So...
I think that Paul's "Zap!" in a Hard Day's Night was actually a gay reference, since in this episode of the Simpsons a gay man makes the exact same gesture and it seems to have a queer connotation:
I mean compare this to Paul's ZAP, same gesture, same sound:
Also in the same scene there are other queer references, and shortly after Paul "zapped" and John called himself Betty the grandpa calls them a bunch of sissies.
Since the entirety of the movie is purposefully queer coded ("give us a kiss") I really think that it's some kind of queer reference, but I couldn't find anything about it. Does someone know more about this? What does this mean?
















