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“[Trying to get Lydia to say his name three times] No, you don't need to talk to Barbara. Just SAY IT!”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Incantation, Say It
“This house is so big. It really ought to belong to people who have children.”
— Jane Butterfield, Beetlejuice
Tagged: House, Children, spacious
“Charles: I'm not sure this is the right environment for Lydia. Snakes, ghosts...

Delia: Shrimp.”
— Charles Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: environment, Snakes, Ghosts, shrimp
“Adam: How is it that you can see us but nobody else can?

Lydia: Well, I read in that Handbook For The Recently Deceased. It says, 'Live people ignore the strange and unusual.' I, myself, am strange and unusual.

Barbara: You look like a regular girl to me.”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: deceased, Ghosts, strange, unusual
“[reading obituary] Ooh-la-la, what have we got here? The Maitlands. [laughs] Cute couple. Look nice and stupid, too! [more laughing]”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Nice, Stupid, Cute
“[Evaluating her new home] A little gasoline...blowtorch...no problem.”
— Delia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Gasoline, blowtorch, Arson
“Lydia: Mr. and Mrs. Maitland? Hello? Where are you?

Beetlejuice: Dead. Dead, dead, deadski.

Lydia: Of course they're dead. They're ghosts.

Beetlejuice: No, I mean they're gone, split, out of here, afterlife kids, deceased—ahh.

Lydia: Are you a ghost, too?

Beetlejuice: I'm a ghost with the most, babe.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Ghost, dead
“Very Dumb Football Player: [the football players have re-entered Juno's office] Coach?

Juno: What?

Very Dumb Football Player: [looking disturbed] I don't think we survived that crash.

Juno: [sarcastically] How did you guess?”
— Juno, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Undead, Football, Plane Crash
“Juno: What's wrong?

Barbara: We're very unhappy.

Juno: What did you expect? You're dead!”
— Juno, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Unhappy, dead
“[why he can't tell Lydia his name]
Because if I tell you, you'll tell your friends, your friends are callin' me on the horn all the time, I gotta show up at shopping centers for openings and sign autographs and shit like that and it makes my life a hell. Okay? A living hell.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Autographs, Hell, living hell
“Adam: You can see us without the sheets?

Lydia: Of course I can see you.

Adam: Well, how is it you see us and nobody else can?

Lydia: Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: 'live people ignore the strange and unusual.' I myself am strange and unusual.

Barbara: You look like a regular girl to me.”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: strange, unusual, Regular Girl
“Go ahead, make my millennium.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Make My Day, clint eastwood
“Adam: What are your qualifications?

Beetlejuice: Ah. Well...I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen THE EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT...NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY...NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Harvard, juilliard, black plague, The Exorcist, Zombie
“Dani: Officer! Officer!

Allison: Officer, we need your help.

Cop: What's the problem?

Dani: [to Max] Tell him.

Allison: Go ahead.

Max: [nervously] Well, um well, you see I just moved here. Well, you see? It's like this: I I um broke into the old Sanderson house and I brought the witches back from the dead. See, I even have the book.

Cop: [disapprovingly] You lit the Black Flamed Candle?

Max: Yeah.

Cop: Come on. Okay, let's get on the sidewalk.

Dani: And he's a virgin.
[the cop stares at them]

Cop: [to Max] Come here. [Max comes closer to him]

Cop: [whispers] Are you a virgin?

Max: Yeah.

Cop: Really?

Max: Look, I'll get it tattooed on my forehead, okay?”
— Dani, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: virgin, Burglary
“Jenny: [singing and laughing] I put a spell on you.

Dave: And I thought L.A. was a party town.”
— Jenny Dennison, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, I Put a Spell on you, LA, Party Town
“[to Winifred] It doesn't matter how young or old you are, you sold your soul! You're the ugliest thing that ever lived, and you know it!”
— Dani, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: sold your soul, young, Old, ugly
“Thackery Binx: Elijah! Elijah! [he runs up to Elijah] Hast thou seen my sister Emily?

Elijah: Nay. But look. [he points to purple smoke in the sky] They conjure.

Thackery Binx: Oh, God. The woods! [he and Elijah run towards the field and see Sarah leading Emily into the woods] Emily!

Elijah: She's done for.

Thackery Binx: Not yet! You wake my father. Summon the elders. Go! [Elijah races off while Thackery heads for the woods]”
— Thackery Binx (voice), Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Elders, sister, Woods
“It's the chocolate-covered finger of a man named Clark!”
— Mary Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: chocolate-covered finger
“Billy Butcherson: [to Winifred, after finally freeing his mouth] Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!
[Winifred yells offensively]

Billy Butcherson: [happily to Max] I've waited centuries to say that.

Max: [disgusted] Say what you want; just don't breathe on me!

Winifred Sanderson: Billy! I killed you once, I shall kill you again, you maggoty malfeasance! Hang on to your heads!”
— Billy Butcherson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: wench, trollop, maggoty, malfeasance, insults
“Winifred Sanderson: [sings while flying] Book! Come to Mommy!

Voice of Thackery Binx: [Jumps on the book to prevent it from floating up to Winifred, with a screech] Afraid not!

Winifred Sanderson: Thackery Binx, thou mangy feline. Still alive?

Voice of Thackery Binx: And waiting for you!

Winifred Sanderson: Oh! Thou hast waited in vain. And thou will fail to save thy friends, just as thou failed to save thy sister!
[Screams and swoops down toward Binx]”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: mangy, feline
“Max: You've messed with the great and powerful Max! Now you must suffer the consequences! I'm going to summon the burning rain of death!

Winifred Sanderson, Sarah, Mary Sanderson: [murmuring together] The burning rain of death?

Max: [lights lighter]

Winifred Sanderson: Look, he makes fire in his hand.

Max: [raises lighter to sprinkler, and the spreads out his arms wide]

Winifred Sanderson: It's the burning rain of death! Come, you fools! [pulls them off to the side]”
— Max Dennison, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: burning rain of death
“Dani: You saved my life.

Max: I had to. I'm your big brother.

Dani: I love you, jerkface.

Max: I love you, too.”
— Dani, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: lifesaver, Big Brother, jerkface, I Love You
“Jay: Oh man, how come it's always the ugly chicks that stay out late?

Winifred Sanderson: [Winnie, Sarah and Mary stop, turn and glare at the boys] Chicks?”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Chicks, Misogyny, late
“Oh, cheese and crust! He's lost his head! Damn that Thackery Binx!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: cheese and crust, fake swearing
“Winifred Sanderson: Therefore, it stands to reason, does it not, sisters dear? That we must find the book, brew the potion and suck the lives out of the children of Salem before sunrise. Otherwise it's curtains. We evaporate! We cease to exist! Dost thou comprehend?

Mary Sanderson: You explained it beautifully, Winnie. They way in which you started out with the adventure part and slowly.

Sarah: Explained what?

Winifred Sanderson: Come, we fly!”
— Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Witches, Curses, potion, Salem, Curtains
“Mmm, mmm, mmm! I need one of those instant ice packs. You girls are giving me a fever!”
— Bus Driver, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: ice pack, Lust, Fever
“Dead man's toe! Dead man's toe! Dead! Dead! Dead!”
— Sarah Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: dead man's toe, dead
“Jay: So let's have a butt.

Max: No thanks, I don't smoke.

Ernie 'Ice': They're very health-conscious in Los Angeles. [Jay and Ice laugh]

Jay: You got any cash, Hollywood?

Max: No.

Ernie 'Ice': Gee, we don't get any smokes from you. We don't get any cash. What am I supposed to do with my afternoon?

Max: Maybe you could learn to breathe through your nose. [Jay laughs but stops as Ice offensively glares at him]

Jay: Whoa. Check out the new cross-trainers.

Ernie 'Ice': [looks at Max's sneakers] Cool. [turns to Max] Let me try them on. [Max tries to leave, Jay stops him and smiles]

Jay: Later, dude!

Ernie 'Ice': See you, Hollywood! [Jay and Ernie laughing]”
— Ernie / 'Ice', Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Cigarettes, Los Angeles
“Max: What happened?

Dani: [disgusted, readjusting her witch's hat] A virgin lit the candle.”
— Max Dennison, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: virgin, Candle, Witches
“Dani: [as they plan to go to the Sanderson house] Max, I'm not going up there. My friends at school told me all about that place. It's weird!

Max: Dani, this is the girl of my dreams.

Dani: So take her to the movies like a normal person.

Max: Dani! Look just do this one thing for me, and I'll do anything you say. Please? Please? Please?

Dani: Okay, okay. Next year, we go trick-or-treating as Wendy and Peter Pan...[looks him straight in the eye]...with tights or it's no deal.

Max: [as Dani attempts to leave] Okay, okay, deal, deal.”
— Dani, Hocus Pocus
Tagged: Weird, School, Peter Pan

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