20 Things You Somehow Missed In Beetlejuice

1. Juno's Watch Alarm Chime Is Chopin's "Funeral March"

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And finally, if Juno's watch alarm sounds a little familiar to you, that's because it's yet another macabre in-joke from the mind of Tim Burton and his team.

The alarm is actually a chimed rendition of one of the most famous pieces of classic music in the world - Chopin's Funeral March. The third movement in his Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, to be precise.

You might've recognised the tune, but knowing that it's a funeral march just adds another darkly comic layer to it all, especially given that it's on the watch of Juno of all people, the Maitlands' caseworker in the afterlife.

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