Beetlejuice Animated Series Discussion

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Optimus Solo Thompson. Hello. Hello, sir. Forgot

to delete the professor part. It was an old script

that I had to modify. So yeah, I forgot to...

Anyways, uh, yeah, we had a huge issue, scheduling

issue. with episode seventy nine this originally

isn't what it was supposed to be what it's going

to be now uh... and really honestly i don't remember

the cartoon that we were going to really cover

anyways uh... we'll get to it eventually but

yeah i know uh... last week in seventy and i

said that dungeons and dragons was going to come

up this week well we lied dungeon dragons has

a curse on it actually good because we've we've

had it like it Well mainly because of me, but

we've had it at like fifteen different spots

in the schedule. Yeah, really, it's all Kevin's

fault, honestly. I mean, really, because originally

Dungeons and Dragons was like fifty -something,

sixty -something. Now we can't put it back, move

it back, because originally I had Episode 7,

like one of the original scripts, or one of the

original schedules, I had had Episode 79 as the

USA Cartoon Express. and look where that is that

would that's a sixty seven yeah i don't know

that i didn't sixty seven and that was seventy

nine against what because goes like all i want

to watch the entire series of all on dvd so i

want to see it on and the dvd is packed with

special features Like, it's one of the best DVD

sets as far as bonus features go, so I wanted

a chance to watch them all and I just have not

got there. And Mike, for some reason, has never

seen the Dan cartoon. I think he was living in

a rocket at some point. I know of Dungeons &

Dragons. I know of the whole lore, the game and

everything else, and I know the fan following

it has and always had. But for some strange reason,

I never saw this cartoon as a kid. Of course,

we're not even talking about Dungeons & Dragons

today, but... It was just one of those cartoons

that I just I never saw and then you know I I

I'm gonna be watching some episodes eventually

but in preparation for potential 79 being Dungeons

and Dragons the only thing I could find on YouTube

at the time was the stupid ass intro I'm like

yeah Old man gets little kid to go on a roller

coaster ride and goes into some weird -looking

world And it just it that intro does not do the

show justice as far as I'm gonna It just doesn't

but no we had scheduling conflict because the

other coast I was gonna bring on was Michael

Wilson from toy cast and the beast on leash podcast

because He loved it. He loved Dungeons and Dragons

and it was pretty much gonna be Michael and Kevin

talking the whole time and me just kind of interjecting

rude comments throughout yes like always i'm

just kidding yeah i i i get a finger you can

look at right about now but uh... uh... so anyways

uh... today on tune cast for episode seventy

nine and we're going to be talking about that

animated horror beetle juice yes we are Don't

ask me why I picked this, ladies and gentlemen,

as a replacement. It was the only thing I could

think of to move scheduling around without having

to move entire spotlights and everything else.

It's worth talking about. I will completely admit

that this is filler. It is so filler. It's not

a horrible choice for filler, though. As far

as the topic goes, I'm not saying the cartoon's

great. You know Beetlejuice, there's a movie,

there's a cartoon, so it's worth mentioning.

Yeah, exactly. Alright, let's get into the history

lesson for Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, the animated

series, not to be confused with Beetlejuice the

movie, is an American -Canadian animated television

series loosely based on the film of the same

name. It aired from 1989 to 1991 and then from

1991 to 1998 in reruns. The television series

was produced by Nelvana for the Geffen Film Company.

distribution was handled by Warner Brothers Television.

It aired for a total of four seasons before it

went into reruns and it had a hundred and nine

episodes, so it did have quite a few episodes.

And we'll get into the voice cast here in a little

bit, but did you watch this show at all when

you were a kid? I remember it vaguely, but it

wasn't something that I watched all the time.

The only reason why I remember is because I had

seen the movie. We had seen the movie and my

sister was into the cartoon because it kind of

came within a few years after the movie. She

was into the cartoon so I kind of saw it when

she was watching it but it was never something

that I was necessarily interested in. Yeah, it

wasn't something that I absolutely had to watch.

It was something where it was like, oh, I love

the movie because the movie is awesome and there's

a cartoon series of it. My only complaint now,

really, about this series is why the hell didn't

they get Michael Keaton to voice Beetlejuice?

I mean, Stephen Oniette or whatever the hell

his name is, this guy, he does a fairly decent

copycat of Keaton, but still, it's no Michael

Keaton. Yeah. No, I agree. Basically, this is...

done by the exact same it seems it must have

been casting must have been done by the same

people that did cops same people that did uh...

the raccoons and the i believe the arches you

know on one of those because it has almost a

good will not be exact same voice cast but there

is like a half a dozen people that are in all

those shows so that i mean i'm so i'm assuming

they're all the car canadian -based voice cast

we'll get to them a little bit later but i i

think it's a decent uh... A decent spin -off

of the movie, like it does capture some of the

stuff. I mean, it's not as good as the movie

by any means whatsoever, but you know, it does

take, you know, what the movie was kind of supposed

to be about and kind of turns it into a decent,

I mean, not decent cartoon, but it does kind

of retell or capture that horror, spooky, gross

like vibe. Yeah. even though I'm not a huge fan

of it. Well to me the animation in this it's

almost like a the link between like the animation

style that I love of the 80s and then the crappy

animation that i hate that comes later in the

nineties it's it's kinda like a link between

those two because it has a little bit of both

crappy animation in the nineties what are you

talking about or the the the two thousands uh...

you know stuff like dexter's and hey hey hey

watch it we're just saying like the powerpuff

girls the dexter's that type of animation that

i absolutely hate it see i didn't see that at

all in this it seems like it has bits of that

mixed in with eighties cool animation just to

me Yeah, so I guess we can get into the characters

and voice actors here Beetlejuice obviously the

main and title character of the show Beetlejuice

often addressed just as Bee or Beej or Beejay

by Lydia is able to change shape transform objects

teleport and perform other feats of magic although

his powers can be reduced by various circumstances

such as encounters with Sand worms despite the

fact that he has enough power to subdue them

with ease or when his head Becomes separated

from his body at times He must pause to think

of exactly how to use his powers to escape a

precarious situation unscathed his name derives

from the star beetle Jews Which is on the shoulder

of the constellation Orion? Like I said before

It's an animated version of Michael Keaton's

character. Yeah, and it looks it looks pretty

good. It looks pretty good I think it's a little

bit over the top. Oh, yeah, I think what I think

they might have been afraid to make it quite

as as As real as the movie. Yeah, so making it

into a kid's cartoon. They kind of went Almost

too far to make it, you know Not as scary looking

but I still think it does a pretty I think the

looks of all the characters are pretty accurate

As far as making cartoon versions of those people.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah and and you know, like you

said that the guy does a pretty good job imitating

Michael Keaton and You know, obviously Bealejuice

is the main character and then the show is either

gonna be successful or not based on him And you

know since it was around for a hundred and some

episodes enough people must have been watching

it that it was somewhat you know somewhat popular

but you know i thought that i thought he did

a decent job of capturing you know the essence

of beetle juice yeah no it's a little bit crazy

it's not just a little bit it's a lot crazy yeah

and i also think they did a good job with the

second character lydia you know that's exactly

what i would have expected her to look like in

cartoon form well i mean it pretty much takes

off the movie directly yeah so i mean Yeah, for

those of you that don't know who Lydia is she's

the goth girl that is a Beetlejuice's main compadre

I guess what you can call her She's in her preteens

at the start of the series So she's the one that

kind of hangs around Beetlejuice the whole time

and helps him through different problems or whatever

happens Yeah And those are the main two characters,

I mean the rest of the characters are almost

You know, like you said inconsequential. Yeah

Some show up more than others. Obviously, Lydia's

parents show up more than the majority of the

other people, but they usually just have little

small bits and parts. Yeah, I mean, see, this

is a cartoon where there is no clear -cut hero

or villain. I mean, you have main character Beetlejuice,

you have sidekick or slash secondary main character

Lydia, and it's pretty much the two of them,

the adventures that they have. It's not really

so much as Beetlejuice has to fight to save the

netherworld against Glomgoal or something like

that. I don't know It's basically just like a

random event happens in each episode where he

comes across some type of weird monster creature

You know something from the netherworld and you

know, it's just him and Lydia basically. Yeah

And I honestly I watched like four or five episodes

today. I watched the pilot and I watched A couple

other ones and I don't remember any of these

people I watched episode 2 of the first season

which was one where they were on like a game

show type thing and they were trying to be the

grossest like it was Beetlejuice against this

other creature they were trying to be the grossest

or whatever but it was so distracting because

the announcer or the not the announcer but the

host for the game show was Len Carlson was doing

his voice and he was using Big Boss's voice like

to a T like it was the exact Big Boss voice from

the show Cops. So it was kind of distracting.

I'm like, why is Big Boss here? But it was a

decent episode. Yeah, let's talk about the actual

casting here. Outside of Len Carlson and Tara

Strong. Oh wow, Tara Strong was in this? Yeah.

The cops people just so I can back up what I

said before Elizabeth Hanna was on cops. Yeah,

Len Carlson Paulina Gillis Ron Rubin Dan Hennessey

and John Stocker were all on cops. Yeah, they're

all in the show. So yeah I don't know much about

Stephen Omet except for he was in something DC

related Think it was DC related. He was in Oh,

no, he was in X -Men As Archangel Warren Worthington

the 92 X -Men show That's the only way I've even

heard of his name The rest of them besides those

cops people. I don't I don't think I recognize

any of them. Holy crap Wow, that's I love the

X -Men cartoon but Never knew that that was hit

a while. That's oh, I do recognize one other

name or two other names. I'm sorry I recognize

Don Frank's obviously yeah, and Headley Kay.

Yeah, so those are the only two names outside

the cops names that I recognize And Alison court

does Lydia Dietz she didn't do anything on cops,

but she was on I believe the Archie show or something

like that And then Elizabeth Hannah and Roger

Dunn are the parents yeah of Lydia so other than

that it's all kind of guest roles or maybe a

few recurring roles yeah pretty much um and you

know fairly decent voice cast i mean yeah i mean

they definitely had a lot of work in the 80s

yeah it it it's not like you know say uh mortal

combat defenders of the realm was that not a

good voice cast It was a good voice cast, but

it was probably a bad script because Clancy Brown

sounds like... He doesn't even sound like he's

supposed to sound like as far as, you know, actual

acting. It just doesn't... You know, when I think

Clancy Brown, I think, you know, DCAU likes Luthor

or something similar to that, and I forget what

role... Oh, he plays Raiden in that. that's okay

and it's like it just Clancy Brown's voice does

not lend itself to Raiden whatsoever yeah it

doesn't sound I would never picture that either

basically in the 80s you either had a unknown

voice cast or you had a voice cast that could

directly tie itself to cops or you had the voice

cast that could directly tie itself to like Transformers

GI Joe Yeah, like those are like the three options

basically this is the the cops one is the Canadian

crew that was popular in the 80s the GI Joe Transformers

is the American crew that was popular in the

80s and if you didn't have those two you probably

had a bunch of unknowns. Yeah Yeah, pretty much.

It's like it's like a whatever seven degrees

of Kevin Bacon or whatever You can always trace

it back to either cops or GI Joe Transformers

better than G .I. Joe. That's scary, but yeah.

Getting into the behind the, or well, who's your,

obviously, who's your favorite character before

we go on here? I don't mind Lydia. I actually

like her. She's... I like, Beetlejuice better

in a movie. I think I like Lydia better in a

cartoon. Well, the thing about the cartoon, obviously

the movie was just, it was one, however long

it was, one film, so we didn't really get a whole

lot to Lydia and the cartoon of course having

109 episodes we get a lot more of her and I tend

to agree with you. And I think in the cartoon

she kind of balances Beetlejuice. Like it's not

so in -your -face horror, scaredy, you know,

shocking things. She brings it back to earth

a little. Yeah, yeah. So Lydia in the cartoon,

Beetlejuice in the movie. Yeah, there we go.

Getting into the behind the scenes segment, as

far as the series humor. relied heavily on sight

gags, wordplay, and elusiveness. The show was

what has been called a bimodal, meaning that

it could be viewed on one level by small children

and on a completely different and much more sophisticated

level by adults, which made it appealing to a

wide range of age groups. Many episodes, especially

towards the end of the run, were a manifest of

parodies of famous films, books, TV shows, The

humor was kept clean in that it didn't involve

sex, drugs, or alcohol. In one episode set in

an old western town, Beetlejuice makes the meta

-fictional remark that the town doesn't have

a saloon because of the time slot, also which

breaks the fourth wall. Throughout the series,

Beetlejuice would often try to scam residents

of another world, and sometimes the real world,

as litty as parents were occasional unwitting

victims of his pranks. by the various means from

babysitting in which he literally sits on a grotesque

netherworld babies to trying to beat them in

an auto race. It was also revealed that Beetlejuice

is afraid of and vulnerable to one thing above

all, sand worms. That was hinted at in a single

line of the dialogue in the movie, but it was

much expanded on in the series. Sand worms are

huge purple and green snake -like creatures with

two pairs of eyes and stegosaurus -like spines

on their backs. Beetlejuice also has major aversion

to anything nice or worse sweet, although according

to one novelization, Lydia's scream date, he

is safe full of bars of orange chocolate. Um...

and the series was as far as like when the series

was on and what it was on it was a breakout hit

for abc in its initial season and later became

one of the first animated series actually to

air on fox's weekday afternoon children's lineup

which led to a situation whereby beetlejuice

was being seen monday through friday on fox while

still remaining on abc's saturday morning schedule

making it one of the few shows in american television

history to be aired concurrently on two different

broadcast networks beetlejuice has aired and

reruns on nickelodeon and cartoon network where

the movie aired and will air on Warner Brothers

and AOL's Toontopia TV. The series currently

airs on Teletoon Retro in Canada. I can't believe

this was an ABC show. I can't believe it was

Fox or I could believe it was Nickelodeon. Not

ABC. Not ABC. Not any of the major networks you

wouldn't think of at the time and Fox was not

a major network at that time. Well, it was trying

to make it at 89 to 91 they were they were becoming

right Yeah, and that like it was their process

So that's why they were experimenting with all

kinds of things and taking risks But they weren't

like an established network like ABC CBS or NBC

and see that's the thing this thing started out

at ABC which is an established network which

kind of really surprises me because I mean ABC

is I mean, obviously, American Broadcasting Company,

but they're known for their family stuff. I mean,

they're known to not have stuff like Beetlejuice,

for Christ's sake. As far as the opening introduction,

there are three different opening introductions.

The first one aired on ABC with alternate animation.

For example, Beetlejuice is producing strips

on his clothes. The second one is used on the

Fox Kids WB syndication, which is the current

one they use today, and is more popular. It's

a favorite, for example, Beetlejuice Rises from

the Grave as a corpse. The third one is used

when Fox reran Beetlejuice. None of the intros

are very good though. No, they all suck. And

the theme song sucks. Yeah. i think this is the

only time in turncast history that i will actually

admit that a theme song really really sucks cause

this one does it does i don't recognize any of

the directors on this i don't either the only

writers i recognize are marty eisenberg and that's

robert instill holy crap no that's not that's

not the same one though it is i don't think so

it doesn't list him as anything to do with these

words when you look them up on imdb robert and

scare that is that's beast machines not be stores

or beastish it doesn't come up with him it comes

up with a different person on imdb i'm dvd is

wrong just telling you uh... but actually i do

want to mention the producer of this whole thing

uh... timberton this i think you'll choose is

the only franchise of timbered or only thing

that timber never did that i can actually watch

I am not a Tim Burton fan. I freaking hate stuff

like the Corpse Bride and the Nightmare Before

Christmas or whatever the other one was like,

I don't know. I don't like Tim Burton at all,

but I do Like to me Bealejuice is his best work

Maybe not the cartoon, but the movie but just

this whole franchise is probably where he should

have stopped You know a lot of people like Tim

Burton I am NOT one of them And the reason why

the Robert N. Skeer on IMDB doesn't list Beast

Machines is because under Beast Machines he's

listed as Bob Skeer. No, because I'm friends

with him on Facebook and it is the guy that wrote

Beast Machines. Are you a Tim Burton fan? I just

don't like the animation style he does. On those

movies. Yeah. See, it's funny with Tim Burton

because I look at like say Batman 89 and I liked

it as a kid. I don't necessarily like it now.

Like if I was going to sit through it I would

probably end up skipping a few scenes. Oh, I

should say I like Edward Scissorhands, too. Edward

Scissorhands was good. Edward Scissorhands and

Beetlejuice, and then he did Batman right after

that, and then it seemed like it was just Nightmare

Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach,

Mars Attacks. I don't like any of those. I love

Mars Attacks. That's hilarious. Mars Attacks

is awesome. Well, most of the stuff I don't like.

I don't like the stuff he does like the Corpse

Bride where it's just animated slash. Right,

yeah. I don't know if it's a little CGI or whatever

it is. It's just I don't like that. I'd rather

him just do like live action stuff. Right right

see the thing with me is and I what I don't like

about Tim Burton is It's like he and Johnny Depp

are like like like tied to each other like you

know basically knotted at the hip because almost

every film Tim Burton does no matter what the

subject matter is fucking Johnny Depp is in it

Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Ed Wood, Alice

in Wonderland There's two scary -sounding titles

that Tim Burton's got coming up in the next couple

years. One of them is called Frankenweenie, and

one of them is called Abraham Lincoln Vampire

Hunter. Yeah. That says it all right there. When

you have titles like Frankenweenie and Abraham

Lincoln Vampire Hunter, you know you're not all

there. Tim Burton has officially jumped the shark,

I think. That's just bizarre. Yes, I know that's

what some people like about him, but for me it's

it's anybody can be absolutely ridiculous and

do stuff that makes no sense I Don't know he's

office rocker Yeah, he is very much so Yeah as

far as like the other these other writers and

stuff it's like They must not have done a lot

of stuff that we watched or something must not

have I mean, and even stuff that we didn't know,

like going through, I mean, this is the 79th

episode. Yep. I mean, we've looked at a lot of

lists of writers and directors, and for these

not to be even familiar to some of the other

lists is kind of like... I mean, you know, like

you said, Bob Skewer and... Marty Eisenberg.

And Marty Eisenberg, that's it. And the only

reason why we know those is because of Transformers.

Yeah. and of course you know as far as producers

you know tim burton but i mean other than that

there's nobody on those lists that i even remotely

recognize which is no offense to them but no

no it isn't well i seriously doubt they're gonna

listen to that we don't know them i'm sure they

don't know us so seriously doubt they're gonna

listen to this uh... why don't you uh... tell

us about some of the differences as far as getting

into the actual show between the animated series

in the live action films yeah basically i mean

the premise of the animated series is a very

much different from the film to the point where

one only superficially resemble the other basically

in the film field use was the antagonist who

ended up nearly a marina disgusted lydia in the

series their best friends uh... and lydia something

about a social myth that missed in the living

world frequently visits him in the afterlife

during a free time the mainland's most significant

characters in the film are nowhere to be found

in the TV series and unlike the mind -numbing

bureaucracy that is in the movie the afterlife

was converted into the netherworld which is a

bizarre and humorous parody of the living world

and the fact that is being the afterlife only

rarely mentioned and the living world was referred

to once or twice as the outer world so the whole

netherworld slash afterlife was completely different

in the two things also in the series the title

character is spelled actual we would spell it

Beetlejuice whereas in the film it's spelled

like the constellation was spelled. I didn't

realize that. I didn't realize that either. We'll

see the thing is I have the DVD and on the DVD

the title of the movie and the title of the cartoon

is Beetlejuice. Gotcha. So you know it's not

the constellation spelling at all. Right and

the town where the Dietzes live is different

and they both have different names in the film

and the series one is called Peaceful Pines the

other is called Winter River. Um, so there's

just, you know, there's a lot of like little

differences, um, Adam and Barbara, uh, Maitland,

like we said, you know, they're not in the series.

So there's just certain, certain big differences

between the film and, and the series for sure.

Yeah. And really only, uh, Beetlejuice's use

of two of his lines from the film so often they've

become catchphrases. One is it's show time and

often yelled triumphantly. The other is save

that guy for later in the film referring to a

piece of Feligum and he hawked into his or phlegm

he walked into his jacket pocket and series usually

a bug yeah okay then yeah as far as episode formula

the episodes generally centered around the ghostly

conman Beetlejuice his best and only true friend

Lydia and their adventures together in both another

world and the real world a fictional New England

town called Peaceful Pines Winter River in the

film, as you said, Beetlejuice's core character,

that of a ghostly con artist, reminisced fundamentally

on the same as in the original movie, but was

considerably softened from maliciousness to pranksterism.

Nor is the... What? Nor in the series did he

display the rampant lechery he did in the film.

So he wasn't as touchy -feely as he was in the

film. Yeah, although we've been seen oogling

particularly gorgeous ghouls from time to time.

Yeah. Ladies characters portrayed as an upbeat

goth girl who likes quote -unquote weird stuff

from spiders to Sloppy horror movies as in the

film Lydia could summon Beetlejuice out of the

netherworld or go there herself by calling his

name three times Sometimes as a as part of a

set chant which That's the longer incantation

of it Obviously, it is just easy to say his name.

It's just easier to say his name three times,

right? You know basically it's like we said the

formula for the episode is they they meet up

and they they do some type of prank or go through

some type of event in the netherworld That's

the gist of it. You've seen well, even though

each episode is different, you know, it's basically

the same thing. Yeah uh Getting to the music

segment. Uh, I didn't actually grab who did the

music for this. I know I know Danny Elfman might

have Yeah, I think I think that's who I saw listed.

Yeah, I think he was part of it along with Tim

Burton. But like we said, this is easily the

worst. Out of the 99 cartoons we're going to

talk about on this show, this is easily the worst

theme out of all of them. It's close. If it's

not worse, it's in the worst. I'd have to look

at every single one, but it's probably the worst.

It is the worst. It's definitely in the worst

of them. Yes, very much so Moving into the legacy

segment. Um, yeah, there's no way I am DB or

not. I am DB There's no way IGN is touching this

cartoon Although I'm surprised. This is probably

something that they probably like over there

There's been a lot of merchandise, though, for

the Beetlejuice stuff. Trading cards, sticker

albums, jigsaw puzzles, books, coloring books,

lunch boxes, thermos sets. It was big at the

time. Like I said, my sister was probably the

right age for it, and she was big time into it,

at least for a little while. Even some little

PVC figures from Burger King. and kenner the

company behind the builders movie action figures

had begun developing figures for the animated

series but the project did not uh... end up going

through uh... at least one prototype for the

ill -fated question has been showcased online

now so i guess if you're a die -hard fan you

could you pay a ton of money for maybe and uh...

yes far as the uh... home video release warner

brothers released most of the first season of

the show on six video cassettes by december twenty

first nineteen ninety three On September 16,

2008, three episodes, Aha! Skeletons in the Closet

and Spooky Boutique were released serving as

bonus features on the Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary

Deluxe Edition DVD. As of 2009, this is the only

DVD release of the series and no plans for a

full DVD release of the series have yet been

announced. You know, somehow I'm not surprised

and I'm actually kinda glad. Yeah, well, I mean,

you would think any show that has had over a

hundred episodes would be popular enough to have

a DVD release, but the thing is Beetlejuice had

a certain window in time where it was popular,

and to me, it's basically something that has

basically died. I mean, most of these shows that

have like 90, 100, 150 episodes have a cult following

of some sorts, like you know, like Transformers,

G .I. Joe, which are obviously close to a hundred,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, even some of like

the Muppet, you know, stuff like that. I had

a lot of episodes that kind of has a cult following.

But to me, Beetlejuice basically had a certain

so many years that it was going to be popular.

And then since then, it has died. Yeah. There's

there's no cult following for Beetlejuice that

I've ever heard of. And I have to fully admit

that. When replacing replacing Dungeons and Dragons

with this I fully admit I didn't even think to

look at the damn DVD because I have the movie

Three hilarious episodes from the animated Beetlejuice

TV series. I didn't even think to do that You

fool well, I didn't know they were on here. I

just got the movie for the movie. I didn't get

it for there is a there is more of a cult following

I think for the movie oh yeah you know obviously

but the series it's like it just wasn't it just

hasn't lived oh yeah it died it died a bad death

a long time ago yes very much so I don't think

we're ever gonna see it on DVD but no who knows

yeah I doubt it so we're gonna go to some clips

and we'll be back after this that Justin Bieber's

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Tooncast! What about Tooncast? So, final thoughts

on Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice... Oh

Jesus, um... No, I think the reasoning or the

idea to have a Beetlejuice cartoon was justified

based on the popularity of the movie. It was

worth a shot. Plus, it seems like it would have

been something... Content wise and and and with

the the character and the premise that it would

have lent itself Well to be a cartoon because

obviously you can do a lot of stuff easier on

a cartoon than you can in live -action Yeah,

which is probably why it lasted for a hundred

and some episodes. But uh to me I watched it

a little bit as as a youngster I I don't have

any desire to watch it again It wasn't something

that I was super interested in back then and

to me even though it's still it's not like it's

not dated Too much except for when they get into

a parodying the different TV shows and books

and movies of the time Yeah, but I don't know.

It's just something that for me It's not on my

list of things to to watch or to try to buy if

it would ever come out on DVD Yeah, I am Since

we're kind of you know, we're talking about the

animated series, but we've also mentioned the

movie a few times I think one of the reasons

why Leah's Cartoon version was had a red smock

looking thing over herself or whatever it was

Was because at least looking at the DVD cover

of the film. She has a red dress on Okay, so

maybe that was a way for them to incorporate

that the other thing It really surprises me because

recently and this is completely having nothing

to do with Beetlejuice But recently I bought

Toy Story 3 on iTunes And I just realized something

Michael Keaton went from Beetlejuice to Batman

to a girl's toy That's true he is Ken in in Toy

Story 3 and I I just Didn't like I had seen all

the Toy Story 3 stuff like all the you know features

and Whatever else as far as them talking like

because Toy Story 3 and Disney Pixar and all

that stuff They have YouTube channels so they

would show like little excerpts from it and I

I didn't even tie in that Michael Keaton was

playing Ken and Jodie Benson was playing Barbie

which Jodie Benson obviously was the voice of

Ariel from Little Mermaid and I bought the movie

on iTunes this past week, and I watched it through

and I'm like oh holy crap Yeah, that's Batman

Batman and Beetlejuice are Ken. Holy crap Yeah,

very very bizarre We have anything else we want

to talk about really quick before I close this

No, I Don't I don't I can't think of anything

Beetlejuice has drained my brain cells Wow, be

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