History Heartwarming / TheNightmareBeforeChristmas

** The very end of the score is a brief reprise of "What's This?" which ends on a resolved note rather than a suspended one, suggesting that Jack not only feels the same joy being in love with Sally that he did when he first discovered Christmas but that it gives him a greater sense of wholeness than Christmas ever could. It's like a musical equivalent of "...And they all lived happily ever after."

* Santa demonstrating that he has forgiven Jack by giving all of HalloweenTown a Christmas gift: snow!

* The entire final scene of Jack and Sally's FinalLoveDuet atop Spiral Hill. In almost perfect unison, they throw their arms around each other and kiss passionately, all ending on a gorgeous Picardy third[[note]]A minor key piece ending in the major[[/note]]

** The very, very end of the music score (and, by extension, the film) is a brief reprise of "What's This?" to illustrate that Jack gets the same indescribable feeling of joy knowing that he's in love with Sally as he did when he first discovered Christmas. The way it ends on a resolved not rather than a suspended one is like a musical equivalent of "...And they all lived happily ever after."

** The very, very end of the music score (and, by extension, the film) is a brief reprise of "What's This?" to illustrate that Jack gets the same indescribable feeling of joy knowing that he's in love with Sally as he did when he first discovered Christmas. Unlike the song, resolves rather than suspends, like a musical equivalent of "...And they all lived happily ever after."

* The end song on the soundtrack, "Closing", has Santa visit Jack years after the Christmas incident to find [[spoiler: Jack has "[[BabiesEverAfter four or five skeleton children at hand, playing strange tunes in their xylophone band.]]"]] Freaking ''adorable''.

* A small detail, but worth mentioning: Jack's righteous anger at Oogie Boogie in the climax is definitely an AwesomeMoment...but you might take note of his [[ExactWords specific choice of words]] before his PreMortemOneLiner. ''"How dare you treat my'' '''''friends''''' ''so shamefully?!''" Note the plural: ''"friends"'', not ''"friend"''. For all their obvious differences, Jack still considers Santa Claus a friend. And why shouldn't he? ''He's the man who showed Jack the beauty of Christmas!'' Jack and Santa might be from different worlds, but Oogie Boogie signed his death warrant the second he laid a hand on jolly old Saint Nick.

* The entire final scene of Jack and Sally's FinalLoveDuet atop Spiral Hill. A classic movie moment, where the leading man takes his lady in his arms and kisses her passionately, all ending on a gorgeous Picardy third[[note]]A minor key piece ending in the major[[/note]]

* The entire final scene of Jack and Sally's FinalLoveDuet atop Spiral Hill, is a classic movie moment, where the leading man takes his lady in his arms and kisses her passionately, all ending on a gorgeous Picardy third[[note]]A minor key piece ending in the major[[/note]]

* "[[FinalLoveDuet For it is plain, as anyone can see... we were simply meant to be.]]" Pretty much that whole scene.
** one of the best uses of the Picardy third (a minor key piece ending in the major) occurs here.

* The reward Lock, Shock, and Barrel are hoping Oogie Boogie will grant them for kidnapping Santa: his "special" snake and spider stew. Just the idea that he cooks for them sometimes is adorable.

* Even though it marks where things start going wrong, [[@/ManCalledTrue this editor]] still gets a little shiver from "What's This?", when Jack realizes he's stumbled into exactly the sort of difference he wanted. "I must be dreaming/Wake up, Jack, this isn't fair!/What's this?"
* "Jack's Lament".

We're simply meant to be."

* The moment right after Santa leaves, when Jack finally realizes how Sally feels about him.

-->'''Doctor:''' Careful, my precious jewel.

** Speaking of the Doctor Finklestein, there's something weirdly adorable about him arriving with a wife (that he created) at the end of the movie.

* Sally drapping a blanket over her 'father' after drugging him in an attempt to see more of the world, despite the fact he has treated her with a bit of a prisoner vibe.

* Even though she's grounded and locked in her room, Sally breaks out just to send Jack up a basket of dinner, only to run off before he can thank her. Also touching because while she's too shy to speak to him much, she must know him well enough to know that when he gets into a project he forgets to eat and tries to care for him when she can.

* Santa demonstrating that he has forgiven Jack by giving all of Halloweentown a Christmas gift: snow!
** The folks of Halloweentown seeing snow for the first time. Even the creepiest ghouls can't resist frolicking and playing like children.

* It's subtle, but the scene where the Mayor and a handful of other Halloweentown citizens find Jack in Boogie's has one as well. The first words we hear are Lock, Shock and Barrel exclaiming "Here he is!" "Alive!" "Just like we said!" The CMOH comes when you realize that they arrived back at Boogie's seconds after he was defeated--meaning that the moment they heard Jack in the lair and realized he was in trouble, Oogie Boogie's [[HeelFaceTurn loyal henchmen]] had to have gone into Halloweentown, found the Mayor, convinced him to help them, and then gone all the way back to save Jack's life. Jack Skellington means ''that much'' to his people.

* At the end when Jack has made his return to Halloweentown and Santa flies by, saying "Happy Halloween!", making snow and Jack saying "Merry Christmas!"

'''Doctor:''' It's a phase, my dear, It'll pass.