Every year, it seems that Halloween creeps in earlier than before, and with it, its Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington.

Take the Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland; it’s a haunted house with ghosts that, as soon as Halloweentime arrives at the Disneyland resort at the end of summer, becomes inhabited by Jack and the people of Halloweentown. However, they’re not there for Halloween; they’re there to make Christmas. There’s the rub, because the once cult and now very mainstream holiday staple from the mind of Tim Burton and director Henry Selick is about one holiday taking over another.

So with Halloween about to make way for the Christmas season at the end of this week, io9 looks at both sides of the great debate. There are arguments both ways, but let’s settle this once and for all.

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