The following post contains SPOILERS for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and should be read after you see the movie, possibly while sitting in an underworld waiting room for all of eternity.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice arrived in theaters 36 years after the original movie. There’s a huge percentage of the audience for the new film — which once again stars Michael Keaton as the title character, opposite Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe — that never got to see the first Beetlejuice on a big screen. There’s a huge percentage of the audience for the new film that wasn’t even born when it came out! Time is a cruel mistress to those of us who are not bio-exorcists.
So it might have been prudent for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to keep the original film at sandworm’s length; to not tie itself too closely to the first movie or its continuity. Tim Burton went in a different direction, not only continuing the old Beetlejuice’s story in the sequel, but also including a ton of Easter eggs, references, and subtle nods to the first film, to Burton’s wider filmography, and to other old movies and TV shows as well.
Here are 16 such Easter eggs we found in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; if you spot one we missed, let us know on social media. All you have to do to get us to respond is say the name of our social media manager out loud three times.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Easter Eggs: All the References You Missed
Here are all the jokes, callbacks, and homages to the original Beetlejuice (and other movies and TV shows).
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Jokes In the Original Beetlejuice That Won’t Fly in the Sequel
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