Beetlejuice - Season 4

Beetlejuice - Season 4

Season 4

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Episodes65
DatesSept. 9, 1991 - Dez. 6, 1991
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Episodes

You're History
Season 4Episode 130 min

You're History

Beetlejuice gets a bunch of famous dead historical figures to appear on Neitherworld TV.
Sept. 9, 1991
Raging Skull
Season 4Episode 230 min

Raging Skull

Jacques tries to achieve his afterlife-long dream of becoming Mr. Neitherworld, with one obstacle: namely, Armhold Musclehugger, the current reigning King of Fitness. How can someone with no muscles possibly compete with someone built like a Greek god?
Sept. 10, 1991
Sore Feet
Season 4Episode 330 min

Sore Feet

Beetlejuice's feet decide they aren't being treated right and strike out on their own. BJ must find them before they get themselves in trouble.
Sept. 11, 1991
Fast Food
Season 4Episode 430 min

Fast Food

It's BJ and Lydia's Frankenburgers vs. Scuzzo's Clown Burgers in the biggest fast-food-fight of the century.
Sept. 12, 1991
Queasy Rider
Season 4Episode 530 min

Queasy Rider

Beetlejuice gets tired of Doomie's tendency to be nice, so he builds a new vehicle: Road Hawg, the meanest chopper around, but Doomie's the only one who can save BJ from Road Hawg's vicious new gang.
Sept. 13, 1991
How Green Is My Gallery
Season 4Episode 630 min

How Green Is My Gallery

Delia's art is a flop in Peaceful Pines, so Delia and BJ decide to take her to a Neitherworld art colony, where her art will be truly appreciated. But with the good comes the bad!
Sept. 16, 1991
Keeping Up with the Boneses
Season 4Episode 730 min

Keeping Up with the Boneses

When BJ's new, rich neighbours move in, Beetlejuice goes out and gets himself a Monster Charge Card so he can have a bigger house and more stuff. But when the repo men arrive, BJ has to make a tough choice.
Sept. 17, 1991
Pranks for the Memories
Season 4Episode 830 min

Pranks for the Memories

BJ's got Scuzzo's brain, Scuzzo's got no brain, and BJ's brain is out to rule the Neitherworld. Get it?
Sept. 18, 1991
Caddy Shock
Season 4Episode 930 min

Caddy Shock

Lydia is stuck competing against Clare in her school's golf P.E. course (hey, it's a private school, after all), and Clare just happens to be the reigning teen golf champ of Peaceful Pines. In an attempt to help Lydia out, BJ teleports Clare to a Neitherworld country club, where she is turned into a golf trophy. Now Beetlejuice and Lydia have to win the golf tournament and get Clare back.
Sept. 19, 1991
Two Heads Are Better Than None
Season 4Episode 1030 min

Two Heads Are Better Than None

Beetlejuice says the wrong thing and gets his head put onto the Monster's body--now the Monster's got two heads, and BJ's body is left to wander.
Sept. 20, 1991
Beauty and the Beetle
Season 4Episode 1130 min

Beauty and the Beetle

Coincidentally on the very same day Lydia has doubts about her own beauty, the great beast Thing Thong, who steals beautiful things because he feels he is himself ugly, kidnaps her. While Lydia helps Thong find confidence in himself, Beetlejuice tries to 'save' her in the guise of the famed adventurer Grimdiana Bones.
Sept. 23, 1991
Creepy Cookies
Season 4Episode 1230 min

Creepy Cookies

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!
Sept. 24, 1991
Poe Pourri
Season 4Episode 1330 min

Poe Pourri

Edgar Allen Poe comes to BJ's Roadhouse in search of his lost Lenore. This is followed by a series of nightmares Beetlejuice experiences that are loosely based on Poe's works.
Sept. 25, 1991
Ear's Looking at You
Season 4Episode 1430 min

Ear's Looking at You

A Sam Spade spoof featuring two ears cut off from a family fortune.
Sept. 26, 1991
Beetlebones
Season 4Episode 1530 min

Beetlebones

Beetlejuice's sophisticated skeleton escapes from his skin and runs off. Lydia, Jacques, and BJ's skin must recapture Beetlebones--before the Skeleton Crew does.
Sept. 27, 1991
Smell-a-Thon
Season 4Episode 1630 min

Smell-a-Thon

When BJ finds out about the Save-The-Whales Telethon Lydia is involved in, he gets an idea: hold his own telethon and make a fortune! So he holds a Save-The-Smells Telethon to do just that--until he actually, truly, begins to believe in his cause. Who would have thought? Apparently nobody, because when the telethon money mysteriously disappears, Public Opinion rises squarely against Beetlejuice.
Sept. 30, 1991
The Miss Beauty-Juice Pageant
Season 4Episode 1730 min

The Miss Beauty-Juice Pageant

Beetlejuice wants to enter the First Neitherworld Beauty Pageant (the prize is a Ton O' Cash), but is turned down because he's a man. Determined to win the prize, BJ launches a ""Men Are Beautiful Too"" campaign, closely followed by a ""Disgusting Is Beautiful Too"" campaign. Finally, the pageant is opened to everybody. But if everybody is in the pageant, who's left to even watch it?
Okt. 1, 1991
Sappiest Place on Earth
Season 4Episode 1830 min

Sappiest Place on Earth

When the Happy Face Girls' outing is called on account of rain, BJ (as Denmother MacCree) takes them to Grislyland, the Neitherworld's newest theme park. But Grislyland's patron cartoon character, Bartholomew Batt, is out for more than a profitable enterprise...Why? Because he's a typical cartoon villain, that's why!
Okt. 2, 1991
Brinkadoom
Season 4Episode 1930 min

Brinkadoom

BJ, Lydia, and Doomie accidentally tumble into Brinkadoom, a cursed village which disappears for an eternity as soon as all its inhabitants fall asleep. Can they find their way out before that happens?
Okt. 3, 1991
Foreign Exchange
Season 4Episode 2030 min

Foreign Exchange

When a beautiful Scandinavian exchange student arrives at Miss Shannon's school, Clare thinks she will burst with envy--until she relieves her fury by embarrassing the exchange student in front of everybody. To get even, Lydia and BJ send Clare to be an exchange student herself--in the Neitherworld.
Okt. 4, 1991
Family Scarelooms
Season 4Episode 2130 min

Family Scarelooms

BJ's parents want to join the Society for the Oldest and Moldiest Families of the Neitherworld, but they need the Juice family coat of arms to prove their lineage. Unfortunately, the coat is somewhere in BJ's room, which hasn't been cleaned in, well...apparently it hasn't been cleaned.
Okt. 7, 1991
Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones
Season 4Episode 2230 min

Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones

Lydia is to MC at her school's talent night, but she's afraid she isn't funny enough. So--BJ lends her his funny bone. But what's Beetlejuice without a funny bone??
Okt. 8, 1991
Hotel Hello
Season 4Episode 2330 min

Hotel Hello

Charles really needs a weekend to relax, so Mr. Beetleman takes the Deetzes to Hotel Hello in the Neitherworld. But with Charles stressing out over every little thing, not to mention a vampire after Delia's neck, what kind of vacation will it turn out to be?
Okt. 9, 1991
Goody Two Shoes
Season 4Episode 2430 min

Goody Two Shoes

It's 'Good Neighbor Day' in the Neitherworld, when being nice is a law. Of course, BJ won't stand for it, and causes trouble...which lures in Goody Two Shoes, a Fairy from the Bureau of Sweetness and Prissiness (BSnP). With a wave of her wand, Goody turns everyone into denizens of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood--what a fate!
Okt. 10, 1991
Vidiots
Season 4Episode 2530 min

Vidiots

A video game called Scourge sucks Lydia and Beetlejuice into cyberspace, and they must outsmart the computer if they ever hope to escape.
Okt. 11, 1991
Ship of Ghouls
Season 4Episode 2630 min

Ship of Ghouls

Beetlejuice wins two tickets for an ocean cruise (illegally, I might add), and takes Lydia on a very...odd...vacation on the high seas.
Okt. 14, 1991
Poultrygeist
Season 4Episode 2730 min

Poultrygeist

A leftover chicken in BJ's fridge turns undead and haunts the Roadhouse in the form of the most dreaded of all spectres--a Poultrygeist! Can Beetlejuice and Lydia banish it before sleep deprivation claims BJ's last remaining shreds of sanity?
Okt. 15, 1991
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Season 4Episode 2830 min

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

Yes, you've guessed it: Beetlejuice has an off day and wishes he had never met any of his friends. Clarence Sale shows up and shows him what the Neitherworld--and the real world--would be like without him. Seeing Lydia miserable and friendless convinces BJ to change his mind, and Clarence is rewarded for his trouble with a shiny new car.
Okt. 16, 1991
Ghost Writer in the Sky
Season 4Episode 2930 min

Ghost Writer in the Sky

Beetlejuice publishes his auto-dieography and is heralded as one of the finest authors of all time. But the lies he tells about his friends in the book come back to haunt him, big time.
Okt. 17, 1991
Cabin Fever
Season 4Episode 3030 min

Cabin Fever

After spending all day curing Lydia of her measles, Beetlejuice gets Cabin Fever--and then is quarantined to the Roadhouse. How can Lydia help BJ get over Cabin Fever if they can't go outside? They'll think of something!
Okt. 18, 1991
Highs-Ghoul Confidential
Season 4Episode 3130 min

Highs-Ghoul Confidential

While flipping through Beetlejuice's high school yearbook, Lydia is astounded to discover that her best friend was none other than Prom King! She presses BJ for the story, and he tells it--and it is one doozy of a tale.
Okt. 21, 1991
Rotten Sports
Season 4Episode 3230 min

Rotten Sports

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?
Okt. 22, 1991
Mr. Beetlejuice Goes to Town
Season 4Episode 3330 min

Mr. Beetlejuice Goes to Town

When Mayor Maynot threatens to tear down the Roadhouse to make room for a new superhighway, Beetlejuice runs for office--and wins. But it is soon apparent that BJ is an even more corrupt mayor than the last one, and it's up to his friends to get him de-elected before he gets too out of hand.
Okt. 23, 1991
Time Flies
Season 4Episode 3430 min

Time Flies

It's the anniversary of the day BJ and Lydia met, and BJ presents Lydia with a watch. But time flies, and Beetlejuice and Lydia follow the escaped watch through the Sands Of Time, where they meet Grandfather Time. BJ gives the poor old geezer a cog-attack, thoroughly messing up the flow of Time. They must get Time restarted or nothing will be the same again.
Okt. 24, 1991
To Beetle or Not Beetle
Season 4Episode 3530 min

To Beetle or Not Beetle

Lydia has to write a paper on Shakespeare for her English class, but can't understand his plays. So BJ takes her to the Neitherworld to meet Shakey's characters, who turn out to be rather disgruntled with their roles. When they kidnap Lydia and try to force her to rewrite their plays, BJ must rescue her; then it's up to the both of them to cure Shakespeare of his monumental writer's block.
Okt. 25, 1991
A Star Is Bored
Season 4Episode 3630 min

A Star Is Bored

Beetlejuice becomes the Neitherworld's grossest movie star, and finds that fame isn't all it's cracked up to be. Lydia then has to help him back into poverty by ""cleaning up his act.""
Okt. 28, 1991
Oh, Brother!
Season 4Episode 3730 min

Oh, Brother!

Oh, horrors! Beetlejuice's perfect brother Donnyjuice comes to visit, leaving BJ feeling...a bit down and out. Down-And-Outback, actually. Donny and Lydia set out to cheer Beetlejuice up before he does something drastic.
Okt. 29, 1991
Snugglejuice
Season 4Episode 3830 min

Snugglejuice

Its Pranksgiving in the Neitherworld, and Beetlejuice's rival Pondscum (""Pondscum...Germs Pondscum"") looks as if he's going to beat out BJ for the title of Grand High Prankster. Pondscum proves himself to be lower than a Sandworm's belly when he frames BJ for a crime he didn't commit and gets him sentenced to rehabilitation in NeitherNeitherLand. (Have you seen NeitherNeitherLand? Shudder.) Beetlejuice comes out of the ordeal as Snugglejuice, the Cutest Being in the Neitherworld. Can Lydia reverse the process (and help BJ win the Prank Tournament)?
Okt. 30, 1991
In the Schticks
Season 4Episode 3930 min

In the Schticks

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?
Okt. 31, 1991
Recipe for Disaster
Season 4Episode 4030 min

Recipe for Disaster

Lydia's Caesar salad comes to life and attempts to take over the Neitherworld with his legion of surly vegetables. Can BJ and Lydia usurp Caesar and get the rightful rulers of Aroma back on the throne?
Nov. 1, 1991
Substitute Creature
Season 4Episode 4130 min

Substitute Creature

Lydia makes a (foolish) wish that Beetlejuice could teach her class for a day, and he grants it. He takes Lydia, Claire, Bertha and Prudence on a trip to ""Historyland"" in the Neitherworld, where they learn a bit more than history--like never trust a professor in a striped suit.
Nov. 4, 1991
Ghoul of My Dreams
Season 4Episode 4230 min

Ghoul of My Dreams

The Monster and Monstress have a falling-out, and Beetlejuice takes advantage of the situation by spinning their misery off into a highly rated TV program.
Nov. 5, 1991
Prairie Strife
Season 4Episode 4330 min

Prairie Strife

Beetlejuice inherits his Auntie Em's milk farm, located in the Wild West. But the infamous outlaw Jesse Germs has been threatening the locals--can BJ and Lydia thwart his insidious plan to scare everyone off the land?
Nov. 6, 1991
Moby Richard
Season 4Episode 4430 min

Moby Richard

Beetlejuice and Lydia put on 'Disasterpiece Theatre,' and decide to do Moby Dick as their first episode. But Moby ""Richard"" refuses to change the classic to suit Beetlejuice's notions of what a classic should be, and quits--but not without insulting BJ first. BJ lets the character of Captain Ahab take him over, and leads the others on a dangerous mission through Sandworm Land to get revenge on the whale.
Nov. 7, 1991
The Unnatural
Season 4Episode 4530 min

The Unnatural

It's BJ's team against Scuzzo's team in the baseball event of the century! But after a few...uh...setbacks, that becomes BJ and Lydia, all alone, against Scuzzo's entire team. It's Sudden Death for the losers--and who will those losers be?
Nov. 8, 1991
Forget Me Nuts
Season 4Episode 4630 min

Forget Me Nuts

Beetlejuice loses his memory (he's beaned by a satellite), so Lydia takes him to see Dr. Zigmund Void. Void splits BJ's personality, and takes the clone and Lydia within BJ's body by way of a shrinking submersible. They have to find out what is causing BJ's inability to access his memory banks before time runs out and they return to normal size.
Nov. 11, 1991
The Birdbrain of Alcatraz
Season 4Episode 4730 min

The Birdbrain of Alcatraz

Scuzzo frames Beetlejuice for stealing bad jokes, and gets him sent to The Big House. It's up to Lydia to gather up the evidence she needs to spring Beetlejuice--and then to get the Governor to listen to her story. Meanwhile, BJ copes with afterlife under the disturbingly nurturing watch of Warden June Cleaver.
Nov. 12, 1991
Generally Hysterical Hospital
Season 4Episode 4830 min

Generally Hysterical Hospital

Lydia trips on Beetlejuice's misplaced marbles and sprains her ankle, so BJ takes her to a Neitherworld hospital for treatment. But a greedy resident doctor is looking to make a quick buck and kidnaps Lydia with the intention of charging admission to the public to witness a 'total body transplant'--with BJ as the surgeon!
Nov. 13, 1991
Super Zeroes
Season 4Episode 4930 min

Super Zeroes

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. Uh...If only there was any. Suddenly, Mt. Gushmore, Scumdon Bridge, The Fallen Arches of Triumph, the Awful Tower--and Lydia--are shrunk by four menacing business tycoons (""Honey, I Shrunk the Lyds""). Can UBM save the day?
Nov. 14, 1991
Beetlegeezer
Season 4Episode 5030 min

Beetlegeezer

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.
Nov. 15, 1991
A Very Grimm Fairy Tale
Season 4Episode 5130 min

A Very Grimm Fairy Tale

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.
Nov. 18, 1991
Wizard of Ooze
Season 4Episode 5230 min

Wizard of Ooze

Yes, this is a Wizard Of Oz spoof. Lydia is Dorothy, BJ is the Scarecrow, Jacques is the Bone Woodsman, the Monster is the Lion, and Ginger is Toto. But you'll never guess who's the Wizard!
Nov. 19, 1991
What Makes BJ Run
Season 4Episode 5330 min

What Makes BJ Run

Mr. Monitor cancels Beetlejuice's show, and while Lydia gets her own children's show (which she hates), BJ goes to work in the mailroom. He quickly takes the opportunity to steal a colleague's show ideas and is rapidly promoted to Mr. Monitor's supervisor. But how long can it last?
Nov. 20, 1991
The Chromozone
Season 4Episode 5430 min

The Chromozone

Beetlejuice gets pulled into The Chromazone, a Twilight Zone spoof. There, BJ has to help Tod Sperling defeat Ima Loony, one of his creations who has begun writing her own scripts. But BJ loses his mind (literally) in the process. If Lydia can't get into the Chromozone in time, BJ will be brainless forever, not to mention vapid.
Nov. 21, 1991
It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape
Season 4Episode 5530 min

It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape

When Captain Kidder washes up on the beach babbling of a 90-ft-tall, singing, dancing ape on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, chaos breaks out. Between BJ and Lydia, Jacques and Ginger, The Monster and Poopsie, The Mayor and Mrs. Bugsly, Chester Slime and Armhold Musclehugger, and Scuzzo and Fuzzo, who will reach the island--and the valuable ape--first?
Nov. 22, 1991
The Neitherworld's Least Wanted
Season 4Episode 5630 min

The Neitherworld's Least Wanted

Four of Beetlejuice's worst enemies--and 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 does its dirty work (in case you didn't know, not only does BJ lose all his powers if he's fallen apart, but if he's not all back together by sundown, he's as good as exorcised. (Obviously a rule they made up just for this ep but I like it anyway.) Naturally, Mr. Monitor is on the scene to gather ratings.
Nov. 25, 1991
Don't BJ and Drive
Season 4Episode 5730 min

Don't BJ and Drive

BJ and Doomie are caught distributing phony driver's licenses and sent to traffic school. But BJ's got a plan to escape, and winds up as...a hero?
Nov. 26, 1991
Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest
Season 4Episode 5830 min

Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest

Yes, Beetlejuice moves to Sherweird Forest and attempts to steal from the rich and...what was that other part again? Oh well. But then the Sheriff of RottingHam kidnaps Lydia and he must rescue her from Prince John DonJuan, the Sherweird Florist, before she crumbles under his bad puns.
Nov. 27, 1991
Midnight Scum
Season 4Episode 5930 min

Midnight Scum

Donnyjuice is a wanted man with a huge price on his head--which makes for a perfect opportunity for Beetlejuice to get a little 'closer' to his brother (with the aid of handcuffs, of course). But BJ isn't the only reward-seeker on the scene: he must contend with Deader Alive, the famous bounty hunter from Neitherworld TV.
Nov. 28, 1991
Gold Rush Fever
Season 4Episode 6030 min

Gold Rush Fever

BJ is bitten by the gold bug (yes, literally), and contracts the dreaded Gold Fever. He must find some gold or he'll never get well. But a claim jumper has his eye on BJ's prospect...Can Lydia, Jacques and Doomie save him?
Nov. 29, 1991
Relatively Pesty
Season 4Episode 6130 min

Relatively Pesty

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 (more than usual, anyway). If BJ can't get rid of them pronto, his landlord will throw him out.
Dez. 2, 1991
King BJ
Season 4Episode 6230 min

King BJ

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. It's a middle-age crisis for BJ.
Dez. 3, 1991
Catmandu Got His Tongue
Season 4Episode 6330 min

Catmandu Got His Tongue

A black cat burglar makes off with BJ's tongue and takes it to Catmandu. BJ, after 'borrowing' the Monster's tongue, joins the Forlorn Legion with Jacques to storm Catmandu and get his stolen property back.
Dez. 4, 1991
Journey to the Centre of the Neitherworld
Season 4Episode 6430 min

Journey to the Centre of the Neitherworld

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).
Dez. 5, 1991
Not So Peaceful Pines
Season 4Episode 6530 min

Not So Peaceful Pines

Beetlejuice does the Mayor of Peaceful Pines a favour, but the Mayor reigns on his promise of a cash reward. So Beetlejuice, in a fit of anger, splits his personality into his good and his bad sides, and the bad side wreaks havoc on the town. Lydia and the good side are forced to fetch Dr. Zigmund Void to help remedy the situation.
Dez. 6, 1991

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