History Recap / GravityFallsS2E2IntoTheBunker

* OutOfFocus: Grunkle Stan only has a brief cameo appearance after the theme song, where he has a construction crew clean the mess caused by the events of the previous episode.

* OutOfFocus: Grunkle Stan only has a brief cameo appearance after the theme song.

** AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: See DyingDeclarationOfLove below.

But the "closet" is actually a decontamination chamber, leading to another part of the bunker. There, a dangerous creature is heard in the shadows, and Mabel won't take their claims of it seriously. Before this monster can strike, a heroic figure appears to lead the two to safety. Have Dipper and Wendy found the Author? Meanwhile, Soos and Mabel find among such neat things like a sciency-briefcase, notes on a shapeshifting creature the Author created. Mabel then realizes that the monster Dipper and Wendy talked about is real.

In the other half of the lab, Wendy notices that their "Author" looks identical to the mascot for a brand of canned beans. His ruse uncovered, the Shapeshifter reveals his true form, and tries to take Journal 3 from Dipper. Dipper and Wendy manage to escape the creature, and run into Mabel and Soos. They conclude that they need to take down the Shapeshifter before it escapes and endangers the town. They try to force the creature into one of the lab's cryogenic tubes, and during the struggle Wendy apparently gets hurt, causing Dipper to blurt his feelings. Luckily, Wendy was just fine, and they manage to drive the Shapeshifter into a tube. Before being frozen, the Shapeshifter gloats that Dipper will never find the Author, and his search for answers will lead to a terrible fate.

With that concluded, the gang leaves the bunker. Before heading off, Wendy and Dipper talk, and Wendy, while flattered, admits that she's too old for Dipper, but values his friendship. However, it turns out that the briefcase Soos found is actually a laptop. Although it's damaged, maybe the handyman can fix it...

** AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: see DyingDeclarationOfLove below.

* BittersweetEnding: The group escape the bunker alive and Dipper finally expresses his love to Wendy, but she turns down his affection due to a combination of the age gap between them, and an appreciation of the value of their platonic friendship. Also, Soos manages to acquire a laptop from the bunker that may give more clues to the author's identity once he manages to fix it.
-->'''Dipper:''' Mabel, how can everything be so amazing and so terrible all at once?

* CatFight: Wendy ends up getting into a scrap with the Shape-Shifter while it's impersonating her.

** After managing to throw the Shape-Shifter off their trail, Dipper and Wendy run into Mabel and Soos, and Dipper voices his suspicion that one or both of them might be the Shape-Shifter in disguise. Soos actually worries that he might be the Shape-Shifter and asks Mabel to check that he's not, which she does with characteristic glee.

* AnAxeToGrind: Both Dipper and Wendy wield a hatchet, though Wendy seems more proficient with it.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Stan is forced to deal with a representative of a insurance company in the aftermath of a zombie attack. Since the man wouldn't believe a story about zombies, he has to bribe him into believing his lame woodpecker story.
** Mabel assumes Dipper will feel better if he confesses his feelings for Wendy. When he finally does, however, he feels, "anxious, scared, and itchy".
** Wendy actually wasn't oblivious towards the multiple very, ''very'' obvious signs of Dipper's crush on her and actually knew about it the entire time.
** Wendy lets Dipper down easy after his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove because, despite their close friendship, she only sees him as a friend due to the three-year age gap between them. Her always knowing about the crush also counts since she points out that [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud Dipper talked to himself about it all the time, sometimes when she's within in earshot]].

* SecretMessageWink: Played with when the [[{{Shapeshifting}} Shape Shifter]] impersonates Wendy and brawls with her, forcing Dipper to [[SpotTheImpostor determine the real one]]. One Wendy winks at himm, but the other Wendy performs the same mouth-zipping gesture she'd performed earlier, demonstrating that she's the real one. The fake promptly gets an axe to the gut.

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Dipper, upon finding Wendy's corpose, shouts in the heat of the moment that he's in love with her...only it's ''not'' Wendy's corpse, it's the Shapeshifter, and the real Wendy was within earshot. [[OhCrap Oops.]]

* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: At first Dipper refuses to confess to Wendy because he values their friendship too much (as well as just being insecure) but then it turns into:
** AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: see DyingDeclarationOfLove

* AnAxeToGrind: Both Dipper and Wendy wielded a hatchet.
* BetterAsFriends: Dipper manages to confess his feelings to Wendy, the first time failing while the second was [[DyingDeclarationOfLove a slip-up involving the Shapeshifter]]. She confesses that she always kind of knew and is very flattered, but gently lets him down due to [[PrecociousCrush him being too young]] and greatly valuing their platonic friendship, which Dipper agrees with.

* BittersweetEnding: The group escaped the bunker alive and Dipper finally expressed his love to Wendy, but she turns down his affection due to a combination of the age gap between them, and an appreciation of the value of their platonic friendship. Also, Soos manages to acquire a laptop from the bunker that may give more clues to the author's identity once he manages to fix it.

** Stan having to get the Mystery Shack repaired following the battle with the zombies.
* CannotSpitItOut: Dipper tries to ask Wendy if there could ever be anything between them whilst watching a movie together, but chickens out. Mabel finds out, and tries to force it out of her brother by locking him in a closet with Wendy until he admits his feelings to Wendy, which Dipper still can't do when it turns out they're locked in with a monster.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mabel failed to see that the room she locked her brother and Wendy in led to a ''Shapeshifting Monster''.
* DiggingToChina: Upon looking at a chasm, Stan comments that he doesn't want his car to fall in China.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Dipper shouts in the heat to the moment that he's in love with Wendy to her corpse...only it's not her corpse, it's the Shapeshifter, and the real Wendy was within earshot. [[OhCrap Oops.]]

* EmbarrassingBrowserHistory: Mentioned in this line:

* HiddenDepths: Mabel is able to light up her sweater for a flashlight substitute. Since she knits all of her sweaters, then she also obtains a skill in wiring and use of electrical equipment.

* KnightOfCerebus: The Shape-Shifter ranks up there with ''Bill Cipher'' in terms of danger. We also see him torment Dipper with how he may be getting over his head with the Journal. He even shapeshifts into a terrified Dipper right as he's flash frozen into a chamber.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Subverted. Dipper begs Wendy to forget what he confessed in the Bunker. She insists on talking it out, and turns him down gently.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Mabel hadn't locked Dipper and Wendy in the closet to make Dipper confess his feelings, no one would've been in danger from the Shape-Shifter.

--->'''Soos''': (chuckling while the others stare in horror at the now-frozen Shape-Shifter) Good luck sleeping at night!
* SecretMessageWink: The [[{{Shapeshifting}} Shape Shifter]] impersonates Wendy and brawls with her, forcing Dipper to [[SpotTheImpostor determine the real one]]. Shifty gives a wink, but Wendy gives a more convincing signal, and Dipper sends an axe towards the impostor's chest.
* SequelHook: The laptop.

* ShipSinking: Though Wendy makes clear that she really likes having Dipper as a friend, and a cool one at that, she also acknowledges the age gap between them and they decide they're better as friends.
* SpotTheImposter: When Wendy is wrestling against the Shape-Shifter disguised as her, Dipper asks for a sign. The Shape-Shifter winks, while Wendy mimes zipping her lip and throwing away the key, a special sign she and Dipper have had since "The Inconveniencing." Earlier in the episode, when Dipper and Wendy run into Soos and Mabel, Dipper initially worries that they might be the Shape-Shifter. Their goofy antics convince him they aren't.

** Wendy lets Dipper down easy after his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove because, despite their close friendship, she only sees him as a friend due to the 3 year age gap between them. Her always knowing about the crush also counts since she points out that [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud Dipper talked to himself about it all the time, sometimes when she's within in earshot]].
* SurvivalistStash: Dipper notes that the bunker contains supplies for at least sixty years, and wonders what could the author possibly be preparing for.
* TankTopTomboy: Wendy sports this look when she fights the Shape-Shifter.

--> '''Wendy''': Hey body snatcher! ''(Picks up can of beans and throws at shape shifter)'' Snatch this!
* VillainBall: The Shape-Shifter posing as the Author gets his hands on the Journal... and starts pouring through it while he, Wendy and Dipper are surrounded by bean cans with the image that he's using. Then, despite having the Journal, he ends up trying to kill Dipper and Wendy when they find out for unknown reasons. If he had just led them to a place with no bean cans, or made off with the Journal, then he wouldn't have been caught.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: By the shapeshifting monster.
* WallCrawl: The shapeshifter is capable of that.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: The Shape-Shifter poses as an unconscious Wendy when Dipper comes across him, which leads to the AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Of course once the real Wendy appears, the Shape-Shifter immediately attacks her for the Journal.

** Mabel and Soos also get this when they see that the Shape-Shifter has broken out from the ice chamber.

* TheScream: Dipper has this reaction to a rather awkward moment while hanging out with Wendy.
-->'''Wendy:''' Dude? You're laying on my bra.
-->'''Dipper:''' (''{{beat}}, then he screams loudly when he sees the aforementioned undergarment under his arm'')

** Wendy lets Dipper down easy after his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove because, despite their close friendship, she only sees him as a friend due to the 3 year age gap between them.

* RealityEnsues:
** Stan is forced to deal with a representative of a insurance company in the aftermath of a zombie attack. Since the man wouldn't believe a story about zombies, he has to bribe him into believing his lame woodpecker story.
** Mabel assumes Dipper will feel better if he confesses his feelings for Wendy. When he finally does, however, he feels, "anxious, scared, and itchy".
** Wendy lets Dipper down easy after his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove because, despite their close friendship, she only sees him as a friend due to the 3 year age gap between them.