# Can you identify this movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993 "2018-06-29T15:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/1 "2018-06-29T15:02:44Z")
Released in the 80s or early 90s. A fantasy / comedy horror movie filled with ghosts and fantastic beasts. In the final scene, the beast is banished to the underworld, for an interview with the devil, presumably. He holds place 3991938401274383 in the queue, which is now serving number… 1. A long wait in store, he/she/it remarks. I think MJ or a lookalike makes a brief appearance with children in one scene. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/2 "2018-06-29T15:04:52Z")
[Beetlejuice?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice) ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/3 "2018-06-29T15:06:53Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > [Beetlejuice?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice) Yup. Sounds like Beetlejuice to me, too. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/4 "2018-06-29T15:11:54Z")
The [waiting room scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj_inlzsDhQ) in Beetlejuice, for reference. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/5 "2018-06-29T15:25:10Z")
You had to go and say it a third time! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/6 "2018-06-29T15:30:03Z")
Home, Home, Home! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/7 "2018-06-29T16:26:23Z")
I think it might have been _Beetlejuice_. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/8 "2018-06-29T16:52:00Z")
Thread relocated from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/9 "2018-06-29T16:58:37Z")
Was it _Rio_, by Duran Duran? ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/10 "2018-06-29T17:41:29Z")
Beetlejuice it is! Thanks much folks! This must be the shortest thread ever! ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/11 "2018-06-29T18:35:35Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > Beetlejuice it is! Thanks much folks! This must be the shortest thread ever! Buy it, or rent it and watch it again. Great movie! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/12 "2018-06-29T18:37:11Z")
FWIW, Beelejuice isn’t banished to hell so much as a bureaucratic sort of purgatory. And he’s not waiting to see the Devil, but his (Beetlejuice’s) “social worker” (for lack of a better choice of words). ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/13 "2018-06-29T20:00:59Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > [Beetlejuice?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice) Winner by knockout, 2mins or less into the first round.🆒 Sweet!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/14 "2018-06-29T21:00:28Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > Winner by knockout, 2mins or less into the first round.🆒 > Sweet!😃 Right place, right time, no life. What can I say? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/15 "2018-06-29T21:21:51Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > And he’s not waiting to see the Devil, but his (Beetlejuice’s) “social worker” (for lack of a better choice of words). Juno, his “case worker”. And one question I always had: They state in the movie that suicide victims become civil servants in the afterlife (affirmed by the secretary’s slit wrists). Did Juno also commit suicide? She appears to have died from smoking, based on all the smoke she blows through the holes in her neck. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/16 "2018-06-29T21:33:18Z")
Was it _Beetlejuice_? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/17 "2018-06-29T21:36:16Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Juno, his “case worker”. > And one question I always had: They state in the movie that suicide victims become civil servants in the afterlife (affirmed by the secretary’s slit wrists). Did Juno also commit suicide? She appears to have died from smoking, based on all the smoke she blows through the holes in her neck. I don’t think it was established that Juno (or any specific person) was gong to be Beetlejuice’s case worker at the end of the film, just that Beetlejuice had once been Juno’s assistant and she has less-than-fond memories of him. I don’t recall it being established that the civil servants were suicides, either. Patrice Martinez’s character, the “Miss Argentina” receptionist, was apparently a suicide and one of her coworkers looked like he’d hanged himself, but another looked like he’d been run over by a heavy vehicle and others were just animated skeletons. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/18 "2018-06-29T21:42:18Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Juno, his “case worker”. > And one question I always had: They state in the movie that suicide victims become civil servants in the afterlife (affirmed by the secretary’s slit wrists). Did Juno also commit suicide? She appears to have died from smoking, based on all the smoke she blows through the holes in her neck. I assumed the holes in her neck were supposed to show that she had slit her throat. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/19 "2018-06-29T21:44:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I assumed the holes in her neck were supposed to show that she had slit her throat. I agree, her throat was slit. That doesn’t mean it was self inflicted. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993/20 "2018-06-30T00:20:55Z")
I think it was _Beelejuice_, on a treadmill, at the bottom of Challenger Deep for 20 minutes, listening to “Rio” by Duran Duran. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-movie/816993.md?page=2)