Behind the garden wall

Television series
German title	Behind the garden wall
Original title	Over the garden wall
Country of production	United States
original language	English
year	2014
Production company	Cartoon Network Studios
length	11 minutes
Episodes	10 in 1 season
genre	Fantasy , fairy tale
idea	Patrick McHale
music	The Blasting Company
First broadcast	November 3, 2014 (USA) on Cartoon Network
German-language first broadcast	March 30, 2015 on Cartoon Network

Behind the Garden Wall (original title: Over the Garden Wall ) is a two-time Emmy- winning US animated mini-series by Patrick McHale , who previously worked as author and creative director on Adventure Time with Finn and Jake . The series mixes fantastic and folkloric elements with a comedic and creepy tone.

action

The two half-brothers Wirt and Greg climb over a cemetery wall on Halloween, fall into a pond and get lost in the forest. On their search for a way back home, they are accompanied by Greg's new pet, a frog with a changing name who - it turns out - can sing beautifully. You meet the irritable bird lady Beatrice, who offers you to take her to Adeleide, the good soul of the forest: She would definitely know a way out. In addition, they repeatedly meet the forester who roams the forest in search of a mysterious tree species. With the oil that he presses from the wood of these trees, he feeds the flame of his lantern, in which he imagines the soul of his daughter. He warns the brothers about the beast of the forest, but they soon have to assume that the forester himself is the beast.

They make further acquaintances and finally reach Adeleide, but Beatrice has betrayed her: Adeleide is a wicked witch. Beatrice brought her the children in return for scissors that she can use to transform herself and her family back into people. Wirt and Greg escape, but Wirt loses the courage to ever find his way out of the forest. That is apparently the beast's curse, and the landlord is supposed to become one of those trees the forester is looking for. But Greg offers himself to the beast in his place while the host sleeps. Landlord and Beatrice team up again to save Greg, and the forester now also faces the beast: For all these years it was not his daughter's soul that he kept alive in the lantern, but that of the beast.

After the flame goes out and the beast dies, Wirt and Greg find their way back to the pond: Wirt can still pull his brother out of the water before he loses consciousness and only wakes up in a hospital.

production

Gustave Doré, 1867

Behind the Garden Wall is based on Patrick McHale's nine-minute award-winning short animated film Tome of the Unknown (USA 2013), which premiered on September 9, 2013 at the LA Shorts Fest . The series was produced by Cartoon Network Studios in 2014 and is the studio's first miniseries.

The first ideas for the series came up in 2004 with a more creepy and adventurous plot. McHale originally envisioned a Halloween special and struggled to rewrite the premise for a longer format. Ultimately, it was decided to use a mini-series format. McHale cited 19th century children's books, early 20th century American music and folk art , as well as visual influences from Gustave Doré and Walt Disney's Alice Comedies series of the 1920s , as inspirations . The character of Greg, however, is based on his own son and other elements of the story on his own experiences.

The stories of each episode were developed by McHale, Amalia Levari and Tom Herpich (those of the ninth episode also by Cole Sanchez and Bert Youn ) and implemented by various scriptwriters and storyboard artists. Nate Cash led directing .

In the original, the characters in the series are spoken by Elijah Wood , Melanie Lynskey , John Cleese and Christopher Lloyd , among others . The German dubbed version was made with Kostja Ullmann and Christian Brückner , among others . The German TV premiere took place on March 30, 2015 on Cartoon Network .

synchronization

The TV + sync in Berlin set to music the series. Michael Ernst wrote the dialogue books and directed the dialogue. Furthermore, he was in charge of the musical recordings and translated the lyrics into German.

role	Original speaker	German speaker
host	Elijah Wood	Kostja Ullmann
Gregory	Collin Dean	Jonas Schmidt-Foss
Beatrice	Melanie Lynskey	Anita Hopt
The forester	Christopher Lloyd	Christian Brückner
The beast	Samuel Ramey	Claudio Maniscalco
Adelaide	John Cleese	Cush young
Beatrice's mother	Shirley Jones	Isabella Grothe
Enoch	Chris Isaak
Jason Funderberker	Cole Sanchez	Dirk Petrick
Jimmy Brown	Thomas Lennon	Karlo Hackenberger
Kathleen	Ashly Burch	Daniela Reidies
Lorna	Shannyn Sossamon	Marieke Oeffinger
Margueritte Gray	Bebe Neuwirth	Claudia Gáldy
Miss Langtree	Janet Klein	Cathlen Gawlich
Mister Langtree	Sam Marin	Uli Krohm
Horse fred	Fred Stoller	Jeremias Koschorz
Quincy Endicott	John Cleese	Joachim Kaps
Rhondi	Ashly Burch	Esra Vural
Sara	Emily Brundige	Giovanna Winterfeldt
Aunt Whispers	Tim Curry	Rainer Gerlach
teller	Warren Burton	Michael Iwannek

Episodes

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	script
1	The old flour mill	The Old Grist Mill	3rd November 2014	March 30, 2015	Natasha Allegri , Zac Gorman , Steve Wolfhard
Landlord and Greg got lost in the forest at night and meet the forester who presses oil out of wood in an old mill and who warns them about the beast of the forest. They are attacked by a dog-like monster who destroys the mill and which they believe to be the beast - but in fact it is just an actually very peaceful dog who only choked on a black turtle.
2	The big pumpkin festival	Hard Times at the Huskin 'Bee	3rd November 2014	March 30, 2015	Bert Youn, Aaron Renier , Patrick McHale
Landlord, Greg and the bird lady Beatrice find a village with strange, pumpkin-headed inhabitants. They disrupt the annual pumpkin festival and are supposed to dig two big holes to make amends. Landlord is convinced that they will be their own graves, in fact they are strangers: The village is inhabited by skeletons and they should only free other inhabitants from the earth, then they can go.
3	Schoolyard reveries	Schooltown Follies	4th November 2014	March 31, 2015	Jim Campbell , Laura Park
Landlord, Greg and Beatrice find a school for animal children in the middle of the forest and are kept by the teacher for other school children. Greg motivates all the children with a happy song, but the teacher's father thinks this is bad behavior and wants to close the school. With the help of a benefit concert, Greg and the landlord are still able to save the school and the teacher also takes courage when she meets the love she believed lost again.
4th	Songs of the Dark Lantern	Songs of the Dark Lantern	4th November 2014	March 31, 2015	Pendleton Ward , Bert Youn, Steve McLeod
Landlord and Greg visit a restaurant where they are again warned about the beast of the forest. It transforms people into trees in order to nourish the light of its lantern with their oil. Landlord thinks that the forester who originally warned them about the beast must be the beast himself. They find Beatrice unconscious nearby, but they can save her. The beast appears to the forester and warns him not to let the flame go out: his daughter's life depends on it.
5	Crazy love	Mad Love	5th November 2014	April 1, 2015	Natasha Allegri, Zac Gorman
Landlord and Greg meet the owner of a huge mansion. Together with him they go on a search for the ghost with whom he fell madly in love - only to find out that it is his neighbor. The two properties are so large that they have been linked unnoticed by the two over the course of time. As a thank you, host and Greg receive money that they need for a ferry, but Greg prefers to throw the coins into a well.
6th	The frogs lullaby	Lullaby In Frogland	5th November 2014	April 1, 2015	Bert Youn, Nick Edwards
Landlord, Greg and Beatrice are finally on the ferry that will bring them to Adeleide. However, they have no tickets and disguise themselves as a member of the orchestra with the help of Greg's Frog. During the night they follow Beatrix to Adeleide and find out that Beatrix has cheated on her: She should bring Adeleide two slaves to get scissors with which she can transform herself and her bird family back into people. Beatrice destroys Adeleide, Wirt and Greg can escape - alone.
7th	The ringing bell	The Ringing of the Bell	November 6, 2014	2nd April 2015	Patrick McHale, Bert Youn, Tom Herpich
The landlord and Greg find an old house in the woods, the maid hides them from her aunt, frightened. The girl lets this work non-stop so that she doesn't get angry and controls it with the help of a little bell. Host and Greg help the girl escape her aunt's control, but this allows the girl to turn into a demon. Only the ringing of the bell with an order to the demon to free the girl's body can save her.
8th	Children in the forest	Babes in the Wood	November 6, 2014	2nd April 2015	Mark Bodnar , Jim Campbell, Bert Youn
Landlord has given up all hope of ever finding his way back home. During the night Greg dreams of a cloud city where he celebrates with the residents. He accidentally frees the evil, cold north wind, but is able to catch it again and the Cloud Queen grants him a thank you wish. Greg wishes to return home with Wirt, but that is not possible because the beast has already started to turn Wirt into wood. So Greg wishes to take the host's place.
9	Off to the unknown	Into the Unknown	November 7, 2014	3rd April 2015	Cole Sanchez, Vi Nguyen , Zac Gorman
It's Halloween, the evening before Wirt and Greg got lost in the woods. The landlord has decided to give Sara, a girl he raves about, a cassette of his own poems, but doesn't dare. Together with Greg, who actually wants to catch frogs, he follows her to a cemetery, where she meets up with friends. Before they can get any closer, they are frightened by a police car. Greg and landlord flee over the cemetery wall and end up unconscious in a lake.
10	The unknown	The Unknown	November 7, 2014	3rd April 2015	Natasha Allegri, Jim Campbell, Tom Herpich
Beatrice and host find Greg, who gradually turns into a tree. The beast offers to keep Greg alive in a lantern if the host feeds it. But host realizes that the flame is instead keeping the beast alive. The forester, startled by this realization, extinguishes the flame of the beast. Host and Greg wake up in the lake and finally in the hospital, where Sara is waiting for them. In a sequence, the inhabitants of the forest are shown, who are doing so much better now.

Awards

Emmy award

• 2015: Emmy in the Outstanding Animated Program category for Behind the Garden Wall
• 2015: Emmy in the Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation category to Nick Cross , Production Design

Web links

• Behind the garden wall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Behind the garden wall on Cartoon Network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation - 2015 at the Emmy Awards . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
2. ↑ Outstanding Animated Program - 2015 at the Emmy Awards . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
3. ↑ LA Shorts Fest , accessed March 5, 2016
4. ↑ Cartoon Network Orders 'Over The Garden Wall'… on deadline.com . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
5. ↑ Patrick Kevin Day: "Lost in an animator's imagination" in the Los Angeles Times on October 5, 2014.
6. ↑ Behind the garden wall in the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved March 6, 2016.
7. ↑ Behind the garden wall on fernsehserien.de . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
8. ↑ In the Berlin TV + Synchron Studios… ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kidszone.de . Retrieved February 6, 2016. 
9. ↑ German TV premiere of the animated mini-series “Behind the Garden Wall” on absolutfamilie.de . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
10. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Behind the garden wall. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .