History Recap / GravityFallsS1E8IrrationalTreasure

* AbsenteeActor: The first episode without Soos.

* SpoofAesop: Mabel decides not to spring the knowledge that Pacifica's ancestor is a fraud on her, being content with herself. Dipper, on the other hand, gladly does so, and declares that "Revenge is awesome!"

! This ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode provides examples of:

* WeaponizedMonument: The heads of Mount Rushmore are actually robots that will protect America in its greatest time of need.

* CaligulasHorse: President Trembley appointed babies to the Supreme Court. In TheStinger he is seen pleading his case to them.

* ItsAllMyFault: Mabel after being trapped in the crate. It results in a short HeroicBSOD

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mabel's wrappers are what allows Blubs and Durland to track down the twins and Trembley's hiding spot.

* BrickJoke[=/=]ContinuityNod: In [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E2TheLegendOfTheGobblewonker "The Legend of the Gobblewonker"]], Stan criticized the kids for poor craftsmanship while counterfeiting $100 bills, stating that Ben Franklin looked like a woman. Mabel finds a trove of national secrets, including that "Ben Franklin really WAS a woman!"

* FakeUltimateHero[=/=]HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Nathaniel Northwest, known as the founder of Gravity Falls, in reality a waste-shoveling village idiot who the government used to hide the existence of its 8th and a 1/2 president and the real founder of Gravity Falls, Quentin Trembley.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Niece or Nephew]]: Grunkle Stan warns Dipper and Mabel that if they start talking like pioneers with the rest of the town, they're dead to him. The two begin talking like that anyway, leading to him screaming "DEAD TO ME!"

* AnachronismStew: Despite the clear assertion in the episode that Pioneer Days harks back to the town's founding in 1863, smatterings of YeOldeButcheredeEnglish are found in the episode (and Stan is put in medieval-style stockades) and Gideon is wearing a colonial-era outfit, complete with powdered wig.

** FridgeBrilliance: In RealLife, William Henry Harrison died in 30 days. Of course, that's what a conspiracy that made him up would say to explain why they can't find evidence of anything significant that he actually did.

* LandslideElection: Trembly won a literal one [[SoleSurvivor by default]].

* AbsenteeActor: The only episode without Soos.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The secret document about Nathaniel Northwest contains all sorts of [[http://i.imgur.com/CWIQH.png weird secrets]]. The one about the Time Baby would be [[BrickJoke followed up on]] in the next episode.

* BrickJoke[=/=]ContinuityNod: [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E2TheLegendOfTheGobblewonker "Ben Franklin really WAS a woman!"]]

* ButNowIMustGo: Quentin Trembley leaves Gravity Falls because he's "needed elsewhere".

* FakeUltimateHero / HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Nathaniel Northwest, known as the founder of Gravity Falls, in reality a waste-shoveling village idiot who the government used to hide the existence of its 8th and a 1/2 president and the real founder of Gravity Falls, Quentin Trembley.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The secret document about Nathaniel Northwest contains all sorts of [[http://i.imgur.com/CWIQH.png weird secrets]].
* GovernmentConspiracy

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Subverted. Dipper and Mabel think the cops will do this to them but they actually want to escort them to Washington.

* LandslideElection: A literal one.

* PoliceAreUseless: Zig-zagged.
* PreemptiveDeclaration: Gideon does this twice when he's "dropping" tomatoes on Stan.

* UnPerson: Apparently, the US government was so ashamed of their real 9th president (who also founded Gravity Falls) that they completely erased him from history, officially calling William Henry Harrison 8th. This makes President Trembley 8th 1/2th.

* UnPerson: Apparently, the US government was so ashamed of their real 8th president (who also founded Gravity Falls) that they completely erased him from history, officially calling William Henry Harrison 8th. This makes President Trembley 8th 1/2th.

The eight episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''.

* LoopholeAbuse: President Trembley never signed his resignation letter and is technically still the President of the United States, which goes somewhere into InsaneTrollLogic territy as his term ended more than 150 years ago anyway. Of course, it's not likely the dim-witted Blubs and Durland would realize that.

* UnPerson: Apparently, the US government was so ashamed of their real 9th president (who also founded Gravity Falls) that they completely erased him from history, officially calling William Henry Harrison 9th. This makes President Trembley 8 1/2th.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The FreezeFrameBonus laden document on Nortwhest makes mention of an enormous, evil, time devouring baby frozen in a glacier. We meet said evil baby in the very next episode.

* TalkingToHimself: Sheriff Blubs talking to TheFaceless security [=guard/dispatcher/whatever=] is a ''very'' blatant case.

* ContinuityNod[=/=]BrickJoke: [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E2TheLegendOfTheGobblewonker "Ben Franklin really WAS a woman!"]]