History Recap / GravityFallsS2E15TheLastMabelcorn

-->'''Blue Unicorn:''' Kid, unicorns can't see into your heart. All our dumb horns can do is glow, point towards the nearest rainbow, and play rave music.\\
'''Pink Unicorn:''' Yeah, the whole "pure of heart" racket is just a line we use to get humans to leave us alone.\\

Meanwhile, Mabel, along with Wendy, Candy, and Grenda, find the sacred meadow where the Unicorn Celestabellebethabelle lives. Celestabellebethabelle refuses to give any hair, claiming that Mabel is impure of heart and unworthy. Recalling how she commonly makes fun of Dipper, Mabel takes this to heart, and decides that she needs to up her game in the good department.

Mabel and friends go on a binge of do-goodering, and when they get back to Celestabellebethabelle, she tells them…that doing good deeds to make yourself look good doesn't mean anything. Mabel is crushed, whereupon Wendy decides that it's time for the 'Wendy way'; take the hair by force. After getting some pixie dust from a gnome, the other girls knock out Celestabellebethabelle, but are stopped by Mabel, who doesn't like their methods. Celestabellebethabelle wakes up, denounces the girls…and two more unicorns show up, annoyed that C-beth is pulling the 'pure of heart scam'. "Kid, unicorns can't see into your heart. All our dumb horns can do is glow, point towards the nearest rainbow, and play rave music." Outraged at being jerked around, Mabel instigates a brawl between unicorns and humans.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Ford and Bill are shown playing chess in the flashback.

* KickTheDog: Celestabellebethabelle does this to Mabel so regularly that Wendy, Grenda and Candy cheer when Mabel beats up the unicorn.

* WhamEpisode: In his previous apperances Bill was depicted as a menacing but quirky [[TheTrickster trickster]] antagonist with unknown motives, but now we learn he's a proper OmnicidalManiac who's attempting to end of the world.

* WhamEpisode: Bill is growing more powerful, and will attempt to bring the end of the world.

* NotSoDifferent: Both Dipper and Ford were deceived and possessed by Bill, and both are ashamed of it. This hits Ford especially hard when Dipper peeks into his mind and freaks out, thinking that Bill has possessed Ford.

"Bill wasn't always my enemy, Dipper. In fact, I used to think he was my friend."

* RealityEnsues: For Grunkle Ford and Dipper, when the latter freaks out in the secret room. Ford has been half-confiding in Dipper, who has been dying to know the answers, treating him like a ReplacementGoldfish for Fiddleford [=McGucket=], who was an educated grown man. Dipper is still a kid, however, and one traumatized by the time Bill possessed him; Ford seems to realize this by the end and comforts him with sodas as well as the whole truth of the portal.

* TheReveal: Ford tells Dipper Bill's ultimate plan: it's to create a portal that will let him and his kind access Earth.

* AnAesop: Don't let a "superior" being arbitrarily determine your worth, whether by flattery or condemnation. This counts for Mabel and Ford equally.

* InTheBlood: Both Mabel and Ford get their egos broken and lifted respectively by their idols -- unicorns and Bill the "muse". The minute they learn they were deceived, both fight back.

* {{Unicorn}}: The point of this episode (besides the various revelations about Bill).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Grenda conducts a drug deal ([[GRatedDrug for fairy dust]]), betrays her source to bribe a cop into looking the other way, drugs a unicorn, and chloroforms a satyr who tries to sound the alarm.
** One of Dipper's thoughts is "[[RagingStiffie Maybe if I cross my legs, no one will notice]]." Although this could also refer to another one of his thoughts, where he worried if his fly was down.
** One of the gnomes in the gnome bar is playing a [[FiveFingerFillet knife game...]] with an acorn.
** When the unicorn poses the second time, she appears to have cleavage between her front legs.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Wendy, Mabel, Candy, and Grenda beat the living crap out of a trio of unicorns offscreen. When next shown, they're covered in [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar rainbow-colored fluids.]] Candy ''claims'' it's tears...

* FiveFingerFillet: The gnome dealer does this with a acorn.

** Played straight by Celestebellebethabelle when she tells Mabel to leave until Mabel has become pure of heart. The Pure of Heart idea was a scam to get humans to leave, but Celestebellebethabelle crushes Mabel by saying how "bad' she is.

** The "trust no one" MadnessMantra

** The Cipher Files mentions that the pyramids were actually the remains of dinosaurs with blocky bones, which hunted [[Disney/TheLionKing warthogs and meerkat, but turned tender by their carefree lives and trouble-free philosophies]]. It then describes pyramids as "settings for conspiracy movies [[Film/NationalTreasure like that one where the guy has to steal the Declaration of Independence]]."

-->'''Wendy''': Mabel's a straight up saint, you judgemental hoofbag!
** Celestabellebethabelle is a combined parody of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Celestia]] (a benevolent ruler of Equestria, who is a figure of wisdom and authority and possibly a TricksterMentor) and Amalthea aka ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn''. As befits the cynicism of ''Gravity Falls'', Celestabellebethabelle pretends to be wise and able to look into humans' hearts just to torment kids.

* ThatPoorPlant: When the unicorn sheds a tear over Mabel's "impure" heart, it hits a rose, which turns black and dies.

* DebateAndSwitch: Rather than addressing the legitimate parts of Celestabellebethebelle's criticisms or showing why Mabel is a good person despite her flaws, the episode [[TheWarOnStraw concludes with Celestabellebethebelle being revealed as a fraud with no ability to rightfully judge Mabel at all,]] thus dodging the issue entirely.

* TheWarOnStraw: As seen above in DebateAndSwitch and TakeThat, the episode isn't subtle in its opinion of critics who criticize Mabel for never seeming to change in regards to her [[InnocentlyInsensitive flawed]] [[ItsAllAboutMe behavior]] despite [[AesopAmnesia repeatedly learning that this is wrong]]. The episode [[DebateAndSwitch doesn't try to address the validity or invalidity of the actual points or show why Mabel is a good person despite her flaws]], and instead represents some of the criticisms against her character through the mouth of the episode's antagonist, a lying charlatan with no moral high ground who only makes up criticisms to be a {{Jerkass}} and hurt others. The episode's resolution is for Mabel, Candy, Grenda, and Wendy to beat up this critic and her friends until they are covered in the critic's... "tears," and then rob her.

** This episode isn't exactly subtle conveying its opinion of critics who heap coals on Mabel for being self-centred, since the twist of the episode hinges on the individual making judgements having no moral high ground whatsoever.

* TheWarOnStraw: As seen above in DebateAndSwitch and TakeThat, the episode isn't subtle in its opinion of critics who criticize Mabel for never seeming to change in regards to her [[IgnorantlyInsensitive flawed]] [[ItsAllAboutMe behavior]] despite [[AesopAmnesia repeatedly learning that this is wrong]]. The episode [[DebateAndSwitch doesn't try to address the validity or invalidity of the actual points or show why Mabel is a good person despite her flaws]], and instead represents some of the criticisms against her character through the mouth of the episode's antagonist, a lying charlatan with no moral high ground who only makes up criticisms to be a {{Jerkass}} and hurt others. The episode's resolution is for Mabel, Candy, Grenda, and Wendy to beat up this critic and her friends until they are covered in the critic's... "tears," and then rob her.

* DebateAndSwitch: Rather than addressing the legitimate parts of Celestabellebethebelle's criticisms or showing why Mabel is a good person despite her flaws, the episode concludes with Celestabellebethebelle being revealed as a fraud with no ability to rightfully judge Mabel at all, thus dodging the issue entirely.

** This episode isn't exactly subtle conveying its opinion of critics who heap coals on Mabel for being self-centred, since the twist of the episode hinges [[TheWarOnStraw on the individual making judgements having no moral high ground whatsoever.]]

** This episode isn't exactly subtle conveying its opinion of critics who heap coals on Mabel for being self-centred, since the twist of the episode hinges on the individual making judgements having no moral high ground whatsoever.