History Trivia / TheNightmareBeforeChristmas

* ReferencedBy: The Music/{{Blink182}} song "I Miss You" has a couple of lines that are nods to the movie.
--> We can live like Jack and Sally if we want\\
Where you can always find me\\
We'll have Halloween on Christmas

** Disney moving the film under its [[Creator/TouchstonePictures Touchstone label]] rather then releasing it under the "Walt Disney Pictures" label due to the dark content. Future re-releases, both home and theatrical, would bring it back under the Disney name, after the Disney brand began to expand their demographic starting with the PG-13 ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series.

* ProductionPosse: Tim Burton regulars like Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix and even Danny Elfman have voice roles.

* ProductionPosse: Tim Burton regulars like Catherine O'Hara, Glen Shaddix and even Danny Elfman have voice roles.

* CreatorCameo: DannyElfman's head is inside the jazz trio's upright bass.

* NonSingingVoice: Creator/DannyElfman does the singing voice of Jack, while Chris Sarandon does the speaking voice. In ''Oogie's Revenge'', the trope is averted with Sarandon singing the songs.

** DannyElfman was not the first choice to do the music. Instead, [[Film/TheNeverEndingStory Giorgio Moroder]] was offered the project but turned it down.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** [[Creator/CatherineOHara Catherine O'Hara]] voices Sally and also Shock.
** [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Glenn Shadix]] voices The Mayor.
** [[AllDogsGoToHeaven The big lip]][[BigLippedAlligatorMoment ped Alligator]] voices Oogie Boogie.
*** Or, alternately, [[{{Cats}} Old Deuteronomy]].
** And Uncle Louis as Dr. Finklestein!
** Jack has double duty in this case; his normal voice is [[Film/ThePrincessBride Prince Humperdinck]] and his singing voice is [[DannyElfman The Oingo Boingo Guy]].
** [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Greg Proops]] voices three characters-- the Devil, the ghoulish saxophone player, and the orange-and-black, AmbiguouslyGay Harlequin Demon.
** [[Series/ThePeeWeeHermanShow Pee Wee]] [[Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse Herman]] is Lock. Subverted for Barrel, who is voiced by DannyElfman, but you won't know it just from listening to him.
** '''''[[Creator/ChristopherLee CHRISTOPHER LEE]]''''', of all people can be heard reading Tim Burton's original poem on the 2008 DVD rerelease.

* DoingItForTheArt: Holds true for any stop-motion film, but this one is amazing. It took over three years to film; the set took up over a dozen ''sound stages'', which is a phenomenal amount of space.

* CashCowFranchise: Oh yes! What makes this even more annoying is that some people buy the stuff to look {{Goth}} or {{Emo}}, not because they actually seen the movie. Ironically, Tim Burton seemed to try to prevent this to an extent, by refusing to do sequels and ruin the integrity of the movie for fans.

** The Italian dub manage to avert this with Jack, having him dubbed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Zero Renato Zero]], a famous singer.

* ExecutiveMeddling:

** The line "You meddlin' stick figure!" was pretty funny.

** '''''{{CHRISTOPHER LEE}}''''', of all people can be heard reading Tim Burton's original poem on the 2008 DVD rerelease.
* NonSingingVoice: DannyElfman does the singing voice of Jack, while Chris Sarandon does the speaking voice. In ''Oogie's Revenge'', the trope is averted with Sarandon singing the songs.

* TalkingToHimself: Averted. Elfman does the voice of Jack Skellington and Barrel, but since he's the ''singing'' voice of Jack, he nevers runs into this trope. Likewise averted by Sally and Shock, who are both voiced by Catherine O'Hara but never share a scene with each other.

** The poem in the opening narrative was recited by Edward Ivory, who also played the voice of Sandy Claws. An earlier recording (which is available on the original soundtrack) was several lines longer and read by Actor/PatrickStewart. Hear it in all its glory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY3MAguzzKA here.]]
** Stewart also provided a coda that wasn't used, where it was revealed that the narrator was in fact Sandy Claus himself, and visited Jack years later. It is also revealed that he had [[BabiesEverAfter several baby skeletons running around]] (presumably with Sally). This verse is also available on the original soundtrack, and can be heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udDDa1aAw_o&list=PLBAFD34845E5AE435#t=29 here.]]

** The poem in the opening narrative was recited by Edward Ivory, who also played the voice of Sandy Claws. An earlier recording (which is available on the original soundtrack) was several lines longer and read by Actor/PatrickStewart. Hear it in all its glory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY3MAguzzKA here.]]

* The poem in the opening narrative was recited by Edward Ivory, who also played the voice of Sandy Claws. An earlier recording (which is available on the original soundtrack) was several lines longer and read by Actor/PatrickStewart. Hear it in all its glory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY3MAguzzKA here.]]

** Spiral Hill: The hill where Jack gets his first song and where Jack and Sally have their BigDamnKiss. ''KingdomHearts'' calls it "Curly Hill", but if [[http://forum.tnbc.eu/viewtopic.php?t=2362 this poll is any indication]], fans massively prefer "Spiral".

** There was also a couple of storyboards floating about the net (which seems to missing now) that had Jack and Oogie going at each other with, I kid you not, [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence freaking maces]].

** [[HomeAlone Catherine O'Hara]] voices Sally and also Shock.

* HeyItsThatVoice:

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[HomeAlone Catherine O'Hara]] voices Sally and also Shock.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, [[spoiler: Dr. Finklestein was going to be Oogie, disguised because he was jealous that Sally chose Jack over him and wanted to teach her a lesson.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEOZbihCyoE See here]].

* GodNeverSaidThat: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD0T-Ev-Juo This video]] claims that it's a deleted song that was replaced by "Jack's Lament". The song is actually "Hushabye Mountain" from ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''. The lie should be obvious, really, considering one of the lines is "Daddy loves you" and Jack doesn't have children.

* CashCowFranchise: Oh yes!
** What makes this even more annoying is that some people buy the stuff to look {{Goth}} or {{Emo}}, not because they actually seen the movie.
** Ironically, Tim Burton seemed to try to prevent this to an extent, by refusing to do sequels and ruin the integrity of the movie for fans.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The vampires playing hockey at the end of the film were originally using Burton's head as a puck.