History Series / TheHeartSheHoller

--> ''"Somebody described it as, 'Series/HeeHaw, if Creator/DavidLynch directed it.'--Patton Oswalt"''

--> ''"Somebody described it as, '[[HeeHaw]], if [[DavidLynch]] directed it.'--Patton Oswalt"''

* AlternateUniverse / TheMultiverse: Introduced as a concept in Season 2, and more thoroughly explained in Season 3. The show surprisingly makes a lot more sense once you realize this is in effect. Well, it's still absurd, but what initially seems like random cartoon-ish non-logic coalesces into something resembling a pattern.

* WordOfGod from Scott Adsit seems to confirm the Multiverse effect. Adsit was recast in the role of the Sheriff, and speaking in an interview along with Amy Sedaris (who was recast as Hershey in Season 2), he said: "I also like the idea that each new season is in a different realm of reality and so in the new realm that Patton’s character (Hurlan) has wandered into, Kristen now looks like Amy." [http://splitsider.com/2014/12/getting-dark-and-weird-with-amy-sedaris-and-scott-adsit/ (link)] That is, this ''is not'' a case where the audience is supposed to pretend that Hershey always looked like Amy Sedaris. Season 1, set in Universe 1, contained a Hershey who looks like Kristen Schaal. Season 2 is set in Universe 2, where Hershey looks like Amy Sedaris. They're two separate but similar characters.

** The show moves on from the climactic events of Season 1 by having Hurlan walk through a space between worlds until he enters into an alternate universe where the finale didn't happen - and where his sister now looks like Amy Sedaris instead of Kristen Schaal.

** In the Season 3 premiere, Meemaw goes so far as to (loosely) explain to her granddaughter Hambrosia (who inherited her psychic powers) what it means to create a new reality: it is possible to create another reality in which impossible things are possible - provided that the reality that the creator is in, is itself already an impossible reality. This conversation starts intercutting and overlapping between two doppelganger sets of Meemaws and Hambrosias, neither of which is the "original" - the Meemaw in Universe A created Universe B...which she has the power to do, because the Meemaw in Universe A ''herself'' created Universe B! (An infinity paradox: each created the other, and created them with reality warping powers).

* AlternateUniverse/TheMultiverse: Introduced as a concept in Season 2, and more thoroughly explained in Season 3. The show surprisingly makes a lot more sense once you realize this is in effect. Well, it's still absurd, but what initially seems like random cartoon-ish non-logic coalesces into something resembling a pattern.

From the creators of ''Series/WonderShowzen'', ''Series/{{Delocated}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'', ''The Heart She Holler'' was a 2011 live-action miniseries (though it only totaled 66 minutes) on Creator/AdultSwim. Described as a "Southern Gothic drama," the show chronicled the machinations of the Heartshe family after the death of their patriarch, the mayor of the town of [=HeartShe=] Holler ("holler" being a southern colloquial version of "hollow"). Now has a second 'season', airing in September, 2013.

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Cemetery Waltz" by Music/TwoStepsFromHell shows up often as the default theme for particularly strange or off-kilter moments, such as Hoss's corpse getting shoved into a jury box to represent himself.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: As mentioned above, "holler" is a term for 'hollow' or 'valley' and Heartshe is the name of the ruling family who founded the town

* DemonicDoll: Hurlan fashioned a crude, voodoo-doll-like effigy of a human form while living inside the cave without outside contact; not only is it much more intelligent and articulate than himself, but it can only speak to others using Hurlan's own voice, as a lonely Cutter discovers too late. [[spoiler:Later, he manages to somehow pull a female version out of his own body]].

* ManChild: Though that doesn't even begin to describe Hurlan

From the creators of ''Series/WonderShowzen'', ''{{Delocated}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'', ''The Heart She Holler'' was a 2011 live-action miniseries (though it only totaled 66 minutes) on Creator/AdultSwim. Described as a "Southern Gothic drama," the show chronicled the machinations of the Heartshe family after the death of their patriarch, the mayor of the town of [=HeartShe=] Holler ("holler" being a southern colloquial version of "hollow"). Now has a second 'season', airing in September, 2013.

* MixedMetaphors: "My words are coming back to bite off more of my ass than they can chew!"

* YourCheatingHeart: The Sheriff, who is in an adulterous relationship with Hurshe, and generally loathes his wife Hambrosia. Meanwhile, Hambrosia gets ridiculously close to finding out about this, but she can't ever but the facts together.

* MagnificentBastard: Boss Hoss, who sometimes seems in danger of being foiled, almost always gets the proud and pity-filled last laugh.

* BackAlleyDoctor: The Doctor, who uses all sorts of slipshod medical "techniques" to fix the ailments of the townsfolk. He believes he's a good doctor, though, since nobody in town knows any better. They even share a taboo against the evils of dentistry.

* BestialityIsDepraved: It is most certainly not considered depraved in the town of Heartshe, where there's a "high-qualty, classy" dog prostitution house in service. Anyone watching though, should find this guffaw-inducingly sick.

* BeastialityIsDepraved: It is most certainly not considered depraved in the town of Heartshe, where there's a "high-qualty, classy" dog prostitution house in service. Anyone watching though, should find this guffaw-inducingly sick.