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'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': Soos tells the tale about his attempts to conquer "Tumbleweed Terror," a Wild West-styled pinball game in the Mystery Shack's basement. Dipper and Mabel encourage him to tilt the machine to win, and he reluctantly does. But the talking skull that runs the game doesn't take kindly to cheaters, and sucks all three of them into the machine to deal out some frontier justice. Now it's up to Soos to save the kids from their pinball prison.

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'''Soos’ '''Soos' Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': Soos tells the tale about his attempts to conquer "Tumbleweed Terror," a Wild West-styled pinball game in the Mystery Shack's basement. Dipper and Mabel encourage him to tilt the machine to win, and he reluctantly does. But the talking skull that runs the game doesn't take kindly to cheaters, and sucks all three of them into the machine to deal out some frontier justice. Now it's up to Soos to save the kids from their pinball prison.



* SpinTheBottle: A pig versión done with Waddles at the beginning of "Voice Over". Whoever Waddles stops on has to kiss him.

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* SpinTheBottle: A pig versión version done with Waddles at the beginning of "Voice Over". Whoever Waddles stops on has to kiss him.
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* SpinTheBottle: A pig versión done with Waddles at the beginning of "Voice Over". Whoever Waddles stops on has to kiss him.
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* SassyBlackWoman: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_7eJ_wo_s Grunkle Stan's new voice]] after unknowingly drinking a voice-altering tonic that Dipper poured into his coffee. Made all the more hilarious by the sassy head gesture he makes.

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* SassyBlackWoman: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_7eJ_wo_s com/watch?v=qKkCCKz7knM Grunkle Stan's new voice]] after unknowingly drinking a voice-altering tonic that Dipper poured into his coffee. Made all the more hilarious by the sassy head gesture he makes.
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* AlienGeometries: The bottomless pit somehow loops around and launches them back out the top, yet they never turn around. It's just a straight tunnel, but both ends are the same place.
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* CannotTellALie: The Truth-telling Teeth have this effect.

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* CannotTellALie: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated.]] The Truth-telling Truth-Telling Teeth have this effect.don't just cause you to tell the truth whenever you try to lie, they also force you to go to great lengths to volunteer information you're trying to keep concealed.
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'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': Soos tells the tale about his attempts to conquer "Tumbleweed Terror," a Wild West-styled pinball game in the Mystery Shack's attic. Dipper and Mabel encourage him to tilt the machine to win, and he reluctantly does. But the talking skull that runs the game doesn't take kindly to cheaters, and sucks all three of them into the machine to deal out some frontier justice. Now it's up to Soos to save the kids from their pinball prison.

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'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': Soos tells the tale about his attempts to conquer "Tumbleweed Terror," a Wild West-styled pinball game in the Mystery Shack's attic.basement. Dipper and Mabel encourage him to tilt the machine to win, and he reluctantly does. But the talking skull that runs the game doesn't take kindly to cheaters, and sucks all three of them into the machine to deal out some frontier justice. Now it's up to Soos to save the kids from their pinball prison.
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* YearOutsideHourInside: Dipper notices that hardly any time has passed once they escape the pit.

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* YearOutsideHourInside: YearInsideHourOutside: Dipper notices that hardly any time has passed once they escape the pit.
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* TheLastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers: Of the four stories, the first two are implied to not be true (or at least exaggerated), and the third is ''definitely'' not true. The final punchline of the fourth story, however, reveals that that one actually did happen -- ''that morning''.

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* TheLastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers: TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Of the four stories, the first two are implied to not be true (or at least exaggerated), and the third is ''definitely'' not true. The final punchline of the fourth story, however, reveals that that one actually did happen -- ''that morning''.
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* TheLastOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers: Of the four stories, the first two are implied to not be true (or at least exaggerated), and the third is ''definitely'' not true. The final punchline of the fourth story, however, reveals that that one actually did happen -- ''that morning''.


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* OverlyLongGag: The CreditsGag, during which Stan has fallen down the Pit (again), consists almost entirely of him falling in annoyed, stony silence with the same expression on his face, until the very last second of the episode.
-->'''Stan:''' ...This is stupid.
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* NightmareFuel: In-Universe, Old Man [=McGucket=]'s "HORRIFYING VOICE!" is enough to make a small child burst into tears. [=McGucket=] promptly lampshades the trope: "You can run, BUT I'LL STILL BE IN YOUR ''NIGHTMARES!''"

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* BottomlessPits: The entire theme of the episode was the main characters falling through a bottomless pit.

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* BottomlessPits: The entire theme of the episode was is the main characters falling through a bottomless pit.



** Dipper makes a prank call to Tats, the bouncer at the [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters/Skull Fracture biker bar.]]

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** Dipper makes a prank call to Tats, the bouncer at the [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters/Skull [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters Skull Fracture biker bar.]]



* CrazyPrepared: Turns out that Mabel keeps glow sticks hidden in her sweater sleeves all the time. They prove useful for providing light during the fall in the Bottomless Pit.



* EarlyBirdCameo: Mr. Poolchek is among the people chasing Dipper in his story

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Mr. Poolchek is among the people chasing Dipper in his storystory.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Soos's Really Great Pinball Story" is...a story Soos tells about a great time he had playing pinball.



* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Dipper is spiraling helplessly upside-down and screaming when Soos begins telling his own story.



* LiteralMinded: Both Soos and Grunkle Stan's story titles ("Soos's Really Great Pinball Story" and "Grunkle Stan Wins the Football Bowl," respectively) tend toward this.



* SassyBlackWoman: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_7eJ_wo_s Grunkle Stan's new voice]] after unknowingly drinking a voice-altering tonic that Dipper pored into his coffee. Made all the more hilarious by the sassy head gesture he makes.

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* SassyBlackWoman: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_7eJ_wo_s Grunkle Stan's new voice]] after unknowingly drinking a voice-altering tonic that Dipper pored poured into his coffee. Made all the more hilarious by the sassy head gesture he makes.

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'''Grunkle Stan Wins the Football Bowl''': Stan, bored by Dipper and Soos's attempts at stories, recounts his own ludicrous adventure of his taking the field in the "football bowl" and scoring the winning touchdown, earning the respect of his TotallyRadical college student teammates and Footbot, a robot he built as a surrogate son. The others quickly interrupt this ridiculous tale.




After Mabel finishes "Trooth Ache," Dipper points out that the events of that story didn't need to be told--they just happened that morning (the mysterious box she threw into the pit earlier actually contained the Truth-Telling Teeth). Stan judges all of the tales except his own as incredibly stupid, but his criticisms are interrupted when the group is swallowed up by a bright light that deposits them back outside of the (non)-Bottomless Pit, which Dipper classifies as a wormhole. Exhausted by their trip, the quartet heads back inside--or, at least, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos do, as Stan inadvertently tumbles back in.



* BeYourself: The moral of "Voice Over." Dipper learns that while his voice may be pubescent and squeaky, it's ''his'', and trying to change it to sound like someone he's not makes everyone uncomfortable.



** Dipper makes a prank call to Tats, the bouncer at the [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters/Skull Fracture biker bar.]]



* DistractedByTheSexy: Soos, and the "Gorgeous Pinball Wench".

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* DistractedByTheSexy: Soos, Soos and the "Gorgeous Pinball Wench".



* FriendOrIdolDecision: In "Soos's Really Great Pinball Story," the only way to escape Tumbleweed Terror is to hit the manual reset switch inside the machine--but doing so will also erase the high scores, which Soos has worked tirelessly to get. He's forced to choose between "immortality" as the best pinball player or Dipper and Mabel's lives, and ultimately chooses the latter, as he realizes that his ''new'' greatest accomplishment is taking care of them.



* NoNameGiven: The skull head that runs Tumbleweed Terror doesn't have a name--Soos refers to him as the "skeleton guy," while the monster himself acts as if the entire game is an extension of his body.



* PaperThinDisguise: A variation. Stan writes a "prescription" for his "seeing-eye bear" on a notepad he has in his jacket, and signs it "Dr. Medicine." The fact that Durland and Blubs fall for such an obvious ruse [[TooDumbToLive says a lot about their intelligence.]]



* SeriousBusiness: In "Voice Over," Dipper makes a single prank phone call to Tats, the bouncer at the Skull Fracture biker bar. Turns out that the group hates prank callers, as Tats rallies all of the muscular tough guys in the bar to chase and beat up Dipper for the trick.



* [[TrappedInTVLand Trapped in Pinball Land]]: "Soos's Really Great Pinball Story" in a nutshell.



* WeNeedADistraction: PlayedForLaughs and UpToEleven.

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* WeNeedADistraction: PlayedForLaughs and UpToEleven. Soos needs to get inside Tumbleweed Terror to flip its manual reverse switch, which means that someone needs to distract the "Skull Guy" who controls the game.
-->'''Soos''': Are any of you really good at jumping up and down and making annoying noises?
-->''(DramaticWind blows as Mabel turns to the sky)''
-->'''Mabel''': ''My time has come.''
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Grunkle Stan introduces Dipper, Mabel, and Soos to a bottomless pit, where they can throw in whatever they don't want anymore. Stan throws in Mystery Shack Suggestion Cards, while Mabel throws in old love letters from 'Lil Gideon, and a mysterious heavy crate. However, after a sudden gust of wind blows them into it, they all find themselves in the bottomless pit, where they tell three stories to pass the time until they find out what's at the bottom:

'''Voice Over''': Dipper is tired of people making fun of his squeaky voice, so he decides to get a new one from Old Man [=McGucket=].

'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': While playing a game of pinball with Mabel and Dipper, Soos decide to cheat by tilting the machine itself. However, they soon find themselves trapped in the game.

'''Trooth Ache''': Mabel thinks Stan should tell the truth more, so she uses a magical set of dentures that make its wearer always tell exactly what they're thinking.

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Grunkle Stan introduces Dipper, Mabel, and Soos to a bottomless pit, where they can throw in whatever they don't want anymore. Stan throws in which he uses to dispose of things he no longer wants--namely, Mystery Shack Suggestion Cards, while suggestion cards. Mabel throws joins in old by disposing of "creepy love letters from 'Lil Gideon, L'il Gideon" and a mysterious heavy locked crate. However, after When a sudden gust of strong wind blows them picks up, the gang tries to get back to the shack, but Stan refuses to move until he gets rid of the rest of the paperwork. The others rush back to save him, and everyone ends up tumbling into it, they all find themselves in the bottomless pit, where they tell three stories to pit. To pass the time until during their (seemingly) endless stay, Soos suggests that they find out what's at the bottom:

all tell stories.

'''Voice Over''': Dipper is tired of people making shares a story about his embarrassment when Stan, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy make fun of his squeaky voice, so he decides to get a new one from "squeaky puberty voice." He heads into town and runs into Old Man [=McGucket=].

[=McGucket=], who happens to be working on tonics that can alter people's vocal tones and styles. Dipper eagerly tries one and wakes up with a deep, newscaster-esque voice. Though he's initially thrilled, the rest of the gang thinks it sounds fake and creepy, leaving him even more conflicted--and in danger when a prank call he makes angers the toughest men in Gravity Falls.

'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': While playing Soos tells the tale about his attempts to conquer "Tumbleweed Terror," a game of Wild West-styled pinball with game in the Mystery Shack's attic. Dipper and Mabel and Dipper, Soos decide encourage him to cheat by tilting tilt the machine itself. However, they soon find themselves trapped in to win, and he reluctantly does. But the game.

talking skull that runs the game doesn't take kindly to cheaters, and sucks all three of them into the machine to deal out some frontier justice. Now it's up to Soos to save the kids from their pinball prison.

'''Trooth Ache''': Mabel thinks reminisces about her efforts to get Stan should tell the truth more, so she uses to be more honest. Journal #3 leads her to a set of magical set of dentures called Truth-Telling Teeth, which compel whoever wears them to be totally candid. After switching Stan's own false teeth with the magical pair, Mabel's pleased when her Grunkle stops lying--but when Stan begins to go overboard in sharing his private thoughts and criminal history, she realizes that make its wearer always tell exactly what they're thinking.sometimes honesty ''isn't'' the best policy.
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** Also happens to Mabel's hair when she declares her time has come in Soos's story.

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'''Voiceover''': Dipper is tired of people making fun of his squeaky voice, so he decides to get a new one from Old Man [=McGucket=].

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'''Voiceover''': '''Voice Over''': Dipper is tired of people making fun of his squeaky voice, so he decides to get a new one from Old Man [=McGucket=].


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* FramingDevice: The episode is basically a set of stories told by the gang as they fall through the pit.


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* OverlyLongName: Soos’ story is called “Soos' Really Great Pinball Story: Is That A Good Title? Do They Have To Be Puns Or Whatever?”.
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** Grunkle Stan's story.

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** Grunkle Stan's story.story, "Grunkle Stan Wins the Football Bowl".



* IResembleThatRemark: Soos says that Dipper's new voice sounds like someone from a commercial. Dipper protests and says Stan will appreciate it "after these commercial messages".

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* IResembleThatRemark: Soos says that Dipper's new voice sounds like someone from a commercial. "some weird commercial dude". Dipper protests and says that Stan will appreciate like it "after and goes to find him, saying "I'll be right back after these commercial messages".messages!"
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* SassyBlackWoman: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_7eJ_wo_s Grunkle Stan's new voice]] after unknowingly drinking a voice-altering tonic. Made more hilarious for the sassy head gesture he does.

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* SassyBlackWoman: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_7eJ_wo_s Grunkle Stan's new voice]] after unknowingly drinking a voice-altering tonic. tonic that Dipper pored into his coffee. Made all the more hilarious for by the sassy head gesture he does.makes.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Eventually [[spoiler:justified, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been feigning ignorance of Gravity Falls' weirdness.]]

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Eventually [[spoiler:justified, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been feigning ignorance of Gravity Falls' weirdness.]]



* {{Callback}}: Dipper first mentioned the Bottomless Pit in [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E9TheTimeTravelersPig "The Time Traveler's Pig"]].

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* {{Callback}}: CallBack: Dipper first mentioned the Bottomless Pit in [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E9TheTimeTravelersPig "The Time Traveler's Pig"]].
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Eventually[[spoiler: justified, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been [[FeigningIgnorance feigning ignorance]] up to that point.]]

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Eventually[[spoiler: justified, Eventually [[spoiler:justified, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been [[FeigningIgnorance feigning ignorance]] up to that point.ignorance of Gravity Falls' weirdness.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Justified [[spoiler: retroactively, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been playing dumb all first season.]]

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Justified [[spoiler: retroactively, Eventually[[spoiler: justified, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been playing dumb all first season.[[FeigningIgnorance feigning ignorance]] up to that point.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit at this very moment and ''lived through'' one of the stories. Justified [[spoiler: retroactively, as it's revealed at the start of season two that he'd been playing dumb all first season.]]
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Only Trooth Ache happened


* AsYouKnow: The characters tell to each other stories that they all live through. Lampshaded by Dipper at the end.

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* AsYouKnow: The characters tell to each other stories Mabel tells a story that they all live lived through. Lampshaded by Dipper at the end.
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* KidAppealCharacter: Footbot in "Grunkle Stan Wins The Football Bowl".

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!!This ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode provides examples of:
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan still states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit even as he speaks, and even ''lived through'' one of the stories.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Grunkle Stan still states that everyone's stories are far-fetched, even though he is falling through a bottomless pit even as he speaks, at this very moment and even ''lived through'' one of the stories.



* BlatantLies: The "seeing-eye bear" leaps to mind.

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* BlatantLies: BlatantLies:
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The "seeing-eye bear" leaps to mind.



* HypocriticalHumor: Soos says that Dipper's new voice sounds like someone from a commercial. Dipper protests and says Stan will appreciate it "after these commercial messages".



* IResembleThatRemark: Soos says that Dipper's new voice sounds like someone from a commercial. Dipper protests and says Stan will appreciate it "after these commercial messages".



-->'''Dipper:''' It must be some kind of wormhole.
-->'''Soos:''' Yeah dude, that sounds science-y enough to be true.

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-->'''Dipper:''' It must be some kind of wormhole. \n-->'''Soos:''' \\
'''Soos:'''
Yeah dude, that sounds science-y enough to be true.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Soos says that Dipper's new voice sounds like someone from a commercial. Dipper protests and says Stan will appreciate it "after these commercial messages".



* VocalDissonance: After Dipper magically modifies his voice, it doesn't match his appearance at all.

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* VocalDissonance: VocalDissonance:
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* TemptingFate: Dipper claims that bottomless pits can't be real while Stan is pulling a seemingly limitless amount of pamphlets out of his clothes to throw into the pit.
* TooMuchInformation: Grunkle Stan's truth telling reaches a point that Dipper and Mabel can't take it anymore.
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'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': While playing a game of pinball with Mabel and Dipper, Soos decide to cheat by tilting the game board itself. However, they soon find themselves trapped in the game.

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'''Soos’ Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?''': While playing a game of pinball with Mabel and Dipper, Soos decide to cheat by tilting the game board machine itself. However, they soon find themselves trapped in the game.
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-->'''Stan''': (After scowling through most of the credits)...This is stupid.

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* AsYouKnow: The characters tell to each other stories that they all live through. Lampshaded by Dipper at the end.



* AsYouKnow: The characters tell to each other stories that they all live through. Lampshaded by Dipper at the end.



* LongTitle: "Soos' Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?"



* LongTitle: "Soos' Really Great Pinball Story: Is That a Good Title? Do They Have to Be Puns or Whatever?"
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* YearOutsideHourInside: Dipper notices that hardly any time has passed in the pit.

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* YearOutsideHourInside: Dipper notices that hardly any time has passed in once they escape the pit.

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