sentences:  The Meanies, in his absence, cause the lovely and colourful Pepperland to turn into a very grey, dull and oppressive place, wrought with thorns and thistles.Later in the story, a Meanie abducts the Beatles' companion, Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD, the so-called "Nowhere Man", and we see, when the Beatles arrive in Pepperland, how the Meanies have laid waste to the former paradise and petrified the natives.The Beatles find Pepperland's confiscated musical instruments and their own look-alikes, Sgt.