Popular Culture
There is a cocktail named for the song, which contains vermouth and gin.
In the 2009 romantic comedy film (500) Days of Summer Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) remarks that "Octopus's Garden" is the greatest ever Beatles song. Tom Hanson (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) tells Summer that no one loves Ringo Starr, to which Summer replies "That's what I love about him".
In the 2007 comedy film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Ringo Starr (Jason Schwartzman) refers to his "song about an octopus", which is followed by a crude remark from John Lennon (Paul Rudd).
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
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“But popular rage,
Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down.
None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part
Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart.”
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