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  1. craft (tone and structure): Wendell and Wild → Beetlejuice. Wendell and Wild are Beetlejuice-like in that the story is really about the human teen (Lydia/Kat) and they are the colorful characters.
    “They're Beetlejuicy in the movie in that it's like, well, it's really about Lydia.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:16:53 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast of villainy): Wendell and Wild → Beetlejuice. Unlike Beetlejuice, who is purely malevolent, Wendell and Wild are babes in the wood whose ulterior motive is an amusement park.
    “Unlike Beetlejuice who like operates from a place of like pure malevolence, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:22:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (tonal echo): Planet of the Apes → Beetlejuice. The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes.
    “the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Michael McDowell → Beetlejuice. McDowell was first brought in to adapt, being the writer of Beetlejuice.
    “Burton 1st brings in Michael McDowell, who wrote Beetlejuice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:30:02 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): The Twilight Saga: Eclipse → Beetlejuice. The mountain-top set looks like a hobby-town model, like the tabletop in Beetlejuice.
    “it looks like the, the, the tabletop and Beetlejuice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:48:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)