• Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, and Cissy Houston all sang back-up on track #12 "Underground"


• In Terry Jones' original script, the name of the baby was Freddie, not Toby


• In TJ's script, when Sarah defeats Jareth, he turns into a goblin :(


• Danny John-Jules, the voice of Fireys 1 & 2, can be seen as The Cat on the British tv show "Red Dwarf"

• Jareth first appears in disguise, telling Sarah that he is an author named Robin Zakar.


• Also, in the ballroom scene, there are TWO Sarahs: Our Sarah watches a copy of herself dancing with Jareth.


• There are several omissions, but one or two neat extras, including a portrait gallery with a picture of Jareth that watches Sarah.

• In her bedroom, after reciting the words in the mirror, Sarah gets mad and throws her lipstick. She leaves the room without retrieving it, yet later in the Labyrinth, it's suddenly in her pocket.


• In the beginning of the film, Sarah recites the lines as being, "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City _to take back the child that you have stolen_." Yet, when facing Jareth at the end, she leaves out the last part of that sentence.


• You'll notice that during the first half of the film, Sarah wears a ring on the middle finger of her right hand (eventually, of course, she gives it to the Wise Man). In the scene where Sarah & Toby are in the parents' bedroom, the ring jumps to her third finger (specifically: when she is holding Toby high in the air).


• In the final confrontation scene, when Jareth is offering Sarah a crystal, you can see his upsidedown reflection in the bubble . . . but the lip motions of the two Jareths aren't in sync!

Reasons:
1. Both Dorothy and Sarah are running away from their problems in the
   begining. 
	--Sarah's problems are that: 
		a) the world wants her to grow up, but she doesn't want to
		b) she wants to live in a fantasy world 
	--Dorothy is running away :
		a) from that wicked witch lady who wants to kill her dog,
 		b) from a humdrum life - she wants to live in a fantasy
		   world "Somewhere over the rainbow."

2. Both the stories involve short people who help the heroine.
	--The Labyrinth :
		uses goblins
	--The Wizard of Oz :
		uses munchkins

3. Both stories are about long journeys the girls must take in order to
   reach their goals.
	--The Labyrinth: 
		well, it's a big maze
	--The Wizard off Oz :
		 that yellow brick road is very long

4. They are both musicals

5. Each has 3 characters that accompany the heroine to the end
	--The Labyrinth: 
		has Hoggle, Sir Didymus, and Ludo
	--The Wizard of Oz :
		has the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Lion

6. Each film has a dog in it
	--The Labyrinth: 
		has Merlin in the beginning (who becomes Ambrosius in the
		Labyrinth)
	--The Wizard of Oz:
		has Toto

7. Each fantasy land is built from things in the heroine's real life
	--The Labyrinth : 
		a) Ambrosius (SirD's dog) = Merlin
		b) The Labyrinth = a labyrinth marble game Sarah owns
		c) The escher/Jareth scene = the escher poster Sarah
		   has in her room
		d) The goblins = come from the book "Where the Wild
		   Things Are" that she owns
		e) the ballroom scene = her dancing ballerina wind up
		   (These are just a few of the things)
	--The Wizard of Oz: 
		the scarecrow, the tinman, the lion, the wicked witch of
		the west, and the Great Oz were her uncles and close
		neighbors in reality

8. Both contain a scene where the heroine is drugged into a deep sleep:
	--The Labyrinth:
		When Sarah eats the peach and dreams about the Ball w/
		Jareth
	--The Wizard of Oz:
		The Wicked Witch of the West poisons the poppies
		"Poppies...poppies will put them to sleep..." and Dorothy
		falls into a deep sleep.

9. Both heroines must pass through castle gates in order to seek
   appearances at their destinations:
	--The Labyrinth:
		The gates into the Goblin city 
	--The Wizard of Oz:
		The door to the Emerald City "Well! That's a horse of a
		different color! Come on in!"

10. Both heroines must defeat their nemesis at the end by standing up to
    them and not cowering
	--The Labyrinth:
		Sarah stands up to Jareth. "You have no power over me."
		and defeats him, turning him into an owl.
	--The Wizard of Oz:
		Dorothy confronts the "Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz."
		"Why, you're nothing but a coward!"

11. Both learn something from their journeys at the end:
	--The Labyrinth:
		Sarah learns that even though she's growing up, she can
		still hang on to parts of her childhood (among other things)
	--The Wizard of Oz:
		Dorothy learns that if she starts searching for things and
		doesn't find it in her own backyard, well, then it was never
		really lost to begin with.