I normally wouldn’t say anything, but the reason the cemetery wall is the “garden wall” is because of Pottsfield in episode 2. The “Harvest” the townsfolk do is digging up skeletons from the graves. The cemetery IS the garden.
I’ve heard of the phenomenon of “nostalgia for something we’ve never experienced” and the best example would be over the garden wall. Ive never experienced late 1800s in new england but yet when I watch this show or hear the music its transportative in that way for me.
Just because it's a piece of trivia I love, there's a worth for that! The Welsh word hiraeth means nostalgia for a time or place that never quite existed
new england but a lot of georgia/carolina as well. one of the songs in the soundtrack is "send me a peach from georgia". i think savannah ga has the strongest otgw vibes of the places i've been to
So... we're going to pretend it's normal, that the frog in the end was still around and had the glowing bell in his belly? We're going to pretend, that everything went well in the end and he got to bring that from limbo? We're going to believe in... the loveliest lies of all? Great video full of appreciation for a great piece of art.
I think we gloss over Ms. Langtree’s Lament as just catchy, but it’s also super clever. The letters are seamlessly factored into the lyrics, and not just in a boring acrostic way, they’re factored in in all manners of different ways. It’s all some really clever wordplay and the game of it all makes it a really fun song to listen to again and again
Why, Double U not Y! Always gets to me. She's awful at teaching and is just so obsessed with the illusion of being a teacher. It's clever funny and somehow sad at the same time.
@@ReikuHidoriI’d say her teaching is hampered by her heartbreak, but she _is_ a good teacher. That kind of wordplay takes a fair bit of cleverness and could allow kids to think about and explore language.
I'm sure someone else has said this, but the graveyard in ep9 is called "Eternal Garden." So hopping over the wall is them going "over the garden wall." Great work; this was a thoughtful presentation.
I think the theory of the unknown being purgatory is a good one. In the flashback, you see a tombstone with Quincy Endicott's name on it, a character we see in the unknown. Not to mention Wirt and Greg falling into a river before appearing in the unknown, and presumably dying or at least coming close. This is even more backed up by Greg's frog still having the bell in his stomach in the end. Long story short, I think the unknown is a place for those not ready to move on, be it some regret or otherwise weighing on them in the afterlife. Amazing show, I rewatch it every year with my friends and boyfriend.
If the unknown is a sort of space between life and death, as I've always interpreted it, a thought I don't hear very often is the interpretation that the woodsman is reunited with his daughter in the end because he is finally allowed to pass on to the other side, and rest in peace with his daughter, at least thats what I thought the first time I watched it
Aw fuck. So. Yeah. Idk why but I initially thought he had died and didn't check when writing the script because I was sooo sure. 🤦 My wife caught the mistake and I fixed it in the later part (episode 7), but forgot to do it for the earlier line. My bad. 😅
@@Meromorphic 😂 all good haha. Just made my heart skip a little bit. Awesome video btw, I also have a deep connection to this show so it was nice seeing a long-form analysis of it. I agree with some of the other commenters, I hope the algorithm blesses the video.
One of the other things to note is that with the frog band Beatrice was trying to get them kicked off the ferry so they couldn't go to Adelaide's. Also I truly think that the Limbo theory is the most all encompassing OTGW theory given how they got there and the ephemeral nature of the show. It feels like the boys are getting brief glimpses of potential futures/afterlife's and the transition from fall into winter feels like it's signaling how long they have left to make a choice.
Morel Orel and OTGW are 2 of my favorite shows! I am so happy that you have not only chosen to unpack these shows but you have managed to make such beautiful and in depth video essays on them! I was following along the entire time you truly have a gift of making the best breakdowns. Keep up the excellent work! (You should consider Regular Show 😊)
Not sure if this was tackled yet, but Chris Isaak didn't play John Crops in Tome of the Unknown. He's portrayed by C.W. Stoneking. Isaak plays Enoch in the second episode of the series.
Thank you for bringing this up! I noticed his iconic voice immediately when watching Tome of the Unknown on the DVD. Both Gon Boogaloo and Jungle Blues by CW Stoneking are absolute masterpieces in my opinion I hope more people get the chance to listen to his wonderful music
i can’t even explain the vibes this show gives off… something about it so familiar… like i’ve passed through some of these places throughout my life… i can’t put it into words… i feel nostalgic for pottsfield, the whole aesthetic of that place just hits different… like i truly can’t even use words to describe how this show made me feel… it was beautiful
I absolutely cannot get enough of your video essays. you're incredibly succinct with a flow that leaves no room for misunderstanding. i mean first your moral oral videos and now this? i can't wait to see what else your brilliant mind wants to pick apart!
The OTGW opening theme never fails to make me teary and weepy. Oh how I'd love to just go back to being a kid again instead of being a morbidly depressed anxiety ridden adult who doesn't have the slightest clue even HOW to "adult" in the first place but is expected by the rest of the world to already know how........
I saw this show late, compared to seemingly everybody else here. All these people in the comments reminiscing on their childhoods, with this show bringing back so many blissful memories... I'm still somewhat in that childhood. You get differing perspectives depending on where you are in that terrible transition. If you're already looking back on it, you can appreciate the growth of the characters towards where you are now. If you weren't quite understanding of your position, blissfully ignorant, you might just would have been scared by this show. I first watched this less than a year ago, in between the two. I was in the middle of the big adaptation that Wirt had to go through. I binged the show because of how extremely appreciative I was of... well, everything about it. The music, the art, the voice acting... but most importantly, the characters. As a child already with a deep realization of where exactly I was (and still am) in the great alteration of nearly everything about me, I could see where Wirt was. Not from a perspective of what lay ahead for him, but from where he was coming from. And yet I understood what was to come for both of us. Watching him grow was extremely bittersweet, laying out that realization of self-infliction that I had yet to accept myself, whilst understanding that it would come to be necessary one day. I still can't accept what he had to. I felt a connection with him that was slowly unraveled as he grew, leaving me in the mess of uncertainty and self loathing that he managed to rid himself of. None of it has to last forever... but you can make it last. The doubt, the self hatred, the depression... it all is still there, waiting solely for you to rid yourself of it, if you'll just realize the single thread that holds you from being relieved of it. I can't see the thread. Not yet. Maybe I'll find it one day.
Love this show so much! As I get older, one of my favorite tropes in media is the "Kid wanders into bizarre magical world that is both dangerous and beautiful" -- Alice in Wonderland, Coraline, OTGW. These are all things I watched as a kid, but now understand as an adult to be a metaphor for self discovery and change. It's the place that is so without logic that you cannot conform, only your truest self can emerge from it. It's the place you confront your fears, your desires, and ultimately discover who you are. All that can also, of course, be found in adolescence, which is why these stories work so well for me. OTGW is such a beautiful production, with the visuals and aesthetics creating this place that is both bizarre and scary (Unknown) and nostalgic (Familiar). And of course it's set is Autumn, the season of somehow both change and nostalgia. It's truly such a brilliant show.
58:13 The Graveyard is actually called Eternal Gardens. This is another example if this show simple and effective ways of subverting you expectations. Whether it’s the gorilla being a man in a gorilla suit or the whole show actually being set In The 80’s. The show puts on a master class of how to twist everything you subconsciously assume into something cooler than you could have ever expected.
i thought beatrice convincing wirt to play was because wirt said if he played they would get kicked out of the faerie and beatrice didn't want to get close to adelaid's house.
This is really great. I saw the advertisement for it as a kid but never got to watch it because I didn't have cable. Now that I have streaming services, I watched it for the first time last year and fell in love with it.
Ever since my early childhood, every summer, me, my mom and dad, plus my little sister when she came along, my aunt and uncle and their son when he came along, my grandparents and my mom’s childhood friend, her husband and their two kids, who I have always considered cousins, went camping together. My solid memories start around the age of ten, so the first one of those trips that I really remember was Gilbert Lake state park. All of our adjoining campsites backed up to some woods that we liked to play in. Me and my family friend “cousin” walked through the woods and talked about “older kid” stuff that the younger ones weren’t let in on. We pretended to be dragons or princesses or whatever, but the standout memory from those woods was when I was alone. I was just standing there in the woods, I don’t even remember why, and I saw what I am now certain was some camper’s dog, but to my child brain, it was a wolf. I ran terrified back to camp, where all of the adults assured me that it was not a wolf. I have so many distinct memories of that trip, and strangely enough a lot of them were about my “cousin”’s dad. He was a hunter. He brought and had us try venison from a deer he had shot. He tried and failed to get around the park’s rules against setting off fireworks. He was a smoker and I Did Not like that. It’s strange to look back on now, because by that time next year, he and my cousin’s mom were not married anymore. Though it was not my own parents, it was my first close experience that that was thing that could happen. Therefore, ironically enough, the first of the annual trips that I actually remember was also the last one that was “normal”. On the next year’s trip, my cousin’s father wasn’t there, and the older kid discussion actually was more mature because my cousin’s life was changing and so was mine. It’s not something I shared with her at the time, but I was just in the very beginnings of my queer awakening. I vividly remember lying to her that I had a crush on a boy. Now I can be completely truthful about who I am to her and we confide in each other about the most sensitive parts of our lives. We don’t camp together anymore. Life got too complicated for us to even camp with my actual aunt uncle and cousin. I still love to camp, I just got back from a trip, but even if all of us got together to go camping at Gilbert Lake together again, it wouldn’t be the same, because I’m not a child anymore. Those trips were my unknown. I’m far from out of the woods, but now I know what they are. I still feel lost sometimes, but now I’m lost in the Known. I know the wolf is a dog, but I’m still staring it down.
Something that episode 9 revealed to me was what time period this show takes place in. I found this really fascinating. I thought at first that the series took place during pilgrim/ 1800s type time period. It was really cool to find out that it takes place in modern day.
NINJA EDIT: So a couple of things. We're just going to pretend that the "conclusion" text being backwards was an aesthetic choice and not something I fucked up when flipping the video. 😅. ̶A̶l̶s̶o̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶s̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶"̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶T̶i̶m̶ ̶C̶u̶r̶r̶y̶"̶.̶ ̶H̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶"̶l̶a̶t̶e̶"̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶.̶ ̶V̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶l̶i̶v̶e̶.̶ ̶ Hey guys, I wanted to mention two things. 1. Huge thanks to my Patron, Broccoli for getting me into this show. This video wouldn't exist if it weren't for him. 2. if you see something odd with the show clips, it's because I had to flip them horizontally trying to get around the automated YT content ID. Didn't really work though 🥴 as I still had to appeal for a copyright claim. So, sorry about that. 😔
Thank you for the clarification about Tim Curry! I did a triple take to make sure I heard the correctly, I was honestly about to assume that your journalistic and writing talent was so refined that you had learned about some unfortunate passing before even the tabloids could report them. But, regardless of the hiccups, fantastic job sir! Your work is great, it feels almost poetic with how naturally your script flows and how each sentence seems to link to its neighbors seamlessly.
hey man, im in the middle of watching the video but I did notice one thing, its small and really does not matter but Jhon Crops was not voiced by Chris Isaac. he was actually voiced by C. W. Stoneking an Australian Blues singer. Great Video so far!
@@starrlesscreative I realllly wish there were a way to edit a yt vid after posting. 😔 My bad guys EDIT: Soo. I was able to trim out "the late great" part. Hopefully it works but it will take a bit to take effect. smh
I watched this show with my mom when it first came out and it has such a good nostalgia point for me because at that time of my life it was one of the only positive experiences I could look forward to each week
I will always remember OTGW, I got to it last year (2022) because my family and me were binging 2000s-2010s CN (and also Nick because Invader Zim) shows, and god I loved it
I think televisions series and movies with dark undertones while still being kid friendly is a good thing for children to watch. I believe that even if kids get frightened by things sometimes, they will learn from those things, and appreciate the knowledge they gained and the experience they had when they grow older. There were many shows that scared me as a kid, today I look back at many of those shows as fond memories of something new I didn't understand and now I get to explore them again from an adults perspective exploring all the nuances I did not pick up as a child.
I was about 7 when this show came out and it has been my favorite cartoon since. Its mysterious and downright scary nature is what drew me to it and I think the author knew that. I remember asking my mom what a word meant in the show (romanian dub) and then she watched it with me. I'm glad this show hasn't been forgotten:)
I have a bunch of theories cos i love this show (and it's music) so much - one of my main ones is that the woodsman is lost in the unknown too (and imo the unknown is a sort of purgatory esc place where people have to overcome their burdens or whatever). The beast says the woodsman has been grinding up lost souls for years, yet his daughter hasnt visibly aged. The woodsman never goes back to his house where hed obviously find her either. (Theres a lot more to it this is just a simplified version). My theory is that his daughter dissapeared in the forest near their house. In his desperation the woodsman went looking for her, and in some way or another ended up in the unknown. Overcoming the beast, similarly to Wirt and Greg, is what allows him to finally go home. One of my other less serious theories is that the frog wirt and greg went into the unknown with isnt the same one they left with. My joke theory is that the frog did accept the record deal in ep 6 and when wirt and greg escape adelaide they are just approached by some random frog lmfao. Obviously not as thought out and serious as the woodsman theory or my others and doesnt add anything to the story but whatever lol Oh and yeah, with the woodsman theory - the unknown seems to transcend time. If the unknown is a real... dimension or whatever... then maybe all sorts of people from different time periods end up there.
The series genuinely makes 0 sense and has so much less impact if their journey was just a dream. The grave of Quincy Endicott being in the real world and the frog's belly glowing as Greg shakes him around in the real world, showing that the bell he swallowed in episode 7 is still in his stomach are very clear indicators that it wasn't a dream, but a real place their souls were taken to in the instant they were about to die, and their souls returning actually effected their physical forms.
i love otgw, it makes me so nostalgic. i loved watching analysis videos of it on youtube way back in the day. the art and music direction the show went in affected both my art and my taste in art. i don't know what came first: my obsession with old time periods (and their aesthetic), or this show, but that obsession was certainly at least amplified by this show. it reminds me so much of how interesting i find older time periods to be.
so has you said in your video: "this would have absolutelyy scared the everliving shit out of me as a kid" when talking about episode 7 and this was the only thing i knew about this show for years, let me explain, as a kid i was with my brother when we saw this episode of the show and i didn't know what it was, we saw this episode precisely and never ever saw anything of it ever again, but it absolutely terrified the heeeck out of me, it was the only thing i knew about this show for so long even after learning more about what it was, absolutely bone-chilling. I did watch the show recently as an older smarter person and loved it
this video is INCREDIBLE oh my god!!! Called it up for something to listen to while working but i fully gave up because this video deserved my whole attention.
Your rendition of Into the Unknown sounds like it's using the MOTHER 3 soundfont, which somehow makes it so much more cozy. I love this show, it honestly feels like more love was put into it, than thought towards how much it would make.
58:19 The graveyard is actually called the “Eternal Garden” in the show, which gives even more fuel to the afterlife/death theory. Also, children love horror (well obv not all). I remember when me and my brother (who is about 4/5 years older than me) watched Jurassic Park when we were very little. I adore all the scenes of the dinosaurs killing people, while those scenes terrified him. I’ve always been fascinated with horror and gore since I was a little. I genuinely wish I could’ve watched this series when it was airing, but it was always on when I was super busy with homework or just life. I’m glad I got to watch it for the first time with my mom though, she actually loved it and we had a moment where we bonded over the death theory, esp over the fact that my dad (who died back in 2019), may not even know he is dead and is trying to get home (our camera outside goes off constantly without any reason).
I am 18 years old, I never had something like a fort o a especial place, except for one, my room, I dont do nothing special there but, the nights when I can rest, watch vídeos in my phone, eat food I buyed, they are simple moments, but feel special
Loooove this analysis! Put together so many details and puzzle pieces that I didn’t even realize when watching the show! Even though I’ve seen it several times. Also I had no idea about the pilot on YT!
During the episode 10 hospital scene, we van see that the Bell is still inside the frog's belly. So it's a strong hint that the Unknown really did happen for real. Even though they clearly never enteter there with their physical bodies. But somehow, the bell was still inside the Frog.
I'll finally go watch this show. After I re-watch King of Jazz for the 1000000th time. Mainly also cos "Jimmy brown" has to be a reference to Oh Sweet Nothing by Velvet Underground. Great video!!
Lol yeah. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this is like 30 pictures per second · 60 seconds · 11 minutes · 10 episodes, soo like 198 million words
You can’t really say that it was just a dream, as they were in fact dying and not sleeping. However, I think it’s a bit of both of being literal and allegorical. Towing the line of life and death and growing in the process.
54:10 my interpretation was that the dream was a fabrication by the beast due to the whole "i can fulfill your impossible desire if you do my bidding" theme with the lanternbearer thing and playing into gregs desires to get another victim
great video :) whats the song that plays when u start the spoiler section at around 13:39 ?? its the same song that plays in episode one when Wirt lays on the couch and has a Moment, but i cant for the life of me find the name lol. its such a beautiful song ;,,,,,,
I don't understand why a lot of people thinks episode 4 is the best, it feels a bit slow to me, Its still good, but Its probably my least favorite of the bunch.
I just watched this show cuz everyone talked about it. I did love it although i guess wairt was supposed to be the one we are to relate to . Actually i never felt it haha . Too much Shonen jump has permanently made only relate to Greg hah
I don't quite understand the Vincent Adultman comparison? They are 2 kids and a frog hiding in a trenchcoat, Vincent is a successful businessman?
Yeah I didn't really get that comparison but everything else was great.
he literally goes to the stock market only grown ups are allowed to do that
He even works at the business factory.
He did a business.
You may not know because you never heard of him.
I normally wouldn’t say anything, but the reason the cemetery wall is the “garden wall” is because of Pottsfield in episode 2. The “Harvest” the townsfolk do is digging up skeletons from the graves. The cemetery IS the garden.
The sign on the front of the cemetery says it’s called the garden
@@aidenk.364exactly idk what first dude is on about.
@@seventysue8090naw, let him cook that was good
@@cylyte2436 you're probably right.
I’ve heard of the phenomenon of “nostalgia for something we’ve never experienced” and the best example would be over the garden wall. Ive never experienced late 1800s in new england but yet when I watch this show or hear the music its transportative in that way for me.
Just because it's a piece of trivia I love, there's a worth for that! The Welsh word hiraeth means nostalgia for a time or place that never quite existed
new england but a lot of georgia/carolina as well. one of the songs in the soundtrack is "send me a peach from georgia". i think savannah ga has the strongest otgw vibes of the places i've been to
Same. Also, I watched it when it came out, so i feel double nostalgia for this series
So... we're going to pretend it's normal, that the frog in the end was still around and had the glowing bell in his belly?
We're going to pretend, that everything went well in the end and he got to bring that from limbo?
We're going to believe in... the loveliest lies of all?
Great video full of appreciation for a great piece of art.
hell yeah we will
Well the frog himself did exist before they fell in the water, but you're right about the bell
actually, the frog coul've just eaten a firefly and that's why it's belly glows
I think we gloss over Ms. Langtree’s Lament as just catchy, but it’s also super clever. The letters are seamlessly factored into the lyrics, and not just in a boring acrostic way, they’re factored in in all manners of different ways. It’s all some really clever wordplay and the game of it all makes it a really fun song to listen to again and again
Why, Double U not Y! Always gets to me. She's awful at teaching and is just so obsessed with the illusion of being a teacher. It's clever funny and somehow sad at the same time.
@@ReikuHidori I got the opposite vibe. Takes a damn smart person to put that whole thing together
W not Y also gets me too
It reminds me of that Matilda the Musical song
@@ReikuHidoriI’d say her teaching is hampered by her heartbreak, but she _is_ a good teacher. That kind of wordplay takes a fair bit of cleverness and could allow kids to think about and explore language.
I'm sure someone else has said this, but the graveyard in ep9 is called "Eternal Garden." So hopping over the wall is them going "over the garden wall." Great work; this was a thoughtful presentation.
unpopular opinion: over the garden wall is the best thing cartoon network ever created
thats an unpopular opinion?
Our opinion
It's so good that I forgot it was made by CN
In the ending montage of the show we see Lorna is reading the Tome of the Unknown. It’s probably not important to the show, but its a fun callback.
I think the theory of the unknown being purgatory is a good one. In the flashback, you see a tombstone with Quincy Endicott's name on it, a character we see in the unknown. Not to mention Wirt and Greg falling into a river before appearing in the unknown, and presumably dying or at least coming close. This is even more backed up by Greg's frog still having the bell in his stomach in the end. Long story short, I think the unknown is a place for those not ready to move on, be it some regret or otherwise weighing on them in the afterlife. Amazing show, I rewatch it every year with my friends and boyfriend.
If the unknown is a sort of space between life and death, as I've always interpreted it, a thought I don't hear very often is the interpretation that the woodsman is reunited with his daughter in the end because he is finally allowed to pass on to the other side, and rest in peace with his daughter, at least thats what I thought the first time I watched it
11:38 “The late, great Tim Curry” bruh you made me think he was dead. Had to rush to Google and make sure he was still alive.
Aw fuck. So. Yeah. Idk why but I initially thought he had died and didn't check when writing the script because I was sooo sure. 🤦 My wife caught the mistake and I fixed it in the later part (episode 7), but forgot to do it for the earlier line. My bad. 😅
@@Meromorphic 😂 all good haha. Just made my heart skip a little bit. Awesome video btw, I also have a deep connection to this show so it was nice seeing a long-form analysis of it. I agree with some of the other commenters, I hope the algorithm blesses the video.
haha I also heard that and had a mini panic attack and scramble to Google search 😅
One of the other things to note is that with the frog band Beatrice was trying to get them kicked off the ferry so they couldn't go to Adelaide's. Also I truly think that the Limbo theory is the most all encompassing OTGW theory given how they got there and the ephemeral nature of the show. It feels like the boys are getting brief glimpses of potential futures/afterlife's and the transition from fall into winter feels like it's signaling how long they have left to make a choice.
Morel Orel and OTGW are 2 of my favorite shows! I am so happy that you have not only chosen to unpack these shows but you have managed to make such beautiful and in depth video essays on them! I was following along the entire time you truly have a gift of making the best breakdowns. Keep up the excellent work! (You should consider Regular Show 😊)
Glad you like them!
These are also my favourite shows!! Im so glad i found my people :')
I sort of assumed Greg's dream was just the beast fucking with his mind to manipulate him into sacrificing himself.
Not sure if this was tackled yet, but Chris Isaak didn't play John Crops in Tome of the Unknown. He's portrayed by C.W. Stoneking. Isaak plays Enoch in the second episode of the series.
Yep. You're absolutely right. I missed that. Assumed because of the quote that it was him.
Thank you for bringing this up! I noticed his iconic voice immediately when watching Tome of the Unknown on the DVD.
Both Gon Boogaloo and Jungle Blues by CW Stoneking are absolute masterpieces in my opinion I hope more people get the chance to listen to his wonderful music
i can’t even explain the vibes this show gives off… something about it so familiar… like i’ve passed through some of these places throughout my life… i can’t put it into words… i feel nostalgic for pottsfield, the whole aesthetic of that place just hits different… like i truly can’t even use words to describe how this show made me feel… it was beautiful
I absolutely cannot get enough of your video essays. you're incredibly succinct with a flow that leaves no room for misunderstanding. i mean first your moral oral videos and now this? i can't wait to see what else your brilliant mind wants to pick apart!
Thank you so much! I really try to put a lot into these. So it's really nice to read comments like yours.
The OTGW opening theme never fails to make me teary and weepy.
Oh how I'd love to just go back to being a kid again instead of being a morbidly depressed anxiety ridden adult who doesn't have the slightest clue even HOW to "adult" in the first place but is expected by the rest of the world to already know how........
I saw this show late, compared to seemingly everybody else here. All these people in the comments reminiscing on their childhoods, with this show bringing back so many blissful memories... I'm still somewhat in that childhood.
You get differing perspectives depending on where you are in that terrible transition. If you're already looking back on it, you can appreciate the growth of the characters towards where you are now. If you weren't quite understanding of your position, blissfully ignorant, you might just would have been scared by this show. I first watched this less than a year ago, in between the two. I was in the middle of the big adaptation that Wirt had to go through.
I binged the show because of how extremely appreciative I was of... well, everything about it. The music, the art, the voice acting... but most importantly, the characters. As a child already with a deep realization of where exactly I was (and still am) in the great alteration of nearly everything about me, I could see where Wirt was. Not from a perspective of what lay ahead for him, but from where he was coming from.
And yet I understood what was to come for both of us. Watching him grow was extremely bittersweet, laying out that realization of self-infliction that I had yet to accept myself, whilst understanding that it would come to be necessary one day. I still can't accept what he had to. I felt a connection with him that was slowly unraveled as he grew, leaving me in the mess of uncertainty and self loathing that he managed to rid himself of.
None of it has to last forever... but you can make it last. The doubt, the self hatred, the depression... it all is still there, waiting solely for you to rid yourself of it, if you'll just realize the single thread that holds you from being relieved of it. I can't see the thread. Not yet. Maybe I'll find it one day.
Over the garden wall makes me cry every time i watch it. Its just so perfect. I love this show so much
I like how you described in the beginning, that you can't comprehend the feelings over the garden wall evokes. It's how I felt too watching
Love this show so much! As I get older, one of my favorite tropes in media is the "Kid wanders into bizarre magical world that is both dangerous and beautiful" -- Alice in Wonderland, Coraline, OTGW. These are all things I watched as a kid, but now understand as an adult to be a metaphor for self discovery and change. It's the place that is so without logic that you cannot conform, only your truest self can emerge from it. It's the place you confront your fears, your desires, and ultimately discover who you are. All that can also, of course, be found in adolescence, which is why these stories work so well for me.
OTGW is such a beautiful production, with the visuals and aesthetics creating this place that is both bizarre and scary (Unknown) and nostalgic (Familiar). And of course it's set is Autumn, the season of somehow both change and nostalgia. It's truly such a brilliant show.
58:13 The Graveyard is actually called Eternal Gardens. This is another example if this show simple and effective ways of subverting you expectations. Whether it’s the gorilla being a man in a gorilla suit or the whole show actually being set In The 80’s. The show puts on a master class of how to twist everything you subconsciously assume into something cooler than you could have ever expected.
Over the Garden Wall is amazing. i watch it every year. I also just love autumn.
i thought beatrice convincing wirt to play was because wirt said if he played they would get kicked out of the faerie and beatrice didn't want to get close to adelaid's house.
This is really great. I saw the advertisement for it as a kid but never got to watch it because I didn't have cable. Now that I have streaming services, I watched it for the first time last year and fell in love with it.
"transport yourself to your earliest best childhood memory"
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Ever since my early childhood, every summer, me, my mom and dad, plus my little sister when she came along, my aunt and uncle and their son when he came along, my grandparents and my mom’s childhood friend, her husband and their two kids, who I have always considered cousins, went camping together. My solid memories start around the age of ten, so the first one of those trips that I really remember was Gilbert Lake state park. All of our adjoining campsites backed up to some woods that we liked to play in. Me and my family friend “cousin” walked through the woods and talked about “older kid” stuff that the younger ones weren’t let in on. We pretended to be dragons or princesses or whatever, but the standout memory from those woods was when I was alone. I was just standing there in the woods, I don’t even remember why, and I saw what I am now certain was some camper’s dog, but to my child brain, it was a wolf. I ran terrified back to camp, where all of the adults assured me that it was not a wolf. I have so many distinct memories of that trip, and strangely enough a lot of them were about my “cousin”’s dad. He was a hunter. He brought and had us try venison from a deer he had shot. He tried and failed to get around the park’s rules against setting off fireworks. He was a smoker and I Did Not like that. It’s strange to look back on now, because by that time next year, he and my cousin’s mom were not married anymore. Though it was not my own parents, it was my first close experience that that was thing that could happen. Therefore, ironically enough, the first of the annual trips that I actually remember was also the last one that was “normal”. On the next year’s trip, my cousin’s father wasn’t there, and the older kid discussion actually was more mature because my cousin’s life was changing and so was mine. It’s not something I shared with her at the time, but I was just in the very beginnings of my queer awakening. I vividly remember lying to her that I had a crush on a boy. Now I can be completely truthful about who I am to her and we confide in each other about the most sensitive parts of our lives. We don’t camp together anymore. Life got too complicated for us to even camp with my actual aunt uncle and cousin. I still love to camp, I just got back from a trip, but even if all of us got together to go camping at Gilbert Lake together again, it wouldn’t be the same, because I’m not a child anymore. Those trips were my unknown. I’m far from out of the woods, but now I know what they are. I still feel lost sometimes, but now I’m lost in the Known. I know the wolf is a dog, but I’m still staring it down.
God damn. This was beautiful to read. Thank you so much for sharing!
Something that episode 9 revealed to me was what time period this show takes place in. I found this really fascinating. I thought at first that the series took place during pilgrim/ 1800s type time period. It was really cool to find out that it takes place in modern day.
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Hey guys, I wanted to mention two things. 1. Huge thanks to my Patron, Broccoli for getting me into this show. This video wouldn't exist if it weren't for him. 2. if you see something odd with the show clips, it's because I had to flip them horizontally trying to get around the automated YT content ID. Didn't really work though 🥴 as I still had to appeal for a copyright claim. So, sorry about that. 😔
Love your videos!
Thank you for the clarification about Tim Curry! I did a triple take to make sure I heard the correctly, I was honestly about to assume that your journalistic and writing talent was so refined that you had learned about some unfortunate passing before even the tabloids could report them. But, regardless of the hiccups, fantastic job sir! Your work is great, it feels almost poetic with how naturally your script flows and how each sentence seems to link to its neighbors seamlessly.
hey man, im in the middle of watching the video but I did notice one thing, its small and really does not matter but Jhon Crops was not voiced by Chris Isaac. he was actually voiced by C. W. Stoneking an Australian Blues singer. Great Video so far!
Dude I bout had a heart attack myself panicking and looking on google to make sure Tim Curry was still alive
@@starrlesscreative I realllly wish there were a way to edit a yt vid after posting. 😔 My bad guys
EDIT: Soo. I was able to trim out "the late great" part. Hopefully it works but it will take a bit to take effect. smh
I love this so it always gives me chills it's just that good.
I watched this show with my mom when it first came out and it has such a good nostalgia point for me because at that time of my life it was one of the only positive experiences I could look forward to each week
I need to fully rewatch this series now, it’s so good
We watch this every autumn, and the soundtrack has become an essential part of the season
this show helped me learn english
I will always remember OTGW, I got to it last year (2022) because my family and me were binging 2000s-2010s CN (and also Nick because Invader Zim) shows, and god I loved it
I think televisions series and movies with dark undertones while still being kid friendly is a good thing for children to watch. I believe that even if kids get frightened by things sometimes, they will learn from those things, and appreciate the knowledge they gained and the experience they had when they grow older. There were many shows that scared me as a kid, today I look back at many of those shows as fond memories of something new I didn't understand and now I get to explore them again from an adults perspective exploring all the nuances I did not pick up as a child.
I was about 7 when this show came out and it has been my favorite cartoon since. Its mysterious and downright scary nature is what drew me to it and I think the author knew that. I remember asking my mom what a word meant in the show (romanian dub) and then she watched it with me. I'm glad this show hasn't been forgotten:)
I have a bunch of theories cos i love this show (and it's music) so much - one of my main ones is that the woodsman is lost in the unknown too (and imo the unknown is a sort of purgatory esc place where people have to overcome their burdens or whatever).
The beast says the woodsman has been grinding up lost souls for years, yet his daughter hasnt visibly aged. The woodsman never goes back to his house where hed obviously find her either. (Theres a lot more to it this is just a simplified version). My theory is that his daughter dissapeared in the forest near their house. In his desperation the woodsman went looking for her, and in some way or another ended up in the unknown. Overcoming the beast, similarly to Wirt and Greg, is what allows him to finally go home.
One of my other less serious theories is that the frog wirt and greg went into the unknown with isnt the same one they left with. My joke theory is that the frog did accept the record deal in ep 6 and when wirt and greg escape adelaide they are just approached by some random frog lmfao. Obviously not as thought out and serious as the woodsman theory or my others and doesnt add anything to the story but whatever lol
Oh and yeah, with the woodsman theory - the unknown seems to transcend time. If the unknown is a real... dimension or whatever... then maybe all sorts of people from different time periods end up there.
I love how animation went from adapting fairytales to adapting Dante's inferno
The series genuinely makes 0 sense and has so much less impact if their journey was just a dream. The grave of Quincy Endicott being in the real world and the frog's belly glowing as Greg shakes him around in the real world, showing that the bell he swallowed in episode 7 is still in his stomach are very clear indicators that it wasn't a dream, but a real place their souls were taken to in the instant they were about to die, and their souls returning actually effected their physical forms.
i love otgw, it makes me so nostalgic. i loved watching analysis videos of it on youtube way back in the day.
the art and music direction the show went in affected both my art and my taste in art. i don't know what came first: my obsession with old time periods (and their aesthetic), or this show, but that obsession was certainly at least amplified by this show.
it reminds me so much of how interesting i find older time periods to be.
I didnt realize that auntie whispers was tim curry he did an absolute fantastic job auntie whispers is actually one of my fave characters
That was an amazing experience, I definately would like to sit down and watch this series
so has you said in your video: "this would have absolutelyy scared the everliving shit out of me as a kid" when talking about episode 7 and this was the only thing i knew about this show for years, let me explain, as a kid i was with my brother when we saw this episode of the show and i didn't know what it was, we saw this episode precisely and never ever saw anything of it ever again, but it absolutely terrified the heeeck out of me, it was the only thing i knew about this show for so long even after learning more about what it was, absolutely bone-chilling. I did watch the show recently as an older smarter person and loved it
this video is INCREDIBLE oh my god!!! Called it up for something to listen to while working but i fully gave up because this video deserved my whole attention.
Your rendition of Into the Unknown sounds like it's using the MOTHER 3 soundfont, which somehow makes it so much more cozy.
I love this show, it honestly feels like more love was put into it, than thought towards how much it would make.
MOTHER 3 MENTIONED
58:19 The graveyard is actually called the “Eternal Garden” in the show, which gives even more fuel to the afterlife/death theory.
Also, children love horror (well obv not all). I remember when me and my brother (who is about 4/5 years older than me) watched Jurassic Park when we were very little. I adore all the scenes of the dinosaurs killing people, while those scenes terrified him. I’ve always been fascinated with horror and gore since I was a little. I genuinely wish I could’ve watched this series when it was airing, but it was always on when I was super busy with homework or just life. I’m glad I got to watch it for the first time with my mom though, she actually loved it and we had a moment where we bonded over the death theory, esp over the fact that my dad (who died back in 2019), may not even know he is dead and is trying to get home (our camera outside goes off constantly without any reason).
*me being still a child* whoa how nostalgic!
Marguerite Grey has like 8 lines in the whole series and they got BEBE NEUWORTH. That cast is more than stacked, it’s a BRICK HOUSE!!!!
I'd like to point out there are actual parallels between OtGW and Dante's Inferno.
I love how that snap back to reality joke was intended I thought I went insane and made it up while making art
I am 18 years old, I never had something like a fort o a especial place, except for one, my room, I dont do nothing special there but, the nights when I can rest, watch vídeos in my phone, eat food I buyed, they are simple moments, but feel special
OH FUCK YES HOUR LONG OVER THE GARDEN WALL VIDEO ESSAY
Wert is dressed up as a Gnome for Halloween🙂
Loooove this analysis! Put together so many details and puzzle pieces that I didn’t even realize when watching the show! Even though I’ve seen it several times. Also I had no idea about the pilot on YT!
Thank you so much!
when he said americana mixed with germanic tales ... youve described ohio... large german population aka this show is pure americana to me lol
does anyone else think he looks like a young Colonel Sanders?
Lmao. That's a first. I'll take it as a compliment
@@Meromorphic It is!
I freaking love this show
Yeah it is absolutely wonderful
During the episode 10 hospital scene, we van see that the Bell is still inside the frog's belly.
So it's a strong hint that the Unknown really did happen for real.
Even though they clearly never enteter there with their physical bodies.
But somehow, the bell was still inside the Frog.
Very well done. Thank you for this
Very good video! I love listening to you unpack TV shows. Maybe you could consider centaurworld? I'd be interested to see you unpack that one lol.
This show just feels like fall to me. Love it so much
The “I’ll pull down your underwear” is nice foreshadowing for the fact that they went missing on Halloween
I'll finally go watch this show. After I re-watch King of Jazz for the 1000000th time. Mainly also cos "Jimmy brown" has to be a reference to Oh Sweet Nothing by Velvet Underground. Great video!!
Just realized that video is just a few minutes short of the shows entire runtime o.o
Lol yeah. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this is like 30 pictures per second · 60 seconds · 11 minutes · 10 episodes, soo like 198 million words
lovin this 15th century vampire michael cera look, slay
You can’t really say that it was just a dream, as they were in fact dying and not sleeping. However, I think it’s a bit of both of being literal and allegorical. Towing the line of life and death and growing in the process.
Literal isn’t the right word but y’all know what I mean.
54:10 my interpretation was that the dream was a fabrication by the beast due to the whole "i can fulfill your impossible desire if you do my bidding" theme with the lanternbearer thing and playing into gregs desires to get another victim
I thought that Quincy’s tombstone was there to show that those in the unknown are assumed dead because of their disappearance.
I didnt expect my reccomended to give me a OTGW narrated by little finger but this rocks
well done your amazing
Thanks! You're amazing!
I loved the video but I wished your background colors weren’t purple, and were orange to add more to the Autumn-y vibe
Well damn. Where were you when I was setting up the shot? Lol
@@Meromorphic Contact my agent and I can check your colors and cinematography before every video
Heck yeah
Point of note - instead of streaming it you can just buy it on DVD or Blu-ray! Because why suffer through streaming when you can just own it forever?
Actually, other than pirating this is going to be the only option soon. I heard it's being removed from HBO Max. 🏴☠️😡
You should make a video about Bee & Puppycat, that show was weird
Here's my silly take. Sure, it's a journey from boy to man. But sprinkle in dantes inferno for favor.
great video :) whats the song that plays when u start the spoiler section at around 13:39 ?? its the same song that plays in episode one when Wirt lays on the couch and has a Moment, but i cant for the life of me find the name lol. its such a beautiful song ;,,,,,,
Thanks! I think it's The Old Country by Stephan Siebert
Prelude - Over The Garden Wall & The Blasting Company
I loved this video so much :’)
2:00 You can't fool us Michael Cera, we know you're not just some UA-camr
Hm, new over the garden wall video. nice!
Its Dantes inferno specifically in my opinion
Can't wait to watch this!
The most well known thing is the unknown
This shit is better than some bigger youtube channels
I watched it when I was little and never understood the its meaning
1:35 is it bad that I relate even though I had a great childhood lol
very cool
very swag
i like it.
i watch the show every october/fall time
John crops is voiced by CW Stoneking, not Chris Isaac
Pls do frontier of Pandora!!!
A murder mystery huh? Can't wait!
...am I the only one who never wanted to grow up as a child?
3:12 Its Pretty weird that Wirts cape grew in size here.
56:17 he's a Gnome
58:15
Ok, come on. The graveyard is literally caller “Eternal Garder”. How do you not know that? :c
I don't understand why a lot of people thinks episode 4 is the best, it feels a bit slow to me, Its still good, but Its probably my least favorite of the bunch.
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I just watched this show cuz everyone talked about it. I did love it although i guess wairt was supposed to be the one we are to relate to . Actually i never felt it haha . Too much Shonen jump has permanently made only relate to Greg hah
Can someone explain the auxiliary reception committee gag?