The Tragedy of Old Man McGucket

[@bad-girl-coventhe-owl-club1119]

The worst part is that mcgucket is around the same age or even younger than Stanford, but he looks much older probably due to unimaginable stress.

[@WhiteFireTheDragon]

Plus maybe another side effect of the memory gun. It *is* an allegory for substance abuse after all.

[@Maxwell4Smash]

Guess he isn't that much of an "Old Man McGucket" after all

[@WhiteFireTheDragon]

@@Maxwell4Smash Well, Ford and Stanley are still old, so "old man" seems fair.

[@arshu_parshu1999]

I have seen this comment in another video

[@jacksonvoet8312]

Most of it is his now permanent slouch that he literally could not remember to correct. His not shaving is also a factor.

[@Jonathan_Collins]

I love how they introduce McGucket as a crazy old man, but then give him a detailed character arc and development. He's amazing.

[@Maxwell4Smash]

Reminds of a certain cold wizard

[@lucascorona9694]

@@Maxwell4Smashomg thats great

[@NicolasSantana-xm2yl]

I have a question for you: Is there any chance that American Dragon: Jake Long will return for a new reboot ? 🤔 🧐

[@chasethemaster3440]

@@Maxwell4Smashyooooo adventure time mentioned

[@chasethemaster3440]

@@NicolasSantana-xm2ylwhy are you asking this random commenter?

[@Dicerollball]

Tbh the most tragic but the most powerful character imo. Like he was probably Bill’s number one enemy/threat from the very start but also the one who could speed up the progress of the portal project. Literally because of Mcgucket so many of the hard hitting moments happened in the show. His inventions were integral for the emotional and serious moments we all know. Gravity Falls literally wouldn’t be the same without him.

[@your_local_cheese-k3g]

Are you sure it was an accident? lol

[@vamplinvamp]

Both Gravity Falls and Adventure Time introduced a weird old man and then decided to use them as vessels to rip our hearts apart with allegory for mental illness and dementia 💀

[@ciscojacobo7168]

There are also a few more characters who might relate to either Old Man McGucket (Gravity Falls) or Ice King (Adventure Time). Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) One Eye Wally (Amphibia)

[@Randoontheinternet-i7w]

​@@ciscojacobo7168 Wally didn't Technically lose his mind, iirc he just decided to leave because he didn't fit in

[@shelbybayer200]

Fiddleford probably just doesn't remember when he actually created the Memory gun because he used the day he built it. And Quit the project after that

[@Noonecouldever]

*points at Mcgucket, Ford, Stan, and Bill* THESE BAD BOYS CAN BUILD A PORTAL SO EFFICIENTLY AND HAVE SO MUCH TRAUMA IN THEM

[@your_local_cheese-k3g]

McGucket is such a side character in the start but nearing the end gets alot more screen time and back story, best character

[@TINIES_48]

I'm crying for the injustice that Ol' Man McGucket has been served

[@olleselin]

At least he got that mansion at the end!

[@ciscojacobo7168]

He reconciled things with his son. As shown in the end credits, McGucket either in a pool at Northwest Manor or a lake at Gravity Falls, with both his raccoon wife and his son.

[@tomcurl8034]

i like that regardless of how much he damaged his brain fiddleford still cared about his rural cultural roots

[@darklordmalthric3633]

He’s like the ice king

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

Only he’s not constantly chasing after girls.

[@darklordmalthric3633]

@ but he is crazy and lost his memories

[@faridhaikal6713]

​@@darklordmalthric3633there a different simon can still regain his sanity when the effect of power crown is gone meanwhile memory gun take way more longer to regain both sanity and memory

[@connordavis1094]

He reminds me of the ice king in the first half of the video and lapis lazuli in the second half of events in his life that are covered

[@Randoontheinternet-i7w]

​@faridhaikal6713 Taking off the crown just kills him he can only regain his sanity if the crown stops working which will also kill him

[@digunder14]

confirmed way to keep bill cipher out of your head number two, being crazy and insane enough he don't want anything to do with it

[@jacksonvoet8312]

I mean, having a swirling memory inferno that can even damage Bill Cipher in a way that actually scares him also is an effective way to ward off the Egomaniacal Euclidiean.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Fiddleford deserved better

[@shelbybayer200]

No, not really. He did it to himself, He's not a victim. He's the Culprit behind his own decent into the Nutcase Position

[@Artist_Unbound]

This is a really cool idea of character deep dives. Maybe the next one could be about Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb. Maybe call it "The Saddest Character In The Disney TVA Multiverse".

[@zozobdair9971]

You my friend are a genuis

[@maryqus9125]

LET'S HOPE THEY'LL SEE THAT COMMENT

[@盧璘壽로인수]

someone already made a video why Doof is the greatest dad to Vanessa, might wanna check that out

[@tyrannosauruswrex123]

Fiddleford was the true victim in gravity falls

[@thepokemonsamurai6512]

Tate would have to know that something strange was going on in Gravity Falls. In The Tooth short he advises that the twins get out of dodge if they see bubbles on the lake, implying he knows something.

[@zozobdair9971]

He was the one responsible for watching over the lake, of course he'd know something was living there

[@ultradude25yt]

25:05 afterall like he said "you cant break something thats already broken"

[@olleselin]

Poor Fiddlefordd😢

[@NoahBirsch]

I also heard that mcgucket became a president and stopped covid

[@JabamiLain]

Alex confirmed it on a tweet.

[@NoahBirsch]

@ YES that’s where I heard it THANK YOU SO MUCH i thought is was a dream

[@JabamiLain]

@@NoahBirsch good for them. We could use a Mcgucket right now. I can't believe people chose Trump again, not because he's better, but because they didn't want Kamala to win, just because she isn't a white woman. How stuck up are we, first world countries ? I thought we were starting getting past that.

[@Solar1_420]

YIPPPEEEEE YALL WAKE UP ROUNDTABLE POSTED AGAIN

[@animator12376]

21:19 bill fr almost got a stroke from a Mcgucket's mind

[@vincentmorris8431]

I gotta say, another essence of retcon being "F" is detailed on the Gremloblin pages that Dipper read aloud. I think McGucket's conspiracy corner shorts were around spring of 2015 after NWHS, and Apocalypse prepping in October. The zodiac short was probably the first to imply him as the glasses, which NWHS Dipper doubted, as many took to tying them to Ford.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

Bro stared into the abyss went crazy got his brain back and is now rich. McGucket got a great ending

[@johnathanjoestar6709]

At least McGucket finally got his happy ending 11:01 0:39 I knew it foreshadowing

[@ciscojacobo7168]

Are you talking about how he became rich and moved into the Northwest mansion

[@nathangerber557]

Personally I believe when fiddleford said he'd "been working on a device" that he didn't mean recently in other words he just poorly phrased it

[@directorjake]

The one thing I wish they'd delved into a bit more is how his family ended up seeing him. Tate and Ms McGucket were never in Gravity Falls so assumedly all they know is he went to go work on a project with a college buddy and presumably never came back or if he did come back he was a completely different person.

[@kcsprout]

Tate is in the fishing episode

[@jacksonvoet8312]

His son Tate is apparently a very smart dude, but due to how McGucket ended up, he never pursued it.

[@zozobdair9971]

​@@kcsproutnot only that, but he also appeared in the gravity falls short "dipper's guide to the unexplained :the tooth" and in the end credits of the last episode of the show, with his father, chilling in the pool

[@directorjake]

Tate has to know about the monsters and mystery on some level because he warns Dipper about the floating island head in the Dipper short, The Tooth.

[@Iza_Ruby]

I think McGucket and his ex-wife are trying to fix things and decided to start over as friends, and the rest will be something that they will decide on, also I'm glad he fix things with his son, that was nice.

[@MissAlii432]

As a kid I didn’t take in the addiction allegory, the glass being shattered as an adult hurts

[@Figaroma]

it feels so weird to be 1 minute early.. im happy youre talking about fiddleford!!

[@avch1209]

Since neither Stanley nor Stanford had children (not that I know of) it is Dipper's duty to continue the Pines family last name and lineage...unless it is revealed that Stanley had a son/daughter in his time as a conman that he does not know or Stanford had a son/daughter he doesn't know during his time traveling between universes...

[@Angie72bee]

What about maybele?(sorry if I spelt the name wrong)

[@da-vidcargill4975]

@@Angie72bee mabel,

[@chrisk6637]

Thats is completely random and has nothing to do with the video

[@Angie72bee]

@@chrisk6637 whre just haveing a conversation about this comint that dosint mean it has to be apart of the video

[@盧璘壽로인수]

@@Angie72bee not sure if 'Murrica has laws allowing matrilineal descent (legitimate children taking on the mother's surname), but considering the current Chrightstian atmosphere of that country probably none

[@JabamiLain]

If his wife worshiped Bill, does that mean her marriage was...hinted and suggested at by a certain dorito ?

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content! Keep up the good work ❤❤❤❤

[@pablo8524]

Alex hirsch is a monster when writing tragic backstories

[@gnashing_teeth]

11:40 I'm surprised you didn't put in a clip of Helga's mom from Hey Arnold! That lady and her "smoothies".....

[@chasethemaster3440]

8:16 hahaha is that a reference to the fan made character will? from reverse falls? that’s awesome lol

[@svxd7369]

I still can't believe how tragic McGucket's story was

[@TheEquus92]

The fact that BILL CYPHER couldn't handle Fiddleford's fractured mind says volumes!

[@SanstheMetalFox]

Poor McGuckit. It’s sad that he’s indured so much trama, no one should have as ruff of times as him.

[@shanepond7063]

Basically my early 20's a.k.a. the last 5 years of my life.

[@Solarstretch-x2c]

‏‪9:27‬‏ this makes me wonder how mentally strong Mabel actually is, since she (spoilers ahead for Boss Mabel) DID eventually end up making eye contact with the Gremloblin, until Dipper showed up with a mirror, but still , Mabel was effected. But later on, this didn't seem to have a tool on her. Hmm... Or maybe the mirror just cancels the effect.

[@DolFinDude23]

Hoorah to the dopest name imaginable

[@Green-Hybrid3017]

You know it’s bad when bill himself was traumatized. 😨

[@Smiththeinspiringanimator]

Amazing!🤩

[@epolepticfairy8724]

It’s always the joke characters that have the most tragic back stories

[@samuraiforever9120]

there was one moment i liked that was revealed was that fiddledord writes a theory of the world being a simulation. he gets laughed at, but ford who moved in learns his of his theory and proced the math correctly proving it and setting their friendship and their future codependency

[@phictionofgrandeur2387]

Krispy Kreme is making new donuts.

[@willropa4226]

One more sad detail is that McGucket can't forget about Bill after the brief Nightmare Realm encounter. You can see it in his memory canister, day 1 he was talking about wanting to forget everything he saw in the Nightmare Realm but by day ??? he holds his hands up to his eye in the shape of a triangle, the scar left by Bill was too much for even the memory gun to erase.

[@cupcake_insfinity-101]

mugutet arived at gravity falls on my birth day! (exept for the year that parts way off.)

[@Aurora-Welch]

McGucket is a very sad character.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Tragic, yes, but you know what? Even when broken if not bent, he still survived the drudgery, stayed vivid that he never became a complete senile loony, and made special things that even saved his world and his hometown in spite of it all. He's persistent, dedicated, and a truly proud achievement of an Oregonian man, really. Honestly, in case Gravity Falls gets a sequel saga, and hopefully one that's also a same-Earth-all-along crossover with Amphibia and The Owl House, we better see the fruits of his special labors in Northwest Mansion bear glorious fruit and create a never before seen technological revolution for humanity and his Earth in just the span of a decade or less. Add that with the inevitably reverse engineered Newtopian tech gained from the 2020(?) Frog-Vasion, Terri's Multiversal portal network research and development (that should peak at 2030?), and maybe even a groundbreaking collaboration with the alien magitek start-up Blight Industries headed by one Amity Blight-Noceda sometime after some sort of situational first contact... oh, boy, not even the DC Animated Universe, anime like GunBuster and GaoGaiGar, and Stargate SG-1 would be this big and cathartic when it comes to such advancing lore developments and in-universe status quo progress.

[@BradleyIhde-qp6hy]

Different timelines and futures

[@AlphanaII517]

5:03 "he got the spirit. He a little confused, but he got the spirit"

[@zozobdair9971]

3:24 I don't know if anyone has noticed, but if you flip the gas cylinder in the background upside down, you can see the diamond authority symbol from Steven universe

[@chasethemaster3440]

Oh yeah you’re right neat

[@zozobdair9971]

@@chasethemaster3440 thanks for noticing

[@gamefan6219]

30:06 IT'S TIME TO FACE YOUR FEAAAAARS!!

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Very well done Breakdown, How about doing Pacifica next?

[@GermanFFreddy]

With the whole "being immune to the memory gun thing" it also references substance abuse because, typically, if you overuse something, the effects start to lessen, and you won't get effected as much.

[@rawquikh0ney710]

Reminds me of Simon all over again

[@ShimmeryKaylaAce]

Can you do character analysis videos of Amphibia characters next?

[@LindaL-t6w]

If you think about it old man mcgucket and ice king are very similar

[@JabamiLain]

If the Theraprism always gets new patients from every corner of the omniverse, what villains do you see being trapped there ? I imagine: -Xehanort; -Being X; -Kaguya might, one day; -Thanos; -Infinity Ultron. Who else might be there ?

[@apexhunter935]

Considering how much potential there was in weirdmaggedon, the whole thing could probably be its own season (maybe not as long as the first 2, but still).

[@MewGamer-bj9in]

McGucket is such an amazing character

[@SellavinAtoms]

21:10, you definitely know there's something wrong with.Even the villain of the series doesn't want to mess with you, also. Good bill cypher impression i could watch this all day.

[@avch1209]

Was McGucket already married when he built the portal or did he fall in love with a townswoman?

[@fuzzysweater12]

He was married prior to accompanying Ford in Gravity Falls as his wife & son lived with him in Palo Alto. Fiddleford ends up unintentionally abandoning them. Despite that, Tate eventually comes to Gravity Falls at some point.

[@DrCocofruit]

Bro, Fiddleford has a beautiful story. Tha k you Gravity Falls for such incredible characters like him

[@Link60255]

Thumbnail McGucket: PERSONA *DISTURBING THE PEEEEEEACE*

[@Sp00kystone420]

It’s simple, you can see in the tapes Mcgucket had a bandage on his neck maybe after trying to shave and he never took it off staying stuck to his beard as it grew

[@FalcourStudios]

7:46 why am I imagining the hide behind violently playing a banjo

[@HoneyHanya32]

The fact that all this was done just to forget about Billiam makes me wonder what kind of cosmic horror it must be to actually see the triangular little guy go mask off in front of you. I'd do the same if I could.

[@LordKang]

Damn does it take you this long to make a single video like what are you doing!?

[@sammcfarlane2494]

I feel so bad for McGucket

[@MarcusJackson-v2c]

Hey the roundtable I have the idea for your next video it's about you talking about new Steven universe villains both gem and human And maybe the humans might use gem technology has weaponly Or maybe given powers after a new antagonist gem plus the power to grant powers and gives all these humans who either is just wants to steal something or some of them who just wants revenge on the gem Like I was thinking of one a journalist who fakes his reports and when the gems accidentally expose him he wants revenge and this mysterious gem Guess in the power of his camera with skips in the power to project copies of himself And here's another a daredevil who is so obsessed with his stunts he nearly put some of the people in beach city endanger and instead of not doing stunts anymore he uses gym technology to make his stunts even more dangerous And maybe you could talk about more human villains and new gem villains especially this mysterious one and more main antagonist some gem some human And everyone like this comment if you agree on this video idea And roundtable I hope you like this idea too and keep a good work and again great job naming your KZbin channel after a pizza restaurant🍕🍕🍕🍕.

[@BraydenHammer]

And his creation was probly also zapping his son stopping the truth from being remembered

[@couchpotato8824]

It reminds me a lot of ice king introduced as very silly character only to shown slowly how lost he is.

[@badmusic793]

2:28 troy and abed are the reason i went to community college

[@Sanest_N25_And_DOA_Trio_Fan]

Tbh I think bill had it worst I mean he literally Accidentally Killed his parents and went insane over it

[@theentity975]

i love you fiddleford omg

[@ultimatekidstv7050]

Ok here me out, can you do a vid on why there was a baby in Stanley’s moms arms 3 brother maybe, if you have already i will watch it, keep doing what your doing man!

[@Leviathan1208]

The baby was shermie pines, dipper and mabel's grandmother/father

[@demeteriusstaten3724]

Finally make it to a video that has 8 hours

[@curabletoxin]

I didnt know Mcgucket played Persona 3😃

[@theprecartoonworld]

2:41 looking by the photo, I can tell who they worship, B-I-L-L C-I-P-H-R. But serious Gravity Falls has been shown to be a really tragic show, even for the background characters who really no one cares about. Heck even the hillbilly guy has a tragic backstory who was trying his best to help Ford and still got mistreated any way.

[@sirsir8163]

IVE BEEN FALLOWING THE RUBIX CUBE GUIDE FOR 40 MINUTES 5:08

[@ninakrishnamurthy6674]

5:17 What is this Journal 3 page? I can't find it in my copy. Is it only in the blacklight edition?

[@ninakrishnamurthy6674]

Nevermind. I found it. It's in The Book of Bill.

[@BraydenHammer]

The tech explains the anti gravity

[@saintzeroinfinity]

Thirty one minutes in that a megazord!

[@gnashing_teeth]

someone get him a chiropractor so he can walk right again ToT

[@selkie2737]

Fiddleford my beloved

[@manoftheusajones5147]

That Man’s hair became White TOO EARLY, WAY before he reached his Late 50’s/Early 60’s!

[@DSi381]

McGucket’s middle name was in reference to the Hadron Collider? Huh.

[@viriyananda]

Stan ford ruined everything being so naive or egoistic smart person 1. Blamed Stanley ruined project for his future it was a accident it kick out of home 2. Best friend/make a deal with entities it will destroyed multiverse 3. Make someone smart and has a family become insane person it make his son hate him being insane

[@EdwardSanchezProductions]

I love gravity falls so much

[@viriyananda]

Stan ford really ruined everything with his egoistic obsession of his supernatural of unknown He just can't forget that was accident but no he only see two of them differently He see stan pines a someone ruined everything but he ruined his life being the reason and he just use him and make him go insane he created a erased mind gun

[@johnchism3705]

His story doesn’t just end there. He also became President in 2016 and prevented the Pandemic from ever happening.

[@adamethridge7824]

Poor McGucket all he wanted was his son to fish with him when we first meet him mean while Stan is forcing him self in to other ppl fishing trips because the twins go exploring with soos

[@billcipherfan-l5q]

hes such a silly guy!!!!!!1!

[@ZB0t52]

crazy old gucket mcdonalds

[@goobgoob4509]

8:16 does anyone else notice that on the far right there is a constellation of bill titled William

[@Maxwell4Smash]

Reminds me of a certain cold wizard

[@saintzeroinfinity]

Ha huh “Gunther”!

[@Maxwell4Smash]

@saintzeroinfinity Gunford

[@BraydenHammer]

Tge tech metaphors make me think he actually did ribotsize himself 21:37