Over The Garden Wall - DVD

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This was later expanded into an ongoing comic series that ran for 20 issues and continued in a series of graphic novels and comic book miniseries. McHale saw it as "a possible Halloween special", but had trouble adapting the premise with a larger story arc. They disguise themselves as a member of the ferry's band, which soon starts performing, with Wirt reluctantly playing the bassoon. Wirt gives Beatrice Adelaide's magic scissors, sheepishly admitting he kept them from her out of spite. As the sun sets, having used up what little Edelwood he had left, the Woodsman ventures into the woods and finds Greg transforming into a new Edelwood tree.

Greg cheers everyone up by adding molasses to the potatoes that they're having for lunch, interrupted by Miss Langtree's benefactor father.

In The New York Times, Mike Hale also felt the writing was sometimes weak and the stories "perilously thin", but concluded that McHale developed an environment worth visiting. The residents, who seem to be living pumpkins at first but are actually skeletons, sentence the trio to a few hours of manual labor.

Meanwhile, the Beast reminds the Woodsman that the flame inside his lantern contains his daughter's soul, and that he must cut down Edelwood trees so the fire can keep her alive. The Woodsman attempts to free Greg before fighting the Beast away from the clearing as Wirt and Beatrice arrive. McHale referenced chromolithography, vintage Halloween postcards, magic lantern slides, and photographs of New England foliage to create the show's style.Greg and Wirt follow him as he laments that he will have to sell the instruments to continue funding the school. Wirt and Greg, along with a frog that Greg attempts to name, are lost in a forest and are met by a talking bluebird and later a woodsman. While not discounting its storytelling, music, and production design, he felt that production skimped on animation; he was still looking forward to the series.

Wirt and Greg claim to be the nephews of the wealthy and eccentric Quincy Endicott so they can steal two cents from him to pay for a ferry that will cross the river. Elijah Wood, the voice actor for Wirt, has said that "if this show were a record, it would be played on a phonograph". A one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. Once they find Adelaide, Wirt discovers that she intends only to enslave the boys; outraged that Beatrice misled them, Wirt takes Greg and abandons her.The penultimate episode reveals that Wirt and Greg are modern children who entered the Unknown after falling into a pond on Halloween. Wirt and Beatrice come across a school full of animal students being taught by a human teacher, Miss Langtree.

Behind Over the Garden Wall: Short making-of that includes cast interviews and recording session footage.Wirt, the older brother, is a worry-prone teenager who would rather keep to himself than have to make a decision. Wirt is tempted to accept this offer, but he realizes that the flame within the lantern is actually the Beast's own source of life. McHale abandoned the original idea centered around chapters of a mystical tome and the series' title became Over the Garden Wall. The series' art was inspired by a variety of sources, including the 1890s McLoughlin Brothers board game Game of Frog Pond, [16] illustrations by Gustave Doré for Cervantes's Don Quixote, [17] old illustrations for the Hans Christian Andersen story " The Tinderbox", [18] the Cheshire Cat illustration by John Tenniel from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, [19] and the " Dogville Comedies" short films. This distance proved difficult for McHale, who found it "particularly daunting considering the idiosyncratic nature of the production".