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• Continuity: As Jack ponders the holiday doors, the Easter door appears to the right of the Thanksgiving door. Later as he approaches the Christmas door, it is now to the right of the Thanksgiving door and the turkey is facing the other way (the first shot was probably flipped).
  
  
• Continuity: When Lock, Shock and Barrel are planning to kidnap Santa they grab a black cloth bag with orange pumpkins. Later when they have caught the Easter Bunny and then when they get Santa the bag is much larger and made of plastic.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when Jack puts a kid on the Mayor's hat, he's doing it from the left, both his arms are on the left of the hat. In the next shot, he's holding the kid with his arms from both sides of the hat.
  
  

• Continuity: When Jack's telling the people about Christmas Town, some of them keep switching places. The "Clown with the tear-away face" is in the first line at the start, then later in the second line, then back in the first line, only on the other side; the guy with snake fingers goes to the first line to the second one, then back again; the werewolf switches place with the devil, etc.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally makes a basket of food for Jack she pushes the cork all the way into the bottle. When Jack opens it the cork is sticking out.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the Halloween song you can see strings or something against the moonlight holding up the bats that fly from the moon.
  
  
• Continuity: When the cannons are being raised to shoot at Santa Jack, there are search lights in the background. When the cannons start firing, the positions of the lights jump, and they stop their sweeping motion.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In "Kidnap the Sandy Claws," just before Lock launches Barrel across the room, Lock is singing and his words are aligned. But when Barrel begins to sing, Lock's lips are moving to the words that Barrel should be singing. Barrel's lips don't move at all.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally is raising the basket up to Jack's window Jack is writing on the chalkboard. When he stops writing the chalk he is holding disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When the citizens of Halloween Town gather up for the town meeting, the megaphone on the roof of the Mayor's car changes position during the clip.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally is picking the petals off of the dead flower on top of the spiral hill at the end of the movie, the petals disappear when she drops them.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During Jack's Lament on top of the hill, the light being used as the moon can be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: During "Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws" Shock has black gloves that disappear and re-appear throughout the song.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jack opens the Christmas door, he places his right hand on the third from the bottom tree bough. In the reverse shot, his right hand is on the bottom tree bough.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Jack is kneeling in the snow upon his entry into Christmas Town, small black debris is noticeable at 14:31 for about a second next to his knee.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In "What's This" Jack sings "What's this? There's white things in the air" implying he doesn't know what snow is. Later in the song he sings "There's children throwing snowballs, instead of throwing heads".
  
  
• Continuity: During the song "Making Christmas", some of the characters are building a ramp on which the Mayor rides the snow-mobile that Jack brought. After the small hairy Cyclops puts his piece of the ramp into its place, the 'Clown with the Tear-away Face' does the same with another piece, and the Cyclops suddenly disappears at this point. He pops up again on the other side of the screen at the end of the shot.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the cemetery scene, as Jack sings and gets to the line "And I just can't wait until next Halloween", you can briefly see the wires supporting him shining against the background.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the Mayor turns on the reflector light at the town meeting, some bats fly off it, scared by the sudden light. Here you can clearly see the wires that they are suspended by.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the song "Kidnap the Sandy Claws", after Shock sends a cage with a bug inside of it to Oogie Boogie, you can see the wires holding up the cage as it bounces upon reaching its destination. And when Lock places Barrel onto a catapult, you can see the metal "skeleton" of Barrel cambering the puppet's feet. Finally, there is a piece of debris next to Barrel when he rises up (as Shock shows them a black box) that disappears.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): If Jack has read so many books and stories about Christmas, why does he still call Santa Claus "Sandy Claws"? He should know what the correct spelling of his name is.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After he discovers Christmas Town, Jack accidentally stumbles down a hillside. All the lights of the town overlap his body, yet those are supposed to be far away in the background.
  
  
• Continuity: In some shots, the 'Man Under the Stairs' has visible nipples on his chest, in some shots, they are missing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lock, Shock, and Barrel bring Santa to Jack, Jack snips off the bottom of Santa's beard. Moments later, Santa's beard is complete again.
  
  
• Continuity: When the army is preparing to open fire on Jack's sleigh during the Christmas eve montage, you can see two soldiers standing beside one of the canons for about a second and a half and then they disappear for the rest of the shot. Also, during that exact same frame, the search lights move a full 90 degrees to the right.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Right before the three Mr. Hydes joins the search party for Jack to report that he just searched the pumpkin patch, you can see his foot is already in frame, ready for him to come into frame.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Jack orders Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap Santa, they immediately set off, and by the very next scene, they are already back with a wrong catch (the Easter Bunny). Jack points them then into the right direction, and the trio start their "mission" anew. However it takes an inexplicably long time for them to return, more than 30 days, in fact. Considering that they managed to kidnap the real Santa Claus in mere seconds and how quickly they caught the Easter Bunny earlier, it shouldn't have taken them so long.
  
  
• Continuity: When the missiles are being shot at Jack, the two men on the far left, at the very back, disappear when the cannon shoots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Jack states that "since he is dead, he can take off his head", yet later the other characters "hope he hasn't died".
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: Oogie Boogie has a snake for a tongue. There are some scenes when you can't see it inside his mouth when he opens it, especially in his final scene, when he is revealed to be literally a sack full of insects and falls apart - only insects are seen, no snake.
  
  

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