DOKI DOKI MYSTERY CLUB!? Gravity Falls 2x5 Soos and the Real Girl REACTION

[@jaxcraft2848]

GRAVITY FALLS PREDICTED DOKI DOKI AND FNAF!

[@TigerSouthpaw]

Fnaf was out when this episode aired.

[@bi_dumbass]

​@@TigerSouthpaw Wouldn't the episode have been written before Fnaf came out?

[@SAM-tc3wr]

@@TigerSouthpaw true true! but the writing for this episode was finished for a while before it aired, and it was likely finished before FNAF came out

[@Moxalotl12]

Haunted animatronic isn't a unique idea but its still ironic

[@TigerSouthpaw]

@@SAM-tc3wr animation takes usually a year fnaf came out in 2014 this episode aired in 2015 I believe.

[@caitrose2198]

the fact that this episode predates ddlc by years and came out a few weeks after fnaf (meaning it was definitely in production before then) is CRAZY Also this pixel art is so AMAZING!! It was done by the same person who did rumble mcskirmish in the arcade game episode '... Soos, these are children.' LMAOO

[@DementisXYZ]

Predates DDLC by 3 years

[@caitrose2198]

@@DementisXYZ oh right idk how time works lmao

[@DementisXYZ]

@caitrose2198 it's ok. I'm trying to not process that FNAF is 10 years old. Doesn't matter, anyway. Time is an illusion and the universe is a hologram.

[@giboit.]

This episode was into production after FNAF was teased but both FNAF and DDLC were in development way before this episode was even into production

[@DementisXYZ]

@@giboit. ... no idea where you're getting that information. Scott Cawthon started developing the first FNAF in February of 2014 and Dan Salvato started working on DDLC in 2015. This episode, like most animated shows, was written and storyboarded over a year prior to release, so in 2013. This episode pre-dates both franchises by a considerable amount.

[@youtubeviewer4472]

Canonically, Soos is 22 years old at this point. Gravity falls is actually supposed to be in the early 2010s not the 90s. The joke is the video game is old. Wendy is 15

[@smileyhappyface5864]

Soos is 20 at this point. When Mable and Dipper went back 10 years in the past, they saw Soos's 10th Birthday, meaning he turns 20 in that episode. He is 19 for all of season 1.

[@FaeVoidling]

So, the term "meet cute" refers to when two people meet for the first time in a cute, charming, or amusing way. That's why the food stall Melody works at is called Meat Cute. 😊

[@giboit.]

Fun fact: The creator of Gravity falls apparently said that one little regret he had was not being able to explore Giffany's backstory a bit more. But he also confirmed that Giffany is still alive. Also, this episode was into production after FNAF was teased but both FNAF and DDLC were in development way before this episode was even into production (those two games have very similar concepts with anomatronics and visual novel characters that have a dark side).

[@Navitheguy]

Nah

[@thomas39]

I think Soos is meant to be 21-years-old. Also, the show takes place in 2013, Soos just doesn't know what years are

[@SputnikSpyglass]

Lmao ok thanks!

[@SebastianWeinberg]

Note the burned-down tree stump outside Soos' Abuela's house for later. This _will_ be on the test.

[@CPGreeno357]

tbh one of my favorite little facts about this episode is how the crew designed characters for two make-a-wish kids and they actually got to voice them! you can see them in the background and iirc its the boy in the blue hoodie and girl with the short hair and lavendar shirt

[@darkdg4106]

The new book is twisted as hell and worth getting.

[@Domi_Nique811]

Fun fact: the equation in the chalkboard behind Giffany is a hamiltonian function and it's mathmatically correct. ... It's not relevant to anything, but I like the detail.

[@honeyfulhunter]

Five Nights at Freddy's came out August 8th 2014(happy ten years Freddy Fazbear

[@Drakin292]

The codes were easy in season one. Listening to the whisper on the title screen backwards gave you a hint how to solve them. But season two's codes got much more difficult if you didn't know what you were doing. Many required combining the first three codes from season one, and another is known as a Vigenère cipher which requires a grid of letters arranged according to a keyword they would hide in the episode. Some were obvious, some were well hidden, but all were accompanied by the shape of a key so you'd know. This episodes codes translated to... Credits: ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN Numbers card: WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT SHE HAS THE ONE NAME GIFFANY (Which I love is a refference to the american dub opening of Sailor Moon. :P )

[@kaylagaymon4873]

22:27 "We're gonna get married!" That part was hysterical 💍💍💍🤣🤣🤣

[@47ratsinahoodie]

No Book of Bill spoilers here, but if you do decide to read it, 1000% recommend reading Journal 3 first. Despite coming out years apart, they both equally tie into the Gravity Falls series as well as each other.

[@extraordinaryhiyoko]

I LOVE THIS EPISODE, I'm predicting Giffany will remind you of Monika from Ddlc Also i love all of your reactions they're so fun to watch and i'm so excited for The Owl House reactions and maybe you guys could also check out Amphibia in the future if you'd like 🫶

[@jaxcraft2848]

They said that's the plan. 😉

[@nescirian]

In the discussion you noticed that Grunkle Stan and Soos have the same VA - he's also the creator and showrunner. I don't think I've ever seen a reaction where the reactors didn't compare this episode to those two games and have the comments full of people telling them it predates ddlc and (kind of) fnaf. The octodad and catherine references are new though. I don't know enough about catherine to see the resemblance, but it did come out early enough to potentially be an influence. Octodad is also old enough that "her dad is an octopus man" could easily be a reference. I think this is only the second reaction where I've seen someone reference yandere sim. The timing for this episode to be a reference to that would be very tight, and would require the writer to be hanging out on 4chan before the game got into actual development, plus a faster turnaround time on episode production than I think is likely. Yandere is a trope that predates the simulator anyway (hence existing as a named concept that could be used for the title), and I don't think there's too much more resemblance here than yandere + schoolgirl + dating sim, all of which are pretty nearby concepts in the first place. It seems like there was just something in the zeitgeist around that time that led to people mashing together horror, romance and technology. The uncanny valley? Uncertainties around the future of human connections? Whatever it was, we got some neat fiction out of it.

[@mikechicago6200]

Man Giffany is cute and love her hair as theyre Ethernet cables

[@SpiderandMosquito]

"... No. He is... not there." I think that that was my favorite joke in the show. :)

[@rickymoranjr9609]

Giffany was like the Lawnmower Man but more Psycho, plus seeing her control the robots was like Five Nights at Freddy's

[@Domi_Nique811]

Now I finally get it: Indi's sending-love-no-jutsu is a genjutsu and can be use to both spread love and making people lose focus lol

[@kaylagaymon4873]

This episode has a mixture of Doki Doki and FNAF. Giffany is a crazy girlfriend for Soos. Melody is the perfect girl for him 😍😍😍🤪🤪🤪😱😱😱

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

Both of which were games that didn't come out until AFTER this episode was made.

[@SilverScribe85]

I wanna see t-shirts with FNAF characters saying "I'm gonna eat your face like pizza" on it

[@coolman4617]

I think the episode name is a reference to the movie Lars and the Real Girl?

[@Moxalotl12]

Bro needed 12-year-olds for dating advice

[@hypermash]

a partir disso, scott cawton teve uma ideia

[@Otokichi786]

"Soos and the Real Girl": Jesus goes to Dating school!?

[@zerograve9512]

STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS

[@raistlinlove1307]

Soos goes to the real world, dude. Soos? Süs? Sous? Ssssssōs??

[@mariachisolm6838]

I think Seuss is in his early to mid 20s

[@mikechicago6200]

Man been there Soos with the ladies......Melody is cute but Giffany is an anime waifu, with possessive!

[@rocamboleq]

comment for engagement

[@ryzn238]

MONIKA REFERENCE??????????? I LOVE TIFANNY

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

DDLC came out after this episode. Don't think it's so original.