Over The Garden Wall - DVD

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The brothers keep on rambling as they walk through the woods as a bluebird watches them in the trees. The series' voice cast also includes Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry, Bebe Neuwirth, Chris Isaak, Shirley Jones, Thomas Lennon, Jack Jones, Jerron Paxton, John Cleese and Samuel Ramey. McHale saw it as "a possible Halloween special", but had trouble adapting the premise with a larger story arc.

Lloyd later wrote that it evoked "a kind of artisanal quality", both in its design and setting, and though the writing felt "a little too intent on its own folksiness", it became more enjoyable throughout. The Woodsman, angry at their actions but still forgiving, tells them to follow the path but warns them to beware the Beast, as he and the two brothers go their different ways. 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.Greg starts telling everyone about the events they had experienced, and his frog's stomach glows with the magic bell still inside. Wirt then sees the Woodsman knocked down at his feet as the Beast appears, offering to keep Greg's soul alive inside the lantern in exchange for Wirt taking over the Woodsman's duties in keeping it lit.

A police car pulls up and jokingly tells them off for being in the graveyard, but they take him seriously and run off, with Wirt and Greg scaling a wall at the edge of the graveyard. Wirt trips over the gorilla, revealing that it was Miss Langtree's missing fiancé, Jimmy Brown, stuck in a circus costume.Before working as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, artist Patrick McHale pitched the show in 2006, then known under the title Tome of the Unknown. Early drafts of episodes from the show's pitch bible included a skinless witch character and a villain who carves dice from the bones of kidnapped children, as well a running plot throughout four episodes in which Wirt and Gregory are transformed into animals (Gregory being a duck and Wirt being "either a bear or a dog . Over the Garden Wall was first envisioned in 2004 with a scarier and more adventure-based storyline. Stalking the main cast is the Beast ( Samuel Ramey), an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they lose their hope and willpower and turn into "Edelwood trees". Elijah Wood, the voice actor for Wirt, has said that "if this show were a record, it would be played on a phonograph".

After creating a pilot episode, Tome of the Unknown: Harvest Melody, McHale and the network settled upon the miniseries format for the ensuing series, as McHale felt that it would lead to "something that felt higher quality than what we could do with a regular series".The Woodsman attempts to free Greg before fighting the Beast away from the clearing as Wirt and Beatrice arrive.

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. Production of the show began in March 2014 and was largely done in Burbank, California, but many of the show's artists worked from other U.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. Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it was "a little too folksy and fairy story" at times, but that its "contemporary strangeness wins out", and concluded that "it is throughout something to behold". Songs from the series include "Into the Unknown", its title song, composed by Patrick McHale and sung by Jack Jones; "A Courting Song", composed by the Petrojvic Blasting Company and performed by Frank Fairfield; and "Come Wayward Souls", sung by Samuel Ramey as the Beast. Greg and Wirt follow him as he laments that he will have to sell the instruments to continue funding the school.