The Heart, She Holler | |
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Genre | Soap opera Southern Gothic Satire Surreal humor Comedy horror |
Created by | Vernon Chatman John Lee |
Starring | Patton Oswalt Amy Sedaris |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 28 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production companies | PFFR Williams Street Warner Bros. Television |
Original release | |
Network | Adult Swim |
Release | November 6, 2011 – December 11, 2014 |
The Heart, She Holler is an American horror comedy television series created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. [1] The series premiered on November 6, 2011 and ended on December 11, 2014, with a total of 28 episodes over the course of 3 seasons.
The series, described as "Southern Gothic drama" [2] and "an inside-out blend of soap opera and politically incorrect surrealist comedy", [3] is about the long-hidden and isolated son of the Heartshe dynasty (Patton Oswalt) returning to run the town and being locked in conflict with sisters Hurshe (Kristen Schaal and Amy Sedaris) and Hambrosia (Heather Lawless).
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "And So It Begends" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | November 6, 2011 | 1.18 [5] |
2 | 2 | "No, Jojo, No!" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | November 7, 2011 | 1.32 [6] |
3 | 3 | "Holy Meemaw" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | November 8, 2011 | 1.25 [7] |
4 | 4 | "Fear is Dog Spelled Bassackwards" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | November 9, 2011 | N/A |
5 | 5 | "Death Begins at Conception" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | November 10, 2011 | N/A |
6 | 6 | "Dare to Holler" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | November 11, 2011 | N/A |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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7 | 1 | "Begend the Endginning" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 10, 2013 | 1.04 [8] | |
Hurlan passes back into the cave from whence he came – only to wander into an alternate reality where the events of the Season 1 finale never occurred. | |||||||
8 | 2 | "Proper Dental Care Is Murder" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 11, 2013 | 1.17 [9] | |
9 | 3 | "The Blue Lonegoon" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 12, 2013 | 1.13 [8] | |
The Preacher delivers fire and brimstone sermons that consumption of meat is evil, because it leads to homosexual behavior. The new ban is hypocritical, as the Preacher himself continues to eat meat in private. Hurlan is attracted by the smell but the Preacher deflects attention from himself by insisting that Hurlan's soul is in danger if he continues to want meat. The Preacher takes him on a weekend prayer retreat in the woods to Camp Praythegayaway, but he soon becomes lost. Awakening, Hurlan is convinced that his desire to eat meat actually did result in some sort of homosexual-orgy-apocalypse, which destroyed human civilization. Hurlan therefore settles into the camp and attempts to rebuild civilization from scratch. Meanwhile, with Hurlan missing, Boss Hoss's video will instructs that Hambrosia will lead the town in his absence. Finally in charge, she decides to "cut loose" by listening to vinyl records and taking a bite of tobacco chaw – which nearly kills her. Hambrosia subsequently bans all forms of tobacco from town, and goes door to door with a shotgun in hand to make sure the ban is in effect. However, Hurshe one-ups her sister by making her own smoke-easy in the local bar. Hurshe makes up her own phoney religion of "Chawstafarianism" and claims the legal loophole that chaw is her religion's "sacred herb" and thus cannot be regulated. The two sisters find themselves at loggerheads. | |||||||
10 | 4 | "The Telltale Butthole" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 13, 2013 | 1.21 [10] | |
Hurshe's estranged husband, formerly one of the most feared and terrible men in the Holler, is released from prison and returns to town. This further complicates the affair between Hurshe and the Sheriff. The Preacher is upset as well, because before he joined the Church he used to be a drug mule for Hurshe's husband. Meanwhile, Hambrosia is once again upset that she was "born without lady parts", until she is told that the Doctor can surgically give her some. Hurshe's husband decides to get revenge by having sex with Hambrosia – by making the Preacher have sex with her. Note: Hurlan does not appear in this episode. | |||||||
11 | 5 | "Mu-Mu-Mu-Meat" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 16, 2013 | N/A | |
12 | 6 | "Pequiem for a Recker" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 17, 2013 | 1.25 [11] | |
13 | 7 | "Emotional Can of Mommyworms" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 18, 2013 | 1.26 [12] | |
14 | 8 | "The DeArranged Marriage" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 19, 2013 | N/A | |
15 | 9 | "Werelan" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 20, 2013 | 1.33 [13] | |
16 | 10 | "Come Unity" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 23, 2013 | 1.19 [14] | |
A mysterious man appears in town. | |||||||
17 | 11 | "Hambrain Jan" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 24, 2013 | 1.23 [15] | |
Hambrosia's brain escapes to find Hurlan, who mistakes it for a Mexican. The brain cleans his room but ultimately causes a wind storm with destruction to the city. Without the torment of her psychic brain, Hambrosia becomes a laid back, free-spirited hippie, constantly trying to share non-sensical poetry with everyone. He sends the brain away, who returns to Hambrosia. | |||||||
18 | 12 | "Preverse Psychologism" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 25, 2013 | 1.12 [16] | |
19 | 13 | "Gamebored" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 26, 2013 | 1.05 [17] | |
Feeling lonely, Hurlan takes to using an old typewriter, and actually writes a book-length manuscript. He soon becomes a Truman Capote-esque novelist, respected by the town as their first and only literary great. Meanwhile, it is revealed that by manipulating cloth dolls of them on a chessboard, Meemaw psychically influences the townsfolk for her own twisted games. Many of the bizarre occurrences, rivalries, and love triangles in the town were really created by Meemaw for her own petty amusement, such as Hurshe having an affair with the husband of her own sister. When Hambrosia learns of this she becomes outraged that Meemaw is forcing the town's inhabitants to commit negative, sinful acts which they aren't actually responsible for. She attempts to round up everyone into the church to pray away Meemaw's influence, but to no avail, as Meemaw psychically hijacks the meeting. However, Boss Hoss' video will reveals to Hurlan that there is one cloth doll Meemaw doesn't know about, which he hid under his hat: a doll of Meemaw herself. Hurlan uses the doll to control Meemaw and force her to relinquish her gameboard to him, to set the townsfolk free. | |||||||
20 | 14 | "The Endginning" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | September 27, 2013 | 1.18 [18] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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21 | 1 | "In Meatro" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 2, 2014 | 1.069 | |
Hurshe lends her womb to gestate a cocoon for Hambrosia to raise as a vessel for Meemaw to transfer into in order to prevent the apocalyptic Comening. | |||||||
22 | 2 | "WUWPs" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 3, 2014 | 1.138 | |
The townspeople chop Hurlan's head off, but he is still too dumb to die. They resort to his education to force him to capitulate. | |||||||
23 | 3 | "Klansgender Rights" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 4, 2014 | 1.263 | |
The town's children, including an age-reduced Hurshe, put on a white supremacist pageant of United States history. | |||||||
24 | 4 | "Groaning Amore" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 5, 2014 | 0.961 | |
Hambrosia is haunted by a couple of ghosts. Sheriff seeks Doc's help to improve his impaired performance in his affair with Hurshe. | |||||||
25 | 5 | "Oralboros" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 6, 2014 | 1.159 | |
While struggling to keep Meemaw alive, Doc befriends –and exploits –the Chinese worker cranking the wheel of her CPAP machine. | |||||||
26 | 6 | "Slaughter Me to Heaven" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 9, 2014 | 1.035 | |
Despondent that Sheriff prefers her sister, Hambrosia curses Hurshe with a personal hygiene issue. | |||||||
27 | 7 | "Congroined Hearts" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 10, 2014 | 1.051 | |
Sheriff despairs that Hambrosia will not let him pursue a relationship with her sister. Overhearing Sheriff say that this is "the end of the world", Cutter starts a family off the grid. Hambrosia curses Sheriff to the fate he wanted with Hurshe, before disintegrating all the main characters –except Sheriff –who manages to kill Hambrosia by a gunshot. | |||||||
28 | 8 | "The Comening" | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | Vernon Chatman & John Lee | December 11, 2014 | 1.258 | |
Meemaw implodes. In a church with other townsfolk, who are all accompanied by doppelgänger versions of themselves, Sheriff watches a filmed speech of President Jimmy Carter discussing energy –also in duplicate. |
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