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Begin the new year on the right foot with our list of NYC events in January 2023 to plan your month. Terrific Thai in Queens until 4am! The latest from a hospitality supergroup. The stars of Emily in Paris took a few minutes to tell Time Out about their favorite spots around the city. Bellucci is quick to note that the town’s energy still feels thrilling. Jack Skellington is a character and the main protagonist of the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. His overall appearance is a skeleton dressed in a black pin-striped suit and a bow tie that strongly resembles a bat.

Originally, his suit was meant to be completely black, but it blended with the background too well, so it was changed. At the beginning of the film, Jack makes his grand entrance by emerging out of the fountain in Halloween Town’s plaza. His last name is a play on the word “skeleton”. Jack Skellington is the patron spirit of Halloween, portrayed as being on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny within his own holiday. As a living skeleton, he is supernatural and can remove parts of his body without harm, as is often demonstrated for comic relief.

Jack, as the “Pumpkin King” and master of ceremonies, is in charge of Halloween Town’s Halloween celebration. He is loved, respected, and even idolized by the other residents for his role, but he has grown weary of celebrating the same holiday endlessly and is depressed about it. The only one who understands Jack’s feelings is a lonely ragdoll named Sally. One morning after the usual annual celebration, Jack enters a forest containing portals to other worlds themed around holidays. He discovers Christmas Town and decides that this new experience is what his life was missing. He makes preparations for his own Christmas celebration in Halloween Town and wants to impersonate Santa Claus in the real world.