It was a smart move on the crew to do so to keep the show fresh. But now the secret is out, Stan is on the adventure and in the mix of the story. Stan joined along a few times like in one of my personal favorite episodes “Land Before Swine.” But for the most part, Stan’s story and the twins were mostly separated. During the first season, Dipper and Mabel kept their adventures a secret from their Grunkle. It's a big moment in the show, changing the entire dynamic. As the machine whirls to life, he smiles wide and says, “Here we go,” signaling to the audience this is just the beginning of the story. With all three books together, he activates a portal in the next room. It’s revealed that Stan had both Journals 1 and 2 the entire time. Below the Mystery Shack, there is a secret laboratory. Finally, the audience gets to follow him down behind the vending machine. After Dipper and Mabel trust in Stan and share Journal 3 with him, Stan takes their book and laughs off the supernatural once again. This builds upon “Gideon Rises,” the season one finale. It’s here that Stan reveals that he’s always known about the supernatural and lied to protect them. But Stan comes out and punches his way through the creatures to get the kids to safety. It looks like the kids might fall victim to the ghouls. What’s in the secret room? Why is he hiding this knowledge from his niece and nephew? How can he ignore the supernatural in the town of Gravity Falls when it’s so clearly there?Īs Dipper and Mabel, along with their friends Soos and Wendy, discover more about the mysterious town, the story comes to its first crossroads in the season two opener, “Scary-oke.” A hoard of zombies is attacking the Mystery Shack.
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But in the final moments, Stan enters a code into the vending machine and reveals there’s a secret room behind it as he shuts the door.įor the rest of the first season and mid-way through the second, there is a mystery surrounding Stan. He adamantly waves off Dipper’s concerns that there are supernatural beings in the woods. Up to this point, he’s been a fun-loving grifter who cons dumb tourists out of their money. “Tourist Trapped” ends with Grunkle Stan walking through his home/business, The Mystery Shack, at night by himself holding a lantern. While Gravity Falls isn’t the first show to have this kind of premise, the ending of the first episode lays the groundwork for the amazing journey.
It establishes there is a supernatural element in the world. The episode opens with Dipper and Mabel fleeing from a hoard of angry gnomes trying to kill them. But in the first episode “Tourist Trapped,” it’s quickly established that there is more going on in the story. On the surface, it seems like an adventure of the week show about twins Dipper and Mabel Pines staying for the summer with their Great Uncle Stan (“Grunkle Stan” for short). The story of Gravity Falls is deceptively deep. Fear is part of growing up, whether that fear is telling a girl you like her or fighting an interdimensional demon. It’s okay to be a bit scary at times because life can be scary. The bits of horror mixed in have the same fun as Goosebumps novels. Not once does this show ever talk down to its audience.
Hirsch knew that a young audience could handle the complex elements of the narrative. This entire interaction summed up one of the biggest reasons Gravity Falls is such a huge success. Kristen Schaal, the voice of Mabel Pines, yells, “Kids are people too!” Any show that does that is making a mistake.” Supervising producer Rob Renzetti also added, “You should never write down to kids. Just because people love to consume doesn’t mean they wouldn’t prefer something amazing.” But they will sing the praises and love something that you make good. It’s like they’re mistaking the appetite… Yeah, kids will watch anything just like a hungry person will eat anything. He says, “Our theory is that kids are way smarter than anyone gives them credit for… There’s this misunderstanding in media that kids will watch anything. One of my favorite moments of Alex Hirsch talking about the show was at the Comic-Con panel in 2015. The writers, animators, and creators never once shied away from the story they were telling. A big reason for me is that this team trusted their audience.
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