History WesternAnimation / Beetlejuice

* ScaryJackInTheBox: Little Miss Warden sometimes forces prisoners to spend the night inside one, where Jack plays videos for {{Brainwashing}}.

* SugarBowl: The Neitherworld's jail system consists of a Candyland-like environment run by a CreepyChild, where prisoners are "rehabilitated" into cute, sweet and playful creatures. Beetlejuice is absolutely terrified of the place; in "Snugglejuice", the viewer sees why.

** In "Snugglejuice", when Lydia first sees Beetlejuice after he's been [[{{Brainwashed}} "rehabilitated"]] by Neither-Neither-Land, she initially thinks that it's just another one of his scams or pranks... but when he ''refuses to eat [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a beetle]]'', that's when she knows that something is seriously wrong.

* FamedInStory: Pretty much everyone in the entire Neitherworld knows Beetlejuice for his pranks and cons, and he's strangely admired for it even though almost nobody likes him very much. In "Snugglejuice", he enters the annual Hanky-Pranky Awards contest, and the announcer observes that "We hate it when he pulls pranks on us - but we love to see him pull pranks on other people!"

* SugarBowl: The Neitherworld's prison system consists of a Candyland-like environment run by an {{Expy}} of Little Bo Peep, where malcontents are "rehabilitated" into cute, sweet and playful creatures. Beetlejuice is absolutely terrified of the place; in "Snugglejuice", the viewer sees why.

-->'''Lydia:''' ''You'' turned down ''a beetle?'' ''YOU!?''

-->'''Beetlejuice:''' I'd give anything to get me hands on Moby Richard. Money isn't important!\\

* LegionOfDoom: "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted" is dedicated to this concept, with the villains Scuzzo the Clown, Jesse Germs, Little Miss Warden from "Snugglejuice", Bartholomew Batt from "Sappiest Place on Earth", Mr. Big from "Ear's Looking At You" [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and recurring nuisance Lipscum]] are assembled by Neitherworld television executive Mr. Monitor to form S.N.O.T.R.A.G. (Society of Neitherworld Outlaws, Thugs, Rogues, Antagonists and Gangsters) trick Beetlejuice into saying "I'm coming apart at the seems" and destroy him by scattering his pieces and preventing him from reassembling himself until sundown.

* BerserkButton:
** Beetlejuice gets pretty combustible when anybody threatens or insults Lydia, or threatens to get between Lydia and himself.
** He also can't stand a wild goose chase, literally.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Regardless of how the viewer interprets the relationship between the two leads, just about everyone (in the Neitherworld) picks up on Beetlejuice's attachment to Lydia. Some characters merely note their close friendship, while others assume it means something else. It often leads to her being abducted or threatened in an effort to make him cooperate; in nearly every instance, all it really does is make him ''[[BerserkButton mad]]''.

* LastEpisodNewCharacter: The final episode "Not so Peaceful Pines" introduces the Mayor of Peaceful Pines, who makes the mistake of peeving off Beetlejuice by declining to pay a fee for BJ's services in getting rid of the noisy partygoers like he promised.

* SirVerbALot: The episode "Family Scarelooms" has Beetlejuice and Lydia trying to find Beetlejuice's family's Coat of Arms so that his parents will be allowed membership in the Society for the Oldest and Moldiest Families of the Neitherworld. The antagonist of the episode is the long lost uncle of the society's executive president Vera Snooty, a brutish knight named Sir Lost-A-Lot who turns out to be a dishonorable thief willing to stoop as low as stealing a child's goldfish. In the end, Beetlejuice recovers his family's Coat of Arms in addition to discrediting Vera Snooty by exposing to the other members what a disgraceful cad her long lost uncle Sir Lost-A-Lot truly is.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Uncle BJ's Roadhouse", a full episode parody of ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse,'' and "Poe-Pourri", which can best be described as "What if someone put Edgar Allan Poe's poetry to animation?"

* LegionOfDoom: "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted" is dedicated to this concept, with a mysterious villain called Mr. Big gathering a lot of Beetlejuice's past antagonists together to take BJ down.

* ExpressiveUvula: The intro has Beetlejuice rising out of the grave, laughing maniacally as the screen zooms in on his face. For a brief moment, his uvula dons a face before panning back to his face, saying his catchphrase, "It's Showtime!!!"

* LamePunReaction: In "The Birdbrain of Alcatraz", Beetlejuice asks another inmate if he got arrested for "indecent decomposure". The inmate replies that his joke stinks.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Snugglejuice", when Lydia first sees Beetlejuice after he's been [[{{Brainwashed}} "rehabilitated"]] by Neither-Neither-Land, she initially thinks that it's just another one of his scams or pranks... but when he ''refuses to eat [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a beetle]]'', that's when she knows that something is seriously wrong.

* {{Meganekko}}: Prudence; also Lydia, in a few episodes where she dons glasses as part of her outfit or disguise.

* BoyMeetsGhoul: The show manages to avoid giving its leads an actual romance, but only just barely.