

The series ends with a montage of how Wirt and Greg affected the inhabitants of the Unknown. As the scene ends, Greg's frog, which swallowed a magic bell in the Unknown, begins to glow, suggesting that their experience in the Unknown may have been real. At the end of the episode, Wirt and Greg wake up in a hospital back in their hometown. In the final episode, Wirt saves Greg from being turned into an Edelwood tree by the Beast. To save Greg from being hit by a train, Wirt pulled him into a nearby pond, knocking them both unconscious in the process and sending them to a Limbo-like realm between life and death. On the other side of the wall, they landed on a train track. Wirt, attempting to take back an embarrassing poetry and clarinet tape he made for a girl he is infatuated with, had followed her to a ghost story party in a graveyard, where a police officer scared him and Greg into jumping over the cemetery's garden wall. The penultimate episode reveals that Wirt and Greg are modern children who entered the Unknown after falling into a pond on Halloween. 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. 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". Greg carries a frog ( Jack Jones) that he found Greg's attempts to give the frog a name are a running gag. On the other hand, Greg, the younger brother, is more naïve and carefree, much to Wirt's chagrin. His passions including playing the clarinet and writing poetry, but he usually keeps these private out of fear of being mocked. Wirt, the older brother, is a worry-prone teenager who would rather keep to himself than have to make a decision. To find their way home, the two must travel across the seemingly supernatural forest with the occasional help of the wandering, mysterious and elderly Woodsman ( Christopher Lloyd) and Beatrice ( Melanie Lynskey), an irritable bluebird who travels with the boys to find a woman called Adelaide, who can supposedly undo the curse on Beatrice and her family and show the half-brothers the way home. The series follows two half-brothers, Wirt and Greg (voiced by Elijah Wood and Collin Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown. 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. A one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. In 2015, the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. The series was well received by television critics, who praised its atmosphere and characters. The series' environment evokes 19th- and 20th-century Americana, while its digital backgrounds are designed to resemble grisaille paintings. cities, while the program's animation was outsourced to South Korean studio Digital eMation. Production of the show began in March 2014 and was largely done in Burbank, California, but many of the show's storyboard artists worked from other U.S.


That pilot became the catalyst for Over the Garden Wall. After working on other Cartoon Network shows including The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time, the network expressed interest in McHale pitching a pilot. McHale first envisioned the show in 2004 and pitched it to the network in 2006.

The show was the first miniseries on the network. Over the Garden Wall was broadcast throughout the week of November 3 to November 7, 2014. 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. Elijah Wood and Collin Dean voice the protagonists Wirt and Greg, and Melanie Lynskey voices Beatrice, a bluebird. The show is based on McHale's animated short film Tome of the Unknown, which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a mysterious forest to find their way home, encountering a variety of strange and fantastical things on their journey. Over the Garden Wall is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network.
