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Back on the grid after a six-year absence!

Are there existential dilemmas in Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends? Does Brad Bird’s oeuvre contain creepy Objectivist subtext? Is there a Lorenzo Music/Bill Murray Ghostbusters-Garfield conspiracy? Were Paw Paw Bears simply evolved Snorks with a totemic religion? Or maybe Scooby and Shaggy, like, totally smoked weed, man. These and other questions require more than careful analysis. They demand over-analyzation.

This site thrives on reader submissions, including links to relevant web sites. The editors are well-respected in the over-analyzation community, but are notoriously lax in publishing their own work. And there is only a finite number of archived articles. So, we’re beseeching you, the student who put off writing their 10-page paper entitled Fight Club vs. The Turn of the Screw: An Oral History by watching episodes of Ben 10. And we’re beseeching you, the engineer who sneaks away to watch TiVo’ed episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants while the wife puts the baby to bed. And we’re beseeching you, the audience: send us your half-baked theories and misguided essays! (They don’t even have to be long, that’s what Mini-Analyzations are for.)

By the way, to those who wish to submit over-analyzations, the editor reserves the right to edit, spell-check, and correct you’re improper word use as he sees fit. The editor does also not guarantee factual accuracy. Your e-mail addresses, blog links, &c. will not be posted publicly unless you specifically ask.

Submit to: overanalyzation AT gmail DOT com

P.S. As you may have noticed, we also occasionally bring you over-analyzations related to videogames and appropriate literature. Submissions and/or links for these topics are also greatly appreciated.

One Response to “About”

  1. Shaping Youth » Facelifts for Kiddie Characters: Rebranding ’80s Icons? Says:
    June 18, 2008 at 1:36 am

    [...] get into over-analysis of cartoons, but hey, it ‘is what it is’…(fun site btw, at cartoon overanalyzations, where they ask, “Are there existential dilemmas in Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends? [...]

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