Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

 

So this is not going to be a chronology, and it's not even really about crossovers.  Sometimes the TVCU is about reconciling different versions of the same character.  

I recently watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and there will be slight spoilers here, so you've been warned.  

As I watched the movie, my brain kept thinking of how the cartoon could fit in the same universe as this sequel.  

So following the events of the first film, and prior to the first episode of the cartoon, Betelgeuse and Lydia became friends, and Adam and Barbara went away.  The second is explained in the sequel.  Lydia found a loophole in the Handbook that allowed the couple to pass on.  That would have happened prior to the cartoon.  Perhaps Betelgeuse helped with this and that's how they became friends.  

Then would follow the wonderful animated series.  

Following the animated series, Betelgeuse, having fallen in love with Lydia, must have crossed some boundaries as he tends to do, pushing Lydia away, now feeling repulsion towards her former best friend.  

And that would make it all fit into the same continuity.  The end.  

Not a crossover above, really, but I wish.  

Actually I found a crossover, sort of.  I previously referenced Beetlejuice in my It's a Wonderful Life post.  

December 1991--BEETLEJUICE--"It's a Wonderful Afterlife"--Beetlejuice gets depressed one day when none of his friends fall for his pranks. Believing that they'd be better off without him, Beetlejuice wishes that none of his friends had ever met him. After a strange man grants his wish and Beetlejuice sees how different things are without him, will he realize what an important role he plays in the lives of his friends? 

And then Ivan had a crossover:  APR 6 - ONE LESS HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT - Ivan

and many other Ghostbusters work with Dr Raymond Stanz on a tough case in Winter River CT.  The offending spirit, which claims to hail from the star Betelguese, is not trapped, but it is driven away.

Ray Stanz is a character from the 1984 film GHOSTBUSTERS. Other franchises involved were the Bay State, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maine, and Long Island Ghostbusters. Winter River CT was the setting of the 1988 film BEETLEJUICE, and the offending spirit encountered there is that film's eponymous villain, Betelgeuse.