History TearJerker / Beetlejuice

--> '''Player:''' Coach... I don't think we survived that crash..

* 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, [[spoiler: Lyds isn't lost; she shows up a few seconds later with Lenore in tow.]]
* 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.
-->'''Beetlejuice:''' I guess you don’t have time for me anymore…\\
'''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?\\
'''Beetlejuice:''' ''(sadly takes the brooch)'' You don’t need the brooch, Babes. And you don’t need ''me''… ''(poofs away)''\\

** 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.
* 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.
** 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”.
--->'''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…

* 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 [[spoiler: how she comes to terms with it and decides to move on, not only for herself but for her father and Delia]].
* Lydia’s reaction when she finds out Charles and Delia are engaged.
-->'''Lydia:''' ''What''? Dad, no, you can’t do that!\\

'''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—\\
'''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!\\

'''Delia:''' Lydia, I know that you’re upset, okay? But, maybe this… is meant to be.\\

* 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.

* 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 ''[[AbusiveParents he wasn't lying]], [[KickTheDog she really is just as awful as he claimed.]]''

-->'''Adam:''' ''(realizes the room they're in is their own living room)'' Barb...we're home.
-->'''Barbara:''' Look at this place! Everything's different! All our furniture's gone!

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* During “Invisible”, 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.

-->'''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…

* 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 wife 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.

* 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 husband and his boyfriend 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.

* 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 during her final days, Emily tells him that they need to "hold to each other to live through it."He thought she meant him and her, but in truth, she was meaning him and Lydia.

* 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 during her final days, Emily tells him that they need to "hold to each other to live through it."He thought she meant him and her, but in truth, she was meaning him and Lydia.

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* The song "No Reason" implies Delia's life was pretty shitty before she met Charles and Lydia and she suffered from depression. When projecting onto Lydia, it includes the fact that: she woke up alone one morning, because her husband and his boyfriend 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.

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* The mournful rendition of "The Banana Boat Song" sums up the Maitlands' quandary: "Daylight comes and I wanna go ''home''..."

** While Donny is a {{Pollyanna}}, 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”.

** 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, everyone in her class (even ''Bertha and Prudence'') makes fun of her, and her own parents barely acknowledge her existence.