History Recap / GravityfallsS1E12Summerween

** The way Stan's hair sticks out from under his Dracula wig heavily resembles [[Series/TheMunsters Grampa Munster]].

* CutenessProximity: The twins ''weaponize'' it to get as much candy as possible.

* GettingEatenIsHarmless: Both Gorney and Soos survive getting swallowed by the Trickster.

* JumpScare: The trick-or-treaters scare Stan with a cat video that suddenly ends with a shot of a ferocious monster snarling.

* LetThemDieHappy: The Summerween Trickster dies with TearsOfJoy after Soos told him he tasted good. See FreudianExcuse.

* ParrotExpoWhat: Mabel does this twice. When Stan first mentions Summerween, she replies, "Summer-what?", and when Soos first mentions the Summerween Trickster, she replies, "Summer-what what?"

* TooDumbToLive: Even though they were just about to escape from the Summerween Trickster, Soos has to listen to the noisy skeleton head because he thinks it's just that funny. When the skeleton head is out of batteries, Soos puts new batteries in, and then activates the head. This catches the attention of the Summerween Trickster, who immediately eats Soos alive.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Or rather, toxic boyfriend influence. When Robbie ridicules Dipper for presumably going trick-or-treating for being too old for it, Wendy lines up with him to defend Dipper as being too old for it. Later, after the night is over, Wendy is told by Dipper he went trick-or-treating, and without Robbie around, she doesn't bat an eye at it.

* BaitAndSwitch: A monster with labored breathing watches Dipper throw away the loser candy. Right after that the doorbell rings, and when Dipper answers it, we hear that same labored breathing. Dipper gasps in horror...only to reveal it's Robbie at the door.

* BuffySpeak: When listing a few of the candies he is composed of, the Trickster includes "every discarded bar of old chocolate with like that white powder stuff on it. YOU KNOW THAT STUFF?!".

* HopeSpot: The kids were one candy short of their goal (and already on their way to get the last one), but, in an attempt to hide the fact that he was trick or treating from Wendy, Dipper accidentally tosses the wheelbarrow over a cliff, losing all the candy into a river.

* RedHerring: At the start of the episode, Soos is implied to be the Summerween Trickster. He tells the kids about the trickster's existence, he's absent when the Trickster first appears, and then suddenly appears after the Trickster leaves. However, as the characters trick or treat, the Summerween Trickster ambushes them ''and'' Soos, proving that the Summerween Trickster is real.

** The music playing the Summerween store is a clear pastiche on "Monster Mash."

* SkewedPriorities: Dipper cares about looking cool and going to the Halloween party more the fact that, if they don't collect enough candy, he and his friends will ''die.''

* WeirdSun: The episode is meant to take place in June, when sunset in Oregon should be around 9pm, yet it starts getting dark in the early evening (as it would if it were actually Halloween).

* TooDumbToLive: Even though they were just about to escape from the Summerween Trickster, Soos has to listen to the noisy skeleton head because he just thinks it's that funny. When the skeleton head is out of batteries, Soos puts new batteries in, then activates the head. This catches the attention of the Summerween Trickster, who immediately eats Soos alive.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Dipper points out that they could just ''buy'' 500 pieces of candy instead of going house to house. Mabel replies that doing so would take the "trick-or-treat" out of "trick-or-treat or die", and therefore,[[SimpleSolutionWontWork the Trickster might not accept it]].

** The means in which Soos eats his way out of the Summersween Trickster bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Film/{{Alien}} a chestburster]].

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Dipper points out that they could just ''buy'' 500 pieces of candy instead of going house to house.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Gorney somehow cannot be seen when the Trickster is hit by Soos' truck, but does reappear when Soos eats him.

* WildTeenParty: One is alluded to (but not shown) when Robbie and Wendy say that they are going to a party at Tambry's house while her parents are out of town.

* IrrationalHatred: Even though Dipper was the only one who insulted the Trickster, he threatens not only him, but Mabel, Candy and Grenda (the latter two who didn't even speak to him) presumably just for being in the same room.

* ThinkOfTheCensors: The party flyer was originally supposed to read "Bottles will be spun"; after Creator/AlexHirsch couldn't get it past Standards and Practices, it got changed to "[[TakeThat Not S&P approved]]".

* IdiotBall: Soos's preoccupation with the talking skull toys at the Summerween store drive him to fool around with one when they're ''trying to sneak past the Summerween Trickster''. Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''. Naturally [[SoMuchForStealth this gets him eaten and everyone else caught]], but luckily it pays out in the end.

* HopeSpot: The kids were one candy short of their goal, but Dipper accidentally tosses the wheelbarrow over a cliff, losing all the candy into a river.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Robbie teases Dipper for planning on going trick-or-treating, Wendy pipes up that he's too old for that. This gets Dipper to think that he really IS too old for that, and decides to ditch it. May also be a case of UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, as this action causes Dipper to anger the Summerween Trickster and almost get eaten by them.

* TooOldToTrickOrTreat: Dipper and Mabel are excited to join in on Summerween, but when Wendy casually mentions that trick-or-treating is for kids, Dipper's whole outlook on the evening changes.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Parodied. A new kid named Gorney suddenly shows up, and is quickly eaten by the Trickster. As he goes down, he yells "Remember me!" When he is freed later on, Soos says "'Sup, Gorney."

* SkewedPriorities: Dipper cares about looking cool and going to the Halloween party over the fact that he and his friends might ''die.''

* ChristmasInJuly: Or rather, Halloween in June.

* GuiltByAssociation: Even though Dipper was the only one who insulted the Trickster, he threatens not only him, but Mabel, Candy and Grenda (the latter two who didn't even speak to him) presumably just for being in the same room.

"Summerween" - It’s Gravity Falls’ version of Halloween in Summer with Jack-o-Melons and lots of trick-or-treating. Dipper and Mabel are excited to join in on the fun, but when Wendy casually mentions that trick-or-treating is for kids, Dipper’s whole outlook on the evening changes. The night gets even more complicated when a monster that Dipper accidentally insulted makes them fulfill his candy quota by night’s end or else he will eat them. Meanwhile, Stan tries to scare away the kids who come over to ask for candy.

* BigDamnHeroes: Soos (temporarily) saves the gang from the Summerween Trickster by ramming into it with his pickup truck. And then ''permanently'' saves them by devouring the Summerween Trickster's candy heart, telling him he actually tasted good and putting him to rest.

** Soos provides a rare heroic version when he eats his way out of The Trickster.

** The teens whose disrespectful rap music killed the old couple from [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing "The Inconveniencing"]] appear in the Summerween Trickster's flashback.

** The biker Mabel meets in [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters "Headhunters"]] turns up again at one of the houses the twins visit.

* DisneyDeath: Gorney and Soos, both eaten by the Trickster, get out of it alive at the end of the episode, although Gorney declares he's traumatized.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Waddles pulling a ChestBurster on Stan mirrors Soos's escape from the Trickster's innards.

** Dipper hucks a candy bar at the Trickster, which absorbs it into its body. Later it turns out it's ''made'' of candy.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Robbie teases Dipper for planning on going trick-or-treating, Wendy pipes up that he’s too old for that. This gets Dipper to think that he really IS too old for that, and decides to ditch it. May also be a case of UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, as this action causes Dipper to anger the Summerween Trickster and almost get eaten by them.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his overzealous attempt to try and impress Wendy, Dipper throws the wheelbarrow of candy into some bushes without looking what was behind it. Turns it out was a cliff leading into a creek and all the candy winds up dumped into it. If that wasn't bad enough, the kids were just one candy short of getting their goal (which Mabel managed to acquire) and the Trickster comes calling soon after.

* OneWingedAngel: The Trickster bulks out and grows extra arms when he decides to kill the kids. After Soos runs it over, it reassembles itself into a more monstrous, spider-like form.
* PlotHole: The Trickster says the kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to bring him the candy, but by the end of the episode, Stan’s jack-o'-melon is still lit. [[JustifiedTrope Of course]], you can't really expect someone named "the Trickster" to play fair.

* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Mabel asks Dipper what’s worse: Getting eaten by a monster, or going trick-or-treating? Dipper is about to go with the latter.
* RightBehindMe: As he talks to Wendy’s and Robbie who happened to be driving by, Dipper quickly ditches his costume and pretends to not care about trick-or-treating as he talks to them, saying he’ll be at their party. After they leave, it cuts to behind Dipper to show a stunned Mabel, who had just come back from getting the last piece of candy, and apparently heard the whole conversation.

* ShoutOut: The Summerween Trickster's true form looks an awful lot like Noh-Face from ''Anime/SpiritedAway''.

* SilentTreatment: After Mabel finds out that Dipper didn’t care much about trick-or-treating, lied to her by pretending to be sick, and lost all the candy that almost got them all killed, she refuses to answer his quips he throws at her, and hardly even looks at him on the ride home.

* {{Symbolism}}: After learning Dipper's [[LiarRevealed ulterior motive]] for trick-or-treating and narrowly escaping the Summerween Trickster, Mabel sustains an injury on her arm in the process. All the while, Dipper is sullen towards him. This reflects how there's hurt between the two twins. Later, when Dipper and Mabel have worked through their differing views on trick-or-treating (and the Trickster's been dealt with), Dipper puts a bandage on Mabel's injury, the latter of which is more receptive. This signifies how their conflict has started to heal.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Gorney somehow cannot be seen when the Trickster is hit by Soos’ truck, but does reappear when Soos eats him.

** Three of Wendy's friends from [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing "The Inconveniencing"]] appear in the Summerween Trickster's flashback.

* GoOutWithASmile: The Trickster smiles as Soos is eating him, happy he wanted to be called good by someone.