After it ultimately went unaddressed in the 1988 original movie, one question that Adam and Barbara Maitland had about the afterlife was finally answered in Beetlejuice 2. Putting the ghosts in the same boat as the audience, Adam and Barbara were completely confused by the inner workings of Beetlejuices afterlife and its rules following their deaths. When Adam first reads the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, he remarked that it reads like stereo instructions, meaning the couple had to figure out their new afterlife predicament largely on their own.