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** It gets worse during "Making Christmas". Jack seems to get a little ''[[If You Know What I Mean|too]]'' excited. The lyrics make it worse:
{{quote|I can't believe what's happening to me. My hopes, my dreams, my ''fantasies!'' *[[The Immodest Orgasm|giddy, high-pitched laughter]]*}}
** Let's all sing ''This Is Halloween''! "Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back"
** Also, Boogie's [[Villain Song]] makes it seem like [[Black Comedy Rape|he may have ulterior motives in his capture of Santa.]]
*** Considering he's the [[Big Bad]], might not be accidental...
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** And what of {{spoiler|the mother-like figure he's with at the end?}}
** Someone has said that he doesn't consider Oogie Boogie evil. That person? Tim Burton.
** Sally herself seems solidly in the [[Only Sane Man]] camp, the only person in Halloweentown to act selflessly and with reason. But if one actually listens to "Sally's Song", one notes that every time she starts discussing the possible negative repercussions of taking over Christmas, she quickly derails into talking about whether she and Jack will hook up instead. With that in mind, it becomes a lot easier to view all her supposedly reasonable and selfless actions as simply [[Stalker with a Crush|cries for Jack's attention]].
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: The entire soundtrack, really. The movie WAS composed by [[Danny Elfman]], after all.
* [[Director Displacement]]: The film is mostly known as [[Tim Burton]]'s work, and it is, but it was directed by Henry Selick.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: Pretty much any song, but especially "This Is Halloween", "What's This?" and "Oogie Boogie's Song".
** And "Kidnap The Sandy Claws".
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: Going against your nature/set place in life will result to destruction, though considering Jack does this by [[Comically Missing the Point|kidnapping other people and giving kids dangerous presents]], this is probably an unintentional [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]. (Though the movie ''does'' have an [[Ambition Is Evil]] vibe to it.) <ref>
** [[Lost Aesop]]: Maybe? Consider these lines from "Poor Jack":
{{quote|''Well, what the heck, I went and did my best
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I felt just like my old bony self again'' }}
::: which suggest the moral "Break out of your comfort zone once in a while; even if it doesn't work it may give you a fresh perspective!" (Still a bit warped considering he nearly causes a major disaster...)
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: A skeletal creature trying to supplant a ruler of his crown, being shot down and falling, [[Wreathed in Flames]], into [[
* [[Foe Yay]]: Come on, there's really no reason why, when he decided to show, Jack had to announce his presence to [[Big Bad|Oogie Boogie]] looking like [[media:
** Then there's Oogie's [[Shout-Out]] comment to Santa, sounding like Oogie's going to ''[[Squick|rape]]'' him.
** The [[Show Some Leg]] scene! Seriously, that's probably the reason for the Oogie/Sally ship!
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*** It's also very well-known and popular in the America's, despite being a [[Cult Classic]] in other parts of the world.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: One of the toys made is a rolling duck (duckroll) the predecessor to [[Rickroll]].
* [[Ho Yay]]: Of all the citizens of [[Halloweentown]], [[Ambiguously Gay|the Mayor]] appears to be the most worried for Jack when he goes
** In his defense, there are only 365 more days until NEXT Halloween.
*** Three-Sixty-FOUR!
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** Especially now that Jack Skellington's head is the icon for [[Nightmare Fuel]] on the [[Buffy-Speak|top-of-page linky things,]] because High Octane Nightmare Fuel trope is renamed as "Nightmare Fuel", and people are still working on the issues.
** It's less that specific parts of the movie are [[Nightmare Fuel]], and more that the entire movie is scary to varying degrees.
* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: Lock, Stock, and Barrel's [[Villain Song]] where they discuss with glee all the diabolical things they could do to Santa is pretty creepy; however, any chance they had of being ''truly'' nightmarish is ruined in the next scene, when they mess up and kidnap the Easter Bunny by mistake.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Amongst the most cited favorites of young [[Perky Goth
* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Averted, mostly. As Halloween Town has made most of its appearances in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', it's been pretty good. As for the [[PlayStation 2]] game...decent, but it would have made a better movie sequel than a game.<br /><br />''Oogie's Revenge'' [[What Could Have Been|WAS going to be a movie sequel]], but [[Tim Burton]] convinced Disney otherwise (see [[Cash Cow Franchise]] in the Main tab for the reason why). Considering that the sequel was going to be in CGI rather then in [[Stop Motion]], that gives you an idea on [[Sequelitis|what the quality of the sequel might have been]].▼
* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Averted, mostly. As Halloween Town has made most of its appearances in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', it's been pretty good. As for the [[PlayStation 2]] game...decent, but it would have made a better movie sequel than a game.
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: The part following Jack being shot down, where we see all the kids crying as the police announce that they've yet to find the actual Santa Claus and Christmas will most likely be cancelled.
** As well Jack's song after he's been shot down and landed in the graveyard... {{spoiler|well, until he decides to fix things and not mope around feeling sorry for himself, realizing that his holiday is Halloween, not Christmas, and that even though he failed he did his best and he's ready to give his all for the next Halloween.}}
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** It doesn't help that Disney [[Executive Meddling|deliberately]] moved ''Nightmare'' under its Touchstone label for the [[Nightmare Fuel]], despite the fact that Disney [[Nightmare Fuel (Disney film)|has plenty of its own]].
* [[The Woobie]]: All those who feel sorry for Henry Selick because he ''never'' gets credit for this film, raise your hand.
** Sally is one too. All the things she does for someone who doesn't reciprocate her feelings (at first) is [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]].
** Jack might be considered one too. A guy who gets tired of his job might sound whiny, but not when you consider that he lives in a town where it's all about said job. Put that on top of the fact that a lot of the responsibility for Halloween is on his shoulders, and all you have to say is "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|That's rough, buddy]]."
*** Also since Jack is [[Dem Bones]] he might be [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], who knows how long he was doing the same thing every year. 10 years? 50 years? 100 years? Since Halloween was created?
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*** Jack would be considered a small-scale [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] if he was [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|intentionally screwing things up]].
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