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Our three co-hosts are stuck in the multiverse and need to get back to their home universe. Clearly, the only way to do that is to explore our cultural obsession with multiverses, alternate timelines and parallel worlds, and tie it all into a conversation about post-modern art, pop culture, and the lessons these stories teach us. Also, each episode, one of them is an asshole who will probably sabotage the whole thing.

This week we discuss 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Robert Mischief

If you want answers to a lot of the questions you all posed, feel free to watch the movie.

Anonymous

I know I’m a bit late, but I’ve got a few thoughts 1. Jack knows that Sally exists, he asks for her specifically to make his Santa outfit, though he probably doesn’t interact with her very much because the doctor keeps her in his tower 2.”Pumpkin King” is an honorific, not an official title. It’s like Homecoming King/Queen, or probably closer to like the people voted King/Queen of a county fair. 3. I always took Lock, Shock, and Barrel being referred to as “Boogie’s Boys” to mean that they were his children, not that that worked for him 4. Boogie doesn’t have an official title in town, he’s the crazy guy nobody wants to deal with, hence the mayor being upset when his kids come by and Jack not wanting him involved. Halloween-town may be a pretty violent place, but most of the inhabitants are already dead, it makes sense that their “pranks” may tend a little more deadly. Oogie Boogie is a straight up psychopath 5. I agree that the holiday worlds are affected by the beliefs of the “real” world. Christmas town has very little reference to Jesus because a lot of people don’t explicitly associate Jesus with Christmas. As fun as Santa kicking Jesus out of Christmas is, in the world of the movie Jesus probably just started showing up in town less often 6. Nightmare Before Christmas is a Thanksgiving movie 7. I’m a little sleep deprived so I apologize if anything doesn’t make sense