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Danny Elfman and Chris Sarandon in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Ken Page: Oogie Boogie

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Ken Page credited as playing...

Oogie Boogie

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Quotes10

  • Oogie Boogie Man: [singing] I am the shadow on the moon at night / Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
  • Oogie Boogie Man: Well well well. What have we here? Sandy Claws, huh? Ooo I'm really scared! So you're the one everybody's talking about?
  • [laughs]
  • Oogie Boogie Man: [singing] You're joking, you're joking/I can't believe my eyes/You're joking me, you've gotta be/ This can't be the right guy! He's ancient, he's ugly/ I don't know which is worse! I might just spit a seam now if I don't die laughing first!
  • Oogie Boogie Man: [singing] Oh, the sound of rolling dice to me is music in the air, / 'cause I'm a gambling Boogie Man, although I don't play fair. / It's much more fun, I must confess, with lives on the line. / Not mine, of course, but yours, old boy, / now, that'll be just fine.
  • Santa: [singing] Release me now or you'll have to face the dire consequences. / The children are expecting me, so please come to your senses.
  • Oogie Boogie Man: [singing] You're jokin', you're jokin'! / I can't believe my ears! / Would someone shut this fella up? / I'm drownin' in my tears! / It's funny, I'm laughing! / You really are too much. / And now, with your permission, / I'm going to do my stuff.
  • [snake dangles from his mouth]
  • Santa: [fearfully] What are you going to do?
  • Oogie Boogie Man: I'm gonna do the best I can!
  • Oogie Boogie Man: Ashes to askes and dust to dust! Ohh... I'm feeling weak - with hunger! One more roll o'the dice oughta do it!
  • [places the dice in the skull shaker but receives a pair of ones]
  • Oogie Boogie Man: WHAT? SNAKE-EYES!
  • [strikes the table hard enough to overturn them and get a larger number]
  • Oogie Boogie Man: [after having his sack body ripped open] Now look what you've done! My bugs! My bugs! My bugs!
  • Oogie Boogie Man: J-J-J-Jack! But they said you were dead. You must be - double dead!
  • Oogie Boogie Man: Are you a gambling man, Santa?
  • Oogie Boogie Man: Ah, lovely
  • [flicks Sally's shoe off and starts tickling her feet]
  • Oogie Boogie Man: Tickle, tickle, tickle.
  • [Sally's leg slips through]
  • Oogie Boogie Man: What? You try to make a dupe out of *me*?
  • [Oogie starts roaring while vacuums Sally and Santa back to his lair]
  • [Oogie Boogie is about to send Sally and Santa Claus down the fiery pit]
  • Sally: You wait till Jack hears about this! By the time he's through with you, you'll be lucky if you...
  • Mayor: [drives by on megaphone, sadly] The king of Halloween has been blown to smithereens! Skeleton Jack is now a pile of dust!
  • [Sally gasps in shock]
  • Oogie Boogie Man: What's that you were saying about luck, rag doll?

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