Line #10 TearJerker/Beetlejuice


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4	* The mournful rendition of "The Banana Boat Song" sums up the Maitlands' quandary: "Daylight come and me wanna go ''home''..."
5	* When the Maitlands are being exorcised, it can bring a tear to the eye. It gets so bad that even Lydia's father seems to realize that what's happening is hurting them and pleads with Otho to stop it, but it can't be undone (fortunately Betelgeuse did).
6	** Lydia shouting for it to stop doesn't help matters.
7	* When the Maitlands realize they are dead is pretty tear-inducing - especially considering that seconds earlier, they'd been talking about continuing to try to get pregnant during this vacation.
8	-->'''Adam:''' Barb, honey... we're dead. I don't think we have anything to worry about anymore.
9	** When Barbara's relative Jane thoughtlessly says their house should be for a couple with a family, Barbara looks really hurt - it's clear they've been trying to have a child, with no success.
10	** The reason they're so protective of Lydia is probably because, now that they're dead, mentoring her is the closest they'll get to raising their own child.
11	* The Maitlands discovering they had been in the waiting room for ''three whole months''.
12	-->'''Adam:''' ''(realizes the room they're in is their own living room)'' Barb... we're home.\
13	'''Barbara:''' Look at this place! Everything's different! All our furniture's gone!
14	* Before meeting the Maitlands, Lydia was unhappy with her life. When Betelgeuse attacks her, her parents, and Otho, she thinks the Maitlands sent him. This supposed betrayal is what nearly drives her to suicide.
15	* It finally sinks in to the football players that they're dead.
16	-->'''Player:''' Coach... I don't think we survived that crash..
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22	[[caption-width-right:350:You can't help but feel sad for Beetlejuice.]]
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24	* Very early in the series, in "Out of My Mind," Lydia explains to BJ that if her parents learn of his existence, they'll forbid her to see him again. He starts sobbing for a moment, and clutches his heart.
25	** Later in the same episode, Lydia is angry at BJ for breaking a promise, and tells him that she's not speaking to him again until he apologizes. It doesn't take long for him to fall into a depressive state, sniffling and unable to keep himself from thinking about her. The folder image is from that scene.
26	* In "Doomie's Romance," the failed attempt at bringing Pinky to life causes Doomie to sob uncontrollably. It brings Lydia to tears, and even BJ is struggling to hide how much it's affecting him.
27	* In "Poe Pourri," Edgar Allan Poe spends most of the episode lamenting about his lost Lenore. Late in the episode, he starts to do it again, and BJ cuts him off, sarcastically noting that he's already said that he lost her. Poe replies, "No! I lost ''your'' precious ''Lydia''!" He then resumes weeping - and Beetlejuice, looking stricken, does the same thing. Fortunately, Lyds isn't lost; she shows up a few seconds later with Lenore in tow.
28	* In "It's A Wonderful Afterlife", Beetlejuice's having an off day and goes to Lydia for comfort, but she's super busy as well. Despite her attempt to cheer him up by deciding to wear the spider brooch he gave her all the way back in the first episode, BJ misinterprets her busyness as her not needing him anymore, and is the final push over the edge that makes him wish he had never been born.
29	-->'''Beetlejuice:''' I guess you don't have time for me anymore…\
30	'''Lydia:''' ''(noticing the spider brooch in her drawer)'' You know what this dress is missing? The spider brooch you gave me! I'll be the Bela Lugosi of the ball! ''(twirls a bit in her dress)'' What do you think?\
31	'''Beetlejuice:''' ''(sadly takes the brooch)'' You don't need the brooch, Babes. And you don't need ''me''… ''(poofs away)''\
32	'''Lydia:''' Beetlejuice?
33	** Even worse is when we see what Lydia's life is like if she never met BJ; she is absolutely ''miserable''. She has no friends, no confidence, and everyone in her class, even ''Bertha and Prudence'', makes fun of her.
34	* In "Oh Brother!" the fact that BJ is TheUnfavorite compared to his brother Donny really gets to him, and when he mistakenly thinks Lydia prefers Donny as well, it just about sends him over the DespairEventHorizon.
35	** While Donny is ThePollyanna, it's revealed that he may actually be more of a StepfordSmiler when he falls under the effects of one of the Kantgaroo's "gloomerangs".
36	--->'''Donny:''' Everybody hates me because I'm so cheerful. Oh sure, they like me at first, but after a while they all say I drive 'em crazy. […] That's why I came to see Beetlejuice. I thought at least my own brother wouldn't turn on me…
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40	* In "This Is Your Lice," the first storyline, Delia hires a hypnotist who induces Lydia to lose interest in strange and freaky things, and to behave more like a typical teenager. That's bad enough, but somehow, this also causes her to forget Beetlejuice entirely. Once he realizes what's happened, he's absolutely distraught; he says he's going to "cry my eyes out," noting that "I'm nowhere without my pal Lydia, and now she'll never call my name three times again!"
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44	* Lydia's solos "Dead Mom" and "Home" can be construed as such, one for how much she misses her recently passed on mother, the other for how she comes to terms with it and decides to move on, not only for herself but for her father and Delia.
45	* Lydia's reaction when she finds out Charles and Delia are engaged.
46	-->'''Lydia:''' ''What''? Dad, no, you can't do that!\
47	'''Charles:''' Lydia, Lydia, this is a good thing! I ''need'' a wife, ''you'' need a mother.\
48	'''Lydia:''' ''I '''HAVE''' A MOTHER!'' Dad, this house is haunted, and if there's ghosts here, that means Mom might still be back in our house—\
49	'''Charles:''' Lydia, in 24 hours, Maxie Dean will be here to have dinner with our family, and it's better for all of us if Delia is a part of that!\
50	'''Lydia:''' No!\
51	'''Delia:''' Lydia, I know that you're upset, okay? But, maybe this… is meant to be.\
52	'''Lydia:''' …I wish I was ''dead''! (''Storms out'')
53	* The song "No Reason" implies Delia's life was pretty shitty before she met Charles and Lydia and [[StepfordSmiler it's implied she suffers from some form of depression]]. When projecting onto Lydia, she includes the fact that: she woke up alone one morning, because her boyfriend and his lover (boyfriend in the album, wife in some live recordings) bought a boat and sailed to Rome. So she cries herself to sleep, talks to the walls, and bought a cat because she thinks it'll be her only chance to have a family, trying to reassure herself she's still young and everything happens for a reason.
54	* The scene Lydia is searching in the Netherworld for her mother while being chased down by Juno and the newly deceased ghosts. Just hearing her grow more desperate with each cry and then finally breaking down, it's hard not to shed a tear or two after seeing her put on the tough girl act for most of the musical.
55	* Lydia and Charles' argument in the Netherworld. While the whole argument is tear-jerker itself with Lydia calling out her father for his aloof attitude towards her dead mother. Charles finally reveals to Lydia the reason he tries to push forward is because it hurts too much for him to talk about his recently deceased wife, Emily. He recalls how during her final days, Emily told him that they need to "hold to each other to live through it." He thought she meant him and herself, but in truth, she meant him and Lydia.
56	** What's worse, he sounds so ''pained'' at the realization that the thing Emily told him not to "fix" wasn't her, but Lydia's sorrow over her death. It's easy to see that he regrets misinterpreting his beloved wife's ''final request.''
57	* During "Invisible (Reprise)", Beetlejuice laments over feeling alone and feeling like his nonexistence is pointless. Towards the end of the song, Lydia comes out onto the rooftop clutching a suicide note. She tearfully declares her own loneliness, prompting Beetlejuice to sadly admit to know the feeling himself. Also, it's worth noting that if Beetlejuice wasn't there and didn't say anything, Lydia probably would have jumped off.
58	* When Lydia gets tricked by Beetlejuice into exorcising Barbara, just her line "It's my fault she's dying." With just the delivery of how desperate and guilty she sounds, you can tell how much she blames herself for screwing up.
59	* The song "What I Know Now" is pretty sad, as it involves Miss Argentina and the other denizens of the Netherworld expressing how they regret the decisions they made in life and would've avoided them and lived their lives to their fullest had they known how bleak and uneventful the Netherworld would be.
60	** While the deaths depicted by the people who suffered them are plenty sad, one football player chimes into the song with "Neietzsche was right, y'know, to live is to suffer, bro". Given the fact that he's not implied to have committed suicide or made a fatal mistake like the others and the presence of several other football players in the number it's implied that he and the other players died young in a bus crash. In some performances, Miss Argentina even gives him a knowing pat on the shoulder to comfort him.
61	* Throughout the whole play, Beetlejuice often refers to his mother in terms of how awful she was. At first with such claims as his mother wishing [[ParentalAbandonment she'd left]] [[DisappearedDad like his father did]] and that she'd choose booze over him you'd assume, even with his voice getting [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically small and upset]], that he's just bullshitting a FreudianExcuse so people will feel sorry for him. Then Juno actually shows up during the finale and we see that ''[[RealAfterAll he wasn't lying]], [[AbusiveParents she really is just as awful as he claimed.]]''
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Context TearJerker / Beetlejuice