20 Things You Somehow Missed In Beetlejuice

14. It's A Rare PG Movie With An F-Bomb

Beetlejuice Geena Davis Alec Baldwin
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Something that's easy to forget about the movie, especially if you haven't seen it in a good while, is just how much it gets away with for a PG film.

Beyond the fantastical violence and sexually suggestive themes and innuendo, Beetlejuice literally drops an uncensored F-bomb at one point, when he kicks over a model tree and shouts, "Nice f**king model!"

It's all the more surprising given that the PG-13 rating was introduced almost four years prior to Beetlejuice's release, and yet, the MPAA of this era deemed a single F-bomb adequate for younger audiences.

Some fans maintain that the movie actually features two utterances of the word, though the second - when Beetlejuice falls off a balcony near the end - is obscured enough that it's tough to fully discern.

Between this and the word "s**t" also being heard once, it's frankly shocking that this thing didn't get slapped with a PG-13. Alas, t'was a different time - for better or worse.

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