1. Beetlejuice
   Batman Returns
2. Corpse Bride
   Edward Scissorhands

"Corpse Bride" was about a young man who practices his wedding vows in a graveyard -- and accidentally marries a ghost.

1. to string popcorn into a garland
   to chop down the perfect tree
2. to "rustle" Santa's reindeer
   to kidnap Santa

With "Sandy Claws" safely in Halloween Town, Jack can take his place on Christmas Eve.

1. Tim Burton
   Bruce Seth Green
2. Alfonso Cuaron
   Henry Selick

Poor Selick gets little credit -- most people believe Burton directed it, partly because the full title is, "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas."

1. a dream
   a poem
2. a painting
   a school play

"Nightmare" is only an hour and ten minutes long, understandable given the slenderness of the source material.

1. Danny Elfman
   Ennio Morricone
2. Stevie Wonder
   Tim Burton

Elfman also voiced "Barrel," part of the impish trio "Lock, Shock and Barrel."

1. Halloween
   O'Scarey
2. Samhain
   Skellington

"Skellington" is a corruption of "skeleton" that English country folk used; it can be found in the work of Thomas Hardy.

1. the pumpkin king
   the mayor
2. Lord Skellington
   the prime minister

Halloween Town also has a mayor, but he seems dependent on Jack.

1. Val Kilmer
   George Clooney
2. Chris Sarandon
   both Danny Elfman and Chris Sarandon

Elfman was chosen first, then Sarandon was cast because his voice was similar to Elfman's.

1. Natalie Portman
   Winona Ryder
2. Catherine O'Hara
   Brittany Murphy

O'Hara also had a role in Burton's "Beetlejuice."

1. Jack himself
   Evil Scientist
2. the Mayor
   Sally

He trades off between his "happy" and "concerned" faces as circumstances require.

1. Boogie
   Chaney
2. Wolfie
   Zero

Zero has his own doghouse-shaped tomb in the cemetery.

1. a bone
   a little Jack-o-Lantern
2. a ghoulish face
   a skull

It glows, which will come in handy later in the movie.

1. Jack
   "Evil Scientist"
2. Victor Frankenstein
   we never learn this

He was originally "Dr. Finkelstein;" it might have been changed for fear it sounded anti-Semitic.

1. a tomb at the back of the cemetery
   a grove of trees
2. an abandoned house
   the basement of "Evil Scientist's" tower

Other trees have portals to the other major holidays.

1. Satan Claus
   Sandy Claws
2. Old Ain't-Nick
   Szandor Clause

Maybe Jack needs his ears cleaned out!

1. hen's bane
   eye of newt and tongue of frog
2. worm wort and frog's breath
   baboon's blood and baby's tears

It's the Night Shade, though, that puts him to sleep -- which is Sally's purpose.

1. Inken, Blinken and Clyde
   Lock, Shock and Barrel
2. Soot, Smoke and Char
   Larry, Darryl and Darryl

"Shock" is voiced by Catherine O'Hara (Sally), and "Barrel" by Danny Elfman.

1. Steve Martin
   Chris Elliott
2. Chris Rock
   Paul Reubens

Burton also gave Reubens a part in "Batman Returns."

1. Jack himself
   the Mayor
2. Sally
   Zero

Sally has a crush on Jack, but that doesn't mean he can do no wrong in her eyes.

1. gambling
   working on an immortality potion
2. making a companion to replace Sally
   plotting to ruin Christmas

Sally, meanwhile, is trying to figure out ways to stop the coming disaster.

1. the Easter Bunny
   a Thanksgiving pilgirm
2. Mrs. Claus
   the Tooth Fairy

Obviously, it wouldn't be the Tooth Fairy, who doesn't have a dedicated holiday.

1. she removes all her stuffing and slides under the door
   she tricks Evil Scientist into letting her out
2. she crawls through a heating vent
   she just goes out the window

Sally makes her escape with a gift basket for Jack.

1. Corpse Mom
   Evil Scientist
2. Oogie Boogie
   the Wolf Man

He is more popularly known as the boogeyman.

1. belladonna
   fog juice
2. sleeping potion
   nitroglycerin

Jack's a responsible pilot, lamenting that he can't take off in the thick fog.

1. giant fans dispel the fog
   a catapult launches him up over the fog layer
2. will-o-the-wisps from a swamp come light his way
   Zero's Jack-o-Lantern nose lights the way

See, we told you that would come in handy!

1. giant vampire bats
   oversized vultures
2. thestrals (wraithlike winged horses)
   animated reindeer skeletons

Thestrals are from the Harry Potter universe, which came years after "Nightmare."

1. a casino
   a bar
2. a dance hall
   an apothecary shop

He sings and dances on a giant roulette wheel while Santa and Sally are strapped to a nearby table.

1. everyone is delighted with their Halloween-themed gifts
   clergy everywhere denounce him as Satanic
2. the military prepares to shoot him down
   people think it's Armageddon and hide in their homes

Actually, they succeed in shooting down his sleigh.

1. "Why? Why?"
   "Geronimo!"
2. "This is not what I call Christmas Spirit!"
   "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

Happily, he lands unhurt in a graveyard.

1. via a witch's crystal ball
   images show up in the cauldron
2. on a giant drive-in movie screen
   a magic lantern casts images on a wall

This is how they know Jack's been shot down, and for a moment it seems all is lost.

1. he believes that Evil Scientist deliberately ruined his plans
   he believes all is lost
2. he realizes that he *does* like Halloween, but that he's really messed up Christmas
   he realizes that he loves Sally

The movie's overall point is, "Don't envy or imitate, just be yourself!"

1. he quickly throws his sleigh and skeletal-reindeer team back together
   he can teleport
2. he wishes on a star
   a tomb in the graveyard is a shortcut to one in Halloween Town

Jack emerges in the same cemetery where he had his melancholy spell in the movie's beginning.

1. a beautiful woman
   a mass of bugs
2. three small children on each other's shoulders
   the Evil Scientist

There was reportedly a plan for it to be "Evil Scientist," but this idea was scrapped.

1. pumpkin-shaped chocolates
   sugar skulls
2. snow
   living reindeer

It's nice that he got over the kidnapping incident so quickly -- but then, he's Santa!

1. animatronics
   claymation
2. rotoscoping
   stop motion

Tim Burton didn't direct the film, in part, because he didn't want to be involved in this laborious process.