Memetic Molester: Betelgeuse, particularly in light of his fixation on the teenage Lydia.Additionally, despite the poster, the film credits make it clear that the title is Beetle Juice, not Beetlejuice.The fact that his name is Beetlejuice in the Animated Adaptation doesn't help. Due to the two being homonyms, people make the mistake of thinking the character is named Beetlejuice as well, rather than Betelgeuse.Betelgeuse gets Bat wings at one point guess what Tim Burton and Michael Keaton did the very next year? Also, Betelgeuse's appearance and behavior are strangely similar to the Joker's, who's the antagonist of Burton and Keaton's next movie, and people have pointed out ◊ how much BJ resembles Heath Ledger's Joker.
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Betelgeuse's line about The Exorcist getting funnier every time he sees it became even funnier when Geena Davis was cast in the TV series that served as a sequel to the first film. Moira could be seen as nearly the same character as Delia, if she were an actress rather than a sculptor. Catherine O'Hara plays an eccentric cosmopolitan woman whose family moves to a small country town, almost 30 years before receiving much critical acclaim as Moira Rose. Lydia's depression and desire to die hits harder after Winona Ryder's battle with clinical depression in the early 2000s. Not as funny since he died of blunt force trauma to the head due to a fall at the age of 58. Glenn Shadix is sent flying down a set of stairs at one point. Sidney died from throat cancer in New York City - at the age of 88. Sylvia Sidney plays a smoking ghost with a hole in her throat which emits smoke. 
A large portion of the fanbase is convinced that she died when Lydia was very young, and that this fact heavily contributes to Lydia's fascination with death.
Fanon: Lydia's birth mother is never mentioned in the film. Fanfic Fuel: Just who was Betelgeuse before he died?. And it's not hard to imagine that Beetlejuice's threatened marriage to Lydia would have not only made her his wife, but very possibly would also have cost her her soul. Besides having a name that looks similar to the Biblical "Beelzebub" (literally, "Lord of the Flies"), Beetlejuice is also given an origin story that could have come straight out of Paradise Lost: Juno, who according to this analogy would represent God (and in fact is named after the queen of the Roman pantheon) mentions that Beetlejuice was once her assistant but had parted ways with her because he thought he could be a better exorcist. Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: It's possible to interpret Betelgeuse/Beetlejuice as Satan himself. At worst he's a Villainy-Free Anti-Villain who convinces people to make deals with him, and then his crude and disgusting demeanor cause his clients to turn on him and he follows in kind. 
And while he has no problem murdering people, the Maitlands tell him they don't want him to kill the Deetzes and he abides by that, even though it's clear he could kill them no problem if he wanted to (in fact he never explicitly kills anyone). True, he's a violent, perverted creep, but each time he's summoned he does exactly what he offers to do.
Designated Villain: Betelgeuse toes the line on this. Chances are you'll be tapping your foot to the tune. "Jump in the Line," used at the very end to great effect. Awesome Music: Aside from Danny Elfman's title theme, the use of Harry Belafonte, including "Day-O", which is also a Funny Moment. 
It's only by finding ways to be fulfilled in their existences that the Maitlands and Lydia are able to be happy and well-adjusted. Lydia is fascinated by death and becomes suicidal in part because she thinks it'll be better for her, and the Maitlands have to spell out for her that being dead really doesn't make "living" easier. The Maitlands' lives weren't perfect, but they were happy, and in death they end up having to deal with a bunch of new problems that are even worse than what they had when they were alive.
Anvilicious: "Death doesn't solve anything". Given that Lydia is (by his own admission) the only one that he likes at all, it makes sense that he would try to help her avoid that. Plus, he worked with Juno, so even without that subplot, he knows exactly what awaits someone who commits suicide. Fridge Brilliance sets in when you remember that in the original script, Betelgeuse had committed suicide - there was supposed to be a subplot which revealed that he hanged himself after being rejected by a woman. 
If you could get me out, then maybe we could talk or something. Betelgeuse: (genuinely surprised) Why? (pause) You know, hey, you probably got your reasons.
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