The Heart, She Holler

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The Heart, She Holler
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Genre Soap opera
Southern Gothic
Satire
Surreal humor
Comedy horror
Created by Vernon Chatman
John Lee
Alyson Levy
Starring Patton Oswalt
Amy Sedaris
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes28 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time11 minutes
Production companies PFFR
Williams Street
Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network Adult Swim
ReleaseNovember 6, 2011 (2011-11-06) 
December 11, 2014 (2014-12-11)

The Heart, She Holler is an American horror comedy television series created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee from PFFR 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.

Contents

Plot

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).

Characters

The Heartshe family

Townsfolk

Episodes

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1 6November 6, 2011 (2011-11-06)November 11, 2011 (2011-11-11)
2 14September 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)September 27, 2013 (2013-09-27)
3 8December 2, 2014 (2014-12-02)December 11, 2014 (2014-12-11)

Season 1 (2011)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUS viewers
(millions)
11"And So It Begends" Vernon Chatman & John Lee Vernon Chatman & John LeeNovember 6, 2011 (2011-11-06)1.18 [5]
22"No, Jojo, No!"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeNovember 7, 2011 (2011-11-07)1.32 [6]
33"Holy Meemaw"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeNovember 8, 2011 (2011-11-08)1.25 [7]
44"Fear is Dog Spelled Bassackwards"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeNovember 9, 2011 (2011-11-09)N/A
55"Death Begins at Conception"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeNovember 10, 2011 (2011-11-10)N/A
66"Dare to Holler"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeNovember 11, 2011 (2011-11-11)N/A

Season 2 (2013)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUS viewers
(millions)
71"Begend the Endginning"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)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.
82"Proper Dental Care Is Murder"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 11, 2013 (2013-09-11)1.17 [9]
93"The Blue Lonegoon"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 12, 2013 (2013-09-12)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.
104"The Telltale Butthole"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 13, 2013 (2013-09-13)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.
115"Mu-Mu-Mu-Meat"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 16, 2013 (2013-09-16)N/A
126"Pequiem for a Recker"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 17, 2013 (2013-09-17)1.25 [11]
137"Emotional Can of Mommyworms"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 18, 2013 (2013-09-18)1.26 [12]
148"The DeArranged Marriage"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 19, 2013 (2013-09-19)N/A
159"Werelan"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 20, 2013 (2013-09-20)1.33 [13]
1610"Come Unity"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)1.19 [14]
A mysterious man appears in town.
1711"Hambrain Jan"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 24, 2013 (2013-09-24)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.
1812"Preverse Psychologism"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 25, 2013 (2013-09-25)1.12 [16]
1913"Gamebored"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)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.
2014"The Endginning"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeSeptember 27, 2013 (2013-09-27)1.18 [18]

Season 3 (2014)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUS viewers
(millions)
211"In Meatro"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 2, 2014 (2014-12-02)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.
222"WUWPs"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 3, 2014 (2014-12-03)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.
233"Klansgender Rights"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 4, 2014 (2014-12-04)1.263
The town's children, including an age-reduced Hurshe, put on a white supremacist pageant of United States history.
244"Groaning Amore"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 5, 2014 (2014-12-05)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.
255"Oralboros"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 6, 2014 (2014-12-06)1.159
While struggling to keep Meemaw alive, Doc befriends and exploits the Chinese worker cranking the wheel of her CPAP machine.
266"Slaughter Me to Heaven"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 9, 2014 (2014-12-09)1.035
Despondent that Sheriff prefers her sister, Hambrosia curses Hurshe with a personal hygiene issue.
277"Congroined Hearts"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 10, 2014 (2014-12-10)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.
288"The Comening"Vernon Chatman & John LeeVernon Chatman & John LeeDecember 11, 2014 (2014-12-11)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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