BRAIN WASHING!! | Gravity Falls Episode 2x7 Reaction

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[@TDemonspawn]

Not alicia clowning on dipper for mcgucket even being on the board of suspects literally seconds before he is revealed as a main suspect xdd

[@Kevykev2007]

Instant karma for clowning a 12-Year Old

[@Cyber_N-7660]

​@@Kevykev2007Yeah XD

[@MarakamiSG]

The comedy writes itself

[@DanGamingFan2406]

"You can't break what's already broken!" That's actually so sad. McGucket's story hit me hard when I first watched the show. The way he ruined his own life without even knowing it is heartbreaking. I'm glad he can be somewhat his old self again.

[@watershipup7101]

Agreed. He deserves a happy ending.

[@waterbullstudios9195]

I actually teared up a little.

[@thusnameddigital9397]

Yep. That line is funny the first time you hear it, kinda depressing the next.

[@fluffypuff766]

Considering what Journal #3 and The Book of Bill says, my heart aches. He deserved and deserves better Q-Q

[@mrwrigh]

It's one of those lines you hear the first time thinking it's funny but when you finally learn the context behind the line or joke it becomes straight up sad

[@cah137-y4s]

A few fun facts about this episode: - Months before Season 2 aired, Alex Hirsch created a fake screenshot of McGucket writing the journals, posted it anonymously, and then had it deleted while publicly complaining about leaks - The gibberish McGucket shouts at one point in his recorded memories is actually the phrase “BILL CIPHER TRIANGLE” run through a code that inverts the letters of the alphabet - The items that get sucked into the portal machine during the stinger can be seen falling out of a random portal in a Season 1 episode of Rick and Morty

[@maxmyhalchuk3506]

Damn,Alex Hirsh is a troll.I would have like to see how fanbase reacted to those "leaks"

[@gguy3600]

@@maxmyhalchuk3506 *Big spoilers ahead* I wasn't around for it, so all I can say is what I've heard. From what I understand, prior to the fake leak, the leading theory for the author's identity was that Stan had a twin brother, which of course turned out to be correct. I've even heard that the fanbase being so on board with this theory is part of the reason why Alex made the leak. McGucket was also a popular suspect though, and when the fake leak came out it threw a lot of people off course before this episode (where the reveal McGucket wasn't the author, he just knew him).

[@DanGamingFan2406]

4:48 You're close. Blanching means briefly frying food in water or oil, then shocking it in an ice bath to halt the cooking process, preserving the flavor before freezing.

[@madamsamoyed5732]

My dad works at a canning plant. They do that all the time to keep canned food tasting good.

[@xxDrain]

First explanation I found says that blanching is just the ice water part, regardless of how you cook it.

[@Anon21486]

@@xxDrain The act of blanching is to take the food and shock it in ice water. The process/technique of blanching is to briefly cook the food (fruits/vegetables/nuts) and shock it in ice water. The process/technique is done a lot in cooking. Want to peel a tomato or fruit... blanch.... want to make leave more green than they are.... blanch. You get the point...

[@Rexaura888]

To quote the extended song “that word makes sense”.

[@filipvadas7602]

24:10 You actually see Mcgucket making a triangle shape over his eye. Fun fact: If I remember correctly, the Gravity Falls team "leaked" a fake image of Young Mcgucket writting in a Journal and then deleted it to further inflate fan speculation. The twist in this episode is still great, and tragic, but it was an awesome attempt to misdirect the audience on a meta level XD

[@inkblooded1058]

They did! Alex Hersch took it himself, I believe. I remember after this episode, where he released the video of him giving a big smile and a thumbs up next to the "leaked" image on a TV monitor. The same one from the image. It was fucking brilliant.

[@MattTOB618]

Alex posted on 4Chan images of the studios from a supposed tour: one was of Gideon holding the Journal in _Gideon Rises_ (to give it credibility, since that episode had not aired yet) and the other was the aforementioned fake image of McGucket writing the Journals. Once people took notice, he tweeted out "Fuming right now", then deleted the tweet.

[@purgeblue]

Yeah, its impressive that the creators himself made a fake leak, with a fake reddit/twitter type account and he himself threw the suspition of who the author actually was off the rails

[@johncoderre1477]

He did it because people someone figured out the actual answer pretty early, and posted it as a theory online, and they wanted to control the narrative. It goes to show that the people who really paid attention could figure out who the author was super early in based on the evidence, but Alex really just knew how to manipulate his audience with false leads.

[@sdbzfan1]

​@@johncoderre1477 pretty sure it was as early as time travelers pig too

[@Bostonterrierslol]

By the time McGucket’s son arrived at Gravity Falls, he was already too far gone

[@Raptor_Ren]

Considering his son looks to be in his 30's or 40's, McGucket probably left when his son was a kid or teen for what McGucket thought was just going to be a few months.

[@Axius27]

​@@Raptor_Ren Speculating further, his son likely moved out to gravity falls after McGucket's mental health began to decline. It's likely that his madness prevented him from accepting any treatment, and now the son, who likely abandoned his life to help his father, can't afford to leave and is now trapped in the town. Yeah, if that speculation is true, then I kinda understand why McGucket and his son aren't on speaking terms. Or maybe the son just thinks that building a giant robot after McGucket's wife divorced him was completely out of line and he's not willing to forgive him for it. That's probably the simplest solution with the existing evidence :P

[@andrewlance3898]

Based on how young McGucket is at the start of the recording, his son was probably in single digits when McGucket started deteriorating. Some of his earliest memories would be seeing his father tearing out his hair and erasing every unpleasant experience from his memory. That stuff would traumatize you and leave you with a lingering fear of your own father.

[@Raptor_Ren]

Considering his son looks to be in his 30's or 40's, McGucket probably left when his son was a kid or teen for what McGucket thought was just going to be a few months. He lost his whole life because he tried to run from his tauma instead of facing it. There's definitely a lesson in there.

[@Pattycakes538]

Yeah, and McGucket's timeline is pretty unclear and he did have complete amnesia at one point. His son may not have even been aware of the deterioration when it was happening, just that his father left and never came back.

[@revolution2762]

Fun fact: Stan’s stuff that gets sucked into the portal is shown coming out of a portal in an episode of Rick and Morty.

[@alaster555]

If I remember correctly, Rick and Morty's episode aired in April 2014 and then this episode aired in October of that year. So this was something they planed in advance.

[@AnimeMe40]

24:51 In all fairness Alicia, helping someone in mental decline isn’t easy. For one this was likely happening over the course of years. Secondly it was likely the Son was just a child when this began. And lastly Mcgucket in spite of his mental decline is a highly competent person trying to avoid things so even if people encouraged him to seek help it would involve facing the things he was running from.

[@ReeceConnor.]

The reveal of Mcgucket’s past near the end of the episode is probably one of the saddest moments in the show just simply seeing his life and identity fall apart in real time it’s super depressing

[@emirozdemir-wallywest1426]

Before this episode aired creators leaked a fake image of Old Man McGucket writing the journals, so all of us expecting it's gonna be him that revealed as the author in this episode.

[@majinlifestyle]

Dude Alex was such an evil genius doing that, he put the fandom in a chokehold

[@Hollow_Tempest]

One funny thing is that when mcgucket cursed in hambone, you could translate the symbols on a specific cypher and it translates to “disney”. So apparently disney is a curse word in gravity falls

[@alexiaNBC]

Soos: *Holding Dysentery plague* "Oh, nobody better mess! Anyone who played Oregon Trail: (Screams in fear as they flee)

[@riduckulus1574]

I'll have you know I died because I was bitten by a snake

[@geistking]

This is one of the key episodes of the series, and the one that solidified McGucket as one of my favourite characters. As for the ciphers there's actually 3 here: At the end of McGucket's memories, he speaks in tongues and makes a triangle with his fingers, he's actually speaking a code in atbash: "BILL CIPHER! TRIANGLE" Credits:"IGNORANCE IS BLISS, BUT BLISS IS BORING" AND MY FAVOURITE, the page cipher: "Gideon's tantrums" "Mispelled tatoos" "Shandra's rejection" "Society's views" "A fear of witches" "A life of regret" "THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT THEY TRY TO FORGET" And if you look at the members of the society, you can figure out what corresponds to each one based on what we know and can see about them. Well, except for one.

[@ShadowoftheMask]

Well you can figure out the final one by process of elimination I think

[@Preteristboy]

Kinda reads like a messed up version of "Favorite Things" from Sound of Music.

[@gamemastertom]

Fun fact: The stuff Stan lost at the end? They're appeared popping out of a portal in a Rick and Morty episode in the background, basically showing both shows are connected

[@leibgarde6144]

Yep I think they can be seen in season 1 episode 10 when Rick opens multiple portals to confuse the other Ricks who chased him.

[@mr44mag]

There's several Gravity Falls easter eggs in Rick and Morty, such as vials of deleted memories labeled with GF character names, and images of Bill across multiple dimensions on computers or carvings.

[@TheKrislaf]

24:07 Yroo Xrksvi! Girzmtov! Decifered from atbash (Replace A with Z, B with Y etc.) = Bill Cipher! Triangle! Followed by Mcgucket forming a triangle around his eye...

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

McGucket is just sad. Lost his mind, family, and I guess his body, and if the triangle thing he did with his eye wasn't obvious enough, the gibberish at the end of his tape is actually a code that translates to Bill Cipher triangle. Meaning that is Bill had anything to do with the thing he wanted to forget in the first place, he still vaguely remembers it

[@troggdorthesecond]

The Society of the Blind Eye is a great episode as it puts so many things into perspective. Not just for McGucket, but Gravity Falls itself. The reason why everyone acts so strange or dumb (and probably why Stan always gets so much business) is because the citizens are actively, and perhaps consistently, are given brain damage. The Gleeful family being no different, as the memories of Bud’s own wife is located within the storage. Which has….implications to say the least

[@Bakuganluver23]

probably involving his son's massive temper tantrums.

[@Axius27]

@@Bakuganluver23 "I think our son might be evil. But we're supposed to love him no matter what. How are we suppose to keep going?" "Well, by erasing our memories of how evil our son is, of course! It's the only way!"

[@DesMuttYS]

After re-watching this episode and "Little Dipper," I came up with a theory that Bud has used the memory eraser on his wife multiple times. She had seen some traumatic things, including certain things Gideon got up to, and Bud erased the memories of them to try and keep her safe. However, while the memory of the actual event may have been gone, some of the trauma remained, as well as the knowledge that her husband erased something from her memory. As a result, she lives in a state of denial, refusing to acknowledge anything out of the ordinary, because doing so would mean getting her memory erased again.

[@delsucksatgames4926]

As someone who works in a restaurant and regularly blanches vegetables in preparation for the week, I can concur that it is indeed a real word; to boil something and then rapidly cool it in ice water.

[@bb1886]

Blanching is where you boil something and then dump it in an ice bath

[@abbyofgenderpronouns]

so being hot and cool? awesome

[@heeman1203]

No way Stan doesn't have a secret compartment of the shack where he keeps the absinth.

[@Lazyguy143]

I love how this episode gives us an explanation as to why most of the gravity falls citizens are weirdos.

[@איתיקורן-ל6פ]

Fun fact(no spoilers, dw): the symbols at ‏‪10:18‬‏ can be translated to "Oh, DISNEY"!

[@Preteristboy]

How do people even find this stuff out?

[@nickbritt1145]

Remember in "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel" when Toby was calling Dipper about anything unusual he saw in town? Now that we know he was a Blind Eye, it was very fortunate or unfortunate that Gideon acted before Toby did. And in "Double Dipper," when Wendy asked Robbie if he remembered Dipper and he replied "Uh, no." He wasn’t playing dumb or being sarcastic. He actually could not remember because his mind got erased.

[@josephdavis9234]

IMPORTANT FUN FACTS • After McGuckett points out how weird it is that he has a bandage on his beard, we actually see in his memories why it's like that. He got hurt and put a bandage on his face, and then just... forgot about it and the beard grew out from underneath the bandage. • At the end of this episode, Stan's pen, coffee mug, and notebook get sucked into a portal. What happened to them? Well, those exact same items can be seen coming *out* of a portal in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind", the tenth episode of the first season of Rick and Morty. The creators of both shows are friends, and this tiny crossover was planned out between them. • The last bit of "gibberish" that McGuckett says in his memories is "Yroo Xrksvi Girzmtov", while holding his fingers in a triangle shape around his eyes. This is a simple letter-swap; if you switch every letter for its opposite in the alphabet (a becomes z, b becomes y, etc.), it translates to "Bill Cipher Triangle".

[@gaskinforeman303]

The dedication to this misdirrect was ENORMOUS. The shows creator even went out of his way to provide a fake leaked image of McGucket writing the journals with 6 fingers.

[@ilikedragons7928]

Blanching is a cooking process in which a food, usually a vegetable or fruit, is scalded in boiling water, removed after a brief timed interval, and finally plunged into iced water or placed under cold running water to halt the cooking process.XDXD

[@StacyLeong-tp2ob]

Remember how mcgucket built the lake monster in the first season, it shows how good he is with machines and he also built the giant Gideon robot, so it actually makes sense he built the computer

[@edgarjosetorrescotto1062]

The things Stan was holding that went into the portal come out of a portal in Rick and Morty s01 E10. Fun connection I hope they do something with in the future.

[@ShadowoftheMask]

The fact Old Man MacGucket wasn't originally from Gravity Falls implies his son moved in to Gravity Falls to find out what happened to his dad and then their relationship went down to gutter :'D That's of course assuming he didn't already think his father abandoned him and his mother

[@cheesysealAnon]

4:46 Wendy: "Rappers can't just make up words" T-pain: I will put you in a mansion way up in Wisconsin I immediately thought of that Russian badger T-pain video when she said that :)

[@LCBK]

Who’s reveal of their past had more impact on the fandom, McGucket here or Simon from adventure time

[@daftwombat1211]

im pretty sure blanching is when you boil something after cutting the skin so that you can easily peel off the skin.

[@jamcalx]

14:51 Lil Gideon's mom Mrs. Gleeful's memories!

[@WeaselCheese]

Hmm I forgot about this episode.... OH NO THEY GOT ME Also for those who don't know... sweetbreads are calf organs including their nuts. I would not want coyotes near my sweetbreads at all

[@TheyCallMeDio]

*zaps you with memory eraser ray*

[@cliffgame95]

What episode? is there a video here?

[@WeaselCheese]

@@cliffgame95 Oh hey look, a new Alciaxlife video just dropped, weird, I don't remember this episode

[@wastelandlegocheem]

I love when chat randomly starts shaking ass

[@christythomas2898]

Fun Fact: When McGucket hambones a swear word, he actually said "Oh Disney," as confirmed by a new code in the newly released Book of Bill

[@IrisThatOneGothMf]

26:07 the items that spit out into a Rick and Morty episode from another portal.

[@Shadow-Wolf-]

15:00 - I love that song! One of my Top 5, honestly. When it came out, I kept humming it at my old job. It drove 1 of my co-workers crazy (lol)

[@AquaLantern]

This was actually the first Gravity Falls episode I'd ever seen when it was first airing. As a big fan of HP Lovecraft-style cosmic- and psychological horror, this is a beautifully written horror-tragedy of a man's mind being broken over and over until nothing but madness remains... all wrapped up in a hilarious and fun Saturday morning cartoon! I immediately fell in love with this show and couldn't get enough! 💙

[@arc-77fordo13]

I think creator of gravity falls did something like created fake Reddit account, posted "leak" of Mcgucket writing in the journal, deleted it after an hour or so, and later posted tweet in which he was angry about that "leak" to make it seem more real, also deleting tweet after some time. So Alex Hisch basically fooled most of the fandom at the time

[@budgetDM]

Alex originally posted it on 4Chan, but most people saw it from the various Reddit uploads.

[@SebastianWeinberg]

1:50 - *“I'll let this intro play, while I eat my grapes.”* In the back half of the season, you may want to keep the intro playing every time. Apart from a couple of times when the intro gets cut down for time, there are also two instances where the intro actually changes. You'll know it when you see it. 3:42 - _"Queen of the Manatees?! And she's _*_so beautiful!"_* This is one of my favourite Mabel moments. Like the time she told Grenda that there would be no point putting on makeup, since Grenda is _already_ so beautiful, this shows what a wonderful human bean she is. She looks at the photo, and and her reaction is, "How could I ever hope to compete with _her?"_ Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder, and clearly Mabel's eyes are overflowing with it. 4:01 - *“NO! It can't be! That has to be a misdirect.”* In fact, this episode _ended_ a prolonged misdirect perpetrated by Alex Hirsch and his co-creators on the fanbase. Towards the end of season 1, one of the fan theories gaining traction was very close to what Alex had planned for the series. In order to redirect the fandom (and troll them, the jerk), Alex orchestrated a faked "accidental" leak of a supposed animation cel from a upcoming episode. They drew a younger version of McGucket (though not the _actual_ younger version we see in this episode), without his permanent cast, revealing six fingers on his hand, writing in the journals with a quill. They put that fake image on the monitor of one of the editing bays, and took a snapshot of it through a doorway from the hall, making it look like a visitor to the studio had accidentally caught one of the future episodes being edited. To lend verisimilitude to this "leak", they also included an image from a _real_ upcoming episode, namely the season 1 finale. When the finale aired, and it really contained the "leaked" shot, that would make the _other_ shot immediately more believable. When this episode starts with the _appearance_ that the leak was real and McGucket is the author, that's them setting up the punchline of revealing the hoax they pulled on the fans. 24:07 - _"[speaking gibberish]"_ The subtitle _LIES!_ He isn't speaking "gibberish", he is speaking in _code_. YROO XRKSVI! GIRZMTOV! 24:12 - *“Oh my god! That's actually so heart-breaking!”* Sure, but what if Mabel _liked him better_ with a broken brain? _Then_ it would be perfectly fine - in fact, heart-warming - to erase his mind. You established that, last episode. BTW, Did you notice that the memories actually _explain_ why McGucket had a band-aid on his beard? He received the cast on his arm and the bandage on his face, when he got into an accident in town - but then he forgot all about it and never had the cast taken off, in the next 30 years, and his beard grew out underneath the bandage, carrying it along. This is the kind of attention to detail these guys put into their episodes: even a silly little visual gag that was originally meant to communicate "this guy isn't all there" gets a tragic backstory. 26:07 - [Mug, notepad, and pencil get sucked into the portal.] Remember when you were watching _Rick and Morty?_ In season 1, episode 10, "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", when they're fleeing from the pursuing Ricks across a world of Shmoopidoopidoos, Rick shoots a whole series of portals to lay false trails… and one of them disgorges a question-mark mug, a black notepad and a yellow pencil!

[@CalamitasCalliope]

McGucket is such an insane glow up of a character. Going from funny comic relief old man in season 1 to having an extremely hard hitting story with parallels to dementia and drug abuse. Insane writing choice on Alex's part and I love it

[@guzmaamzugsi4]

Fun fact: the mug and notes that stan threw accidentaly onto the portal went on to later appear falling through a portal in an episode of rick and morty, i believe the one where they are getting chased by the society of ricks, the scene where they end up in a place with weird cattle like things

[@quintinrickett3952]

I can't be the only one to notice how not only the memory wiping gadget is a lot like a gun and how you have to point it at your head and pull the trigger to make it work, but when you see McGucket's memories you can also see how he's slowly but surely killing off the man he used to be, until the only thing left is his inventing skills. I'm honestly surprised that they managed sneak in some very clever allegory about suicide on a Disney show.

[@elbeebanyo9630]

It’s called the Memory Gun.

[@quintinrickett3952]

@@elbeebanyo9630 Thx.

[@Rexaura888]

The thing about Soos and Straight Blanchin’ (which there’s an extended version on YT you can listen to though not sung by Kevin Michael Richardson) is that he had to know that the “Eat Your Own Pants” bit was coming up. Dude knew the lyrics to the first third of the song pretty much. Either he was setting up a joke for Wendy because that’s the kind of guy he is or he’s eaten several pairs of pants now because that’s also the kind of guy he is.

[@SquishyTheFrogQueen]

Fun fact: There’s an episode of Rick and Morty where you can see the mug and notepad that Stan lost through the machine fly out of one of Rick’s portals.

[@swattofficer6624]

The 'swear' that McGucket hambones translates to Disney using one decoder they provided. So he just goes "Oh, Disney!"

[@robertdelossantos5844]

Since we’re bringing up behind the scenes facts, the commentary revealed the Society of the Blind Eye and McGucket’s backstory were all created during season 2. They were not planned since season 1. I like when things are planned out since day 1, but I also can appreciate a creative team that can create new mythology on the fly and have it fit into the overarching narrative. As the commentary mentioned, people are willing to forgive minor inconsistencies here or there if the overall plotline is a strong narrative.

[@Neutral_Tired]

iirc, blanch means to go pale, so it makes sense that blanching in culinary terms would involve flour

[@kazecloud2916]

Aw yes the ending credits that connect Gravity Falls to another series

[@darkflame728]

The reveal of McGucket's past is pretty similar to the reveal of Ice King's from Adventure Time. Smart science dude turned crazy.

[@martinxy1291]

Fun crossover Fact for the Ending: The Items that Stan lost, that got sucked into the portal (the Mug with a question mark, the pen and notepad), are seen in an episode of "Rick and Morty" exiting out of one of Ricks portals that he used to escape from the Citadel of Ricks.

[@DracheLehre]

During the credits, Stan loses his mug, notepad and pen. Where did they go? Rick and Morty Season 1 Episode 10: Close Rick-counter of the Rick Kind. Near the end of the chase scene, in the Dr. Seuss-esque reality, RIck opens several random portals and those three items are seen falling out of one in the background!

[@benjaminklaassen4722]

9:37 For reference, "sweetbreads" is just a fancy culinary way of referring to the thymus gland.

[@dbv8600]

I loved this episode for so many reasons including the fact that I suspected all along that McGukett was the author who just went senile in his old age. Him being the assistant to the author was so close to my prediciton that I completely freaked out. He was just enough in the background that it wasn't obvious but at the same time I knew McGukett was showing up too many times to not be relevant. I know that crazy geniuses like that can exist in real life but McGukett was too smart, to crazy, and to reoccuring to not have a major backstory! This episode has such a good lesson that it is better to remember the bad things an learn from them than go denail crazy trying to forget. This was also an interesting twist on the trope that minor characters often don't notice what is going in a series but now we know there is a reason Gravity Fall's weidness isn't common knowledge and if you think about it the agents who were from OUTSIDE Gravity Falls did react to the zombies the way normal agents would react not being dumb or in denial. So even the way a lot of people in this town are not very bright could be because they have a lesser version of the brain damage that McGukett had. OH MY GOSH I always suspected that the 2 cops in this town were victims of the Soceity of the Blind Eye because as actual cops they probably would have been called to investigate several of the weird events in Gravity Falls thus they were blasted multiple times, thus there rediculousness may not be there fault. However, it just now occurred to me that Soos was probably a major victum of the blind eye as well! He doesn't seem as smart or as crazy as McGukett but he shows so many signs as being similar to McGukett just not as majorly. Soos is handy with fixing things as a repair man despite him have so many comedy moments making fun of him. It fits perfectly if Soos was "almost" as smart as McGukket but had the memory ray used on him "almost" as much as McGukket. Bill did say "you guys are a lot smarter than you look especially the fat one".

[@l.a.d._vviolet4280]

The after credits cypher translates to: Gideon's tantrums, misspelled tattoos. Sandra's rejections, societies views. A fear of witches, a life of regret. These are the things that they wish to forget

[@jacobeee9563]

26:07 Fun fact, the items that fly into the machine can be seen flying out of a portal in a Rick and Morty episode (the one where they introduce the Council of Ricks)

[@riccardocastiglioni1611]

Fun facts! At the end of the episode the mug and the notepad that get sucked up into the portal: those same objects come out from a portal in Rick and Morty in season 1 episode 10.

[@justinhoward3579]

We are getting so close to my favorite episode. So we know that McGucket worked with the author and built several of the high tech devices in and around Gravity Falls. This episode does make you wonder if it isnt someone that was already introduced but no longer remembers doing it. That sixth finger is a little harder to cover up

[@solenyadnapa8191]

That notebook pen and cup came out a portal in Rick and Morty....so many shows have reference gravity falls ....I love it

[@roanmillett3857]

Bud used the memory gun to erase memories of Gideon's tantrums

[@melinat6105]

alicia when the episodes were airing and everybody thought the author was McGucket! this was the episode everybody thought it would be revealed to be him

[@joelburmeister292]

The scene at the end when stans note pad , pen and coffee mug goes through the portal pops up in a portal rick made in rick and morty when you first come across the citadel of ricks

[@thebluecloak7273]

The secret text at the end: "Gideon's Tantrums, Misspelled Tattoos, Chandra's Rejection, Society's Views, A fear of witches, a lifetime of regret. These are the things each tries to forget." Rather poetic, It's an explanation as to why the foremost members were members in the first place! As follows: Gideon's tantrums: Buck Gleeful maintains his happiness by experience Gideon's outbursts each as if they were the first time. Now that he'll remember them... Misspelled Tattoos: The Large Soul with Tattoos takes quite some pride in them, so I suppose it's understandable. Chandra's Rejection: Toby may well be started on the path to acceptance after this. Or not, considering he didn't choose so earlier, going for Erasure instead. Society's Views...Oh, Mr. Woodpecker. Understandable, in any case, but it seems a change may be ahead for the man, so there's that. A fear of witches: The Farmer Man ust have had a classic Gravity Falls Encounter at some point, and decided to skip therapy or processing entire. Poor man. And the last one is the one I consider the most Tragic: A lifetime of regret. When he was creating the society, It's creator wouldn't have wanted a villain at all! He likely found Blind Ivan when he was a young man with determination, goodness, etc! But the dark task took it's toll, over time I believe, until eventually Ivan had to remove the founder's memories himself. That was likely the moment he decided to remove his own regret. And what is a man doing a dark task with no regrets? A villain, with hints of the old him. "Maybe a little...But not anymore." An accurate if sad summary of events. Thank you for taking the time to read this take, have a good day! TLDR: Secret words were the Society's Sads.

[@horaciodossantoscaminero1865]

12:05 earth to Alicia, earth to Alicia

[@D_YellowMadness]

8:06 is one of my favorite Wendy moments because she totally crossed the line but the look on her face really sells that "Oh, that was a really shitty thing to do." feeling. Usually, in a comedy, the joke would just be that she's randomly an asshole & doesn't care. 10:27 is also one of my favorites.

[@scalyvaporeon2232]

FINNALY Mc Gucket wonders why he has a bandaid on his beard, and I wondered that first meeting the guy! XD

[@steelformrarity4590]

The one summer I went to Hawaii every other song was Heat Waves by Glass Animals I'd hear that song 7 times in a day it makes me start tweakin when I hear that song now

[@TheRhuen]

The reveal, Bill Cipher didn't break his promise, destroying the laptop did provide a clue....just in a they'd have to look close at the broken parts to see it.

[@117dragonking]

So, remember how it seemed like Bill Cipher didn't hold up his end of the deal in 2x4? I, and a lot of other fans, were confused about that for a hot minute. I read some articles about statements from Hirsch and the writers; it turns out that Bill intended his hint differently than implied. He wasn't talking about a hint to the password of the laptop; he meant a hint to get Dipper one step closer to the identity of the author and the general mysteries of GF. Busting the laptop open and making the manufacturer's label barely visible was the least helpful hint Bill could manage within the stipulations of their deal.

[@IamMeHere2See]

26:08 that's the cup & notepad that came out of a portal in episode 1(?) of Rick & Morty.

[@Blade2145]

Fun fact, for those that don't know: Those items that go through the machine at the end of the episode, reappear on the otherside of a portal.... IN ANOTHER SHOW ENTIRELY!! more specifically: Rick and Morty!

[@jbleichman]

9:30: Hamboning will save your life someday!

[@ilvanezzo]

26:10 and that right there is where Gravity Falls crosses over with Rick & Morty

[@jaylenharris343]

Alicia brought up a good point, where the hell was Mcguckets son during all this. Bro literally watched his dad go insane and did nothing to help him.

[@rodrigoferreramenezes5274]

If my father was wiping his own memories to the point of giving himself dementia, i would do the same thing.

[@allenbuddy3101]

His son was back in California probably being 10 years old lol

[@robertjohnson7877]

Brownies are for 4:20... oh you mean normal brownies, my bad. Jokes aside, the massage tube is called a nematic tube. They are still used today, mostly by banks at drive up live tellers.

[@Alterego912]

funfact: the junk that Stan lost to the Portal appears in an episode of Rick and Morty.

[@xxDrain]

Not all woodpecker species migrate, so she might've been lying to him.

[@speculativemusings3593]

You can’t break what’s already broken!

[@Otokichi786]

"Society of the Blind Eye": You didn't see Anything!

[@groudon1326]

At the end of the episode Stan loses a note pad pen and cup in an episode of rick and Morty when theyre being chased by the citidale of ricks and hopping from loads of portals the same note pad pen and cup come out of one of the portals

[@JomaXZ]

The McGucket hoax was something I wasn’t there for personally, but I love hearing about it.

[@jacksparrowismydaddy]

thank you for explaining blanchin'.

[@odolowa1]

That pen, notepad and coffee cup that got sucked into that portal later fell out of one in Rick and Morty

[@ryaneaston3487]

There’s a scrapped draft of the script where in one of the earlier episodes, Wendy casually mentions that she has an ex-girlfriend. It’s pretty obvious why Disney had it scrapped.

[@johanstenfelt1206]

I like it when Characters, who at first was introduced to seemingly be nothing more than Side-Characters, becomes more significant as their respective Shows/Series goes on. Why was Gideon’s Father part of that Cult? Anyway, we’re getting really close now.

[@The-Samuil]

New Alicia lore just dropped

[@cyberdragoon1432]

23:09 I’ll just say this, from what’ll be revealed later, it’s sorta surprising who Mcgucket prior to the insanity was based on

[@tannerprice2018]

I think the best part about this episode was the buildup to it. Where fans actually thought McGucket was the author of the journals. So Alex Hirsch decided to make a fake screencap of the show and post it on 4Chan as if it were an actual leak of the show, purely just to misdirect the fans from the real twists.

[@elrefu92]

i hope someone told her about the intro thing from the thing in the future

[@KumoKumiko]

since everybody else in the comments has trivia handled, I'mma focus on...the obvious message! real talk, the fact we got a Disney show that meditates on what it means to suffer trauma, wanting to forget but ultimately choosing to accept what happened to you and living life looking forward...that kicks ass. good message for kids

[@Neutral_Tired]

Radioactive is a good song but if I heard it over and over I'd probably hate it, too

[@richardbudge9416]

Yroo zurkstite girzmatov. He was never able to forget the one thing he truly wanted to.

[@MuscleManOhhhhh]

Don’t know if it’s true or not but that credit scene where a couple of stuff flew into the portal made a cameo scene in a Rick and Morty episode

[@TheyCallMeDio]

Don't let Wendy find out about Get Schwifty

[@moritzw.7030]

24:11 BILL!!!!!

[@hmmmooops]

I know you don't do the ciphers but just letting you know that the ones for this episode describe what each member of the society wanted to forget