As it turns out, Jack Skellington and Gator Tillman have more in common than you might expect.

WARNING: This article contains spoilers forFargoseason 5, episode 3, “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions.”

I like that movie!

Jack Skellington and Joe Keery Fargo

Jack in ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas;’ Joe Keery as Gator Tillman in ‘Fargo’.Buena Vista Pictures/ Everett; Frank W Ockenfels III/FX

It’s a specific choice, and I chose that movie because it’s a favorite of my house.

My kids will grow up and watchFargoone day and it will feel meaningful to them.

He adds, We had to get a blessing fromTim Burtonto do it, which is great.

Its the sins of the father, right?

Theres two feet of snow on the ground on Halloween, he points out.

It is sort of both those things as well.

Hawley hopes that the frequent allusions both charm and perplex tender lumplings everywhere over the course of the season.

It does make you go, ‘Why is that in there?’

Which is a bit ofour Mike Yanagita, I guess, he says, referencing the 1996 film.

You’re like, Why is this in the movie?

It seems like a total departure, and yet I think it fits.