Beetlejuice
Loosely based on the film of the same name, this show features Beetlejuice, a wild ghost from the "Neitherworld," and his mortal best friend, a young girl named Lydia.
- 1989-1991
- 4 seasons
- ABC
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
- TV-Y
Loosely based on the film of the same name, this show features Beetlejuice, a wild ghost from the "Neitherworld," and his mortal best friend, a young girl named Lydia.
Season 4 Episode Guide
65 Episodes 1991
Episode 1
You're History
Mon, Sep 9, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice is the host of a Neitherworld TV show featuring famous historical dead people as guests, but he has to contend with constantly fluctuating ratings and The Monster From Across The Street who's not happy that his favorite show has been bumped off the air to make room for Beetlejuice's.
Episode 2
Raging Skull
Tue, Sep 10, 1991 22 mins
Fitness freak Jacques LaLean enters the Mr. Neitherword Bodybuilding Bontest (with Beetlejuice as his manager), but there are problems: first, Jacques is a skeleton and has no body to build up and second, the current titleholder (who's held it for 399 years) isn't above cheating to keep his title.
Episode 3
Sore Feet
Wed, Sep 11, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice uses his feet in playing some of his daily pranks, but when he doesn't treat them with respect they decide they've had enough and literally run out on him.
Episode 4
Fast Food
Thu, Sep 12, 1991 22 mins
Both Lydia and Beetlejuice are strapped for cash, so they go into business together and open a hamburger stand selling beetle burgers. However, Scuzzo the Clown opens a competing stand across the road and starts stealing their customers. Soon, the Hamburger Wars begin to REALLY heat up!
Episode 5
Queasy Rider
Fri, Sep 13, 1991 22 mins
Dragster of Doom "Doomie" has too nice a personality for Beetlejuice's liking, so he returns to the Deserted Neitherworld Auto Factor as "Bee-gor" to create a newer, meaner, nastier ride. The new ride, a motorcycle, turns out to be even meaner and nastier than Beetlejuice ever expected, and poor neglected Doomie has been taken by a ring (literally!) of car strippers!
Episode 6
How Green Is My Gallery?
Mon, Sep 16, 1991 22 mins
Delia's art is a flop in Peaceful Pines, so Lydia and BJ decide to take her to a Neitherworld art colony, where her art will be truly appreciated. The trouble is, not only do they want her art on permanent display, they want her on display as well!
Episode 7
Keeping Up with the Boneses
Tue, Sep 17, 1991 22 mins
A snooty nouveau-rich husband and wife move next door to BJ's Roadhouse and, finding their new neighbors too poor and common, buy the Roadhouse and have them evicted. To get even, Beetlejuice gets a Monster Credit Card and a buying war ensues. But will Beetlejuice be able to eventually pay for all the things he's bought?
Episode 8
Pranks for the Memories
Wed, Sep 18, 1991 22 mins
BJ's got Scuzzo's brain, Scuzzo's got no brain, and Beetlejuice's brain is out to rule the Neitherworld.
Episode 9
Caddy Shock
Thu, Sep 19, 1991 22 mins
Even when playing golf, Claire Brewster is her usual obnoxious self, so Beetlejuice takes her and her opponent (Lydia) to the Neitherworld to play golf, but once there Claire becomes the trophy in the Neitherworld golf tournament.
Episode 10
Two Heads Are Better Than None
Fri, Sep 20, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice's head gets stuck to the Monster Across the Street's body.
Episode 11
Beauty and the Beetle
Mon, Sep 23, 1991 22 mins
Despite feeling extraordinarily self-conscious about her appearance, Lydia is kidnapped by a beast from the Neitherworld named "Thing Thong" who collects beautiful things because he thinks he's ugly. While being held hostage, Lydia decides to help give him self-confidence, while Beetlejuice tries to track Lydia down by disguising himself as famed explorer Grimdiana Bones.
Episode 12
Creepy Cookies
Tue, Sep 24, 1991 22 mins
When Lydia joins the Happy Faced Girls, Beetlejuice laughs until he finds out how much money a cookie drive can pull in. He rushes back to the Neitherworld where he assembles the Sappy Face Ghouls and gives them some of his homemade cookies to sell in Peaceful Pines. Too bad the cookies are haunted.
Episode 13
Poe Pourri
Wed, Sep 25, 1991 22 mins
Edgar Allen Poe stays at B.J.'s Road House, and agonizes over his lost Lenore so much that it irritates him, but since he keeps throwing money around in his direction, he tries to tolerate Poe's depression as best as he can.
Episode 14
Ear's Looking at You
Thu, Sep 26, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice goes film noir (but in color) as private detective "Sham Spade" and Lydia as his "Ghoul Friday" in a mystery involving a disembodied ear.
Episode 15
Beetlebones
Fri, Sep 27, 1991 22 mins
During a physical examination, Beetlejuice's skeleton become separated from his body, adopts a very snooty personality and goes off on his own, but unless Lydia can get them back together "Beetlebones" is likely to get picked up by The Bone Patrol!
Episode 16
Smell-A-Thon
Mon, Sep 30, 1991 22 mins
While Lydia works the phones at a local Save The Whales telethon, Beetlejuice gets an idea for another money-making scam involving a similar charity to "Save the Smells."
Episode 17
The Miss Beauty-Juice Pageant
Tue, Oct 1, 1991 22 mins
Since the winner of the Neitherworld Beauty Pageant will win a ton of money, naturally Beetlejuice tries to enter, but the contest is only open to women. Also naturally, this isn't going to stop him, so he leads a protest to allow men (and other things) to enter, and once in he'll do anything to make sure he wins.
Episode 18
Sappiest Place on Earth
Wed, Oct 2, 1991 22 mins
When the Happy Girls' outdoor excursion is rained out, Beetlejuice takes Lydia, Delia, Bertha and Prudence to a Neitherworld amusement park themed around Bartholomew Bat, an old Neitherworld cartoon character. But the black-and-white character has dark and sinister plans in hand, and soon Lydia is the only one left to stop him...
Episode 19
Brinkadoom
Thu, Oct 3, 1991 22 mins
In a spoof of "Brigadoon", Beetlejuice, Lydia and a damaged Doomie crash-land in a mysterious village that only appears once an eternity, and if they don't escape before all of the (Scottish-accented) village inhabitants fall asleep, they'll be trapped there forever!
Episode 20
Foreign Exchange
Fri, Oct 4, 1991 22 mins
Somehow Claire Brtewster has been put in charge of the school's Foreign Exchange Club, and selects a student from Scandanavia to come to Peaceful Pines. However, the student turns out to be female, nicer and more attractive than Claire, so a jealous Claire sets out to deliberately humiliate her. In retaliation Lydia, Beetlejuice and the rest of the Neitherworld gang decide to teach Claire a lesson by making her a foreign exchange student to "Scrungylvania" and making her follow all the "local customs".
Episode 21
Family Scare-looms
Mon, Oct 7, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice's parents have a chance to join the Neitherworld's Society of Oldest and Moldiest Families, but to prove their pedigree have to produce their family's (literal!) Coat of Arms, which is somewhere in Beetlejuice's possession. When cleaning Beetlejuice's room to find the Coat of Arms proves unsuccessful, Beetlejuice and Lydia must travel to the World of Lost Items and find it.
Episode 22
Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones
Tue, Oct 8, 1991 22 mins
When Lydia is chosen as the MC of her school's theater extravaganza (even though she's doesn't know how to be really funny), Beetlejuice tries to teach her how to be funny, with depressing results. Finally, he lends her his "funny bone". Problem is, once he doesn't have it his whole personality changes; plus, the bone has plans of its own...
Episode 23
Hotel Hello
Wed, Oct 9, 1991 22 mins
Poor nervous Charles is badly in need of rest and relaxation, so "Mr. Beetleman" books the Deetz family into the Hotel Hello resort in the Neitherworld. However, once there, the oblivious Delia becomes the unknowing target of a vampire count.
Episode 24
Goody Two-Shoes
Thu, Oct 10, 1991 22 mins
Friendly Neighbor Day in the Neitherworld is not going too well in Beetlejuice's neighborhood (thanks naturally to Beetlejuice), so good fairy Goody Two-Shoes is sent to make sure that everybody is nice to each other. However, it turns out that she is determined to make everybody toe HER line, and Beetlejuice must organize the neighborhood to stop her before her "goody two-shoes-ness" destroys them all.
Episode 25
Vidiots
Fri, Oct 11, 1991 22 mins
A video game called "Scourge" sucks Lydia and Beetlejuice into cyberspace, and they must outsmart the computer if they ever hope to escape.
Episode 26
Ship of Ghouls
Sat, Oct 12, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice illegally wins two tickets for an ocean cruise and takes Lydia on a very odd vacation on the high seas.
Episode 27
Poultrygeist
Tue, Oct 15, 1991 22 mins
"The Ghost with the Most", while trying to get some sleep, finds himself haunted by the most persistent, obnoxious and dangerous of all spirits...a poultrygeist! Nothing he can do will drive or keep the "fowl" pest away, so finally in desperation he turns to Lydia for help, but can even she do anything?
Episode 28
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Wed, Oct 16, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice gets depressed one day when none of his friends fall for his pranks. Believing that they'd be better off without him, Beetlejuice wishes that none of his friends had ever met him. After a strange man grants his wish and Beetlejuice sees how different things are without him, will he realize what an important role he plays in the lives of his friends?
Episode 29
Ghost Writer in the Sky
Thu, Oct 17, 1991 22 mins
Jealous over a Neitherworld "tell-all" author's success, Beetlejuice decides to write his own tell-all autobiography. The problem is, while it makes him a huge success, nothing in the book about his friends is true and Lydia isn't even mentioned!
Episode 30
Cabin Fever
Fri, Oct 18, 1991 22 mins
Lydia has developed measles, so Beetlejuice takes her to the Neitherworld to cure her with Neitherworld home remedies. However, while she is actually cured, Beetlejuice contracts Cabin Fever and both he and Lydia are quarantined! Now Lydia must find a way to cure Beetlejuice before the Cabin Fever drives him totally bonkers.
Episode 31
Highs-Ghoul Confidential
Mon, Oct 21, 1991 22 mins
While cleaning Beetlejuice's room, Lydia finds Beetlejuice's high school yearbook with a picture of him as Homecoming King and asks him to tell her all about it. The trouble is, the story he tells her isn't exactly the way it actually happened...
Episode 32
Rotten Sports
Tue, Oct 22, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice recruits Lydia to coach Team BJ in the Neitherworld All Ghoul Games. But the team is hopeless and the opposition is fierce. Can Lydia motivate her friends enough to even dream of winning, especially Beetlejuice, who's devoted all his time to product endorsements?
Episode 33
Mr. Beetlejuice Goes to Town
Wed, Oct 23, 1991 22 mins
When a highway project (okayed by a corrupt Mayor Maynot) threatens to destroy the roadhouse, Beetlejuice is persuaded to run for mayor against Maynot...and actually wins! However, once in office he falls victim to the same corruption and begins taking huge bribes. Now it's up to Lydia and the rest of the gang (who helped get him elected) to get Beetlejuice thrown OUT of office!
Episode 34
Time Flies
Thu, Oct 24, 1991 22 mins
It's Lydia and Beetlejuice's anniversary again, and he gives her a Neitherworld watch as a present. But time actually does fly in the Neitherworld and the watch flies away with Beetlejuice and Lydia in hot pursuit. They chase it to The Land of Time, where they are confronted by Grandfather Time. They manage to escape by stopping Grandfather Time's pendulum, but the consequences of meddling with time in Lydia's world include her not being able to remember Beetlejuice's name!
Episode 35
To Beetle or Not to Beetle
Fri, Oct 25, 1991 22 mins
Lydia has to write a report on Shakespeare, but can't seem to understand Shakespeare's work, so Beetlejuice takes her to the Neitherworld to meet Shakespeare's characters, who capture Lydia and demand that she write new plays for them to act in. Beetlejuice rescues her and takes her to see Shakespeare, who is suffering from a massive Writer's Block and hasn't been able to come up with new play ideas in over 400 years...
Episode 36
A Star Is Bored
Mon, Oct 28, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice is chosen to replace a film star in a major Neitherworld horror film, but the ensuing fame turns him into a total jerk. Lydia (and the director not letting him do what he does best) brings him to his senses, but he is trapped by his contract, so Lydia comes up with a plan to get him thrown off the film and replaced by the former star.
Episode 37
Oh, Brother!
Tue, Oct 29, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice's brother Donnie (whom everybody loves but Beetlejuice can't stand) comes for a visit, and his popularity among Beetlejuice's friends (and with Lydia) sends Beetlejuice into major depression.
Episode 38
Snugglejuice
Wed, Oct 30, 1991 22 mins
During a major Prankster competition, Beetlejuice is framed for Shop-lifting (literally!) by his opponent and sentenced to rehabilitation in Never-Never-Land, a place of saccharine sweetness where they are determined to break Beetlejuice's spirit...and actually succeed! Lydia finds out what has happened, but when she and "Snugglejuice" are brought back to Never-Never-Land, the beings in charge subject her to the same fiendish brainwashing treatment!
Episode 39
In the Schticks
Thu, Oct 31, 1991 22 mins
When Beetlejuice and Lydia pull a scam, Lydia gets sentenced to washing dishes at the Last Resort Resort on the River Schticks. Beetlejuice, haunted by memories of his Uncle Sid and Aunt Irma, who used to take him to the Last Resort Resort when he was a baby, rushes to Lydia's rescue. Can they survive the awful jokes that abound everywhere on the River Schticks?
Episode 40
Recipe for Disaster
Fri, Nov 1, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice (who can't stand healthy food) adds some Gore-egano to Lydia's Caesar salad, bringing it to life and determined to conquer the Neitherworld! Now Beetlejuice and Lydia must travel to A-Roma, a land of living vegetables, to stop veggie dictator Caesar Salad's evil plans.
Episode 41
Substitute Creature
Mon, Nov 4, 1991 22 mins
To counter the normal dullness of Lydia's school day, visiting "Professor Beetleberg" brings Lydia, Bertha, Prudence and Claire to the Neitherworld to visit History Land, an interactive museum of the Neitherworld's version of historical (and sometimes hysterical) events.
Episode 42
Ghoul of My Dreams
Tue, Nov 5, 1991 22 mins
The Monster and Monstress Across The Street have a major quarrel and split up. Now The Monster is miserable, and he's making his neighbors miserable as well! Beetlejuice must get the Monster and Monstress back together somehow, so he comes up with a plan to make the Monstress jealous...but it doesn't quite work out as planned.
Episode 43
Prairie Strife
Wed, Nov 6, 1991 22 mins
In a spoof of both "The Wizard of Oz" and "Shane", Beetlejuice, Lydia and Doomie travel to the Neitherworld's Mid-West to take over a dairy farm owned by Beetlejuice's Aunt Emma. Once there, Beetlejuice must contend with a Big Enchillada (literally!) who is determined to take over the whole territory, while Lydia is forced to become the town's new "School-marm". Beetlejuice is for taking the easy way out (taking the Enchillada's money and running), but Lydia (and Doomie) are ready to join the townspeople in fighting the bad guys.
Episode 44
Moby Richard
Thu, Nov 7, 1991 22 mins
Lydia decides to direct her own episode of "Disasterpiece Theater," with Beetlejuice in the starring role of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. But all may not go so well, when the haughty whale refuses to work with B.J., who lets his part go to his head and vows to rewrite the play his own way.
Episode 45
The Unnatural
Fri, Nov 8, 1991 22 mins
It's BJ's team against Scuzzo's team in the baseball event of the century. But after a few setbacks, that becomes Beetlejuice and Lydia, all alone, against Scuzzo's entire team. It's Sudden Death for the losers and who will those losers be?
Episode 46
Forget Me Nuts
Mon, Nov 11, 1991 22 mins
After being hit on the head by a falling satellite, Beetlejuice has (naturally!) somehow lost his memory, so he, Lydia and a Neitherworld psychiatrist must travel into Beetlejuice's body to his brain to try and unlock his memories. However, the journey through Beetlejuice's body in a miniaturized submarine won't be as easy as hoped for...
Episode 47
The Birdbrain of Alcatraz
Tue, Nov 12, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice is framed by Scuzzo the Clown for Joke-stealing, sentenced and sent "up the river" to prison. While Lydia tries on the outside to uncover the truth and get Beetlejuice freed, Beetlejuice must deal with a prison run by a most unusual warden, and his repeated escape attempts aren't exactly endearing him to the warden...
Episode 48
Generally Hysterical Hospital
Wed, Nov 13, 1991 22 mins
Lydia has hurt her foot but is scared of hospitals, so Beetlejuice takes her to Seizure's Palace, a Neitherworld hospital which seems more like a five-star Las Vegas hotel. However, when the hospital's planned Pay-per-View gets into trouble, the administrator plans to broadcast a substitute Main Event: A Total Body Transplant...with Lydia as the patient and Beetlejuice as the operating doctor!
Episode 49
Super Zeroes
Thu, Nov 14, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice tries to cash in on the superhero trend sweeping the Neitherworld by becoming UltraBeetleMan. With Lydia as his cub reporter sidekick, UBM sets out to thwart crime. Suddenly, Mt. Gushmore, Scumdon Bridge, the Fallen Arches of Triumph, the Awful Tower, and Lydia are shrunk by four menacing business tycoons. Can UBM save the day?
Episode 50
Beetle Geezer
Fri, Nov 15, 1991 22 mins
Lydia treats her grandmother as if she's too old to do anything, and Grandma gets sick of it. With the help of Beetlejuice (disguised as Mr. Beetleman's father Grandpa Beetleman), Grandma Deetz takes all the other disgruntled inhabitants of the old folk's home on a wild tour of the Neitherworld.
Episode 51
A Very Grimm Fairy Tale
Mon, Nov 18, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice is threatened into telling the Sappy Faced Ghouls a fairy tale, and they don't want to hear one they already know. But they know them all. BJ finally resorts to inventing a story on the spot, featuring himself, Lydia, Flubbo, and other Neitherworld characters.
Episode 52
Wizard of Ooze
Tue, Nov 19, 1991 22 mins
Yes, this is a spoof of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Lydia is Dorothy, BJ is the Scarecrow, Jacques is the Bone Woodsman, the Monster is the Lion, Ginger is Toto, and Claire is the Wicked Witch. But you'll never guess who's the Wizard.
Episode 53
What Makes BJ Run
Wed, Nov 20, 1991 22 mins
After a slight dip in the ratings, Mr. Monitor threatens to cancel Beetlejuice' show. BJ's negotiation attempt backfires and he gets fires, leaving Lydia to do a watered down version of their on her own. He then has to work his way up from the mail room. But soon his star is rising once more after stealing a co-workers new ideas for TV shows.
Episode 54
The Chromazone
Thu, Nov 21, 1991 22 mins
A female character in a Neitherworld B/W SF series has rebelled and taken over, and the show's Rod Serling-like writer/host turns to Beetlejuice for help. Can even The Ghost With the Most stop her or will Lydia save the show?
Episode 55
It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape
Fri, Nov 22, 1991 22 mins
A "dying" Cap'n Kidder's words send Beetlejuice, Lydia, Mayor Maynot and everyone else on a wild race to an island to get their hands on a giant dancing ape.
Episode 56
The Neitherworld's Least Wanted
Mon, Nov 25, 1991 22 mins
Four of Beetlejuice's worst enemies and the annoying Lipscum are organized together by a mysterious gangster named Mr. Big who's got BJ's number. His plan: trick BJ into separating his body parts and be unable to reunite them, until sundown destroys him. Naturally, Mr. Monitor is on the scene to gather ratings.
Episode 57
Don't Beetlejuice and Drive
Tue, Nov 26, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice's latest scam - phony Neitherworld driver's licenses. He is caught and sentenced to the Neitherworld Traffic School, but the "Dragnet"-type detectives after him are more interested in donuts than law enforcement.
Episode 58
Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest
Wed, Nov 27, 1991 22 mins
When a Neitherworld forest containing the most delicious beetles is threatened by Prince Don John and the Sheriff of Rotting-Ham, Lydia convinces Beetlejuice to become "Robbin'" Hood - but "outlaw" isn't so selfless.
Episode 59
Midnight Scum
Thu, Nov 28, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice's brother Donny has become an ecological terrorist (planting trees all over the Neitherworld), and when Mayor Maynot puts a bounty on Donny's head both Beetlejuice and a famous Neitherworld bounty hunter are in a race to get it!
Episode 60
Gold Rush Fever
Fri, Nov 29, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice has actually been bitten by the Gold Bug and caught Gold Fever, so Lydia, Jacques and Doomie have to help him find gold in order to be cured.
Episode 61
Relatively Pesty
Mon, Dec 2, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice inadvertently turns some ants into his aunts: Auntie Pasto, Auntie Social, Auntie Septic, and Honey Aunt. The Aunts promptly begin getting Beetlejuice and Lydia into trouble. If BJ can't get rid of them pronto, his landlord will throw him out.
Episode 62
King BJ
Tue, Dec 3, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice and Lydia go to visit Merlin and discover that the great magician is plotting to overthrow the King. But when BJ pulls the Board from the Bone, he becomes the new King, and Merlin summons the dreaded B.O. Wolf to wipe him out.
Episode 63
Catmandu Got Your Tongue
Wed, Dec 4, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice makes fun of Catmandu who then takes his tongue so he can't talk.
Episode 64
Journey to the Centre of the Neitherworld
Thu, Dec 5, 1991 22 mins
To get out of housework, BJ passes the time away telling Lydia about the time he and Jacques journeyed to the centre of the Neitherworld to rescue Vern Jewels, who was being held prisoner by Captain Nemo, who wanted to be rewritten into a hero role.
Episode 65
Not So Peaceful Pines
Fri, Dec 6, 1991 22 mins
Beetlejuice does the Mayor of Peaceful Pines a favour, but the Mayor reneges on his promise of a cash reward. So Beetlejuice, in a fit of anger, splits his personality into his good and his bad sides. The bad side wreaks havoc on the town and Lydia and the good side are forced to fetch Dr. Zigmund Void to help remedy the situation.