History Awesome / Beetlejuice

* A consistent one in the series is whenever he utters his [[CharacterCatchphrase "It's Showtime!"]] That's the cue that he's going to ramp up the magic and go after anyone in the episode that crossed him in one of the most blatant cases of instant karma in TV. Usually accompanied my a high energy version of his {{Leitmotif}} and just screams awesome.

* In the WholeEpisodeFlashback in "Highs-Ghoul Confidential", after spending a good majority of the episode trying to find the right "buzz words" to really get his juice flowing, it all comes to a head when BJ is voted Prom King and subsequently humiliated in front of the entire class, which is just enough to push him over the edge. This leads him to say his {{Catchphrase}} for the first time in his entire afterlife, and basically go all ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' on the asses of the two bullies who humiliated him. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis And it. Is.]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis GLORIOUS.]]''

'''Teen!Beetlejuice:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} Iiiiiit's...]] '''''[[{{Catchphrase}} SHOWTIME!]]'''''\\

* A consistent one in the series is whenever he utters his [[{{Catchphrase}} "It's Showtime!"]] That's the cue that he's going to ramp up the magic and go after anyone in the episode that crossed him in one of the most blatant cases of instant karma in TV. Usually accompanied my a high energy version of his {{Leitmotif}} and just screams awesome.

'''Beetlejuice:''' (''poofs back into his normal suit, grinning wickedly'') In that case… [[{{Catchphrase}} IT'S]] ''[[{{Catchphrase}} SHOWTIME]]''!

--->'''Lydia:''' Well, like I said; "put the money back before I send you back", and [[ExactWords I'm gonna keep my word]]. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!\\

* In the episode "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted", the RoguesGallery trick Beetlejuice into falling apart (literally, that is). Lydia and BJ must recover his body parts before sunset or he will [[DeathsHourglass cease to exist]]. Finally, they get to where the final villain, Mr. Big (who's actually a [[IronicNickname midget]]), is holding his heart. Mr. Big gets Lydia in a trap and watches as Beetlejuice is turning into goo. At almost the last possible second, Lydia pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment and knocks the heart into the pool; Beetlejuice turns back to normal, proceeding go HeroicSecondWind on and make quick work of Mr. Big and the others. And, as you might expect, it is '''awesome'''.

* In the episode "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted", the RoguesGallery trick Beetlejuice into falling apart (literally, that is). Lydia and BJ must recover his body parts before sunset or he will [[DeathsHourglass cease to exist]]. Finally, they get to where the final villain, Mr. Big (who's actually a [[IronicNickname midget]]), is holding his heart. Mr. Big gets Lydia in a trap and watches as Beetlejuice is turning into goo. At almost the last possible second, Lydia pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment and knocks the heart into the pool; Beetlejuice turns back to normal, proceeding go HeroicSecondWind on everyone's ass. And, as you might expect, it is '''awesome'''.

* In the WholeEpisodeFlashback in "Highs-Ghoul Confidential", after spending a good majority of the episode trying to find the right "buzz words" to really get his juice flowing, it all comes to a head when BJ is voted Prom King and subsequently humiliated in front of the entire class, which is just enough to push him over the edge. This leads him to say his {{Catchphrase}} for the first time in his entire afterlife, and basically go all Film/{{Carrie|1976}} on the asses of the two bullies who humiliated him. And it. Is. ''GLORIOUS''.

-->'''Beetlejuice:''' ''(narrating to Lydia)'' There comes a time, Babes, when you do things you've never done. When you say things you've never said. And so, for the first time ever, I said those magic words.
-->'''Teen!Beetlejuice:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} Iiiiiit's...]] '''''[[{{Catchphrase}} SHOWTIME!]]'''''
-->''(cue the HumiliationConga)''

* The penultimate number "Creepy Old Guy" has the rest of the cast pulling out all the stops to pull one over on Betelgeuse. The con’s steps, in order:

--> '''Lydia:''' ''Being young and female doesn't mean that I'm an easy mark.\\

* In the WholeEpisodeFlashback in "Highs-Ghoul Confidential", after spending a good majority of the episode trying to find the right "buzz words" to really get his juice flowing, it all comes to a head when BJ is voted Prom King and subsequently humiliated in front of the entire class, which is just enough to push him over the edge. This leads him to say his {{Catchphrase}} for the first time in his entire afterlife, and basically go all Film/{{Carrie}} on the asses of the two bullies who humiliated him. And it. Is. ''GLORIOUS''.

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* Meta: The fact that this show managed to get a full run without parent groups freaking out and getting it cancelled (a la WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKids)

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* During Valentine's Day 2020, Kelvin Moon Loh, Otho's actor, was on vacation and Will Blum, who understudies as Beetlejuice and Adam, was supposed to cover for him. Alex Brightman sprained his ankle during the opening number, and needed to be rushed to the hospital during intermission, while Abe Goldfarb, another understudy, was on medical leave due to a concussion. As Will had to go on for Alex, there was nobody to cover Otho, so ensemble member Eric Anthony Johnson went on instead. He had never performed as Otho before, so he had a single quick rehearsal during intermission with Adam Dannheisser and Leslie Kritzer. Onstage, he read Otho's lines off an iPad, as suggested by Maxie Dean's actor, Danny Rutigliano.
* During one performance of "Home", Sophia Anne Caruso became nauseous and ran off stage to throw up. Instead of letting an understudy take over, she came back on and finished the rest of the show.
* The fact that while scores of Broadway shows were forced to close forever during the Covid-19 Pandemic, ''Beetlejuice'' actually ''returned'' in April of 2022 to rave reviews and a welcome audience.

** His whole scheme in "The Whole Being Dead Thing part 4", where he does his most evil deed in the show. [[spoiler:After tricking Lydia, to thinking she's doing a seance to summon back her dead mother, it turns out she was performing an exorcism and poor Barbara so happened to be the one victim to it. Adam desperately tries to help Barbara as her blood-curdling screams fill the room and Lydia is in complete shock of what's she's done. Just then, she and the others hear Beetlejuice's disembodied voice confirm its an exorcism. He then arises from the ground donned in a red version of suit and quickly has everyone by his clutches and gives Lydia the choice of marrying him or everyone she loves will die. The fact that he's able to pull this off after being treated like a joke for most of the show really shows what Beetlejuice is capable of when he's getting serious.]]

** His whole scheme in "The Whole Being Dead Thing part 4", where he does his most evil deed in the show. [[spoiler:After tricking Lydia, to thinking she's doing a seance to summon back her dead mother, it turns out she was performing an exorcism and poor Barbara so happened to be the one victim to it. Adam desperately tries to help Barbara as her blood-curdling screams fill the room and Lydia is in complete shock of what's she's done. Just then, she and the others her Beetlejuice's disembodied voice confirm its an exorcism. He then arises from the ground donned in a red version of suit and quickly has everyone by his clutches and gives Lydia the choice of marrying him or everyone she loves will die. The fact that he's able to pull this off after being treated like a joke for most of the show really shows what Beetlejuice is capable of when he's getting serious.]]

** His whole scheme in "The Whole Being Dead Thing part 4", where he does his most villious deed in the show. [[spoiler:After tricking Lydia, to thinking she's doing a seance to summon back her dead mother, it turns out she was performing an exorcism and poor Barbara so happened to be the one victim to it. Adam desperately tries to help Barbara as her blood-curdling screams fill the room and Lydia is in complete shock of what's she's done. Just then, she and the others her Beetlejuice's disembodied voice confirm its an exorcism. He then arises from the ground donned in a red version of suit and quickly has everyone by his clutches and gives Lydia the choice of marrying him or everyone she loves will die. The fact that he's able to pull this off after being treated like a joke for most of the show really shows what Beetlejuice is capable of when he's getting serious.]]

* While it's particularly not very good for the people involved, just when Beetlejuice starts wrecking havoc you can't help but think it's somewhat awesome of how his presentation of it at the very least.

** They all launch into an over the top musical number that ends up convincing BJ that Lydia has genuinely fallen in love with him and wants to marry him, for real, to let him join the living. This includes massive overacting and lampshading how creepy the age difference is while giving each other secret signals, but he doesn't notice because they're laying it on so thick.

** When BJ objects at how easy it is, Adam claims to object to the wedding...because ''he's'' into BJ, kissing him. Then Barbara gets in on it.

** The wedding goes through and Betelgeuse is brought to life...only for Lydia to impale him through the chest shortly after. He dies, rising as a ghost again-a ''recently deceased'' ghost, which means they can send him back to the Netherworld ''permanently,'' as ghosts can't leave it once they've entered. Problem solved!
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** The wedding goes through and Betelgeuse is brought to life...only for Lydia to impale him through the chest shortly after. He dies, rising as a ghost again-a ''recently deceased'' ghost, which means they can send him back to the Netherworld. Problem solved!

** The wedding goes through and Betelgeuse is brought to life...only for Lydia to impale him through the chest shortly after. He dies and rises as a ghost again-a''recently deceased'' ghost, which means they can send him back to the Netherworld. Problem solved!

** The wedding goes through and Betelgeuse is brought to life...only for Lydia to impale him through the chest shortly after. As he's now a “recently deceased” ghost, they can send him to the Netherworld. Problem solved!