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What I will always love about Over the Garden Wall, and what to me really makes it an autumn classic, is how the show presents the season as a transition. People like to say it’s a Halloween show, but it’s really an autumn show, autumn in all its faces.

Early in the show, we have autumn as the late, lingering summer. The fields are full, leaves cling to the branches. The world is painted in a greenish-gold, and it feels warm and rich and good.

And over the course of the show we lose that bit of summer. The colours bleach out. The mists come in. The harvest dances and music are done.

And by the end of the show, we get autumn as the harbinger of the coming season. Summer is long behind us. The long winter is ahead.

And I think it’s so appropriate that the show first premiered in November. When else are we more aware of how much the season has changed than when we are past smiling September and October and find ourselves with grey, patient November, watching the days get shorter and the nights grow longer.

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♫ Then softly it falls by a house near a stream / And over the garden wall / To thee ♫

I recently watched Over The Garden Wall for the first time with some pals! And indeed, every person who said over the years that this series would absolutely be my jam was CORRECT, it was fantastic. What a gorgeous, atmospheric show.

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Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by creator Patrick McHale and Aardman Animations

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POTTSFIELD

You'll join us someday..

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Do you think they ever pieced together what happened or were they always like “wow that was a weird shared dream we both had” ?

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some just long to be understood

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You can watch OTGW on Disney Plus?!

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥🤪 this strain is called “into the unknown”💀 it’ll have you making a pilgrimage in a place between our world and the next 💯☝️

me: yeah, whatever. I don’t feel shit.

five minutes later: bro I swear I saw the beast following us through these mysterious woods that I don’t remember entering

the highwayman: I’m the highwayman

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Over the Garden Wall Fred

Rating: ƱƱƱƱƱ (perfect)

Fred despite his tendency to steal is something of an ideal cartoon talking horse as he is kind and helpful but still capable of great violence and mayhem. May Fred live joyfully and go on to become a horse ghost of some sort here in the strange forest

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Y'all... I knew this recording existed and I thought I might never hear it in my lifetime, and Warner Music just (randomly?) posted it on YouTube. This recording was sent out as a promotional vinyl and read-along book right before OTGW aired for the first time in 2014.

More notes on the release from Patrick McHale and Andy Merrill below.

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