[Doorbell rings] [knock on door]
Welcome to the Mystery Shack, gentlemen.
What can I get you ... key chains, snow globes,
these rare photos of american presidents?
This is Gravity Falls...
- Aah! - Flip-a-dip-dip!
Dipper: Gravity Falls has this secret dark side...
- [Chuckling] Whoa! - Shut up!
...a small town in Oregon
where preteen twins Dipper and Mabel Pines ...
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Time Baby, w-what are you doing here?
No!
Move out of the way. You're ridiculous.
They already know all of this, don't you? [Music]
You know about the codes, the cyphers, and the clues.
Mabel: [chuckles] It's just my personal box of mysterious secrets.
[Grunts]
Goodbye forever! [Growls]
Well, this is getting weird.
But you think that's the mystery behind Gravity Falls?
This town has secrets you couldn't begin to comprehend.
- Aah! - Time Baby: That makes me laugh and drool a little bit,
and maybe I need a new diaper.
The point is, there is so much more
to Gravity Falls than you ever imagined.
So, uh, would you mind if I ask you
a couple billion questions about Gravity Falls?
- Um... - And how do I know?
Well, because I'm a multidimensional overlord.
[Chuckles evilly]
But I also have access to the other side. [Both scream]
I have Alex Hirsch, the creator, trapped in a room,
and I will force him to share the inner workings of his mind.
Have you come to steal my eyes?!
I don't know what to say. I have so many questions.
I ... ohh! I think I'm gonna throw up!
[Vomiting] [Time Baby laughs evilly]
I'm never gonna reveal these secrets, guys.
You can't make me.
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Uh, Time Baby, i-if you're ever being ...
i-if Time Baby's ever trying to fight you...
- Silence! - ...just leave the room.
He doesn't have object permanence.
H-He'll think you're not there anymore.
Quit stalling, Alex! This show isn't about me.
Reveal your secrets!
- Time Baby is a big, dumb baby. - I am not.
What are you gonna do, Time Baby, huh? You gonna zap me?
[Video whirring] Time Baby: Enough!
I'd say, if you're rewatching the series all over again,
pay particular attention to the backgrounds.
Maybe nothing creepy going on in this room.
In "Gideon rises," we see a flashback
of the hand of the unknown author writing the journals.
we see a skull, we see a polished desk,
but we also see a bit of a rainbow reflection.
A really keen-eyed fan might notice...
[Electricity crackling] ...that, inside the secret room in "Carpet diem,"
there is a triangular glass prism
that's casting a rainbow reflection.
It's a subtle way to let you know
that that room belonged to the author.
I don't think anyone's actually ever figured that one out yet.
This old shack is full of weird secrets.
Dipper is based on my memory of how it felt to be a kid.
Holy mackerel!
When I was around Dipper's age,
I would record myself and play it backwards.
I tried to learn to speak backwards.
D-D-D-Dipper Pines.
I knew it! It's mind control, after all!
- I didn't have a lot of friends. - Time Baby is not surprised.
Time Baby doesn't know as much as he thinks he knows.
I know all there is to know!
Alex: [chuckling] When I was in middle school,
I was in a class with a kid who had ...
no fault of his own ... some really unusual acne.
- Every day, it was a little different. - Show me! Show me!
So I would sort of chart the constellations from my sketchbook,
and I remember one day, he had a perfect big dipper,
the exact right dots, on his forehead.
That's how you got your nickname.
I thought your parents just hated you or something.
- Reveal his first name! - I can't say it.
It begins with a "D" and ends with an "ipper."
- My name is Dopper. - And, Roderick...
- Uh, actually, uh ... - ...you, dear boy.
- Confirm! - Uh, no.
- Now! - I think Time Baby needs a nap.
Your face needs a nap. [Video whirring]
Dipper and Mabel's first names have a similarity,
but I will not tell you what that similarity is.
- Mystery twins? - I thought you hated that.
I'm starting to accept it.
Time Baby: Ugh, fine. Let's move on to Mabel.
Beep-bop! Boop!
She is a simple creature with nothing to hide.
Pbht! What? What? What?!
[Groaning] Mabel?
Every time she's not on camera in an episode,
she's off knitting the next week's sweaters.
Whaa! Ohh!
Ah! Ha ha! Soos!
Mabel is inspired by my twin sister,
specifically the way she acted in elementary school.
Boom! A million slap bracelets!
And I think sixth grade, it finally happened
where, like, my sister grew taller than me.
She's got exactly one millimeter on you.
The next year, I just like doubled in height.
Alpha twin! Alpha twin!
I am the alpha twin now, if you ask me.
Ah, the pool ...
sparkling oasis of summer enchantment.
Yeah, nothing like sitting in a moist tub with strangers.
It's like the bus but wet.
Grunkle Stan is based on my Grandpa Stan.
Time Baby: Stan certainly has secrets.
- Sweet Sally. - Share them!
Catch you on the rewind.
Alex: If you're rewatching the series,
watch closely how Stan talks about family...
Today, we're gonna have some real family fun.
[Tires screech] Now, who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my car?
- Yay! - Yay!
...thinks about family...
Shh! You had me at "shut up, old man."
...and it will make a lot more sense.
You'll notice that some of the puzzle pieces have fit together.
Don't worry about what's in the basement.
- You belong up here with me and Mabel. - Yeah.
Now that we know Grunkle Stan has a twin brother,
when you watch an episode like "Headhunters"...
You need anything? [Chuckles]
I love this guy. Don't you go nowhere.
...you see how distraught he is...
- [Crying] I'm sorry. I got glitter in my eye! - ...that a wax double of him
gets destroyed, you might understand the psychology there a little bit better.
No-o-o-o!!
Wax Stan ... he's been m-m-murdered!
[Clock chiming]
Time Baby: Interesting. But we must continue forward.
Don't you want to learn some Soos secrets?
Alex: Soos is definitely one of my favorite characters to voice.
I ate a man alive tonight.
One of our writers, Jeff ...
he kind of speaks in weird, made-up hip-hop terms...
Yeah! Y-Y-Y-Y-Yeah!
...and Soos starts saying those kinds of things.
You stay out of this, dippy fresh!
Dippy fresh didn't do anything to you, dawg.
Say "ahh," girl dude.
What's up, hambone? [Both imitate explosion]
Explain where this Soos came from.
Soos was inspired by someone I went to college with ...
this guy Jesus Chambrot.
I'm great at fixing stuff, playing video games,
having a sort of mustache.
He was kind of a mystery,
but he was always in the computer lab,
and he always wanted to help you.
Handyman of the apocalypse, at your service.
He would see you and just be like, "hey, dude. Hey, dude.
You need help with the printer?" You'd be like, "no, I'm good."
He'd be like, "oh, oh, I'm gonna help you fix the printer."
I should have thought of this years ago.
Alex: "Oh, whoops. I broke the printer.
Hey, you want my help fixing the printer that I just broke?"
Aah!
Help. I'm trapped in the game.
He was always causing and solving problems.
Don't lose your cameras.
- Wait. Lose the cameras? - Don't!
Dude, I just threw two away.
But it always came from the most sincere place.
My wisdom is both a blessing and a curse.
I make the rules, sucka! Boosh!
Aah! Aah!
Everyone poured the coolest person they knew
into a pot, and Wendy was born.
[Grunts]
Boosh.
You put all this stuff up here?
I may or may not sneak up here during work...
all the time, every day. [Both laugh]
Wendy, you're the coolest person I know.
I know, dude. Tell me about it later.
Alex, what about the other characters?
Commencing lighting round!
You have 60 seconds.
Lazy Susan ... she used to have two functioning eyes
until a science experiment zapped one of them.
[Electricity crackles] Aah! My eye!
I don't think the guy I named Deputy Durland after
knows that there's a cartoon show with his name in it.
[Chuckling] Hopefully, he never finds out.
Sorry, Durland, if you ever discover this.
Toby Determined is days away
from giving up on [chuckling] everything.
Your microphone's a turkey baster, Toby.
- It certainly is... - Next question.
Time Baby is easily distracted by jingling keys ...
- little weakness. - No, I'm not.
Alex: Preston runs a mud flap factory,
and his wife was Miss Mud flap '85 or whatever,
and he just decided, "oh, she is gorgeous."
Tonight, we will enjoy only the finest of tastes
and only the snootiest of laughter. [Laughs haughtily]
That's the ticket.
So, Pacifica is secretly of mud flap blood.
- I need your help. - You're the worst.
Lightning round complete!
Alex: Gideon ... Gideon's a villain.
Mother. [Ding!]
There was a lot of brainstorming about what he might be like...
[Electricity crackles] ...in particular, what his design was
and what was going on with his hair.
One of those infernal gummy koalas
has gotten into my perfect hair!
We gave him big hair with the thought
that maybe there would be a malformed second twin...
- Ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo! - ...that Gideon hid
with his hair, that maybe Gideon had a twin, as well.
No! Not the hair!
I don't think there is anymore. [Laughs]
Bill: Reality's an illusion! The universe is a hologram!
Buy gold! Bye!
Time Baby: He is a danger to our universe.
his name must not be mentioned, Alex.
- Bill... - Seriously?
...when we came up with him, was 100% inspired by the idea of,
what if I took the triangle from the back of the dollar bill,
dressed him up with a top hat and stupid little arms and legs
and named him Bill after the dollar?
But you can call me your new lord and master
for all of eternity!
He actually was originally going to be green.
One of our artists said, "no, he looks kind of weird.
He looks like a leaf." So we made him yellow.
And now he looks like a nacho. [Laughs]
Alex: There's a lot of things like that,
where a simple design actually has a greater significance.
[Snores]
In the episode "Dreamscaperers,"
we see that Mabel is wearing a sunset sweater.
That is meant to symbolize the descent from our
storytelling from a brighter story to a darker story.
[Both gasp]
And we set up the two-parter with Gideon's takeover of the town.
Once I find the final journal, I'll rule this town,
with you as my queen! [laughs evilly]
Alex: In the original plot for "Dreamscaperers," we imagined
that Bill was going to enter all the characters' dreams
and we were going to see inside Soos' mind,
and we were going to see inside Mabel's mind.
We simplified the story to stan's mind, but a lot of
the ideas for Mabeland came from that alternate idea.
Also, within the episode, we introduce Bill for the first time.
Oh! Oh, Gravity Falls, it is good to be back.
And I take it you're some kind of living ventriloquist dummy.
[Chuckling] Bill's a real bad guy.
[Snaps fingers] [muffled screaming]
[Screaming]
Oh, snap.
[Dramatic music plays]
[Thunder crashes]
Alex: We now return to "the Duchess Approves,"
starring Sturly Stembleburgiss as the Duchess
and Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble as irascible coxswain
Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire.
Forget it. I'm using a time wish. [Video whirring]
I always thought that, if I was to make a TV show,
how great would it be if I made it full of all those
crazy backwards messages and secret codes and puzzles
that, if there was any kid out there as weird as me,
they would actually find the thing they were looking for.
Fans are a million times smarter than I am.
[Chuckles] I have learned that the hard way.
And so, season 2, we said, yes, let's up the ante.
Let's have a code that's harder to crack.
Whoo!
Whoo! [Laughs]
Let's have a code word that is hidden.
Probably just the janitor kissing that wax settler woman again.
Ohh. Remind me to erase that from my memory.
[Both laugh]
So be it. [Sighing]
Probably the best hidden code we've ever had
was in the episode "the Love god."
Dipper and Mabel are running through a crowded festival,
and the letters are spaced out in the background.
They're so spread out,
I didn't think anyone would ever be able to find them.
Sure enough, 10 minutes after the episode aired,
somebody had cracked it.
It only took me 15 seconds.
Alex: The other thing we did this season that we didn't do in
season 1 is, at the very end of the episode, there's a flash,
and you see a single frame of one larger puzzle.
And that was all leading up to the big reveal
of Stan's twin brother.
- That's the big twist we were waiting for? - What a rip-off!
I predicted that like a year ago.
There's a lot of things in a show
that you just can't help it, that just slip in.
I've come this far. Who could possibly catch me now?
In "Society of the blind eye," Stan is working on the portal
and a piece of debris bangs his hand.
We see him bandaging his hand up.
And then, in the next few episodes,
he still has that bandage on his hand.
Folk music! It's the Woodstick Festival!
It took a while before we got to the big answer
about what the portal was.
Stan's bandage on his hand was a way to show, "don't worry.
It's still happening. We haven't forgotten.
These stories are connected."
[Bleats] There's a lot of things like that,
where something will change and stay changed
- for the rest of the series. - Bigger.
[Pulsing]
Too big!
This is some kind of magic-y thing, isn't it?
- Soos, look! - A real dinosaur tooth?
There's something huge going on right under our noses.
Puma shirt, panther shirt.
[Engine starts] puma shirt, panther shirt.
[Laughs] Tambry sends me the craziest texts.
Each audience member gets to be Dipper
and have a mystery to uncover.
In this town, anything is possible.
In "Not what he seems," Mabel's wearing a key.
Our Grunkle Stan might shoplift the occasional tangerine,
but he's not some evil supervillain.
[Grunting] Alex: This is Because Mabel herself
is ultimately the key to unlocking the portal.
Look into my eyes, Mabel! You really think I'm a bad guy?
He's lying! Shut it down now!
Mabel, please!
[Beeping] Female voice: 10... 9...
[Electricity crackles]
Time Baby: It's time for "Wheel of secrets"!
That red stuff on Norman's mouth ... is it blood, or is it jam?
It really is jam.
The gnomes recently had their gnome queen die,
and as part of her funeral ceremony,
they were all eating bereavement jam.
This is normal.
Originally, the Multi-Bear
was going to be called the Bear Bear,
and we specifically wanted a line where Dipper could say,
- "There, there, Bear Bear." - Oh, that's a Multi-Bear.
We have a reason that Blendin is bald. When he time-travels,
oftentimes, he does it poorly and catches on fire.
He has to slap himself.
- Oh, pat! Pat down! - It's like, "oh, pat! Pat down!"
He's burned off all his hair from botched time traveling.
I don't know if it's some kind of paradox,
or if I'm just really tired.
We ended up writing a song for McGucket
where he sings about the gobblewonker
and how it's real and how it's gonna get you.
And then we learned two things ...
one, the song was too long.
Two, McGucket's a terrible singer.
That's probably why I live in the dump!
[Tapping]
In "a Tale of two Stans," you see that Stan's science-fair project
that failed in high school was a football robot called Footbot.
This is apparently a dream he has had for a very long time,
and it's a very dumb dream.
You didn't win anything.
One secret about the show that not a lot of people know
is that some names of incidental characters
or side characters that don't really matter in the show...
Hey, I'm Gabe Bensen, y'all.
This is Lee and Nate. [Grunts, laughs]
...a number of them are based on boys my sister had a crush on
in middle school and elementary school.
- Awesome comeback, Mabel. - Don't treat me like a child, Xyler.
She called me up, and she's like,
"What is that guy's name doing in there?"
I was like, "don't worry. I won't tell anybody."
Um, so, please don't tell anybody.
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ girl, you got me actin' so cray cray ♪
♪ cray cray ♪
♪ when you tell me that you won't be my baby ♪
My sister loved not just one boy band,
not just two boy bands,
but every boy band that was a rip-off of the other boy band.
[Bells dinging] - Hey, Dipper. - Hey, Dipper.
- Hey, Dipper. Hey, Dipper.
Alex: And she had a poster for all of them on her wall.
Whoa. Is that true, Mabel doll?
How is there enough room in your heart
to be obsessed with this many boy bands?
- I love you, Deep Chris! - He was talking to me!
Aah!
[Screaming]
A lot of the show is us making fun of each other
or our friends or our siblings.
[Knuckles cracking] Show me the object of ridicule.
When Mabel does the smile dip and she's on this crazy sugar trip...
Qould you like to eat my candy paws?
Nom, nom, nom!
...as she's riding this dolphin and says...
Onwards, Aoshima!
...now I go to Comic-Con, and a hundred kids chant,
"Onwards, Aoshima!" to me, having no idea
that that's just the name of our director, John Aoshima.
[Squeaks, grunts]
[Alarm blaring]
[Chuckles] I am charmed by your sense of humor.
Mermando is voiced by Matt Chapman,
one of our writers, who does many voices on the show.
He's many of the members of sev'ral timez...
But he keeps us in cages! That junk is straight brutal, girl.
...he is the Austrian Prince...
[Austrian accent] There's something about you.
I can't get you out of my head. You're so bold and confident.
- ...and he is Abuelita. - I vacuum the walls now.
[Air rushing]
Shandra Jimenez, a real reporter.
One thing I can tell you about Shandra is that her name
is inspired by one of our background artists, Sean Jimenez.
I'm Shandra Jimenez, and I ate a rat for dinner.
Something that not everyone might know about Agent Powers
is that he is voiced by Nick Offerman...
If very evidence of these claims, we should talk.
...who is a hilarious comedian.
I was born with a rare disorder
that makes me physically incapable of experiencing humor.
I can confirm ... not funny.
Something people might not know about Agent Trigger ...
his sort of cheekbones and chin were kind of modeled after one of our
writers, Jeff Rowe, who is the most attractive man in our writers' room.
[Woman vocalizing] We survived... barely.
I used Trigger as a human shield.
Time Baby: And in case you didn't notice,
they've been watching the twins the whole time.
What about the lamby dance, Alex? That was you, wasn't it?
Now is not the time to talk about the lamby dance.
Alex: One of our writers, Michael Rianda ...
his sister, when he was a child,
dressed him up as a lamb and made him do a dance.
A lot of people think that was me...
♪ Well... who wants a lamby, lamby, lamby? ♪
♪ I do! I do! ♪
- Fortunately, it was not. - # ...forget about the baby! #
That specifically comes from his traumatic childhood memory.
Um, so, it's like all the writers have a secret
sort of personality trait that sneaks into the show.
♪ Putting a rainbow wig on a big, white gorilla ♪
♪ singing the driving song ♪ ♪ do-do do-do-do ♪
♪ headlights are out, can't really see where I'm going ♪
That's just something I do.
Like, if I'm looking for my keys, I'll just be like...
♪ Where are my keys? ♪
♪ I'm losing my mind ♪
♪ Where'd they go? ♪
♪ Do-do-do do-do, walking to my car ♪
Time is running out, Alex. Tell them more!
All: U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
U.S.A.!
[Crying] U.S.A.!
Chanting, I think, would happen a lot in the writers' room.
All: Over with! Over with!
- Beautiful! Beautiful! - Alex: Michael Rianda, if it would be lunchtime,
he would do, "lunchtime! Lunchtime!"
- Lick it! Lick it! - Unh, unh.
I think he did the first chant that ever appeared in the episode,
which was all the teens going, "Thompson! Thompson!"
[chanting "Thompson"]
It's just an obnoxious thing to do,
and once you get used to it, you can't stop.
[All chanting "man"]
There's plenty of little cameos of mine in the show,
where my face will show up.
People assume that that's, like, me,
like, "oh, ha ha. Get this," like a little ego boost.
The crew likes to make fun of me. [Laughs]
And whenever they put my face in the show,
that's their way of doing it.
[Laughter]
Dear mom and dad, we've been in Gravity Falls
for a few months, and so much has happened.
[Music]
Ultimately, "Gravity Falls" isn't just about codes
and easter eggs ... it's about characters.
You need an amiable sidekick with a pickup truck?
You know I do.
I know who my family is now, and it's you dudes.
[Sing-songy] Somebody's in love!
I never even got a chance to tell you ...
I'm, like, in love with you, Wendy.
I always kind of knew.
Everything I've worked for, everything I care about ...
it's all for this family.
One of these days, you and me are gonna sail away
from this dumb town.
When the Summer's over, you give me my house back,
you give me my name back,
and this Mystery Shack junk is over forever.
I guess I didn't realize it was already our last one.
Look, things aren't gonna stay frozen this way.
It's part of growing up. Things change.
Summer ends.
This Summer, I've seen some amazing things,
but nothing as amazing as you and your sister.
[Music]
[Grunts]
[Both panting]
[Thunder crashes]
- Aah! - No! No-o-o-o-o!
[Groans]
Aah!
Yes!
[Electricity crackles]
Oh, no! What do I do?!
Stanley! Stanley! Do something!
Stanle-e-ey!
Stanford!
Dipper: [thinking] This journal told me there was no one
in Gravity Falls I could trust.
But when you battle a hundred gnomes side by side with someone,
you realize that they've probably always got your back.
I mean, who would sacrifice
everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?
Don't worry, bro. Wherever we go, we go together.
I don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but whatever
it is, you don't have to fear because we'll do it together.
Shandra: Is there no one who will save the people of this town?
Let's beat Bill and grow up together.
[Pulsing]
Mabel: All right, guys, are you ready for this?!
Sorry, Mabeland. It's time to burst your bubble!
[Weapon cocks]
Let's get 'em, dudes.
[All shouting]
[Wind rushing]
Time Baby: And the biggest secrets are yet to be revealed.
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You guys know that actually you don't put this on TV, are you? Oh, I am.
I'm done here.