1 | !! The film |
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3 | Though not as many as the media spawned from it, the film has a few: |
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5 | * Adam and Barbara becoming ghosts after dying TrappedInASinkingCar that fell from a bridge could be a nod to ''Film/CarnivalOfSouls''. |
6 | * As one of his qualifications, Betelgeuse states how many times he's seen ''Film/TheExorcist'', stating that it keeps getting funnier every time he sees it. |
7 | * Lydia asks if the Maitlands are "''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]''" under their sheets. They don't get the reference, and she explains that it's a movie. |
8 | * The fly screams "Help me! Help meeeeeeeeee!" when trapped by Betelguese. This is a reference to ''Film/TheFly1958''. Creator/GeenaDavis happens to appear in the [[Film/TheFly1986 film's remake]]. |
9 | * Otho insults Beryl back after her homophobic remark by saying "Don't mid her, she's still upset because somebody [[Film/TheWizardOfOz dropped a house on her sister]]..." |
10 | * Betegeuse says, "Go ahead, make my millennium!" This is a reference to the line, "Go ahead, make my day!" in ''Film/SuddenImpact''. |
11 | * The whorehouse is called "[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]] Room". |
12 | * During the sequence where Adam and Barbara enter Juno's office and see her speaking to the recently deceased football team, a movie theater full of ghosts can be seen through Juno's office window. One of them appears to be Jake Blues from ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', probably in reference to Creator/JohnBelushi's untimely death in 1982. |
13 | * Some of the passages Otho recites during the séance are lifted from Thomas Lovell Beddoes' poem "The Warning". |
14 | * During "showtime", Beetlejuice imitates Creator/JohnnyCarson's ''Series/TheLateShow'' introduction when addressing the Maitlands, even doing his opening monologue golf swing. |
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16 | !!The animated series |
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18 | The cartoon relies heavily on {{Shout Out}}s, {{Visual Pun}}s, and {{pun}}s in general. Among the former: |
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20 | * 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. |
21 | * One of Beetlejuice's other neighbors is a tap-dancing spider named [[Creator/GingerRogers Ginger]]. |
22 | * The Monster Across the Street resembles [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Gossamer]]. |
23 | * In "A Dandy Handy Man" one of the living tools Beetlejuice uses while posing as a handyman is a sentient jackhammer with a face that resembles Creator/JackNicholson. When the tools retaliate upon Beetlejuice wanting to take all the credit for their hard work, jackhammer opens a crack through the door behind which BJ and Lydia are hiding and taunts "Leeeeet's get him!" referencing the "Here's Johnny!" scene from ''Film/TheShining''. |
24 | * The Prom Scene from the WholeEpisodeFlashback in "Highs-Ghoul Confidential" is a subtle one to Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/Carrie1976'', minus the bucket of pigs' blood. |
25 | * In "Pest O' the West", Beej makes a speed painting he dubs the ''[[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Mona Lydia]]''. |
26 | * "Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest" borrows a lot of elements from ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', including the archery contest and several backgrounds. |
27 | ** Also in the same episode, after BJ robs Prince John's accountant, he crafts a pool full of coins and goes swimming in the money like [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge]]. |
28 | * From "Super Zeroes": |
29 | -->'''Beetlejuice:''' (''as "Super Beetleman"'') As Creator/JackKirby is my witness, I'll never go arch-villainless again! |
30 | * A few episodes have BJ facing off with Germs Pondscum, an {{expy}} of Film/JamesBond, specifically Creator/SeanConnery. |
31 | * The television sports announcer seen in a number of episodes, such as during the Pranksgiving competition in "Snugglejuice", is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody of [[Series/MondayNightFootball Howard Cosell]]. |
32 | * In "Snugglejuice", Neither-Neither-Land is a reference to [[Literature/PeterPan Never Never Land]]. |
33 | ** When BJ tries to escape, Little Miss Warden says, [[Film/CoolHandLuke "What we have here is failure to rehabilitate."]] And when BJ is being brainwashed, it's very similar to ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. |
34 | * Doubling with GeniusBonus, in "Forget-Me-Nuts", the heroes accompany Dr. Zigmund Void (himself a ShoutOut to UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud) into BJ's brain. The words "Bukowski Was Here" are scrawled on one of the cranium walls; Creator/CharlesBukowski was a writer who was known, among other things, for his newspaper column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man". |
35 | * In the episodes where he appears, Donny Juice (BJ's brother) is voiced to sound like televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. |
36 | * In "To Beetle or Not to Beetle", when Romeo attempts to woo Lydia, Beetlejuice fends him off by donning HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, a la [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre Leatherface]]. |
37 | * In "Ship of Ghouls", the ocean liner on which Beetlejuice and Lydia take their cruise is called the ''[[Film/TheExorcist X. X. Orcist]]''. |
38 | * In "Ghost to Ghost", BJ and Lydia finally drive away Boris Todeoff by dressing up as a pair of film critics who are very obvious parodies of Series/SiskelAndEbert. This is after BJ attempts to "exercise" several ghosts as a clear parody of Richard Simmons. |
39 | * In "The Birdbrain of Alcatraz", Beetlejuice gets sent to a prison run by a two-headed ghoul. The male half is called the Warden; the female half is called June Cleaver. "[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Warden June Cleaver!]]" |
40 | * In "Ghost Writer in the Sky", when Beetlejuice becomes famous for writing his (highly fictitious) memoirs, he's featured on ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyles_of_the_Rich_and_Famous Deathstyles of the Rich and Heinous]]'', hosted by Robin Lunch. Later in the episode, he's shown being given a [[UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize Pullet Surprise]] award. |
41 | * In "Rotten Sports", there's a shower montage which is clearly an homage to ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', except that Beetlejuice gets ''scrubbed'' rather than stabbed. |
42 | * In "Gold Rush Fever", Beetlejuice turns into a fly and buzzes around the chandelier, shrieking "[[Film/TheFly1958 Help me! Help me!]]" |
43 | * The character of Prince Vince is based on the title character from Tim Burton's stop-motion short ''WesternAnimation/{{Vincent}}''. |
44 | * The title of "How Green Was My Gallery" is a pun on ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley'', although it has nothing to do with the plot. |
45 | * In "The Sappiest Place on Earth" there is a ride named "The One, The Only, Banana Boat", which is reference to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4 Banana Boat Song (Day O)]]" sung by Harry Belafonte that is sung during the dinner scene in the movie as well as in the first episode of the show. |
46 | * Several episodes are {{Whole Plot Reference}}s to other TV shows, books and films: |
47 | ** "Brinkadoom" is this to ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}''. |
48 | ** "Uncle B.J.'s Roadhouse" is a spoof on ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse''. |
49 | ** "The Unnatural" borrows heavily from ''Film/TheNatural''. |
50 | ** "Highs-Ghoul Confidential" is a spoof of both ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' and the 1950s film ''High School Confidential''. |
51 | ** "Poe Pourri" introduces BJ and the viewers to the various works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. |
52 | ** "Journey to the Center of the Neitherworld" plays with the creations of Creator/JulesVerne. |
53 | ** "To Beetle or Not to Beetle" does the same with [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] plays. |
54 | ** "Dragster of Doom" is partially a play on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. |
55 | ** "Mr. Beetlejuice Goes to Town" riffs on ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington''. |
56 | ** "Dr. Beetle and Mr. Juice" is, naturally, a pun on ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde''. |
57 | ** "Moby-Richard" deliberately invokes ''Literature/MobyDick'' for its plot. |
58 | ** "The Chromazone" is ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'' on PostModernism. |
59 | ** "Sore Feet" has Beetlejuice crying out "[[Film/LassieComeHome Footies, come home!]]". |
60 | ** And of course, "The Wizard of Ooze" is meant to spoof ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. |
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62 | !! The comic books |
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64 | Being based on the cartoons, the comics naturally continue the tradition of offering shout-outs to other forms of media. These include: |
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66 | * In "This Is Your Lice", Beetlejuice explains that he's the host, [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barfer]]. |
67 | ** The title of the story is a reference to an old show called ''This Is Your Life'', in which the guest of honor would be visited by important people from their past. |
68 | * At the end of the ChristmasEpisode "Get Me to the Church on Slime", Lydia quotes from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. |
69 | * The cover of the first ''Crimebusters'' issue makes a reference to "[[Film/TheUntouchables Elliot Mess and his Unwashables]]". |
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71 | !! The musical |
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73 | * During "Creepy Old Guy", when Lydia announces to Beetlejuice that she really does want to marry him, he slips in a Sondheim reference: |
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