20 Obscure and Lesser known Facts about Gravity Falls!

Think you know everything there is to know about Gravity Falls? Well, did you know that the crew opened a bar in their offices, or that there’s 3 different retail versions of Journal 3? In this video, we’ll be going over some facts about Gravity Falls that you probably never previously knew about. Facts you won't see on other lists! So, get comfy as we have a lot to get through!
These are 20 Obscure and Lesser known Facts about Gravity Falls!
Intro - 0:00
Fact 1 - 1:40
Fact 2 - 2:17
Fact 3 - 3:11
Fact 4 - 4:23
Fact 5 - 5:46
Fact 6 - 7:21
Fact 7 - 8:30
Fact 8 - 10:04
Fact 9 - 12:07
Fact 10 - 14:02
Fact 11 - 15:32
Fact 12 - 16:42
Fact 13 - 18:22
Fact 14 - 20:54
Fact 15 - 22:20
Fact 16 - 24:30
Fact 17 - 25:53
Fact 18 - 28:07
Fact 19 - 30:51
Fact 20 - 34:43
SOURCES:
Grunkle Dating Sim: sovonight.itch.io/swooning-ov...
Mabel’s shirt interview: comicsalliance.com/alex-hirsc...
Drunkle Stan photos: www.flickr.com/photos/mr_baby...
First Lost Legends post: / i_just_discovered_this...
Press Kit info: gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/...
Antonio Lopez’s tweet: TheAntonioLopez/s...
Mrbabyman post: mrbabyman.tumblr.com/post/301...
Michael’s Reddit Comment: www.reddit.com/r/videos/comme...
Alex’s letter: combustible-lemons.tumblr.com...
Sailorleo’s post: sailorleo.tumblr.com/post/148...
Make a Wish post: wish.org/midatlantic/wishing-...
Creepy gnome promo: • Gravity Falls - Specia...
Alex’s Tumblr post: shmalexsmirsch.tumblr.com/pos...
Alex’s Tweet: _AlexHirsch/statu...
Confusion Hill fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/help-prese...
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[@ThatGFFAN]

Sources are in the description now for all who were asking about them during the premiere.

[@Rey_Palpatine]

Imagine making a fanfic so cursed that it gains enough infamy for the creators of the original series to read it

[@CelestialsStorm]

Makes me wonder if JKR ever read My Immortal 😂

[@michaelmcdonagh5833]

Vietnam flashbacks

[@imnotgoodwithnames4101]

That is ironically my worst fear.

[@PTS-Maid]

​@@imnotgoodwithnames4101It shouldn't. Just don't make fucked up fan fics. Dipper goes to taco bell isn't even "shocking funny" or interesting. It's legitimately fucked up. You can tell the individual who made this is a porn addicted pedophile.

[@not_plausible2033]

I predict we’ll still be discovering new secrets about this show a decade from now.

[@bendy8me494]

Probably

[@theluigifan1]

Kind of like how Soos always stumbles into new secrets in the Mystery Shack whenever he’s cleaning or fixing things?

[@ClonedGamer001]

"Grenda's canonical last name is Grendinator" I love that.

[@26th_Primarch]

Respect to the person that sent Alex Hirsch a coconut.

[@cactusgamingyt9960]

Actually the coconut mailed itself

[@No_creative_ideas_today7578]

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[@Jess-dm8hl]

My interesting fun fact to add to this: There was actually a message from Alex Hirsch saying “Gravity Falls will return” in the credits of Gideon Rises. For the longest time I thought I was misremembering this because I never heard it when I watched the episode again. Turns out the message was only played once during the first airing of the episode! Wonder what the deal was there?

[@amberrizzi1207]

I remember that message! Was it really only played once? I remember it so vividly…

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

I heard that they added that in at the last minute. I think it was because Alex originally was too exhausted from all the work it took to make season 1, so he didn’t want to continue the show. After it started actually airing and became really popular, his friends convinced him to make another season. So at the time when he started making season 2, I think it was like right before Gideon Rises got released. And he knew that starting season 2 so late would result in a huge hiatus between seasons, since most shows typically would’ve started production on season 2 before the first episode of season 1 got released, to make sure that there wouldn’t be a very long wait in between seasons. So I’m pretty sure that’s why they added that message in there. They knew that majority of the fans would probably watch it right when it originally aired, so they wanted to make sure those fans knew that there was going to be another season eventually, and that episode wasn’t the end. Because otherwise, a lot of people might have forgotten about the show after having to wait so long with no information about season 2.

[@BoxGlitch_studios]

season 2

[@CritSuccessNerd]

It is possible that was a little joke added last second kind of mocking the MCU movies that started to do that in the post credit scene around the time

[@itsskaylee]

@@MiloMurphysLaw love the name and profile!

[@ethanmarquardt2760]

The fact that there are still so many gravity falls fans after there being a combined total of like 2 minutes of GF stuff in the last three years is quite amazing. It's just a testament to how good of a show it was.

[@frickinfrick8488]

I think the reason the gnome drawing was made to be less scary was to better sell the misdirection in the episode. They foreshadow that the gnomes are the real culprit when Dipper accidentally opens to that page instead of the zombie page, and it’s played off like “haha that’s silly gnomes aren’t scary”, which wouldn’t have worked as well if the gnomes actually did look menacing. Great video! I didn’t know most of the stuff here, you’ve clearly spent a lot of time following the show and compiling this info.

[@chicocabalatungan8831]

My theory on the Gnome Page is that it wasn't actually an S&P censorship thing but I think it was changed to a more adorable looking Gnome to play up the gag on how rabid they actually were. Basically a subversion of expectation and to highlight how Ford's logs on the journals had some significant gaps in his findings too

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

33:03 that tweet confirms that he was originally debating the possibility of 3 seasons. Once he started making season 1 and realized how much work it took, that’s when he decided that he was going to limit it to only 2 seasons. So even if he made that decision very early on in the show, that still means that he was originally considering making it 3 seasons long. That’s why people still say that. Because it is in-fact true that the show could’ve possibly been 3 seasons long.

[@PTS-Maid]

Lord knows this show needed that extra season. It would've of been better paced and characters like wendy and ford would have more things to do

[@dcornect53]

Mable juice could have been great, it just needed gummy dinos with a little extra gelatin to make them harder than gummy worms. It would have worked perfectly.

[@dcornect53]

You really could just throw in some edible glitter too, you can never have too much glitter. Plus the dinos could have been like flavour posters, or if they were super tiny like those balls in bubble tea. Bubble tea but Mable Juice.

[@Lyladagger02]

Or they could have been made out of hard candies that melted in the drink to add flavor.

[@Jeffbasil]

I am so disappointed spill cypher wasn’t a drink.

[@Liamguy999]

I hope they did Mabel juice

[@maesicals]

10:30 actually! the original version and the one sold today DO have other differences than just the dust covers. I checked my original copy with my new copy to make sure. The older versions have very dark yellow pages while the new version are a lighter cream color. The older versions have a few grammar mistakes that are fixed in the new version. And the biggest change is wording on a couple of pages. Most notably “I confided in F that I was grateful to no longer be traveling alone” is changed into “I confided in F that I was grateful to be traveling with a friend” (also the newer ones have better binding since the first release was known to fall apart in a matter of days to weeks)

[@snemo0]

yeah the original journal i bought back then lost so many pages 😢i ended up putting them on my wall as posters lol

[@PTS-Maid]

​@@snemo0That's what I would do too. I've seen so many reviews where they said they just ended up throwing away the book and the pages out to the garbage. Like bro turn them into cool posters. Just curious did you end up ordering a newer version of journal 3?

[@saragreyke]

I’ve gone like 10 years without finding out exactly what the Taco Bell fic was about, I knew it was nsfw but I never looked it up for obvious reasons, but now from that one quote from the crew member I now know too much. In the words of Gordy from Summerween: “I’ve been twaumatized”

[@KG.katies_art]

I just read it today and it was the most horrific disgusting thing I have ever seen

[@ThatGFFAN]

F😭

[@Mr.Needle-Hamster]

I've never read the actual fic itself, but from all the stories I've heard about it, I'm glad I didn't.

[@starlightmoonstone1260]

Can someone please explain it in low detail? Like, does dipper die or something? I don’t want to know too much, just what Taco Bell has to do with it. Is dipper the taco?

[@KG.katies_art]

@@starlightmoonstone1260 Dipper does die and mable does to mable finds dead body and does……things turns out the taco is made out of humans

[@godofthecripples1237]

The Gnome shown in the released version is Schmebulock. This is explained in A Tale of Two Stans when we see Ford interviewing him to add to the journal.

[@26th_Primarch]

I'm pretty sure that was Schmebulock Senior...

[@ellielovegood6307]

The fact that the dating sim is good still baffles me 😭 (yes I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve played the it multiple times)

[@bigredjanie]

21:55 Oh my god, that's my tumblr account! I had no idea I asked about it at the time, glad I helped confirm its authenticity! also hell yeah on sailorleo's work, I love the Reunion Falls AU as well!

[@chicocabalatungan8831]

V1 of Journal 3 was also infamous for having binding issues. A lot of fans who got it (myself included) reported that the binding of the book (along the spine) easily gave way within a few weeks. From what I remember it was reprinted with a more sturdy and durable book spine before the NYT accreditation was put on which I was fortunate enough to avail of. So I guess that could be considered Journal 3 V1.2

[@ThatGFFAN]

True. I've heard a lot of stories about those early copies. They were not durable at all

[@chicocabalatungan8831]

@@ThatGFFAN Add mine to that list. It disintegrated in my hands like Anne in the Amphibia Finale 😂😂😂

[@thelukerosati9378]

I had to do a double take when I got to fact 10! So surprised/happy to see my old reddit post included amongst these other facts. I'm the one who made that post on Reddit about finding Lost Legends in the Indigo computer system way back when! Cool that I made a mark on the fandom regardless of how small! Keep up the great content!

[@ThatGFFAN]

Thank you :) And thank you so much again for your Reddit post all those years ago. It helped so many learn about the graphic novel before it even was revealed and in a way played a small but important part in its history :)

[@littlemissbookworm24]

I DROVE PAST CONFUSION HILL ON VACATION THIS SUMMER A WEEK BEFORE STARTING GRAVITY FALLS AND ALMOST WENT AND NOW IM SO SAD. I HAD NO IDEA .

[@meepmeep1754]

31:28 I didn't even know they actually got Larry King to voice Larry King

[@susie8799]

I’ve played the Grunkle Stan dating sim! It’s really fun lol

[@chicocabalatungan8831]

IM LIVING FOR THE DRUNKLE STAN BAR NAME 😂😂😂

[@rocky.rocks1445]

The fanfic was posted 10 years ago today, that’s crazy! I read the summary and guys trust me, you don’t wanna read it!

[@idc5309]

I hope that Alex still has more left in the tank, there’s so much more story to tell and clearly the fandom is still going strong so many years later, hopefully the show can come back in some form, maybe in a comic series? Hopefully Disney can see that there’s still a massive market for Gravity Falls content, and in the mean time I hope people keep the fandom alive with more great videos like this

[@patriceelizablythe1496]

It’s nice to see newer videos about stuff like this. I’ve only just recently watched the series and my little brain has latched onto it. With that, comes that weird feeling of “wow I’m ten years to late to this and everyone already knows everything holy crap I am waaaaaay out of the loop” and it’s nice to see more recent recaps and facts and stuff like this. Thanks!

[@BearHugz11]

I can totally relate.

[@CreatimationStudios]

35:53 my brother and I love gravity falls but when we went to confusion hill we didn’t know about how that had happened since we were late and I clearly remember us staring at the statue and making Bill Cypher jokes because we thought it just LOOKED like him not WAS him

[@Zer0Competition00]

0:47 I wish we would’ve got a episode about this moment , A scary camp fire setting with a giant bat would’ve been amazing to see imo

[@Dan55888]

Wow the return letters he did look just like pages from the journal. Amazing

[@mr.iiconic]

9:45 Daron Nefcy created Star Vs. The Forces for those who don't know.

[@fnibbit]

i knew most of these. also if anyone is curious about dipper goes to taco bell, it's seriously vile. i haven't read it myself but i watched a video about it and... oh Lord...

[@brantjustilian3791]

If Disney wanted to bring back gravity Falls, they would probably create a Soos and Melody spinoff series. Which would probably be more comedy focus with little to no mysteries in it. Also having none of the returning gravity falls creatives. So it’s best to let it rest to make sure this doesn’t happen.

[@caracaracat2958]

BRO it took me WAYYYYY too long to realize the dippers at the top of each fact’s title corresponds to the fact number. That is so smart! :D

[@upumpkin]

I think the gnome page made them look cuter to make the shabam joke funnier

[@ammoknight2064]

I came into this thinking i would know maybe 15 of these facts, I knew one.

[@bluestjay]

I listen to no warnings. Im gonna read the taco bell fic. i'll update it when I've read it. pre-reading: feeling kinda nervous, knowing this is a bad idea, pretty sure i'll be fine though because I've pretty well fully desensitized myself to weird fandom bullshit. After Reading: as someone who's made a hobby of reading and writing satirical snuff fanfics, I can say it was even a bit much for me-

[@carlrac72]

I love seeing not only a fellow Canadian.but a fellow Canadian gravity falls fan.

[@helpfulapple3125]

Damn thanks for reminding me about the grunkle dating sim. I started it a while ago but I need to finish it

[@demonicchicken1121]

Im really glad that confusion hill was saved! id love to go there someday

[@ChaosEnthusiast]

gravity falls fan mail coconut is something i never thought id hear

[@Letcharlieplay2545]

Tbh, 'dipper goes to taco bell' is not that traumatic mostly because of the bad writing- it's about as traumatic as the average slasher movie. Trust me when I say, there are more traumatizing fics out there.

[@floccinaucinihilipilificat6749]

the random letters in fact 3 look like they could just be keysmashing, since its possible to type it all out barely moving either hand

[@joseherisandoval1469]

Oh man I can’t wait to see this

[@McSkellyHo]

I don’t doubt that the gnome drawing in journal 3 was changed because Disney would probably complain about the creepy drawing, though it is funny that they might have considered that gnome drawing too creepy while letting Bill Cipher do Bill Cipher things

[@SteeIBrigade]

I am pleased to know that Pit Cola once had a fight to the death with Yoyle Cake from BFDI 😂

[@saucelys]

it was definitely rigged by bfdi’s fanbase lol but still funny to see all the pitt cola fans rage

[@HeyMalan]

You should do a second video on more obscure facts about gravity falls im sure hopefully there is more

[@ThatGFFAN]

There likely are. Though it would take a while to compile facts again

[@juliancaraveo5700]

@@ThatGFFAN Here is one : In Season 1 Pacifica Northwest has three eyelashes and in Season 2 she has two eyelashes.

[@ElFranGF]

I can't wait to see this,I LOVE Gravity Falls!

[@matgeezer2094]

I only discovered Gravity Falls last year, it's really good, a brilliant, funny, story arc

[@aceofspite]

I always thought Mabel's sleep shirt like a save icon. I thought it was clever

[@ThatGFFAN]

Instead it was an age test😂

[@brittneyhauser3818]

i'm pretty sure back in the day that the floppy disc image was used as a save icon! i saw it in microsoft word & video games

[@jamescolson4348]

I loved the show but admittedly haven't gone out of my way to find out anything specifically, however from channels like those I've picked things up here and there . I predict that I might know 3 out of these 20, and will edit my comment once I've watched lol

[@ThatGFFAN]

So, how many did you know👀

[@gamingimpossibl]

They didn’t edit it!!!!

[@Unbridled-Whimsy]

👀👀

[@EliasTressa]

I think the cute version of the gnome is funnier since it makes you think the gnomes aren’t a threat when you first see it

[@kento918]

Our aim is getting better everyday

[@kinderpad4886]

My ex wife still Misses me

[@winxclubcomejointheclub6066]

I searched the plot of "Dipper Goes To Taco Bell" and I was glad I didn't read the fanfic and instead learned the plot! It is HORRIFYING!

[@fIorisss]

im hyped for this

[@AnimationFanboy2k4]

I, and among others, will love this! BTW, Good info and facts 'bout show!

[@nome5273]

Nice vid man I'm glad the memory of Gravity Falls isn't going anywhere

[@Marissa.DAgata]

I JUST READ THE TACO BELL STORY AND IM SCARRED FOR LIFE.

[@ThatGFFAN]

My condolences 😔

[@Pero-zl4jp]

Read the Dipper Taco Bell story. It’s worse than he makes it out. Thankfully it didn’t ruin the series for me and it’s just a sick fans imagination. I would say I wanna vomit but it reminds me too much of the fanfic.

[@crazyvirus2472]

OH NOOOO- NOT THE TACO BELL

[@yhiecaliza5396]

I love this video so much,very interesting thank you thank you!

[@Flash33c]

I very much didn't know most of these so thanks for this video.

[@ThatGFFAN]

NP :)

[@seth4164]

Where can i find the video of alex playing that dating-sim game?

[@ThatGFFAN]

The Mystery of GF channel.

[@tell-me-a-story-]

THE VOICE OF DIPPER ACTUALLY LOOKS JUST LIKE A GROWN UP VERSION OF DIPPER!!! 😁😁😁😁

[@GraveyardMaiden]

Oh, so like one of the things that added to the whole "Gavity Falls got cancled" rumor was that at the time disney was axing alot of there cartoons back then and on top of Alex wanting to put in lgbt+ rep and disney being disney it was belivable that they'd cancel gravity falls due to internal politics

[@livchavarria9439]

I remember the confusion hill one!! I donated and everything 🥰 I’ve been to confusion hill and I can’t recommend it enough. So much love for them ❤

[@ElFranGF]

Incredible video,i LOVE Gravity Falls!

[@spiritsofwolves]

Wow you’re right i didnt know about any of these oh what would i do without this channel?

[@KG.katies_art]

Cool can’t wait

[@rubencabrera789]

For fact number 3, have you tried recording yourself pronouncing the gibberish and then playing it backwards?

[@Dice0192]

I have one of those signed journals but I didn't know they went up that high

[@BearHugz11]

Can you please do a part two? This was super awesome.

[@ThatGFFAN]

One day maybe. But I'd need to find many more unique facts in order to do it.

[@megancoffin8312]

so excited

[@jacky-rubou]

whoa so many cool facts!

[@ThatGFFAN]

Thanks :)

[@gossamerhernandez6955]

Damn I thought I knew allot of Gravity Falls this video is awesome

[@mabelpines8500]

I actually know a lot of this. I was there

[@paul.04]

curiosity didnt stop me and i read dipper goes to taco bell, i am now filled with regret instead of curiosity.

[@deadakus]

I need to know at least what the taco bell thing was about. If I don't know a tldr I gotta go search for it

[@thecatcollector8982]

I have a version of journal 3 that’s just the hand symbol on the cover and I don’t think it ever has a jacket

[@chenehigogoi5660]

Woah That was 40 mins long 😊 Time passes quickly when you really care things❤

[@ThatGFFAN]

Oh just wait. I have a video coming soon that's gonna be maybe as long that you will not wanna miss

[@zenokwon1177]

Bro that gnome is gonna give me actual nightmares

[@misfits9294]

Question: Is there a version of the book that straight up doesn't have "Journal Three" and "Gravity Falls" written on the cover? Just. Plain, looks exactly like it does in the show? edit: GOT MY QUESTION ANSWERED OK COOL Edit: Ok! I just removed the cover I think cool

[@lilygamingtheories1410]

Is it just me or does that promo sound like it’s voiced by Pete the blind surfer?

[@anamerida2618]

Wtf h3 is a great podcast

[@owenbridgers]

I REMEMBER THE PROMO FOR FACT 18!

[@phz7107]

I want the bill book to release the gravity falls cocktail recipes

[@Rekuzan]

'Not S&P approved' is now S&P approved. (Funniest $hit I've ever seen)

[@davidharper2868]

That’s cool

[@kingandrewplus7748]

If only i knew about it all since 2016

[@exploding_pineapples]

Is this a new mic I hear or just my imagination? Sounds great

[@ThatGFFAN]

Thanks :P I've been using this mic since last year now and it's been great. It's a Blue Yeti with a bit of programs added on to improve the stock quality :)

[@achikin4466]

THIS VIDEO IS GREATT

[@ThatGFFAN]

Thank you :)

[@ClownDuck]

19:01 YOOO THAT’S MY TWEET 😄‼️‼️

[@Tiff-The-Artist]

Not my best friends last name being pine hehe. Chloe pines lol!

[@tomkatt8274]

confusion hill is our universes gravity falls. Alex neve rinvetd it, he just discovered it in his psychic dreams.

[@mothgirl0512]

What

[@SprinkleGirl]

Not me thinking that journal 3 and lost legends are the only books 🤣 I mean they are the main ones but still

[@sandragerard4532]

I think i may have missed it but, what page in #3 does it say dipper's real name? I wanna read it

[@jacksonpizzolato-yl2py]

Very true. Also, with the book of bill coming out, I suspect that more codes will come. Obviously!

[@yumenikkifan666]

yoylecake is pronounced yoy-ull (like boil) not yoy-lay! sorry im just a bfdi nerd. also i was at the 2016 nycc! i still have the homemade bill costume my mom made haha. i was real young back then but i still remember it. i went to an essentially completely free gf panel and i got so fucking excited lol

[@darksharkk]

yay!!!!!!!

[@Van-Leo]

for the season 3, when i was little its becasue i knew how disney contracts worked, and they had 3 seasons listed under the original contract. i only knew so much about contracts like that becasue i cried my eyes out when i heard ninjago didnt get renewal for more episodes (or sets?) past 2014 and i thought it would end in a few years. turns out they were just late with signing the papers and i stopped watching by 2014 anyways.

[@logerdogd9920]

time to play the bill cipher and grunkle dating sim