End" to be "the group's take on the improvised jamming common to heavy rock of the late '60s, though as usual The Beatles did it with far more economic precision than anyone else." John Mendelsohn of Rolling Stone said it was "a perfect epitaph for our visit to the world of Beatle daydreams: 'The love you take is equal to the love you make.'" In 2007, "The End" was ranked at number 7 on Q magazine's list "The 20 Greatest Guitar Tracks". Legacy The song is included as the encore on The Beatles: Rock Band. McCartney's second guitar solo, Lennon's last guitar solo and Starr's drum solo were used in the intro to "Get Back" in the Beatles' Love. In Ralph Bakshi's 1972 film Fritz the Cat, Fritz quotes the line "the love you give is equal to the love you get" when deciding not to plant a bomb in a nuclear power plant and rejecting violent revolutionary politics. The character's creator, Robert Crumb, denounced this dialogue as "red-neck and fascistic". The Beastie Boys sampled a portion of "The End" for their track "The Sounds of Science" from Paul's Boutique. Chris Farley famously asked McCartney on the Chris Farley Show skit on Saturday Night Live, whether it was true that "the love you take is equal to the love you make." McCartney replied, to Farley's delight, that, in his experiences, it was, saying "the more you give, the more you get." Paul McCartney performed the closing couplet of "The End" at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony just prior to closing the event with a performance of the song "Hey Jude". Peter Brown used the song's lyric as the title of his book about the Beatles, The Love You Make. The closing couplet is sung by k.d. lang and partly spoken by Robin Williams (as the character Lovelace) at the end of the movie Happy Feet. "And in the End...", the final episode of the American TV series ER, is derived from the song's lyrics. The series finale of Criminal Minds is similarly titled "And in the End". The song was used as the final song played on the classic rock stations KMET and KSWD in Los Angeles as well as WNEW-FM and WPLJ in New York City. The last 30 seconds of this song was the final song to play on 4KQ in Brisbane, Australia on June 30, 2022.