Seeking to earn money in order to purchase some photos of Lydia, Beetlejuice poses as a handyman and offers to fix the Deetz’s leaking sink- for a fee, of course. After his solo attempt goes shockingly awry, BJ returns with professional help- sentient tools from the Neitherworld Hardware Store. Unfortunately, said tools don’t seem to like him very much…
This episode contains examples of
- Animate Inanimate Object: All of the tools from the Neitherworld Hardware Store are sentient.
- Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project: Charles insists on trying - and failing - to fix a leaky faucet in one episode. To earn money to buy one of Lydia's photos, Beetlejuice disguises himself as a handyman named Mr. Beetleman, and offers to fix it for him. Of course, he's even worse at it than Charles.Mr. Beetleman: Where’s the drip?Delia: In the kitchen, trying to fix the leak.
- Handy Man: BJ poses as one and attempts to fix some leaking water pipes.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: One of the sentient tools is a jackhammer who looks (and talks) oddly like Jack Nicholson.
- Pun-Based Creature: Among the living tools Beetlejuice picks up from the Neitherworld Hardware Store are a Jack Nicholson jackhammer, a Drill Sergeant Nasty power drill, and a Mischief-Making Monkey Wrench.
- Spanner in the Works: As part of a downright ludicrous Stealth Pun, a literal monkey wrench acts as a figurative “monkey wrench in the works”... by acting like a Mischief-Making Monkey.
