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Hey, everybody, Ella here this
is the grand finale of this podcast.

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Thank you all so much for listening
along the way, and be sure to

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stick around until the very end of
this episode because we have some special surprises

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and some parting gifts. But without
further ado, on with the finale.

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Take me back to the Place signed
with the Mystery Shack and the forests.

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I'm already back, so come on, let's go. Don't get me started.

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My heart's rapedy me. Take me
back to the place I know with

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the Mystery Shack and the poorest gnomes. I'm already backs. Come on,

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let's go, don't get me started. My heart's in Gravity First. Welcome

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to Mystery Shack. Look back.
A nostalgic time capsule and no spoiler book

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club of the original Gravity Falls Phantom. We we are your curators. I'm

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Ella, I'm Shelby. Where are
we well, Charlie, We're We're in

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the last episode of this podcast.
Generally speaking, there might be others later

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eventually, but as far as the
main run of this podcast is concerned,

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this is the last. Yeah,
this is the last bit of canon Gravity

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Falls material. There is yeah that
as of this point, we've we've covered

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it all. It's weird and it
hasn't set in yet, mostly because I

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mean, it won't sat down until
this posted, at least for me,

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because recording is just kind of step
line of the whole thing. But oh,

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I've been doing that last Okay,
no, you don't actually want to.

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I think that you could do it
that way. It's just a lot

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harder. Okay, yeah, I've
been letting you guys talk and then just

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recording parts where I respond later.
Is that great? That's why you're so

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much funnier than me? Got it? I don't think that's true. Shelter,

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Well, I say, we just
asked Charlie what they think and then

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leave a nice long gap in for
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do you say, Charlie? Great? Yeah, that's great. That's great.

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So so yeah, this, uh, this, this kind is the

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last thing that's been released up to
the point that we're recording. Unless there's

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like magically more episodes next year,
this is will be. There will be

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the vinyl and we will cover it
when it Yeah, and we got to

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our Patreon stretch goal to cover over
the guarded walls on this very feed.

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Well that's not all today is Ella, that's not all today. Oh,

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that's right. This day is not
only the end of our podcast, but

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was the end of Dipper and mabel
summer and the end of their twelfth year

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of life. Happy birthday, Dipper
in Mabel. Yeah, Happy twenty third

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birthday, Dipper in Mabel. Right. Yeah, Now, in twenty twelve,

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it was the end of their twelfth
year. And now now they're they're

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my age again. They're twenty thirdngratulations, they're your age now. They always

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were. They seem to have stayed
twelve for like four consecutive years. Oh

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yeah, I mean everybody has their
awkward stages. I mean, gravierty Falls

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in itself must be a time capsule. But it's for that summer. Ah,

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good thing, we made a time
capsule. It's true. Yeah,

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the past tense. May. I
know, past tense is a weird thing

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to say about it, but I
guess the let's just get right into it.

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I guess. The thing we're covering
today gravity Falls Lost Legends, the

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first official Gravity Falls Well, technically
it's a graphic novel that becomes a point

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of contention in one of the stories
it does, and there's you know,

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qualifiers on that because there were technically
there were Gravity Falls Sinnas stories, which

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were like screenshots from the show made
into comic form. It was kind of

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cool, but it is, you
know, and they mostly left out the

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quick time playbar. We will yeah, that is another thing we will get

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to. Yeah. So this was
the first original stories in comic form for

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Gravity Falls and it was released on
July twenty fourth, twenty eighteen, alongside

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the box set DVD, and it
really shows you how sparse Gravity Falls stuff

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became these past few episodes, because
you know, we talk about the finale

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that wrapped up, you know,
of the show itself. We're going to

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getting three that was February twenty sixteen. Then we talked about the Cipher Hunt

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and the Journal, which was that
summer that was months after in twenty sixteen,

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as well as well as the Time
Pirates, and now we're talking about

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Lost Legends, which was two years
later. So it's like the gaps between

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things just got larger and larger,
and now we're here. It's hard to

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cover the coloring book. So I
do have a there's a section at the

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end. I just have all the
other stuff that we'll just blitz through.

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You got, but it was announced
closer to the other release states. It

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was announced an entire year earlier,
both at D twenty three and with a

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little tweet with Alex saying step right
up, kids, The Gravity Falls graphic

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novel is officially announced. No tales
us Settling Monsters, the Death of Your

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Head cannons with a with a little
illustration by one of the artists, Serena

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Hernandez also known as Kiki Kit,
who is a Gravity Falls fan artist that

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Alex hired. The illustration by Serena
says start saving up nerds. So yeah.

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This book was written by Alex Hirsch
and it was illustrated by Joe pitt

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Ian, worrel Asaf Hanouka, Dana
Terris, Jacob Chabau, Jim Campbell,

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Kyle Smeely, Meredith Grand, Mike
Holmes, Serena Hernandez, Stephanie Ramirez,

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and Valerie Halla. So yeah.
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a co panel with Alex Hirsch and
Darren Nepsi promoting gravity Falls Journal three and

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something called Star and Marco's Guide to
Mastering Every Dimension. I did not know

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about this, Shelby. Did you
did you know about this book? Have

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you seen this. Have you heard
about that? I have heard whisperings about

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it, but I don't actually own
that all the way. Yeah. Yeah,

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you saw a door with the book's
logo on it and you knocked on

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it, and they said, what's
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You didn't know. I just left. I'm guessing that this book was

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like the equivalent to Different Mabel's Guide
to Mystery not Stop Fun but for Star

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Versus, which is pretty cool.
Sounds like it. That makes the other

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one lyric Journal three there was another
one. I guess that that. Yes,

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there's like it's basically the spell Book. Yeah, oh cool. So

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yeah they did a real Jeffrey Tambour
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actually been much like a demon in
an old movie, has been entombed in

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a book for his crimes. Okay, good, good. Before that panel,

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it was, it popped up on
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It listed as untitled mystery book in
Caesar Cipher fascinating and our friend of the

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show that fan had talked about it
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you know, this wasn't a leak. This was put there to generate that

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speculation because the description said like all
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So I think this was something deliberate. I don't know if it was directly

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Alex's idea, but it sounds like
something just feel like something Alex would concoct,

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speaking of things that Alex would do
and did. On the second anniversary

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of the finale February fifteenth, twenty
eighteen, Alex revealed the cover in a

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very interesting way. Everyone involved in
the show, and even like Ariel Hirsch

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posted to various social media's puzzle pieces
and you had to find all of them

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to link them together and make the
books cover. Well, if that's not

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the cutest thing I've ever heard,
like, I love it. Just a

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bunch of pine trees. You have
to gather all the trees and put them

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together. So, yeah, the
pieces were made of pine trees, right,

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or they were shaped like like the
ones on Dipper's hat specifically, Yeah,

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which is so it's like a little
forest forest forest. Yeah. There

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is the hashtag puzzling pines event over
Twitter, Tumbler, and Facebook, which

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two of those you really don't do
anything on anymore. Now that's a time

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cap. Yeah. And then eventually
a proper AD was released, except not

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really. It was an ad for
a fake Schmebuloch toy that reveals it's an

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ad for the comic at the end. Is he home or favorite gnome?

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Sug John smylock. He just loves
to chase your kids? Does what to

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say? Introducing tug and talk Schmebuloc, the most talkative and lovable gnome in

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gravity Falls. What's your favorite color? Fool I be when I grow up?

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Talking talk Schmebulock has over twenty five
unique phrases. There's Mebulock and also

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and who could forget thrown ups just
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But kids get it, he said, Schmebulock, Smebulock. Does it ever

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get lonely in the forest? We
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You can talk. Although I was
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every thousand years, I am granted
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is nighe. Wow, you must
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age of blood and steel, where
beasts spoke as men and riddles whispered in

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the trees. You must have a
lot of stories to tell. It's funny

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you should say that I have four
stories, four lost tales, forbidden adventures

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from the past that have yet to
be told. Smernographic novel Mebulock is a

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talking if you wrote a book that
you should buy Gravity Falls, Lost Legends

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for all New Adventures coming to a
store near you. I like Smegulock.

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I love capitalism. I want Tugge
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It's such a good commercial. I
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I was excited, and then I
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honestly was more excited. In all
honesty, I this is not my first

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YouTube channel, the one I've mentioned
several times. I ran a YouTube until

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like from like two thousand and six
to like twenty thirteen. That uh well,

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one of the reasons I stopped posting
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a teenager in all of the videos, and I'm like, this is weird.

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And I was mostly helping other people
with videos. I made these Sam

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and Max comic dubs with Malcolm Ray, and I made the Honkah Special with

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Ella, the Gravity Sonica Special.
Yeah, I made this channel just to

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host things for my Tumblr because Tumblr
didn't have very good video uploading back then.

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People wouldn't have very good period.
Yeah, but with you and Sarah

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and all your reach on awkward gravity
Falls screen caps and dirty GF confessions here

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here, uh, I wound up
accidentally becoming a popular YouTuber. I wasn't

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even checking the channel. I was
just put up embedding the videos, but

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they would get a lot of views, and I started getting subscribers because I

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started appearing on search results for gravity
Falls, and I thought, what should

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this channel be? Then? What
should I do? What should it be

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a project that would be specifically this
channel? And I was like, well,

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this channel is sort of a spin
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and the gravity Fall stuff I've been
doing on Tumblr and with Ella. So

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the logical conclusion is I got to
go see if there's an official gravity Falls

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comic and there wasn't, so I
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say the reason that my channel exists
is so that I could one day spend

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an entire year dubbing the official gravity
Falls graphic novel. That's exactly what happened,

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and that is I am very proud
to say how I have made most

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of my income in my life.
I think it's safe to say that you

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might know this book better than Alex
at this point. Yeah. Did voice

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direction, which meant reading over every
line over and over again with different people,

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like I would gather in shelby and
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line like this. I voiced my
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then I edited it, which is
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the timing right. Yeah. And
of course the visuals of a comic up

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revealing every line one at a time, which is yes, I had to

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do. I had to edit those
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it's fair to say that I've read
every line in this book, and then

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counting watching the video to check the
audio levels, and watching it during our

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few streams, and sometimes I just
watch it. I'm proud of it.

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I think it's safe to say I've
read this book close to somewhere between blevantine

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and twenty seventy twelve times. Yeah, whoever can find us the exact mathematical

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midpoint will win a tug in talk
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that to mystery Shack Gravity falls fan
like, we should pitch that to him

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for the tenth anniversary of the finale, but make it making a lock.

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Oh my god, you're right,
the kind of thing that he would like.

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Yes. There was also a Barnes
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which is the one that I happened
to have, which has an extra

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chapter titled Seus's com Corner, and
it is narrated by Seuss. It includes

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sixteen extra pages of behind the scenes
sketches and notes and uh, just kind

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of info on the making of the
graphic novel, detailing many of the pages

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and exploring secrets within them. And
I really really love this chapter. I

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it's a shame that it isn't in
every version because I love it for similar

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reasons that I love Different Mabel's Guide, because it's very much speaking directly to

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kids and to the reader and encouraging
them that, like you two can not

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only find mysteries and stack many hats
on your head, but you can also

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draw comics. How does Sus say
this? He says, Uh, if

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you want to draw comers, you
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mirs and az or sorry, if
you could stip alert, it's a crammer.

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He also says, fun fact,
did you know that comics are drawn

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not by gods but in fact actual
mortal human bigs, Which is something that

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we say all the time on this
podcast, which is I was amazed when

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I read that everyone who worked this
show was at work at the time.

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That was their job that they did, mostly because it was fun, but

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also because they needed rent in groceries
because Los Angeles is expensive and that,

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and also that they are not actually
mastermind chess players, but they are people

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writing a cartoon and you can do
that too. And Yeah, the fans

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talk about Alex Hirsch with this lens
of like he is this mastermind who no

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one could do what he did.
And the way Alex Hirsch talks about himself

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is like, I didn't I wasn't
ready to have a TV show. I

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was fresh out of college. I
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it's like, not only is it, you know, dehumanizing to Alex to

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frame him that way, but also
it does oneself a disservice because it implies

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that you couldn't do that even if
like you wanted to. It's like,

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yeah, I like that this this
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yeah, these things start out as
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and I love the There's an expression
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commentaries and stuff, where they say, at one point in production, every

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Pixar movie was the worst film ever
made, which you know, and sometimes

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it stays that way. But that's
like how how Neil Gaiman says the point

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of doing a rewrite is to pretend
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exactly. So I dig it.
I encourage anyone to seek it out if

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it's out there somewhere still. I
imagine the Barnes and Noble version with this

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is probably still available, maybe at
Barnes and Noble, maybe at Barnes and

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Noble, maybe at some Noble barn
in some way. Yeah, it would

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be nice if they would add that
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of Alex's message whenever he does talk
to the fans, Yeah, it's got

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like I did this, you can
do this too, do it better.

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I don't like how the fans tend
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he talks about himself. Well,
so I mean, like, most of

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the fans were so young that I
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that was him just being a weird
millennial and take it as like this is

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from the gods, and so part
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things are not from a godly perspective. Everybody is more sure as a weird

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millennial. I think that is the
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There's also one of the only gravity
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writer. This is true, but
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all of the adults in your life
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person too. They have to hear
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what was going like, they didn't
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I turned out like this because I
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Christian child though, so like it
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up point. You grew up an
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was born a baby, and then
grew up an adult. Those are

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non conflicting. I see you're born
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I think, oh, I didn't
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about, which should be impossible in
a book. Uh. Those are from

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the dub that the three of us
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the link will be in the description. If you want to hear the

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context of these clips, and you
know what, enjoy the whole comic for

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free. It is delightful, so
I highly recommend you do so if you

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have it already. And also,
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remaster of My Hearts and Gravity Falls. That was for the credits of that

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Coming True, and we'll get we'll
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I think that's a good thing to
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opens with a faceless narrator, which
is soon on page two revealed to be

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Schmebuloc, who can speak hidderneath the
dappled beams of honey colored sunlight betwixt the

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BlackBerry brambles and the brooks. Eerie
song legends whisper of an unseen world,

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unmarked on the maps of men,
is the land of the gnomes. Least

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among these creatures is Schmebulac, a
gnome they say, is so stupid that

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he can only speak his own accursed
name, Schabuloc. Yes, that's the

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one. But there is more to
this poor soul than meets the eye.

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I would know. I am Schmabulac. Yes, he was cursed EANs ago

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by a dark war to only speak
his own name. But once every thousand

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years he is gifted by moonlight to
speak the tongue of man, and tonight

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is that night, and he's got
his very hefner bathrobe and little orb of

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wine. Yeah. And my favorite, my absolute favorite moment with Schmebbylock is

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when he goes and I have opinions, loose sends I would like to see

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tied up and certain characters who I
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I think about it day and night. It torments me. And then he

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just stares into the fare with his
wine in his hand for a little bit,

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and uh, yeah. The the
direction I gave when I had that

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recorded was he is somehow both Saramon
and Barry White. Yeah. Yeah,

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that's a good direction. That line
is so funny. I know, like

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he's a he's an inch and philosopher, but he's also a swing and bachelor.

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an ancient philosopher, a swinging bachelor, and just a person yelling at Alex

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on Twitter. Yeah, which is
that fun uh Gravity Falls thing? Where

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like when there's a serious character,
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you know, an intentional kind of
through line, because Alex Hirsch did write

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both of these things that I'm about
to talk about. Where in the nom

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Gemulates game, there's a code that
Smebuloc says that translates to mine is but

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a solitary existence. I read,
I ponder, I stare at the Heavens

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Bounty. This is our world,
But cruel is the master of it,

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who condemned me to say, but
only my name. Perhaps my isolation is

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my gift, for it is only
in the separation from others that a mind

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can truly be. I have to
assume that that was kind of maybe Alex

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didn't think they were going to follow
up on that necessarily, but Alex maybe

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always had that Loure in his head
for Schmdbylock that was going to be implemented

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here. A lot of the function
of this book I have found is addressing

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the things that people wouldn't shut up
to Alex about. Yeah, that's definitely

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true, because there's a lot of
there's so many potential avenues you could take

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with like untold stories from gravity Falls. But the first one confirms the dip

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PACIFICA ship does it. Though it
does it does I'm not listening la la

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la la. It hints at it
from one end in the text. Yeah,

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Dipper, you're right. Dipper never
says he's romantically interested in Pacifica at

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any point. I think Dipper is
just getting attention from a girl who is

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his age and not his sister and
reacting appropriately. Yeah, I know.

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Yeah. And then the third story, odd we'll get to but deals with

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a lot of the Mabelest selfish stuff
that was going around post series. Yeah.

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I get it, because if you
have so much potential for what story

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is to tell you, it's an
easy way to narrow it down it's just

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take like, Okay, what are
the biggest like things you get people to

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stop tweeting at me? Yes,
exactly, exactly, much like I was

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saying a lot of the the Journal, three reeks of Alex going like,

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oh, I wasn't happy with how
he wrote this, let's wreckon on it

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and write it better. And yeah, this kind of reeks of will you

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leave me alone? A little bit? A little bit, which is at

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least in Alex's case, represented by
Smabylock. I also have read this book

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more than anyone else, so I
have issues with it that a first time

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reader wouldn't, because no one's ever
supposed to read anything this many times.

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Like that is true, like the
fact that if you're reading along with us,

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be on the lookout for characters taking
a full page spread to fall into

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a weird new location and then landing
on the next page with an ooh for

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a thud and then getting up like
where are we? And then there's a

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big spread reveal of the where they
are. That happens once in the first

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story, where are We Incredible?
I read about this in the Journal it's

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a paranormal black market under the town
twice in the second story, We're gonna

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have to go inside the comic and
rescue him. Last one there has to

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peak Marmy Dear, we're in Oh
oh no, I've been blown into the

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margins and once in the third story, Hey, hey, Hall, correct,

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that's true. So the first story
is called face it. I was

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unable to parse this in a way
that made the pun and clear. What

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do you mean the direction for Brian
Carolfish might be lock that one was.

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I don't know, you figure it
out. Yeah, yeah, So this

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is not only, like you said, the Dipper and pacifica story to address

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whatever they have going on, but
it's also an excuse to bring back the

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President's key. Yes, David's going
to be so happy. I know,

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David, if you're listening, this
one's for you. This one's for you,

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buddy. There is a mention in
Journal three to beware of a door

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that has what was it thirteen or
six thirteen on Main Street? Yeah.

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Yeah, So they finally do enter
the thirteen door on Main Street that was

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alluded to in the journal using the
President's key, and it is revealed it

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is the crawl Space, a paranormal
black market under the town. Yeah,

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which is a really cool concept.
I will note that that six x' six

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and that note has been there since
bored Art, because that's in the journal

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that I made, so it's not
something they added to it. That's been

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there from the start. Yeah,
the avoid the store on Main Street was

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there in like tourist trapped yea.
Yeah. Oh, we should state that

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the reason that Dipper and Pacifica have
to go down to the crawl space is

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because a monster named mister Wattson's face
stole Mabel's face because Pacifica was worried about

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her beauty and accidentally got Mabel's face
taken when she was trying to remove her

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own to get rid of all the
blemishes. Mm hmm. It happens the

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drawing of the when they initially opened
the door to the crawl space. Horrifye

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even goes this hallway has teeth yeah
and uh, as well as the mister

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Wes's face himself, who he self
describes as a beautiful flesh tornado of a

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face, which is true. He's
just like kind of completely seen in shadow

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for most of it, but we
do get a couple glimpses at the horror

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that is under his little hat.
He's got like that. Yeah, I

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love his uh, his used car
salesman aesthetic. It's very good. Yes,

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and there are some cameos in the
crawl space from uh, well,

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it's an opportunity to get a lot
of cameos into reveal that every creature in

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Gravity Falls is a secret meeting spot. Yeah right, but also not only

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in gravity Falls, but also outside
of Gravity Falls, right, Shelby,

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m hmm, that is true.
Yes, this is they. This is

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the first appearance of Eta the Owl
Lady in anywhere anyone? Oh yeah,

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wait was this before? This was
before because Dana did work on this,

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so Dana threw in a couple Well, Dana didn't work on on the comic

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that she worked on the comic as
a whole. But Alex also was the

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creative consultant for Owl House, so
she knew everything that was being planned.

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And yeah, and now House wasn't
out. Yeah, and when did that

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come out? Twenty nineteen? Yeah, this is the debut of the Owl

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Lady on a wanted poster in the
crawl space in silhouette. Yeah no,

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well sort of you can on the
water poster. It's a sill in the

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full page spread, but you have
you can make out that the shape is

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Da. If you know what Da
looks like. She does. She's a

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very she has a very unique silhouette. Oh, I see you got some

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eyes and yeah. Also owl Bert
is straight up scene in yes. Oh

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that's her staff. Yeah with lock
right, I believe so. Yes.

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And when you're looking at the journal
pages for the crawl space, the page

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that's side by side with the crawl
space is for the Boiling Aisles and has

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information about the first episode on it, which is fitting because that's also accessed

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via magic door. That is true. And behind Schmabulac Journal four is seen.

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Oh yes, that's right, that's
right. I have to imagine it's

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fan fiction. It's a meticulous fan
fiction. Amazing. There are so many

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cameos in the Carl's face. There
is a former member of the Blind Ice

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seen selling memory canisters. There's the
handwitch seen selling hands. She attends two

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swap meets regularly. I guess,
yeah, she attends to the human one

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and the monster one. She's got
the best of both worlds, I'd say,

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yeah, she does. Or she
arrives at both for half the amount

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of time, so it only counts
as one swap. Maybe she I've booked

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two swap meets on the same day, exactly. I was gonna say,

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she thought she'd only signed up for
one on separate nights. What am I

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going to do? A pirate Lila
Puttyn is seen stealing an egg from a

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question quail, which was mentioned in
Journal three. A plaid, a puss,

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and a geode, which are also
mentioned in the Journal, appear as

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well. A crow can be seen
holding the mystic amulet used by Gideon in

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the hand that rocks the mabel,
and it looked like it was it was

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repaired a little bit, which which
was interesting. Oh, I mean yeah,

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or it's a different one. He
might have chipped it off a big

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giant rock like Dipper did with the
shrink Grow crystals. That's also true.

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Yeah, I can't. And also
the bird has a top hat and a

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eye patch which is kind of looks
like a plague doctor too, well,

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I can't. I Also the fact
that the bird looks like a plague doctor,

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has one eye covered up and is
over a sign that says Faustian Bargains

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has me like, that's like the
that's like the dude, it's like my

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baby boy today, I love you
so much The gnome that was seen selling

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fairy dust in Last Mabel Corn could
be seen selling some to a unicorn.

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The Candy Monster from Dipper's Guy to
the n Explained could be seen chewing out

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a batter. One of the wanted
posters is a silhouette of Waxlary King.

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Some eebats can be seen flying around
a gram Bloblin can be seen passing by

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the barrels that Dipper and Pacifica are
hiding behind. The hide behind is not

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there? Oh there's a a sign
pointing toward the Black Lodge. Ha,

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that's great and uh yeah, mister
Wat's his face has a big wall of

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faces, including but not limited to, to Toot Mcbumber, Snazzle, Deputy

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Derland, the Summerween Trickster, Alex
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at the time that Alex was working
on this, and the happy Mask salesman.

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In Majura's Mask, the second Zelta
game for the Nintendo sixty four,

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dying people can be transformed into masks
that allow you to assume their form,

403
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and the salesman being a living face
mask is a very clever reference, as

404
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:53.519
well as when mister what's's face is
seen trying to sell a mask to Toby

405
00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:59.960
Determined, Yes, a face for
the chin. He is wearing the back

406
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:04.359
pack that the Happy Mask salesman is
seen wearing in Majar's mask with some of

407
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:09.240
the same masks on the back.
And we finally get slender Man in Gravity

408
00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:13.599
Falls for real this time, which
is kind of a big payoff to something

409
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.440
from towards the beginning of the series
in the fandom, when he was fake

410
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:22.359
photoshopped into Legend of the Comma Walker
and that was so widespread that people knew

411
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:28.599
Gravity Falls as that new slender Man
show on Disney. I have literally heard

412
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:31.599
multiple accounts of that being how people
heard about the show first. Wow,

413
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:35.759
because that is only two episodes in, there was not a whole lot of

414
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.519
outside of children that watch Disney Channel. Yeah. I guess that's because not

415
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:45.759
everybody finds it sideways from community because
John Oliver is in it. No,

416
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:51.559
not everyone sideways because Homestar Runner is
on high. Yeah, it's working on

417
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:55.839
something else this I guess. No, not everyone is as cultured. Oh

418
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:59.880
we're old, that's old old.
I think this was Yeah, Yeah,

419
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.079
I love this interpretation of slender Man
is just kind of neurotic. He's just

420
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.280
a nervous kind of guy. He
forgot his wallet, maybe he left it

421
00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:14.719
in his other slender pants. Oh
and when Pacifica is talking about being raised

422
00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:20.199
with such rigid beauty standards from her
mother, who was a literal trophy wife.

423
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:25.840
Literally one in what was it a
yachting competition, this entire book memorized

424
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:30.400
or anything. No, I just
know I can rely on you. Yeah,

425
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:37.199
She's seen cuddling with Lama Plushy,
which foreshadows her role in the Zodiac.

426
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:42.239
She's the Zodiac. She is the
Zodiac killer. Yeah. And then

427
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.239
Robbie, Young Robbie has snuggled at
home. Oh, stitched up heart,

428
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:53.599
flushy, I'll never leave you.
My personal favorite part of face it is

429
00:34:54.280 --> 00:35:00.239
doctor Crow's Feet, who sells beauty
bills. One because the it was a

430
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:07.800
really fun voice to do them.
What garanteed to draw your records and make

431
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:14.639
your stoic queen girl. But two
because that winds up being the Chekhov's gun

432
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:20.760
that they used to defeat uh,
the mister Wes's face because she neglects to

433
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:24.840
take them when she sees that the
side effects may include spontaneous face combustion and

434
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:30.039
that uses them basically as a grenade. So good. My favorite joke in

435
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:35.119
all of this has to be the
last one, which is that Ford rescues

436
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:38.719
them from mister Wets's face, and
Pacifica, who has never seen Ford at

437
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:44.599
this point, suddenly just thinks that
Stan just became hot all of a sudden.

438
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:51.360
Thanks, guys, I needed this. Hey, why is Stan suddenly

439
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:59.440
hot? Now? Yeah, I've
had a lot of That's one that I

440
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:02.480
get the most comments on because,
of course, because characters being attracted to

441
00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:07.400
other characters is the thing people like. And schmebulock, but I think it's

442
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:12.400
that, like she is used to
stand being someone who does not take care

443
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:16.800
of his appearance and being hot,
and you know, having the money to

444
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:22.599
afford grooming products are things that she
equates together. You're right, yeah,

445
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:28.039
Pacifica would see it is although Ford, maybe Ford can afford beauty products,

446
00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.840
but he chooses fire. He does
use fire. But he also, you

447
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:37.119
know, he has pretty up to
the moment glasses and hair style and those

448
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.760
big these have been the same since
nineteen eighty nineteen eighty two. They just

449
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:45.320
happen to be in style. They
were popular in twenty twelve so he came

450
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.039
back to the Yeah, back around, he came right, He came back

451
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:50.760
the right time. If he had
stayed in this dimension, people would be

452
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:54.400
like loser one of those glasses from
nineteen eighty two. Our kids kids still

453
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:58.920
into fedoras. I have a lot
of those. Oh no, oh no,

454
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.679
Uncle Forward, burn those, burn
them all. My favorite part is

455
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:09.960
the slow horror scene of Mabel drawing, Yeah, that's fantastic. I have

456
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.960
to change my answer. It's that
one Dan walks in on Mabel with no

457
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:19.239
face, and to try to react
to what he say, draws a smile

458
00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:25.480
on herself with marker, and it
just looks absolutely horrify. Have you seen

459
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:37.239
my world's most distracting object? Could
have sworn it, left it in and

460
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:45.119
stand just slowly back, so complete, completely undercutting the bloodless carnage of actually

461
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:50.760
taking the faces off. Is just
that horrible scrawled on smile on the blank

462
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:54.519
face. I do love that when
he steals face, it's just it just

463
00:37:54.599 --> 00:38:00.000
leaves this very clean, like smooth, just kind of pure baby. It's

464
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:06.039
very The faceless old woman who secretly
lives in your house esque, Oh I

465
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:07.960
know her? Uh, yeah,
she secretly lives in my house of course,

466
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:13.320
I I too, Oh yead,
has she been secretly living in other

467
00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.679
people's houses behind my back? So
the text exchange between Mabel and Pacifica at

468
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:21.039
the end does confirm that Pacific has
a crush on Dipper, which whatever,

469
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:27.280
but also confirms that Dipper doesn't own
a cell phone and Mabel does. I

470
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.960
intercepted this text exchange between the two
of them afterwards, and I found it

471
00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:40.800
interesting, very interesting. Hey Dipper, so about that hug. Don't get

472
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.000
the wrong idea or anything. There
was monster on my sleeve and I was

473
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.480
just wiping it off on you as
if I'd actually hug you on purpose.

474
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:54.880
Pacifica, this is Mabel. Dipper
doesn't have a cell phone? What hug?

475
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:00.159
What? Nothing? This was a
prank text, Oh gee, do

476
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:13.079
you like this number? The wedding
butler to break your legs? Uncomfortable and

477
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:19.039
confirms that gravity falls runs on the
cell service Gravity and Team, which I

478
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:22.639
think is the best part of this. In that exchange, I'm sending my

479
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:27.159
butler to break your legs is pretty
good, very and as well as oh

480
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:34.719
uncomfortable, And that brings us into
the second story. Calm mix up.

481
00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:37.960
Have you ever seen a baby that
looked old like an old baby. Well,

482
00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:42.159
we've officially run out of things to
talk about. Have you ever seen

483
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:47.119
a baby that looked old like an
old baby? Well, we've officially run

484
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:50.880
out of the things to talk about. I know, after fifty two podcasts,

485
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.639
we sure would. Yeah, so, have you guys ever seen a

486
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:59.559
baby that looks old like like an
old baby? I wish there was a

487
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.280
way to go on an adventure without, you know, tilting my neck.

488
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:06.119
Only there's a way to go on
an adventure without gutting up or tilting my

489
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.920
neck? Oh what about comix up? This one is a very meta joke.

490
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:14.880
The joke is that gravity Falls has
never been a comic before Gravity Falls

491
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:17.039
has made fun of animation. Yeah, well, I guess Sappahars, et

492
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.239
cetera. Those people are called I
don't write thirst But now they're in a

493
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:24.920
new format, and so there needs
to be new meta jokes and and it's

494
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:30.280
it's great, it's really fun.
Most of these are a little obvious.

495
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.599
Yeah, you know, the first
one is it's a little Richie Rich I

496
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:38.480
think, yeah, the first it's
it's specifically is Richie Rich in that first

497
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.519
one, Okay, it's Richie Rich
and Casper okay, but it's also contains

498
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:47.880
a reference to the goofy taking his
hat with his hat. I love that,

499
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:53.800
Hey cool too hot? What pay
cool? Too hot? And then

500
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:59.320
there's Blarchie at the at the very
beginning is Blarchie. Oh, Blarchie,

501
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:02.920
who needs a personality where you have
freckles and can fight two bears a season?

502
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.920
I know on Bliverdale, in the
show Bliverdale, which is Wendy's favorite,

503
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:13.800
which Wendy would watch absolutely Wendy lives
that. And in Riverdale, in

504
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:17.639
true to Lost Legends, form Archie
does have a please input personality. Here

505
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.280
he goes around like I don't know
what to do, and people are like,

506
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.480
you're a mobster now, and he's
like, oh, he's basically Donkey

507
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:30.079
Kong from a Pernicia. It's great
because every other teenager is written like they're

508
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:35.400
thirty years old, and he's written
like an eleven year old boy. I

509
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:40.599
think the metahumor works because they really
go all in on the style shifts,

510
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:45.440
because they really thoroughly Yes, I
just think that the styles are are a

511
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:51.480
little obvious, going Casper Richie rich
and then going mad magazine slash by versus

512
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:57.800
Spy show Joe Mom. Superhero comics
like these are the ones Charlie Brown slash

513
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.920
Peanuts Garfield. These are the ones
that you would parody if you're like,

514
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.679
I need to parody a bunch of
different comic book styles. The one I

515
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:09.199
find most interesting in this one is
the there is a page that parodies Hellboy,

516
00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:15.880
which is only in there because it
is one of Alex's favorite comic books,

517
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:22.119
and the artist who does the Hellboy
page is Alex's personal art hero,

518
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:28.199
asath Hanooka. That one feels like
I'm seeing something unique that only Alex would

519
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.679
have written, and like anyone would
have thought of they're all late for class

520
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:35.800
or whatever. Yeah, I guess
so, I think. I just I

521
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:42.599
really like how they how they explore
all these different designs and styles. Yeah

522
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:45.519
again, I have I loved this
when I first read it. That just

523
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.239
was, you know, something million
weeks ago and nothing holds up to that

524
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.320
much scrutiny because fiction is made up
by a person that is true. Yeah,

525
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:58.079
not by God. I like the
Bill Roy was here is a good

526
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:02.800
shout out to Kilroy is an old
graffiti that World War one or two,

527
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.679
I think two veterans used to do
where they would do a graffiti of a

528
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.039
little guy with a nose hanging over
a fence that says Kilroy was here.

529
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:15.760
Uh. And there's on the the
Mad magazine page. Uh, a graffiti

530
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.639
on the fence that says Bill Roy
was here, with Bill peaking his non

531
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:25.079
nose over I like that joke until
I got comments about it. Wait,

532
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:30.159
Bill was there? What? No, it's a reference to a maybe they

533
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:36.239
shouldn't let children watch children shows.
I don't know, I say, just

534
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.119
teach him swears. Yeah. Uh, there is a there is a kid

535
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:45.199
here whose whole thing is that he
likes swears. Yeah. Kid, We

536
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:50.960
refer to him ass and Steven voices
him beautifully in the comic. Yeah,

537
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:57.639
a book for kids that swears in
it cool and yeah, because when they

538
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.639
visit when SEUs gets blown out into
the gutters the spaces in between the comics,

539
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:07.360
he finds grunkle stan in Little Stanley
the Charlie Brown style. Well,

540
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:13.079
it's Charlie, it's Peanuts, and
it's Garfield, so it's it's general newspaper.

541
00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:19.199
Well, Garfield is Sarcasta, is
there puff exists in the Little Stanley

542
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:23.119
World? So Little Stanley World is
the newspaper. Comic cinematic universe. Yes,

543
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:28.400
of course I get it. Stan
Wow, Lil Stanley was ambitious because

544
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:30.719
he fled that he you revealed that
it was his dream to make a comic

545
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.679
and then they rejected him. Comic
slash Pyramids. Yeah, it was basically

546
00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:37.599
a pyramid s game in comic form. And then he got into a fistfight

547
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:43.639
with stan Lee in nineteen seventy eight. I consider so this comic came out

548
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:50.519
on July twenty fourth, twenty eighteen. Stanley died in November a couple months

549
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:53.840
later. I wrestled with if I
should keep that joke in the video and

550
00:44:54.039 --> 00:45:00.159
decided that stan Lee would. Stan
would have won it that way, then

551
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.679
we would have kept that joke in
the video. If Stanley's ghost was there,

552
00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:06.320
he'd be like, keep put in. It's funny when I think about

553
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:10.800
the idea of fist fighting Grunkle stan
This is something that I've thought about a

554
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:16.199
lot. I looked at my ceiling
and I saw a grunkle stand crawling on

555
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.760
the ceiling, and I thought,
what a great idea for a superhero.

556
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:25.599
What if there was a man who
had the powers of Grunkle. I don't

557
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:30.760
know who Steve did co is stop
saying that name. We'll call him Spider

558
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.039
Stand. That's crap. Oh man, wait to stip Oh wait, So

559
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:42.559
okay, So stan stan fist foot
stan Lee, who was named stan Lee

560
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:52.360
like as in Stanley but also inspired
J. Jameson, was created because stan

561
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:57.159
Lee wanted to play the character if
there was ever a live action movie or

562
00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:00.320
show or anything, so he drew
Jajona j Is in to look like him

563
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:07.199
and kind of talk like him,
and then that wound up being JK.

564
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:10.880
Simmons Sports Pins when there eventually was
because it Stanley did not realize it would

565
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.679
take forty years to be a live
action movie. So Stanley is just kind

566
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:22.559
of both stan twins Man. There
was a comic by Mooring Mark about that

567
00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:30.239
because the Stanley cameo happens post credits
in Big Hero six where he says,

568
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.280
we have a lot to talk about. So around the time Big Hero six

569
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.159
and No what he seems came out, there's one where stan Lee steps out

570
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.400
of the portal because the head canon
was that was what Stand's twin brother was

571
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:45.840
named Stanley, so he go Stanley
and he goes, we have a lot

572
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:53.480
to talk about, and then there's
the them fighting the indestructive Buddies with their

573
00:46:53.519 --> 00:47:00.440
own unique names and superpowers, which
I love. I love just change changing

574
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:06.960
their dialogue, and one of them
boasts that he has no weakness, but

575
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:09.960
then Mabel stabs him with the pointy
part of his speech bubble, which he

576
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:15.119
admits was his only weakness. It's
true. Also, then they get all

577
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:21.760
totally rad superpowers and kick everyone's butts
whoosh zapp Yeah, thanks to the power

578
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:27.880
of the power of white out and
rewriting over the story. So I do

579
00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:31.320
like this one. I get what
you're saying about the meta humor being a

580
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:37.000
lot if you have read it thirty
times, and if you keep getting comments

581
00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:42.440
on people who are still flabbergasted they
did manga. It seems like the joke

582
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:45.639
with anime still is that when it
is acknowledged by American media, that is

583
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.159
a joke in of itself. I'm
ready for that to stop. The Oh

584
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.719
yeah, I forgot. I honestly
forgot all about that page, although I

585
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:59.480
do like I did like voicing Sendpi
Gideon. That was fun. Yeah,

586
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:06.199
who is this feutiful stranger? N
a song? It's me so bad Giddy

587
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:09.760
helped me collect the Seven Crystal sailor
Angel campcry cards, and then we can

588
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:16.239
finally kiss. My favorite character I
voiced in this one was Horrifying Bird,

589
00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:23.719
an art deco crow that appears in
the Grim Dark Chronicles. I just like

590
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:29.239
going, but also I got to
do a deep, mysterious voice that is

591
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:32.719
typically away from how I type cast
myself, and no one realized I voiced

592
00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:37.760
that one. That's awesome. I
have seen the man. You see he

593
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:44.320
went in through those countcosh. Thanks
Terrifying Bird. I trust. And this

594
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.880
is also uh, this is also
where we get a very dramatic episode of

595
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:54.599
Detective in which Ductective is real to
be pregnant, which is not impossible,

596
00:48:55.360 --> 00:49:00.760
no, only improbable because Ductective is
too busy for a love life. Well

597
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:07.199
Detective is also not a mammal.
Mmmm yeah, well I like that.

598
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:12.239
This one has the similar philosophy to
that Bonus Seu's chapter of just encouraging people

599
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.480
to like hey, like, it
does not have to be as good as

600
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:20.119
something you're buying off the sho like, just make it like it doesn't it's

601
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:22.719
your Like, it's your art and
someone is going to like it. He

602
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:27.440
did accidentally photocopy a couple of his
arm hairs. Though, well, I'd

603
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.000
buy it. That's yeah, No, that that adds to the value.

604
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.039
Do you understand that? Yeah,
I stand It's a little thing called collector's

605
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:39.119
value. It's like select editions.
Well, Stanley, select editions have my

606
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:47.800
armpit hair. And I feel like
Jason would buy it. Jason would Jason?

607
00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:52.400
Did you know what it's? In
the build up to the next story,

608
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:58.000
don't dimention it should be a Locke
mentions that in the aftermath of word

609
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:01.320
Mageddon, a giant fault line open
in the forest that Dipper named Mabel's Fault,

610
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:07.880
And this is a reuse of an
unused joke from Scaraoke, where in

611
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:13.360
the original opening of that episode they
talked about how, after all the stuff

612
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.800
with the giant Gideon robot, there
was a giant fault lined the pines named

613
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.880
Gideon's Fault. So I think Alex
just really likes that pun. It was

614
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:24.559
too good a joke to pass up. Although the Mabel's Fault is referencing kind

615
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:30.639
of how the fans believe that Mabel
was completely behind weird Mgeddon because she was

616
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:36.199
tricked in a moment of vulnerability by
Bill in disguises blending and did not choose

617
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:39.320
to end the world as many claim
to remember it. That's true. I

618
00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:44.400
just really like a good pun on
the word fault. It's true. But

619
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.679
yeah, no, you are absolutely
correct. The fandom has been terrible to

620
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:55.039
Mabel since then, even though it
really don't dimention. It is about largely

621
00:50:55.079 --> 00:50:59.920
about addressing that, about getting Mabel
in a situation where she can see her

622
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:04.400
self externally and go, why do
I do that when there's important things to

623
00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:08.239
be done? Uh, it's I
don't know. I never felt Mabel was

624
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:13.760
selfish, So that conclusion to it
does it work for me? But what

625
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:21.599
does work for me is thousands of
alternate universe Mabels. It's ten percent of

626
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:27.760
which voiced by Shelby in the video, including the background noise on maybe three

627
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.880
L, the dimension where lost Mabels
stick together like potato chip crumbs at the

628
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:35.360
bottom of a bag. Maype three
L. I want to go there.

629
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:38.559
There are so many. There's Bob
Ross Mabel. There's Goodable, which is

630
00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:43.159
the Australian one who says things like
you got to be Paula now Wallabies.

631
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:47.440
There's table Mabel, There's three Bowl. There's military expert Mabel, and the

632
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:52.679
artist of the comic Serena Hernande is
also known as Kiki Kit, voiced three

633
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:59.920
bowl in Our in our dub of
it and did the thumbnail of the standalone

634
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.400
posting of it. And there's a
Morty Mabel and a Dipper Mabel. There

635
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:08.280
is a Morty Mabel. There's a
Dipper Mabel. There's one that Alex told

636
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:13.599
Serena to make look like a dinosaur, but she was really into undertail at

637
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:17.320
the time and accidentally made look like
Alphis. And now I have to get

638
00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:22.880
comments constantly. It was like that
there is a dinosaur, right, not

639
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:27.599
the sharp tooth. We're talking the
three hornes. Ah yeah, yeah,

640
00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:32.719
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I have previously actually interviewed Serena about this

641
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:38.480
comic as part of an event to
celebrate the video reaching one million views.

642
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.280
I can play some choice snippets from
the Oh yeah, give me it was

643
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:45.599
choice snippets, Charlie, I love
choice snippets. Shelby. How do you

644
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:51.119
feel about choice snippets? I think
they're very tasty. So how did you

645
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:57.440
first get involved with Gravity Falls Lost
Legends. It was the year before the

646
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:04.320
comic actually released, twenty seventeen.
Yeah, twenty seventeen. That February Alex

647
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:09.079
had made it a tweet asking who
everyone's favorite artist in the fandom was.

648
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:13.960
I didn't have a Twitter at the
time, but everyone or a bunch of

649
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:16.079
people kept on saying my name and
my name and everything. And at the

650
00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:19.840
time I was excited, like,
oh, he's gonna know who I am.

651
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:22.760
And like a month later I had
given up that anything was gonna happen,

652
00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:29.519
and I got contacted on Tumblr from
this recruiter at Disney saying, hey,

653
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.119
We're gonna be doing a Grand Falls
comic book. Everyone to know if

654
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:38.239
you wanted to be a part of
it, and I screamed, I just

655
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:44.360
it was insane. So then I
mean, gosh, you have to just

656
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:46.440
at least partially designed. I don't
know if there were sketches or anything,

657
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:52.360
but there are characters. There are
like fifty or sixty characters that you were

658
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:57.039
the only person who has drawn.
Yeah, there's a lot of Mabel's.

659
00:53:57.119 --> 00:53:59.840
I like to say that half of
them were Alex, the other half for

660
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:06.119
me. So anyone who has like
any good talking roles was Alex. Everyone

661
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:09.679
in the background. Mine is flamble, flameless, my golden child. She

662
00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:14.760
was perfect. That's actually that was
actually my favorite design. A lot of

663
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.199
people say that, and that's so
proud. She's like the cutest one.

664
00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:21.639
I managed to come up with.
The ones that I designed that stuck were

665
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:30.840
flamble, explainable, a bunch of
background characters. Indeed, the Giant crowd

666
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:37.159
shot that one panel in particular took
me two days non stop drawing to get

667
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.960
it done. So he would send
you sketches of the main ones, like

668
00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:45.280
Anti Mabel and yeah, well Anti
Mabel was also mainly me because she was

669
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:51.360
just she looks like Mabel, but
she does it. Whose idea was Anti

670
00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:53.760
Mabel's tussles of hair being pointed rather
than round it, That was all me.

671
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:59.679
Anti Mabel was the first character I
had designed of the alternate Mabels,

672
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:04.039
and the whole like sharp little hair
tough thing was just like one thing I

673
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:07.400
could think of that would make her
a little different from the normal Mabel.

674
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:12.679
That and the she has no like
puffed cheek. She does have that little

675
00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.039
round cheek of oh yes, I
never noticed that one. Actually, yeah

676
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:21.360
that. Alex never told me anything
to change on on Anti Mabel. She

677
00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:24.920
was Anti Mabel from the start and
with everyone else it was kind of I

678
00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:29.920
gave my initial sketches and Alex gave
in the back and he's like, you

679
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.880
would know they would look like this, and he would he would kind of

680
00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:36.960
give me a little sketch of it, and like military. Mabel was like

681
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:39.599
that especially, so how did how
did your cat Pig wind up in it?

682
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:43.679
He had told me on that page
where she's going through all the different

683
00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:47.000
dimensions that he wanted one that was
a real life like photo, and I

684
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:51.400
was like, hey, I have
a cat named Pig. That's perfect,

685
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:57.159
So I tossed my cat in there. When Mabel is falling into uh maybe

686
00:55:57.199 --> 00:56:02.159
three l she travels through a sonic
like mystery shack zone, she passes uh

687
00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:07.159
some of the Hench Maniacs at a
monument to Bill that says he was the

688
00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:10.280
worst, and I think that's supposed
to be the nightmare role. I think

689
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:15.039
so, yeah, And I can't
figure out if because obviously he was the

690
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.000
worst as an epithet is to the
hench Maniacs a compliment, but they seem

691
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:23.159
a little upset, so maybe they
didn't like Bill, or maybe that kind

692
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:28.920
of dictatory was just also through cal
arts parties. I cannot Yeah, I

693
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:32.800
can also see that maybe they're just
upset that Mabel crashed their their memorial service.

694
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.440
It's it's interesting. I wonder what
they're uh, what that wake was

695
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:42.719
like? What what was the shiva
like for Bill? Yeah? Then they

696
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:47.639
passed through an underwater gravity falls,
which honestly, I don't know what it's

697
00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:52.960
supposed to be referencing, but it
reminds me of Freddy Fish more than like

698
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:57.599
Little Mermaid or Finding Nemo. I
think it's it has big Freddy Fish vibes.

699
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:01.559
Yeah, it's like Shark ale but
and yes, the final dimension that

700
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:07.679
Mabel falls through is a real life
photo of Pig, who is Serena's cat,

701
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:12.199
because Alex said, I want some
live action image for the last one.

702
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:15.519
I'm not quite sure. I love
that so much, something that we

703
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:17.960
don't have to buy the rights too. And Serena was like, oh,

704
00:57:19.079 --> 00:57:21.920
I have a picture of my cat, and Alex was like perfect, perfect,

705
00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:27.119
So now Pig is forever am I
love also that the voice of three

706
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.840
Boll has a cat named Pig.
Of course, I bet that was Mabel's

707
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:35.760
cat's name. At home. She
should have named Wattle's cat. Yeah,

708
00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:40.360
you're in so, but she named
him Wottles Becsey Wattle. Maybe the cat's

709
00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:45.159
name. Maybe the cat's name is
Saunta. Yeah, I mean that would

710
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.639
Yeah, yeah, there you go. Because cats, cats aren't really the

711
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:52.400
wattling type. No, they're more
casual. I like that. There's a

712
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:55.599
calamity brother in here. Yeah,
you're right. Uh, there is the

713
00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:00.800
exact design of Mabel in the false
mustache from the post her and uh,

714
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:02.760
I guess I didn't I didn't piece
that together. Wow, good job,

715
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.920
I didn't piece that together either.
You did get something new from it this

716
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:12.639
time. She must be from that
timeline where they became full time bandits in

717
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:15.880
the Old West. Oh yeah,
that's right. Some of these must be

718
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:22.400
from the many, many branching paths
and timelines and realities that were created exactly

719
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:25.800
by daring to do a select your
own choosing exactly. So then there's a

720
00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:35.840
Stanbull, which is a lot Stanbull
is single and ready to mangle, which

721
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:38.960
came from a comic that Alex drew
as a joke or just like a little

722
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:42.840
sketch he drew as a joke for
Twitter. I think he drew it on

723
00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:45.360
a napkin, a little sketch on
a napkin, and it was just like

724
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:52.519
to give people diamares yeah. Checks. So the antagonist of this story is

725
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:57.440
anti Mabel, who is you know, just the opposite of Mabel, but

726
00:58:57.519 --> 00:59:05.960
also like an embodyment of the fandom's
criticisms of Mabel. I guess it's I.

727
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:12.840
I agree that it's a weird angled
for the story because we've discussed,

728
00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:16.280
we've discussed never written with the idea
that one was the selfish twin and one

729
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:20.480
wasn't, and now it is,
and that's kind of odd. Yeah,

730
00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:24.159
we've discussed many a time on this
podcast that it's the argument does not really

731
00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:29.119
hold water. And so to have
a story where the reason that Mabel wanted

732
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:31.239
to do a sock opera with her
friends instead of a mystery with her brother

733
00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:36.920
is that she has friends and her
brother doesn't. So he has no choice

734
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:39.400
but to do everything with her,
and she has options. He just chooses

735
00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:45.119
to make friends with old men.
Yeah, who loves befriending old man?

736
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:47.960
He's well, he does wear a
down vest, he does. He's definitely

737
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.400
trying to put a Marty McFly type
image into the world. That's true.

738
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:55.199
There we go. Oh yeah,
you're Stanford Pines. I came back here

739
00:59:55.280 --> 01:00:00.639
in a portal that you had it, and I need you helped to get

740
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:08.800
back two dimensions see fifty. Yeah, you know what this means. It

741
01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:15.559
means that the thing doesn't work,
So I do. I do really like

742
01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:21.000
the subplot where Stan and Ford because
it's like the last week of them of

743
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:25.079
different Mabel being in gravity falls,
and it's right afterward Mageddon. They're in

744
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:30.440
a very protective mode and they get
into this argument over who is a better

745
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:35.079
caretaker which and don't worry about where
this happens in relation to their birthday and

746
01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:37.559
why Stan remembers this much. It's
not that important. Yeah, I think

747
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:44.280
it's fine. I buy it personally. One thing that happens on stanin Ford's

748
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:49.760
adventures through the multiverse defined Mabel is
that they get picked up by an interdimensional

749
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:54.960
trucker who does not trust Stanford pines
because he is one a wanted criminal in

750
01:00:55.119 --> 01:01:01.960
nearly every dimensions as a subversion,
so Stan, both being amused that he

751
01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:09.320
is no longer the stup twin and
just being amused in general, h suggests

752
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:15.519
that him cuffed in the back and
I sit in the front, and he's

753
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:20.079
just clearly living for it. Well, Ford is so miserable, Yeah,

754
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:24.159
because how many times do you think
Ford, like was judgmental to Stand about

755
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:29.960
criminal record. Yeah, it turns
out Ford has many more criminal records.

756
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:36.559
Stand has a criminal record in one
of the only dimensions where Ford's various crimes

757
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.320
were never caught, because again he
does steal toxic wins both of them.

758
01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:45.320
So I like where it ends up
with with Dipper and Mabel, where Mabel

759
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:52.239
uh gets a journal from someone named
May Dipper, the Dipper variant of Mabel,

760
01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:55.480
and it's a so it is a
journal of mysteries from another dimension.

761
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.519
Yeah, well, I mean I
guess it's implied that it's a a blank

762
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:05.880
journal because she says it's time to
start new adventures. I think it's more

763
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:08.719
like we don't see the contents of
the book and we don't know what they'll

764
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:12.480
be looking into from this point on, and that's up to our imagination.

765
01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:15.280
Okay. I guess I always got
the pine Tree as the implication that like,

766
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.320
this is yours and you should.
Well, I guess I don't know

767
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:22.559
why May Bipper would be carrying around
a blank journal, though I think maybe

768
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:25.280
I think in May Bipper's dimension,
everyone is Dipper, so that is that

769
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:30.079
Okay. I thought it was only
a swap of that that's that's Fipper's journal

770
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:36.239
that he left here when he got
trapped in another dimension during a fight with

771
01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:38.360
his brother, with his twin brother
Stipper. And he has pine trees for

772
01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:44.199
hands, No, he has he
has a birthmarks of one of his fingers

773
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:47.039
is just a birthmark of a of
a. Oh, he has big dippers

774
01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:52.559
for fingers. He has a big
Dipper fingers. Really hard to write.

775
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:58.679
I can't read any event. I
think, I think you know, And

776
01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:01.199
that's what we can all do is
work past the challenges that that we were

777
01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:04.800
borned. Ye that's true. And
you know, if you if you have

778
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:09.719
a big dippers for figures, you
could still become a successful writer. Maybe

779
01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:16.119
he dictates, Maybe he dictates,
and and mcgiffer dip fipper Ford. Yeah

780
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:24.159
right, I like that as a
moment, but I don't really I don't

781
01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:28.400
really understand it because she says,
like it's time for us to start some

782
01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:31.320
new adventures and this time I won't
always hog the spotlight. Maybe you're not

783
01:03:31.400 --> 01:03:36.800
hogging anything. You just had a
better social life than Dipper. And we're

784
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:39.159
up to more. That she's a
girl, Oh right, she's a girl

785
01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:43.679
in a in a TV show and
she's not allowed to have anything or just

786
01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:45.719
a girl. People talk that way
about girls in really true. You're right.

787
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:52.400
The only hog I want to see
is the is May May and the

788
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:57.400
hog on the a M. Yeah, we can't say that on the air.

789
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:02.719
And previous guest and spittleman of this
show, Adam new voiced Wattles for

790
01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:06.400
us. Oh yeah, that was
great. Oh perfect. During the part

791
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:12.519
where Mabel was petting Wattles, Adam
was not making the sound I wanted,

792
01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:16.480
so I started scratching his hair and
then suddenly that resulted him in him making

793
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.000
the pocket sound. So that is
the recording that is in the video of

794
01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:25.880
me petty Adam. That's adorable.
Come on this, gell me some one

795
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:29.079
on what pig time before summer is
over. So as much as I,

796
01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:33.639
you know, I question like the
overall concept of this story. I like

797
01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:38.400
the places that it goes, and
I love the art here. Not to

798
01:04:39.599 --> 01:04:43.920
not to butter up the person that
I that we are closest with who worked

799
01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:47.960
on the book. Serena's art is
fantastic. It's it's my favorite drawings in

800
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:53.599
this book. So Alex discovered Serena
by saying, like which fan artists are

801
01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.760
best at drawing the Pines family and
saw that as one of the most common

802
01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:02.920
responses Kiki kit and this was uh
in his first industry job and first voice

803
01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:08.079
actic gig for the video over.
Oh wow cool. But one if I

804
01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:14.199
were to make a critique, it's
that there are way more three quarter angles

805
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:18.039
in this one than the other stories, because when you're drawing fan art,

806
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:23.360
you don't want it to be hard
to see. I get that, and

807
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:28.320
I do love I'm believe Comics Up
was drawn by Meredith Grant and those drawings

808
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:32.159
are are fantastic in their own way, or at least the like the outside

809
01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:38.639
the real world, the Smebuloch,
the Schmebulac narration, and the surrounding parts

810
01:05:38.679 --> 01:05:41.159
of comory. Yeah, yeah,
so I love those drawings. Now,

811
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:45.519
I wonder if the reason they hire
that he hired Granulac for the Schmebuloc parts

812
01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:49.159
is because they kind of saybe yeah, maybe there's some distant relation there.

813
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:55.679
Oh I could draw Uncle Schmebulock.
Sure, yeah, Meredith, Meredith once

814
01:05:55.679 --> 01:06:00.239
every thousand years can only say Grenulac. Have you met her? No?

815
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:04.000
I haven't, but she does.
She still teaches at SBA, the school

816
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:09.920
I went to, Okay, so
I've heard very good things from both that

817
01:06:10.199 --> 01:06:15.599
and this. But however, the
art of the next one, Jersey Devil's

818
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:20.000
in the Details, also known as
Pinesbro's Mystery. It has a different name

819
01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:23.679
in the table of contents than it
does in the title because it's shorter.

820
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:30.119
I guess is illustrated by Dana Teix, and Dana definitely shows yeah, yeah,

821
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:31.280
yeah. It has a very aul
house look to it, and Dana

822
01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:36.199
Terarris and Alex appear in the group
of freaks, with Dana Terris dressed as

823
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:43.119
a cat girl and Alex just in
a vest, which and I don't understand

824
01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:45.840
why he's joined a freak show.
To Alex to the guy who only wears

825
01:06:46.519 --> 01:06:49.360
flannel all the time, that is
freaky, He's like, whoa, Oh,

826
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:53.800
you're right, Alex in a suit. I imagine that the two of

827
01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:57.079
them really wanted to go into a
freak show but weren't particularly deformed. So

828
01:06:57.199 --> 01:07:00.440
she dressed up as a cat and
was like, I'm a cat person,

829
01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:03.400
ah, and they're like wha.
I don't know. It reminds me of

830
01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:06.639
in a Series of Unfortunate Events,
where all the freak show people are like

831
01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:11.599
that's people that are just like,
oh no, my left hand is equally

832
01:07:11.639 --> 01:07:19.039
as strong as my right hand.
My this is the only story here that

833
01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:23.639
I don't have any notes on.
I love Jersey Devils in the Details so

834
01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:27.800
much. I love every single moment. I I am so excited that they

835
01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:30.480
are exploring this story. When I
when I saw stand and Ford as kids

836
01:07:30.639 --> 01:07:32.880
in Tale two Stands, I was
like, we get more of that,

837
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:35.400
and I was like, we didn't, eh, but we did in the

838
01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:40.639
comic, and this feels the most
organic of all the concepts. I think,

839
01:07:40.719 --> 01:07:45.719
face it and don't dimension it feel
like directly addressing the fandom's complaints and

840
01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:49.880
comics Up is making meta jokes we
never got to make before because we never

841
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:54.960
is the format, and then this
is just a story they wanted to tell.

842
01:07:55.079 --> 01:07:57.480
This is the only one that feels
like a lost lesson. Yes,

843
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.400
and so the I love. I
only note on this new read through that

844
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:03.159
the page before it, where she
might be like is queuing it up,

845
01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:13.480
has a photograph of young Stan eating
aspestos cereal. So the Jersey Devil,

846
01:08:13.880 --> 01:08:16.960
for those who don't know, is
an urban legend in New Jersey. New

847
01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:21.800
Jersey is the most overpopulated state.
They are one and a half thousand people

848
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:27.479
per square mile on average in New
Jersey, and you often might have your

849
01:08:27.560 --> 01:08:33.640
backyard as someone's front door. But
the exception is there's an area towards Atlantic

850
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:41.399
City in the south near Philadelphia called
the Pine Barrens, which pine trees are

851
01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:46.479
notoriously hard to cut, and so
it is the only sparsely distanced part of

852
01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:50.159
all of New Jersey. So you're
driving and all of a sudden you're in

853
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:56.319
the middle of Kentucky for no reason. It's terrifying. Everything about it is

854
01:08:56.399 --> 01:09:00.319
terrifying. We had to make a
U turn, so we pulled into a

855
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:04.760
car lot and then saw the sign
for the car lot was spray painted on

856
01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:09.159
an old, abandoned school bus,
and we're like, this is terrifying.

857
01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:13.920
Let's speed out of here. The
story of the Jersey Devil actually originated.

858
01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:21.000
The folklore story is that Jane Leads
was forced to keep getting pregnant by her

859
01:09:21.079 --> 01:09:25.239
husband, so she demanded that the
thirteenth child be the devil, and it

860
01:09:25.359 --> 01:09:30.119
was born with hoofs. The actual
explanation is that one there are a lot

861
01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:34.039
of herons in the Pine Barrens,
which look very different overhead than they do

862
01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:40.399
from a profile. They look exactly
like terodactyls when they're flying. And two

863
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:46.319
Leeds was a real dude. He
ran a competing almanac with Benjamin Franklin and

864
01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:51.760
they would sling mud at each other
to try to get less sales for each

865
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:57.000
other's competing almanacs. Eventually, Ben
Franklin was just like, well, I

866
01:09:57.000 --> 01:10:00.479
don't care what he says about me, because he's dead. They're like what,

867
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:02.840
They're like, Yeah, I don't
know who's running the almanac, but

868
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:09.720
Leeds has been dead for years.
And eventually, and this took a while

869
01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:14.399
to happen because of how spaced out
things were before the invention of the motor

870
01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:16.359
vehicle, someone was like, hey, I just saw him, and Ben

871
01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:20.319
Franklin said, look, all I
know is he did die. What he

872
01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:26.359
did between then and now, I'm
not sure. And so to sell the

873
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:30.520
almanac, he started spreading that Leeds
died and was resurrected as a demon,

874
01:10:31.359 --> 01:10:36.199
and that got so widespread that it
is still a folklore that has regularly talked

875
01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:40.520
about in my state to this day. I love that so much, and

876
01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:46.319
that's who Stanborroughs are hunting today.
Yeah, are so many deep New Jersey

877
01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:50.079
cuts in this because there's no such
thing as the Journal. Yet they have

878
01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:57.680
a magazine of Weird Mysteries, which
references Weird New Jersey Magazine, a magazine

879
01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:02.199
largely dedicated to the Jersey Devil or
abandoned spots in New Jersey, and the

880
01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:06.800
quote at the bottom of the page
says, baby I was born to run

881
01:11:08.399 --> 01:11:14.159
away, Little Bruce E s age
eleven because Bruce Springsteen had not yet written

882
01:11:14.279 --> 01:11:17.520
New Jersey's state anthem, Born to
run about getting away from your toxic home.

883
01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:23.000
Weird thing to choose is your state
anthem. They finally got to have

884
01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:26.079
their Bruce Springsteen joke that they wanted
in tail it too. Yeah. It

885
01:11:26.199 --> 01:11:30.239
is based on a joke from Tale
of Two Stands written by Josh Weinstein,

886
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:35.600
that is, I drove out into
that New Jersey night like well, I

887
01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:40.720
was driving away from my home and
well, there weren't really any songs to

888
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:45.720
describe it. Yeah. When Stan
left the house, I was curious why

889
01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:51.000
Josh Weinstein knows enough about New Jersey
that he because it was never officially made

890
01:11:51.159 --> 01:11:56.520
our state anthem. There was.
It's just the most popular campaign to have

891
01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:00.880
a state anthem at all. Yeah. Highest State Pride Life host national pride

892
01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:04.880
as it should be. I finally
found the smoking gun on why Josh Weinstein

893
01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:11.760
would know these deep New Jersey cuts. Josh Weinstein is from Washington, d

894
01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:16.159
C. However, at a certain
point, it says on his Wikipedia Weinstein

895
01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:20.560
did not land a job on a
major comedy series, despite writing numerous specscripts

896
01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:25.319
for shows such as Saturday Night Live
and Late Night with David Letterman, he

897
01:12:25.479 --> 01:12:30.439
moved back home to Washington, d
C. So, geographically, if your

898
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:34.720
parents live in d C, but
the jobs you're applying to Saturday Night Live

899
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:40.439
in Letterman are in New York City, where would he have moved to.

900
01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:43.560
Yeah, that makes sense. That
makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

901
01:12:43.880 --> 01:12:47.880
I also like the on the Jersey
Devil page, the what you think it

902
01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:53.560
ain't real? You think you're better
than me and make a pentagram out of

903
01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:59.720
Hogi's to summon Yes, Yeah,
which is a hogi is a specific that's

904
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:03.119
a Filadelphia food, So that's a
specifically South Jersey. For those who don't

905
01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:08.680
know anything about New Jersey, sorry, New Jersey. Jersey is half Philadelphia

906
01:13:08.720 --> 01:13:11.720
and half New York. Yeah,
New Jersey has no identity of its own.

907
01:13:11.840 --> 01:13:15.479
But the rural parts of Pennsylvania are
nothing like Philadelphia, and the rural

908
01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:19.399
parts of New York are nothing like
New York City. So New Jersey is

909
01:13:19.680 --> 01:13:25.239
suburbs that are kind of vaguely like
Philadelphia and New York City. And that's

910
01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:29.680
why I call North Jersey and South
Jersey as if they're two different states,

911
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:34.600
because one is Philadelphia and one's New
York City. It's true, and it's

912
01:13:35.399 --> 01:13:40.840
the jerseyst possible thing they could have
written for this thing. As well as

913
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:44.439
all of the boardwalk stuff, a
lot of this takes place. You know,

914
01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:47.960
there's a freak show at a circus. There's like an old arcade sort

915
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:54.479
of thing. They go to peep
the lady. Well, there is a

916
01:13:54.760 --> 01:14:00.560
ride called Satan's Hellhole. I love
that they are just able to say how

917
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:04.600
we'll be safe in there. And
I knew that I had somehow blanked out

918
01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:09.199
because I was more used to the
audio than the visuals. That the thing

919
01:14:09.279 --> 01:14:12.279
he's pointing out when he says that
is called Satan's Hell Yeah, yeah,

920
01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:16.760
yeah, yeah, Because as a
roberin Zetti told us, Disney TBA has

921
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:23.680
an internal standards in practices and Disney
Press and Disney Publishing do not. Yeah,

922
01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:26.760
which is also why they're able to
just straight up kill the sibling brothers,

923
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:30.279
but not really they do. Yeah. So the sibling brothers, who

924
01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:33.880
have been mentioned many times at this
point they were the detectives that saw it

925
01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:41.039
who stole the capers, are now
seen as real people in standin for his

926
01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:44.720
hometown, and they were the most
fun to voice in the commed. Oh

927
01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:47.600
yeah, I made sure that Ella
and I recorded it in one sitting in

928
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:53.000
the same room, Me on my
roommates mic and Ella on my mic as

929
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:59.439
Dickey and Ascott Dickie's sibling and ascot
sibling I believe is their name. Yes,

930
01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:03.199
Leaping Cove captains well the sibling brother
I said, no one cracks.

931
01:15:03.239 --> 01:15:08.199
I can't buy quicker than us,
Ain't that right, Scott? You bet

932
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:13.640
your loafis Dicky and I'd say it's
drueble o'clock At Kolu Cove. They love

933
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:17.800
flavorless malts Sandy. This calls for
a flavorless malt, the joke being that

934
01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:23.359
those are neckwear, not that they
say chicken ass by the way, Sure

935
01:15:24.079 --> 01:15:28.039
let's go with that, but they
are chicks and asses. So yeah,

936
01:15:28.079 --> 01:15:31.319
they are real and they are are
well respected super sleuts in the town.

937
01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:38.239
And uh we did this sort of
you know, Transatlantic accent, yes,

938
01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:41.279
Transatlantic accent, and tried to go
into a kind of a twelve year old

939
01:15:41.359 --> 01:15:45.479
pitchy and I while recording it,
I noticed that Ella is way more obnoxious

940
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:48.680
with that than me, So I
kept trying to like push it into even

941
01:15:48.760 --> 01:15:53.359
more annoying to one up Ella.
It became this, this, this feedback

942
01:15:53.479 --> 01:15:59.319
loop of obnoxious Transatlantic accss and I
have the perfect clip to demonstrate that after

943
01:15:59.439 --> 01:16:03.520
you, no, after you,
after you, after you. The reason

944
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:08.680
that they murder the sibling brothers is
to steal their outfits and sneak into the

945
01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:14.079
lighthouse that is important to the treasure
hunt to find the Jersey Devil. Oh

946
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:24.279
just shove it. Oh my god, we killed the Sabling brothers. Want

947
01:16:24.279 --> 01:16:27.560
to steal their outfits and impersonate them
to get into the lighthouse. Logical,

948
01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:31.920
that's logical. This disguise completely fools
the lighthouse keeper or his name isn't horrible

949
01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:39.319
eyesight Hawkins. Why it's clearly the
Sabling brothers or my horrible eyesight hocket.

950
01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:43.840
Uh So, not only did I
finally get a video that surpassed a million

951
01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:46.359
views, but I got to voice
a pirate in it. I please watch

952
01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:50.760
this video. It's so I love
horrible eyesight Hawkins. He's he's such a

953
01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:54.840
good he's a good guy, like
he means, well, he's just got

954
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:59.560
horrible eyesight. I was trying to
build like a combination glass shard beach uh

955
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:06.479
each city Melee island in Minecraft once
and we realized that right outside the lighthouse

956
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:10.399
there was a sunken ship, which
is something that kind of just occur in

957
01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:14.840
Minecraft. We're like, that's the
place that it's least likely to crash a

958
01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:17.239
ship. And then we're like,
wait, that was horrible eyesight Hawkins.

959
01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:23.439
Shit, that's how he inherited the
lighthouse because he crashed his ship into it

960
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:30.880
and could not leave. Also,
Phobrick Pines standing Ford's dad sucks, And

961
01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:35.439
it's weird that this narrative tries to
make us forget that. I think I

962
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:42.840
think it's still in there. It
is more realistic to how twelve year olds

963
01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:47.039
who live with their dad still would
talk about their dad versus Yeah, adults

964
01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:50.560
thinking about it in retrospect. Yeah, they're like, oh, I'm traumatized.

965
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:56.079
Then, Ponds, he needs you, So I come down to the

966
01:17:56.159 --> 01:18:00.560
pawn job for a nice day of
overcharging tourists for buffalo nickel. And what

967
01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:04.079
do I say, Archie opter barf? What of barf? I find my

968
01:18:04.359 --> 01:18:10.239
swankiest gold chain missing from its case. What you say if we did this?

969
01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:14.600
Pot, No, I'm saying you
did this Stanley. First there was

970
01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:18.479
missus cramp Pelter's glass eye. Then
there was your crab fighting ring. You're

971
01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:25.239
always pickpocketing and monkey shining, and
this is the last straw. But if

972
01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:29.000
it was Stanford, all day told
six sir, Yeah, Pop, I

973
01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:31.479
know Stanley's got a reputation, but
this time it's really not him. You

974
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:35.800
really want to stick your neck out
for goofus over here? Then prove it,

975
01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:41.920
smart guy. You've got twenty four
hours to find the chain or Stanley

976
01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:47.319
is gonna be grounded indoors for the
rest of the summer. The best voice

977
01:18:47.359 --> 01:18:55.000
acting performances in anything I've ever made, I think definitively are Stephen As twelve

978
01:18:55.079 --> 01:19:00.520
year old Ford Pines and Ray As
twelve year old Standpines Ray and Ray is

979
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:03.079
from New Jersey like me. She
has a thicker accent than I, as

980
01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:06.479
some of you may have noticed,
and also is a very good impressionist,

981
01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:10.319
so she kept doing a perfect stand
voice, and I was like, dial

982
01:19:10.359 --> 01:19:15.159
it back, and the performance we
wound up with sounds so much to me,

983
01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:17.279
like if the character of gr Uncle
Stan was real, what would he

984
01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:26.720
sound like before? And Stephen speaks
very clearly and often voices nerdy characters,

985
01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:32.199
Isabella Paradott, Lisa Simpson. I
actually offered Ella the role of kid Ford

986
01:19:32.279 --> 01:19:34.880
Pines, and Ella said you should
give it to Stephen, which was the

987
01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:39.960
correct choice. I'll play them some
clips of them talking, because I just

988
01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:45.720
it's so so good. Yeah,
a Ford, Why do you think Pau's

989
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.399
so hard on me? Do you
really think I'm a bad kid? What?

990
01:19:50.159 --> 01:19:56.439
No, It's just you like taking
shortcuts and sometimes it gets you into

991
01:19:56.479 --> 01:20:01.640
trouble, you know it Just times
it feels like Pau hates me. Our

992
01:20:01.680 --> 01:20:05.039
old man just has a short fuse. No matter what anyone says, you're

993
01:20:05.079 --> 01:20:14.119
a good kid. Stanley Schmebuloc has
also written a ballad of the Stanbros.

994
01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:17.199
To the tune of Sailing Sailing.
At the end of this story, well

995
01:20:17.239 --> 01:20:24.279
do you know what the most popular
version of sailing Sailing is? How most

996
01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:27.479
people have heard of that song?
Because yes, it was composed in eighteen

997
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.640
eighty by James Frederick Swift, who
doesn't have a Wikipedia article. So why

998
01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:35.119
do people know about this song?
Because it is in the nineteen sixty one

999
01:20:35.399 --> 01:20:55.880
Goofy short Aquamania and is repeatedly referenced
in Muppet Treasure Island in several different songs.

1000
01:20:55.960 --> 01:21:10.800
Yeah, sure about it, sad
and now we're in that. So

1001
01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:18.239
this is a Disney song that has
written the words effectively. Yes, it

1002
01:21:18.319 --> 01:21:23.159
also appears in Disney sing Along Songs, Volume six, under the scene.

1003
01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:27.000
I remember that. Why do That's
weird? That's a very specific memory.

1004
01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:31.039
I love that there is a parody
of a song that everyone associates with Disney.

1005
01:21:32.319 --> 01:21:35.119
I will just play the song,
I guess no reason optive. Yeah,

1006
01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:45.840
Stanley Stanford over the bounding see one
of the Brave and the other was

1007
01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:54.760
Stanley, and surestan still travels foreign
lands with fists and brains and bodily pains.

1008
01:21:54.920 --> 01:22:00.600
Nothing can stop the Stands. Stanford
bravely teaches mat two Well. Stan

1009
01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:10.520
will flirt with mermaid gels and probably
will fail. Swashboklings, boiling Monsters reunited

1010
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:14.479
at last, riding the Beast.
Nothing can stop the Stands. It was

1011
01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:20.159
Brian Carroll's idea to go the other
was Stanley. Oh, these illustrations are

1012
01:22:20.159 --> 01:22:25.840
also uh, Meredith Graham, I
believe it looks like yeah, which is

1013
01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:30.720
fantastic. So the stan brothers began
an adventure of a lifetime, the kind

1014
01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:34.800
of adventure that would make a great
movie. Honestly, maybe a mini series?

1015
01:22:35.399 --> 01:22:39.720
Is that too much to ask?
Honestly, would it kill them to

1016
01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:45.199
give us some new adventures after summer
comes fall a whole new season if you

1017
01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:50.720
will. It can't be the only
one who wants another season, right right?

1018
01:22:51.399 --> 01:22:57.199
I've invested so much time in these
characters' lives. They can't just leave

1019
01:22:57.319 --> 01:23:01.560
me. Why lust of us bad? What would it take for the gravity

1020
01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:08.000
balls? All these meta jokes about
him wishing there was a stand in Ford

1021
01:23:08.079 --> 01:23:13.119
spinoff movie or mini series, and
it ends with him making peace with the

1022
01:23:13.199 --> 01:23:18.880
idea that he has spent his entire
life obsessing over these stories about others and

1023
01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:25.199
not lived his life. But I
suppose all tales must end. As an

1024
01:23:25.239 --> 01:23:31.479
old Gnomish proverb, the goc traka, which I believe translates to every sunset

1025
01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:35.760
leads to a sunrise by the badge
of the Gnome was choking on a pine

1026
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:41.239
cone. Perhaps it is time for
me to stop observing and start living my

1027
01:23:41.319 --> 01:23:48.079
own stories as if he had just
sat there for fifty two weekly episodes just

1028
01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:55.279
with a fine tooth comb going over. You can't do that forever, Ella.

1029
01:23:56.760 --> 01:24:01.399
The real was the friends we made
along the way. Schmanbuloc, I

1030
01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:10.760
am really happy to have gone on
this journey with you guys. The good

1031
01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:15.880
news is that it's this is not
quite over yet, because well Schmebuloc has

1032
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:21.079
been very gracious as to let us
into his Hall of Conspiracies today. Actually,

1033
01:24:23.079 --> 01:24:26.359
oh, can we fit before I
return to my prison of silence?

1034
01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:31.680
I offer you one last secret.
There is a message hidden in this book,

1035
01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:36.960
and the only true way to find
that message is the Hall of Conspiracy.

1036
01:24:45.520 --> 01:24:47.760
So at the end of the book, Schmebuloc states that there is a

1037
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:50.760
secret message coded in this book,
and the only way to find it is

1038
01:24:51.239 --> 01:24:56.199
and that is the moment when the
sun rises and the curse is broken.

1039
01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:02.319
And all he says is Schmebuloc.
But there are actually many codes hidden throughout

1040
01:25:02.359 --> 01:25:05.840
this book. On one of the
first pages, there's a Caesar code that,

1041
01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:10.880
when decoded, states a fandom's work
is never done. So here's some

1042
01:25:11.079 --> 01:25:14.840
tales just for fun. You wanted
more. You got your wish. Don't

1043
01:25:14.880 --> 01:25:19.159
stress, it's only canon ish.
In co mix up on the first panel

1044
01:25:19.159 --> 01:25:25.479
of the grim Dark Chronicles section,
symbols on the gravestones translate to Bill Lives

1045
01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:30.800
or possibly Bill Lives, it's Bill
lives. Now you're doing everybody tonight.

1046
01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:33.800
It's it's me, It's Bill.
I'm I'm on TV. I thought,

1047
01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:38.199
I thought, well, live sounds
like a video game term. Yeah,

1048
01:25:38.399 --> 01:25:42.960
yeah, defeated Bill. He responded, Bill lives like you live streams,

1049
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:49.600
he would be. He would be
like a Twitch streamer and do a collab

1050
01:25:49.720 --> 01:25:53.960
with Anti Ford. We'll get that
in a second. Oh my gosh.

1051
01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:59.479
Yes. Codes on page ten fifty
one, ninety five and one eighteen combined

1052
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:03.880
to spell out to find a spider
search the web. The Visionaire phrase for

1053
01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:10.279
the code on the table of contents, which translates to schmeb you unlocked.

1054
01:26:10.399 --> 01:26:15.039
Who So schmeb you unlocked brought you
to again to search search the web.

1055
01:26:15.159 --> 01:26:20.359
So it's a website, and surprisingly
it's still I was very impressed to find

1056
01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:24.880
that this was still up. A
lot of the other secret websites that we've

1057
01:26:24.920 --> 01:26:28.600
discussed in the All of Conspiracies are
now defunct, but this one is still

1058
01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:32.239
up on a Disney site. Yeah, very impressive. You get a You're

1059
01:26:32.279 --> 01:26:38.159
greeted with Schmebulac, who says,
greetings, paranoid, antisocial code cracker of

1060
01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:41.039
the Internet. If you are here, that means you, like me,

1061
01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:45.119
have an insatiable thirst for the secrets
of gravity falls. Welcome to my private

1062
01:26:45.239 --> 01:26:53.520
study or stockatorium. Will I collect
my most elusive files by all means creep

1063
01:26:53.560 --> 01:26:58.479
around your heart's content. So there's
nine books that you can click on that

1064
01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:02.159
reveal different files with a bunch of
lore and other secrets. So the first

1065
01:27:02.319 --> 01:27:09.840
page is a character bio for Schmebuloss's
q lock, the third which tracks because

1066
01:27:09.840 --> 01:27:13.920
Schmebulock Senior was his dad. Also
listed is his height, which is listed

1067
01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:20.600
as three feet or in no measurements
sixteen caterpillar meters. He easily fits into

1068
01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:27.680
lunchboxes, cargo pockets, and overhad
storage compartments. He's often mistaken for an

1069
01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:36.960
old baby. We finally answered that
question, and he is shunned from both

1070
01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:45.920
Greasy Steiner and all of society.
His arch enemy, of course, isticts

1071
01:27:46.039 --> 01:27:50.239
the Vowelless, a dark warlock who
got in a fight with Shmebuloc over whose

1072
01:27:50.279 --> 01:27:56.399
beard was grayer and cursed him to
only speak his own name. The curse

1073
01:27:56.479 --> 01:28:00.520
can only be defeated if Schmebuloc casts
the orb of Elvin Moore to the Chasm

1074
01:28:00.600 --> 01:28:05.079
of Garlock. But the orb is
super heavy, and like the Chasm of

1075
01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:10.920
Garlock, is a major commute.
So there's also every on each of these

1076
01:28:10.960 --> 01:28:15.079
pages that you can click on a
different Visionaire code with the same key that

1077
01:28:15.239 --> 01:28:18.680
is inside Job, except you encrypt
it instead of decrypt it. You do

1078
01:28:18.800 --> 01:28:23.880
the job. And I don't know, I don't remember how people found the

1079
01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:27.800
key, do you know, Showman, they probably just proot forested again,

1080
01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:31.359
and I assume they did. That's
so funny that the key on the site

1081
01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:39.359
is inside Job and the there are
all these owl House sneak peaks in Yeah,

1082
01:28:39.479 --> 01:28:43.239
yeah, yeah. Alex used his
position of power as a creator of

1083
01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:47.319
a popular TV show to get TV
shows for his friends that have not had

1084
01:28:47.359 --> 01:28:53.760
the same opportunities and come from underprivileged
groups. So uh yeah, and then

1085
01:28:53.840 --> 01:28:58.840
he's hyping them up using the final
piece of gravity falls media. Yeah.

1086
01:28:58.880 --> 01:29:02.520
I have to wonder how how where
this was in the Inside Job the chronology

1087
01:29:02.600 --> 01:29:05.239
of development. I guess well,
it wasn't announced yet. Yeah, it

1088
01:29:05.359 --> 01:29:11.359
wasn't announced, but it probably was
in development because I know that Inside Job

1089
01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:16.239
didn't come out too much longer after
Owl House did, and owl House had

1090
01:29:16.239 --> 01:29:20.640
been greenlit at this point, right, And I have to imagine they at

1091
01:29:20.720 --> 01:29:24.199
least had a title at this point. And it fits the vibe of all

1092
01:29:24.239 --> 01:29:30.399
these secret Dots days. The next
one is for Dicky and Ascot's sibling aka

1093
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:35.479
the Sibling Brothers. Their profession is
meddling kids. Their shoe style is goodie

1094
01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:45.319
too. They like flavorless malts and
saying aha. Their notable cases include the

1095
01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:48.760
case of the Caper Case Caper,
the horrifying hair raising happenstance at Hyperbole Hall,

1096
01:29:49.119 --> 01:29:53.960
the befuddling scuttle Butt of the Scuttled
Butler's Cuttlefish hut. Their hobbies as

1097
01:29:54.039 --> 01:29:58.039
kids included going at church and finishing
each other's sentences, while their hobbies as

1098
01:29:58.039 --> 01:30:01.680
adults include going to jail and finishing
each other's life sentences. That's a really

1099
01:30:01.720 --> 01:30:08.800
good joke. The visionair code on
this page reads that the Sibling brothers were

1100
01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:13.199
stalked by unemployed doc worker Jenkins W. Jenkins, who turned their exploits into

1101
01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:17.079
cheap, terrible novels that were enjoyed
by all. And this like solved an

1102
01:30:17.199 --> 01:30:20.600
aneurysm for me, because when I
was reading a Lost Legends, I was

1103
01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:26.680
like, well, but no,
but their novel characters that different. How

1104
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:30.159
does this make? And it's like, okay, so they were just they

1105
01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:33.319
just got ripped off into novels.
So it's interesting that they they they solved

1106
01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:39.079
this is this discrepancy that would have
exploded my brain otherwise that these are somehow

1107
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.560
real people in gravity falls. But
you have to go to the secret website

1108
01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:48.119
and decode the Visionaire code with the
key not given to you to understand this

1109
01:30:48.199 --> 01:30:53.000
discrepancy. And I'm okay with that, all right. Next to one name,

1110
01:30:53.600 --> 01:30:59.760
mister Whats's face Deals offers discount rates
on poker faces, clock faces,

1111
01:30:59.840 --> 01:31:05.720
and resting witch faces, slogans why
the long face because you haven't called me

1112
01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:15.279
yet, poker Buddies, Jimmy Lemmy
the Hut. His name's let me Jimmy

1113
01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:18.840
in the book, and it's written
as Jimmy. Maybe Jimmy Lemmy is his

1114
01:31:19.039 --> 01:31:25.039
name, but Lemmy Jimmy is his
professional that's his Lemmy is the adjective he

1115
01:31:25.079 --> 01:31:29.239
puts before his name. It just
also so happens to be a Sir Jimmy

1116
01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:34.960
Lemmy. Maybe in a elementary school
there was another Jimmy, so they called

1117
01:31:35.039 --> 01:31:39.920
him Lemmy. Jimmy like, let
me call me Jimmy, but his name

1118
01:31:40.039 --> 01:31:45.840
is Jimmy Lemmy. Gotcha, Poker
Buddies, Jimmy Lemmy. The hide Behind

1119
01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:48.640
and the Summerween Trickster r I p
oh? Is that why he was carrying

1120
01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:56.720
around his mask to honor his fallen
friends, honor his fallen But he died.

1121
01:31:57.000 --> 01:32:00.239
He died happy though he did die
with his one wish fulfilled. He

1122
01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:05.399
did. Oh. The reason the
reason that the Summeren Trickster is also listed

1123
01:32:05.479 --> 01:32:12.439
as a friend of mister Watson's face
is both contain references in their design to

1124
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:15.880
no face from Spirited Away, so
saying well, yeah, there's two no

1125
01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:20.680
faces. That's why they hung out? Should I? Poker Buddies description a

1126
01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:30.279
wretched mass of skin and teeth stuffed
in a musty overcoat. Mister wats faces

1127
01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:35.039
in the shadows of that's his initials, m w HF, mister what's his?

1128
01:32:35.359 --> 01:32:40.800
That's what he does when he blows
you a kiss, because there's like

1129
01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:45.800
a little puff of smoke. Yes, yes, yes, muff lurks at

1130
01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:50.079
the shadows of gravity Falls, preying
on the vein and impulsive. Once tried

1131
01:32:50.119 --> 01:32:56.399
to sell a new face to Seuss
but was told always has an ace up

1132
01:32:56.439 --> 01:33:00.359
his sleeve and a face of his
sleeve. He is too sleep weaknesses,

1133
01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:10.680
exploding. Sam likes sandwiches, dislikes
hand witches. I doesn't like the hand

1134
01:33:10.720 --> 01:33:15.840
witch's minority. She can't account for
tape. He's an icon, Yeah,

1135
01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:19.960
a fashion icon. She's a hand
con. The visionaire cod translates to favorite

1136
01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:28.159
movie face off, of course,
face face. I want to take Pacificus

1137
01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:33.840
face off. You mean you want
to take her faces That's right, I

1138
01:33:33.960 --> 01:33:39.279
want to take her face. Oh. That was my first ever attempt at

1139
01:33:39.359 --> 01:33:43.920
doing the submurby trickster voice there.
That was good, perfect perfection. I

1140
01:33:44.079 --> 01:33:48.760
love that they also propose a face
off in Time Pirates and then there's a

1141
01:33:48.840 --> 01:33:53.960
lot of face off references. It's
an iconic film. Love that movie.

1142
01:33:54.880 --> 01:34:00.760
It's love face off. Next,
we have the profile for Pacific a lease

1143
01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:11.039
Northwest blood type Blue net Worth Yauser, winner of Little Miss gravity Falls preteen

1144
01:34:11.119 --> 01:34:17.920
beauty pageant and Northwest Scholarship for Northwest
to Northwest private school sponsored by the Northwest.

1145
01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:23.239
She was given a small woe of
a million dollars. She was featured

1146
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:30.199
odd Weft Styles of the Rich and
Cashuless on the Jealousy Network, which is

1147
01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:36.920
the first Howard Cosell reference I've ever
heard from a millennial. However, boomers

1148
01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:43.159
love referencing Howard Cosell because he was
loud, and so my dad to this

1149
01:34:43.359 --> 01:34:50.600
day calls the mute button on the
remote the Howard Welcome to Weft styles of

1150
01:34:50.840 --> 01:34:58.079
the Rich again, Where's the Howard
button? Where I keep the Howard button

1151
01:34:58.119 --> 01:35:00.680
on? This damn clicker because I'm
from out so I call it clicker.

1152
01:35:02.359 --> 01:35:05.960
Does your mom call it a clicker? Ella? She doesn't call it a

1153
01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:10.199
clicker, and that I've heard maybe
she's just My mom calls it a click

1154
01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:15.920
e a clickie. Yeah, clicker
is the South Jersey slash Philadelphia slang for

1155
01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:19.479
it. And it makes me want
to die like no, yes, you

1156
01:35:19.520 --> 01:35:24.600
can make it go click that's not
its only purpose and you tried putting it

1157
01:35:24.680 --> 01:35:29.520
at the TVEE. I had never
it had never occurred to me that the

1158
01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:32.720
reason my mom says clickie might be
an offshoot of the fact that she's from

1159
01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:36.760
New Jersey, From New Jersey.
Yeah, her hobbies are mini golf,

1160
01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:44.520
beauty pageants, pony stacking, fox
hunting. It's actually just Toby Determined dressed

1161
01:35:44.520 --> 01:35:47.159
as a fox. No one knows
why he does this. Well, don't

1162
01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:51.439
don't judge, don't judge. He
was really into the what does the Fox

1163
01:35:51.479 --> 01:35:56.119
Say? Music video for a very
short amount of times. Been investigating that

1164
01:35:56.359 --> 01:36:00.760
for years. I think he's just
a furry Yeah, and we love that.

1165
01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:05.840
We love that for bodacious secret hobbies. Is a level one hundred death

1166
01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:13.039
slayer on first person shooter game blood
Craft over Death plays as Platinum Paths.

1167
01:36:13.640 --> 01:36:16.239
Is also secretly good at puns,
but tells no one, Wait a minute,

1168
01:36:16.279 --> 01:36:20.279
I just realized that in the S
and P video that Alex posted,

1169
01:36:20.439 --> 01:36:25.800
please revise Seus's line about dressing as
a giant teddy bear. It may call

1170
01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:30.000
to mind the people who dress up
as stuffed animals as a furry fetish.

1171
01:36:30.439 --> 01:36:32.640
Do I even have to respond to
this that Disney TVA S and P did

1172
01:36:32.720 --> 01:36:38.279
not like implications that characters were furries, But Disney Publishing is like, hell,

1173
01:36:38.359 --> 01:36:45.319
yeah, because the furries, they
got that cash that buys them books.

1174
01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:48.920
It's true, true, Why do
furries all have disposable. It's fine.

1175
01:36:50.239 --> 01:36:54.560
It's because they drink the respect women
juice. Most of them do,

1176
01:36:55.159 --> 01:37:00.800
and so they're paid kindly for it
by the universe. Yeah, her natural

1177
01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:04.760
hair color is inconclusive. Mabel was
once heard to remark, your parents are

1178
01:37:04.840 --> 01:37:09.760
both brunettes. Let's get real,
girl. I don't know why I'm referring

1179
01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:14.119
to furriys externally, as though I
haven't. I made like three separate personas

1180
01:37:14.159 --> 01:37:20.720
in my life. But your favorite
food is pheasant stuffed with lops, her

1181
01:37:21.000 --> 01:37:27.680
stuffed with ravioli, stuffed with only
the most ironic New Yorker cartoons. So

1182
01:37:27.800 --> 01:37:35.720
it's sort of like a Turduccan,
except it's fellaw raviorcre perfect. And her

1183
01:37:35.800 --> 01:37:43.880
actual favorite food is deep fried anything
interesting, and the visionair code translates to

1184
01:37:44.039 --> 01:37:46.439
got a waitress job at Greasy's Diner
after the summer ended, thinks about the

1185
01:37:46.479 --> 01:37:54.920
Pines Twins every day. Aw,
that's adorable, vaguely gesturing in the direction

1186
01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:59.600
of giving up some of her privilege. So this, this next page is

1187
01:37:59.680 --> 01:38:04.840
an illustration for an idea Susid Frustration
by Robert Ryan Corey. Clearly, yes,

1188
01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:11.640
this is an idea that Seuss had
for a comic series called Mystery Racers,

1189
01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:15.439
illustrated by his cousin Reggie. Oh
so Reggie is kind of there in

1190
01:38:15.640 --> 01:38:19.359
universe Robert Ryan Corey. Huh,
my cousin registers that like to draw monsters.

1191
01:38:19.399 --> 01:38:24.560
You must know monsters, That's what
my cousin Regis says. Unfortunately,

1192
01:38:24.720 --> 01:38:30.000
Stan demanded one hun what does it
say, one hundred and stand demanded one

1193
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:32.239
hundred and fifty in royalties to use
his likeness, an amount of money that

1194
01:38:32.359 --> 01:38:38.000
is mathematically impossible. So we have
here Mystery Racers, which is clearly our

1195
01:38:38.039 --> 01:38:42.760
reference to Rat Fink, which is
that character that I don't know how to

1196
01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:46.720
explain it. So Ratfink is one
of several hot Rod characters created by artist

1197
01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:51.159
Big Daddy, also known as ed
Roth, and is one of the originators

1198
01:38:51.359 --> 01:38:58.279
of custom culture of automobile enthusiasts.
Yeah, Roth conceived Ratfink as an anti

1199
01:38:58.439 --> 01:39:01.840
hero to Mickey Mouse and ye kind
of shows. He kind of shows,

1200
01:39:02.119 --> 01:39:06.399
and so is Stam for that matter. Stan is conceived as someone that Disney

1201
01:39:06.439 --> 01:39:10.680
Channel would not want on their channel, and they did for some reason.

1202
01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:17.119
Okay, this next one has to
be yeah name, anti Mabel personality,

1203
01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:24.840
anti lovable, wanted for stealing weapons
grade plutonium, overthrowing the government, and

1204
01:39:25.159 --> 01:39:28.600
using a giant laser to carve a
frown on the moon. She did what

1205
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:36.279
schairface Chippendale failed, absolutely a chairface
Chippindale, the tick reference. Likes black

1206
01:39:36.399 --> 01:39:43.880
coffee, the color beige, German
expressionism, financial newspapers with the point one

1207
01:39:44.079 --> 01:40:00.399
size font, long tense silences,
dislikes, liking things, favorite food,

1208
01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:04.159
picking the rainbow marshmallows out of her
Lucky Leprechaun cereal and just eating the grain

1209
01:40:04.279 --> 01:40:09.960
part without milk, which I can
relate to. I don't like milk.

1210
01:40:10.039 --> 01:40:14.159
I don't like milk in my cereal
either. I use a form and everybody

1211
01:40:14.239 --> 01:40:16.479
always, everybody always compares me to
the girl from get Out, which makes

1212
01:40:16.520 --> 01:40:24.520
me uncomfortable. I don't love milk, but I don't like getting crumbs everywhere,

1213
01:40:24.760 --> 01:40:29.039
and getting the cereal to stick to
the spoon is a really effective face.

1214
01:40:29.319 --> 01:40:30.680
That's fair. That's fair. I
feel like, just for me,

1215
01:40:30.800 --> 01:40:35.640
it's I don't like cereal becoming a
race against time before it gets incredibly soggy.

1216
01:40:35.760 --> 01:40:41.199
And oh, I just eat very
I've always eaten very quickly. People

1217
01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:44.319
make fun of me for it.
I feel like that's the solution. Yeah.

1218
01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:46.600
So what I do is I pour
the milk until the cereal moves,

1219
01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:50.520
and then I use a fork to
eat it. Oh, that's that's pro

1220
01:40:50.640 --> 01:40:56.359
gamer. That's what I do is
I put frozen milk at the bottom of

1221
01:40:56.439 --> 01:40:59.960
the bowl and then it gradually turns
to milk as I eat the cereal.

1222
01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:02.319
That I made that up, but
it might work. I was going to

1223
01:41:02.399 --> 01:41:06.600
say that light work. But I'm
saying you eat your cereals so fast that

1224
01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:10.840
it's not going to melt in time. I know, I know, it's

1225
01:41:10.880 --> 01:41:14.239
not just cereal. I just I'm
a very quick eater. It's me too.

1226
01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:17.479
Yeah, but I do love that
you use a fork. That is

1227
01:41:17.520 --> 01:41:21.960
an amazing bit of Shelby lor Well. It makes sense because then you're eating

1228
01:41:23.079 --> 01:41:27.000
the cereal with the texture. That's
good. But you don't have to drink

1229
01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:30.119
milk while doing it. Yes,
yeah, you got. You got your

1230
01:41:30.159 --> 01:41:35.199
own little mini calendar there. It's
true. My family does not understand it,

1231
01:41:35.279 --> 01:41:40.079
but I'm glad that you do.
My sound family understands it, of

1232
01:41:40.079 --> 01:41:45.000
course. But you are anti Mabel's
acquaintances. Oh well, anti Mabel's acquaintances

1233
01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:51.560
are anti Dipper and incorrigible flirt oh, Anti Dipper, Yeah, you rat

1234
01:41:51.640 --> 01:41:59.520
scallion, Anti Stan, a charity
obsessed hippie, Anti Ford, a wannabe

1235
01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:04.760
you Twop star slash part time DJ, Anti Seuss, a Forbes billionaire,

1236
01:42:05.199 --> 01:42:10.159
Anti Waddles, the first pig to
ever go to jail for armed robbery.

1237
01:42:11.079 --> 01:42:13.840
Uh. I don't know the name
off the top of my head. I'll

1238
01:42:13.840 --> 01:42:17.039
have to track it down. But
someone did fan art of these anti characters

1239
01:42:17.079 --> 01:42:24.399
and it's amazing, Like someone Lego
Loopis did and actually asked for a picture

1240
01:42:24.600 --> 01:42:30.039
of my streaming setup to draw.
Oh wow, a reference picture anti form.

1241
01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:32.840
That's amazing. I don't remember if
it was that person. I'll have

1242
01:42:32.960 --> 01:42:38.319
to find it if I remember.
To what's uh, what's Anti Mabele up

1243
01:42:38.319 --> 01:42:41.279
to now? Well, she did
make a brief stop to hang out with

1244
01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:45.439
Bill Ceipher in the multiverse she did, Yeah, neither of them enjoyed it,

1245
01:42:45.119 --> 01:42:51.520
and a comic dove I did from
my boss legends fancy yes, but

1246
01:42:51.640 --> 01:42:58.079
her current location is revenge plotting her
way through the mindscape. The Visionaire code

1247
01:42:58.439 --> 01:43:03.680
says some set the Anti Bill is
a very polite purple square who whispers believe

1248
01:43:03.760 --> 01:43:09.199
in yourself to people while they sleep. He is very boring. Can I

1249
01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:13.600
also head canum, but Anti Bill
has your voice just saying that, like

1250
01:43:13.800 --> 01:43:18.520
how you just said it. I'll
accept it, Anti Mabel and Anti Bill.

1251
01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:24.680
I love the purple square though,
because that is basically the tad strapless

1252
01:43:24.760 --> 01:43:30.560
traumatized by purple squares. Yeah.
Also it kind of resembles will Will Cipher,

1253
01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:38.039
which was the reverse false version.
Yeah. The next is Tater Tate

1254
01:43:38.439 --> 01:43:44.039
McGucket. We finally learn Tate's name
is Tater and Tate is a nickname beautiful.

1255
01:43:44.159 --> 01:43:49.840
His parents are Fiddleford mcgugget and mm
A Dixon formerly Mma McGucket. Isn't

1256
01:43:49.880 --> 01:43:53.359
that a reference to something? I
have no idea. I think it's a

1257
01:43:53.359 --> 01:43:58.000
Beverly Hill billy's references. That's Ellie
May. Ellie May is supposed to say.

1258
01:43:58.079 --> 01:44:00.760
I think it is. Yeah,
I know a lot about the Beverly

1259
01:44:00.880 --> 01:44:04.319
Hillbillies. Well that's that's interesting,
because I know a lot about money for

1260
01:44:04.399 --> 01:44:11.279
nothing. Only if only there was
a situation in which your combined skills could

1261
01:44:11.279 --> 01:44:15.199
be I don't know. I don't
know. And he works at Tate and

1262
01:44:15.479 --> 01:44:18.199
Backel's Fate and Tackle. I want
to meet Backel. Where's so good?

1263
01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:24.319
Maybe? Maybe I think the Bacle
probably died, and so every year on

1264
01:44:24.960 --> 01:44:29.199
Christmas, Tate is visited by the
ghosts of Backel and three other spirits in

1265
01:44:29.439 --> 01:44:35.720
life. I was your partner,
Buckles, funny, I'm backl here are

1266
01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:42.920
my shackles. His skills are selling
fishing supplies, growing sideburns, saying yep.

1267
01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:45.399
And he is described by all who
know him as a simple man.

1268
01:44:45.520 --> 01:44:49.640
But his secret shame is that he
scored so high on the S A T

1269
01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:54.520
s that the grating machine exploded.
He can predict the stock market and weather

1270
01:44:54.600 --> 01:44:59.920
patterns. He guesses the correct Oregon
State lottery numbers every year, but tell

1271
01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:04.720
no one I love him. He
is currently residing in Northwest Manor, which

1272
01:45:05.199 --> 01:45:11.399
was renamed mcgugget's Hooton Nanny Hut with
two points. That's in the ad.

1273
01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:15.600
Yes, Preston Northwest does not care
for this name. Well, I don't

1274
01:45:15.600 --> 01:45:19.319
care for Preston Northwest. Huh what
do you see? What is happening here?

1275
01:45:19.960 --> 01:45:25.920
The visionair code translates to there are
at least six ghosts left in Northwest

1276
01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:30.359
Mansion. Tatan Fidds are working on
a machine to bust though I have to

1277
01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:36.920
assume that raccoon wife is his stepmother. Now here's the question in regards to

1278
01:45:38.039 --> 01:45:42.880
Tate Fits and raccoon wife, which
of them does busting make feel good?

1279
01:45:43.119 --> 01:45:45.880
And which of them could take or
leave it? I think mcguckett it definitely

1280
01:45:45.920 --> 01:45:50.159
feels good to McGucket to Fiddleford like
take probably take it or leave it?

1281
01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:55.479
That feels right. Yeah, And
the raccoon wife hates busting. Yeah,

1282
01:45:55.960 --> 01:46:00.399
raccoon wife's makes raccoon noises which are
subtitled busting makes me feel bad. Yeah,

1283
01:46:00.680 --> 01:46:08.000
exactly. So now he comes to
everyone's favorite member of the Pines family,

1284
01:46:08.359 --> 01:46:12.560
Phil Brick Elmer Pines just like the
real name of Butch Hartman. Oh

1285
01:46:12.880 --> 01:46:18.359
no, Philbrick Elmer Pines owns Pines
Pawns, New Jersey's least fun pawn shop.

1286
01:46:19.199 --> 01:46:24.600
His prior jobs were construction worker,
concrete poor and comic book sensor.

1287
01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:27.279
Some people are actually paid to ruin
jokes, Yes, Alex, I know

1288
01:46:27.359 --> 01:46:30.720
you've talked about this at length with
us, and I was very grateful for

1289
01:46:30.760 --> 01:46:34.560
the opportunity. So I guess Phil
Brick invented the Comics Code Authority as well.

1290
01:46:35.199 --> 01:46:42.079
Evil. He's been overheard saying,
so Taffy, what am I made

1291
01:46:42.119 --> 01:46:46.840
of money, We'll buy regular water
taffy in this family. Also, congrats

1292
01:46:46.920 --> 01:46:51.880
to Pottercossaul for having your finale at
the same time as ours. Oh yeah.

1293
01:46:54.199 --> 01:46:59.079
He is married to Karen Romanov,
Pines caring mother and kleptomaniac. He

1294
01:46:59.399 --> 01:47:03.079
likes money, putting steak as a
condiment on steak, and cowboy movies where

1295
01:47:03.119 --> 01:47:11.439
everyone dies. Grandpa the Kids?
Does everyone die in Grandpa the Kids spoilers?

1296
01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:15.000
Does he die of old age?
Yeah, that's the ending. Uh?

1297
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:24.000
Oh no, that's why he's tired
during the day he's dying. The

1298
01:47:24.079 --> 01:47:28.279
original family name, the name of
Pines, was reportedly introduced at Ellis Island,

1299
01:47:28.359 --> 01:47:30.800
but records of the original name have
been lost. Hmm, do you

1300
01:47:30.920 --> 01:47:36.520
have fan theories about this or no? I don't. Uh? May I

1301
01:47:36.640 --> 01:47:41.159
talk about it after you read the
Yeah, I think I get what you're

1302
01:47:41.399 --> 01:47:45.520
what you're gonna say. But the
Visionaire code says that he never wiped number

1303
01:47:45.520 --> 01:47:47.439
one Dad off his gold chain,
probably because you forgot, because he never

1304
01:47:47.520 --> 01:47:54.439
actually cared about his children, because
he sucks guys. Uh So. Interestingly,

1305
01:47:55.119 --> 01:47:59.720
Romanov could be Karen Pine's middle name. If it is, However,

1306
01:47:59.800 --> 01:48:03.600
her maiden name that means a lot
because no one is supposed to have that

1307
01:48:03.840 --> 01:48:10.000
name anymore. Oh my god,
because the Romanov family was all murdered.

1308
01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:12.359
I just thought you were going to
say that. I mean, it doesn't

1309
01:48:12.680 --> 01:48:14.840
maybe it doesn't work timeline wise.
I thought you're just gonna say that the

1310
01:48:14.880 --> 01:48:19.840
Pines family is Jewish. But no, I was saying that the name Romanov

1311
01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:27.079
is a reference to the rumor that
one daughter of the Romanov family survived.

1312
01:48:27.560 --> 01:48:35.560
Oh her name, Anastasia, are
different Mabel, the great grandchildren of the

1313
01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:43.119
real life Anastasia, little Karen Beware
resputants a work. I think that she

1314
01:48:43.319 --> 01:48:46.279
is related to that one lady who
drops the fur coat and says, eats

1315
01:48:46.439 --> 01:48:51.319
me perfect, Anastasia in the movie
Anastasia. No, that's her. Actually,

1316
01:48:51.840 --> 01:48:57.439
yeah, that's what happened to fur
coat lady. Yeah, that's what

1317
01:48:57.520 --> 01:49:01.079
happened to for coat lady. Meant
it moved to New Jersey. See,

1318
01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:06.079
I was taking that as this scam
artist made it her middle name and it's

1319
01:49:06.159 --> 01:49:12.159
part of her stage name for fortune
telling. It could be either that.

1320
01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:15.159
It could be either I don't know. Because you have you have a family

1321
01:49:15.199 --> 01:49:18.000
where there's a Cara, one of
them is named Mason, So like this

1322
01:49:18.119 --> 01:49:25.000
is just Smebiloc has made a comics
page inspired by SEUs, and at the

1323
01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:29.560
top it says Seuss's comics inspired me
to draw my own comic page. I

1324
01:49:29.680 --> 01:49:32.359
tried submitting it to the Gravity Folds
Gossiper, but the editor said I was

1325
01:49:32.760 --> 01:49:39.359
too derivative. Everyone's a critic.
My favorite illustration is definitely Seuss in the

1326
01:49:39.439 --> 01:49:45.399
loco mine would My favorite is the
family Circus. Yeah. So the The

1327
01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:50.960
tagline of Gravity Funnies is every day
until print does so. The first here

1328
01:49:51.319 --> 01:49:56.760
is a Calvin and Hobbes reference called
Candy and Grenda. I guess it's it's

1329
01:49:56.800 --> 01:50:00.119
the two of them sledding down a
hill, and Candy says, do you

1330
01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:04.319
speak? Snowstorm makes me ponder this
fickle construction of the human condition. Grenda

1331
01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:10.359
responds, I made out with a
snowman. I love it all right.

1332
01:50:11.199 --> 01:50:16.760
The next one is called Nobody Likes
Thompson, and it is Garfield without Garfield

1333
01:50:17.000 --> 01:50:23.520
Yeah, and he has drawn like
John Arbuckle. And the two middle comics

1334
01:50:23.560 --> 01:50:26.960
are him just sitting in silence,
which is clearly a reference to Garfield without

1335
01:50:27.000 --> 01:50:30.279
Garfield Yeah, or Garfield minus Garfield
and Ella do you want to take Thompson.

1336
01:50:30.399 --> 01:50:38.960
Yeah, oh boy, unflavored yogurt, no missed calls after he checks

1337
01:50:39.000 --> 01:50:44.119
his phone. I have that's amazing
that there's a Garfield without Garfield. I

1338
01:50:44.319 --> 01:50:48.159
love that it's Garfield without Garfield.
There's what is this one's supposed to look

1339
01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:54.239
like the biggest too? That pig
is too big is Marmaduke, And oh

1340
01:50:54.319 --> 01:50:58.840
Marmaduke. So so the Marbaduke one
has a very very it's called that pig

1341
01:50:59.000 --> 01:51:01.399
is too Big, and it has
a very very large wattles sitting on Mabel's

1342
01:51:01.439 --> 01:51:06.920
lap as Mabel says what. There's
the far side, which is called the

1343
01:51:08.079 --> 01:51:13.520
Ford dimension and has a moose with
tentacles coming out of a portal. A

1344
01:51:13.680 --> 01:51:17.119
moose, A dimension with a moose. Yeah, and the text is just

1345
01:51:17.399 --> 01:51:21.199
Ford saying I blame McGucket. Bodacious
Tea and a. In a reference to

1346
01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:29.079
the Kathy comics, has has an
issue called Swimsuit Season where he's just looking

1347
01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:33.800
at himself in the mirror in a
bikini and going ah, which was Kathy's

1348
01:51:33.840 --> 01:51:43.840
catchphrase. Uh. There is gleeful
Supper, which is it appears that Gideon's

1349
01:51:43.880 --> 01:51:46.319
mom is trying to get him to
say grace before dinner and in any family

1350
01:51:46.399 --> 01:51:51.199
circus style comic. But what is
what does Gideon say, Ella, I

1351
01:51:51.399 --> 01:52:00.319
pray to know God but capitalism.
There is working Wendy, which is Dilbert

1352
01:52:01.720 --> 01:52:10.039
and pointy hair stand says Wendy do
some work and Shelby take it. I

1353
01:52:10.279 --> 01:52:14.680
hate work. If only there was
a way to solve this, and then

1354
01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:19.640
she burns down the building. Next
is Little Dipper in Subconscious Phill, which

1355
01:52:19.680 --> 01:52:26.760
is a reference to Nemo in Dreamland. Yes, little Nemo in Dreamland.

1356
01:52:27.399 --> 01:52:30.760
Uh, there is a picture of
me in the Little Nemo bed. There

1357
01:52:30.840 --> 01:52:36.439
is a physical replica of the bed
that Dipper is in at the Comic Museum

1358
01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:42.000
in Brussels, Belgium. And my
wife took a picture of me, so

1359
01:52:42.479 --> 01:52:45.039
I'll see if we can put that
in the thumbnail or something. Yes,

1360
01:52:45.640 --> 01:52:49.279
and Dipper is saying cryptogram, I
don't know, it's right under the under

1361
01:52:49.319 --> 01:52:56.760
the paid Oh it's Dipper in a
in in Visionaire is saying Ceipher lives while

1362
01:52:57.319 --> 01:53:00.279
venturing around in the Little Nemo bed. And then he wakes up from his

1363
01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:03.239
slumber and falls out of his bed
and says, oh, oh, I

1364
01:53:03.359 --> 01:53:09.239
am quite distraught. I should never
eaten that rare bit oh um, so

1365
01:53:09.359 --> 01:53:13.119
I think this one is eas yerking. The next one says treasure. The

1366
01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:17.520
President's Key origin created in seventeen ninety
seven by Washington as a way to hide

1367
01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:21.640
all of his scandalous sketchings of women's
ankles from King George, was passed down

1368
01:53:21.640 --> 01:53:27.600
from president to president until it was
swallowed by Quentin Trembley to preserve its power,

1369
01:53:28.000 --> 01:53:30.640
and coughed up for dipper Pine till
a hundred and fifty years later.

1370
01:53:30.000 --> 01:53:34.079
That was my attempt at doing Jerry. Oh yeah, Chris Parnell, Ya

1371
01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:40.840
tastes like licking at Grandpa can unlock. The Washington Monument, which is actually

1372
01:53:40.880 --> 01:53:44.319
a giant music box and spins and
plays Yankee Doodle when you crank it.

1373
01:53:45.079 --> 01:53:48.079
The Lincoln Memorial, under which are
the hidden bones of link Loops, the

1374
01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:51.840
one hundred foot cyclops with a saddle
on it that Abe Lincoln rode into battle

1375
01:53:51.920 --> 01:53:57.720
during the Civil War. The President's
Cabinet, a chest buried under the White

1376
01:53:57.760 --> 01:54:02.399
House containing the never before seen final
draft of the Constitution, which contains the

1377
01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:08.880
kevinth Amendment granting special rights to anyone
named Kevin and in states of prohibition on

1378
01:54:09.079 --> 01:54:12.920
side works, and the Visionaire Code
says, Trigger and Powers are still looking

1379
01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:19.159
for I love how much Alex loves
writing jokes about secret government creatures and robots,

1380
01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:25.520
which is why he probably was so
excited for Inside Job. Yeah,

1381
01:54:25.760 --> 01:54:30.720
and probably why he hired Siwon who
likes that stuff too. Yeah, they

1382
01:54:30.840 --> 01:54:34.800
bonded. Now we're going to do
a segment about all of the other miscellaneous

1383
01:54:34.960 --> 01:54:41.239
bits and bobs and jyps and drabs
that have come out between this and now,

1384
01:54:41.359 --> 01:54:44.560
or even between the things we talked
about that couldn't sustain their own episode,

1385
01:54:44.960 --> 01:54:47.800
that were post series that had the
Gravity Falls characters in brought back in

1386
01:54:47.880 --> 01:54:53.279
some way. Yes, So starting
off on July eighteenth, twenty seventeen,

1387
01:54:53.600 --> 01:54:57.359
don't color this book, It's Cursed
was released. It is a Gravity Falls

1388
01:54:57.399 --> 01:55:01.319
coloring book by Emmy Sisiiga and Stephanie
Roman here as featuring a cameo by I

1389
01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:08.520
believe Ammy Ciceria's father, who posed
for a drawing of stand that was creepily

1390
01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:13.359
realistic. The Computer Man. The
reason the Cisirigas are the way they are

1391
01:55:13.560 --> 01:55:16.880
is that he repaired computers for a
living, and Neil says, I never

1392
01:55:16.960 --> 01:55:21.199
recall a time where we had less
than three computers in my house then explained

1393
01:55:21.279 --> 01:55:26.760
so much. Yeah, it's really
fun. If you can track it down,

1394
01:55:27.279 --> 01:55:30.039
I recommend looking at it. It's
a nice little sit. Actually,

1395
01:55:30.079 --> 01:55:34.399
it's somehow despite being me, didn't
know this exists, never heard of it.

1396
01:55:34.680 --> 01:55:39.479
Really, I have like a three
quarters of the way colored through one.

1397
01:55:39.560 --> 01:55:42.920
I've been working through it for years. But it is absolutely delightful.

1398
01:55:43.079 --> 01:55:46.359
Yes, my electric company did send
me some crayons yesterday. You should get

1399
01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:49.720
the book. I paid my electric
bill over the phone, which is a

1400
01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:56.439
new experimental thing they're offering, and
to thank me for doing that because no

1401
01:55:56.479 --> 01:55:59.520
one else is doing it, they
sent me a bunch of light bulbs,

1402
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:08.239
power strip and some crayons for absolutely
free. Wow. So it's really cute.

1403
01:56:08.239 --> 01:56:12.039
There's a page of like potential ships
and matchmakes that Mabel had, and

1404
01:56:12.760 --> 01:56:15.560
a lot of those are real cute, like Laziest Using and Grunkle Stan.

1405
01:56:15.960 --> 01:56:20.079
My favorite is the twins with their
clothing swap. So Dipper and Mabel are

1406
01:56:20.119 --> 01:56:24.439
dressed like Stan and Ford, and
Stan and Ford are dressed like Dipper and

1407
01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:27.960
Mabel. Yes, yes, yes, And I believe there was a secret

1408
01:56:28.039 --> 01:56:30.159
within it that led you to the
SEUs cast, which was like this five

1409
01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:34.960
minute clip of SEUs running a podcast. I somehow didn't know about that,

1410
01:56:35.560 --> 01:56:39.279
but that one, I'm ninety percent
sure it was connected to this book.

1411
01:56:39.359 --> 01:56:43.680
Welcome to episode one of SEUs Cast. I'm your host, Seuss. Today's

1412
01:56:43.680 --> 01:56:46.560
special guest is the one and only
stand Pines from the Mystery track. Give

1413
01:56:46.640 --> 01:56:53.119
them a hand applause sound effect.
What what is all this recording equipment?

1414
01:56:53.199 --> 01:56:56.439
And why are we on the roof? And where's this pole cat you've been

1415
01:56:56.520 --> 01:57:00.239
going on about all day? Not
pole cat? Podcast when people record their

1416
01:57:00.319 --> 01:57:09.119
voices for entertainment like the radio.
No way, nobody listens to the radio

1417
01:57:09.239 --> 01:57:13.840
anymore. Podcasts are like audiobooks about
people who don't want to get jobs.

1418
01:57:14.239 --> 01:57:17.319
Why did I get myself into this? That's amazing. In August of twenty

1419
01:57:17.399 --> 01:57:23.960
twenty, the Amphibia episode wax Museum, Alex Hirsch voices the museum owning con

1420
01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:29.960
Frog named the curator, which I
think partially was that inspiration for us calling

1421
01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:31.119
ourselves curreac. I think so.
I think that's why I was kind of

1422
01:57:31.199 --> 01:57:34.920
rattling around. Well, I know
it was definitely why I started calling us

1423
01:57:35.000 --> 01:57:40.279
curator Ella and curator Charlie, and
like tweets. He also voices frog Seuss

1424
01:57:40.319 --> 01:57:44.600
and there in Shmebylock does show up. The episode itself is sort of like

1425
01:57:44.680 --> 01:57:48.960
an amalgamation of a lot of different
gravity Falls episodes, highly influenced by Headhunters,

1426
01:57:49.000 --> 01:57:53.119
which is one of my favorite episodes, but it does reference a lot

1427
01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:56.279
of different gravity Falls episodes within it. Gotcha and It's fun. It's a

1428
01:57:56.359 --> 01:58:01.840
nice revisiting Grunkle Stan and frog Sy
and who may be a lock A little

1429
01:58:01.840 --> 01:58:04.680
bit sorry, mister Pawns. Do
you ever get the feeling that we exist

1430
01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:10.920
simultaneously in multiple parallel universes, completely
unaware of the other's very existence. You've

1431
01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:15.039
been licking yourself again, frog SEUs, got me again, mister Ponds.

1432
01:58:15.199 --> 01:58:20.359
In September twenty twenty, Disney Channel
uploaded the broken karaoke video call Me Mabel,

1433
01:58:20.920 --> 01:58:27.239
a parody of Call Me Maybe by
Carl Ray Jebson sung by Mabel.

1434
01:58:27.439 --> 01:58:32.920
I haven't met you. You're stable? Then here's my comber. They call

1435
01:58:33.039 --> 01:58:39.760
me Mabel. I'm all about that. Seek up for it, so don't

1436
01:58:39.800 --> 01:58:45.039
be sad. Can call me rabelund
that literally, any boy I am thig

1437
01:58:45.079 --> 01:58:49.800
any dead friends except Gideon Gus.
This goes up standards and I like it.

1438
01:58:49.800 --> 01:58:54.199
It's cute, it's nicely sung.
I ninety percent sure it's Christian Schaal

1439
01:58:54.239 --> 01:58:57.640
actually singing ITHO it is. Yeah, I somehow have not seen that one.

1440
01:58:58.119 --> 01:59:00.600
I have homework now. I need
to listen to the suitcast and call

1441
01:59:00.720 --> 01:59:03.359
me Mabel. Yeah, I've neglected
to listen to call me Mabel. I

1442
01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:05.439
was like, I don't think Alex
Hirsh had anything to do with this.

1443
01:59:05.560 --> 01:59:09.520
I think Disney Channel just called me. I think that's okay. I don't.

1444
01:59:09.720 --> 01:59:13.199
I personally am just bothered by and
then we'll get into this in one

1445
01:59:13.279 --> 01:59:16.239
second. But I am not bothered
that much by things that don't involve Alex

1446
01:59:16.319 --> 01:59:19.439
Hirsch because it still feels authentic to
the show. I know. I just

1447
01:59:20.119 --> 01:59:23.880
it's a little apocalyptic. Oh,
I get what you're saying. On a

1448
01:59:24.000 --> 01:59:28.399
philosophical capitalism level, it's just something
I don't like thinking about that often.

1449
01:59:28.600 --> 01:59:30.840
Like one time Dan Popenmeyer did a
TikTok He's like, well, obviously I

1450
01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:33.720
don't own the characters. So and
one of the comments said, wait,

1451
01:59:34.199 --> 01:59:36.920
how do you not own the characters? You created them? And I believe

1452
01:59:36.960 --> 01:59:40.920
there were fifty seven replies and I
sent a screenshot of that and said how

1453
01:59:41.000 --> 01:59:45.159
quickly was this person radicalized? Yeah? Cartoons are really expensive to make,

1454
01:59:45.479 --> 01:59:49.079
and so the way the industry works
is that people who are capable of making

1455
01:59:49.159 --> 01:59:56.279
them describe them to people who have
money, and then the people with the

1456
01:59:56.359 --> 02:00:00.199
money say, we will give you
the money to make this cartoon provided we

1457
02:00:00.439 --> 02:00:08.560
get one hundred uh retention of all
imagery and characters. Yeah. Other industries

1458
02:00:09.359 --> 02:00:15.840
allow people to negotiate a percentage of
royalties off of their work. Television doesn't.

1459
02:00:17.000 --> 02:00:23.720
Yeah, yeah, television. There's
a lot of unfair practices in TV

1460
02:00:23.880 --> 02:00:28.560
animation that we that could take up
a whole episode. Really, one question,

1461
02:00:28.760 --> 02:00:31.279
Ella, is this call me Mabel
on the same tier or a lower

1462
02:00:31.399 --> 02:00:35.159
tier than the glom Gold takeover of
the Ducktails theme? Nothing will ever be

1463
02:00:35.239 --> 02:00:40.039
as good as the Glomgold takeover of
the Ducktails theme? Counting top my glam

1464
02:00:40.319 --> 02:00:47.800
plan to beat that Scott's man glomb
Tails. Technically I'm Scott as well.

1465
02:00:47.880 --> 02:00:56.239
Glom Tails screws Taks screws take screws, Taks Screws takes the colmbtails. Okay,

1466
02:00:56.680 --> 02:00:59.279
I think what it boils down to
for me is like, yeah,

1467
02:00:59.479 --> 02:01:03.199
the the fact that the system is
the way it is so that that kind

1468
02:01:03.239 --> 02:01:06.439
of thing happens without input from the
creator sucks. But I don't know if

1469
02:01:06.479 --> 02:01:11.359
that That doesn't mean I'm going to
inherently discount the product that they come out

1470
02:01:11.399 --> 02:01:15.399
with because people did still work on
it. It's just the fact that who

1471
02:01:15.520 --> 02:01:18.800
is getting money from it. Yeah, that sucks. Yeah, it sucks

1472
02:01:18.880 --> 02:01:24.560
that they are able to do gravity
falls things without asking Alex Hirsch, but

1473
02:01:24.840 --> 02:01:28.720
he is not able to do gravity
falls things without asking Disney exactly. It

1474
02:01:29.119 --> 02:01:33.159
sucks that the likenesses of his family
members are now by corporation, and I

1475
02:01:33.319 --> 02:01:38.199
just I guess I wish that people
would give those products more of a chance,

1476
02:01:38.359 --> 02:01:41.800
bearing in mind that the fact that
they were able to happen sucks.

1477
02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:45.560
Yeah. Yeah. So Relatedly,
on February twenty third, twenty twenty one,

1478
02:01:45.840 --> 02:01:48.439
Tales of the Strange and Unexpected the
runkle Stand Edition, a parody of

1479
02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:55.439
a bedtime storybook, is released.
It's basically recaps of the episodes, where

1480
02:01:55.560 --> 02:01:58.000
part of it is like from different
Mabel's perspective, and then part of it

1481
02:01:58.159 --> 02:02:00.399
is the grunkle Stand version, where
he gives his own take on what happened

1482
02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:03.720
and there was, like, there's
a lot of controversy. Alex first heard

1483
02:02:03.760 --> 02:02:09.680
about it immediately after learning that the
art book had been canceled and no reason

1484
02:02:09.840 --> 02:02:13.920
was given, even though it was
basically ready to ship. So immediately after

1485
02:02:14.159 --> 02:02:15.520
putting all this work into the art
book and then just finding it out,

1486
02:02:15.600 --> 02:02:17.520
Disney told him, ah, yeah, no, and he's like, what,

1487
02:02:17.720 --> 02:02:20.439
you approved it? So he started
production on it. Yeah, would

1488
02:02:20.439 --> 02:02:25.640
have been done by dark Horse Comics, would have been great, yep,

1489
02:02:25.960 --> 02:02:29.479
yep. And it is was basically
ready to release and Disney just decided against

1490
02:02:29.520 --> 02:02:32.359
it and never gave a reason.
And around like literally right after that,

1491
02:02:32.960 --> 02:02:39.079
he found out that Tales of the
Strange and Unexpected the Grunkle Stand edition existed

1492
02:02:39.319 --> 02:02:44.840
and was I think rationally upset given
that they are just allowed to do things

1493
02:02:44.880 --> 02:02:46.680
and he didn't even know what existed
until he tweeted about it. Yeah,

1494
02:02:46.680 --> 02:02:50.960
And again it's it's the principle of
it more than the actual product, because

1495
02:02:51.079 --> 02:02:54.680
like, I don't think this book
deserves that he hates, right, I

1496
02:02:54.720 --> 02:02:58.760
don't think I'm not saying no one
besides Alex should be able to write grunks

1497
02:02:58.760 --> 02:03:01.319
Stand. I'm not saying nobody besides
Alex should be paid to write Grunkle Stan.

1498
02:03:01.920 --> 02:03:05.399
I am saying the fact that he
put all this work, yeah,

1499
02:03:05.640 --> 02:03:11.159
into a book that just disappeared because
Disney said so. Meanwhile, Disney put

1500
02:03:11.199 --> 02:03:14.880
out this thing without even asking his
opinion on it. I will say that,

1501
02:03:15.119 --> 02:03:17.640
like to this day, the Gravity
Falls finale is one of the top

1502
02:03:17.760 --> 02:03:25.439
ranked finales slash episodes of all time
for Disney TVA. So I'm hoping that

1503
02:03:25.880 --> 02:03:29.840
with like the amount of love that
the show still has, that we might

1504
02:03:30.000 --> 02:03:31.840
still have a chance at that art
book. I certainly hope so. I

1505
02:03:31.880 --> 02:03:34.840
would really love it and I would
love to talk about it on this show

1506
02:03:34.920 --> 02:03:40.840
if we got like an advanced copy
or something Disney. But also this became

1507
02:03:40.920 --> 02:03:45.000
kind of a meme because in all
of the images in the book are screenshots

1508
02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:48.600
from the show. One of them
has the progress bar in quick Time still

1509
02:03:48.760 --> 02:03:54.880
visible. This is true, This
is undoubtedly true. Icotic It's a bit

1510
02:03:54.960 --> 02:03:58.800
from Sock Opera where where Jipper is
floating around outside the theater and then the

1511
02:03:59.119 --> 02:04:03.840
right below him there's a triangle and
some moving little bar along a line.

1512
02:04:03.960 --> 02:04:09.159
I don't remember that part of the
episode. I think that the antithesis of

1513
02:04:09.239 --> 02:04:14.279
that image is Dana Terras tweeting bootlegged
versions of owl House on her Twitter.

1514
02:04:15.199 --> 02:04:17.840
Alex has also done that. Yeah, so I do have the book,

1515
02:04:18.359 --> 02:04:21.399
and I think it's fine. It's
cute, and it's very much in the

1516
02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:26.039
vein of the different Mabel's Guidebook,
where it's like written from these characters clashing

1517
02:04:26.159 --> 02:04:30.880
perspectives, and like, I don't
know, I understand one hundred percent of

1518
02:04:30.920 --> 02:04:34.960
the complaints. It's not as good
as an art book, and the QuickTime

1519
02:04:35.039 --> 02:04:38.920
thing is lazy, is basically the
talking. Yeah. Yeah, but then

1520
02:04:39.000 --> 02:04:41.720
people like there was a I saw
a Reddit thread where someone was like,

1521
02:04:41.720 --> 02:04:44.640
why haven't I heard about this book? And all the comments were like because

1522
02:04:44.680 --> 02:04:46.680
it's the spawn of Satan, and
I'm like, it's not that bad.

1523
02:04:46.840 --> 02:04:50.039
It is potentially why we were denied
the art book, so like an art

1524
02:04:50.079 --> 02:04:54.239
book would have been better. It's
not that there is this there is the

1525
02:04:54.279 --> 02:04:57.760
gronkle Stand Bedtime Stories book instead of
the art book. It's that there is

1526
02:04:58.720 --> 02:05:03.439
a grugle Stand and it was fully
approved with the QuickTime bar and it was

1527
02:05:03.600 --> 02:05:09.680
prioritized over the art book, which
was sounds amazing, was just said,

1528
02:05:09.760 --> 02:05:11.960
no, we don't want to release
it. Sorry. I mean, I

1529
02:05:12.039 --> 02:05:16.319
do think it coincides with the change
in power that reportedly happened in Disney,

1530
02:05:16.399 --> 02:05:21.920
and that is also the reason why
a lot of shows like Ducktails and Owl

1531
02:05:23.000 --> 02:05:28.319
House did not get further seasons,
is because they were changing the idea of

1532
02:05:28.399 --> 02:05:30.840
what they were wanting Disney TVA to
be. Oh, so they were shifting

1533
02:05:30.880 --> 02:05:35.680
away from like the the lean in
fandom kind of shows and more going for

1534
02:05:35.840 --> 02:05:42.800
like the lean back genre dome female
kind of shows. Right, is that

1535
02:05:42.960 --> 02:05:45.439
where what they were doing. If
I go to my grave as the only

1536
02:05:45.520 --> 02:05:48.720
person who overall feels good about Tales
of the Strange and Unexpected the Grunkle sand

1537
02:05:48.840 --> 02:05:53.520
edition, that'll be okay. But
speaking of weird corporate decisions from Disney.

1538
02:05:54.159 --> 02:05:58.119
So the next thing that happened was
in October of twenty twenty one, Bill

1539
02:05:58.199 --> 02:06:02.079
Seipher appeared in the Simpsons season in
thirty three episode Bart's in Jail during a

1540
02:06:02.159 --> 02:06:06.960
dream sequence involving Alan Cumming's Loki.
Alan Cumming is the actor who played Loki

1541
02:06:08.039 --> 02:06:13.960
and Son of the Mask, so
this is a gravity falls Simpson's Son of

1542
02:06:14.039 --> 02:06:17.920
the Mask crossover. Weird. So
in that dream sequence, Bill invites the

1543
02:06:18.000 --> 02:06:24.159
viewers to by cryptosuckers, so This
was like one of the weirdest things I've

1544
02:06:24.199 --> 02:06:30.479
ever seen in my life, I
think because it basically happened where like months

1545
02:06:30.600 --> 02:06:33.479
prior, there was like a press
release for the episode and it had like

1546
02:06:33.520 --> 02:06:38.439
a whole synopsis and it had listed
like the guest stars and it was Alan

1547
02:06:38.560 --> 02:06:42.760
Cumming as Loki and Alex Hirsch as
Bill Cipher. And we were like,

1548
02:06:44.039 --> 02:06:47.319
it can't be real, right,
there's no way that Bill Cipher is going

1549
02:06:47.399 --> 02:06:53.800
to appear in an episode of The
Simps suns. But it is Disney's The

1550
02:06:53.840 --> 02:06:58.079
Simpsons. Yeah it is, and
it's so and on the one, you

1551
02:06:58.119 --> 02:07:01.119
know, Ultimately, I'm just happy
for Alex right because The Simpsons is like

1552
02:07:01.199 --> 02:07:04.720
his favorite thing in the world.
He's also, around the time that we're

1553
02:07:04.760 --> 02:07:10.399
recording this, moderating the official Simpsons
panel a comic con. Yeah that's right.

1554
02:07:10.560 --> 02:07:14.039
Oh that's so wonderful. Yeah,
that's awesome. I have a theory

1555
02:07:14.640 --> 02:07:17.119
that when he has done with his
new Netflix show, Simpsons, is going

1556
02:07:17.239 --> 02:07:20.800
to try to hire him as showrunner. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.

1557
02:07:20.960 --> 02:07:25.159
That would be fascinating. I really
wonder what that would look like because he

1558
02:07:25.319 --> 02:07:28.880
is getting gradually more and more involved
in the Simpsons. He had a brief

1559
02:07:28.960 --> 02:07:32.960
one line cameo in an episode he
is moditorting the panel. I think they're

1560
02:07:33.039 --> 02:07:35.800
trying to groom him to take over. Before he was doing a thing at

1561
02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:39.560
Netflix, it was going to be
at Fox. I think he was doing

1562
02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:42.319
something of us. That's true,
but that was before Fox was Disney.

1563
02:07:42.520 --> 02:07:45.760
That would be really interesting. His
Netflix show is The Simpsons Reasons you learned

1564
02:07:45.880 --> 02:07:50.079
here first, folks. No,
that would be like super interesting because his

1565
02:07:50.319 --> 02:07:55.119
childhood was based in the Simpsons.
It would feel very full cycle because there's

1566
02:07:55.119 --> 02:07:58.720
a lot of gravity falls that feels
like the Simpsons. I had a theory

1567
02:07:58.760 --> 02:08:01.720
of my own when that press release
came out announcing that he was going to

1568
02:08:01.760 --> 02:08:05.079
guest as Bill Seipher. I figured
based on the synopsis the episode was about

1569
02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:09.680
Grandpa getting scammed by like a con
artist over the phone claiming to be Bart

1570
02:08:09.760 --> 02:08:11.720
who was in jail and needed money, and so that's how he got conned

1571
02:08:11.720 --> 02:08:16.760
out of all his money, and
then putting together the puzzle pieces that there's

1572
02:08:16.840 --> 02:08:20.560
gonna be Loki in this episode.
Alan Cumming is Loki, so maybe there's

1573
02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:24.840
gonna be some kind of like montage
of like famous historical con artists or something,

1574
02:08:24.880 --> 02:08:28.960
and it's gonna be like him and
Bill and other other characters like that.

1575
02:08:30.760 --> 02:08:33.159
And it was pretty much that,
and I'm really proud of having predicted

1576
02:08:33.199 --> 02:08:37.880
that Jesus Christ was also there.
Yeah, so the true context is that

1577
02:08:37.960 --> 02:08:41.880
Loki appears to The Simpsons in like
a food dream or something. I don't

1578
02:08:41.960 --> 02:08:46.680
know. I don't like the Simpsons
anymore. And it's not a hot take,

1579
02:08:46.039 --> 02:08:52.640
but Loki appears and he reveals that
he has taken many forms across history,

1580
02:08:52.119 --> 02:08:56.640
including a Nazi, the spider I
think is the Spider's name from the

1581
02:08:56.760 --> 02:09:03.800
Fables from Aesop's Fables, a Nazi, and yes, Jesus Christ and Bill

1582
02:09:03.840 --> 02:09:09.680
Cipher, which not only confirms that
Bill Cipher is Jesus, but both of

1583
02:09:09.760 --> 02:09:13.680
them are low key variants. That's
true. So Bill Cipher's cameo on The

1584
02:09:13.720 --> 02:09:18.359
Simpsons was in like the last act
of the episode. So me and a

1585
02:09:18.399 --> 02:09:22.840
bunch of other avid gravity Falls fans, eager for any iota of gravity Falls

1586
02:09:22.920 --> 02:09:26.960
content, had to sit through a
season thirty three episode of The Simpsons,

1587
02:09:26.039 --> 02:09:28.760
and I bet it got higher ratings
than Simpsons had in years, And I

1588
02:09:28.840 --> 02:09:31.960
bet I'm sure that's why it's my
theory that they're courting him to take over.

1589
02:09:33.359 --> 02:09:37.560
Yeah, but you know, regardless
of how the show is or is

1590
02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:41.039
not anymore. It was certainly a
wonderful moment for Alex because he made a

1591
02:09:41.159 --> 02:09:46.159
very sweet tweet about it after it
aired. He said, from age eight,

1592
02:09:46.439 --> 02:09:48.399
he never missed it episode. It
was also fascinating seeing Bill drawn in

1593
02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.359
the Simpsons style, because there's not
really that many aspects of his design that

1594
02:09:52.359 --> 02:09:54.880
you would have to change. But
what they do change is like subtle enough,

1595
02:09:56.039 --> 02:09:58.319
is like, oh yeah, he
looks like he belongs in the Simpsons,

1596
02:09:58.399 --> 02:10:03.399
which is And speaking of art styles
changing, oh god. We talked

1597
02:10:03.399 --> 02:10:11.039
about this on an episode of Falt
Disney recently. In the film Chippendale Rescue

1598
02:10:11.159 --> 02:10:15.439
Rangers, Dipper has a brief cameo
having been merged with Smurf. Yeah,

1599
02:10:15.680 --> 02:10:18.560
or with the art style of Smurf. Just listen to the Walt Disney episode.

1600
02:10:18.600 --> 02:10:20.960
How much we have to say about
this movie. But I don't understand

1601
02:10:20.960 --> 02:10:24.479
if it's like a merging or if
he I think it's a changing of their

1602
02:10:24.600 --> 02:10:30.880
chemical like it's it's changing them on
a like molecular level to that art style,

1603
02:10:31.000 --> 02:10:35.520
the same way that the CGI surgery
I think it's a much earlier draft

1604
02:10:35.640 --> 02:10:39.399
than I usually see in a completed
film. I agree, yeah, Oh

1605
02:10:39.000 --> 02:10:43.960
I'm only three apples high. But
I will say I was looking. I

1606
02:10:43.199 --> 02:10:48.039
was looking for gravity Falls in this
so because I wasn't so when I saw

1607
02:10:48.079 --> 02:10:50.960
it, I was like, what
what? What? I didn't even see

1608
02:10:52.079 --> 02:10:54.560
the full shot at dipper. I
saw a shot where all of the cartoon

1609
02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:58.159
characters were walking away and I caught
a downfest and orange shirt and shorts real

1610
02:10:58.279 --> 02:11:05.199
quick, and I saw his foot
in wit. See. That's it.

1611
02:11:05.239 --> 02:11:09.520
That's how rabid gravity Falls fans got
at this point for any slice of gravity

1612
02:11:09.560 --> 02:11:13.159
Falls, and as recently as a
last month July twenty twenty two, gravity

1613
02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:18.640
Falls characters appeared in Disney Chibi Verse, which is a crossover series. It

1614
02:11:20.199 --> 02:11:22.159
it reminds me a little bit of
House of Mouse, but it's not a

1615
02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:26.880
nightclub setting. It's it's like all
these dialogueless little shorts that are kind of

1616
02:11:28.880 --> 02:11:31.399
so it doesn't play shorts for Mickey
Mouse works that no one watched, so

1617
02:11:31.479 --> 02:11:37.199
we can just reuse exactly, but
it is it does have that crossover appeal

1618
02:11:37.279 --> 02:11:41.520
of interacting with all these other Disney
television animation characters. In this very cheevy

1619
02:11:41.600 --> 02:11:46.880
art style Undergrown. We start our
story in a Disney laboratory, super duper

1620
02:11:46.000 --> 02:11:50.920
confidential spot. We're a bunch of
crackpot Science has said, what the heck

1621
02:11:50.960 --> 02:11:54.920
we're trying this and grabbed up every
story that we got. They threw them

1622
02:11:54.960 --> 02:11:58.960
all together in a mash up machine, produced a glowing or at the size

1623
02:11:58.000 --> 02:12:11.039
of underneath a microscope, man sound, a bunch of cut characters just TV

1624
02:12:11.279 --> 02:12:18.159
show. In fact, Listener Star
sent us an email cataloging all the gravity

1625
02:12:18.159 --> 02:12:22.159
falls references within thus far in the
vault. In the theme song, you

1626
02:12:22.199 --> 02:12:26.159
can see two journal threes, two
Dipper hats, and Stan's fez among the

1627
02:12:26.239 --> 02:12:31.840
piles of fandom relics. Candice is
directing some sort of production in which Wattles

1628
02:12:31.960 --> 02:12:35.319
is dancing with Phineas and fer I
want to watch that. I would watch

1629
02:12:35.399 --> 02:12:39.079
it too, Agent w I was
gonna say that. Then Wattles leaves and

1630
02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:43.039
they're like, hey, where where's
Waddle? Wattles with a little secret agent

1631
02:12:43.159 --> 02:12:48.600
hat on is ten out of ten
a pig, and then he fights Anti

1632
02:12:48.680 --> 02:12:52.840
Wattles. There's an entire shot of
the intro dedicated to Dipper, apparently going

1633
02:12:52.920 --> 02:12:58.319
insane. While ranting about the mysteries
of gravity falls and more specifically Bill.

1634
02:12:58.880 --> 02:13:03.399
Stan is not interested and is busy
getting high on a Smile Dip brand lollipop

1635
02:13:03.880 --> 02:13:07.640
while a from Amphibia makes weird faces. When I read this, I had

1636
02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:09.359
to go back in the clip.
I was like, No, I thought

1637
02:13:09.520 --> 02:13:11.920
I thought he like he made a
weird face. But I thought he pulled

1638
02:13:11.920 --> 02:13:15.239
out like the world's most distracting object, like this swirly thing. But no,

1639
02:13:15.359 --> 02:13:18.039
it's a lollipop that he takes at
and then makes a weird face with

1640
02:13:18.159 --> 02:13:20.920
dollar sign eyes. I'm like,
Okay, maybe you just smiled it.

1641
02:13:22.319 --> 02:13:26.560
Bottles makes another appearance and a wide
shot with various other characters from Disney cartoons

1642
02:13:26.600 --> 02:13:31.680
and Disney Channel original movies of questionable
quality alike. In the first episode itself,

1643
02:13:31.840 --> 02:13:37.880
Stan is shown stealing star butterflies,
wand Winnie the Pooh's honey pot,

1644
02:13:37.079 --> 02:13:41.880
and some kind of ray gun,
which I think might be from Kim Possible.

1645
02:13:41.039 --> 02:13:45.600
It's possible, It's possible. Can
we can we write one that's just

1646
02:13:45.760 --> 02:13:52.000
Kim Possible Impossible? Rogers? That
is my favorite musical, So yes,

1647
02:13:52.119 --> 02:13:56.800
let's let's work on it. Dipper's
hat and Jourtle three are leaning against the

1648
02:13:56.840 --> 02:14:00.840
bottom, which I headcanon were put
there by Stan to mess with Dipper.

1649
02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:05.079
When Stan was stealing the wand in
the honeypot and he was running away,

1650
02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:09.199
Ita was looking at him kind of
knowing, gotcha, that's my ex husband.

1651
02:14:09.479 --> 02:14:13.199
My only knowledge is all of the
memes that were like rare photographic evidence

1652
02:14:13.279 --> 02:14:20.159
of ex wife and ex husband.
And while Tillie Green is explaining that fireworks

1653
02:14:20.199 --> 02:14:24.199
would scare the dogs off in the
chi her voice, I love her voice

1654
02:14:24.319 --> 02:14:28.800
is my lifeblood. I love I
know. I I the second I first

1655
02:14:28.880 --> 02:14:33.199
watched an episode. Who who the
voice? It's a brilliant voice. I'm

1656
02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:37.399
sorry, Cricket the dog don't lack
fireworks, and we've got a lot of

1657
02:14:37.520 --> 02:14:41.000
dogs in the Chibi verse. We
got a shot of many Disney dogs.

1658
02:14:41.279 --> 02:14:46.560
The gravity Falls reference here is the
one and only reappearance to my knowledge of

1659
02:14:46.680 --> 02:14:52.079
the British dog Man from Seus's nightmares
in DreamScapers. I was doubled over when

1660
02:14:52.079 --> 02:14:54.199
I saw that. I was like, I mean, Ella, it's finally

1661
02:14:54.359 --> 02:14:58.680
time we are crike for a stick
in the you know what, I think

1662
02:14:58.720 --> 02:15:01.680
I have a overcome my fear.
I'm ready for a stick in the plane.

1663
02:15:03.359 --> 02:15:07.520
I think it's been long enough that
we've coped with the with the idea.

1664
02:15:07.840 --> 02:15:09.920
It's amazing that they got that in
there. And and there's that shot

1665
02:15:11.000 --> 02:15:16.279
alone had like Mila Murphy's dog from
Mila Murphy's Law. Like American Dragon Jake

1666
02:15:16.359 --> 02:15:20.600
Long's dog was in that shot,
one of the gargoyles. We have our

1667
02:15:20.640 --> 02:15:24.520
next piece of fan mail from Dirk, who previously emailed up. It's titled

1668
02:15:24.840 --> 02:15:33.520
Gravity Falls Related Opinions, Ella and
Charlie and Shelby A. We got a

1669
02:15:33.600 --> 02:15:37.359
curator since we wrote this. I
guess, yeah, it's true. We

1670
02:15:37.439 --> 02:15:41.119
did. It's me. It's Dip
Membrane's hair site again. I mean,

1671
02:15:41.199 --> 02:15:43.560
my name is Dirk, and I
feel like that's an easier way to refer

1672
02:15:43.640 --> 02:15:46.119
to me. And I probably should
have just said that in the first email.

1673
02:15:46.279 --> 02:15:50.600
No, because Dip Membrane's hair site
made I'm so happy. It's a

1674
02:15:50.680 --> 02:15:52.760
beautiful name. Why do you think
of robbing us of that joy? I

1675
02:15:52.880 --> 02:15:56.840
am so glad that you're doing that
over the Garden Wall podcast because I was

1676
02:15:56.880 --> 02:16:01.119
planning to watch it and that is
really excited. The art of the show

1677
02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:03.840
is beautiful and I've put it off
for a while, but this is the

1678
02:16:03.920 --> 02:16:07.119
motivation I need to finally sit down
and commit to watching it. Besides,

1679
02:16:07.199 --> 02:16:11.680
I'm really happy that the podcast didn't
just end right there, because there was

1680
02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:15.680
so much fan culture outside of the
show, and the twins' birthday is just

1681
02:16:15.760 --> 02:16:18.600
a really good time to end the
podcast. Happy birthday to Bri Mavl who

1682
02:16:20.039 --> 02:16:22.239
when it comes to this massive fan
culture, I remember first getting into Gravity

1683
02:16:22.319 --> 02:16:26.960
Falls and the reverse Falls. Au
spoke to me and undertail fan at the

1684
02:16:26.000 --> 02:16:31.199
time and a budding Homestuck fan,
so naturally I loved AU's I hope you

1685
02:16:31.279 --> 02:16:35.760
bring up fandom's whole Au culture in
an episode. Well, stay tuned,

1686
02:16:35.920 --> 02:16:39.319
Stay tuned, because while some of
it seems a little silly to the modern

1687
02:16:39.360 --> 02:16:43.600
day fandom member, I found AU's, even the badly executed ones, extremely

1688
02:16:43.719 --> 02:16:50.639
intriguing. Now that's not to be
confused with philbic primes. Au. He

1689
02:16:50.760 --> 02:16:52.799
says that all the time, being
in my edgy phase at like twelve to

1690
02:16:52.920 --> 02:16:56.319
thirteen, I was way into those
aus where everyone was evil and looked like

1691
02:16:56.360 --> 02:17:01.120
they came out of hot topic or
rather edgy on purpose. Animatics are also

1692
02:17:01.159 --> 02:17:03.399
the super important part of the culture. I've seen so many Gravity Falls fan

1693
02:17:03.520 --> 02:17:07.239
animations and animatics that brought a whole
new life to the show. Sometimes I

1694
02:17:07.360 --> 02:17:11.159
was doing especially fitting songs such as
two Birds by Regina Spector. That song

1695
02:17:11.280 --> 02:17:15.399
is so perfect to the show,
and I recommend that animatic. So many

1696
02:17:15.479 --> 02:17:18.719
talented animators and artists are in this
community. Wow, Like who who?

1697
02:17:18.840 --> 02:17:26.079
Who is a talented animator in the
like who? Mela Grammar Charlie Not to

1698
02:17:26.200 --> 02:17:30.520
mention the enormous amounts of fan fiction, completely ignoring the weird shippy stuff that

1699
02:17:30.600 --> 02:17:33.959
I had noted that I have disdained
for in my last email, Gravity Falls

1700
02:17:35.000 --> 02:17:39.239
Fan Fix is probably some of the
best I've ever read, like the absolute

1701
02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:43.760
cream of the crop. Do you
guys have any fit recommendations for your audience?

1702
02:17:43.079 --> 02:17:48.920
Not even just me? I do
really wonder about the podcast Spotify analytics

1703
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:52.520
though we're all probably listening to Lemon
Demon, weird Al, and possibly AJJ.

1704
02:17:54.159 --> 02:17:58.200
If AJJ isn't my favorite band of
all time, then it's top three

1705
02:17:58.360 --> 02:18:01.920
and something tells me that it's a
very Gravity Falls fan thing to listen to.

1706
02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:03.559
Well, we did all talk for
an hour about weird Al, so

1707
02:18:03.600 --> 02:18:07.680
you're right about that. I don't, I don't, I can't think of

1708
02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:09.399
fanfic rex off the top of my
head, I have one that I really

1709
02:18:09.559 --> 02:18:16.719
like. It's called No More Candles. It's about a child SEUs opening up

1710
02:18:16.799 --> 02:18:22.920
to Stan for the first time about
not liking his birthday and Stan is really

1711
02:18:24.000 --> 02:18:28.680
sweet. But it's by Phantom Rose
ninety six. You can find it on

1712
02:18:28.840 --> 02:18:31.840
fanfiction dot Net. But to be
honest, Gravity Falls was one of my

1713
02:18:31.920 --> 02:18:37.079
most positive forays into fandom as a
youngin and I'm glad I had the experience

1714
02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:39.799
of seeing something so personal to me
be enjoyed by people across the world.

1715
02:18:41.360 --> 02:18:46.159
I live in the southern United States
and it's crazy the cultural differences and similarities

1716
02:18:46.200 --> 02:18:50.399
I notice. For example, never
would anyone be caught dead in a sweater

1717
02:18:50.479 --> 02:18:54.680
outside here, not in Oregon either. It's just kind of a unique character

1718
02:18:54.760 --> 02:18:58.120
design. It was one hundred degrees
yesterday, no exaggeration, but there was

1719
02:18:58.280 --> 02:19:03.399
some similar too. My Nana has
taken me to so many diners just like

1720
02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:07.600
Lazy Susan's, though all with their
own unique attributes. They all have the

1721
02:19:07.680 --> 02:19:11.000
same vibe. Though It's weird how
many people can live in different places and

1722
02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:15.719
still look at Gravity Falls and think, hey, I relate to this because

1723
02:19:15.799 --> 02:19:18.520
I live in a really unique place
too. Yeah, I do feel like

1724
02:19:18.639 --> 02:19:22.719
some parts of the fandom weren't so
positive. I truly despise the way some

1725
02:19:22.840 --> 02:19:26.399
of the fandom treats Mabel as a
character and compares her to Dipper. Again,

1726
02:19:26.520 --> 02:19:30.120
don't treat children as if they're adults. I'm so glad you guys appreciate

1727
02:19:30.159 --> 02:19:33.479
Mabel on this podcast, because so
many parts of the fandom just don't deserve

1728
02:19:33.559 --> 02:19:37.600
her. They will swear up and
down that Mabel is selfish and maybe bully

1729
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:41.360
Alex Hirsch into writing an entire comic
about it when she's twelve. Of course

1730
02:19:41.479 --> 02:19:45.719
she is. She's twelve years of
age. She has a baby, little

1731
02:19:45.799 --> 02:19:50.280
prefrontal cortex that's just as baby as
Dippers. They're entirely equal. But they

1732
02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:54.639
won't criticize Dipper for being just as
immature. And it feels misogynistic how twelve

1733
02:19:54.680 --> 02:19:58.239
year old girl can act sweet and
affable and people think she's selfish. I've

1734
02:19:58.280 --> 02:20:03.799
seen full grown adults call this child, excuse my language, bit that is

1735
02:20:03.840 --> 02:20:07.040
a child. Children can't be bitch
here, manipulat, ever egotistical because their

1736
02:20:07.280 --> 02:20:11.479
children. I sympathize with Mabel so
much because I don't want to grow up

1737
02:20:11.479 --> 02:20:15.600
because I skipped out on my childhood
because I was treated as an adult.

1738
02:20:16.200 --> 02:20:18.680
I have always been emotional as a
child and was punished for it. And

1739
02:20:18.719 --> 02:20:22.760
seeing people in this fandom, even
if it's just fiction, labeling this you

1740
02:20:22.799 --> 02:20:26.840
don't have to say. Probably labeling
this neurodivergent child is bitch just for having

1741
02:20:26.920 --> 02:20:31.280
feelings hurts my heart because that's the
exact same mindset that takes away people's childhoods.

1742
02:20:31.440 --> 02:20:33.280
Sorry if my rant was rather long, I just feel really strongly about

1743
02:20:33.280 --> 02:20:37.920
this. Well, I agree,
you're completely correct. We did joke that

1744
02:20:37.040 --> 02:20:39.959
I was raised an adult earlier and
it was kind of true. And yeah,

1745
02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:43.360
I love Mabel so much. Since
I don't want to end on a

1746
02:20:43.479 --> 02:20:48.600
downer note, I want to see
that your podcast gives me so much motivation.

1747
02:20:48.360 --> 02:20:52.319
I love waking up and seeing the
little green dot next to the podcast

1748
02:20:52.520 --> 02:20:58.360
name every week. It gives me
so much joy. I'm sad that it

1749
02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:03.040
will end, but all good things
have to. I'm imagining a terrible alternate

1750
02:21:03.159 --> 02:21:07.239
universe where Gravity Falls was fifteen seasons
long. Yeah. Once I do some

1751
02:21:07.399 --> 02:21:11.440
voice training and go on testosterone for
a while, I hope to start soon.

1752
02:21:11.760 --> 02:21:16.879
I am absolutely making the Invader Zim
watch through podcast where I can give

1753
02:21:16.040 --> 02:21:20.239
my hot takes spoiler did as a
trans girl. I can't explain it,

1754
02:21:20.360 --> 02:21:24.879
it's just true. Whoa, whoa, whoa. So I'm gonna be the

1755
02:21:26.000 --> 02:21:31.360
first to say I'm guessing on that
podcast if you'll have me. Yes,

1756
02:21:31.840 --> 02:21:35.559
that was my favorite show as a
child. But I wish you luck in

1757
02:21:35.639 --> 02:21:39.440
your endeavors, podcasts related or otherwise, and I'll always remember you as one

1758
02:21:39.440 --> 02:21:45.319
of my favorite parts of my gravity
false fandom experience. Aw ooh, that's

1759
02:21:45.479 --> 02:21:50.920
tripping my brain up a little.
A podcast about the gravity falls fandom experience

1760
02:21:50.319 --> 02:21:56.000
is part of the its a set
of all sets contained itself. Thank you

1761
02:21:56.120 --> 02:22:00.399
so much for making Mystery Shack look
back and sharing your insights. And sorry

1762
02:22:00.479 --> 02:22:03.000
for my pendanticism. No, do
you know who you're speaking to. If

1763
02:22:03.040 --> 02:22:05.959
there's one thing you should have learned
on this podcast, it's never apologized for

1764
02:22:07.040 --> 02:22:11.399
being pedantic. Hey, how long
was our segment about Dipper's fucking spaghetti?

1765
02:22:13.200 --> 02:22:16.479
Exactly? Signed Dirk. Thank you
Dirk. He's always a joy to hear

1766
02:22:16.520 --> 02:22:20.200
from you. Both times. I
would love a third time. We have

1767
02:22:20.479 --> 02:22:26.799
fan mail today from listener, A
who writes do I need to have a

1768
02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:31.000
critive and cool subject line halfause to
tempt up reference like the bottomless pritt up.

1769
02:22:31.440 --> 02:22:33.799
No. I think that was a
good attempt. That was a solidly

1770
02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:37.719
asked attempt, and I love it. Hey, I love your podcast.

1771
02:22:37.920 --> 02:22:41.399
Originally I wasn't going to write an
email, but after getting halfway through your

1772
02:22:41.399 --> 02:22:45.319
podcast, I realized that you three
are the funniest people known to man.

1773
02:22:45.799 --> 02:22:48.159
We don't know any men. Actually
no, no, well maybe they know

1774
02:22:48.360 --> 02:22:52.000
us, but we don't know that
they know of us. They know of

1775
02:22:52.159 --> 02:22:54.360
us Gods of comedy, I swear
no, But actually, did you know

1776
02:22:54.520 --> 02:23:00.559
that comedy is made not by gods
but by human people like you? I

1777
02:23:00.760 --> 02:23:05.840
learned what I know about improvising off
the cuff from a text book and a

1778
02:23:05.920 --> 02:23:09.959
class like you learn all other things. Yeah, that's called the improv hand

1779
02:23:09.040 --> 02:23:13.879
Book. If anyone wants to improvise
like me. The amount of times I'm

1780
02:23:13.879 --> 02:23:16.920
listening to your podcast in public and
have to force my laughter down is far

1781
02:23:16.000 --> 02:23:20.079
too often. Will you know what
I say? Just just let it out,

1782
02:23:20.239 --> 02:23:22.000
Just let it and if anyone's like
what the hell are you laughing at,

1783
02:23:22.079 --> 02:23:26.239
You're like, oh, it's called
mystery shack. Look Back. It's

1784
02:23:26.319 --> 02:23:28.879
a nostalgic time capsul and no spoiler
book club or the original gravity False fanly

1785
02:23:30.000 --> 02:23:33.159
if the if the judge asks you, the juror, to take out your

1786
02:23:33.239 --> 02:23:35.920
AirPod and explain what you were listening
to and smirking at during this murder trial,

1787
02:23:37.000 --> 02:23:39.639
you just stand up and say,
well, your honor, mystery shack

1788
02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:43.959
look Back is a nostalgic time capsule
and no spoiler book club of the original

1789
02:23:43.040 --> 02:23:46.879
Gravity Falls say, can the scenographer
read that back to me? And then

1790
02:23:46.959 --> 02:23:50.360
they do because they're asked to,
and then they go k hell yeah,

1791
02:23:50.440 --> 02:23:52.440
and then they don't get a hell
yeah, and then they sit down.

1792
02:23:52.959 --> 02:23:56.239
Yeah, that's probably what would happen. It's a realistic take. And I

1793
02:23:56.319 --> 02:24:01.600
know your jokes are most likely scripted. I mean them, but you guys

1794
02:24:01.639 --> 02:24:05.479
are just that good. You're good
too, Shelby. You're part of the

1795
02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:11.479
planned sometimes but rarely scripted. But
I love the natural chemistry and flow you

1796
02:24:11.600 --> 02:24:16.440
have. Thank you. I've listened
to five Gravity Falls podcasts so far while

1797
02:24:16.559 --> 02:24:22.319
re going through my Gravity Falls phase, and yours is the most entertaining of

1798
02:24:22.479 --> 02:24:26.799
them in my opinion. Oh chucked. Also, you are gender queer or

1799
02:24:28.399 --> 02:24:33.360
genderant as I say, and I
have been heavily questioning my gender and sexuality,

1800
02:24:33.639 --> 02:24:37.879
so having people like me with a
podcast comforts me. Welcome to the

1801
02:24:39.079 --> 02:24:45.639
family question everything. Welcome to that
pit. Yeah, this podcast since day

1802
02:24:45.719 --> 02:24:52.399
one has been not cracking eggs more
how to basking them. Well, there's

1803
02:24:52.440 --> 02:24:54.840
a reason that our tags on lips
in our gravity falls and transgender and just

1804
02:24:54.920 --> 02:24:58.719
those two. Oh that's why.
Well, there's multiple reasons. That's one

1805
02:24:58.760 --> 02:25:01.440
of them. Oh, some of
them are secrets. I won't get into

1806
02:25:01.479 --> 02:25:07.360
the other ones. That's what you
find the secret. Second reason we've listed

1807
02:25:07.440 --> 02:25:11.079
gravity Falls as a tag. The
answer will shock you. Yes. Anyways,

1808
02:25:11.200 --> 02:25:16.079
I don't expect any of you to
respond or even read this. You

1809
02:25:16.159 --> 02:25:18.920
were in the final episode, but
thank you for your podcast. This was

1810
02:25:18.959 --> 02:25:22.239
a nice trip down memory lane,
and I hope you too do a podcast

1811
02:25:22.319 --> 02:25:26.639
similar to this with other shows in
the future or not. I'll still appreciate

1812
02:25:26.680 --> 02:25:28.719
you either way. Well, I
guess we can announce that we have a

1813
02:25:30.040 --> 02:25:33.239
podcast. I don't know exactly when
it'll be coming out, but it's called

1814
02:25:33.360 --> 02:25:35.399
We're Off on a Secret Missions called
We're Off on a Secret Mission, a

1815
02:25:35.479 --> 02:25:41.000
Gallivant rewatch podcast or a Gallop.
I think it's a gall or something like

1816
02:25:41.079 --> 02:25:43.719
that. I don't know, we'll
figure it out. That's the beauty of

1817
02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:46.159
this one is that it's going to
be way looser than this podcast. Yeah,

1818
02:25:46.280 --> 02:25:50.959
it's going to be a podcast that
Ella and I host with David Gansel,

1819
02:25:52.559 --> 02:25:56.920
best known for his appearances on Escape
from Pault Disney, about the musical

1820
02:25:58.000 --> 02:26:03.959
comedy series Gallivant. That should be
coming soon because I don't have to exist

1821
02:26:03.040 --> 02:26:09.920
in the mainstream anymore, I pray, as well as at some point I'm

1822
02:26:11.159 --> 02:26:15.120
gonna put together a Mystery Shack soundtrack, a compilation of a bunch of the

1823
02:26:15.159 --> 02:26:16.719
songs over the course of the podcast, putting that up on Van Camp.

1824
02:26:18.120 --> 02:26:20.879
I'm not entirely sure yet what that's
gonna look like right now, but that

1825
02:26:22.079 --> 02:26:26.159
is going to exist, so that's
exciting too. And we all have some

1826
02:26:26.719 --> 02:26:30.879
a continuation of the email we got
earlier from Starr who sent us the TV

1827
02:26:31.040 --> 02:26:35.040
Verse information. I discovered this podcast
my very first podcast, mind you,

1828
02:26:35.319 --> 02:26:37.559
literally the day after the most recent
episode, and have been re listening to

1829
02:26:37.639 --> 02:26:41.000
my favorites and going back to ones
I skipped, namely the video game ones

1830
02:26:41.040 --> 02:26:43.639
and the unaired pilot one I fell
in love with it immediately, and when

1831
02:26:43.680 --> 02:26:48.399
I finished the regular episodes, I
just started hunting from where Gravity Falls rewatch

1832
02:26:48.479 --> 02:26:50.879
podcasts currently, the other one I
love is Into the Falls. Good choice,

1833
02:26:50.959 --> 02:26:54.639
Good choice. Having only discovered the
show a few years ago, I

1834
02:26:54.760 --> 02:26:58.680
think I now almost understand what I
missed out on in the fandom way back

1835
02:26:58.760 --> 02:27:03.280
when. Unfortunately I was five at
the time it premiered, had no cable,

1836
02:27:03.440 --> 02:27:07.840
and was probably too stupid to understand
the show at that point. Anyway,

1837
02:27:07.959 --> 02:27:11.399
not too stupid, just too young. Thanks so much for giving me

1838
02:27:11.760 --> 02:27:16.000
this window into the past. It
has only further fueled my intense hyperfixation on

1839
02:27:16.120 --> 02:27:22.680
Gravity Falls that I've had since about
three days after Amphibia ended. I definitely

1840
02:27:22.760 --> 02:27:26.840
didn't mourn it for that long.
Goal I can't wait to be a part

1841
02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:28.879
of this community for the rest of
my life and see where it takes me,

1842
02:27:30.079 --> 02:27:31.760
because I know in the back of
my mind I'll be putting that into

1843
02:27:31.879 --> 02:27:35.840
my own time capsule. Your podcast, with all its hundreds of fun facts

1844
02:27:35.920 --> 02:27:41.959
behind the scenes intel has given me
a far greater appreciation for the show,

1845
02:27:41.479 --> 02:27:46.120
which was already through the roof.
It's reminded me of what I forgot like

1846
02:27:46.799 --> 02:27:52.200
a week after I finished my first
fewing. It properly introduced me to Homestar

1847
02:27:52.280 --> 02:27:54.280
Runner, a name that I had
only heard once previously in a Delta in

1848
02:27:54.360 --> 02:27:58.639
Easter ex video. Yeah, I
recommend Homestar Runner a lot in this podcast.

1849
02:27:58.799 --> 02:28:01.360
It has occurred to me with directions
with listeners, I have not made

1850
02:28:01.399 --> 02:28:07.760
it clear that Homestar Runner is a
YouTube series with no continuity and none of

1851
02:28:07.879 --> 02:28:13.079
the videos are like longer than four
minutes. I think I because of the

1852
02:28:13.639 --> 02:28:16.559
sentimental attachment I have to it hyped
it up as this big, epic gravity

1853
02:28:16.639 --> 02:28:20.159
Falls sized thing. It's a it's
a YouTube series. Go to the channel

1854
02:28:20.200 --> 02:28:24.879
Homestar Huner dot com on YouTube dot
spelled out and just click random videos.

1855
02:28:26.200 --> 02:28:28.719
They're all good. None of them
really rely that much on having seen the

1856
02:28:28.799 --> 02:28:33.959
others and the humors like gravity fallsy
It's it's not a big time saying homestar

1857
02:28:35.120 --> 02:28:39.360
one o dot net it's dot com
the boys Crazy episode. Despite covering what

1858
02:28:39.559 --> 02:28:43.200
was formerly my least favorite episode of
the show, I now have no least

1859
02:28:43.239 --> 02:28:46.680
favorite because they're also good. That's
the right answer. Made a road trip

1860
02:28:46.719 --> 02:28:52.159
one thousand percent less boring with the
entire life story of Lanston bass, which

1861
02:28:52.280 --> 02:28:56.719
I shared with my family. As
you explained, it will get that barrel.

1862
02:28:56.920 --> 02:29:01.760
Yes, it's happening. It's happening. No leads yet. If anyone

1863
02:29:01.840 --> 02:29:03.719
knows anything about the Lance Bass barrel, mystery shack, look back at gmail

1864
02:29:03.760 --> 02:29:07.360
dot com. But I was quite
frankly going bonkers for every second of the

1865
02:29:07.399 --> 02:29:13.440
Cipher Hunt episode because Alex freaking Harsh. I've never seen Over the Garden Wall,

1866
02:29:13.520 --> 02:29:16.120
but if the episodes of it you
cover are a no spoiler book club,

1867
02:29:16.239 --> 02:29:20.360
maybe I'll listen as I go.
Yes, and that'll be coming every

1868
02:29:20.680 --> 02:29:24.159
Monday in October. I do think
that there's only one person that can truly

1869
02:29:24.319 --> 02:29:30.360
find the Lance Bass barrel, and
it is Bradley. You know what,

1870
02:29:30.600 --> 02:29:33.079
Bradley. Bradley just has it sitting
he's using it as an end tape.

1871
02:29:33.159 --> 02:29:37.639
I was gonna say, what this
Badley already found it TLDR. This podcast

1872
02:29:37.799 --> 02:29:39.799
is really cool and Gravity Falls is
my favorite show, and this podcast enhanced

1873
02:29:39.840 --> 02:29:43.280
my love for it about thirty times
over at least. I love this show

1874
02:29:43.440 --> 02:29:46.959
so much my heart gets all mushy
and bittersweet every time the music from those

1875
02:29:48.000 --> 02:29:50.280
final credits plays in my head.
Thank you for letting me relive it while

1876
02:29:50.280 --> 02:29:54.799
I watch it over and over and
over again. I am at E.

1877
02:29:54.959 --> 02:29:58.440
NF Silver on Twitter and cartoon hostage
dot tumbler dot com, and we'll be

1878
02:29:58.479 --> 02:30:03.520
posting gra Falls art there awesome with
my heart in the same place yours is

1879
02:30:03.000 --> 02:30:07.920
Star. Thank you Star for that
email you know. At the end of

1880
02:30:07.000 --> 02:30:13.000
Lost Legends, Schmebuloc talks about how
it may be time for us to stop

1881
02:30:13.079 --> 02:30:18.399
observing other people's stories and start living
our own stories and do we have any

1882
02:30:18.520 --> 02:30:24.440
any like final thoughts, final words
before we wrap. I was homeless when

1883
02:30:24.479 --> 02:30:30.959
I started doing gravity Falls content,
and this fandom brought me not only my

1884
02:30:31.079 --> 02:30:35.680
two best friends, but most of
the money I have made in my life.

1885
02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:41.000
I can now say, through the
success I have found through the Tumblr

1886
02:30:41.079 --> 02:30:46.399
blog and the hanag especial and what
probably happens in and real time FANDOP and

1887
02:30:46.520 --> 02:30:52.280
Lost Legends and Universe Falls, that
I am an industry professional. A lot

1888
02:30:52.360 --> 02:30:56.879
of people have heard of me,
and that would not be the case if

1889
02:30:56.959 --> 02:31:03.040
not for the show. I at
twenty nine years old and I am about

1890
02:31:03.120 --> 02:31:09.760
to literally retire. I am moving
to a much cheaper area and where I

1891
02:31:09.799 --> 02:31:16.200
can live off of my ad revenue
and do beautiful patreons. And I don't

1892
02:31:16.280 --> 02:31:20.639
know how do I say thanks for
saving my life? Well, I think

1893
02:31:20.680 --> 02:31:24.639
you do it by making a fifty
two episode podcast. Yeah, And in

1894
02:31:24.760 --> 02:31:30.319
all honesty, a lot of the
gravity Falls content I did was because that

1895
02:31:30.879 --> 02:31:35.319
was what got clicks and I needed
to make money or I would die.

1896
02:31:35.479 --> 02:31:43.239
This podcast was not that. This
podcast was something I was really passionate about

1897
02:31:43.360 --> 02:31:50.879
fine tuning and presenting. And I
love how much you have let Ella and

1898
02:31:50.959 --> 02:31:56.440
I be ourselves every other place we
have produced content. If we do something

1899
02:31:56.479 --> 02:32:01.559
that's a little unexpected, people act
like we're pranking and pretend they're mad at

1900
02:32:01.639 --> 02:32:07.319
us and they hate us. And
I have ADHD in a popular symptom is

1901
02:32:07.559 --> 02:32:11.159
rejection this for you? So I
never found that funny. So like being

1902
02:32:11.239 --> 02:32:16.600
able to trap a guest in a
wall or interview a big mouth billy bass,

1903
02:32:18.000 --> 02:32:20.920
I don't know. It's this podcast
has offered me a freedom that I

1904
02:32:22.000 --> 02:32:26.559
have not had before as a creator, and all of the listeners were on

1905
02:32:26.719 --> 02:32:31.639
board for every single step of that, which is not something I've experienced with

1906
02:32:31.760 --> 02:32:37.280
my art and my audience together before. This was a once in a lifetime

1907
02:32:37.360 --> 02:32:39.479
experience twice if you count the over
the Garden Wall one. But it's not

1908
02:32:39.520 --> 02:32:43.000
going to be a year of work, yes now, and thank you to

1909
02:32:43.159 --> 02:32:50.159
Ella and Shelby for joining me on
this journey. This was a lot of

1910
02:32:50.280 --> 02:32:54.680
work and given the you know,
one of you just graduated college and one

1911
02:32:54.719 --> 02:32:58.479
of you has worked full time this
entire time, that is a big ask.

1912
02:32:58.680 --> 02:33:01.840
And we were all equally passionate about
this project, and that is not

1913
02:33:03.079 --> 02:33:07.520
something you encounter offen. In every
group project I've ever been in, there

1914
02:33:07.559 --> 02:33:11.559
are the people who are proactive to
make like logos or theme songs and stuff,

1915
02:33:11.559 --> 02:33:13.239
and the people who just wait till
they're invited to something. And this

1916
02:33:13.479 --> 02:33:20.200
was never that, And I wouldn't
have gone on this journey with any other

1917
02:33:20.639 --> 02:33:24.760
people in the entire world. Love
You. Gravity Falls has been one of

1918
02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:30.200
the most important shows in my life. It's given me the opportunity to meet

1919
02:33:30.280 --> 02:33:33.840
people around the world. It's introduced
me to my best friends. It's gotten

1920
02:33:33.920 --> 02:33:39.239
me through times where I felt like
I was hopeless, And every time that

1921
02:33:39.360 --> 02:33:45.639
I revisit Gravity Falls, I find
that love and that joy again in a

1922
02:33:45.680 --> 02:33:48.399
way that I thought I had lost
it. I like with any hyper fixation,

1923
02:33:48.920 --> 02:33:52.440
you feel all of these emotions when
you're feeling it the first time,

1924
02:33:52.840 --> 02:33:56.159
and then you can go back and
you're like, uh, that was so

1925
02:33:56.360 --> 02:34:01.159
cringe. I've never felt that way
with Gravit falls every time that I learn

1926
02:34:01.680 --> 02:34:07.479
more information about it, or learn
more little trivia, find a little background

1927
02:34:07.559 --> 02:34:11.719
gag that I've missed in the past. It enriches my experience in a way

1928
02:34:11.799 --> 02:34:16.200
that I never expected a show to
keep on giving to me over and over

1929
02:34:16.319 --> 02:34:20.000
again. And being able to experience
that with you, whether I was on

1930
02:34:20.120 --> 02:34:22.680
the pod or was just helping you
with the research, It's given me joy

1931
02:34:22.799 --> 02:34:26.879
and a time that has been pretty
hopeless. This has been a hard year

1932
02:34:26.959 --> 02:34:31.440
for me, and so being able
to listen to you guys when I'm not

1933
02:34:31.840 --> 02:34:35.280
involved, it makes me feel like
I'm not so alone in the world,

1934
02:34:35.479 --> 02:34:39.600
and I appreciate being able to go
on this journey with you guys. Thank

1935
02:34:39.639 --> 02:34:43.280
you for letting me join the RV
on this stand trip. Yeah, we

1936
02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:46.879
picked you up on one of our
last stops. We're like, oh,

1937
02:34:46.959 --> 02:34:50.000
doesn't show me live there that stuff? Oh yeah, yeah, Shewby's got

1938
02:34:50.040 --> 02:34:54.239
time now. Yeah. So thank
you for letting me join you for the

1939
02:34:54.319 --> 02:34:58.600
final leg of this road trip.
This whole podcast was the barest bones of

1940
02:34:58.639 --> 02:35:01.760
it was thing I Charlie and I
had been talking about, you know,

1941
02:35:03.040 --> 02:35:07.120
years and years ago, because since
twenty seventeen, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,

1942
02:35:07.200 --> 02:35:09.520
something like that. It's one of
those ideas where the first thing you

1943
02:35:09.600 --> 02:35:13.040
come up with is the name just
because it sticks or I'm like, oh,

1944
02:35:13.120 --> 02:35:16.879
yeah, it could be called mystery
Shack look bag right and then and

1945
02:35:16.159 --> 02:35:20.280
you know, it didn't work out
for reasons that we've gone into before that

1946
02:35:20.399 --> 02:35:24.559
that first attempt, but it felt
like, you know, the the year

1947
02:35:24.600 --> 02:35:26.879
before, the tenth anniversary of the
show and all these other elements just made

1948
02:35:26.879 --> 02:35:31.879
it feel like it was the perfect
time to do it. And it was.

1949
02:35:31.200 --> 02:35:35.959
It was like, we're just reaching
that point where gravity falls is becoming

1950
02:35:35.079 --> 02:35:41.040
nostalgic, which makes me feel all
kinds of weird and old and and and

1951
02:35:41.200 --> 02:35:46.639
this kind of has made that into
not not that I don't view it as

1952
02:35:46.639 --> 02:35:50.360
a bad thing, but this has
certainly dashed any possibility that I could ever

1953
02:35:50.520 --> 02:35:56.600
view it as a bad thing because
it has allowed us to to create this,

1954
02:35:56.799 --> 02:35:58.639
which you know, one of my
biggest goals that I could ever ask

1955
02:35:58.680 --> 02:36:03.760
for is or like someone to have
a question about gravity Falls or like want

1956
02:36:03.879 --> 02:36:05.959
to know more about it and to
come to our podcast to do it,

1957
02:36:07.399 --> 02:36:13.120
And that just really excites me because
it was like all I ever thought about,

1958
02:36:13.239 --> 02:36:16.559
like throughout high school and so to
be like to be known socially as

1959
02:36:16.680 --> 02:36:20.799
like, oh, yeah, that
person likes gravity Falls and to now be

1960
02:36:20.040 --> 02:36:26.079
that on a larger scale, but
also to like have our personalities shining through

1961
02:36:26.120 --> 02:36:28.600
as well is super super important to
me. And like, like Jacho what

1962
02:36:28.760 --> 02:36:33.479
Charlie said, like thank you to
all the listeners for like giving us the

1963
02:36:33.559 --> 02:36:37.600
space to do that, because because
we're trans and we haven't been allowed to

1964
02:36:37.719 --> 02:36:41.000
be ourselves that long historically. Yes, Gravity Falls has influenced me in ways

1965
02:36:41.040 --> 02:36:45.079
that I am like still parsing.
I think, like in my brain,

1966
02:36:45.319 --> 02:36:48.520
like I definitely wouldn't have gotten as
into animation as I did. I mean,

1967
02:36:48.719 --> 02:36:50.600
it was already what I wanted to
do, but it was one of

1968
02:36:50.639 --> 02:36:54.040
those things that really fast tracked the
passion for it and the passion for this

1969
02:36:54.159 --> 02:36:58.879
kind of storytelling and just the idea
of it being like appointment television that was

1970
02:36:58.879 --> 02:37:03.680
like a community event that I had
never really like had that before. It

1971
02:37:03.799 --> 02:37:07.719
was a show that stood out to
me as a tween because it took me

1972
02:37:07.920 --> 02:37:09.920
seriously and it felt like it was
talking to me in a way that no

1973
02:37:11.079 --> 02:37:13.200
other television show has. And this
is gonna sound cringy, but like no

1974
02:37:13.360 --> 02:37:18.680
other human was at the time,
because like I was like repressed trans kid,

1975
02:37:18.760 --> 02:37:22.639
you know how it is the first
time I really, like semi publicly

1976
02:37:22.879 --> 02:37:28.479
presented in like an extremely feminine way
was being mable for Halloween. That was

1977
02:37:28.520 --> 02:37:33.479
the first time I publicly wore like
non pants. The scope of it really

1978
02:37:33.879 --> 02:37:37.319
can't be overstated of like how much
it means to me and how much it

1979
02:37:37.360 --> 02:37:41.520
means to me that I can be
like part of this panel of curators of

1980
02:37:41.760 --> 02:37:46.559
people who have put all of this
together just because we love it so much

1981
02:37:46.719 --> 02:37:50.399
and just because we feel it deserves
to be preserved and have like a space

1982
02:37:50.479 --> 02:37:54.799
to be talked about and to be
able to do that and be myself in

1983
02:37:54.840 --> 02:37:58.200
a very outgoing way at the same
time, and just like talk to because

1984
02:37:58.280 --> 02:38:01.799
talking is something I I was the
quiet kid. So to have something where

1985
02:38:03.159 --> 02:38:07.239
it's an audio medium and the only
way you get me is by me talking

1986
02:38:07.239 --> 02:38:13.680
is super special to me because that's
not something I could have even thought about

1987
02:38:13.799 --> 02:38:18.200
doing as like a teenager. So
when I made the video version of Lost

1988
02:38:18.280 --> 02:38:20.520
Legends, I had done it as
separate stories first, because I knew it

1989
02:38:20.600 --> 02:38:22.559
was going to take a year to
make, and that would be a way

1990
02:38:22.639 --> 02:38:28.200
to keep my channel alive in that
time. Yeah, while I was editing

1991
02:38:28.280 --> 02:38:33.799
the smebuloc part, while I was
ready to put together the final version of

1992
02:38:33.840 --> 02:38:37.879
the video, I was in the
car with Ella and she confessed to me

1993
02:38:37.520 --> 02:38:43.319
that she had been researching what estrogen
does. Oh yeah, was that on

1994
02:38:43.520 --> 02:38:46.440
that trip to go record? No, that was a week earlier, because

1995
02:38:46.559 --> 02:38:48.920
I said, do you want me
to try to get you as a girl

1996
02:38:50.000 --> 02:38:52.879
in a video at some point?
And you said that'd be really nice.

1997
02:38:52.520 --> 02:39:01.159
A single week later, I determined
that the project was too vast to not

1998
02:39:01.360 --> 02:39:05.680
have an end credits sequence, and
Ella suggested a little song she had written

1999
02:39:05.719 --> 02:39:11.760
on the ukulele called my Heart's in
Gravity Falls. Indeed, and by paying

2000
02:39:11.959 --> 02:39:15.639
one hundred percent of the bills that
month, I had gotten my two musician

2001
02:39:15.760 --> 02:39:20.760
roommates to help us make a studio
version of the fully produced sounds super Crisp.

2002
02:39:20.000 --> 02:39:26.479
And then we drove to the pine
barrens to one of the spots rumored

2003
02:39:26.760 --> 02:39:28.920
to be the home of the Jersey
Devil. We ran out in like the

2004
02:39:30.239 --> 02:39:35.959
five minutes that it wasn't raining.
Alla played both Dipper and Mabel in that

2005
02:39:35.159 --> 02:39:41.399
ending credits sequence, which was a
live action footage of her walking through the

2006
02:39:41.440 --> 02:39:46.360
woods together like twins or something.
And the reason I had originally asked about

2007
02:39:46.399 --> 02:39:52.079
a different Gravity Falls song Ella had
written in she pushed this one because she

2008
02:39:52.239 --> 02:39:56.760
felt it matched what Smebuloc was saying
at the end that right, I had

2009
02:39:56.799 --> 02:40:01.120
written one that was more about like
this blank his relationships and how they reflect

2010
02:40:01.159 --> 02:40:03.840
on it. And I had asked
if we could use that one, and

2011
02:40:03.920 --> 02:40:09.559
you suggest, yeah, my Heart's
and Gravity Falls, and through you pitching

2012
02:40:09.639 --> 02:40:15.120
that to me and us eventually making
a podcast with a similar vibe, I

2013
02:40:15.239 --> 02:40:18.520
guess we have sure gotten your song
out there. One one day I looked

2014
02:40:18.600 --> 02:40:22.399
up my Heart's on Gravity Falls on
YouTube and found like five lyric videos.

2015
02:40:22.760 --> 02:40:26.879
Yeah, wow, I guess so, And it means a lot to me.

2016
02:40:26.280 --> 02:40:31.959
Oh, I just noticed this is
perfect. When you read something on

2017
02:40:33.520 --> 02:40:37.479
Google Docs without being logged in,
it assigns you as anonymous and then an

2018
02:40:37.520 --> 02:40:43.360
animal so icon we have received on
Google Docs. The last thing we see

2019
02:40:43.440 --> 02:40:50.360
on the last episode, Shelby is
the anonymous a show load. That's amazing.

2020
02:40:54.319 --> 02:40:56.280
If this is your first episode of
Mister Shack look back, this is

2021
02:40:56.360 --> 02:41:01.680
actually the end. But there are
fifty one other How did we do that?

2022
02:41:01.920 --> 02:41:07.000
In a year? If you wanted
to, you could listen to one

2023
02:41:07.159 --> 02:41:09.479
every week. That's true, fifty
two weeks and men some right, because

2024
02:41:09.479 --> 02:41:13.680
that's not even counting all the bonus
episodes. Also on that website are other

2025
02:41:13.799 --> 02:41:18.079
shows like Escape from Walt Disney,
which we were on, the newest episode

2026
02:41:18.159 --> 02:41:22.840
of How Did This Not Get Made? Which Ella and I were on,

2027
02:41:22.920 --> 02:41:28.239
a recent episode of, Come on
Vuku Pods which Ella was on recent episodes

2028
02:41:28.280 --> 02:41:30.959
of, and we've both been on
in the past, and the new show

2029
02:41:31.239 --> 02:41:35.239
pod Made You Special, which I
would like to be on and I did

2030
02:41:35.280 --> 02:41:37.879
the cover art for. Also on
that website is a link to our show's

2031
02:41:37.920 --> 02:41:46.040
social media's discord server and our Patreon. Forty dollars will get you a voice

2032
02:41:46.120 --> 02:41:52.479
or art commission from one of us, but also to keep this podcast accessible

2033
02:41:52.600 --> 02:41:58.159
for the rest of time, we
will need to pay for the libs and

2034
02:41:58.239 --> 02:42:03.799
hosting fees, so uh, every
dollar helps preserve this. The exclusive Discard

2035
02:42:03.879 --> 02:42:07.360
channel will still exist, will presumably
still do things in there so you can

2036
02:42:07.680 --> 02:42:11.360
get We might you can hang out
with us in October and watch over the

2037
02:42:11.440 --> 02:42:16.239
garden wall. Yeah we might.
We might just change up some of the

2038
02:42:16.319 --> 02:42:18.879
tears. Yeah, we'll figure this
out. Yeah yeah, keep the lights

2039
02:42:18.920 --> 02:42:24.280
running in our museum exactly. Don't
let the flame die out because fun fact,

2040
02:42:24.360 --> 02:42:28.440
it's actually keeping me alive as well. Thank you to Alex Hirsh for

2041
02:42:28.719 --> 02:42:33.840
voicing Stan in the Hall of Conspiracies
intro and voicing our Patreon shout outs along

2042
02:42:33.920 --> 02:42:37.239
with Jason Ritter. Oh yeah,
that was awesome. If you want some

2043
02:42:37.840 --> 02:42:39.399
sweet to merge, you can visit
our merch store at crowdmade dot com,

2044
02:42:39.479 --> 02:42:43.879
slash collection, slash mystery Shack,
look back email us at mystery Shack,

2045
02:42:43.920 --> 02:42:46.319
lookback at gmail dot com. I
will still be looking at the emails even

2046
02:42:46.360 --> 02:42:50.079
if we might not might even respond. Well, we'll be able to respond

2047
02:42:50.120 --> 02:42:54.200
to them vocally, So we're gonna
have to do this ancient technology called replying.

2048
02:42:54.479 --> 02:42:58.559
Yeah, we could record custom responses
and just send them his attachment.

2049
02:42:58.639 --> 02:43:01.799
That would be that's funny, very
there's it now a Twitter option for voice.

2050
02:43:01.959 --> 02:43:05.000
We could also eventually if we get
enough to do a listener mail episode.

2051
02:43:05.000 --> 02:43:09.000
That's true. The Hall of Conspiracies
theme is Lentil Dentist, a remix

2052
02:43:09.040 --> 02:43:13.840
of our first episode by sim and
the dimbulb B two point zero. There

2053
02:43:13.879 --> 02:43:16.360
will be a link in the description. Thank you to Tsunami, Holmes and

2054
02:43:16.440 --> 02:43:22.280
Tumbler for the Stanford handwriting thought in
our thumbnails. The reason that Adam collects

2055
02:43:22.399 --> 02:43:26.840
the spit, if we're being honest, is because of the curse that the

2056
02:43:26.920 --> 02:43:30.040
Warlock put on him. But we
love him anyway. Yeah, it helps

2057
02:43:30.159 --> 02:43:33.639
us out. And the biggest of
thank yous to every single docent that we

2058
02:43:33.719 --> 02:43:37.200
have had on this podcast. By
the way, you are all docents now.

2059
02:43:37.520 --> 02:43:41.559
Every guest that we've had on this
show is now a docent. We

2060
02:43:41.719 --> 02:43:45.559
just decided don't worry about it.
So thank you to Alexi Queison, Mary

2061
02:43:45.639 --> 02:43:50.719
McKeon, Miles, Tony Goldmark,
Kyle Carroza, Abby Kirby, Michael William

2062
02:43:50.799 --> 02:43:54.680
Hunter, David Spencer, Robrinzetti,
Adam k New, Jason Ritter, Ray,

2063
02:43:54.959 --> 02:44:00.719
Irish Ian, Michael Rianda, Juno
Series, Miss Jukebox Eight, Sarah

2064
02:44:01.000 --> 02:44:05.920
Ghostan, Joe David Gansel, Molly
Lewis, Liz Nordenholt, Jenny Geist,

2065
02:44:05.159 --> 02:44:11.079
Easy Snake, Oven, Strong Bad, and Alex Hirsch. Thank you all

2066
02:44:11.159 --> 02:44:15.200
for being a part of this incredible
journey, and thank you to Arbor Lazy

2067
02:44:15.319 --> 02:44:20.399
aka Inner Element for editing that fantastic
mashup that you heard at the top of

2068
02:44:20.559 --> 02:44:24.120
all of our theme song variations of
My Hearts and Gravity Falls. And thank

2069
02:44:24.120 --> 02:44:28.399
you to the wonderful musicians who made
those theme songs. Of course, Prian

2070
02:44:28.440 --> 02:44:33.239
Bryan made the instrumental of the main
recording, and Kyle Wright made the boy

2071
02:44:33.360 --> 02:44:39.799
band style version sim and the dimble
V two hyphen Zero made the chiptune version.

2072
02:44:39.200 --> 02:44:43.040
Our friend irish Ian helped us out
on the Pirate one, and Kyle

2073
02:44:43.120 --> 02:44:48.000
Carroza gave us that wonderful polka instrumental. Thank you to Bob Mackie, Henry

2074
02:44:48.079 --> 02:44:54.920
Gilbert, Michael William Hunter, David
Spencer, Alexi Quizon and Heritage Post for

2075
02:44:56.120 --> 02:45:01.840
inspiring the idea of a fandom time
capsule. And thank you too, Strong

2076
02:45:01.000 --> 02:45:07.079
Bad and Molly Lewis. I got
to meet two people who have been very

2077
02:45:07.159 --> 02:45:15.239
important to my upbringing as an entertainer
and person because of this amazing podcast.

2078
02:45:15.879 --> 02:45:20.159
They say don't meet your heroes,
well, whoever they is must be full

2079
02:45:20.239 --> 02:45:24.559
of crap and should promptly be kicked
in the uterus because you too exceeded every

2080
02:45:24.680 --> 02:45:31.600
expectation. But there have been multiple
moments where I have played a little more

2081
02:45:31.040 --> 02:45:35.879
of the song to our listeners and
they have stated I did not realize there

2082
02:45:35.959 --> 02:45:39.040
was a longer version, And I
get that because the credits at the end

2083
02:45:39.079 --> 02:45:43.399
of podcasts are when you kind of
zone out because they stopped talking about the

2084
02:45:43.520 --> 02:45:46.120
subject of the podcast. So My
Heart's in Gravity Falls was always intended to

2085
02:45:46.200 --> 02:45:52.319
have this like nostalgic vibe of like
looking back, and it was written in

2086
02:45:52.079 --> 02:45:56.040
twenty Yeah, it must have been
twenty eighteen, but it always felt like

2087
02:45:56.040 --> 02:45:58.879
the kind of thing that would be
like ten fifteen, twenty years out look

2088
02:46:00.120 --> 02:46:03.879
back at Gravity Falls, which is
exactly what we're doing. I guess the

2089
02:46:03.120 --> 02:46:07.959
best possible pardon gift. Yeah,
I think it's it's fair to play the

2090
02:46:09.040 --> 02:46:13.719
full song. If you've ever seen
a Northwest map, you'll identify this tourist

2091
02:46:13.840 --> 02:46:18.079
trap. From the outside, it
looks like crap, but there's magic in

2092
02:46:18.559 --> 02:46:22.719
it. And now it's been a
long long time since the summer amongst the

2093
02:46:22.840 --> 02:46:30.479
pines. Take a trip with me
and you'll find we'll be mystery and take

2094
02:46:30.600 --> 02:46:33.760
me back to the place I know
with the mystery Jack and the forest know

2095
02:46:33.879 --> 02:46:39.680
I'm already back, So that's gone
on again. We started my Heart's singer

2096
02:46:39.719 --> 02:46:43.479
gravity if you did got at Oregon
down with a wind where all we sang

2097
02:46:43.600 --> 02:46:48.479
around and while you let check the
Lawson found for my body barcas my heart's

2098
02:46:48.479 --> 02:46:54.959
singing, revity falls. Skeleton's been
out of play. You don't see that

2099
02:46:56.280 --> 02:47:01.479
every day. They'll be even more
if you stay just a live longer.

2100
02:47:03.120 --> 02:47:07.000
Probably a lot to take. And
I know you might think it's vain,

2101
02:47:07.799 --> 02:47:13.639
but I'm telling you win the lake, there's a gobo longer. Take me

2102
02:47:13.760 --> 02:47:16.920
back to the place sign know with
the mister Jack and the haunting goes.

2103
02:47:16.959 --> 02:47:22.360
I'm already back, so let's go. Don't get me started. My heart's

2104
02:47:22.399 --> 02:47:26.559
in gravity tip you dare try that
Oregon down with a wit and rare.

2105
02:47:26.719 --> 02:47:30.600
All we sang around and while you're
there, Jack the lost and found for

2106
02:47:30.760 --> 02:47:39.879
my body part because my heart's in
gravity bar no one ever could in chandas

2107
02:47:41.360 --> 02:47:46.639
in the way that gronkle Sand does. People lucky and we're able we can

2108
02:47:46.719 --> 02:47:54.079
find Itper and Mabel take me back
to the place signed no with the mister

2109
02:47:54.200 --> 02:47:58.079
Shack and the forest gnomes. I'm
already back, so come on, let's

2110
02:47:58.120 --> 02:48:07.280
go. Don't get me started hearts
and gravity falls. Oh woh wait,

2111
02:48:07.760 --> 02:48:11.200
Charlie, did you get new batteries
in the big mouth billy bass? Uh?

2112
02:48:11.399 --> 02:48:18.239
No, I didn't. It was
me the dog with the blog.

2113
02:48:20.079 --> 02:48:22.159
I heard your angelic singing, Charlie, and I realized I could use my

2114
02:48:22.239 --> 02:48:28.079
blog to help. The post went
hashtag viral, and well I managed to

2115
02:48:28.200 --> 02:48:39.680
reach the big guy. Oh my
gosh, he's Adam New Spintleman, a

2116
02:48:39.879 --> 02:48:46.040
joyous feast of Saint Spinelstein and marry
halfway to spittle Miss. I've brought delicious

2117
02:48:46.079 --> 02:48:52.120
batteries for all the good little bass
and kills. Ye wait, delicious.

2118
02:48:54.079 --> 02:49:03.319
Adam New hates the taste of battery
acid, so that must be thing.

2119
02:49:05.360 --> 02:49:20.639
It's a living Hey, it's differ
vines and I'm here to read the Patreon

2120
02:49:20.920 --> 02:49:24.440
shutouts. Thank you so much for
being here. I'm gonna be doing this

2121
02:49:24.879 --> 02:49:30.639
by myself. Wiggedy wiggity, what's
up, dude, bros. Dippy Fresh?

2122
02:49:30.799 --> 02:49:33.440
No, No, I came because
I heard someone wanted me to read

2123
02:49:33.520 --> 02:49:35.959
some names in a list. No, no, na, Yeah, Dippy

2124
02:49:37.000 --> 02:49:39.159
Fresh I please, I can do
this by myself. Actually, so you

2125
02:49:39.399 --> 02:49:43.799
if you want to just go skateboard
or do whatever you were doing before,

2126
02:49:43.879 --> 02:49:46.399
I can. I can do this
all by myself. Ah, never gonna

2127
02:49:46.399 --> 02:49:52.280
happen. Let's get Stickey started.
Stickey started, all right. Daddy Driftwood,

2128
02:49:52.559 --> 02:49:58.479
Friendly Local Geek, Daddy Buttons,
Starling, Cubilation, Axle Fun Boringness,

2129
02:49:58.600 --> 02:50:05.280
you Selitest series, he did cook
a gizl Liz Clark, Richard Scanland,

2130
02:50:05.719 --> 02:50:09.719
what's up? Jamie Bells, Haha, your voice cracks. Mine doesn't

2131
02:50:09.760 --> 02:50:13.120
because I'm better, Ryan Favor.
The crack is a feature, not a

2132
02:50:13.200 --> 02:50:18.719
bug. Stephen Patrick, Mulholland cocka
cock, Gwen Pry jugit, Junior Bro.

2133
02:50:18.959 --> 02:50:22.360
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say, Junior Bro, you don't have

2134
02:50:22.479 --> 02:50:24.840
to do that. Junior Bro.
You're trying your best. Bro, You

2135
02:50:24.920 --> 02:50:30.040
got it. Joseph Jones, Oliver
Pluto, Pitty Parana Plant, Elizabeth Newenfelt

2136
02:50:30.280 --> 02:50:33.680
Mumble Team d Wumpleteen, you're making
that up, Vanilla Knucker, though I'm

2137
02:50:33.760 --> 02:50:39.319
not road David Adam with two a's, a d N and m ha ha,

2138
02:50:39.840 --> 02:50:43.879
I'm sliding into your DMS deal.
Fine, Deucey. Please don't slide

2139
02:50:43.920 --> 02:50:48.920
into my DMS. May may I
slide into your DMS. Jesse Marie mcdoodle.

2140
02:50:50.280 --> 02:50:54.879
Absolutely not b Calsota, But what
if I send you cool memes?

2141
02:50:56.159 --> 02:50:58.719
Rich Raw, No, thanks to
be Fresh. This is the end of

2142
02:51:00.079 --> 02:51:03.200
our interaction for the rest of all
time. Samantha Angley easy steak of it.

2143
02:51:03.639 --> 02:51:09.440
And Spencerneil Campbell please get me out
of this room with to be Fresh

2144
02:51:09.520 --> 02:51:13.360
immediately. Let's have a pizza party. I'm gonna slide into your dm S

2145
02:51:13.399 --> 02:51:16.079
later. Love you, Tipper,
I don't love you. Please never slide

2146
02:51:16.079 --> 02:51:18.319
into my DMS. I hope I
never ever, ever ever seen it.

2147
02:51:18.559 --> 02:51:22.360
I have a pizza party. Let's
have a pizza party. Let's have a

2148
02:51:22.399 --> 02:51:26.559
pizza Patreon dot com slash mystery Share
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