Goosehollow (TV series)

Goosehollow is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers, Jake the Horrible and Big Fat Man, who kidnap the orphan boy, Dawson, and travel across a mysterious forest, encountering a variety of strange and fantastical things on their journey. The show is based on the Hanna-Barbera's 1983 animated film of the same name.

Plot
The series follows two half-brothers, Jake the Horrible and Diablo, who kidnap the orphan boy, Dawson, and take him prisoner in a strange forest called the Unknown. In order to find their way home, Jake must travel across the seemingly supernatural forest with the occasional help of Big Fat Man, who travels with Jake and Dawson in order to destroy the spellbook, who can supposedly undo the curse on Big Fat Woman, defeat the monster on Halloween, and show the reluctant heroes the way home.

Final chapters
The penultimate episode reveals that Jake and Dawson are modern children who entered the Unknown after falling into a pond on Halloween. Jake, attempting to take back an embarrassing poetry 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 Dawson into jumping over the cemetery's garden wall, thus separating Big Fat Man. On the other side of the wall, they landed on an abandoned amusement park, as Diablo reveals that he is a evil demon who double-crosses Jake by wanting the power of the spellbook, and thus reviving all the past monsters to destroy the world. Feeling betrayed, Jake now teams up with Big Fat Man and Dawson to stop Diablo. After the fight with Diablo, Big Fat Man opens the book, sucking Diablo and all the monsters inside, but the real Diablo escapes, after revealing that the other Diablo is sucked inside was a impostor, and kidnaps Dawson.

In the final episode, Diablo tries to killat Darwin, but Jake and his friend stop him before it's too late. Jake and the demon begin to fight each other and Diablo was winning until a stake fell down towards the demon, who was unaware of this as he was too busy attacking Jake. Diablo tries to escape after having his wing was impaled by the stake, but accidentally hits the stone, sending Diablo to falling to his death as the cave crumbles away. Jake sucks himself inside the book, saying goodbye to Dawson with a hug before being sucked in.

Some time later, Dawson is now 16-year-old, and Big Fat Man starts working as the new English teacher at the school while starting to date Lorraine. After school, Big Fat Man reveals to Dawson that he re-wrote Hannah back into reality with a new book. She and Darwin kiss and leave school together while Big Fat Man burns Hannah's book, making her permanently real. When Big Fat Man is about to leave school, he looks at the typewriter writing by itself. To his horror, Scud and Peppers was omitted in imprisonment, beginning to write a new book entitled The Demon's Revenge, where Jake is the main character. He then opens his manuscript, sucking Big Fat Man inside.

Cast

 * Jon Lovitz as Jake
 * Pamela Hayden as Darwin Dawson
 * Cameron Boyce as the teenager Darwin Dawson
 * Kenan Thompson as Big Fat Man
 * Eric Idle as Diablo
 * Kelsey Grammer as Kevin P. Bones
 * Alex Hirsch as the Showman
 * Frank Welker and Tress MacNeille as Scud and Peppers
 * Michelle Trachtenberg as Lorraine

Home media
Goosehollow was released on DVD in Australia on July 3, 2018 by Cartoon Network and Warner Home Video and on July 10, 2018, in the United States. The DVD features all ten episodes of the show, commentaries, the original pilot, alternate title cards, and deleted animatics. Other extras on the DVD include a "Composer's Cut," an option wherein a viewer can watch the show with only the visuals and the background music; and the mini-documentary Behind Over the Goose Hollow.

On April 2, 2019, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the miniseries on Blu-ray exclusively in Australia and New Zealand with the same bonus content as the DVD release.