic.twitter.com/2IY1QkysCa
— get back, duda (@mccartneyIlI) November 25, 2021
Beatles doc really underlining just how funny the impressions in Walk Hard were
— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) November 28, 2021
I got to watch an hour of Get Back before the 9 year old came in and complained that nothing was happening. She put on something called Dogs In Space in which, I admit, lots of things happened.
— Andy Daly (@TVsAndyDaly) November 26, 2021
Get Back really reminds me of my old improv team. We had a Paul (the genius but bossy one, married to Linda McCartney), John (killed in 1980), George (hare krishna) and Ringo (says “peace and love” a lot). Oh and I forgot to mention I used to be on an improv team w/ the Beatles
— graham (@gr8h8m_t3chl3r) November 28, 2021
inspired by @seanoconnz and the beatles pic.twitter.com/ETLoSstK77
— everett byram (@rad_milk) November 28, 2021