A look at how the Banana Boat scene has evolved and changed over the years. All credit to BugDrink for the musical composite. Contact troubledbytheliving@gmail.com for more musical content.
Awesome compilation! I'm having trouble finding footage on RU-vid (bandwidth is limited for me at the moment), but I remember the older iteration of the Beetlejuice Graveyard Review show at Universal also doing the Banana Boat song at the end when I saw it live in the 90s. It wasn't a dinner scene, but Beetlejuice danced while flanked by a couple of prop skeletons on a horizontal pole if I remember right.
I have a photo of that at my old house!!! Our first trip was when I was 10 in 2002 and I really liked the show so my parents decided to snap a photo of BJ doing exactly that! :)
Wow i just looked that up now, what a great find! I was looking for something like this when researching for this video but somehow never came across it. I've added some links here for anyone who is interested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeiQPcCo6PI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YZRbEPOg_-g.html In Australia we have Warner Bros Movie World theme park, and all I could find was Beetlejuice walking around the park for photo opportunities, but nothing like this.
I just realized that Leslie legit had to play fight with a fake pig 8 times a week and actually got paid for it. Idk why but that fact just makes me smile 🤣
I like how they make more of an effort to make it scary in the movie what they made the shrimp hand at the very end and thats it if posession was just a song and dance number i feel less people would be afraid of it
My favourite part of the Day-O scene is the fact that Adam and Barbra were sure that this was the best way to scare some people out of the house. The banana boat song.
I've been in the beetlejuice fandom for a long time and for me the musical is the epitome of all the iterations cartoon and even the movie. The musical made me so emotional, I waited years for more Beetlejuice content 😭
The part of the scene where the shrimp reach up and grab their faces and shove them back was shot backwards with the hands on the faces then going into the bowls and the film was reversed. The reason, the actors kept getting poked in the eye by the shrimp,because the performers wearing the shrimp gloves couldn't see the actor's faces
THAT'S why it looked so surreal! I could never put my finger on it [no pun intended] until reading that! Wow, that's cool...a way to make the scene work without harming the actors actually made it more aesthetic in the context of the film. Fucking bravo, cast and crew! 😃
I can definitely confirm that! It's one of my favorite stories from my step dad. He worked as a VFX artist in Hollywood for quite some time and worked on Beetlejuice. He has a few parts of the film he worked on, but he specifically told me that he was one of the puppeteers in this scene for the shrimp, and was horrified when he accidentally smacked Carherine O'Hara in the face during one take.
@@ThatDudeWithBoobs Yeah! He does some other puppeteering work in the movie, but that's probably the most noteworthy one. He has a couple of pictures he's in from some behind the scenes book somewhere. He also appears in the movie briefly, but you'd never really know unless someone told you. In the scene where the Deetz' are touring the house, as they are heading up towards the attic, Alec Baldwin's character runs up past them while headless, and that's actually my stepdad as Baldwin's stunt double, I guess you could call it. Can't really prove it's my stepdad other than taking my word for it, but since Baldwin appears headless in the scene, nobody can prove it was actually Baldwin either! 😅
I think what makes the original moment so iconic is how completely out of left field it was. When they [the ghosts] said they wanted to do a possession, I'm sure most people in the theaters were expecting something akin to The Exorcist with a more comedic tone. The moment "DAY-O!" came out of O'Hara's mouth, it probably sent everyone through a loop. Subverted expectations tend to stick with a person more than tradition, and now you can't even mention Beetlejuice in any context without that scene popping in your head. Also, THERE IS NO WAY THAT MAN IS 95 IN THIS VIDEO SOMEONE CARD HIM
My favorite part of the original is right before she starts singing she looks around like she knows what she's about to do almost like the character is about to play a prank on everyone
I could just see this when they first practiced it… everyone singing it normally but that one fan of the animated series in the back like “BRRRRRAKA!”. 🤣 And the director is just like “Yeah, let’s keep yet another reference to the cartoon in there.”.
I came to this fandom by way of the cartoon in 1996 so that musical having so much of the cartoon’s spirit in it gives me life just as long as I don’t run into the toxic fans… I shudder at the thought of them…
The last one I found really cute, touched my heart a little. Now the teen Titan one was kinda weird tho, not a big fan of the show but Beetlejuice made that one episode slightly better
I generally like Teen Titans Go, but the poor lip syncing in that clip really annoys me, like yeah it's not perfect in the original, but it's clear that their mouths are supposed to be mouthing in sync with the lyrics, here they literally had the power to make it perfect and chose not to.
This was really cool, to watch the cultural historical evolution of this song, and how any time Beetlejuice shows up as a remake or character of any sort, Day-o also makes an appearance. I had no idea there were so many Beetlejuice remakes.
That last moment with the song writter being brought in for some praise was so touching, he deserves everything, I hope he has had a great long and happy life, thank you for the beautiful memories and such a fun song!
The end when they brought that amazing man out to honor him my heart swelled with love; i heard the song before I saw the movie and listened to his music before hand and loved that it was in the movie when I watched it as a kid cant beat the classic ❤
@@ava-wp1dr It was really good, the set design and lighting especially were really cool! Also other fun fact since I’m here, the second time I saw it I sat a few rows away from Thomas Sanders!
As a theatre kid I am partial to the musical version where there is a build up to the actual song, and it is so cool that you can actually see Adam and Barbra possessing the group
If anyone can point me in the direction of the filmed version of the musical (assuming it’s the whole show and not just promo material)? It’s one of the best quality ones I’ve ever seen.
@@saelzs7697 You do know every single show that goes on Broadway does in fact get a proshhot, right? They all get stored in the New York Public Library, to keep records. You can watch them if you have the right permissions, usually if you're doing some kind of research on the show itself, directors, sets, ect, or if you're putting on a big scale production of the show (like in new york, or touring, that level). They may not have filmed a pro shot made with the plans to release, like say Newsies, Shrek, Rent, Spongebob, Bandstand, ect, but it almost assuredly does exist. It also likely won't ever be publicly released though. Also there are definetly multiple high quality boots out there of the full show. I personally have like 3, and that's not even the one that had all the NFT issues that nearly ruined everything for everyone.
I love how in the movie the actors faces fluctuate between scene accurate fear and confusion to getting into the music. You could tell the actors were having fun with it.
Watching this just makes me miss Beetlejuice entirely. I’d do almost anything to go back to the days when he ruled the networks as a cartoon… If I could have the movie, the cartoon, the musical and the Graveyard Revue existing all at the same time, I would.
I love how in the dinner party scene from the animated series, one guest is wearing a purple version of the original outfit that Deliah wore in the movie.
Did anyone notice they included the bridge where the Maitlands die in the original movie in the cartoon? I always thought that was a nice little Easter egg
If you look at the set in musical (before the Day-o scene) they've filled the house with heaps of little easter eggs like that. Photos of the bridge ect.
6:49 Total nostaglia trip!!! I remember this episode, it's great. Haven't seen it in years, but instantly knew and sang along with the lyrics. Thank you for posting this.
I thought I imagined the Beetlejuice cartoon-meshed it with “Ah! Real Monsters” for years-until I saw this and remembered the Day-O song and Lydia bursting through a door and running down a stone staircase.
I really love the way they updated the song for Teen Titans Go. It's clearly a new version, but it's still the same song. Also just love seeing that there's still genuine love for mid-20th century pop culture 60 years on.
Lo que me gusta de los Jovenes Titanes es que hay varias referencias a la musica, series, videojuegos, moda y la vida en los 80s sobre todo, que es la decada en que se estreno Beeteljuice tanto la pelicula y la serie animada.
Best is the original, the pig puppet was an interesting addition, but it also makes things a little uncomfortable at times, the final clip felt a little... Forced, but I did like seeing that the actress who plays Lydia kept her eye on the original song writer the whole time, like she wanted to make sure he was okay with what was happening and they weren't offending him.
I saw one of the premiers/first shows in DC where they were still tweaking things. And the pig had a corkscrew penis and was humping her mouth, but evidently they took that out.
In the 2018 preview run of the musical in DC, the Pig puppet apparently had an erect...sausage (for lack of a better term) attached to it when it was attacking Delia. Could imagine that being even more uncomfortable, glad they cut that before it made it to Broadway.
I didn't expect the Beetlejuice to have a musical, a very very good one where they brought in the legend himself for a moment XD Now I have to find a way to watch the musical cause I love the original XD
Not exactly sure why this was in my reccs, but a solid video nonetheless. there's just one thing... Why does the voice over sound literally exactly like the English VA for Sophie From howl's moving castle?
I've only ever watched HMC with subtitles, I'll have to go back and watch the dub. I think I'm just trying to make sure my aussie ascent isn't too broad, I know we have a tendency to sound like we're slurring our words to foreigners and I'm trying to avoid that.
Fun fact about the names that the song goes by you can look up under the names day-o or the banana boat song or calypso and it will show up on the search when you try to find it
My favourite renditions are the ones where it's either beetlejuice (Betelgeuse) or Barbara and Adam are doing the possession because the those renditions are adorable The reason why I put Betelgeuse in brackets is because beetlejuice was named after the star which is Betelgeuse but it's easier to say beetlejuice and act out in a game of charades
They really wheeled the guy onstage and sang his song while trying to get the shy theater nerds in the audience to join in. We always hypothesize what you're supposed to do when people sing happy birthday to you, but physically being unable to walk away as a gaggle of outcasts sing your song around you is a whole new level. I'm not hating, just think it's funny
Day-o, day-o Daylight come and we want go home Day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day-o Daylight come and we want go home Work all night on a drink of rum (Daylight come and we want go home) Stack banana 'til the morning come (Daylight come and we want go home) Come Mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Come Mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and we want go home) Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and we want go home) Day, is a day-o (Daylight come and we want go home) Day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day-o (Daylight come and we want go home) A beautiful bunch of ripe banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Hide the deadly black tarantula (Daylight come and we want go home) Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and we want go home) Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and we want go home) Day, is a day-o (Daylight come and we want go home) Day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day-o (Daylight come and we want go home) Come Mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Come Mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Day-o, day-o (Daylight come and we want go home) Day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day-o (Daylight come and we want go home)
9:10 This is one of my favorite moments in the show. Adam Dannheisser (Lydia's Dad) is the only main cast member who never gets a song or duet to sing. Day-O and Creepy Old Guy are the closest he gets, but he's still basically just part of the ensemble in both. This is the one big moment he gets to show off his chops, and he NAILS IT.
on this day I just noticed Lydia is observing everyone else being possessed (in the movie) as far as i can remember then she is only possessed once at the end (Jump in the line).
I'm always gonna love the movie version but for me I enjoyed when Harry Belafonte was a guest star on the Muppet Show and they did the song on there. Pretty funny scene if you ever get a chance to see it.
IKR! Also people in the comments calling it “Teen Titans” soils the original’s good name. Sad to know that kids one day will look back and know this monstrosity as “Teen Titans”. (Also why was there a need for a Beetlejuice crossover? Genuinely curious but also it seems campy and like a cash-grab…)
@@emilyl5078 YES!!! The Early 2000’s Titans don’t deserve this disrespect, at this point the creators are just seeing how much crap on and destroy what was once a heartfelt and epically written show! Yeah I don’t know seems like absolute cash grab, If you enjoy Alex as Beetlejuice though I definitely recommend watching Helluva Boss here on RU-vid. It has Alex as Demon robot jester and the same dark humour as Invader Zim!
@@Vampirelilianfitzroy I love Helluva Boss! I just got confused one day scrolling YT and seeing Beetlejuice in the TTG artstyle. (What’s unfortunate of liking animated shows and HB and HH are all those ads-)
The musical makes a better use of awkward pauses go let the awkwardness sink I'm that it was sudden before eventually switching targets them spreading like a virus.
And it’s not even close. Even with thirty years to figure out how to improve upon it, I don’t think it is possible. I am a Canadian and an SCTV fan so I’m heavily biased, but the strong physicality and facial contortion Catherine brought to it from her so elegant physique and manner is just incredible. She blew everyone off the screen, and the odd thing is that was her standard performance quality. Why she never got more starring roles in her peak will always be a mystery to me.
I just watched Beetlejuice in its entirety last night for the first time. I didn't know the Day-O scene existed. My mind was completely blown. I felt better watching that scene than I've felt in years. Cinematic dopamine at its absolute finest. What other scenes in ANY movie make you feel that good?
