Man I wish I could watch this show for the first time again, I remember how much the twist of Wirt and Greg being from modern times shocked me and threw me off, I literally love everything about this show
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 probably both 1700s and 1800s a lot of characters in the unknown have clothes from time periods that differ from other characters time period
it also trew the place the where in in some sort of limbo making u wonder if al the characters u meet are dead ore something els also the intro makes so much sense once u saw it al
Something that stood out about OTGW is that autumn also seems to signify the transition between childhood and adolescence. The juxtaposition of Wurt and Greg reads to me as comparing the sunshine of childhood with the turbulence of adolescence. The insecurity, fear, and doubt Wurt feels when navigating The Unknown can track back to his feelings about the casette and what it signifies (forays into relationships, growing up). This series captures (for me) the autumn of childhood. Greg with his teapot and frog and trust stand in stark contrast. Hopefully this makes sense; they're just loosely connected thoughts that came up. :) Thank you for this video!
This is quite literally one of the best cartoons made. Like it just captures the ideas of autumn and comforts me even though it has some “scary” themes
Haha i dont think you appreciate how cold it is. Filipinos are usually in winter coats by October and fresh Filipinos look positively chilled when i tell them that this isnt winteryet
Man, I love autumn so much It’s incredible that there’s a show that somehow manages to capture everything I love about it It’s a shame that, just like over the garden wall, autumn is so short Only about a month and a half, and all of October is spent enjoying the Spooky Season- there’s just not enough fall :’) Sucks that winter is so darn dreadful and long Man, sometimes I hate Canada
This is late but the length of meteorological seasons is actually fixed. 90 days for winter (91 days during a leap year), 92 days for Spring and Summer, and 91 days for autumn. Astrologically speaking it varies from 89-93 days.
@@racingginger3147 Yeah but in Ontario autumn weather only lasts for like a month and a half It’s way too hot until like mid September if we’re lucky, and it’s snowing by end of October to early November Then it’s freezing and snowing till like fricken April or May
hey I'm like 10 months late, but I'm happy to inform you that autumn lasts from the 23rd of September to the 21st of December. I know it may not feel like it - certainly doesn't in England - but it gives you more of an excuse to watch OTGW mulitiple times :)
I'm from Minnesota and I agree, Idc when winter officially starts- once it consistently snows, it's winter. Happens quite a bit sooner than near the end of December
Autumn is also my favorite but I love the winter and hate the summer. But I'll always love California. And the spooky season is my favorite. If anything we need more Halloweens 🎃
Something about the weird time setting of the 1800s but also 80s aesthetic feels nostalgic and the tone set by the music is erie but not quite suspenseful enough to be horror full. You’re just stuck between nostalgia and suspense and it creates their weird feeling of relaxed yet your gard isn’t down
i think the time setting seems confusing bc the outfits seem to be from different time periods but this whole dream stage takes place nearby a grave yard. they pass by endicotts grave in ep 9 so i’m assuming the characters we meet are those souls dressed like the time they lived.
Can I ask out of curiosity, what is the context you’d show this in class? I was already 21 when this came out but would’ve loved if we had something like this played in school every fall lol.
This show hits home for me because I originally watched it when I was younger like 9 or 10 when it aired on cartoon network and one day while on a walk through the big garden of an old Georgian hunting manor me and my friend talked about the song potatoes and molasses while kicking big piles of brown leaves on the floor in the cold dry wind. I never will forget that day or this show
It is amazing how you analyze the mini series to make us understand, that what we love about it is the nostalgia, warmth and comforting feeling it gives us
My bf asked why Wirt was in the modern setting after watching several episode. N he said he wasn’t ready for how dark the film is after realising the unknown isn’t just a foresty place.
The soundtrack of Over the Garden Wall is so atmospheric, the only thing I can think of that emulates the feeling it exudes is the atmospheric music found at the Disney parks. It's a very specific sound that tickles your imagination, it's music that you can see and feel. The art-style and soundtrack fit so well tonally it's difficult to picture one without the other.
i really loved this! OTGW is one of those shows that i would jump at the opportunity to watch again for the first time. it's overall ambience fully immerses the viewer into this new but (like you said) somehow familiar autumnal universe. a true masterpiece
If you do want vintage autumn in book form, I highly recommend The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valentine. She really explores this sort of transitional nature of autumn throughout her book in a timeless American setting, down to the very appearance of our main cast. The main character is named September and she wholly embraces the meaning behind her name. Also, Paranorman. It's an interesting rebuke and a celebration of Northeastern Americana with horror elements focused on the wilderness and its uncontrollability.
Six month later and UA-cam finally decided to recommend me this today, and I can't thank it enough for showing me this video. You gave me a whole new perspective to a show I already loved. Your points, your voice, the way you described everything about the show and autumn in general. I love the whole video. The amount of effort you've pot into this video is very notable. Thank you very much and I hope you keep growing because you have a lot to offer with this type of essay videos. Have a great day 🍁🍂
I know I’m late to this masterpiece but something else of importance that really emphasizes your argument that I’m surprised you didn’t mention is the fact that the actual season changes to winter within the show! Autumn is the moment where life and death coexist, as things begin to die while other things continue holding on, as you said. This is seen in the show with the fact that the unknown is a form of afterlife, or more accurately, purgatory. However, as the boys remain lost, the leaves lose their color. The trees become barren. Finally, in the last two/three episodes, the snow starts to fall. Winter has arrived now that Wirt has given up. The season of bleak, cold, and death seizes the show, and The Beast no longer has the canopy to hide within, but he doesn’t need it, the darkness and thick fog of winter are more than enough, and as such we see The Beast at his most prominent in winter, just as we see Wirt at his lowest in winter. Winter even manages to claim Greg, someone of pure determination and the antithesis to the beast. While Greg allowed for it to happen by wishing he replaced Wirt, its symbolic nonetheless. I absolutely love this show, and any excuse to talk about the deeper themes will be seized where i can lmfao!
To me autumn is that first day when it is suddenly nice and cool outside and the air smells good, after months of sweltering heat and humidity (I live in central Texas). It’s so refreshing it’s my favorite season.
20:31 I love this analogy. This is one of the nuances that not many people take note of when making/watching these analysis videos. Really shows the thought and care that went into this project. Puts a big grin on my face.
When autumn rolls in I tend to start with Coraline then wes anderson’s fantastic mr fox, tome of the unknown, bbc living and the dead (I highly recommend if you want to watch a dark harvesty horror series it gets better later on), start playing night in the woods, as October draws to an end I begin otgw (I look forward to this throughout the year) then infinity train. Sometimes the others vary though.
This became a yearly watch for my circle of friends the moment it released. Now we’re older with families and our kids will have the same tradition. The show will always be a classic as they grow up with that magic.
Over the Garden Wall and Gravity Falls have very, very similar aesthetics and feelings they leave in the back of your head, but they are different. (A short explanation because these are my special interests: Where OTGW is Late Fall - harvest, hauntings, etc., GF is Early Fall - starting school, late summer rain, etc. The kind of vintage that OTGW embodies is victorian-does-colonial-America, while GF embodies that 1970s-early 1980s sci-fi academia vintage. Very very similar flavors but OTGW has that feel of watercolor child memory, which makes it hit just a tiny bit closer to home for me.)
Also oh god I once had an old Scottish woman describe the winter to me, and it went something like this: "An Dubhlachd (meaning "December", coming from the word for "blackness", "darkness") is when everything dies and the nights creep over into the day. And An Faoilleach (January) is when the wolf is at the door and the roads are frozen solid, and it's not over when the calendar says it is, it's not over until the winds come from over the sea. And An Gearran (February, coming from the word "to cut") is when the wind goes straight through your coat and your sweater and your dad's thermal and your skin, and only when they die down is it finally spring again."
omg that’s actually crazy that you described the opening sequence as “familiar”!! i just got done watching this show for the second time ever(my first time was last year). and as i was posting about it on instagram, the only word i could use to describe this show was *familiar* & then i was like “nah that doesn’t even make sense????” & deleted the sentence lol but YES!!!!! this show just feels so … familiar. and i don’t even know what i mean by that. but this show has become my favorite autumn watch & i’m going to make it a tradition to watch it every october. i’ve legit been waiting all year for the perfect time to watch it again.🎃✨
Yep no autumn here where I live but the trees does remind me of the rural areas I used to go, where the deep wood, the raging river and wild animals sometimes harass the people when they come down to kill time, while fathers and mothers share stories of old or news of the city kilometers away...... yeah, what a great show
I thought the "eye" effect in the opening of the series was meant to evoke a magic lantern projection, as if the viewer is watching a period picture on period equipment.
I wish the new Looney Tunes or Animaniacs had been given this show's treatment. The animation is simple, yet brilliant. There's not a hint of "Flash" cheapness. Your video has inspired me to watch it again! I haven't seen it since it originally came out.
This dude's voice is autumn And autumn has that kind of comfort like you're on a bus with a few people and it is only silent except for the hustling and bustling of the bus. You go down this huge hill and you see the type of sunset that is only seen so rarely behind a city Silhouetting the sharp edges of high bustling city. You see it for a minute maybe more maybe less But when you see that everything fades away It's just you and the silhouette of the city It's burnt into your memory. It will never be done again And you know it No matter what you do or say No matter if you're the best artist or the best author You can't replicate that beauty through anything But you take everything in anyway It's an act of cruelty because it will only exist in your mind and you will never have a way of expressing it But it's an act of kindness to see such beauty only once in your life And so the bus reaches the bottom of the hill And the city fades behind houses.
Ok but now that this show is a total classic, can you imagine if they release an extended version with some of the cut content for an anniversary sometime? I want to see it!!!
this is the first time i´ve ever seen someone explain so perfectly just what it is I love and appreciate so much about Atumn. Because it´s enchanting really, specially in all the right ways you just would´t expect.
man I loved the show. it was so comfortable and looked like the classic Disney style and I love it. I wish there was a part 2 or a reboot literally anything I just want the show back
This was an absolute delight. Your analysis was deep, and you brought several points I have never even considered. This video in itself was a masterpiece.
hearing the history of it is weird because its such a part of my childhood that it doesnt feel like it should have any it feels like it shouldve just spawned when a child stepped on a leaf
Its ironic that this was pretty much the last intellectual gasps of Cartoon Newtwork. Transitioning from the old more morally and ideal driven storyline and moving towards your more generic "children's content"
Just watched OTGW again for Halloween and then watched this video. I love all the things you bring up and the way you summarize the first episode, I would love to know what else you might think of the Beast and what he represents too!
Well a lot of that depends on how you interpret the series as a whole because one of the most popular theories is that he's essentially the devil (having replaced scratch) and the unknown is purgatory. He spends his entire time trying to convince people to stay there as long as they can lost without any home until they lose hope and stay turning into the edelwood trees. In a literal sense he's hopelessness, fear, distrusting, deceit, and not only does be spread those things he feeds off them and is them. The "are you" line shows that really he too is always in fear of how easily he can die tho he puts a big show on. That's why he tricks people into thinking other people's souls are inside because even the Woodsman could've killed him easily. So it's mostly up to interpretation.
This show was airing during a time period when I was preparing to move cross country, away from New England. Since moving away I’ve been chasing the nostalgia that I got from living there, the locally inspired media I grew up with, and especially just how flawless the autumnal transition was. I finally remembered that this show existed during that important time in my life, and finally watched it. My. God. The amount of nostalgia I get from OTGW is unparalleled, it manages to effortlessly capture my childhood in New England like only hocus pocus has ever been able to do
As I always like to say “Autumn; the start of my favorite season as well as my seasonal depression.” Not sure if it’s seasonal but we’re gonna ignore that.
It's a year later and this time I watched looking for the turtles and what they might mean. I'm thinking there a reminder of the watery death our characters might face.
It actually surprises me to hear there was so much cut of OTGW. To me it always felt like a very perfect package, very well paced, doesn’t stick around to long, tells you what you need to know without over explaining.
They say the motion-picture is the greatest art form ever created, and few shows or movies embody that descriptions more than Over the Garden Wall. Like all great art, we can enjoy it at a cursory glance, but it really becomes something special the more you study, analyze, and interpret it. Great art is subjective, and this show reveals and hides just enough to be up for interpretation and speculation. Great art is purposeful and meaningful, and every stroke of the artist's paintbrush is careful and deliberate. This show works on so many levels, and every aspect of it can have some interpretation of it. Every time I watch this show, I notice or realize something I hadn't before. Great art evokes a unique style that serves to accentuate its hidden message, and this show does so masterfully. Great art is meant to be studied and analyzed, and this is certainly true for this show. Great art is beautiful to look at, and this show is absolutely gorgeous, both in its animation, backgrounds, music, themes, characters, and ideas. Great art is timeless, and this show isn't fading from anyone's memory anytime soon. This show is perhaps one of, if not THE greatest works of art from the past decade, and now, ten years later, it still holds up beautifully! This is Louvre-worthy artistic material. A true masterpiece. A true work of art in every sense of the word.
First us 90s kids "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" left a similar feeling but so much better...lol. And it has the best theme song of any show ever, it's a fact. Growing up in the 90s we had so many shows like this. There were so many autumn themed shorts I loved back then. Animated and live action. Hell even the adventures of p&p started as a short. I feel bad for people who weren't kids in the 90s.
Wow... what an incredible video and interpretation of the show and season. You were able to capture and explain the elements that make the show so memorable and beautiful, yet strangely uncomfortable. Thank you
You have a beautiful voice. Please narrate things so I can listen to you while I fall asleep. I also like the way you analyzed this, but seriously. Dat voice 😍👌🏼
@@haleypickelsimer7242 congrats to you both! He should get into voice over acting. I'm honestly not into ASMR but some voices just can't help but be noticed. Like the French Whisperer, it's so gravelly but soothing lol
stumbled across this on my feed since i’ve been obsessed with OTGW since it came out when i was in elementary school. which is crazy now because i’m well into college now. i’m actually working on a halloween costume duo of wirt and greg this year:,) love your video essay. you have a new subscriber now:D
I tried to rewatch this show but Amazon prime charged a ridiculous amount to buy it. I hope it gets a sale or I find another way to watch it cause this show is so good.
This video is absolutely incredible and insightful! I really love your explanations of the show's theme and vibes and also I love your sense of humor lololol. I love OTGW and it has inspired me and touched me a lot. Thank you so much for making this video and for also inspiring me :^D I hope you, good sir, have a great day.
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As a person named Autumn, this raises a lot of very existential questions I wasn’t quite ready for
In seriousness this is an excellent video tho!!
Theres lots of comments talking about how great you are!! :D
Unrelated to the video, but as a person named Ghost I LOVE ur name :)
@@Espaye_ GHOST IS SUCH A COOL NAME
@@audreydarcovich643 thank u :)
"Comforting yet ominous" is probably the perfect description of "Over the Garden Wall".
Man I wish I could watch this show for the first time again, I remember how much the twist of Wirt and Greg being from modern times shocked me and threw me off, I literally love everything about this show
welll, more mid eighties than “modern” modern, but i get what you mean, 80’s compared to….. i dont even know what year, 1800 something? 1700?
Yeah I still remember how shocked I was when we find out that their clothes were just costumes
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 probably both 1700s and 1800s a lot of characters in the unknown have clothes from time periods that differ from other characters time period
ohh, I was actually more surprised that they died than the fact they were from modern times.
it also trew the place the where in in some sort of limbo making u wonder if al the characters u meet are dead ore something els also the intro makes so much sense once u saw it al
Something that stood out about OTGW is that autumn also seems to signify the transition between childhood and adolescence. The juxtaposition of Wurt and Greg reads to me as comparing the sunshine of childhood with the turbulence of adolescence. The insecurity, fear, and doubt Wurt feels when navigating The Unknown can track back to his feelings about the casette and what it signifies (forays into relationships, growing up). This series captures (for me) the autumn of childhood. Greg with his teapot and frog and trust stand in stark contrast.
Hopefully this makes sense; they're just loosely connected thoughts that came up. :) Thank you for this video!
That makes total sense! And it gave me a deeper appreciation for this show. Thank you!
I don't care how many times I hear it but the opening of OTGW at 2:40 will ALWAYS bring chills up my spine
Me too
It’s beautiful
It makes me tear up for some reason...
Me too. It’s so soft, but the notes are powerful all the same. It cuts deep into my soul
i consistently get goosebumps every time i hear it, its just so magically beautiful, i dont think theres really anything that can compare to it.
This is quite literally one of the best cartoons made. Like it just captures the ideas of autumn and comforts me even though it has some “scary” themes
Living in the ever-so-humid Philippines, I've never in my life experienced autumn but this show singlehandedly made me absolutely adore this season.
This is probably a ridiculous question, but do you have deciduous trees in the Philippines?
@@one-onessadhalf3393 unfortunately we do not have. :
It sucks summer is better
Haha i dont think you appreciate how cold it is. Filipinos are usually in winter coats by October and fresh Filipinos look positively chilled when i tell them that this isnt winteryet
Your voice is very calming to listen to.
Man, I love autumn so much
It’s incredible that there’s a show that somehow manages to capture everything I love about it
It’s a shame that, just like over the garden wall, autumn is so short
Only about a month and a half, and all of October is spent enjoying the Spooky Season- there’s just not enough fall :’)
Sucks that winter is so darn dreadful and long
Man, sometimes I hate Canada
This is late but the length of meteorological seasons is actually fixed. 90 days for winter (91 days during a leap year), 92 days for Spring and Summer, and 91 days for autumn. Astrologically speaking it varies from 89-93 days.
@@racingginger3147 Yeah but in Ontario autumn weather only lasts for like a month and a half
It’s way too hot until like mid September if we’re lucky, and it’s snowing by end of October to early November
Then it’s freezing and snowing till like fricken April or May
hey I'm like 10 months late, but I'm happy to inform you that autumn lasts from the 23rd of September to the 21st of December. I know it may not feel like it - certainly doesn't in England - but it gives you more of an excuse to watch OTGW mulitiple times :)
I'm from Minnesota and I agree, Idc when winter officially starts- once it consistently snows, it's winter. Happens quite a bit sooner than near the end of December
Autumn is also my favorite but I love the winter and hate the summer. But I'll always love California. And the spooky season is my favorite. If anything we need more Halloweens 🎃
Something about the weird time setting of the 1800s but also 80s aesthetic feels nostalgic and the tone set by the music is erie but not quite suspenseful enough to be horror full. You’re just stuck between nostalgia and suspense and it creates their weird feeling of relaxed yet your gard isn’t down
i think the time setting seems confusing bc the outfits seem to be from different time periods but this whole dream stage takes place nearby a grave yard. they pass by endicotts grave in ep 9 so i’m assuming the characters we meet are those souls dressed like the time they lived.
I will be using this show in my class again this october. Grade 7s really enjoy it! So many layers!
I'm actually a teacher myself so that's really awesome man! It's a great show.
Can I ask out of curiosity, what is the context you’d show this in class? I was already 21 when this came out but would’ve loved if we had something like this played in school every fall lol.
@@CaldricFletcher dang! i wish i had you for grade 7, that sounds awesome!
@@CaldricFletcher epic teacher alert.
This show hits home for me because I originally watched it when I was younger like 9 or 10 when it aired on cartoon network and one day while on a walk through the big garden of an old Georgian hunting manor me and my friend talked about the song potatoes and molasses while kicking big piles of brown leaves on the floor in the cold dry wind. I never will forget that day or this show
It’s been ages since you posted this but that does seem like a sweet memory :) hold onto it right friend
Wow, a perfect memory...even for me, and I wasn't there....looks great in my head....
The beginning like autumn appreciation paragraph you sounded like Wirt making a poem about Autumn
That's actually what I was going for so yay!
This is THE comfort show for me. I'll always love it.
It is amazing how you analyze the mini series to make us understand, that what we love about it is the nostalgia, warmth and comforting feeling it gives us
7:20 wait are you telling me Wirt's name was going to be Wood at one point and they got Elijah Wood to voice him?? I love that
I wish we got the extra 8 episodes 🧎🏿♀️
i know! i wish i never knew about that lol now i’m sad
My bf asked why Wirt was in the modern setting after watching several episode. N he said he wasn’t ready for how dark the film is after realising the unknown isn’t just a foresty place.
Gets darker and darker the more you think about it...
The soundtrack of Over the Garden Wall is so atmospheric, the only thing I can think of that emulates the feeling it exudes is the atmospheric music found at the Disney parks. It's a very specific sound that tickles your imagination, it's music that you can see and feel. The art-style and soundtrack fit so well tonally it's difficult to picture one without the other.
“I’m the highwayman.”
- The Highwayman
This show made me miss a time I never lived, and a place I've never been
i really loved this! OTGW is one of those shows that i would jump at the opportunity to watch again for the first time. it's overall ambience fully immerses the viewer into this new but (like you said) somehow familiar autumnal universe. a true masterpiece
If you do want vintage autumn in book form, I highly recommend The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valentine. She really explores this sort of transitional nature of autumn throughout her book in a timeless American setting, down to the very appearance of our main cast. The main character is named September and she wholly embraces the meaning behind her name.
Also, Paranorman. It's an interesting rebuke and a celebration of Northeastern Americana with horror elements focused on the wilderness and its uncontrollability.
Six month later and UA-cam finally decided to recommend me this today, and I can't thank it enough for showing me this video. You gave me a whole new perspective to a show I already loved.
Your points, your voice, the way you described everything about the show and autumn in general. I love the whole video. The amount of effort you've pot into this video is very notable. Thank you very much and I hope you keep growing because you have a lot to offer with this type of essay videos.
Have a great day 🍁🍂
I know I’m late to this masterpiece but something else of importance that really emphasizes your argument that I’m surprised you didn’t mention is the fact that the actual season changes to winter within the show! Autumn is the moment where life and death coexist, as things begin to die while other things continue holding on, as you said. This is seen in the show with the fact that the unknown is a form of afterlife, or more accurately, purgatory. However, as the boys remain lost, the leaves lose their color. The trees become barren. Finally, in the last two/three episodes, the snow starts to fall. Winter has arrived now that Wirt has given up. The season of bleak, cold, and death seizes the show, and The Beast no longer has the canopy to hide within, but he doesn’t need it, the darkness and thick fog of winter are more than enough, and as such we see The Beast at his most prominent in winter, just as we see Wirt at his lowest in winter. Winter even manages to claim Greg, someone of pure determination and the antithesis to the beast. While Greg allowed for it to happen by wishing he replaced Wirt, its symbolic nonetheless. I absolutely love this show, and any excuse to talk about the deeper themes will be seized where i can lmfao!
To me autumn is that first day when it is suddenly nice and cool outside and the air smells good, after months of sweltering heat and humidity (I live in central Texas). It’s so refreshing it’s my favorite season.
Is it that like in November or maybe late October I live i south Texas
Well, this was a weird start to October, never thought I'd ever cry to a UA-cam analysis but you perfectly boiled it down so perfectly.
This is an extremely under-rated video. It's so good! I'm 16 minutes in and I assumed this was a video with a couple thousand views until I checked.
20:31 I love this analogy. This is one of the nuances that not many people take note of when making/watching these analysis videos. Really shows the thought and care that went into this project. Puts a big grin on my face.
To me, autumn is clear skies, windy sunny days, chilly nights, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, sugar skulls, marigolds and pan de muerto
Daily reminder that some people never heard of this show and are really missing out on some of the best things animation has to offer.
This video is a masterpiece. I love how you were able to capture the exact feeling I get when I watch the series. Amazingly done!
When autumn rolls in I tend to start with Coraline then wes anderson’s fantastic mr fox, tome of the unknown, bbc living and the dead (I highly recommend if you want to watch a dark harvesty horror series it gets better later on), start playing night in the woods, as October draws to an end I begin otgw (I look forward to this throughout the year) then infinity train. Sometimes the others vary though.
I watch this show every year with my little brother. We always have a great time.
This became a yearly watch for my circle of friends the moment it released. Now we’re older with families and our kids will have the same tradition. The show will always be a classic as they grow up with that magic.
Over the Garden Wall and Gravity Falls have very, very similar aesthetics and feelings they leave in the back of your head, but they are different.
(A short explanation because these are my special interests: Where OTGW is Late Fall - harvest, hauntings, etc., GF is Early Fall - starting school, late summer rain, etc. The kind of vintage that OTGW embodies is victorian-does-colonial-America, while GF embodies that 1970s-early 1980s sci-fi academia vintage. Very very similar flavors but OTGW has that feel of watercolor child memory, which makes it hit just a tiny bit closer to home for me.)
Also oh god I once had an old Scottish woman describe the winter to me, and it went something like this: "An Dubhlachd (meaning "December", coming from the word for "blackness", "darkness") is when everything dies and the nights creep over into the day. And An Faoilleach (January) is when the wolf is at the door and the roads are frozen solid, and it's not over when the calendar says it is, it's not over until the winds come from over the sea. And An Gearran (February, coming from the word "to cut") is when the wind goes straight through your coat and your sweater and your dad's thermal and your skin, and only when they die down is it finally spring again."
Not to mention the parallels of the siblings and their contrast wirt and dipper are very similar characters as are Greg and Mabel
Every time I hear "Grow tiny seed" during Potatus et Molasses I get goosebumps in both a good and bad way. The line is so good but so disconcerting.
I just rewatched it for Halloween! Just as good as always
@13:46. Watching this year I was noticing that open shot before the woods is Wirt’s POV as he’s drowning
Over the Garden Wall drums up the most inexplicable emotions in me. It just perfectly encapsulates childhood and fall.
omg that’s actually crazy that you described the opening sequence as “familiar”!! i just got done watching this show for the second time ever(my first time was last year). and as i was posting about it on instagram, the only word i could use to describe this show was *familiar* & then i was like “nah that doesn’t even make sense????” & deleted the sentence lol but YES!!!!! this show just feels so … familiar. and i don’t even know what i mean by that. but this show has become my favorite autumn watch & i’m going to make it a tradition to watch it every october. i’ve legit been waiting all year for the perfect time to watch it again.🎃✨
Damn this almost drove me to tears, beautiful video!
Yep no autumn here where I live but the trees does remind me of the rural areas I used to go, where the deep wood, the raging river and wild animals sometimes harass the people when they come down to kill time, while fathers and mothers share stories of old or news of the city kilometers away......
yeah, what a great show
I thought the "eye" effect in the opening of the series was meant to evoke a magic lantern projection, as if the viewer is watching a period picture on period equipment.
"Vignettes" is what you're looking for
@@raquel.garcia.1995 No. This is what I meant. ua-cam.com/video/V37S95AE3Pc/v-deo.html
I wish the new Looney Tunes or Animaniacs had been given this show's treatment. The animation is simple, yet brilliant. There's not a hint of "Flash" cheapness. Your video has inspired me to watch it again! I haven't seen it since it originally came out.
This whole video is just me dying over how AMAZING the MUSIC IS!!!
This dude's voice is autumn
And autumn has that kind of comfort like you're on a bus with a few people and it is only silent except for the hustling and bustling of the bus.
You go down this huge hill and you see the type of sunset that is only seen so rarely behind a city
Silhouetting the sharp edges of high bustling city.
You see it for a minute maybe more maybe less
But when you see that everything fades away
It's just you and the silhouette of the city
It's burnt into your memory.
It will never be done again
And you know it
No matter what you do or say
No matter if you're the best artist or the best author
You can't replicate that beauty through anything
But you take everything in anyway
It's an act of cruelty because it will only exist in your mind and you will never have a way of expressing it
But it's an act of kindness to see such beauty only once in your life
And so the bus reaches the bottom of the hill
And the city fades behind houses.
Ok but now that this show is a total classic, can you imagine if they release an extended version with some of the cut content for an anniversary sometime? I want to see it!!!
this is the first time i´ve ever seen someone explain so perfectly just what it is I love and appreciate so much about Atumn. Because it´s enchanting really, specially in all the right ways you just would´t expect.
man I loved the show. it was so comfortable and looked like the classic Disney style and I love it. I wish there was a part 2 or a reboot literally anything I just want the show back
Watch this every year during fall. Such a great show.
This was an absolute delight. Your analysis was deep, and you brought several points I have never even considered. This video in itself was a masterpiece.
This honestly made me cry... This video is such a touching love letter to this series. Fantastic job.
The blurred scenes is what I without glasses see from a distance
hello. I just found this video today and its fucking amazing. that is it
hearing the history of it is weird because its such a part of my childhood that it doesnt feel like it should have any it feels like it shouldve just spawned when a child stepped on a leaf
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: * plays this essay *
This video was great and really has me wondering what Mchale REALLY had in mind for a show, wish we could see that.
Damn, I’m glad I found this UA-cam channel in its early stages. Son, you’re going to be successful.
Its ironic that this was pretty much the last intellectual gasps of Cartoon Newtwork. Transitioning from the old more morally and ideal driven storyline and moving towards your more generic "children's content"
Autumn, to me, is about all the warm colors and the smell of rain.
It's quite simply the best show ever. No other way to put it
This was an incredible video essay, you deserve way more subscribers!
Just watched OTGW again for Halloween and then watched this video. I love all the things you bring up and the way you summarize the first episode, I would love to know what else you might think of the Beast and what he represents too!
Well a lot of that depends on how you interpret the series as a whole because one of the most popular theories is that he's essentially the devil (having replaced scratch) and the unknown is purgatory. He spends his entire time trying to convince people to stay there as long as they can lost without any home until they lose hope and stay turning into the edelwood trees. In a literal sense he's hopelessness, fear, distrusting, deceit, and not only does be spread those things he feeds off them and is them. The "are you" line shows that really he too is always in fear of how easily he can die tho he puts a big show on. That's why he tricks people into thinking other people's souls are inside because even the Woodsman could've killed him easily. So it's mostly up to interpretation.
Great video dude, really hope you get popular, i love this show and just made the decision to buy it on dvd from this video
The beginning sounded like a Creepypasta reading
i happened upon the series as well as this video just this fall, and its meant so much to me! thank you
me @ you: “i knew were special”
hope i’m a rEaL fan now
Dont you dare slander Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs. That shit went HARD
This show was airing during a time period when I was preparing to move cross country, away from New England. Since moving away I’ve been chasing the nostalgia that I got from living there, the locally inspired media I grew up with, and especially just how flawless the autumnal transition was. I finally remembered that this show existed during that important time in my life, and finally watched it. My. God. The amount of nostalgia I get from OTGW is unparalleled, it manages to effortlessly capture my childhood in New England like only hocus pocus has ever been able to do
I always sing Langtree's Lament when I need to focus on something. This show is a great show anytime of the year.
As I always like to say
“Autumn; the start of my favorite season as well as my seasonal depression.”
Not sure if it’s seasonal but we’re gonna ignore that.
It's a year later and this time I watched looking for the turtles and what they might mean. I'm thinking there a reminder of the watery death our characters might face.
This is great man, you are a great storyteller
It actually surprises me to hear there was so much cut of OTGW. To me it always felt like a very perfect package, very well paced, doesn’t stick around to long, tells you what you need to know without over explaining.
anyone else cry like a baby at the end of this series
They say the motion-picture is the greatest art form ever created, and few shows or movies embody that descriptions more than Over the Garden Wall. Like all great art, we can enjoy it at a cursory glance, but it really becomes something special the more you study, analyze, and interpret it. Great art is subjective, and this show reveals and hides just enough to be up for interpretation and speculation. Great art is purposeful and meaningful, and every stroke of the artist's paintbrush is careful and deliberate. This show works on so many levels, and every aspect of it can have some interpretation of it. Every time I watch this show, I notice or realize something I hadn't before. Great art evokes a unique style that serves to accentuate its hidden message, and this show does so masterfully. Great art is meant to be studied and analyzed, and this is certainly true for this show. Great art is beautiful to look at, and this show is absolutely gorgeous, both in its animation, backgrounds, music, themes, characters, and ideas. Great art is timeless, and this show isn't fading from anyone's memory anytime soon. This show is perhaps one of, if not THE greatest works of art from the past decade, and now, ten years later, it still holds up beautifully! This is Louvre-worthy artistic material. A true masterpiece. A true work of art in every sense of the word.
this pops in my head. i watch it every october
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WERE EIGHT DROPPED EPISODES???? WHERE ARE THEY???? GIVE THEM TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Several of the concepts and stories were put into a comic series that you can buy online (I haven't read them yet though 😑)
I don’t even call it autumn anymore, it’s mushroom season for me..
Where was this channel my whole life
First us 90s kids "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" left a similar feeling but so much better...lol. And it has the best theme song of any show ever, it's a fact. Growing up in the 90s we had so many shows like this. There were so many autumn themed shorts I loved back then. Animated and live action. Hell even the adventures of p&p started as a short. I feel bad for people who weren't kids in the 90s.
Ok boomer
I literally skipped to the end just to hear you say the show was perfect because I don't need a video essay to know this is a perfect show
Yo another great over the garden wall video! Great work my guy.
Wow... what an incredible video and interpretation of the show and season. You were able to capture and explain the elements that make the show so memorable and beautiful, yet strangely uncomfortable. Thank you
You have a beautiful voice. Please narrate things so I can listen to you while I fall asleep.
I also like the way you analyzed this, but seriously. Dat voice 😍👌🏼
i personally love his voice as well, i can’t believe i’m dating it too! 😍😝🤭
@@haleypickelsimer7242 congrats to you both! He should get into voice over acting. I'm honestly not into ASMR but some voices just can't help but be noticed. Like the French Whisperer, it's so gravelly but soothing lol
ugh i remembered when this first premiered on cartoon network when i was like 12, so nostalgic 4 me
There are not nearly enough video essays ruminating on this show. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
The blasting company’s music made this show for me
stumbled across this on my feed since i’ve been obsessed with OTGW since it came out when i was in elementary school. which is crazy now because i’m well into college now. i’m actually working on a halloween costume duo of wirt and greg this year:,) love your video essay. you have a new subscriber now:D
The intro is perfection, it gave me the feels
I love this show and I watch it every Halloween since me and my brother first watched it. Core memories and always something new to find.
I think its the same squirrels that come up during the schooltime episode
I tried to rewatch this show but Amazon prime charged a ridiculous amount to buy it. I hope it gets a sale or I find another way to watch it cause this show is so good.
It's on HBOmax and Hulu currently
This video is absolutely incredible and insightful! I really love your explanations of the show's theme and vibes and also I love your sense of humor lololol. I love OTGW and it has inspired me and touched me a lot. Thank you so much for making this video and for also inspiring me :^D I hope you, good sir, have a great day.
Autumn is by far the best time of year and this show is amazing. This was a great video thank you for taking the time to make this I enjoyed it a lot
This needs more views
Me and my kids absolutely love this show. Too bad they couldn't continue this series. Episode 2 is my favorite.
And that's a rock fact
Such a soothing voice you have good sir