Beetlejuice: Deep Thoughts About Bananas, Incomprehensible Guidebooks, and Funny Villains in Pop Culture

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I myself am strange and unusual.On today’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily shares her thoughts about the ghost with the most: Beetlejuice. The Tim Burton comedy is aesthetically gorgeous, unapologetically bizarre, and legitimately funny–but the character of Beetlejuice relies on sexual predation to indicate his awfulness and Michael Keaton’s performance is so sleazily charming that pop culture revered the creep. It’s a shame that audiences remembered the villain, since the film does offer a positive message about rejecting zero-sum thinking and introduced an entire generation of viewers to social activist and musician Harry Belafonte.Put on your headphones, turn on the juice, and see what shakes loose!TW: Discussion of sexual predation of minors and sexual assault and suicidal ideationMentioned in this episode:Emily's article about Beetlejuicehttps://www.fastcompany.com/91189134/the-hidden-money-lessons-in-beetlejuiceDeep Thoughts about Nightmare on Elm StreetLearn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus episodes, video versions, and early access to Deep Thoughts by visiting us on Patreon or find us on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/guygirlsOur theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!