The Beetlejuice Cartoon Is Weird, Gross and Very Queer

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

"Pranks for the Memories" (September 18, 1991) and "Beetlebones" (September 27, 1991)

Sure, we've all thought more about Beetlejuice in the last few weeks than we have in the last few decades, but we come to you today not to discuss the sequel film but the animated spinoff. Henry Giardina returns to explain why this more kid-friendly version of the Tim Burton ghoul lends itself to trans and queer readings.

Listen to Henry's movie podcast, I'll Watch Anything, and also subscribe to Totally Trans, which is currently on hiatus.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Lost Gals and specifically their episode about Drop Dead Fred
The Best Movies Never Made and their episodes about all the Beetlejuice sequels that never were
Guide to the Unknown and their episode about A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
What Went Wrong and their episode about the making of Beetlejuice
Cracked's oral history of the Beetlejuice cartoon

Transcript

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0:00.0	Bino chino
0:02.0	Bino
0:04.0	Robocop vehicles and figures with robo caps
0:08.0	each sold separately
0:10.0	Tales from the clipkeeper
0:14.0	Call 1,9-860
0:17.0	Fred to challenge Freddie Kruger
0:20.0	Rosie 60 for Fred to challenge Freddie Cooter. Rosie.
0:27.9	It's Shelter.
0:34.2	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms, even when we're discussing cartoons based on popular... No, that doesn't make sense. Where we discuss LGBTQ episodes of classic sitcoms. And when we don't do that, we're discussing cartoons based on popular movies and might have queer readings to them. I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Glenn Lakin. And joining us for a very special episode is returning guest, Henry Giordina. Henry, welcome back.
0:55.3	Thank you.
0:55.9	Very excited to be back.
0:58.0	Did you know this is your fourth appearance on our show?
1:00.7	Oh my God, that's right.
1:02.5	Look out, Sam Pancake.
1:04.6	Seriously, I'm coming for the crown.
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.2	Who's our number one, Tony?
1:08.8	It's Tony.
1:10.4	Just push him under our bus.
1:12.4	Yeah, I mean, you live in the same down as them.
1:14.9	You figure out the details.
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