112 things you ACTUALLY missed in Over the Garden Wall 

Just showing he was overthinking it

I loved it but it really broke my heart aswell, that poor kid doesn't know how much people enjoy his company

mitjo Yeah, the Unknown is like a sort of limbo, where The Beast is constantly watching and chasing, and no real time passes.

It also could look like that if you were underwater and drowning.

The moon was exactly the same before they fell in the lake.

The moon in the show was actually supposed to match the phase of the moon in the real world at the time of each episode's airing. www.imdb.com/title/tt3718778/trivia?item=tr3635340

That’s probably one of the reasons why they are in such bad condition and have to be rushed to the hospital when they find their way out!

Scrolled all the way down looking for this.

I came to the comments looking for this. I think Gregg even said he was still hungry at the end (b/c it was shown Fred the horse was actually the one who was eating everything. And Jason Funderburker ate a bit judging by his little froggy belly.)

i always thought it was blood on his lips 😔

I always did wonder why/what fred was chewing at that part. It makes so much sense now

Yes, and in the deleted scene when Beatrice presses Fred on why he didn’t talk to her, he says it’s because he was eating all the food Greg gave him.

it just wasnt in line with endicott's Georgian sensibilities

When you’re an a Georgian but suddenly everything is French rococo

I love these replies 😂

WAIT SINCE WHEN DID THIS HAVE SO MANY LIKES

@@annonimooseq1246 you mean the country georgia?

*slaps hat on knee* i COULD have called this video '112 rock facts' all along! heck!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ayyy!!

HecK yeah!

This was way too funny i cant-

@@Donteatacowman just edit it

I never noticed that!

omg

originally they were going to be riding that train and the beast was going to be the conductor lol

Another Rock fact: the Beast's lantern is based on a train lantern.

@@gabrielleurbina7020 omg where do you find this information?

Cause usually one leg is is shorter than the other just enough that it makes them curve

@@raptirboy180 yes,yes

@@raptirboy180 I'm not that smart so is that actually true

Maxmo yea is not a big difference in length but enough, another factor that plays is our limb favoritism. Like how I’m right handed I’m also right legged I’m more prone to use my leg more than my left again it’s a slight difference when compared to the hands but enough to creat a gradual drift

@@raptirboy180 woah that's actually cool Thanks :)

jeez nice ears

Yes! It's hard to tell seasons in the first episode, but by Pottsfield we see that the series takes place mid-autumn around harvest season. We see signs throughout the series that we're progressing into winter (from more obvious stuff like the frogs going into hibernation in the mud to more subtle things like some of the song lyrics). By the last few episodes, we're mid-winter. The series was originally planned so that Wirt and Greg would return home around Christmas, with no one having known where they'd been in the last few months. I like the hypothermia explanation though, and winter definitely represents death in the series.

well its because of the seasons but okay

Donteatacowman wow, that's so fascinating!! I like the idea that they actually WERE in a "different world" for months (even though it's not realistic)!

wow, i really with that had happened (the midwinter return)!

ryan foundoulis damn dude , have you ever been almost drowned I have four 8 mins I was being choked under water BY MY OWN BROTHER yeah I'll never four get it

She said that lol

The second title card, where it says the name of the episode, has the same little picture that was marked out in the first title card.

Bee With Legs definitely, that was one of the first things I noticed with this show, but honestly I never could pick out anything along the border of the title card

Whoaa that makes sense

i realized that right away while watching the episode

@@leonajasz5738 same

@@leonajasz5738 Én is!!

Wait... So you just got that?

The light in the lantern is still lit tho, maybe he’ll come back somehow

@@Seba12322 is the show coming back tho?

KHswag 36 wow I thought I was the only one left on this video

Or the woodsman

I honest to God thought that cat was the beast in the end. Like the beast died quote quote, which is why the lantern is there. But because it was still lit, and the cat ended up popping up, the beast was still alive somewhere.

So do you think Greg wished that Wirt would be able to save the day? Or something like that? I've always wondered what Greg's wish was

Seven Zero Seven his wish was to talk to the beast himself I always assumed.

i thought that he wished the beast would take him instead, but this is certainly an interesting thought. it definitely felt like a moment of divine intervention though.

@@alviepines7708 Since he was talking a lot about being a leader in that episode, I think maybe he wished to be able to lead Wirt home.

I think the ringing symbolizes Wirts realization of the lesson that he learned from Beatrice about always doing what youre told, being a pushover without his own will. If not for her lesson, Wirt would probably make a deal with the beast, became a new woodsman and Greg would turn into a tree. It shows how important it is to have such friends who are not afraid to point out your weakneses.

Sugar the Idiot WHAT

holy shit

Sugar the Idiot mind abused right there

I dont get why the angle would change if you're sinking

Luma if you were in water and sinking down you would most likely be on your side (allowing them to maybe see the moon but from an incorrect angle) also the lack of oxygen could have made them see things in the real world differently

Michael H. how did i not notice that

I don’t think that’s actually correct. I have an idea that a core theme through out the entire show is to try and mislead the audience to be scared of one thing when in reality they either shouldn’t be scared at all or should be scared of something else. Kind of symbolizing a fear of the UNKNOWN. Well we’re made to think that the turtles might actually have bad/evil beast like properties because the dog turns in some way into the beast when he eats it. However, if you look closely at the turtle that the dog spits up it has a black shell with black legs, tail, and head and has a piece of candy STUCK to it. The candy sticks to it because that turtle is covered in the black oil from the trees used to power the lantern. That candy is also the reason the dog eats the turtle in the first place as made clear by the fact that even when it’s a beast it still only cares for getting candy. The dog spits out the turtle, candy, aaand a little bit of black oil before it returns to normal. It’s foreshadowing the evil associated with the tree oil and the lantern in general. It also doubles as a set up to again try and mislead you through out the show to think back on the turtles and think of them as somehow related to the beast. Bbbbbut the difference is that every black turtle you see after that has a black shell but dark green legs, tail, and head!!! They make you think when you see the turtles in auntie whispers house and she eats them that she must be evil because you are suppose to think eating the turtles makes you evil. But they don’t and that’s why auntie whispers turns out not to be evil! This took me forever to figure out but I still don’t know if any one else noticed it haha

John Dallas ohh so not all the turtles had oil on them?? i never noticed that

I also think is a slight reference to Yubaba from Spirited away. Both are big, have a large nose, really big eyes, they are witches, both have sisters and one of them is evil, while the other is not what it seems.

that's what I spotted as well! :3

They'd just be an old ghost story told by the kids of the neighborhood...

Honestly, I’ve spent the last several minutes looking through the comments here about other peoples theories and feel like you could just make a whole new addendum video with these!

And throughout the party you would gather everyone around and announce a rock fact

THANKYOU FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY THEME!

*aggressively writes this down*

@Avery Baxter just a month and a few days before halloween, hope you have fun then!!

I definitely doing this when I’m have my own house

I read a comic about Fred’s origin story and he was basically manipulated by the highwayman into telling lies and stealing stuff.

@@amazingstarfish1230 ooooooh sounds interesting! What’s it called?

@@charlotte.L.W I think they’re just called Over the Garden wall, they were made back in 2015 I think.

The "giant pumpkin" Enoch isn't a real pumpkin either, but a maypole being puppeteered by the black cat we see at the beginning of the series (bringing his cart of pumpkins to Potsfield) and at the end of the series (emerging from his costume)

he got his one wish after all🥲

look whos later, this is absolutley fucking genius. I applaud you

where/ what episode was that?

Humza S I’d imagine episode 10

animepinetree Yea I noticed this too! Leads me to think the writers thought to keep it as a mystery whether it was all real or not

That scene also shows an odd duck guy standing apart from everyone else. He is literally far away from them, just standing there

I don't think it could be real. It seems to me the unknown is kind of like a dream state that is basically shared by everyone. This explains Quincy's tombstone and him being in the story and even Beatrice. I think that Beatrice is actually from older times, and she made up a story about turning her family into Blue Birds and it just got put into the unknown. I feel like the frog with the bell in his stomach is just an Easter egg or something. Like a joke?

It is real, the unknow is a Limbo

Well I thought the unknown was them visiting the past somehow and during then it was different, while all the people they met are now dead and that's why you can see Quincy's grave... but that's just a theory, a game... oh wait

The flute was actually repositioned by one of the characters and they just kept playing it

As a flute player, I honestly noticed that before I noticed the violin

The horse is also upside down on the sign outside.

@@tobe2btobe That's a good connection

I always wondered why it zoomed in on the leaf at the end of that one episode and played that weird music

Yes!! It's also (as we find out on the For Sara cassette adelwood.tumblr.com/post/130034191141/wirts-poetry-from-for-sara) a common theme in Wirt's poetry. :) Some of his phrases in the show ("endless black sea," "an indifferent wind") are quotes from the poems he recorded for Sara.

What about when Greg and Wirt were on a boat at the beginning on one of the episode?

ohhhhhhh my god i had no idea there was a real tape this has given me new life i watched this show in 2015 and now i find out there was a real tape

The word "Vessel" is pretty commonly used to describe a soul traveling in a human body

Laughed so hard at that

I came here to post this ☝🏼

Just like those times in art school-

That sounds like it would be fun to watch

I didn't know Elijah Wood was Wirt's VA!!! So we basically had Frodo's VA improvising a song? Wow... that makes it a lot better XD

Haha I have the book too!! I read about it an wished so hard I could have that video

I wish there was a recording of that happening lol

@@Zilkenian_Davenport It was those hobbit genes kicking in. Can't resist a decent tune

Yes and Greg got a signed guitar

Marisky Suerto TRUE

I thought everyone saw that. That's basically what happened with TRON Legacy.

think we all noticed

So how long could the woodsman be there if he was away long enough for his daughter to MISS him?

Ian Flint The woodsman and daughter are in the Unknown. She probably went missing ages ago in the Unknown and slightly less in the real world. She didn't go missing at the start of OTGW, I would say she was already gone a while. Hope this helps :)

Da Dragon Durp i think they are both pretty dead

I think that they are both ghost from the past, Wirt and Greg are clearly from the late 60s and or the 70s, and if you look at the fashion everyone else is wearing - they are not from the same timeline as the boys. Maybe the boys somehow timetraveled or went to some type of place where ghosts with undone buissnes is placed?

Nah i think the unknown is a dimension where the decision of death or life is chosen and the beast is death

everyone who Wirt and Greg met are dead, even the woodsman, the woodsman though was in denial about his demise as he was trying to save his daughter unaware that she was dead and I think the unknown was the land of the dead and Wirt and Greg were in a kind of purgatory but in between life and death

So what of Beatrice and her family? Are they dead too?

PaladinAtWar I knew Fred had gotten fed by Greg but I didn't put two and two together! Guess Greg didn't inhale 15 meals after all 8(

PaladinAtWar ohhhh i was always confused by that haha

the horse is implied to be owned by the Highway man and we already know later that he is a Kleptomaniac so Fred most likely steals the food

Ooh, I initially assumed it was blood

Yes, of course. I don't think this was supposed to be hidden.

A lot of this stuff wasn't deliberately hidden, but it takes some rewatching to notice it! Just because there's so much detail and thought packed in the series.

I didn't mean it like that, I mean that what Little Space Case said, and a lot of this video, was glaringly obvious stuff or even central plot points.

This is true! I tend to think of it as a reference by the background painter (kind of like how the OTGW comics have an Adventure Zone reference on a poster) since the rest of the setting implies 70s-early 80s. But you're definitely right about that cassette.

@@Donteatacowman ironically, the 70s and 90s were pretty similar aesthetically. I remember having HUGE bell bottom jeans and a flight jacket. And my grandma still had ugly 70s wallpaper and wooden walls. 😂 She also STILL (like, as of this year) has those same exact mushroom jars. And I remember a lot of people still drove those boxy looking cars. Plus you had cassette tapes, wall phones, and such still being a big thing.

@@Orion_TheyThem yes! I was going to say this 😄 It's because a lot of 70s kids became nostalgic about the 70s during the 90s, similarly to how 80s and 90s kids are nostalgic about the 80s and 90s today and so a lot of the fashion and vintage memorabilia are popular again 🙂

I hadn't noticed that, but just going by the choice in clothes and the speech patterns of the kids, I presumed the 90s. The police car is late 1980s, the Paramedic Ambulance is early 1990s, and Sarah makes a comment about not having a cassette player not in a way as if they are common, but genuinely outdated.

two*

makes you really think about how very detailed this show is

Holy shit! I re!ember that! Thats why that episode is so familiar!

They could've made him all wearing a cloak

In my opinion, it made him more scarier

The woodsman should feel stupid knowing all he had to do to win that fight was sweep-kick his little stick legs lol

HECK YES old english knowledge!!!!

He clearly states that his mother married another guy and had Greg with him, that's not a finding

well divorce and all that kind of shit can make any kid depressed.

I like that theory!

Except for the town throughout time thing, that's not a theory, that's the plot

​@@sethwell2552Well yeah, he mentioned the fact first and then his related theory. You say it as if he said something obvious

He's a clarinet player. What do you expect? I'm genuinely surprised he can make any decent sounds at all.

Thank you so much!

That's the one big mystery of the show that I have no hint or answer for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Good characters are seen abusing the turtles. Auntie Whispers eats turtles and is OK (though mangling it in the process and not eating the shell), but the dog swallowed a turtle whole and turned into a monster because of it. The turtles show up in the comics a lot too but it doesn't give us much of a clue as to why.

I think the turtles were supposed to be red herrings meant to distract the audience, and make the truth more surprising. We assume Auntie Whispers is evil because she eats the turtles, when we're meant to believe that the turtle made the dog evil. It adds to the feeling that you can't assume anything to be true in the unknown. It's representative of the paranoia the main characters are feeling in the unknown, and how farfetched assumptions can lead to undue fear. It's essentially Chapter two, but with the audience being the ones to overreact, and freak out.

I think the turtles are used by the beast to stalk the boys

@@mavioli3303 Thats a good theory, I've heard people say that the turtles might be the Beast's spies or minions

they look like oil, so I assume pieces of the beast?

I'm pretty sure the ??? was for the frog because he has no name yet.

Why would they bury a horse in a human graveyard?

Because, He was a talking horse?

given the time of the show, if Quincy was a veteran, it wouldn't be uncommon to bury the horse he rode next to him, but with no give proof of Quincy serving, it might have been by request that his best carrier horse, as we see Fred taking the job to carry barrels, to be buried there.

it didn't seem like they passed away, she clearly seemed happy looking at them. I think it was simply an indication of how all three of them became happier thanks to the protagonists.

I'm always told I talk too fast even in real life. oTL I'll be more mindful of it.

it's actually frame by frame a direct reference to Disney's earlier Alice in Wonderland from 1923

There's a city in one of the last circles of hell un Dante's inferno, maybe it has something yo do with that?

No, thats not true.

JuicyOgilvie It's Wirt's character arc! :D

Or maybe he just has depression issues. I'm voting on the depression and the feeling of uslessness.

In one episode Beatrice comments on how Wirt always does what he is told, during the duration of this episode Wirt walks about with his shoe untied until Beatrice commands him to tie it in the episode's final scenes. When Wirt tells Beatrice's family "no" to their request for him to wait out the storm, it is an example of his character arc. He now acts independently despite whether or not someone else tells him to do otherwise.. this new found independence is also shown in the final episode during his confrontation with the beast. The beast tells him his brother cannot leave, then offers him the lantern. Wirt instinctively begins to do as he is told, but then we see the change in personality once more. After considering for a moment he denies the Beasts request. Even as the beast tries to convince him other wise, he holds on to his new found confidence, and stands firm in his decision. This is the purpose of the comment made to Beatrice's mother, or rather why it was written in the story, to showcase Wirt's change in character. The comment he made in regards to how he was never much good to his brother, helps to show that he is aware of his past mistakes thus giving the proper foundation for a change in character.. as one cannot fix one's problems until one is aware and accepting one has problems. Previously when Beatrice had teased him about being too obedient, he was in denial of it, now he seems aware and in acceptance of this amongst other issues, and ready to face them for his brother. This comment is also made I'm sure as an attempt to retract/discredit his precious comments about how Greg is always messing up and that he and his dad are the crux of Wirt's problems... character arc!

He may simply have been admitting that his fear and hesitance had let him and Greg down. Notice how bold he gets with the Beast, and how he decisively picks up Greg and the frog, and eventually plucks up the courage to invite Sarah to his house to listen to that tape. His character's beginning to change.

Pat Mchale's mentioned that he has a lot of backstory planned out for the sisters. I wonder if we'll ever get to see it through the comics.

Donteatacowman oh boi

Your English is fine! I can't understand what he's singing there. :O

If you're a guitarist, I recognize that old musiciswin joke.

Also, the frog is wearing socks at the end, like Greg promised.

Potatoes and molasses would probably go well together; because it's that pastry cake combination: starch, butter, and sugar.

Lmao

It's actually pretty much the same as the original lyrics of the English version. A little rough, but not terrible or indecipherable by any means. Edit: Also, I am a Latin student in case you were wondering.

I knew that door sound was familiar! But I doubt it was a reference