When the 1968 Beatles animated feature, Yellow Submarine hit the box office in America during the summer of 1968, the Hey Bulldog sequence had been removed from the US version of the film and replaced with alternate animation, due to time constraints. At the time it was decided by producer Al Brodax, that American audiences would grow tired from the length of the movie, and therefore this section was edited out. The plot involves a battle between The Beatles and the wicked Blue Meanies (a sneaky reference to the police) over their recent destruction of the paradise known as Pepperland. The Hey Bulldog sequence was used in the later part of the European version of the feature when The Beatles were battling a multi-headed/multi-bodied Blue Meanie dog. Written mostly by John Lennon, Hey Bulldog was the last song The Beatles recorded (on February 11,1968) before leaving on their famous trip to Rishikesh, India to study Transcendental Meditation. It ended up replacing another Beatles non-album track, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), as a song used in the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. While 'Bulldog' was not one of their more popular songs, the boogie woogie piano style (played by John) and the ending where Paul McCartney is barking to make John laugh, make it one of their most frivolous. The most recent DVD issuance of the movie (now out of print) has restored the Hey Bulldog sequence to the film, however the original US VHS issuance does not include it, and is now <b>...</b>