Question: When Lydia needs to rescue Astrid and she calls on Beetlejuice, he appears and says, "The juice is loose." If he wants to be loose, why did he not appear this way before, when Rory called him? Instead of making Rory and Lydia enter the world of the model? (This also happened in the first movie - Adam and Barbara went to the model first.)
TedStixon
27th Jun 2025
Answer: He's just making a joke by rhyming his name. I think you're reading too far into it.
TedStixon
I think you don't understand the actual question. It really has nothing to do with what he said, joking or not. For someone who wants out / wants freedom (disregard the joke), why did he not leave the model the first time someone (Rory) said his name? Instead of making Rory and Lydia enter the world of model the first time?
The scope of his power and influence seems relatively limited in the real world... almost exclusively confined to a small area around whichever ghosts (or strange and unusual humans) he's interacted with. Hence, him needing to perform the marriage ritual to escape the spirit world and be able to wage true havoc on the human world. So even if he left the model the first time, I doubt it would have ended up any different. Until Lydia agreed to marry him, all he could really do was just mess with her.
TedStixon