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“Smiling Friends,” Adult Swim

January 20, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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“Charlie dies and is sent to the underworld to cheer up the devil, who has let hell freeze over. The imagery is straight from the Inferno. Faces frozen in ice, giants, Charlie scaling down to the bottom, God’s hidden face, etc.”

Contributed by Luis E. Sanchez, Florida State University ’22

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: Adult Swim, American Television, Cartoon Network, Cartoons, Televison

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

December 15, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Over the Garden WallOver the Garden Wall is a cartoon mini-series on Cartoon Network, based on Patrick McHale’s short animated film Tome of the Unknown. It centers on a young poet, Wirt, and his half-brother Greg, as they travel through a dark forest called “The Unknown”. They are accompanied by a talking bluebird named Beatrice.  The mini-series has ten episodes; the latter nine loosely correspond to the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno.

Visit this site for a closer look at the correspondences between the Inferno and Over the Garden Wall.

To visit the show’s blog on Cartoon Network, click here.

Contributed by Kate Peterson

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Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Animation, Beatrice, Cartoon Network, Inferno, Television

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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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