i would like an analysis on the song played during the climax. Why Wirt's potatoes and molasses was sung in latin? what's up with the symbolism of "run/pray/hide tiny seed?"

@Donteatacowman

7 жыл бұрын

I can maybe do that, but to be honest, I think it's just because Latin gives things a serious/mystical quality. Greg's bridge is definitely more analyzable! And it's a bit more difficult because there's no official lyric page for it. Looking at what others have said and listening to it myself, here are the lyrics: Grow, tiny seed, you are gone to the tree. Rise 'till your leaves fill the sky, Until your sighs fill the air in the night. Lift your mighty limbs, and give praise to the fire. So first of all, there's no run/pray/hide (unless I'm missing/forgetting something, so let me know if I am!) Over the Garden Wall is brilliant at taking benign imagery (deer, plants, sleep) and turning them into something menacing. Even though Greg's voice actor is singing here, I think it's inarguable that the tiny seed is Greg himself while becoming an edelwood. The seed loses its identity and substance as it grows into an adult tree--the seed's not going to stay intact throughout the sprouting process, and Greg's not going to stay intact once he becomes an edelwood. It's chilling how the song (in an emotional minor chord no less) discards Greg like all he's worth is being the seed of an edelwood--probably the Beast's influence on the song. "Rise" is pretty self-explanatory: the tree growing to become a towering trunk and leaves. "Until your sighs fill the air in the night" is less transparent. I'd guess that it's referring to how trees "exhale" out oxygen and "inhale" carbon dioxide, making the air breathable for the rest of us. If that's true, the song's continuing to turn Greg into something useful for the Beast as opposed to an individual. The song's also not pretending that this is a painless process for Greg. "Lift your mighty limbs"--tree branches are called "limbs," but so are human arms and legs, so it has a double meaning: the tree's growing and stretching out its limbs to sprout leaves, but it's also Greg religiously raising his arms to "give praise to the fire." The tree's (and thus Greg's) whole reason for being created, existing, and eventually being cut down is to fuel the fire in the lantern. There's a religious fervor underneath these lines. tl;dr: the Beast is literally farming Greg for the purpose of harvesting and the song encourages the acceptance and worship of this.

@mmmhhm

7 жыл бұрын

Donteatacowman Ah, thank you for answering! Yeah, when I saw the lyrics, I think they were written by youtube community, so they were run/hide/pray. (imo, it makes the song even creepier.) But I do disagree on Wirt's song only done in latin for its atmospheric purposes. As you pointed out, the series creators are VERY detailed oriented. (That bit with the door handle? I wouldn't even notice, but to the creators, it was a big world building problem.)

@oatsoss8504

7 жыл бұрын

Donteatacowman I feel like the sighs part is more the trees and their limbs creaking in the night with the wind, so I think it means they want him to grow as big and old as possible to get even more fuel from his tree

@Donteatacowman

7 жыл бұрын

That makes sense too!

@oddfellow6004

6 жыл бұрын

There is a type of religious hymn sung in Latin called Gregorian Chant. Maybe that's what they meant? It doesn't follow all the rules for Gregorian Chant but it could be a reference

"...Early on there was an episode about an old man who made dice out of children's bones, and the children's spirits sang an eerie song from the basement to warn Wirt and Greg to leave the house." Oh...That's disturbing.

@duduche6869

5 жыл бұрын

guess it was cut because it was way too creepy

@blackberry8615

4 жыл бұрын

LOVE IT

@fabreo4041

4 жыл бұрын

Yet I want an episode like that

@EmilReiko

4 жыл бұрын

we need that episode

@Scarshadow666

4 жыл бұрын

It kinda reminds me of Coraline and other fairytale-esque stories (like the Hunter's Bridegroom, where a girl witnesses her fiance chop up and eat another woman with his buddies.)

Okay I don't think Greg's dream is lighthearted, I honestly think it's one of the creepiest parts for some reason

@charliewilkinson8104

4 жыл бұрын

Why???

@livlivvv5953

4 жыл бұрын

i kinda get that like it feels weird to see a child trying to reason with things

@shrekwazowski8199

4 жыл бұрын

Kate O'Neill I get uncomfortable when I watch it but it’s so much fun being so insanely uncomfortable

@jordanps1218

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty it's his heaven

@molgorp7199

3 жыл бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree lol

"Sometimes the scariest thing is to go home and face your problems" Is the woodsman had gone home to face that he lost his daughter, he'd known she was actually still there (This frustrates me sorry--)

@littledrummergirl_19

4 жыл бұрын

I think that’s kind of the point though - he didn’t know that (or even if) his daughter was still alive, let alone safe at home. So the thought of going home not knowing if he was going to find her there alive and well was terrifying for him, not knowing that she was probably safe and well the whole time - but if he’d faced his fear of the unknown in terms of what he would find when he went home he might have uncovered the beast’s lies. I think that might have been Wirt’s point there ☺️

@jennysayquack1730

4 жыл бұрын

@@littledrummergirl_19 this is the same trope as when they were in that rich dudes house, he was too scared to face the ghost in fear may or may not be real... leading him to never get the chance to meet his love until Greg and Wirt practically force him to do so.

@littledrummergirl_19

4 жыл бұрын

Nikita Rebel that’s a really good point, I hadn’t noticed that - that hits really close to home for me 😭

@neenoodle

3 жыл бұрын

How r all of u this smart

@Kirsten4260

3 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna write this up as an essay lmao

Ever noticed how the Edelwood trees are hollow? We see it best with the one the Woodsman chopped up in the first episode. The trunk is completely hollow and only the branches can be harvested for oil. Must be a way to show that the Beast's victims literally become empty shells of who they once were before being fed to the lantern. (Also if the Beast's made of Edelwood like he seems to be, he might also be literally hollow inside)

@handsomegiraffe

6 жыл бұрын

You are right. The beast is hollow or rather he has a bunch holes in him. You can see what the beast looks like when the old woodsman shines the lantern on the beast for a few frames (better to just search for a screenshot on the internet).

@EVANGELIONAIRE

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't the beast made of faces tho?

@handsomegiraffe

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the facial features of the faces on him were made of holes. Also, his arms do not have faces on them, rather 'black marks' (looks like holes to me). Therefore, both are correct, he is made of holes and faces.

@voicelessglottalfricative6567

4 жыл бұрын

Hes hollow inside because his soul is in the lantern and that's why he makes people that grieve over a loves ones death in the unknown chop Edelwood to fuel the lantern to "keep their soul alive"

@wildchildmushroom262

4 жыл бұрын

I realized that the trees are actually people who gave up on going home and they died. Wirt was going to give up on going home and he started being wrapped with branches.

“Did you recognize Tim Curry?” *slams fist on table* HOW COULD I NOT SEE IT

@thatlycantomboy

Жыл бұрын

somehow. I forgot again. it’s been three years. rewatched the show and it still feels like a bizarre nostalgia dream

"The series was meant to have a dream-like logic..." Literally within the first episode I thought "I feel like I'm watching a dream" . And it felt like that the whole time.

@KarnodAldhorn

3 жыл бұрын

I always get fairy tale vibes from stuff like that.

The midwife also coughs up a fish alluding to drowning. I'm guessing this is to hint at their birth into the unknown, by way of drowning.

@peachy_00

4 жыл бұрын

That's actually really interesting, I've never seen someone address that before, but I was wondering why she was doing that. Makes sense!

Did anyone else notice that after Greg hits the woods man he steps on a tree branch and falls with his head landing on a log, both of which Greg had used to practice(as mentioned in the previous list)

@Donteatacowman

7 жыл бұрын

ZombieCat18 I was wondering where the log came from! Brilliant :0

I gotta share this story. Was watching OTGW with my (now) husband. My second viewing, his first. His almost livid "THAT'S Jason?!" reaction in episode 9 made me laugh so hard we had to pause the video so I can catch my breath.

@nartyfarty

4 жыл бұрын

My same reaction to when I saw Jason hahah

@connorthompson66

Жыл бұрын

We all had that reaction, and though I initially felt robbed by "Jason Thunderburker," ending up being a scrawny shrew, I always interpreted it as the only thing keeping Wirt from asking out Sara is merely his self-consciousness rather than anyone way above his league.

Not sure if anyone noticed but I did recently: at the end of the series, when the second part of the song "Into the Unknown" plays and we get to see footage of what happens on the Unknown later, Lorna is seen holding a book that is titled "Tome of the Unknown", just like the pilot :D

In the scene where the barmaid is singing about the Beast, she gives away the real truth about the Beast and the unknown. "...don't believe his lies. For once your will begins to spoil, he'll turn you to a tree of oil, and use you in his lantern..."

My fam and I always thought Auntie Whispers resembled Yubaba/Zeniba from Spirited Away 🤔

@kiyaluque

5 жыл бұрын

Reyana Elsea I swear I read somewhere once she was meant to (and hence her having an evil sister/good sister thing going on with Adelaide)

@fabreo4041

4 жыл бұрын

OMG so true

@bella-rh4pj

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@sophiep2725

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! She even has an evil sister!

I loved the Highway Man dance. To me at least it's very reminiscent of Cab Calloway's singing and dancing which was used in the old Betty Boop cartoons, like Minnie the Moocher.

@Donteatacowman

7 жыл бұрын

Abby Beatson Yes! that style, called rotoscoping, is made by drawing over live film. Nick Cross, when animating that sequence, wanted to capture the eerie uncanny-valley feel of rotoscoping, though he didn't actually draw it over film.

@bendrowned508

4 жыл бұрын

I love that part. I joke with my friends that it was the best song just because of the animation used

@crbonilla8657

3 жыл бұрын

And the innkeeper looked and sounded a bit like Betty bop!

You're my hero. The OTGW fandom is so tiny, so it's great to see great-quality stuff like this! Great job.

just remember this a 10 episode series of 11 minute shorts and theres THAT much in there that there needed to be two videos...

I have the art book! Here’s a fun fact that wasn’t covered-did you know that the giant, multifaced edelwood tree in “Songs of the Dark Lantern” was meant to represent everyone inside the Dark Lantern inn? Also, we never see anyone inside leave, which also implies that the inn is a Lantern for their own souls.

Pat: alright so this episodes about a man who turns children’s bones into dice that sing CN: I think you have a problem

THERE'S COMICS!?!?!

@Kalzone1489

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it kinda fills the gaps between some episodes

@mexa_t6534

6 жыл бұрын

Y’all know when’re I can find them?

@Kalzone1489

6 жыл бұрын

galaxy hitchhiker72 I Googled them.

@maryturner8242

5 жыл бұрын

Ricky i need to find out what happens with Wirt and Sara....

@ratt_ler4261

5 жыл бұрын

I NEED THEM.

I'm just too obsessed with this show ;v;

@mohamedhagi2838

7 жыл бұрын

iSin f

@steeloptic

6 жыл бұрын

Same ;w; Tbh ever since I got messed up at the end of episode 8 it's been my favourite show C':

@mj.jayatkinson7119

6 жыл бұрын

iSin uii

@randompromises1038

4 жыл бұрын

ah memories of sobbing to the last episode unsure if greg was gonna make it.

@shrekwazowski8199

4 жыл бұрын

Random Promises yes

At 13:45 if you look at the moon It looks like its a reflection from underwater. ALSO showing that writ and greg are underwater.

the song that you hear at the beginning of Gregs dream in Babes in the Wood is called "Forward, Oneiroi". In greek mythos, Oneiroi were the personification of dreams. Oneiroi were the children of Night (Nyx), siblings of Sleep (Hypnos) Death (Thanatos) and Old Age (Geras)

Did anyone else notice that every tine the moon is shown it’s in the same shaped? This could be why they didn’t return on Christmas because in the unknown no time has really passed.

@l.p.4176

4 жыл бұрын

In chapter 10 the moon isn't the same

this show is beautiful, it has more charm & better character arcs in 10 episodes than most multi series shows

The “tra la la” song the Beast sings is from the Hansel und Gretel opera written by Humperdinck I think, it’s the aria sung by their drunken father. It’s also really cool the voice of the Beast was a former NFL player turned opera singer

In episode 9 I noticed that when Wirt stands against the cemetery wall, there are two vines that line up with his head and resemble The Beast's antlers. I'm not sure if this was put in on purpose, but I found it interesting (pause at 8:47 of episode 9).

"too much Wirt might be overpowering" love that, love Wirt ♥️

I can relate to Wirt. I play clarinet, have a half sibling (actually three), and find reality a little scary and hard to face. Also if I tried to play a bassoon I would fail, all the notes would be wrong and there would be so many squeaks and I wouldn't be able to use the mouth piece right. In short if I was Wirt they would have been kicked off the boat.

FUN FACT: Elijah Wood voiced Spyro in all three The Legend of Spyro games: A New Beginning, Eternal Night, and Dawn of the Dragon.

HELP WIRT’S LAUGH IS SO CUTE-

When wert says, "no that's stupid" on the last episode the bell chiming is from cloud kingdom. Greg's wish was for wert to go home and if he became the lantern bearer he would not have gone home.

In Clarence "Little Buddy" you can see Wirt and Greg walking in the forest at Nelson park.Please tell me if you saw it to.

@cyumonite582

6 жыл бұрын

Donna Allvord clarence jeff and sumo in cartoon network please tell me?

@cyumonite582

6 жыл бұрын

Donna Allvord i saw it.

10:58 Of course! Greg told the "anything is possible" phrase to the Beast, muttering it out of sleep to the queen of clouds - who really was the Beast himself, looming over his sleeping body and mediating the dream to him.

@DILLPICKLEZZ23

4 ай бұрын

Yes that is my theory to the beast molded Greg’s dream so that the brothers would be separated I also have a theory that auntie whispers wants the bones sorted so they can be sent to pottsfeild for a better er... afterlife

In my opinion, The Unlnown is like a version of limbo or purgatory where Wirt and Greg only get more and more lost until you realise they were drowning in the real world. They figure out how to go home when they defeat “The Beast” within them

Wait, if the highwayman is dead, maybe it's a reference to the old poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes?

@Donteatacowman

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Lester What a cool poem! It's possible, especially since the highwayman's original design was definitely a lot more lacey. Fits the colonial era or the inn too, though that seems to be where the similarities end!

@SaltandMist

4 жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten about this poem - I studied it at primary school when I was around 8 or 9!

@DILLPICKLEZZ23

4 ай бұрын

I tried to read that poem when I was 6 I had nightmares for weeks 😱

I speculate that Enoch the Cat may be a Church grim. In some folklore it is believed that the soul of the first person buried in the cemetery will have to stay there for all eternity and help guide other souls to the afterlife. Because no one wanted to be an escort instead of passing to the afterlife, they would bury an animal first. It would usually be a black dog, but have been different species of church grimes as well. It is very likely that Enoch the Cat is the Pottsfield church grim.

@l.p.4176

4 жыл бұрын

A usefull comment, finally!

Jason Funderberker...

@onlykeys3663

6 жыл бұрын

GoneZombie thsts the frogs last name known

@l.p.4176

4 жыл бұрын

@@onlykeys3663 what? No

@shrekwazowski8199

4 жыл бұрын

GoneZombie you spelled it the way that the human one is spelled so I hate it

@l.p.4176

4 жыл бұрын

@@shrekwazowski8199 that's why I said "what? No" 😁. We are both experts, if you know what I mean

@shrekwazowski8199

4 жыл бұрын

L. P. XD

"Maybe everything that can't be conceived is floating around unseen in some abstract way" THAT IS EXACTLY MY LOGIC

Greg’s dream felt like an acid trip. I watched it for the first time at 3 am. Literally thought I was asleep

i actually didn’t know tome of the unknown was the pilot but i did notice that the art style was slightly different. it makes sense now lmfao

I think Adelaide’s jealousy of her sister and Lorna definitely carried over for sure

In issue 2, in one of the panels, where it shows Fred looking in concern at the shadow of the crime going on behind him, it looks like the highwayman really is stealing someone's shoes off his feet while the person is knocked out on the floor, just like he stated he'd do in the song

this show is amazing and its one of the shows i really wish were a full cartoon

@drakesmith471

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly wish they would make a continuation on the series. It’d be cool if they found another way to go back aside from almost dying.

it’s been years, but I still love this series man

Wirt helps his brother up first and his little brother holds his hand and helps him up 😄

Wow, there's so many small details in the animation. You can really tell this was a project of passion

Operetta* Operas had elaborate stages and costumes while Operettas were the ones with only spotlights

I clicked this and didn't expect it to be so FRESH i love how this show lives on

i so want to see the version where wirt is stuck in the unknown

@stellasoluna2140

7 жыл бұрын

MinorAccident Haha, same.

Somehow the fact that Sara, a character in my favorite animated show, is named after my favorite song in the world (Sara - Fleetwood Mac) makes me incredibly happy.

I can't wait to see what other shows and plans Patrick McHale has in store for the future.

I literally just saw your other 112 facts video like 3 hours ago.

2:07 maybe the real unknown were the friends we made along the way

Also Greg knows about elephant ears and had elephants in his dream cause he dressed as elephant for Halloween

Fred is the highwaymans horse thats why he wants to steal so bad

I’d kinda like a sequel with either new kids going through the unknown or Greg and wirt trying to understand what happened to them

1:08 "The design for the Beast came partly from an indie art film about a man rejecting a technological society and running into the forest..." So the Beast is Ted Kaczynski?

This is my favorite show of all time. It's literally the only show that can make me cry. I've watched it over 5 times, and I'm probably gonna watch it again now. Also it's not a peacock. It's a funny chicken.

This show is a masterpiece

9:46 Fore shadowing of how he was going to turn into the adle-wood tree and how it got closer and closer to him being wiped out?

9:14 I hope Greg grew up... :(

If the ending where Wirt didn't go home had been the canon ending, do you think he would have become Beast!Wirt, like the one the fandom came up with?

i hope greg grew up to be greg universe

12:25 I just noticed that the holes kinda look like faces… does this represent all the souls he’s consumed? Like a combination of the edelwood trees he’s consumed from them burning in the lantern? This form kinda gives me Philip vibes from The Owl House (Hollow Mind episode).

im pre ordering that art book right now! so excited

But _how does the cat move the limbs?_

Beatrice's theme doesnt play when the grist mill is brought up - the track is called "The Old Grist Mill" and plays then. It starts like beatrice's theme though.

3:14 actually the moon is meant to be the moon of the night the show takes place -- on friday october 31, 2014, it was a half moon, which we see throughout the show.

@l.p.4176

4 жыл бұрын

Moon is often half

You mean to tell me that "Beep beep Richie" turned into "The ringing of the bell commands you."?

@DILLPICKLEZZ23

4 ай бұрын

LOL 😂

One thing I noticed is that whenever Wirt and Greg are found in a house they thought was abandoned, Greg always jumps to say that they’re burglars. This could be foreshadowing to the last episode when it’s revealed that Greg stole the rock facts rock from his neighbor. Greg actually believed he was a burglar the whole time, just like he believed that it was his fault they were lost in the first place :’(

@DILLPICKLEZZ23

4 ай бұрын

That is so sad in stead of laughing at we came here to burgle yer turts I’ll just cry😢

Lol that tape was for me

I wish There was A New Season Or Episodes I Miss This Show Oh Potatoes

@sumowrestler2687

5 жыл бұрын

Alright, so potatoes are mentioned or shown several times in the show, and Elijah Wood plays characters in both Over the Garden Wall and Lord of the Rings, which means... PO-TAY-TOES! BOIL `EM, MASH `EM, STICK `EM IN A STEW.

7:48 purest laugh ever omg

9:53 maybe because he was dead all along and that is the loveliest lie of all?

@DILLPICKLEZZ23

4 ай бұрын

What does the time stamp have to do with that

Even more brilliant than the first! I'm so happy to have found these! Again, thank you!

Amazing work once again. I really have to watch the show again, but this time with the commentary!

Ah yes! Another one! xD Lol ever since I joined the OtGW fandom, I've been thinking about the lyric "Loveliest Lies of All" from the song Into the Unknown. Weeeell, because I was bored I made up theories about what 'loveliest lies' meant. And here's my thought: I think that the sentence 'loveliest lies of all' is referring to hope/optimism. I mean, for example... when you're lost in the Unknown with nowhere to go you'll eventually gave up or at least have a mindset that you can't go home. But then... you decided to have hope and optimism. Sometimes having optimism and hope is like lying to yourself. You know you're not going home, but with hope you make up a lie about it. "if dreams can't come true, why not pretend?" But even though it's a lie, isn't it nice to think that you're going home? Isn't that just... lovely? XDDDD hahaha I hope you understand what I'm saying (I'm bad at explaining things lol) I'm just so bored I had to comment this somewhere to at least cure some of it haha xDDDDD

I like that you can hear a dog barking in the background right when she's talking about the dog knocking the door off it's hinges

The beast sounds like the narrator from the game "the cave" by double fine

I thought that guy steering the cart was pops from regular show.

When wirt Beatrice and Greg we're riding in that one guys hay wagon to go to the dark lantern I think the driver could be a version of wirt in the future being hysterical over the beast. He was wearing a cloak VERY similar to wirt, the eyes are the same and they have the same ears too. Just the old guys are a little smaller

@DILLPICKLEZZ23

4 ай бұрын

That was my thought to it’s pretty dark when you think about it 😮

Yet another informative and entertaining video on one of my favorite cartoons!

Your videos are excellent- they contain Actual little-known facts about the series and cute little details most ppl missed!

I just realized that Wirt is Mumble???

I don't know if anyone realized about this, but in Pottsfield, one girl told Wirt to be there "Too soon". Later in the episode, when Larry gets unburied, the inhabitants say "You haven't changed a thing", and right after that the big pumpkin dude asks to Wirt if he's going to stay, and then he says "Well, you will come back eventually". I think Pottsfield is a village where people continue living after they die and their whole bodies are decomposed and only their skeleton is left.

Enoch being a black cat is so cool. They're seen as mysterious and magical, shape shifters, and can bring spiritual enlightenment. Enoch takes care of the people of Pottsfield and is there as a guide and someone the people look to.

The amount of detail in show is amazing

Didnt even know there was a dvd until i watched the other vid. Thanks!

I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but The Beast reminds me quite a lot of the legend of the wendigo from Native American lore. Wendigos are said to be created when a human commits cannibalism (seems pretty similar to how The Beast turns people into fuel for his lantern) and their souls become corrupted. They typically have large white eyes, and deer-like antlers. They are also said to be most active during the fall and winter months, and they like the coldness of the woods. Definitely increased the spooky factor for me! I also noticed that the colors of the dog’s eyes after it eats the black turtle and becomes evil are the same colors as The Beast’s eyes when it is frightened that Wirt is going to extinguish the lantern-I wonder if the black turtles are a creation of The Beast, or just a result of it possessing the woods where they live. This could also explain their effect on Auntie Whispers.

so I just completely binged this...I love this so much

I thought the quality of the videos I was watching wasn't that great which is why it was fuzzy around the edges. It would've driven me nuts but it wasn't incredibly overpowering. Glad to know it was done purposefully and now I have a new appreciation for this show!

I keep reanalizing this show too.

Plz make More! There aren't enough videos like this about this amazing show! Plz make more!

The Unknown always struck me as being a purgatory of sorts. Somewhere between heaven and hell or life and death. The lesson maybe here is that the journey is just as important as the destination so be true to yourself, and you'll leave a world a much better place than the state you found it in. 🎃😽

"they based this design on trypophobia the fear of many tiny holes" AS SOMEONE WITH TRYPOPHOBIA THEY NAILED IT

Sara now connects to the witch season of American Horror story!

as someone with trypophobia I FEEL VALIDATED. AND MAD

Are you the voice of Beatrice?

@Donteatacowman

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Rodriguez I wish!

*I'm amazed* that there are so many things we don't knoe or didn't notice in a 10 episode Cartoon.

11:07 I always wondered if the queen of the clouds was acc The Beast making Greg perceive him that way, this would also mean the whole dream was being controlled by The Beast aswel