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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: The song "What's This" has quite a few passages that, when listened to in the proper state of mind, sound like they're describing something [[Double Entendre|completely different.]]
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This empty place inside of me is filling up!
I simply cannot get enough!
I want it, oh, I want it
Oh, I want it for my own!" }}
** "In here they've got a little tree! [[Have a Gay Old Time|How queer!]]"
** It gets worse during "Making Christmas". Jack seems to get a little ''[[
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** 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...
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Dr. Finklestein, '''[[Bigtime]]'''. Did he create Sally to be [[Mad
** 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.
** This is probably why the promotional material for ''[[Coraline (
*** Really? The trailers this troper saw said "from Henry Selick, the director of ''[[
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Oogie Boogie tend to get this a lot, often making Jack into [[Ron the Death Eater|a bully]] to do so. Also, ''Jack'' is probably one of the rare heroes (if not the only one) who gets this. Fans bash the military for shooting Jack down, despite the fact that they were justified in doing so.
** Dr. Finkelstein gets the [[Ron the Death Eater|opposite]] of this. Yes, he has a rather . . . [[Alternative Character Interpretation|questionable]] and dysfuntional relationship with Sally, but this does not excuse the [[Fanfic]] writers for writing him into a freaking rapist.
* [[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
** [[Lost Aesop]]: Maybe? Consider these lines from "Poor Jack":
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And, by God, I really tasted something swell
And for a moment, why, I even touched the sky
And at least I left some stories they can tell, I did
And for the first time since I don't remember when
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
** Then there's Oogie's [[Shout
** The [[Show Some Leg]] scene! Seriously, that's probably the reason for the Oogie/Sally ship!
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Mayor]] ends up falling down the stairs of Jack's house trying to get Jack. This is hilarious until you realize that the Mayor's voice actor Glenn Shadix died because of blunt trauma to the head following a fall at his Birmingham condo.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: The Halloween Towners LOVE the idea of Christmas Town. Too bad they don't have a clue.
** Also, Nightmare is [[Big in Japan]], which explains why Halloween Town is featured throughout the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series.
*** 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 [[
* [[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!
* [[
** [[Hype Backlash]]/[[Hate Dumb]]: And this is another reason.
** As for Tim Burton not wanting to do sequels, it's a little late for that.
* [[Love to Hate]]: Oogie Boogie.
* [[Minion Shipping]]/[[Toy Ship]]: Lock and Shock.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: [[The Nightmare Before Christmas
** Especially now that Jack Skellington's head is the icon for [[Nightmare Fuel]] on the [[Buffy
** 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 [[PS 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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** The ''human children'' are creepier than most things hanging around Halloween Town.
** Have you ever seen fanart of Jack drawn realistically? Dear Lord, ''there's a reason why Jack is a '''''cartoony''''' skeleton!''
* [[Vindicated
* [[What an Idiot!]]: No amount of naiveness can excuse Jack from actually trusting Lock, Shock, and Barrel to take care of Sandy and ''not'' hand him over to Oogie.
* [[What Do You Mean
** Two words. [[Nightmare Fuel|Oogie Boogie.]]
** 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
*** 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?
*** Even {{spoiler|Oogie Boogie's death}} makes you feel sorry for the guy!
*** And he's also the biggest in-universe celebrity. That's got to be exhausting.
*** 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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