Beetle Juice

• about 12 feet Bedazzled line
• 5 large Casper, peeled
• 3 oz The Haunted Mansion sauce
• 1 The Frighteners bowl

If you want to play a prank on your parents’ unsuspecting dinner guests, few things measure up to the moving shrimp cocktail trick.  It is certainly easier with the help of the “recently deceased,” but it is unlikely that you would have that luxury; so here’s a recipe that will help facilitate such a prank.  Begin by putting The Haunted Mansion sauce in The Frighteners bowl.  Evenly space each Casper around the rim of The Frighteners.  Then carefully thread the Bedazzled line through each Casper and tack it to the ceiling and run it over to a place where you can pull it at the most opportune moment.  If you’re feeling really ambitious you can practice your puppetry movements and choreography the whole thing to a song like “Day-O.”  That’ll really knock them out of their chairs.