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** Remember when Stan was in Colombian prison? And that joke from the Gravity Falls Gossiper podcast that said he was in Gravity Falls because it was the only place the police didn't know where he was? It's now revealed that he engaged in a lot of illegal activities that got him put in jail three times, and he managed to break out every time. Even the line where he says the two convicts are the best friends, he could have had is harsher in hindsight now, considering TheReveal of his FriendlessBackground.

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** Remember when Stan was in Colombian prison? And that joke from the Gravity Falls Gossiper podcast that said he was in Gravity Falls because it was the only place the police didn't know where he was? It's now revealed that he engaged in a lot of illegal activities that got him put in jail three times, and he managed to break out every time. Even the line where he says the two convicts are the best friends, friends he could have had is harsher in hindsight HarsherInHindsight now, considering TheReveal of his FriendlessBackground.
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* AnAesop: Don't take your family for granted. Stan did nothing but clown around through his youth, believing his family would be okay with it and always have his back. Ford, after years of separation, called Stan out of the blue for a weird errand he wouldn't properly explain. Look how well that turned out.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Ford. It says a lot when the first thing you do after seeing your twin brother after thirty years is to attack him, and not care that he spent three decades trying to bring you home. [[JerkassHasAPoint He was concerned about the damage the portal could have done]], and he does unbend a little after meeting Dipper and Mabel.

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* GoodIsNotNice: Ford. It says a lot when the first thing you do after seeing your twin brother after thirty years is to attack him, and not care that he spent three decades trying to bring you home. In his defense, [[JerkassHasAPoint He he was concerned about the damage the portal could have done]], and he does unbend a little after meeting Dipper and Mabel.
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* UnreliableNarrator: A particularly sad example. At one point, Stan talks about how he was doing great living on his own. This was over a scene of him living out his car, reliant on scratch-cards to live, and spending his last cent on calling Ford for help but unable to bring himself to say anything.
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*** The principal's office features a portrait of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Nixon became President in 1969 and resigned in 1974, so the episode likely occurred in this time frame. If the baby were Dipper and Mabel's father, that would make him somewhere around 40 in 2012. This seems much more likely for a father of 12-going-on-13 children than a grandfather.

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