How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Beetlejuice.
Quote #7
LYDIA: You did this? You carved all these little houses and things? And this used to be your house. Why do you want to scare everybody?
ADAM: Well, we wanted to frighten you so you would move out.
LYDIA: You don't know the Deetzes very well. My father bought this place. He never walks away from equity.
Charles paid top dollar for this house, and he won't walk away from a house whose value he thinks is just going up. Adam and Barbara are going to have to go all Amityville Horror on the Deetzes if they want to get them out.
Quote #8
BARBARA: You know, I don't think it's a very good idea to tell your parents that we're up here.
ADAM: Not unless you think it will frighten them away. You tell them that we are horrible, desperate, ghoulish creatures who will stop at nothing to get our house back.
The shallow and pretentious Deetzes are much scarier than the ghosts in this movie—another one of the film's running gags.
Quote #9
BARBARA: You can come up here and visit us anytime you want. I have a feeling that things are going to be a little better from now on.
LYDIA: What do you mean, better?
BARBARA: Well, we've decided that we're going to invite you and your family to stay.
Ultimately, the Maitlands just aren't nasty enough to be successes in the haunting business. They cut a deal that lets them restore the house to its original design in exchange for not ripping off their faces in front of the Deetz family.