Over the Garden Wall: Crafting a Modern Fairy Tale

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In this video, I discuss the 2014 Cartoon Network series’ Over the Garden Wall, including its themes, influences, and character development. Support the channel, if you like ✨: https://www.patreon.com/qualityculture Sources: Over the Garden Wall and Vintage Postcards | Weird Christmas https://weirdchristmas.com/2020/09/29/interview-with-patrick-mchale-over-the-garden-wall-and-vintage-postcards/ “All That Was Lost Is Revealed”: Motifs and Moral Ambiguity in Over the Garden Wall https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/51 Heroes in Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall: A Reading of the Modern Epic https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11401/77589/Wilson_grad.sunysb_0771M_12645.pdf?sequence=1 An Examination of Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall as a Contemporary Otherworld Journey https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1219&context=engl_etds Evolving Mediums: Over the Garden Wall and the Divine Comedy https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5042&context=etd Behind the Potatoes and Molasses - Interview with Patrick McHale | Manuscripts Burn http://manuscriptsburn.blogspot.com/2015/02/behind-potatoes-and-molasses-interview.html Patrick McHale on the Haunting Magic of ‘Over the Garden Wall’ | The Dot and Line https://dotandline.net/patrick-mchale-over-the-garden-wall-interview-292f5661cc23/ Patrick McHale LIVE | The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast https://bancroftbros.libsyn.com/patrick-mchale-live Over the Garden Wall: slapstick for the kids, existential dread for the adults | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/03/over-the-garden-wall-slapstick-kids-existential-dread-adults 0:00 Intro 1:25 1) Contemporary Fairytale 10:39 2) Into the Unknown 18:29 3) If dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend?