Beetlejuice (1988)

Glenn Shadix: Otho

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• Bernard : Otho, I didn't realize you were into the supernatural.

  Otho : Well, of course! You remember, after my stint with the Living Theatre I was one of New York City's leading paranormal researchers until the bottom dropped out in '72.

  Beryl : [cynically]  Paranormal - is that what they're calling your kind these days?

  Otho : Don't mind her. She's still upset because somebody dropped a house on her sister.

• Lydia : They don't wanna come down.

  Delia : Charles...

  Otho : Why not?

  Lydia : I think the reason is, is that they were trying to scare you away, and you didn't get scared.

  Delia : Please, they're dead. It's a little late to be neurotic.

• Otho : [while Lydia shows them the attic]  Fabulous. 'Otho Fenlock's Locked Door Ghosts' Probably committed suicide up there. I'm totally enchanted.

  Delia : They're in there? They must live like animals.

  Charles : It's locked. How'd they get in?

  Delia : [bangs on the door]  Open this door, you dead people, or we'll bust it down and we'll drag you out by the ropes you hang yourselves with!

  Lydia : Shh! They didn't commit suicide.

  Delia : It doesn't matter. Lydia, I have a chance to teach you something here: you have got to take the upper hand in all situations or people, whether they're dead or alive, will walk all over you.

• Otho : What happened to these people?

  Delia : They died. Oh, look, an indoor outhouse.

• Otho : [enters a room with Barbara holding up Adam's severed head]  Ugh. Deliver me from L.L. Bean.

• Otho : Oh, you family types, you got other things to worry about. Maxie Dean's coming up here tonight. You got to figure out a way to sell these ghosts. I can only do so much.

  Charles : What are you gonna do, Otho, viciously rearrange their enviroment?

  Otho : I know just as much about the supernatural as I do about interior design.

• [about the house] 

  Otho : There's absolutely no organic flowthrough.

  Delia : I noticed that too; it's like a giant... ant farm.

• Otho : I have a feeling there's something very interesting behind that door.

  Delia : [sarcastically]  Yeah. Ghosts. The people who died in this house and they want us OUT of here. Well, let's do them a favor...