Jeremy Hilary Boob

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Jeremy Hilary Boob Ph.D. is a fictional character in the animated movie Yellow Submarine (1968). He was voiced by Dick Emery.

The Beatles, on their way to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, encounter Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D., a strange, gopher-like little brown-furred man with a blue face, pink ears and a fluffy, rabbit-like tail. Jeremy lives in the Sea of Nothing (aka Nowhere), speaks in rhyme and describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too". He also owns a mysterious purple and green object that can turn from a typewriter to a tree, to an easel, a piano, and numerous other things. He thinks he can speak English, but isn't sure.

The band realizes one of their songs sums Jeremy up well and they sing "Nowhere Man" about him as they cavort with his magic in his nowhere land. However as they prepare to leave, Jeremy realizes how literally empty and lonely his life is and becomes inconsolable. Concerned at seeing the friendly person so upset, the compassionate Ringo offers to take him Somewhere and he gratefully accepts.

Later, the Submarine breaks down, and Jeremy helps to fix one of the propellers. This in fact makes the Submarine almost too efficient, and it speeds off without them. Jeremy is later kidnapped by the Blue Meanies in the Sea of Holes, and is eventually found in Pepperland, hanging by the leg to the branch of a tree. When Ringo cuts him down, he then helps The Beatles to defeat the Meanies by covering the Chief Blue Meanie with flowers, thereby proving that a Nobody can in fact be Somebody.

[edit] Quotes

"Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo.

So little time — so much to know!"

George: Do you speak English?

Jeremy: Old English, Middle, a dialect pure ...

Paul: Well, do you speak English?

Jeremy: You know, I'm not sure!

Ringo: He's so smart he doesn't even remember what he knows.

Paul: Hey, fellers, look!

Jeremy: The footnotes for my nineteenth book. This is my standard procedure for doing it. And while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it!

Jeremy:"If I spoke prose you'd all find out

I don't know what I talk about."

Ringo: Jeremy! Can it be you?

Jeremy: Can it be me? I think you'd better inquire of the guard,

For when I was captured, they took all my cards.

(When preparing to cover the Blue Meanies Chief with flowers.) "Where ground is soft, where often grows Arise, arouse, arose a ... a rosy nose?"