Not only that, he seems to love to scare people and pull pranks on them. Though he seems fun on screen, it is clear he is not a pleasant person to have around in real life, as he constantly invades people's personal space, does disgusting things like spitting in his own coat and makes rather rude gestures. However, Betelgeuse, with his higher voice on account of this, remarks this may look good for him in a supposed underwear modeling gig.īetelgeuse is a very rude, crude, and womanizing ghost. The Witch Doctor sprinkles some powder on Betelgeuse, which causes his head to shrink. Betelgeuse gets his comeuppance when he steals the Witch Doctor's ticket, then makes a boastful remark. In the end, Betelgeuse ends up in the waiting room for the deceased, where he is last in a long line. Things go bad when Betelgeuse starts scaring the Deetzes in ways that seriously harm them, and even worse, plans to marry Lydia as his way of 'escaping' the Neitherworld so he can wreak further havoc. Fortunately, saying his name 3 times can also be used to get rid of him.

When that happened he disappeared into dust.

The Maitlands summon him when they learn that he can be summoned if his name is said 3 times in a row. They thought it was odd that the business card and flyers contained no address or phone number. He went out on his own as a freelance bio-exorcist, claiming he could get rid of the living, and got into more trouble.īetelgeuse used advertisements (such as flyers, business cards and a commercial, where he said some questionable things about chewing and swallowing) to get the Maitlands to hire him as a 'bio-exorcist' to rid their house of the Deetzes. What is known for certain is that Juno warns that he is a troublemaker and does not work well with others.

This and other lines were improvised during filming and it is possible that the character of Betelgeuse was lying about certain elements of his past for comedic effect with the Maitlands. Parts of his qualifications including attending Julliard, graduating from Harvard, and extensive travel are all real life accomplishments. History (BJ1) Pre-Beetlejuice Īccording to Betelgeuse, he attended Julliard, is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, traveled quite extensively, lived through the Black Plague (and had a pretty good time during that), and has seen 'The Exorcist' about 167 times (and it keeps getting funnier every single time he's seen it, not to mention the fact they're talking to the dead guy). Note, in the first movie his name was spelled Betelgeuse.

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