This, Ghostbusters, and Star Wars were the holy triumvirate of my childhood entertainment from about age 4 onwards.
Maybe fortunately for my parents, this scene never existed in my childhood, because my copy of Beetlejuice was taped off network television and heavily censored.
Now, I've always wondered about this: wasn't Beetlejuice a PG movie? Therefore, since Beetlejuice utters the memorable line, "Nice FUCKING tree!", wouldn't that normally bump the movie up into an 'R' (at least at the Reagan era point this was made)? I think you can say 'fuck' in a Pg-13 movie, but I'm pretty sure Beetlejuice was PG. Can someone clear this up? This is the sort of thing that stays in the back of my mind forever until there's some closure!
"Nice fucking model" I mean, yes.
Where in 'Big' do they say fuck? and was that PG or PG-13?
It's so confusing. But it mainly seemed that PG-13 was brought about so Steven Spielberg could show semi-extreme violence without straying into an 'R'.