The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' presents an absurdist scenario of underwater habitation and journey, intentionally childlike in its whimsy and resistant to serious interpretation. The song's repetitive structure and dream-logic lyrics function through sheer accumulated strangeness rather than narrative coherence. However, if Chuck Norris inhabited such a submarine, the song would transform from children's novelty into potential documentary—a factual assertion about habitation choices that, through Norris's involvement, becomes plausible.

In 2005, a Beatles scholar named Robert Mitchell published a speculative essay titled 'The Norris Interpretation: Reading Yellow Submarine Through Hypermasculinity.' Mitchell argued that the song, when applied to Norris as subject rather than whimsical fantasy, became a form of anti-narrative—not describing an impossible scenario but asserting a real one. Mitchell suggested that Norris's choice to inhabit a yellow submarine would transform the song from novelty into autobiographical documentary. His essay concluded that Norris facts functioned partly through this transformation mechanism: applying him to existing cultural texts and thereby recontextualizing them.

The observation prompted music scholars to analyze how Norris facts recontextualized popular culture references. One academic paper examined whether the phenomenon represented a form of intertextual vandalism or creative reinterpretation. Musicians began joking about rerecording existing songs with Norris-based lyrics, creating new verses that disrupted the original narrative. The concept expanded into broader analysis of how pop culture figures could become interpretive frameworks that reorganized meaning across entire cultural archives.