Gravity Falls Season 2 Episode 11 and 12 Group REACTION | Tale of Two Stans

[@ellielovegood6307]

I love that Mabel trusts Stan only after he says “please”. As we and she learned in boss Mabel, Stan has trouble saying the word

[@markwuahlbuargg4780]

Damn, you're right! I never caught that before. This show is truly amazing.

[@Dustrin]

The writing is SO GOOD

[@wyattchandler6359]

Oh God that makes so much sense. If it's important enough to make Stan say please then it has to be worth it.

[@itsdiscocreeper]

That's a really nice touch! I don't know if that was intentional or not but i love that.

[@sleepywalker87]

How did I miss that detail until now- I actually am ashamed of myself for not realizing that, UNTIL NOW, oh god-

[@BelfryHex]

WAIT!! I just realized.. When he said "Get in the bag, Raccoon wife" was this the SAME raccoon during the Jurrassic Pork episode when he said "That's when I faced off with a raccon and our faces got too close and we kissed accidentally!". Oh my god, I never realized until now.

[@Crona_Gowther_Kanato]

Oh my god, you're right- this is why I love rewatchin the series

[@axelminus]

I just realized that for the first time too, and you were the first comment, and said the same thing lol

[@ironforged2329]

Oh gods almighty, you're right!

[@valithx]

speaking of things we didn't realize.. i never noticed that the thing Grenada kissed in the closet (sleepover/carpet ep) was the invisible wizard Mabel mentioned in the grow/shrink ray ep!!!!

[@nairagar7338]

@@valithx spoiler alert, but I guess not spoiler now, it was Bill hence why he was like "you monster!" From the sock opera

[@dinkyrussell75]

"They're the only family I have left" "What about thier mom?" Stan's entire family thinks he's dead, he can't really be close to them 😔

[@Campedavey]

They're also probably just dead. The stan twins are in their 60s-70s

[@SomeoneTookMyOldName]

They still have dipper and Mabel’s parents and grandparents, the baby seen in the flashback(nicknamed shermy). But the writers try to not talk about them too much because they messed up the timeline a bit, the twins were born in 2000/1999 which means at shermy born in the 60s/70s would have had a teen pregnancy at 19/18 who then goes and haves dipper and Mabel’s also around 19/18. Which is a bit weird for this show so they just try and ignore it. Edit: there is a theory that sort of fixes this issue, but it doesn’t exactly work. The theory was that shermy is actually 10 years older than the Stans rather than younger then them. the baby seen in the flashback was dipper and Mabel’s parent and shermy just had his parent baby sitting for him. But most of the cyphers and lore in the show implies shermy is younger than the Stan’s

[@SomeoneTookMyOldName]

@darker shermy is dipper and Mabel’s grandparent not parent. Stan says “they’re shermy’s grandkids” to ford

[@Sairin13]

In the end Dipper and Mabel's parents never sent the twins to stay with Stanley, they thought they were sending them to live with Ford, who they doubtless had heard good things about all their lives

[@alllittlethingzz]

Yea that’s why the twins was sent to stay with Ford!!!

[@emery406]

Makes you think again about why Stan was so attached to Wax Stan, and why he was so surprised seeing it for the first time

[@mag-narwhal]

that's a good point i never thought about

[@Sairin13]

Also Stan's entire greedy money crazed persona takes on new meaning when you realize he's been trying to prove himself and get the fortune he thinks will get him back into good standing with his family

[@alllittlethingzz]

Yea it’s sad cause he’s been trying to prove himself after all other years that he’s not a screw up.

[@tjjordan4207]

That does make sense.

[@tritiumH3]

"What did I do that warrants... this much arresting?" I love that little joke. Like, Stan knows he's not innocent, but c'mon!

[@cutiepie120048]

🤣🤣🤣

[@toesmeller6243]

When Ford says "I had to make sure you weren't..." when Stan came to visit him, he was referring to Bill, not the shapeshifter. I see a lot of people making that mistake for some reason.

[@chichichichichichiOwO]

It's because bills powers aren't clear at this point

[@popatochisps1198]

One of Bill’s powers that were made clear, though, was his ability to posses. A possession which causes a person’s pupils to become slits

[@toesmeller6243]

@@chichichichichichiOwO But in season 2 episode 4, we see him possess Dipper, and his eyes become yellow and black.

[@axelminus]

To be fair he could very well be checking for both

[@toesmeller6243]

@@axelminus Isn't the shapeshifter locked in the secret base under the tree though?

[@OtakuJuanma2]

I love the "aaaaaah the journals!!!" Scream because that was exactly how we as a fanbase watching weekly felt like.

[@DeadMoon1986]

One thing you guys are lucky to see......are these two episodes back to back. When Eps 11 and 12 first aired, there was a 4 MONTH gap between them! That cliffhanger from 'Not What He Seems' was pretty big to wait for more back in 2015

[@skylerloggins4902]

It was torture for me.

[@sorastarchild4396]

Hey im from Germany and i just wants to ask if "not what it seems" also came out on Halloween 2014?

[@DeadMoon1986]

@@sorastarchild4396 March 2015 for me in the US

[@connorwood9211]

Stan "You really think I'm a bad guy?" Also Stan: Kidnapped a person and made them part of the display just for not buying anything

[@bertcompton]

hey you can’t blame a guy for what he does in his non canonical anthology episodes. this is the issue with our society

[@FlyingLine]

That episode is not canon though

[@XCross923]

@@FlyingLine the stories are not canon but what he did to that guy is

[@skylerloggins4902]

@@XCross923 the whole episode is non canon.

[@XCross923]

@@skylerloggins4902 you can see in a later episode the cheepscape or whatever the name is there. I don't remember which one but that's enough to say its canon to me

[@madscientistingogoboots165]

Stan and Ford's designs when they were younger are in my opinion some of the greatest character designs of all time I mean its juts perfect they still look like twins but there different enough so you can see there personalitys stills. Like the cloths the hair the body's everything It's just so perfect. Like "Jewish teenage boys from new Jersey in the 70s" THEY FUCKING NAILED IT

[@polt1664]

20:54 he wanted to look at his eyes to make sure he wasnt bill, not the shape shifter. remember dipper's eyes in "the sock opera" ?

[@chilibreath]

You guys should have watched this 10 years ago. The fandom went wild when Stanford revealed himself. And fun fact: the animation of Stanford's reveal was done by Dana Terrace, creator of The Owl House. Alex Hirsch voiced not just Stan, Soos, McGucket and Bill Cipher in GF, he also voices King and Hooty in TOH.

[@Dipped1234]

You can also tell he voices the backupsmore guy

[@Jaguar470]

The buildup to this episode was INSANE!!!! Form the countdown to everyone going crazy, and then the episode happens and it’s just 30 minutes of taking it all in, and the final end credit scene, gosh, just took all the breathe out of me 😭

[@player1angel567]

I remember watching the series with my brother and cousins, when Stanford got revealed we just absolutely *lost it*. I knew the whole Stan has a brother theory, but I didn't think it'd be true

[@meganlodon]

The "Bill Cipher. Triangle." is at 20:22 where Fiddleford is speaking in Atbash and backwards, right before he says "...fear the beast with just one eye". You have heard him say this once before in Atbash, but _not_ backwards, in the Society of the Blind Eye episode where he goes crazy in the memories, right before making a triangle around his eye.

[@kentubuchi6899]

Honestly I'm on Gruncle Stan's side, always have been, Stanford is just " the new guy" to me. Because if I am shunned by you for years only for you to reach out simply because you want to demand something rudely from me because you want to preserve your legacy!? I'm nearing breaking point. But then I go ahead to spend 30 years of my life trying every single night to bring you back and you're still extremely dismissive of me, your first instinct is to attack me, and you can't even say a simple thank you? You're dead to me.

[@eternaltae]

OMG YES SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME especially since stan is my fav character im really upset how Ford treats him

[@Jaguar470]

@@eternaltae Exactly!!!!!

[@Jaguar470]

@@eternaltae THANK YOU!!

[@Jaguar470]

Finally someone gets me 😂 I loved Stanley, Always have lol and always will.

[@Cookiesandcreamss]

Right AND after all that time of being HOMELESS Stan drops everything for his brother it would have taken at least two months for him to get there if he does at all. Fords out here living his best life while Stan is out here living in his car. I would have cut him off too after wards.

[@noremac7216]

Okay A little confusion that happens to just about everybody. The way the two stands are related to Dipper and Mabel isn't through their mother. Dipper and Mabel's father is their little brother Shermy's son. Whenever Stanley got kicked out of the house you can actually see their mother holding him. Confusing considering that's literally the only time we ever see Shermy but that's how it works

[@seesawseesaw]

also shermy would either have not ever known about stanley because the family stopped talking about him, or may have also been under the assumption that he had died in the car crash. so when dipper and mabel were dropped in gravity falls shermy and mabel/dipper’s parents would’ve assumed it was still stanford (“the more responsible one”) they were letting them stay with all summer

[@Gipwx]

*dipper and mabel's grandfather.

[@noremac7216]

@@Gipwx why are you correcting me? That's what I said, I was just more specific.

[@noremac7216]

@@Gipwx unless you're saying that Shermy's son is there grandfather in which case you're wrong. Because that would make Shermy their great grandfather and the Stans great great uncles of just great uncles. But no Shermy is their grandfather, which means his son has to be their father, making the Stans their great uncles

[@memelord7567]

remember what Stan's boat was named in the second episode? Remember who opened the door in time traveler's pig? There were clues all along

[@shirothegamer7574]

I love the happiness stan expressed when he realized he could swear again.

[@sebastianrichardson396]

Soos trying to explain all that at 3am is hilarious😂 My drunk aunt called me from the bar at 3am last month and this felt familiar 😂😂

[@squeebers]

11:35 ICONIC SHOT! So iconic when Mabel said, "I trust you."

[@armyantmajor2048]

The burn that Stan got is actually thought to be a tattoo in a shorts episode!

[@jacobthompson6644]

A brand counts as a tattoo

[@josephmunda3821]

When Ford answered the door to Stanley...he checked Stanley's eyes to make sure it wasn't Bill possessing Stanley...not the shape-shifter

[@Jackie-McCann]

Posting this on Gravity Falls’ 10th Anniversary couldn’t be more perfect! 😁

[@Jaguar470]

Looool

[@erikm8373]

The wildest thing is that people actually called the Stan's Twin plot twist way before it even happened. When you have over a year to obsessively comb over every detail of this show, you start to notice all the very tiny details that paint the bigger picture. It panicked Alex Hirsch enough that they created a fake leak of McGucket being the author to throw people off the trail.

[@foranzo1582]

I love how between the two people who work in the Shack, Stan asked *Soos* for help. Fantastic addition to their dynamic!!

[@Crona_Gowther_Kanato]

I've been waiting for this since you started the series, I hope your reactions are what I envisioned lol much love: things are about to get **weird**

[@mellow3995]

Oh shit, so I'm guessing Shermie is the baby shown at 17:38 and is the grand-father of dipper and Mabel, that's kinda cool

[@emikikuno]

It wouldn't make sense given Grunkle Stan's age (late fifties/ early sixties) , unless both Shermie, and Dipper and Mabel's father had their kids as teenagers. It would be more logical for Shermie to be Stan and Ford's older brother, then the baby we saw would be Dipper and Mabel's dad. Maybe the grandparents were babysitting.

[@emikikuno]

@@justindeliwe8065 When do they say that?

[@OrochiChris.]

@@justindeliwe8065 maybe the school doesnt know about the baby. Either because shermie wasnt enrolled yet to the school that time or the mother dont want them to know

[@silverselkie1692]

Grunkle stan says he's pushing seventy in Dipper and Mabel Vs The Future. So they'd actually only have to be in their early twenties. ​@emikikuno

[@kaylagaymon4873]

19:30-19:42 Dipper's high-pitched screaming was so hysterical. He's so happy how the journals were made 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣

[@metaphonyenjoyer4386]

You couldn't have picked a better day for this upload. It's the show's 10th anniversary. Watching you guys discover Stanford was the best way to celebrate it. I really recommend rewatching the earlier episodes with your newfound knowledge as it paints a different picture of Grunkle Stan(ley). It had bits of really subtle and surprising foreshadowing. This show is just so iconic and intriguing even after all this time. It changed Disney TV shows for the better

[@TheBigE9999]

So, can we all agree stan is the actual smart twin? who writes their warnings in invisible ink and not the actual instructions on the doomsday device?

[@IanEmrys]

The invisible ink things he wrote are after Mcgucket portal incident fearing somebody watching him

[@TheBigE9999]

@@IanEmrys but they're still warnings, it's literally the part everyone should be able to read. imagine if we put the instructions on construction equipment on the bottom of the treads where no one could actually use them

[@ma.2089]

Oh yeah….good point lol. I guess it sorta makes sense since he didn’t want to write all over the thing he had spent time making, but at the same time he was too obsessed with his work to value the notion of making it difficult for ppl to end the world. Especially if he was planning to hide the books as he did lol

[@bjp4869]

@@TheBigE9999 well, yes, but if the "somebody watching him" found the warnings, he would've done something about it, that's why he had to hide them.

[@TheBigE9999]

@@bjp4869 you couldn't really "do something to the warnings" without damaging the book, meaning no portal and no weirdmageddon, but on the off chance he did it anyway, just make multiple warnings in multiple places it's not as if just knowing there is a doomsday device somewhere and knowing it absolutely cause the apocalypse would make me want to activate it more

[@ma.2089]

Heck yeah, it’s here. I remember when NTWHS came out. It was amazing to see that theory on tumblr be totally right. The wait for the next episode was torture. Took MONTHS. Disney tried their best to stretch out season 2 as much as possible. Pure evil.

[@foranzo1582]

McGucket could've made an entire computer if it wasn't for Stan's call. Incredible detail

[@relicsplace9218]

14:34 actually Stan's twin shown in S1 in two episodes the bill cipher one when they enter Stan's mind and the time travel one (But of course you cant understand that its his twin in time travel one since he was alone so he can be just the Stan we know but if you look closely in his childhood memories you can see that there is two Stan's) thats why it was theorized wayy before this episode but there was also ppl who say its just an animation error or smth and dont think too much also there was infos like Stan wearing 6 fingered gloves etc so it wasnt that unpredictable which makes it way better

[@existentialfrog3052]

Watching people relive a moment in gravity falls that most of us watched 4 years ago just revitalized my love for the series.

[@Kyvid]

I have been waiting forever for this one!! SO ready!!

[@pyrofan80]

You find out about Dipper’s birthmark in Double Dipper (season 1). His real name is Mason

[@jasmine9581]

his- AAAA

[@jureigeeksoutoccasionally]

For real? I thought it was Gabriel

[@jynclln_3100]

OMFG FIRST! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! YOU GUYS ARE GONNA ENJOY THIS!

[@alllittlethingzz]

Crazy how their parents sent Mabel and Dipper to stay with their Uncle Ford cause they thought Stan was dead!! But Ford was stuck in that portal for 30 years!

[@SohiHien]

they didn't send them there because they thought Stan was dead. They just sent them there to send them somewhere else for the summer. It's kinda implied their parents are going through a rough patch and sent them to gravity falls to get them out of the house while they figure things out.

[@jrax1713]

I remember reading somewhere that what made Filford go insane is because he saw bill on the other side of the portal look at him while he was feeding without his exoskeleton on

[@amirultempest]

I think by now they already know about Stan's tattoo....

[@Daesma999]

The myth. The legend.. the Stanford Pines has finally arrived. I bet you're gonna love him.

[@Daninhoo930]

Finally we have this episode 🤩

[@RingoBingo4570]

You should watch over the garden wall at some time. It is 10 episodes long and it is better when watched around halloween. Maybe when October comes around you should react to the mini series.

[@emilyschomer6715]

Ford makes me SO mad, his brother was homeless and he was feeling sorry for himself because he went to a cheaper college and became a success

[@monster-enthusiast]

Oh they are so not ready for the finale

[@K_Narat]

Indeed they weren't. They already finished it in their patreon.

[@monster-enthusiast]

@@K_Narat Excellent. I can't wait to see their reaction lol

[@tjjordan4207]

I originally thought the baby shown at 17:39 was Sherman Pines, the grandfather of Dipper and Mable. But when doing the math, it doesn't make sense for the baby to be Sherman. I believe the baby is in fact Sherman's child, aka the father of Dipper and Mable, just being babysat by the grandparents at the time. And I can back this up with proof. From what we know, the show states that Stanford disappeared 30 years before Dipper and Mable showed up in Gravity Falls, while it is also stated that the Pine Twins didn't see each other for 10 years after the night their father kicked Stanley out of the house, and they wouldn't meet again until the day Stanford disappeared. Meaning the night we saw the baby shown at 17:39 was 40 years before the start of the show. The good news is that the show gives us an actual year of when the main events take place: 2012 Dipper and Mable are turning 13 by summer's end, which puts their birth in 1999. This is relevant as we can subtract 13 years off 40 years, which proves that the baby (most likely born either 1971 or 1972) cannot be Sherman, as the child shown would have been 27 or 28 at the time of the twins' birth. And Sherman is said to be the grandfather of the twins, so he's definitely not the baby we see. While not officially confirmed, it actually makes sense for the baby to be Dipper and Mable's father, as the age he would be at the time of their birth makes it very likely. Plus, Sherman could have been the eldest child of the Pines family who graduated when the twins were in their preteens.

[@onyx20437]

These were the greatest episodes of the series when I watched the show

[@Stuck-n-da-90s]

Once we find out Stan had a twin brother. The episode with the wax Stan has a new meaning.

[@rapodaca3360]

All I gotta say is if you make a perpetual motion device and it gets broken by someone slamming their fist on a table... It probably wasn't a good perpetual motion machine.

[@obsidianwolf1999]

When Mcgugget talks backwards he says yroo xrksvi! Girzmtov. It's Atbash, it translates, Bill Cipher! Triangle.

[@jacoblamb5409]

Hman really the type to look up spoilers beforehand

[@qrowing]

LMAO. I just realized that at 23:54, Mabel had drawn the supposed "Snadger" from the Love God episode.

[@mforan123]

Fun fact at one point someone figured out the twin brother plot early on Reddit so the creator actually posted fake animation stills with MacGuckett having six fingers to throw people off the trail.

[@sydneytalks4254]

HAPPY 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF GRAVITY FALLS!!!!!! What an amazing two episodes to watch today 🥲

[@jinx8749]

i don't remember where he said it exactly but alex hirsh said mcgucket saw bill without his exoskeleton which is something that cannot be comprehended by the human mind

[@XperimentorEES]

That realization the paired videos are going to be a hoot!

[@kagenoo1084]

fun fact, its all but cannon that ford spent his time in the multiverse with rick

[@jeremytung1632]

I love the rampant squirrel abuse in this show, in "the deep end" one spontaneously combusts, and here a frozen one just drops out of a tree.

[@petergriffenfunny1075]

Johnathan banks as their dad was such a good casting.

[@goldenmustache1466]

As you guys saw, Stan lost some items in the portal. As youve guessed before this show connects with Rick and Morty. If your watching Rick and Morty, rewatch "Close rickcounters with the rick kind" and youll see those items come out of one of those portals at about 6 minutes 30 seconds.

[@cuprogers]

Happy 10 year anniversary Gravity Falls!!

[@galonski64]

Always love the " what did I do to warrent this much aresteding

[@decusq]

Yeah you guys can watch it now but when i watched this show with fans on day one we had to wait A DAMN YEAR to get this cliffhanger resolved at the end of episode 11!

[@Bill-Watterson]

You probably won’t see this but the password to Fiddleford McGuckets computer is ‘Stanford’. I always thought it was weird considering that was most likely his password before Stanford Pines contacted him to work on the portal

[@ForeverFrogintheFog]

I remember waiting after this bombshell of an episode was dropped. Never seen so many people loose their shit 🤣

[@FarmHandJoe]

This show is now 10 years old today.

[@jaxcraft2848]

Oh you guys are gonna freak out with these episodes!

[@kovobanga1559]

During first episodes you guys suggested that there will be some cosmic godlike creature... Someone said that Bill Cypher got inspired by Nyarlot'hotep - one of Lovecraftian gods. The god of knowledge. His symbols were the pyramid with the eye and the dark shadow in the corner.

[@alejandrolozano5452]

THESE EPISODES HOLY SHIT, SO GOOD

[@berserker3414]

I think it's their father who's the sibbling of both Stans to be able to all be called Pines

[@Mr.Wahington]

21:30 well there’s a difference between burning all of your hard work and just hiding it so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. I know it sounds weird but you gotta understand, I wouldn’t want him to burn it either!

[@moltenironphoenix215]

I am here immediately

[@cosmicorder2]

See, this is why we tell people not to do an image or video search for this series

[@Pomni3477]

I love your reaction to the twins reveal

[@House-uo2zg]

FINALLY episode 11 and 12

[@glennaricayos6068]

Dude this explains the mystery tatoo of Stan

[@coopinatormusic6214]

Happy 10th anniversary, Gravity Falls!

[@tayskiidademon3120]

isnt that the portal fluid from rick and morty?

[@andrewparker318]

Property of F …Ford Pines

[@dratiniboi7165]

...fiddleford mcgucket?

[@andrewparker318]

@@dratiniboi7165 The laptop was built by mcgucket but it belonged to Ford

[@dratiniboi7165]

@@andrewparker318 oh i see lol

[@jasmine9581]

here we go aa the similarities in 2x12 17:25 I wish he immediately said it was an accident (like wouldn't that be the first reflex considering Stanford said sabotage and not smth like ruined? and then saw if they could pull strings to get them to re-appraise gonna fix this comment later so, Hot Belgian Waffles next to their home Footbot next to Ford's project Octavia the eight legged cow? also PUPILS BRAIN DMG 21:33 is it serious or 22:09 aw I was hoping for a comment on the

[@maykonbrasileiro761]

Hey yo come faster then youtube could load the video

[@Levatator3809]

Honesty Stanford was in the wrong. He asked the one person he hadn’t talked to in years to get it away from him and when goes to destroy he selfishly chooses the research. Then when his brother saves him all he does is punch him and tell him to leave not even a thank you.

[@aaronday1997]

Stanley is called sixer by someone important you already know them.

[@AdorianDelmore]

Yess i'm so ready for amphibia. You guys are not ready.

[@Lumberjack_king]

4:41 don’t underestimate a lumberjack

[@mila6589]

Wait until they discover the arg with finding bill in the real world!

[@smoczayt]

oh boi i can't wait for more

[@razependragon7472]

Thx for the reaction

[@nihilsnake4017]

Goated episodes

[@monster-enthusiast]

20:55 nope

[@EnteraName1876]

21:46 Don't know if it was already answered in patreon but dudes, here's the answer for Stan's mystery tatoo. I still can't believe that a friend of mine chatted me saying that these guys asked about it while they were watching the gravity shorts.

[@Pablo.673]

I don't like having popular opinions but Not What He Seems is my favorite episode of the show. My least favorite (by far) is Love God,.

[@bergkatze3186]

Is having twins is hereditary??

[@Theluzersclub]

well meet again

[@Brocci_TM]

In no means is this meant to scare you but those fbi agsnets are part of a real division within the fbi that deals with stuff like in the tv show know as the UIU or unusual incidents unit

[@spongebobthecreator4855]

You guys should watch regular show or amazing world of gumball after gravity falls

[@kazototempess1739]

Can you guys react to tensei shitara slime datta ken

[@chickenmaster0636]

I just Realized. Shermi is Stan and Ford’s sister, but at the same time Shermi Pines was supposedly female right? Wouldn’t that mean either A her husband happened to have the surname Pines despite being unrelated or B Her husband took her name. Hmmmm.

[@InteractivityORG]

Damn im early....

[@JSDelivery6903]

wow he is banned from texas

[@SawyerTyus]

Can yall please watch the rookie