A Serious Analysis of Over the Hedge (2006)

'Amid the tree now got, where plenty hung / Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill / I spared not, for such pleasure till that hour / At feed or fountain never had I found.’

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Timestamps:
0:00 Pillar of Garbage presents...
00:14 Rockin' the Suburbs
12:55 Lost in the Supermarket
22:34 Rockin' the Suburbs (Reprise)
32:53 the pamphlet

Sources:
Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs articles/reviews:
https://web.archive.org/web/200410282...
https://web.archive.org/web/201311121...
Robert Pfaller, Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment, Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Miscellaneous articles/books shown:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wor...
https://theconversation.com/how-plagu...
https://www.grunge.com/294045/the-tra...
McLeod Hutchins, Zachary. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Referenced Not Just Bikes video:    • Why American Cities Are Broke - The G...  
Žižek discusses the 'objective status in belief' in The Sublime Object of Ideology. Verso, 1989, pp. 34-5.
Description topline quote is from Paradise Lost by Milton, John, (594-7, IX).

For more on the environmental impact of indigenous Americans, see Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.

A/V media used:

Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs (music video)
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs (soundtrack version)
Ben Folds - The Best Imitation Of Myself: Rockin' The Suburbs
Fallout
Family Guy
Korn - Freak on a Leash (music video)
Korn - Got the Life (music video)
Over the Hedge (+bonus footage)
Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade (music video)
Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio (music video)
Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name (music video)
The Clash - London Calling (music video)
The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go? (music video)
The Simpsons
Wall-E