Ford learns about 9/11.

I already know that I misspoke and said "September 1st" at that one part. Congratulations, you are the 1,000,000th person to leave a comment about it. You’ve contributed sooooooooo much to the conversation and you are definitely not being fucking annoying. Here is a clapping emoji for you: 👏
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[@Toxxicslime]

Hi !! This is my fic, thank you so much for the reading (and the beautiful pictures lol) !! It was so much funnier to hear it read aloud 😭

[@zorinazutella3270]

oh yay I'm glad you liked it :) It sent me into hysterics so I just had to make this, didn't expect it to get so big lol

[@jamesmelwani6000]

u need to make more stories about gravity falls love ur writing style

[@TotallyAsuka]

thank you

[@sammmma_l]

THANKS YOU DUDE FOR THIS MASTERPIECE WE ALL NEEDED BUT DIDNT DESERVE

[@kingwing7952]

You are doing God’s work.

[@ssomenerdd]

Mabel pulling out a 9/11 joke like that feels like Stanley's blood showing in her

[@user-wi2ns5tf3y]

Dang

[@kezottle]

i dont think thats how uncles work

[@MudStudd]

Wait what-

[@ssomenerdd]

@@kezottle (that was just the simplest way I knew how to say they're blood related.)

[@Devilspade]

@@kezottle much less gruncles

[@blimbam]

If gravity falls wasn't a kids show, this joke could unironically happen

[@pancakejaywithtie]

It was one of the Many Adult Jokes Disney Cut cause they can’t trust an audience with adult humor.

[@user-es2vf4qn3h]

Book of bill was for teens I wonder if it can make a entrance in a later book for teens and or adults…or a show >:)

[@JustASunflowerSeeD]

I feel like Alex Hirsch would definitely imply Bill had something to do with it

[@urgae9125]

@@JustASunflowerSeeDI can see people like Chris Chan unironically believing that Bill did 9 11

[@Spacey_key]

this has the "Captain America learns about Hiroshima" vibes

[@AlwaysADekaranger]

So true lol

[@alexthedemon2203]

Captain America also missed 9/11

[@gamersgamestorm8291]

I just thought of that before seeing this comment

[@doctorjay8673]

​@@alexthedemon2203 And the moon landing

[@alexthedemon2203]

@@doctorjay8673 No he was still around for that he disappeared in the 1980s

[@WeegeeCool1]

THEY HIT THE PENTAGON

[@pengine6096]

the triangle didn't quite like the shape of the building

[@SMG-SkullCandy50]

THEY HIT THE PENTAGON X, THEY HIT THE PENTAGON!!!! OH THE TRAGEDY!!!!

[@CorporalCardiolog]

"They WHAT!?"

[@ayonidoesstuff]

@@pengine6096 HAHAHAHAHLOOLOLOLOLOLOOLLOL

[@pyro_real2007]

“Dude, check the news. It doesn’t matter what channel.”

[@Suspense_Is_Dead]

Bill just comes to Ford in a dream, "They hit the second tower Sixer..."

[@niagavins9891]

LMAOOO

[@marcosandrey5059]

"SIXER DID YOU LIKE WHAT I DID WITH THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND THE PENTAGON?"

[@CursedSFMS]

"Hey IQ, guess what i did" bill says chaotically "What did you do demon" Ford says "I hit the world trade centre" Bill says "WHAT?!" Ford says

[@MsPhantom-q1x]

@@marcosandrey5059IM GOING TO TURN THE PENTAGON INTO THE TRIANGLE!

[@mygoodfriendcosmo]

SIXER TURN ON THE TV THEY HIT THE FUCKING PENTAGON!!!!!!! TURN ON THE TV IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT CHANNEL

[@EasyEighty-Eight]

Love the fact that it took Ford two whole years to learn about 9/11.

[@spam_1997]

to be fair he was probably sailing for most of that so he wasn't in the usa

[@Spike-Spiegel-Cowboy-Bebop]

If the year is set in 2012, and ford’s been gone for 30 years into a different dimension, he left in 1982.

[@josephholt4736]

​@@Spike-Spiegel-Cowboy-Bebop You mean 1982, right?

[@Spike-Spiegel-Cowboy-Bebop]

@@josephholt4736 I’m stupid

[@silverslayer1321]

@@Spike-Spiegel-Cowboy-Bebop well technically, speaking in journal three I believe it explains more in depth to what universe he was in and in one of the universes he comes across is where he never got pushed in the portal and his brother listen to his warning about the book so he could’ve learned about 911 through that universe from McGuckin in that universe, but who knows

[@kwproductions6737]

Considering the fact that Bill is confirmed to be responsible for a lot of historical events in the book of the Bill it is not that far off he would commit 9/11

[@Cubeytheawesome]

I’m pretty sure Alex would have done this if Disney wasn’t so strict

[@iamweird3919]

Knowing Bill he probably suggested it to the terrorists in their dreams while drunk after another "argument" with ford.

[@Moonlight_0419]

​@@Cubeytheawesome oh no he would have definitely done that XD

[@Shocked_Joe]

yep

[@CorporalCardiolog]

@@Cubeytheawesome Definitely considering how they slipped in JFK

[@infernalphantom7571]

i need a clip of JK Simmons screaming "They hit the pentagon?!"

[@Pukeprincess]

The FUCKING pentagon. Not to be a vivziepop about it but the fucking in that sentence is important

[@Alex_From_Florida]

PARKER, GET IN HERE! THEY HIT THE FUCKING PENTAGON!!

[@nexaaaaaaa]

​@@Pukeprincess lmfao "not to be a vivziepop" that made me laugh bc now it sounds like vivziepop is the only person who curses or uses the word "fuck"

[@Douchey_Elkmen]

​@@nexaaaaaaa don't forget slurs

[@ObtuseWaffle_]

HELP I CAN HEAR IT SO CLEARLY IN MG HEAD

[@Ghosty_Gaming91]

THEY HIT THE TRIANGLE!

[@EndercakeTheMessenger]

My ex wife still misses me! But her aim is gettin better- *bang*

[@Mackerelbefunny]

​@@EndercakeTheMessenger NO THE NONAGON! NOT THE NONAGON

[@kaylaHat]

If Gravity Falls was allowed to how much you wanna bet 9/11 would’ve canonicaly been caused by Bill or Mc Gucket?

[@TheRandom_Boy22]

I'm putting all my betting money on McGucket. Just for the funny.

[@Cubeytheawesome]

Bill probably forgot that page because his session in arts and crafts was almost over

[@cartoonishidealism582]

Lmao, I’m not sure even Alex would want to imply that Bill had a hand in al Qaeda

[@Spike-Spiegel-Cowboy-Bebop]

Bill may be bad but he’s not THAT low! I’d bet one of the Northwests, if anything.

[@FirstLast-fl1co]

@@cartoonishidealism582 i like to think bill just crashed the planes and al qaeda just took credit for it and bill didnt care enough to correct it

[@prageruwu69]

this is what fan fiction was made for

[@Lotusisacat]

Don't you sh#tpost when you're bored?

[@NavixGD]

True

[@abrawolf]

Either this or 100k words of canon rewriting glory

[@lavenderrtowns]

Me

[@minecraftmaniac889]

Agreed

[@RailzProdTeam]

Sooo... He disappeared in the 1980's so uhh, anybody gonna tell him the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended?

[@biyurica]

He's probably gonna flip his shit once he learns about the conflicts that happened in the middle east

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Now imagine if someone from the 80's would hear that Ukraine took a small part of Russia. If they knew about the Soviet Union's structure they would be very confused. I'm not sure but maybe many people wouldn't even know what Ukraine was (it was a Republic in the USSR).

[@tattieverb265]

It's like the Austin powers scene

[@theboiyouddate5722]

Oh shit you're right. Bro probably thinks Yugoslavia still exist.

[@RailzProdTeam]

@@theboiyouddate5722 PFFFT

[@BrynQuintillus]

It is actually written well like everybody feels in character 😭😭

[@SomeRandomEcho]

I knooooow

[@LAV-III]

They must have watched the show A LOT

[@Osmicombo]

love how the ending implies they let him think two planes hit the pentagon.

[@jasonjasso666]

Why do I think Ford would be a smart ass and instead say “I told them to up security and even once offered a more efficient and sturdier building material, but they of course brushed me off.”

[@Caledonianpugofficial]

“Mabel being chaotic” Sounds about right

[@JacksonVoet]

Bill actually relates to her because she’s an agent of chaos like him. He also took her mocking him extremely personally, losing his composure for once.

[@Xman800]

if stan got his memories back solely from mabel scrapbook and stan laughed at the 9/11 joke would that mean mabel saw 9/11 as a scrapbook-ortunity

[@FruityisFruity]

Is it not?

[@orianefaton1885]

I think since the mind wipe was very recent and he was exposed to thing to help him remember right away, there is a chance he got nearly everything back and that his condition was a temporary retrograde amnesia. (Though, I do think that some of his memories may never come back or take much longer to resurface)

[@somerandomcube]

I just realized you said September 1st and not September 11th at 3:37

[@ghostlyglyphs4811]

i mean the memory gun shouldve only erased memories of "Stanley Pines", so unless stan was involved in 9/11 i dont think the memory gun wouldve hit those ones

[@FruityisFruity]

@@ghostlyglyphs4811 suspicious.

[@partylrd8699]

Great uncle Ford they hit the pentagon! They hit the fucking pentagon! I can imagine dipper yelling this at him and ford just so confused

[@user-fm9yk8tz7q]

I read it in his voice whyy

[@valmid5069]

...wait until Ford learns about Fortnite's Tilted Towers

[@Dave_Miller_TP]

Lmfao

[@StopMotion-Dann]

technichally no one has learnt about it yet bc its only 2014 and fortnite comes out in 2017

[@scrapped278]

Wait until he learns of the horrors of....Search 7 chests at Risky Reels

[@knowbody6327]

"Welcome to Tilted Towers. My name is Memphis Tennessee"

[@FORD_PINES]

i dont think a measure of time can have towers, unless your talking about something else, in that case, what is a "fortnite"?

[@rowan404]

I read a completely different Ford Learns About 9/11 fic on AO3. If I had a nickel…

[@xxcanthinkofanamexx1688]

Link?

[@rowan404]

@@xxcanthinkofanamexx1688 Links don’t work in comments, but it’s Stanford Pines finds out about 9/11 REUPLOAD by cannoli_cannoli

[@sammowastaken]

A Stanley nick- wait wrong show

[@ArtemisAYO]

Hey Rowan 👋

[@rowan404]

@@ArtemisAYO Hello again!

[@mariobrodiego1419]

4:43 “THEY HIT THE PENTAGON?!” Stanford, I hear you and I get you very well and I’m sorry for you having to discover this YEARS after it has happened.

[@elouisehosch1016]

Turn on the doesn’t matter what channel

[@burneronthenetwork736]

LYLE, LYLE, LYLE WAKE UP WAKE UP

[@Goober135]

3:34 "September 1st 2001"

[@LegoCookieDoggie]

noo same vibes as September 11th 2011 from Smosh

[@nokiohascontent]

@@LegoCookieDoggieANGELA NO

[@zorinazutella3270]

look in my defense there are a lot of 1s in that date

[@jmej01]

​@@zorinazutella3270the fic actually says september 1st lmao 💀

[@katze3337]

​@@jmej01No, it doesn't lol

[@jaayfall211]

THEY HIT THE PENTAGON!??!?

[@BatgirlStan]

FORD WAKE UP YOU GOTTA WAKE UP PLEASE

[@cic1470]

@@BatgirlStanFORD TURN ON THE TV THEY HIT THE PENTAGON!!!! THEY HIT THE PENTAGON FORD…. turn on the tv it doesn’t what channel fuűůck

[@AshtonPyr]

Turn on the TV it doesn't matter what channel

[@johnkinsey6117]

"They hit the Pentagon! They hit the fucking Pentagon, Lyle!"

[@c_x_3]

This is the most chaotic retelling of 9/11 since the Tomska song.

[@Jackiewheelz]

Have you seen the us military propaganda movie Disney made about 9/11

[@knightshade2654]

4:43 THEY HIT THE FUCKING PENTAGON! Turn on the television, it doesn't matter which channel.

[@burner555]

Cartoon Network tragedy report let's go

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

This would be canon if Disney weren't a bunch of cowards

[@Jackiewheelz]

What's funny is Disney made a us military propaganda film about 9/11

[@alisonpurgatory85]

@@Jackiewheelz which film was that?

[@LunaSkye64]

@@Jackiewheelz not just a film, but a whole ass ad-campaign with all the Disney stars of the 2000’s

[@Gatorboy5678]

Mabel telling a 9/11 joke would be like Bill chilling and just watching television.

[@witnessprotectionprogram]

the fact that she drew a flip o rama to explain 9/11 to ford is making me tear up

[@jeremybottoms7619]

It's funny cayse it's so in character

[@theoddsmaker860]

I want a fully animated, voiced version of this scenario

[@user-DragonWhiskers]

I never realized Ford wouldn’t know about 9/11

[@macaemeia146]

Mabel was about to say it was a inside job

[@melyion_art]

Like the show💀 Bill voices one of the main characters in that show

[@victoriavq]

YOU'RE A GENIUS THEY SHOULD'VE TOTALLY MADE THAT JOKE 😭😭 SOMEBODY ADD THIS IN

[@JustADoodle00]

​@@melyion_art alex, the voice of bill and the creator of gravity falls, was one of the main writers on inside job

[@alisonpurgatory85]

that feels like more of a Dipper thing. He's absolutely posted on /x/

[@jameswilliams8555]

“It was SO not cool dude.” - Soos probably

[@Snomrade]

4:01 “terrorists ford” great quote

[@Itznotfizz]

Dude that comment came up as soon as she said it

[@jeepmega629]

Honestly it would be even funnier if Ford already knew about 9/11 because he would have heard about it on his inter dimensional travels.

[@CalamitasCalliope]

Every dimension has its own version of 9/11. It's a universal constant

[@CoryTheNorm]

I'm chuckling imagining Ford shouting "JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS!!!"

[@andrewlance3898]

The worst part is that I read this in JK Simmons voice

[@cominguponinfra-red3038]

SAME 😂

[@Fishisbip]

i thought dipper said "well grunkle ford i kinda hijacked the plane"

[@nogenderjustfandom]

HELP 😭

[@Dragon_Fly1104]

If you think about it, ford also doesn’t know gay marriage is legal. So if Stan tells ford about him marrying Goldie, there will be questions.

[@CalamitasCalliope]

Ford finds out and immediately slides into McGucket's dms.

[@Dragon_Fly1104]

@@CalamitasCalliope YESS

[@VioletxxMilk]

Technically gay marriage was legalized after, so if the show takes place in 2012, it would be more like ford disappointedly saying "they STILL haven't legalized it?!"

[@CalamitasCalliope]

@@VioletxxMilk oh damn that's right. Obama only legalized gay marriage because Ford pulled his ties with the CIA

[@Snackeroid]

They hit the pentagon!?!??!! Seriously, i'm not from US and the only thing i knew was that the second airplane has hit the towers, nothing about the pentagon!!

[@SquidellaButCool]

yeah people mostly only talk about the ones that hit the trade center, there was also another one which crashed in a field

[@zorinazutella3270]

They hit the two towers with one plane each, one hit part of the pentagon, and then the passengers of the fourth plane (who knew about the situation because they were calling friends and family from the plane phones and early cell phones) were able to fight back and get control long enough to crash it in an empty field. they believe the hijackers intended to hit the white house. anyway, it's better to learn about this from a documentary or a book or something, im just a shitposting youtube person

[@Spike-Spiegel-Cowboy-Bebop]

@@zorinazutella3270rip

[@Snackeroid]

@@zorinazutella3270 i'l definitely look this up, it's a serious event after all

[@LucasGleason]

@@zorinazutella3270but I thought I could trust everyone online

[@endcaps1917]

The worst part is this is written fairly accurate to the show and if it was allowed I'm pretty sure Alex would put it in simply out of spite for disney

[@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196]

Fun fact: Alex Hirsch confirmed that in the gravity falls universe the moon landing was staged with the help of Bill Cipher, so it's not too far off to think he might have done 9/11

[@Moonlight_0419]

Y'know, I was wondering how Ford wouldn't have known about 9/11 (since he was alive during that time) but then I remembered that he was gone for 30 years in the majority of the show XD

[@LunaSkye64]

I just recently entered the fandom after binging the show for nearly two weeks.. this pops in my algorithm… god bless you all.

[@LunaSkye64]

Seriously I cannot stop cackling at this

[@ShadowGunR]

I hate the fact that if the show actually did this, this is EXACTLY how it would go, especially with the "Soos, get me markers and crayons" 😂

[@Madzillahx]

I love how Ford learning about 9/11 has become its own mini subgenre in the fandom at this point 😭🙏🙏 I hope someone animates this someday bcuz I would KILL to see this in motion.

[@henrylarson6970]

0:47 is great if you want to show this to a friend and don't want them to know what's going to happen

[@katethevampire]

"THEY HIT the peNTAGON????!!!" That caught me so off guard I dropped my Gogurt and slid off my bed onto the floor 😭 it's 6:30 a.m. i can't handle this EBDFjljrlrhljdhUKXHKDU

[@SirenVA]

THEY HIT THE PENTAGON????

[@blimbam]

MISTY EYES I CANT LOL

[@Fourrandomidiots]

The way Mabel was so enthusiastic 💀

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

If Gravity Falls was an Adult Swim show,this'd probably be canon and Bill or something would've been behind 9/11

[@BEARITUAL_]

HELP I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS. THEYD HAVE TO TEACH HIM ABOUT 9/11 WOULDNT THEY

[@Jose90867]

If ford left in 1982, then oh boy imagine when he discover about The fall of the USSR

[@Introbulus]

Really, really bold choice of the Fic Writer to end the story after "They hit the Pentagon?!" with no further elaboration provided.

[@MattSaysYes]

Watching this on the date of 9/11 is a visceral experience

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Just the thumbnail af Mabel happy infront of the world trade center like she's telling a magical fairytale

[@asquidboi]

"THEY HIT THE PENTAGON???" got me dying

[@MsSarahJosephine]

"STAN! STAN! THEY HIT THE PENTAGON! THEY HIT THE F@#£ING PENTAGON!"

[@redstaticofficial0320]

This shitpost need to be fully voice acted and animated because this is a goddamn masterpiece!

[@everynameiwantistaken]

Well that was, something. Ford is probably more concerned about that happening the wierdmageddon.

[@imagineertroy_1998]

Today’s the day. Had to give it a rewatch on the day Ford learned about…

[@waybackinthe1980s]

it feels so weird watching this on 9/11

[@redeye3869]

4:44 “Lyle! Turn on the TV! It doesn’t matter what channel they hit the Pentagon Lyle!”

[@lorenzov.3686]

''Terrorists, Ford'' is such a Stanley thing to say

[@sketchycat6223]

When she filled up the page, I was expecting a 9/11 flip-o-rama; Captain Underpants

[@pyrotempestwing]

This fic is a 11/10 masterpiece.

[@artsmakesmusic7990]

This video unironically grounded me from having a sucky night, and I'm still mad.

[@GreyCalVids]

“They hit the Pentagon?!” - Stanford Pines

[@more.than.t0ys]

2:46 YOU NEED WHAT TO EXPLAIN 9/11?!?!?!!

[@thegunguy0]

you heard her

[@jeremybottoms7619]

It's funny cause that's exactly what Mabel would do

[@Elliemations-hj9uw]

Me and my friend both got this in our reccomended at the same time, what did I just watch…..

[@ihsanauliarahman1057]

The farther we move on from 2001, the funnier the "temporally displaced characters finding out about 9/11" joke is

[@vivi_needssleep]

Why is this so perfectly in character, I love this fanfic so much, good job to whoever wrote this and good job to you for reading this masterpiece out loud

[@YouFoundTheOcarina]

It's really funny to get this reccomended today

[@micropoyo6771]

IM CRYINGGGGGGG

[@ItsDescaa]

I just got my wisdom teeth out and this made me laugh so hard it ripped the stitches at the back of my jaw

[@doritoarts9878]

I've been meaning to write a fic like this and this is motivation to me

[@tannerdickinson2778]

2:36 IM DYING

[@CatMew54]

THIS IS FUCKING GOLD, 10/10, LIFE CHANGING, TOP NOTCH, CHEFF KISS

[@darth_meme_lord2980]

Anytime a character disappears around the 70s or 90s and reappears in our current time, i always imagine how they get educated on 9/11

[@kaitlynmorgan8097]

There's something so funny about stanly going ".....terrorists ford.."

[@falconsociety167]

Honestly the best 2:30 can’t sleep video

[@justdenys1421]

turn on tv doesn't matter what channel AUGH

[@goosifyed9717]

“This is it pointdexter, the Big Apple! Been a while since we’ve seen it, huh?” “stanley where did they go”

[@ringfinns]

THEY HIT THE PENTAGON?! 😭😭

[@suungirl128]

are we gonna talk about the typo of "September 1st 2001" 😭

[@pinkprideparade]

this is amazing 😭 the “i couldve been doing real work but instead did this” at the end is so real

[@filmstops3312]

Is It weird that I'm watching this on 9/11

[@sparklesdotcom147]

Nah

[@The_only_Pheebalicious]

Watching this on 9/11 in 2024. I remembered and and sent it to my brother (fellow gravity falls fan)

[@fireworkspinner]

NOT THIS BEING THE FIRST THING I SEE ON 9/11/2024 JUST PAST MIDNIGHT EDT?😭

[@hunterredtalon9011]

“Mabel,” Ford interjects as Mabel points to glittery destruction, “the jet fuel in those planes couldn’t possibly melt those steel beams.”

[@kubaxwot4629]

To quote myself from 6 days ago Stanford from Gravity Falls was in the portal for 30 years Knowing that the show takes place in 2012 He missed a lot And I mean A LOT Everything from the challenger disaster thru the Gulf war ending on the death of bin laden

[@user-qs9iu9vw4x]

"Your weirdness, a second eye bat has hit the fearamid!"

[@mommy-mar]

I really don’t like 9/11 jokes but this one has taste.

[@sammowastaken]

Mr. Pines, a second plane has hit the tower

[@glitch-xega]

"Ford dude, they hit the second tower" "...Soos... what are you doing"

[@Betonryn]

For some reason when Stanley said “terrorists” I felt targeted 😭 (my classmates. Say a lot to me!)

[@WittishK]

Of course I'm watching this on THE day

[@roosajarvinen5698]

An extra funny thing is that Stanford probably wouldn't have much context sonce when he was still home, al qaida wasn't really a thing yet and were getting praised as "brave mujahideen" by rambo movies during the societ-afgan war.

[@OfficialTrainzGod]

"THEY HIT THE PENTAGON????"

[@LizzieDoodles-j1d]

THE MISTY EYES