Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls is an animated Disney Channel Original Series created by Alex Hirsch and produced by Rob Renzetti. It began airing on June 29, 2012 and has quickly developed a cult following with its paranormal theme, inventive writing, quirky yet lovable characters, thrilling escapades, and enough eyebrow-raising jokes to make one wonder how a kid-friendly channel like Disney picked it up in the first place. The show tells the story of twins Dipper and Mabel Pines, who have been sent to live for the summer with their "grunkle" Stanford "Stan" Pines in the mountain town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, where he owns the Mystery Shack, "the world's most bizarre museum".

Dipper and Mabel's situation worsens (or, rather, betters) when Dipper finds a mysterious book, whose cover is only marked with the number "3" and a hand with six fingers. Upon opening it, Dipper finds a Great Big Book of Everything explaining the many strange beings, past events, and even federal cover-ups that exist within this town of secrecy — all cut through with an urgent warning: Trust No One!

Thus begins Mabel and Dipper's adventures as they interact with the supernatural world that surrounds them. After the first season finale, Alex Hirsch announced that the series would be going on a possibly year-long hiatus. Several Miniseries were released over the break to keep fans satisfied.

Such miniseries include:


 * Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained, where Dipper attempts to make documentaries explaining supposed mysteries around Gravity Falls
 * Mabel's Guide to Life, in which Mabel tries to give out handy tips to live every day life
 * Fixin' it with Soos, a short series of videos that has Soos trying to fix various things around the Mystery Shack
 * TV Shorts, which consist of a few sketches depicting Gravity Falls' TV programming
 * Mabel's Scrapbook, which follows the Pines family on vacation outings.

Season 2 premiered on August 1, 2014, 364 days after the season 1 finale. New episodes now premiere on Disney XD first and Disney Channel later on.

Gravity Falls is Spoilered Rotten as a series and most of the supporting cast (and some of the main cast) are Walking Spoilers, so be warned.

"Soos: So, you're probably a girl, right? Wrong? No, I was right the first time. ...Wrong?"
 * Ambiguous Gender: In Soos and the Real Girl, Soos tries flirting with an Emo-looking person outside an Edgy on Purpose store.

"Announcer: Coming up next: The Widdlest Wampire, The Planet People of Planet Planet!, Help! My Mummy's a Werewolf!, Attack of the Exclamation Points!!!!!!!!, The Man with no Taste, Ghost Turtle, Help! My Mummy's a Werewolf! 2: This Again! Dipper: You want to never watch this channel again?"
 * Author Avatar: While not the series' writer, Kristen Schaal has claimed that Mabel is more like her than any other character she's voiced.
 * B-Movie: In Into the Bunker, all the low-budget movies featured on the Gravity Falls Bargain Movie Showcase. The movie shown at the start of the episode, aptly titled Nearly Almost Dead But Not Quite!, features copious amounts of Bad Bad Acting.

"Stan: "Stop-motion is pure evil!" Soos: "And probably really expensive." Claymore: "Incredibly expensive." Soos: "This is an impressive fight, though. I'm glad I'm facing towards it.""
 * Battle Discretion Shot: In Little Gift Shop of Horrors, at the end of the Clay Day short, the Mystery gang (and Claymation animator Claymore) watch a battle between clay figures rage on, while we the audience only see shadows.

"Franz: You call yourself a golfer? Without us, that club is useless in your hands! Mabel: Oh yeah? What's ten minus six? Franz: Ten minu- what- hang on... Mabel: FORE! (Sends the tiny Franz flying)"
 * Behind the Black: In Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained - Lefty, Dipper investigates a man who only shows his left side to people. And when we say 'only shows his left side', we don't mean that he wears special clothing to cover his right side; we mean he only appears from the left, moving in strange ways so as to never be viewed from any angle other than the left. An amusing gag, to be sure, but a bit of a headscratcher when you try to figure out how he could possibly avoid showing his right side in open spaces like a public park, or how he would deal with several people looking at him from different angles.
 * Brother-Sister Team: Dipper and Mabel.
 * Busman's Holiday: The whole series is this. It starts with Dipper and Mable's parents deciding the siblings could use "some fresh air" and ship them to Grunkle Stan's for the summer. Then the fun starts...
 * City of Adventure: The town of Gravity Falls.
 * Claymation: Mabel's phobia.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Both Mabel and Soos, to varying degrees.
 * Confusion Fu: In The Golf War.

"Oh, hi there! My name is Giffany. I'm a schoolgirl at School University."
 * Dating Sim: In Soos and the Real Girl, Soos decides to brush up on his dating skills by naively renting a game called Romance Academy 7. Right from the moment he picks it up, the show mercilessly lampoons the genre.
 * Deliberately Cute Child: Lil' Gideon.
 * Department of Redundancy Department: In Soos and the Real Girl, Giffany introduces herself as follows:


 * Early Bird Cameo: While the first "official" appearance of Bill Cipher is in episode 19 (""Dreamscaperers") he appears briefly in the opening credits as far back as the first.
 * Easter Egg: Quite a few references to Rick and Morty appear on this show, and many references to this one appear there, due to a long friendship between the creators of both.
 * Eldritch Abomination: Bill Cipher.
 * Eldritch Location: The entire town seems to be a magnet for supernatural activity for reasons not fully explained.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Lil' Gideon.
 * Generational Trauma: Stan clearly favors Mabel over Dipper as shown in "Dreamscaperers". He gives her more leeway while making Dipper do the nasty chores like shooing a bat out of the kitchen. We soon find out why: . It gets darker in "A Tale of Two Stans" and the graphic novel: . It takes until the season 2 finale for.
 * Genius Ditz: Soos may be socially awkward, Book Dumb, and lacking in anything remotely resembling common sense, but damned if he isn't a mechanical prodigy.
 * Genki Girl: Mabel.

"Mabel: Darn! Poop heck darn!"
 * Gosh Dang It to Heck: In The Golf War.

"When the cherry petals of Romance Academy are in bloom... anthyding can hadplen. Soos: That is so true."
 * Half-Identical Twins: Dipper and Mabel. They claim to be "birthday experts" because they always celebrate two at once.
 * Hollywood Law: The show seems to combine Artistic Licence with canon information here; the Wiki has a whole page devoted to how odd some laws of the town are.
 * Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Mabel's sweaters can sometimes go into this.
 * Intentional Engrish for Funny: The intro screen of Romance Academy 7, in Soos and the Real Girl.

"Soos' Grandma: I do not want to pressure you, but you are a man now. In a way. It's time for you to start meeting girls. I would like to see you settled before I ascend to heaven and leave with the angels. Soos: And with grandpa! Soos' Grandma: [Beat] No, he is not there. [turns gaze downward]"
 * I Want Grandkids: In Soos and the Real Girl:

"Mabel: Hah! You're over Wendy?! Allow me to put on my 'skepticles'. (Makes circles around her eyes with her fingers) Whooop!"
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Grunkle Stan.
 * Limited Wardrobe: Averted with both Dipper's hats and Mabel's sweaters. Played straight with Grunkle Stan for the most part, as he almost always wears a black tie, suit, and his fez.
 * Man Child: Soos. Disney even uses that exact word to describe him.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Lil' Gideon. Mabel goes on a pity date with him, and emotionally manipulates her into accepting two more.
 * Meet Cute: In Soos and the Real Girl, Soos hits it off with a real girl named Melody, who works at a restaurant called MeatCute.
 * Mutants: In Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo, animals mutate in bizarre ways when they drink the runoff from a nearby factory. A goat is shown instantaneously developing a second head. And the featured animal, Octavia, is a cow that grew four extra legs out of its back.
 * Nice Hat: Grunkle Stan really seems to like his fez.
 * Never Say "Die": Defied. For a Disney cartoon, this show has quite a large kill-count, as this video shows.
 * No Pronunciation Guide: Parodied in Soos and the Real Girl. Giffany's name is alternately pronounced "Giffany" with a hard G, or "Jiffany". This is a reference to the .gif file type, and how people cannot agree on whether it's pronounced "Giff" or "Jiff".
 * Once Per Episode: Every episode has a scene where someone drinks Pitt Cola, a peach-flavored soft drink. This is a reference to director Joe Pitt.
 * One-Way Entrance: In "The Inconveniencing" episode, when the group attempts to leave, the doors slam shut.
 * Precocious Crush: Dipper has one on Wendy, the 15-year old girl who works at The Mystery Shack.
 * Pungeon Master: Mabel.

"Soos: Isn't electric clothing kinda like a fire hazard? Mabel: No. It's a fun hazard."

"Mabel: Don't worry, bro! You're still... (slaps a sticker with a dinosaur on his cheek) ...Ext-roar-dinary!"

"Stan: "You see, Mabel, those monsters are just tiny clay figures moved around one frame at a time by an antisocial shut-in." Soos: "Those people are called animators.""
 * Scattered Across Time and Space: Dipper and Mabel do this by accident in "The Time Traveler's Pig", accidentally spilling the objects in their pockets across time and space through a sibling squabble. Because they used Blendin's time belt, Blendin' is charged with picking up all the objects through time after the Time Police arrest him.
 * Self-Deprecation: In Little Gift Shop of Horrors, Grunkle Stan tries to help Mabel get over her phobia of Claymation.


 * Special Effects Failure:
 * Copious amounts of terrible chroma-keying feature in Grunkle Stan's advertisement for the Mystery Shack, and in the Fixin' It With Soos shorts.
 * The Fixin' It With Soos shorts also have free-trial watermarks in the intro.
 * Sweet Tooth: This is Mabel's third most prominent idiosyncrasy (behind being a Genki Girl and Cloudcuckoolander. She's even shown consuming raw sugar packets.
 * Wham! Shot: Has enough Wham! Shots to make a drinking game out of them. Just to start with:
 * Episode 1
 * Norman decides to reveal his secret to Mabel. She hopes that he will be a vampire, and thinks it repeatedly. He then opens his coat...revealing himself to be a bunch of gnomes, who pop the question to her. Mabel understandably collapses in shock and disappointment because she's not ready for nonconsensual polyamory. As Dipper puts it when he finds out, "I was way off" because he thought Norman was a zombie.
 * The episode ends with Stan punching a code into the Mystery Shack vending machine. It opens a secret door, and he goes inside.
 * Episode 4 reveals that Gideon Gleeful has Journal 2.
 * In "The Deep End," Mermando decides to reveal his secret: he is a mermaid! Mabel gives a sigh of relief; she thought he had a girlfriend.
 * "Dreamscaperers" has one, when Gideon opens Journal 2 to reveal the mysterious figure who appears at the end of the opening credits. It ends with.
 * The season one finale "Gideon Rises" show what's behind the vending machine:.
 * An in-universe one in "Scaryoke" as zombies trap the Pines in the attic. Dipper frantically says that the Journal pages are blank... They quickly find a counterattack to dispel the zombies and cure Soos after he gets bitten.
 * Write What You Know: Alex Hirsch based the series on the childhood summers he and his twin sister spent camping with their great-aunt.
 * Write Who You Know: Mabel was named after and heavily inspired by Hirsch's sister. One example is that Mabel Hirsch wanted a pet pig when she was a kid, so Alex gave Mabel a pet pig in the show.
 * Yandere: Giffany from Soos and the Real Girl is a stereotypical instance of one.