
30 Shows Like Over the Garden Wall (2014) to Watch When You're Done
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must
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This 2014 animated miniseries follows two brothers lost in the Unknown, a storybook forest where whimsy curdles into the eerie. Beautiful, melancholy and steeped in old Americana, it's a tiny, perfect autumn fable. If its dreamlike charm and gentle dread enchanted you, seek out atmospheric animated tales that balance wonder, mystery and a quiet undertow of unease.
If you loved Over the Garden Wall (2014) by Patrick McHale, here are 30 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Wednesday, Tales from the Crypt, The Loud House. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
30 Shows Similar to Over the Garden Wall

Wednesday
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In common: Comedy · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Richard Donner
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your po
In common: Comedy · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Loud House
2016 · Chris Savino
Welcome to the Loud House, where life can get pretty crazy. One boy, TEN girls?! Lincoln Loud wouldn’t change it for the world!
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

DuckTales
1987
Scrooge McDuck finds his hands full at home when nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie move to Duckburg. Joined by their loyal pals Launchpad McQuack, Gyro Gearloose and Mrs. Beakley, the DuckTales gang never
In common: Animation · Comedy

Hazbin Hotel
2024 · Brett Coker
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
In common: Animation · Comedy

Blue Exorcist
2011 · Atsushi Higashiyama
Humans live in the world of Assiah, demons in Gehenna. The two dimensions are not meant to interfere with each other, but demons still possess creatures in Assiah in spite of this. The humans who can
In common: Animation · Mystery

Tower of God
2020 · Haruhito Nakayoshi
Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and the end o
In common: Animation · Mystery

The Dragon Prince
2018
An extraordinary discovery inspires two human princes and an elven assassin to team up on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands.
In common: Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Arcane
2021 · Alex Yee
Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.
In common: Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Agatha All Along
2024 · Jac Schaeffer
Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.
In common: Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
This incarnation of the popular cartoon series finds Scooby and the gang living in Crystal Cove, a small town with a long history of ghost sightings, monster tales and other mysteries ripe for the sle
In common: Animation · Family · Mystery

Bob's Burgers
2011 · Steven Davis
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall sh
In common: Animation · Comedy

King of the Hill
1997
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niec
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Phineas and Ferb
2007
Each day, two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation embark on some grand new project, which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust them. Meanwhile, their pet platyp
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

Rugrats
1991 · Vanessa Coffey
Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' im
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

Adventure Time
2010
Unlikely heroes Finn and Jake are buddies who traverse the mystical Land of Ooo. The best of friends, our heroes always find themselves in the middle of escapades. Finn and Jake depend on each other t
In common: Animation · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Amazing World of Gumball
2011 · Ben Bocquelet
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved i
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

The Fairly OddParents
2001
The zany, fast-paced adventures of a 10-year-old boy and his fairy godparents, who inadvertently create havoc as they grant wishes for their pint-sized charge.
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

Bluey
2018 · Libbie Doherty
Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday family life into extraordinary adventures, developing her imagination as well as her mental, physical and e
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

We Bare Bears
2015
Three brother bears awkwardly attempt to find their place in civilized society, whether they're looking for food, trying to make human friends, or scheming to become famous on the internet. Grizzly,
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

Star vs. the Forces of Evil
2015 · Daron Nefcy
Intergalactic warrior Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diaz family. She continues to battle villains throughout the universe and high school, mainly to protect her extremely powerful w
In common: Animation · Comedy

The Smurfs
1981
Classic Saturday-morning cartoon series featuring magical blue elf-like creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs, named for their personalities, inhabit a village of mushroom houses in an enchanted forest.
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

Steven Universe
2013 · Brian A. Miller
A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.
In common: Animation · Comedy

Johnny Bravo
1997
Johnny Bravo tells the story of a biceps-bulging, karate-chopping free spirit who believes he is a gift from God to the women of the earth. Unfortunately for Johnny, everyone else sees him as a narcis
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

Animaniacs
1993 · Steven Spielberg
The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners
In common: Animation · Comedy · Family

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001 · Brian A. Miller
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil.
In common: Animation · Comedy

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
2002
Jimmy Neutron is the smartest kid in town. As a genius, Jimmy thinks most things can be solved with the invention of a new gizmo. But Jimmy usually takes the easy way out, and his backfiring gadgets r
In common: Animation · Comedy

Winx Club
2004
In a magical universe, witches, warriors begin fighting in the name of good .vs. evil! At a magic school, five teenage girls are selected to defend the universe with their magic.
In common: Animation

Another
2012 · Tsuneo Takechi
When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a
In common: Animation · Mystery

Gravity Falls
2012
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls,
In common: Animation · Comedy