Beetlejuice
Animated Series
Beetlejuice Animated Series is an American-Canadian animated television series loosely based on the film of the same name.
The premise of Beetlejuice Animated Series was greatly changed from the film, to the point where one only superficially resembled the other.
In the film, Beetlejuice was the antagonist who ended up nearly marrying a disgusted Lydia; in the series, they are best friends, and Lydia, something of a social misfit in the living world, frequently visits him in the afterlife during her free time.
The Maitlands, the most significant characters in the film, are nowhere to be found in the series.
And unlike the mind-numbing bureaucracy that is in the movie, the afterlife was converted into "the Neitherworld", a bizarre and humorous parody of the living world, with the fact of it being the afterlife only rarely mentioned, and the living world was referred to once or twice as "the Outerworld".
However, in the episode "Critter Sitters", Lydia rides through the bridge the Maitland crashed off, and lives in the same exact house.
Besides the absence of Adam & Barbara Maitland, other significant characters absent from the series include Otho, Delia's interior designer, and Juno, the afterlife caseworker.
Furthermore, there is no mention of the Handbook for the Recently Deceased or the model of the town Adam built.
However, Beetlejuice Animated Series uses two of his lines from the film so often they have become catch phrases. One is "It's showtime", often yelled triumphantly.
The other is "Save that guy for later", in the film, referring to a piece of phlegm he'd hocked into his jacket pocket but in the series, usually to a bug.
If you also enjoy the film, which is yet another favorite, This is absolutely recommended for Infernal Progeny as well, for it is loads of fun and will inspire maniacal laughter.
There are several other volumes in this series, so there is much to look forward to!
Beetlejuice Animated Series Episodelist
1. Critter Sitters
2. The Big Face Off / Skeletons In the Closet
3. A Dandy Handy Man / Out Of My Mind
4. Stage Fright / Spooky Tree
5. Laugh Of the Party
6. Worm Welcome
7. Bad Neighbor Beetlejuice / Campfire Ghouls
8. Pest O' the West
9. Bizarre Bazaar / Pat On the Back
10.Poopsie / It's the Pits
11.Prince Of the Neitherworld
12.Quit While You're A Head
13.Cousin B.J. / Parents
14. Dragster of Doom
15. Scare and Scare Alike / Spooky Boo-tique
16. Driven Crazy
17. Scummer Vacation
18. Bewitched, Bothered & Beetlejuiced
19. Dr. Beetle & Mr. Juice / Running Scared
20. The Really Odd Couple / A-Ha!
21. Uncle B.J.'s Roadhouse / Scarecrow / The Son Dad Never Had
22. Mom's Best Friend
23. Back-to-School Ghoul
24. Doomie's Romance
25. Ghost To Ghost
26. Spitting Image / Awards To the Wise
27. The Prince Of Rock and Roll
28. A Ghoul and His Money / Brides Of Funkenstein
29. Beetledude / The Farmer In the Smell
30. You're History
31. Raging Skull
32. Sore Feet
33. Fast Food
34. Queasy Rider
35. How Green Is My Gallery
36. Keeping Up With the Boneses
37. Pranks For the Memories
38. Caddy Shock
39. Two Heads Are Better Than One
40. Beauty and the Beetle
41. Creepy Cookies
42. Poe Pourri
43. Ear's Looking At You
44. Beetlebones
45. Smell-a-Thon
46. The Miss Beauty-Juice Pageant
47. Sappiest Place On Earth
48. Brinkadoom
49. Foreign Exchange
50. Family Scarelooms
51. Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones
52. Hotel Hello
53. Goody Two Shoes
54. Vidiots
55. Ship Of Ghouls
56. Poultrygeist
57. It's a Wonderful Afterlife
58. Ghost Writer In the Sky
59. Cabin Fever
60. Highs-Ghoul Confidential
61. Rotten Sports
62. Mr. Beetlejuice Goes To Town
63. Time Flies
64. To Beetle Or Not To Beetle
65. A Star Is Bored
66. Oh, Brother!
67. Snugglejuice
68. In the Schticks
69. Recipe For Disaster
70. Substitute Creature
71. Ghoul Of My Dreams
72. Prairie Strife
73. Moby Richard
74. The Unnatural
75. Forget Me Nuts
76. The Birdbrain Of Alcatraz
77. Generally Hysterical Hospital
78. Super Zeroes
79. Beetlegeezer
80. A Very Grimm Fairy Tale
81. Wizard Of Ooze
82. What Makes BJ Run
83. The Chromozone
84. It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape
85. The Neitherworld's Least Wanted
86. Don't Beetlejuice and Drive
87. Robbin Juice Of Sherweird Forest
88. Midnight Scum
89. Gold Rush Fever
90. Relatively Pesty
91. King BJ
92. Catmandu Got Your Tongue
93. Journey To the Centre Of the Neitherworld
94. Not So Peaceful Pines
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