107 - Over the Garden Wall
The lads grab their potatoes and molasses, join the Adelaide Parade, and march into the Unknown as they cover the Emmy Award-winning 2014 Cartoon Network miniseries: Over the Garden Wall. Topics include the show’s many artistic inspirations, superlative storytelling, and the benefits of rock facts when you find yourself lost in the woods.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Dante’s Inferno: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
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Commercial: “A Message from Jason Funderberker”
Comments (17)
I think it's a modern misunderstanding to think that fairy tales have morals. When you go back to the og Grimm's collection and read some of the b-sides that will never get the disney treatment, it's just a bunch of random shit happening with no rhyme or reason. Fairytales from later authors like Andersen are different, they even have a different name in german "Kunstmärchen".
The leaves actually DO change the air. They release ethylene, and one of its functions as a plant hormone is to signal leaf and flower senescence. So a leaf starts dying and its basically telling other nearby leaves to die, and they're like, "sure....time to die yay!".
So I finally, after years of never quite managing it, got round to watching Over The Garden Wall in order to listen to this episode. The boyfriend and I finished the show last night. New comfort show unlocked, I think 🧡 What an absolutely heartfelt delight.
Over the Garden Wall is better Fall Vibes than pumpkin spice. And that's a Rock Fact!
Bee Tee Dubs, there is such a thing as a horse collar. Preferred over a yoke for horses pulling things, actually.
I love your podcasts, but this might be one of my favorite podcast episodes ever. I would be curious if you all had seen Infinity Train.
We haven't but A.J. will absolutely be looking into it!
The instant the pumpkin people town appeared I started Leo-pointing at the screen and shouting it’s the triumph of death! ITS THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH - fucking love that painting spend like 45 solid minutes in the Prado just looking at it
[Annihilation mentioned] You guys should talk about Annihilation and the differences between the book and movie some time! Also, side note, I also grew up with 'Somewhere in Dreamland', it was on some Christmas shorts tape. Really took me out of 'Skinamarink' for a bit when it showed up in that lol
So glad you boys took the time to talk about this show. What a warm and wonderful thing it is. Both in terms of it's own self and the work that went into producing it.
Another episode that I immediately relisten to as soon as I finish it the first time around. The Inferno influences are not something I'd clocked and I've watched the series I think three times now. Also, id Software's "Hexen" mentioned, what a pull
If you - like me - have not watched this show yet, I implore you to stop the episode (or at least, delay listening to it) and go find this show. It’ll take you less than 2 hours to watch the whole series, and you’ll not regret it ☺️
How I Met Your Father took way longer than 2 hours to watch. Also, I don't think having watched it adds anything to this episode
Over the Garden Wall is a yearly treat in our house. Usually gets played through multiple times both for active watching and background noise
That's wild I just happened to watch this last week for the first time
So happy to hear you guys discuss this show. I originally was not taken by the first few episodes, but after finishing the series, it got lodged in my brain and I had to rewatch a few days later. It really hit hard the second time through, and now I rewatch every year. I can’t wait to see it again with the added insight you provided. I really like the reversal of expectations you talked about. Most fairytale/cartoon media codes the characters as beautiful = good, ugly = bad.
You leave Little Nemo alone! It was a great movie and a cool game! You’re all monsters for not liking it!