Friday night, during the screening of the Nightmare Before Christmas, I had an epiphany. I have been watching this movie wrong my entire life. Hear me out: the oogie boogie man is the mistreated hero of this movie.

First of all, I would like to point out that the oogie boogie man is the only one in this movie who actually lives up to his name. Jack is named the pumpkin king and he’s not even a pumpkin. Could they not have found even one pumpkin in freaking halloweentown to take that title? The oogie boogie man, on the other, spends a considerable amount of his time on screen actually boogying, and is legitimately made of bugs that could be considered ‘oogie.’

Secondly, the oogie boogie man is just doing his job the entire movie. He’s actually scary: unlike a certain skeleton having a midlife crisis. It takes a whole new level of scary to scare other monsters, so the oogie boogie man should be celebrated as a total success, not forced to live as an outcast in halloweentown.

Even Santa can’t live up to his expectations in this movie. He’s supposed to be nice and jolly and understanding. Did you notice the bit where he straight up murders the oogie boogie man? Because I did. Santa is a murder. If Jack had murdered the oogie boogie man it would have made sense because he would finally be doing his job, being scary. But Santa? He should obviously be treated as the main villain for misleading all those children into thinking he is not the kind of guy capable of murder.

So in conclusion: Nightmare Before Christmas is a sad movie about a talented guy just going about his day doing his freaking job until a Santa Claus comes along a murders him. Did you cry? Because you should have.

Secondary conclusion: I have been spending too much time on r/empiredidnothingwrong.