Gravity Falls 2x12 REACTION!! "A Tale of Two Stans"

[@BlindWave]

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[@seanwilliams7716]

You should do a reaction video with Kevin Michael Richardson watching it with you guys as a special guest

[@seanwilliams7716]

React to Freddy vs Jason

[@ItsShaz1]

:)

[@claudegrenier3180]

I hope you guys get how this is connected to Rick and Morty right? lol check it out

[@user-oc7dl9or8f]

Stan tried to bring Ford back for 30 years! And Ford did not even say "thank you"!

[@Lunalulylu]

A thing that I really like is the way stan knows gideon is a fraud since the beginning, gideon always calls stan “stanford” while saying he’s a mind reader, so stan always knew he was lying, this show is so amazing.

[@jorge2555]

Oh shit that's actually really smart.

[@janjeikobu5163]

i think that all really came together since alex had always planned journal 1 to be behind the vending machine but the fans had speculated that stan had a brother so that's where he started doing all the mysteries

[@Lenny-ue8hk]

Stan is also a conman, game recognise game

[@Lenny-ue8hk]

@@janjeikobu5163 The mysteries were always the plan, but they made red herrings and stuff to steer people away from the twin brother theory. They even made a fake leak of McGucket writing the journals

[@danieljadesanding4440]

Also Stan's mom is literally a scam psychic as well so he probably knows the strats as well if not better than Gideon did

[@Wolf6119]

One of my favorite little details in this episode is that you can see a growing pile of Physics and Chemistry books next to Stan during the montage of him standing in front of the mirror over the years after taking over the Mystery Shack. Despite his whole family lambasting him as a good-for-nothing idiot, and despite it taking him 30 years, he put in the time and effort to actually learn enough scientific knowledge to figure out Ford's portal and get it working again. He may not have as much natural talent/intellect as Ford, but damn if his determination isn't amazing.

[@supersucks]

great attention to detail !

[@brucesimmons5517]

Wow!

[@Archimedes-v2o]

He only had a part of the blueprints (only having one journal) until finding the other journals. Yet he still managed to turn the portal on. I’d say he’s pretty smart.

[@shotaaizawa1206]

Stan's someone whom i'd consider a hidden underated genius

[@SwordTune]

Meanwhile his brother learned to stand up for himself more in order to deal with Bill. As they grew older they became a bit like each other.

[@Y2M4444]

Fun fact: the first time Gideon summons Bill, asks for standord Pines' demise, and Bill, knowing Stanford is in another dimension, reflects upon it and only says "Stan..." Rather than Stanford or Stanley. So much attention to detail.

[@dudejoe24]

and you see the stans fight and the the thing that burns Stanleys back

[@blackman5867]

It's scarily mind--blogging about endless easter eggs you can find on this cartoon series...

[@dazzle3b73]

OOOOH THAT’S SMART

[@cat-napsss]

I JUST NOTICED A PARALLEL! In the first episode when the twins go up to the attic, Mabel says “check out all my splinters!” With her hands obviously covered in splinters. In this episode in the beginning, young Stan revels in getting splinters.

[@freemovies411]

Oh my goooooooooooood

[@StormageddonTMS]

I think this also reflects how Mabel is more like Stan, and Dipper is more like Ford

[@supersucks]

HOT BELGIAN WAFFLES YOURE RIGHT!

[@foxisconfused]

ALSO! when ford is talking to the government agents at the end, he says 'what are you waiting for? a kiss on the cheek?' which is exactly what stan says a few episodes prior (can't remember the exact episode) when he's telling dipper and mabel to do something i just thought it was a cool detail lol

[@ihappydawnz]

@@foxisconfused duuude thats so cool! i never noticed that! it was in scary-oke btw

[@palomaroggeri8680]

One thing that people dont really think about is the family background and how sad Stanley’s story actually is. Think about it, in the flashback sherby was still a baby, and the fact that mabel and dipper didn’t know about Ford means that Stanley was completly errassed from the family, like Sherby was never told that stanley even existed. The twins’s parents thought they were sending them to Ford, the nerd responsible adult Ford, which means no one from the family has ever visited Gravity falls since Ford left for collage. The twins being sent to Stanley’s house was probably the first contact he’s had with the family in 30 years. Which makes the scene in the season 1 finale where grunkle is calling the twins’s parents even sadder, he is talking to this part of his family that he has never met and that doesn’t even know he exists. No one after Ford know’s that he even exists.

[@valentinkambushev4968]

He probably went to the wedding of Dipper and Mabel's parents (because it wouldn't be a wedding if you don't invite relatives you know next to nothing about) and was probably there for the twins' birth. But yes, it's clear that he barely knows his family.

[@Wolf6119]

Just a slight correction, it’s Shermie, not Sherby - most likely a shortening of “Sherman” ? It’s also not completely clear if the baby we see in the flashback is indeed Shermie him/herself, or if Shermie is actually the OLDER sibling and the baby we see is actually his/her child, and therefore one of Dipper and Mabel’s parents. Cause if the baby was meant to be Shermie then Ford and Stan would have to be almost 20 years older than the twins’ grandparent, which would either make them REALLY old (which we know they aren’t) or it would mean that both Shermie and his child had kids at really really young ages. The timeline is a little wonky in that respect.

[@valentinkambushev4968]

@@Wolf6119 considering the fact that Dipper and Mabel are still "Pines" Shermie is most likely a man and the baby is probably the twins' dad.

[@Napstablooky]

@@Wolf6119 well it’s possible Shermie had kids at 20, then their kids had kids at 20, it’s very possible that the twins are in their 50s to 60s based on how long Stan has been trying to open the portal and how long it was before he even saw his brother again before the opening.

[@Lockfire1]

It seems hard to believe shermie wouldn’t at least know he existed even if they may have never truly met, like there’s a side of my family who stem from the older brother of my grandpa, my grandpa is a twin coincidentally, and while we rarely talk to or about them, I still know that side of the family exists

[@navo159]

In The Time Traveler’s Pig, you couldn’t see hands of the person that came out of the shack, but he had a cleft chin which Stanford had and Stanley does not. In many Stanley flashbacks, Stanford was in the background with his face buried in a book. It’s fun to rewatch knowing what’s really going on. :)

[@Renkencen]

Interesting fact that Alex did planned to shows his hands in the Time Traveller Pig episodes but he thought he was revealling it too soon which he was right given how fast the fandom was at decyphering the codes and clues!

[@roxtechs]

I could only see Stanford in the boxing lessons during Stan’s Mind episode. Where else is he?

[@olabradford]

In time traveler's pig I deem him kinda not Stanley or Stanford because he looks different than either one of their final designs but it is still cool to see.

[@AlmightySmorg]

Also in the Carpet Diem episode despite apparently never being in that room before Stanley picks up a pair of glasses that were most likely Stanfords as we later see him inspecting it closely when Dipper and Mabel are fighting

[@thechatteringclown]

another clue: the license plate on stan's car reads "stnlymbl" or "stanley mobile". things is we already knew stan's name is supposed to be stanford. why would stanford have a license plate with the name stanley?

[@moonleafteaofthemonth]

JK Simmons was perfect in this.

[@ryuhitsuya21]

What hasn't he been perfect in

[@doppertheduckjogos]

👆

[@kingofnonation5843]

He's kinda the only actor I know who bats 100 💯

[@that-1-boi]

He’s perfect in every role 🙏

[@Cloofinder]

@@kingofnonation5843 sounds like a pun considering he has played Commissioner Gordon lol.

[@namecomingsoon9517]

You guys will never know the struggle of hoping that your schedule was cleared up to watch it live uninterrupted. After waiting 2 years for answers

[@CynicallySarcasticReserves]

Remember the wait between the finale episodes? I member...

[@SlovakChestnut12233]

I remember waiting for this episode only for my aunt to come in town and want to watch one of her damn medical dramas during the same time it aired 😭

[@TheeKorovaMilkBar]

They will never know how deep down the rabbit hole we went, searching for answers during the wait, with only the image of Stan and Stan on swings looking at the beach like the End of Evangelion to clue us in on what happens next. Those were dark times.

[@DrOtter2.0]

Yeah dude

[@jstarwars360]

@@CynicallySarcasticReserves I wonder if Disney did this in the hopes that Alex would change his mind and decide to do more.

[@ivanvee7800]

Stan was telling dipper the truth he doesn't have a tattoo (it's a burn mark)

[@missouriluv]

So fun thing In season 2 episode 1 after giving Journal 3 back to Dipper, Stan says "What else do you want, a kiss on the cheek?" This episode after Stanford tricks the Agents and they stand there waiting he says a variation of the same line, "Well what are you waiting for? A kiss on the cheek?".

[@lindseysquire8417]

And you hear their father say it as well. Clearly a family expression! A Pineism if you will

[@lizard1255]

So something I sort of just thought about. Stanley technically does own the mystery shack at this point, because of the finders keepers law. He technically "found" the deed after Ford went through the portal.

[@SorchaSublime]

its only really a legal thing when hes stopping gideon from getting it. Even if it legally belongs to stan it rightfully belongs to ford, at least as far as ford is concerned, and stan cant be bothered to fight him on it when hes spent 30 years just trying to get him back and has the kids to worry about

[@jstarwars360]

The falling out between the two Stans is based off of Alex’s worst day of Elementary School when his best friends joined the gifted program. According to Alex, he felt like he had lost a race that he didn’t realize he was running. Alex also wanted Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) to voice Young McGucket but he couldn't get him even though at the time he was voicing the lead on the Disney Channel cartoon Wander Over Yonder.

[@seesawseesaw]

a cool note: grunkle stan would have known from the beginning that gideon wasn’t really psychic, as gideon has always called him stanford, not his real name, stanley. probably fuel for his hatred on the kid being so popular

[@NinjaTyler]

Not just that but also due to him being a con man too AND his mom was also a fake psychic like Gideon was. So he had 3 points of reference to know Gideon was full of shit

[@jonathansinisterra7216]

man Stanley had to basically reverse engineer the portal in order to fix it, without any studies or things like that, no wonder it took so long, not to even mention that he didn't have the remaining journals so that would have delayed everything

[@comethazel]

Fun fact: the reversed gibberish Fiddleford McGucket says in this is the exact same gibberish in the final memory gun flashback

[@sukaisage]

it's a cipher, spoken out loud

[@HamazuraGOD]

@@sukaisage Yeah! I have no idea why no one is telling them that on either episode. Especially when it translates into BILL CIPHER TRIANGLE

[@DrSmoothlove]

Fun story: a while back my dad was telling me a story about his father's identical twin and referred to him as Johnny. I realized that I had never actually heard his name before and was shocked because my dad's father's name was John. So my grandfather and gruncle were literally Identical twins named John and Johnny.

[@stephaniec3022]

Fun fact: this episode was so big the first time it aired, they allowed no commercials for the full 30 minutes. After that reruns had a 45 minute slot for commercials. (edit: thanks for all the likes I don't think I've ever gotten this many lol)

[@justjohn312]

I remember Alex Hirsch announcing that at Comic Con prior to the episode airing, saying that it was gonna be 30 minutes and no commercials, and the crowd went wild. I miss when this show was airing, was the best time to be a part of the community and decipher everything together.

[@stephaniec3022]

@@justjohn312 I remember this too yeah. The community itself was probably one of the best things about the show, coming together to have theories and solve puzzles. Sad that future people watching won't get that.

[@blackman5867]

Jeez, I wish I was there when it was first aired. It feels a bit left out to be honest

[@SillyPook]

@@blackman5867 same : ):

[@OrochiChris.]

@@stephaniec3022 yeah. Some people today just googles the.secret stuff. So there is no thrill, and the feeling of adventure is gone

[@MrCRAZY14098]

Out of all of the hints that led to the reveal Stan's brother, my favorite one has to be the wax episode because Stan literally freaked out a bit after seeing the statue of him. He saw his brother again regardless if it was a statue and that's why he became so attached to the statue in the first place. Also Soos basically represents the fan base for the entire show and it's amazing.

[@Vozird]

If I remember from the journal, McGucket made the memory gun after Ford made the page about the gremloblin, because while he was drawing the picture of it, McGucket looked in its eyes and saw his greatest fear. But Ford thought it was a dangerous tool or something like that so he never let him use it.

[@ethanlivemere1162]

Always thought it was after the portal thing

[@viccall9990]

@@ethanlivemere1162 he didn’t start using it regularly until after the portal incident, but he already had it

[@Kaempfdog]

There’s a few interesting things. You normally get so sucked in by Stanford’s appearance you assume that things fell on Stanley’s fault for the events. But when you really pay attention, almost all of it truly was on Stanford. His science project was so unstable it all shorted out from an indirect table smack. And as the builder, he would likely know how hard it was to keep it stable. And it’s not Stanley’s style to go covert sabotage, he’d more likely punch it or throw it and break it completely. And Stanley even put everything he saw messed up back in place and TRIED to make sure the project was fine. And his reaction got Stanley DISOWNED. Stanley didn’t have ANYTHING when he was kicked out, hence why he resorted to all his gambling and grifting. THAT was on Stanley he chose that path, but to actually have enough to LIVE, you can see why. What happens when he’s called to Stanford? He’s told remember our treasure hunting dream? Split it up, I refuse to tell you why, and go to the edge of the world. By YOURSELF. Then when Stanley decides to burn it (which fair considering Stanford didn’t let him know in a way he understood and it was technically a solution) and instead Stanford burns HIM (on accident) and the retaliation leads to the portal incident. And Stanley was smart enough to ACTUALLY get him out, and spent 30 years of never giving up to get him out. And the 1st thing he does when he sees Stanford is try to hug him. Only to be punched in the face and be told “You should’ve known better than to save me” Stanley might be a lowlife, but he cares FAR greater than he shows with the lengths he is willing to go to back up his brother.

[@taanwallbanks9841]

not to mention "didn't you read my warnings?" written in invisible ink

[@thatonepersonyouwontremember]

I actually always blamed Ford a bit more, then a lot more after I read Journal 3

[@eternaltae]

Stanley’s story never fails to make me sad like goddamn all he wanted was to have his brother back, but that said brother keeps pushing him away like he's something that gets easily tossed away

[@Talisguy]

As clever as Ford undoubtedly is, he consistently shows severe tunnel vision, both in the flashbacks and the later episodes. Clever enough to build a working transdimensional gateway, but he didn't think to build basic failsafes for it in case it went wrong (look how much harder it was to turn the portal *off* in Not What He Seems than it was to turn it on in Gideon Rises.) He was able to save McGucket from the portal, but apparently never checked in on his obviously traumatized assistant while McGucket gradually wrecked his own brain with the memory gun, a process that seems like it started *before* he was sucked into the portal. And by refusing to let Stan burn his notes, he prioritised his research over the survival of every living being in the universe. I don't think Ford is actively malevolent or unfeeling, but he repeatedly fails to think things through.

[@Kaempfdog]

@@Talisguy pride is a HUGE theme of this show. And it’s when characters swallow their pride that they overcome every issue. There are VERY few episodes if any that don’t involve working through a pride block of some kind.

[@tfundermann]

I love how Aaron is hung up on how Ford had glasses if he left them behind but A GUN makes sense and was never given a second thought. "I get that he just found or made a gun, but HOW THE HELL DID HE GET GLASSES!?" I feel like of the 2 things one is a bit easier to engineer and make.

[@BetterCallStan]

Journal 3 tells us that he had a spare pair in his pocket

[@kingofnonation5843]

This must be before they saw that episode of doctor stone

[@effortlessfury]

I mean, being the same model and style of glasses would be hard to reproduce on your own. That's its own kind of suspicious. I get what you mean though.

[@feeplemurphy4618]

@@effortlessfury but he didn't "reproduce" it, he just had a spare in his pocket

[@effortlessfury]

@@feeplemurphy4618 right but I don't think that occurred to him. XD

[@murph64]

I think the backwards gibberish that McGucket said in the flashback is the same "gibberish" he said in the Blind Eye episode, at the very end of his memories that they were watching

[@hobbes6392]

I believe it’s a double layered clue, reverse the audio and then you need to decipher the words

[@murph64]

@@hobbes6392 Yeah, I recall someone saying he's speaking in Atbash, that it translates to "Bill Cipher triangle"

[@matheusflores619]

@@murph64 YROO XRKSVI! GIRZMTOV!

[@anabenskywalker122]

Around this time, Gravity Falls episodes became like an event. They would air randomly and you really never knew when the next episode would air. Sometimes they’d only be a few weeks apart to months and the last few episodes were aired over the course of a year and a half if I remember correctly. I remember young me dying during each wait and being resurrected every time a new episode came out. I’m glad they did that though, because rather than having consistent quality and expectations, each episode raised the standard in a new way. The quality of each episode increased due to these longer wait periods

[@mateobustamante2304]

The 3 month wait between Weirdmaggedon 2 and Weirdmaggedon 3 was a torture fr

[@justjohn312]

Back when Season 2 was airing on Disney XD and I got more involved with the show, it became a thing for me to see that every episode was every 2 weeks, and specifically on Mondays, and the week before a new episode, Disney XD would always have a teaser right after a new Star Wars Rebels episode, and it would be a week of theorizing what's gonna happen, that's how I always stayed on time with the show and it's release schedule.

[@anabenskywalker122]

@@justjohn312 I never noticed that. That’s a good way to keep track of it

[@mellow3995]

Gideon claims to be a telepath but he always calls our Stan 'Stanford' instead of 'Stanley', I'm guessing this is the reason Grunkle Stan knew Gideon was a fake

[@NinjaTyler]

Also he's a conman and his mom was a fake psychic like Gideon was

[@RainbowDj7]

One detail is always loved (intentional or otherwise) is that since Stan's mother was a fake psychic and he's been aware of the town's weirdness the whole time, he doesn't take Gideon seriously at all because Gideon always called him "Stanford" and if he were a real psychic he would have known that wasn't his real name

[@maryy.angell]

best line from the entire episode *”ahhhhh the journals!”*

[@kyhoggardd5146]

So much lore and it only gets better from here

[@omalleycaboose5937]

I mean the rest of the show is very good... But I think this episode is the peak

[@mbanerjee5889]

The falling out between Stan and Ford always makes me cry. I love how Gravity Falls is able to balance emotional backstories with action. The tiny details of all the townspeople really make the world seem lived-in.

[@GeminiRosche]

The twins with similar names runs in the family, because Dipper’s real name starts with Ma just like Mabel. It’s Mason, btw. I don’t think it’s ever revealed in the show.

[@angelesb.3635]

it wasn't, it was revealed in the Journal 3 (the real life one).

[@supersucks]

@@angelesb.3635 What is it then

[@RodrigoTakehara]

First, waw! I didn’t know his real name lol. I thought that would be the biggest unsolved mystery in gravity falls. Second, well, even non twins usually have themed names, my cousins names all start with T, I have other cousins that all have compound names, one of them being from a greatgrandparent, and that’s only in my family, fiction is even more common

[@angelesb.3635]

@@supersucks it is mason, i was refering that it indeed wasn't revealed in the show but in a book you had to buy (the journal 3)

[@the13thdoctor7]

you only find out in the physical journal

[@just_an_internet_explorer8038]

25:26 I’m surprised y’all didn’t get this but "Yroo xrksvi girzmtov" is something McGuckett has said in another episode, but he said it forward. It's an Atbash code translating to "Bill Cipher Triangle"

[@fletch7212]

Something werid is that Stanley is legally dead meaning that everyone in the pines family think that there's only one old pines twin left so they can't appear in California because there is only support to be one

[@ЯАга-я4л]

Can't they claim some bs like "I hit my head in the car crash and got amnesia, I wandered the woods until I found some small town and lived there with no memory of the past until yadayada so I wasn't dead I was missing"? Or Ford could hack into the system and fix Stan's identity back.

[@So_Uncivilized]

Rick is gonna love next episode

[@CynicallySarcasticReserves]

Next episode? Rick is loving the whole show. I firmly believe after the finale, Gravity Falls will be in his top 5.

[@So_Uncivilized]

@@CynicallySarcasticReserves oh I agree. But Rick's special love for table top RPGs will make the next one his favorite "filler" episode

[@CynicallySarcasticReserves]

@@So_Uncivilized Oh, right. In forgot that's the next one. The Dungeons and dungeons and dungeons and dungeons and dungeons and more.... what were we talking about? Oh, a D20 die.. I think... I better roll it!

[@roxtechs]

Not really filler as Stanford reveals the rift and boost his relationship with Dipper.

[@So_Uncivilized]

@@roxtechs that's why filler is in quotes

[@Amadeus_A]

One thing I like about this show is whenever there's a story that has a mystery, usually they try to have this big plot twist that reveals everything that completely subverts expectations and changes the status quo. But for Gravity Falls, it actually informs the mystery it already establishes and opens new ones. For example, with the line "Stan is not what he seems," I was afraid it was going to be something like he isn't actually a greedy conman at all and it was all to hide his true intentions and motivations. But instead, the show really gives him a sad backstory that shows his greediness came from a necessity to just survive. Nothing about his character really changes except that we understand him more.

[@brianford4914]

I love the Two Pines twins and their dynamics. Both sets of twins have in a spot in my top 5 (they don't take number 1 though since that goes to Bill).

[@robertdelossantos5844]

Eric found the key this episode. Eric: 7 Rick: 3 Calvin: 2 Aaron: 2

[@Hickory958]

*I'm hoping all this aligns perfectly with my fanfiction, Stan. If not, I will be very disappointed.*

[@RedfordGuy]

If you remember in the early episodes from season 1, Mabel had wood splinters as well. So basically, she had a lot of common with her Grunkle Stan while Dipper was more like Grunkle Ford.

[@Wolf6119]

The "Air Nomad" symbol in Ford's journal is just a simple Triskelion, a runic symbol that's very common throughout ancient history in a number of different cultures. I guess it could also be a subtle Avatar reference, though the actual Air Nomad symbol is made up of three separate spirals, not one spiral with three branches. Also, fun little detail regarding Gideon; He claims to be able to read Stan's mind, but Stan is always shown to be 100% confident that Gideon is lying - Probably because Gideon calls him "Stanford Pines", meaning he doesn't actually know shit about what secrets Stan is really hiding.

[@ryanlawrence4550]

In the Episode "Dreamscapers" one of the memories of kid Stan trying out for Boxing on the bleachers in the background is a kid with brown hair and his face buried in a book That is Ford

[@CynicallySarcasticReserves]

Can I say, I just LIVE for the guys theorizing on the other dimension stuff? I can't wait till someone tells them about the portal connecting to one of Rick and Morty dimensions as an easter egg. I love how Gravity Falls is a kids show, always were, always will be. But then you have Stan's terrible life, shunned by his own parents, Stanford being promised greatness half of _his_ life, the other half wasted away in other dimensions, having adventures and running from our favorite triangle Dorito. When you allow it, this show can be so much more, Adults can enjoy it on a whole another level. More story wise... even after all this time, they underestimate Bill. I did too... and then the finale happened. If they're watchful, the Weirdmageddon will be their favorite. AHHHH! I'm so exited! Are you excited? I have rarely been so excited in my life!

[@justin_g6187]

I like to thing that he scammed his way through both states seperately thinking they can't kick him out of either and ended up getting kicked out of both instead

[@SuperDora150]

That was such a good lore episode. Also i like having the discussion first. But still key hunt is my fave part. Another win for Eric! Also Aaron still hunting reverse audio 😂

[@Ali-fx2wo]

“Will something cause a rift between them?” -Eric God I love when they make these innocent little comments 🤭

[@TheRibottoStudios]

The fandom had to wait THREE MONTHS for this. It was the definition of sheer absolute chaos.

[@randomaccount4950]

Not as bad as the last two episodes which were also three months apart. I don’t want to say their names for obvious reasons

[@helinituhhh]

Thank you for discussing the episode first before the codes lol I know it’s always exciting to crack them immediately but this episode is just too important. “Having twins was not his plan so he just shrugged and named both Stan.” It’s my fav code in the show I had a chuckle the first time I solved it ‘cause I pictured Pa Pines shrugging. Another fav detail of mine is the “cool, splinters” which showed that Mabel is the Stan and Dipper is the Ford in their dynamic.

[@TomVCunningham]

Soos calling Wendy is one of my favourite gags.

[@emilyprice178]

While twins can be passed down genetically, what Aaron said about his mum saying that he is more likely to have twins is wrong, because it has to be passed down through the mother of the potential twins. The gene that effects the probability is a gene that makes a woman/afab person more likely to release more than one ovum at a time during ovulation, making fraternal twins more likely (identical twins are completely random and are not effected by genes). So while Aaron himself is not more likely to have twins, if he has that gene he could potentially pass that gene to any daughter he might have, and that daughter could be more likely to have twins. To give another example, my grandmother had fraternal twins, so she potentially has a gene that makes her, and the women/afab people in my family that have descended from her, more likely to release multiple ovums during ovulation, so I could potentially be more likely to have twins. My brother could have the gene, but that doesn't affect the probability of his partner giving birth to twins if he has kids, but if he has a daughter, that gene could still be passed down to my niece.

[@Chuumbo]

25:40 that’s the same gibberish that he says when they go through the tapes of him going crazy from erasing his mind so many times

[@BonesWasTaken11]

really glad they talked about the episode before the cipher

[@FlynnTheRedhead]

The backwards message is actually a coded message: Bill Cipher Triangle. He also says GIRZMTOV (Triangle) in the Society of the Blind Eye

[@alexschott2092]

Recent _Gravity Falls_ Fans : Really hope Ford doesn't go all Omni-Man on the town. 2000's Era _Gravity Falls_ Fans : So, how long before he demands Dipper get him pictures of Spider-Man? Gaming _Gravity Falls_ Fans : Stanford's going to get McGucket to invent combustible lemons and burn the Mystery Shack down.

[@justin_g6187]

Dan corduroy "i dont wanna work right now, ill just build a hatch right here so i can access the roof and chill" His -45 year old daughter: "sweet"

[@invaderpez12]

Fun fact: the show is canonically connected to Rick and Morty, in the journals they released they show a bit of what Ford encountered in the dimensions and you can see a creature from R&M

[@SerendipitousDays]

Now that you know that Gruncle Stan has a twin brother, the headhunters episode has a whole new meaning of deepness and sadness added to it when you realize he wasn’t sad about his wax figure dying, but it was actually symbolizing his long lost brother :(

[@christianvictormariano1283]

I read an hear a lot of people's thoughts on this episode which has reference to previous eps, buy what gets me the most is in the dreamscapers, in stans mind there's a swing for two people and I believe one is broken

[@baddealdude807]

the reversed dialogue was atbash for "bill cypher triangle"

[@Purplefoxess]

Man I feel bad for Stan. He spent 30 years trying to save his brother and he probably dream of reuniting with his brother. Only to get punched in the face and then told to be kicked out of the house and out of his brothers life after the summer.

[@kelton4358]

There's a theory that when Stanford is on the other side he meets Rick from Rick and Morty and is apart of rick's crew back fighting the bug guys and doing other stuff blah blah blah for 30 years. And also in this episode you Sanford in the past and his portal sucked up a cup, pencil and book. And in Rick and Morty I don't know what episode but those same thing come through a portal.

[@Zeliek]

I was hoping that someone would mention this and i would have waited till the finale. It was more of homage to GF but it's sorta like an unofficial canon. Even better with RnM end as of now they can even tie it the two universe more if they wanted. SPOILERS Like that the Stans operate outside the Rickverse since in theirs Ford is smarter aka the Ricks can't rule.

[@randomaccount4950]

In the journals he explains what happened while he was in that dimension

[@SorchaSublime]

@@Zeliek They cant do it officially cause disney, but yeah as long as they knew eachother before the invention of the central finite curve it works

[@meganlodon]

The "gibberish" Fiddleford speaks is the same thing he says in the Society of the Blind Eye episode, but just spoken backwards. *"YROO XRKSVI! GIRZMTOV!"*

[@iron_pirate76]

the thing that mcgucket said was the gibberish he said back at the society of the blind eye and he said it in his memories

[@mlgnerd13]

Baskin Robbins will find out that the crew forgot what they were called. Baskin Robbins always finds out

[@HornedMerc]

The backwards speaking that McGucket said in this episode is the same gibberish that he said in the final video of McGucket's memories when he was crazy and the days said ???. In both he said "yroo xrksvi girzmtov" which is an atbash cipher meaning "bill cipher triangle"

[@FlynnTheRedhead]

Happy birthday to the one and only Alex Hirsch! And what a way to celebrate it than with this episode.

[@user-oc7dl9or8f]

How ingenious this series is. The scene at the end that Dipper and Mabel are afraid to end up like Stanley and Ford. Dipper loves mystery and mystery just like Stanford Mabel likes to do nonsense and laugh and usually she does not act seriously like Stan, that's why Mabel is afraid to say goodbye to Dipper and other things will happen in this context, in fact this series talks about the chemistry between the Alex Hirsch brothers who also has a sister, who hinted at it and wrote Mabel like her.

[@ZvchHart]

Fun fact Stans "Sham Total" was supposed to come in three colors red, purple, and blue, as you can see when the customers come rioting with pitchforks the stains on their clothes match those three colors.

[@Hanmacx]

"Twins were not his plan so he named both Stan"

[@Ragness10]

2:53 Hey, look. Hot Belgian Waffles. I guess we know where Stan got his replacement swear from

[@wbbrighamvideography]

Man yalls reviews hit perfectly for this. You hit the penultimate episodes right around the 10 year anniversery. It was on Wed. (Until you get to the finale)

[@cat-napsss]

Wanna blow your mind? The reason Stan always knew Gideon was a fraud was because he always called him “Stanford” and if Gideon was a real psychic he would know Stan’s real name was “Stanley”

[@stevenmark4407]

19:31 Ford was there when it was made. McGucket didn’t make it after he made it before Ford was sent to the other dimension

[@amiiboacid4785]

I hope we can get a live reading of Journel 3 after the series is finished. It would be cool to see you guys crack the mysteries hidden in it. Also that's the only place where we learn about where Ford ended up after going through the portal

[@buia499]

This is where gravity falls becomes absolutely amazing. Everything before is good and all but this is what gravity falls is known for.

[@yahirsalazar2896]

32:24 You guys have no idea how close you were to delving into the On Cinema At The Cinema universe, I was trembling the entire time you were talking about Gregg Turkington

[@noahthehoneyboy6294]

Always loved the assumption that ford and Rick from Rick and morty at least partially adventured together for a short time because the portal was connected.

[@macrodosingonthoughts]

the parallel of stanley saying, “cool, splinters!” and mabel also saying the same thing in the first episode 🥲

[@braidentoelke2735]

About the memory gun - there's a page about wither the gun or the blind society in the journals, and Ford wrote the journals so there must have been a period of time where mcgucket left Ford and started wiping his memory (because of seeing inside the portal) before Ford ended up falling into the portal. :)

[@joeldean2706]

Waited for this episode reaction since last week's one ended and things are going to get interesting from here.

[@3kylajsmith]

They are like Sam and Dean Winchester, except it was Sam that got thrown out. I'm not surprised Stan would risk the town turning on the portal but I'll surprised he would risk the twins.

[@Cakeyyama]

Maan I loved this episode and I love this show so much.

[@roxtechs]

Probably the most satisfying episode in Gravity Falls

[@Renkencen]

21:21 Technically yes per say? In the physical journel, basically Ford enter the mutlivere of madness. In one of the multiverses, he came across a world where Stanley did what Ford had wanted with the journel and Bill never enter their world as that universe Ford build a radar barrier thing. The Ford we know explained his situation to that multiverse Ford and gave him that gun as a parting gift as our Ford continue his multiverse travelling a way back home!

[@soloman828]

The reversed message that Fiddleford says is a cryptogram that just translates to "Bill Cipher Triangle"

[@SaltySweetRen]

It might sound like gibberish when you reverse Fiddleford's audio, but it's actually the second time he's said that exact thing in this show, the first being in the video recording that the Blind Eye had. "Yroo Xrksvi Girzmtov"

[@rockandrollfantasy86]

Identical twins (Stan and Ford) are just a thing that can happen anytime anywhere, were as fraternal twins run in families, and they don't always skip generations, my family has twins several generations in a row.

[@melonyrobinson9944]

Just realized that on the beach, teen Ford jokes that Stan will have to "visit me on the other side of the country", and lo and behold, eventually he does

[@schkiddows6835]

fiddelford isn't speaking gibberish, its the same thing he said in society of the blind eye and its just another layer of secrecy

[@drakedarkstar5422]

"Its just reversed giberrish..." Shame on you, Blind Wave! Didnt even try to think about decyphering

[@sirfijoe450]

the Stan brother's dad is voiced by Jonathan Banks. AKA Mike Ehrmantraut

[@richardb81]

thank you you are literally the only person I've seen in the comments who noticed this!!

[@superkid801]

At this episode explains about the past. This is a good one. Moving forward things will definitely change

[@The_artculture]

This discussion was everything

[@acabaxi8559]

A bunch of the questions you guys asked in the analysis part are awnsered in the actual journal, I recommend you guys to buy and read it after you finish the series

[@robertpresley1503]

The "gibberish" that Fiddleford speaks backwards is what he says in the memory footage in the Society episode when he went completely crazy.

[@thekingofstillwater5890]

Rick is going to love the next episode, I know it, cause it's on one of his favorite hobbies.

[@mrstreetlife]

You guys should watch "The making of Grunkle Stan" a sculpture video for the creator

[@Sagitarria]

Remember that the society of the blind eye is mentioned in the journals. Stanford didn’t know who they were but the memory gun was developed well before he got lost in the portal.

[@paperpyres1367]

I'm sure it's obvious to most people, but I've also always felt that this episode paired with the 'throw away line about the twins "getting along unnaturally well" from last episode explained perfectly why Grunkle Stan held the younger twins at arms length through a portion of season one.

[@Ksawarrior]

What always makes my head hurt is how to relate the story about Stan learning to box to this. It’s his memories, and it does connect to how he’s trying to make Dipper tough enough to fight back when he needs to. But the idea that Stan was a wimp and needed glasses just… feels closer to Ford.

[@josmonlee13]

I mean after he hit that guy people might’ve seen him as less wimpy and he might’ve tried to cultivate an image for himself as a tough guy and might’ve stopped wearing his glasses and started wearing different clothes, also could be a vanity thing my own sister won’t wear the glasses she needs unless she’s reading or driving

[@OPPAlska]

Do you remember episode when Stanley wanted to bury his wax statue? When somemone cutted of it's head. This episode is so dark now

[@Freddy_DC]

If you want to know where Ford has gone for 30 years, how does he know about the memory gun, or more simply if you want to learn more about Ford's research; I recommend you to buy the official book "Journal 3", which answers many questions ... plus since you like to crack code 😜, this book is full of symbols to decipher thanks to the wheel on the "Trust no one" page (I say this here because it took me a long time to figure out how to decrypt them myself 😅). Also, the sentence that says Old Man Mcgucket: 1) is the same one that says during the episode "the society of the blinde eye". 2) it is actually a sentence that must be decoded with the Caesar code; in fact if written and translated it says: "Bill Chiper, triangle!" if you search on the internet there are people who confirm that it is true ...