Halloween Inspired Nostalgia and Meals to die for!

1989-1991 a series ran which was very near and dear to that little part of my heart that will always be decorated by lacy black gothic mesh, it is largely one of the major influences I would attribute the current and past 'mall goth' craze to as well as stores such as Hot Topic and their 'brand' of fashion. The reason why? Many kids today that are into the 'gothic' look grew up watching shows such as this one, this show? The late, the great and the based off a movie show for the Ghost with the Most; Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

Yes, a follower to the movie was an animated series which in the 80s and 90s seemed to be the rage, everyone wanted to animate everything, even Rambo got it's own animated series in the 80s, what the fuck I ask you? What the fuck? But unlike Rambo, Beetlejuice worked because they didn't get hard-up for the movie. The movie was fine, a great cast and a great lead-actor was found in Micheal Keaton;

And surprisingly this film was before Keaton played his most famous role as Bruce Wayne AKA Batman in the 1989 film Batman by the same director, Tim Burton.. Unsurprisingly I saw Batman before I saw Beetlejuice so I was already endeared by the actor, the fact that he was playing this character was a little weird to me because I kept seeing a moldy Bruce Wayne every time I looked at Beetlejuice.. Very odd.. Nevertheless.. Beetlejuice was of course a successful movie and in no way is bad, it's in fact quite good if I do voice my personal opinion on it but I prefer the animated series and there's a reason I prefer the animated series. The animated series of course focused on the two main characters;

Beetlejuice (Naturally)

And Lydia Deetz (also naturally)

Although unlike the movie, the details and relationships were changed quite a bit and quite a bit for the better if you ask me. Unlike in the movie, Beetlejuice is not an unwanted part of Lydia's life, he is in fact her best friend and he's very cool (although gross. That much hasn't changed, it adds a certain charm I guess.), the Neitherworld (yes, it's called Neitherworld) is not the festering hole of boring bureaucracy it was in the film and boasts a larger expansive cast of secondary characters (not mentioning the humans and all in the series who make regular appearances. Honestly, I was always more interested in the Neither-inhabitants.)

There's a tap-dancing spider..

A mutant chicken McNugget which evidently drinks hair tonic

And a French Skeleton.

Sufficed to say, the Neitherworld was displayed in a fashion which clearly parodied the real-world and was more whimsical than the movie and had a couple of.. Shall we say.. Slightly racist portrayals in retrospect as I view this series again? Who cares? It was fun! The series was genuinely fun and didn't try to really take itself seriously, there was no over-arching plot, story or point to it, it was just the adventures of 'ole BJ (double entendre) and Lydia typically following an episodic formula we all know as being simple and common... And that's why it was good.. It was a cartoon that was a cartoon and nothing more but it was a good cartoon and it was worth watching.. Really worth watching.. And I've found it once more, inspired by the rapidly approaching Halloween season, I knew I should have been wary, though still I sought to venture some place screwy, ghostly haunting and some juice, it's Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

...Moving on

Cooking tonight is not something I'm really going to bother to explain too much in detail, I made my own hollow bread-bun again and filled it fulla a sour-savoury sauce with seafood and veggies mixed in, topped it off with some pieces of butter pan-fried fish and topped that off with a Japanese style tartar sauce. Oh also some sweet potato fries in the background which had a sweet plum-pineapple sauce drizzled onto them.. Yup.. It's GyoPan (Fish Bun) and I plan to make a secondary variety tomorrow night so keep on the lookout of my blog if you're interested in seeing what I come up with next sea-food wise. I likes cooking fish.