The Symbolic World
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
491 - Over The Garden Wall’s Cosmic Symbolism
25 minutes Posted Oct 28, 2026 at 12:07 pm.
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~ Full spoilers throughout! ~

Last year, several of you pointed me to Over the Garden Wall, Patrick McHale's 2014 Cartoon Network series. It's ten short episodes about two brothers lost in a dark wood on Halloween. It turns out to be one of the most complete explorations of the in-between I've seen in pop culture, closer to the first canto of Dante than you'd expect from a cartoon. In this video I discuss the symbolism in the show.


YouTube version: https://youtu.be/VDYYV9xizZs


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