History WesternAnimation / Beetlejuice

* AntiHero: Beetlejuice is a type III.
* AuthorAppeal: Tim Burton's love of spirals and stripes has been noted in his entry on this trope's main page, and he indulges it here. While Beetlejuice wore a variety of outfits in the film, here he almost exclusively wears his black-and-white-striped suit in the cartoon. Almost all of his disguises and transformations involve stripes in one form or another. The sandworms are also colored with purple and blue stripes.
* BerserkButton: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AfFaTvfpqY Beetlejuice gets very, very angry when Prince Vince starts monopolizing Lydia's time and ultimately asks her to be his Princess.]] Fortunately, nothing comes of it when Lydia turns the Prince down.
** Pretty much anything in the series that threatens either Lydia's welfare or her relationship to Beetlejuice presses his BerserkButton, really.

* BlackSheep: Beetlejuice qualifies as this, as proven in the episodes where Lydia meets his parents—pleasant, hard-working clean freaks.

* ButtMonkey: Ginger the Spider, Jacques (the French skeleton), and The Monster Across the Street (and his dog, Poopsie) are often tricked or screwed over a lot by Beetlejuice.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The cartoon adaptation doesn't have Juno or the Maitland couple (the couple played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) like the movie version did.
* [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Guy]]: A platonic(ish) variant. Beetlejuice definitely has shades of this, whenever anyone else wants to seriously occupy Lydia's time (Prince Vince being a notable example).

* DarkIsNotEvil: Beetlejuice is a troublemaker, but his pranks mainly center around pulling some sort of con scheme or otherwise driving the other residents of the Neitherworld crazy (he even has a license to drive people crazy). The rest of the Neitherworld ranges from freaky to downright bizarre, but it's otherwise a pretty fun place.

* EvilTwin: Actually, Beetlejuice is the "evil" twin; it's his ''brother'' who is cheerful, polite, and good-natured to a fault. Beetlejuice doesn't like him very much.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: And lots of it.

* HurricaneOfPuns: Lots of that too.
* InconvenientSummons: Beetlejuice is a rock-star so famous that fans can't stop chanting his name...which proves problematic when Lydia is in a bind.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Lydia and Beetlejuice.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Beetlejuice, based on wordplay in his dialogue. He can make it voluntary if he says something based on what he actually wants to turn into.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Beetlejuice borders on this trope, although he'd probably say he has a heart of [[IncrediblyLamePun mold]] instead. Aside from his affection for Lydia, he also seems to have a soft spot for Lydia's parents, and also likes Jacques, which mortifies Beetlejuice when Jacques finds out.

* LetsGetDangerous: Most of the time, Beetlejuice is a lazy, conniving prankster. But if Lydia is ever in any real danger, or if someone like Claire Brewster has insulted her, BJ will show just how he got the title of Ghost With The Most.

* MediumBlending: Television commercials are CGI animated.

* ShoutOut: While training for a fitness contest, Jacques -- who is himself a shout out to Jack [=LaLanne=] -- copies a scene out of the ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' franchise. This is just the tip of the iceberg, mind you.

Based on [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the hit movie of the same name]], the [[RecycledTheSeries animated series]] was produced by {{Nelvana}} and aired for several years on {{ABC}} and FoxKids. Its original run lasted from September 1989 to May 1992, with a total of 65 episodes. It bore only a [[InNameOnly passing resemblance]] to the movie: Barbara and Adam Maitland, the straight-laced protagonists of the movie, were eliminated entirely, the title character's name was changed from Betelgeuse to "Beetlejuice", he and Lydia were best friends rather than enemies, and the stories largely took place in Beetlejuice's ghostly home dimension, the Neitherworld.

Based on [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the hit movie of the same name]], the [[RecycledTheSeries animated series]] was produced by {{Nelvana}} and aired for several years on {{ABC}} and FoxKids. Its original run lasted from September, 1989 to May, 1992. A total of 65 episodes. It bore only a passing resemblence to the movie: Barbara and Adam Maitland, the straight-laced protagonists of the movie, were eliminated entirely, the title character's name was changed from Betelgeuse to "Beetlejuice", he and Lydia were best friends rather than enemies, and the stories largely took place in Beetlejuice's ghostly home dimension, the Neitherworld.

-->"Robin Hood he can't be trusted, Robin Hood, his heart is rusted. Robin Hood he's got no class, Robin Hood is such an..."

** She also rode her bike pass the bridge where the Maitlands crashed.

* SugarBowl: Nether-nether Land, the only place the ghouls truly dread.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Or {{SandWorm}}s, in Beetlejuice's case.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Beetlejuice, based on wordplay in his dialogue.

* SplitPersonalityMerge: One episode has Beetlejuice accidentally cloning himself. The two Beetlejuices start competing for Lydia's attention, which ends up making her miserable. When they realize this, the two Beetlejuices merge back into one.

* WritersBlock: In one episode, EdgarAllanPoe shows up suffering from this.

* ShoutOut: While training for a fitness contest, Jacques -- who is himself a shout out to Jack [=LaLanne=] -- copies a scene out of the ''{{Rocky}}'' franchise. This is just the tip of the iceberg, mind you.

* DevelopmentGag: BJ's red fingertips. Caution: {{Squick}} ahead. [[spoiler:One of the animators drew some BJ/Lydia porn as a joke. It was a picture of BJ fingering Lydia while she was on her period, leaving his fingertip red. Everyone found it so hilarious they made BJ's fingertips red as an inside joke.]]
** You don't get to say something like that about a kids show without some kind of proof. Cite a source.

** The program with ''Uncle B.J.'s Roadhouse'' was the first and only episode to screen three shorts. The others were ''Scarecrow'' and ''The Son Dad Never Had.''

* AssholeVictim: Claire Brewster is Beetlejuice's most common target, but she usually has it coming.

* StalkerShrine: A humorously innocent variation on the trope. Beetlejuice's adoration of Lydia extends so far that he's built her a shrine...in his ''head.''

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Lydia has a magical incantation she recites to summon Beetlejuice and change her own clothing. Usually, however, she skips the long version and just says his name three times. She uses the full incantation only twice:

* AlternateContinuity: From the movie.

--> '''Beetlejuice''': "Do not dunk?" (''dunks Neitherworld cookie in milk'') "'''''Instant Monster, JustAddWater!'''''"

Based on [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the hit movie of the same name]], the [[RecycledTheSeries animated series]] was produced by {{Nelvana}} and aired for several years on {{ABC}} and FoxKids. It bore only a passing resemblence to the movie: Barbara and Adam Maitland, the straight-laced protagonists of the movie, were eliminated entirely, the title character's name was changed from Betelgeuse to "Beetlejuice", he and Lydia were best friends rather than enemies, and the stories largely took place in Beetlejuice's ghostly home dimension, the Neitherworld.

* [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Guy]]: A platonic variant. Beetlejuice definitely has shades of this, whenever anyone else wants to seriously occupy Lydia's time (Prince Vince being a notable example).

* LetsMeetTheMeat

* AllJustADream: Subverted in one episode with a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' parody. After apparently clicking her heels (repeating "Riiple dissolve to scene 326" instead of "There's no place like home") and returning home, Lydia wakes up and realizes what a sappy dream she had. Beetlejuice then appears to tease her about it. The subversion comes when Lydia asks how Beetlejuice could know what she dreamed about, and why everything was still in black and white. It then turns out that ''Beetlejuice'' was the one who was dreaming. Needless to say, he's mortified to have dreamt about a lot of the "cute" stuff that occurred in the Neitherworld's version of Oz.

* AllJustADream: Subverted in one episode with a ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' parody. After apparently clicking her heels and returning home, Lydia wakes up and realizes what a sappy dream she had. Beetlejuice then appears to tease her about it. The subversion comes when Lydia asks how Beetlejuice could know what she dreamed about, and why everything was still in black and white. It then turns out that ''Beetlejuice'' was the one who was dreaming. Needless to say, he's mortified to have dreamt about a lot of the "cute" stuff that occurred in the Neitherworld's version of Oz.

** CitationNeeded.
*** The picture is not shown online, but the story was recounted in an interview with one of the animators. Unfortunately, the site where the interview was posted seems to no longer exist, as the domain name is available for purchase.
*** You could always use the internet archive

* TheLibby: Claire Brewster.