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[[caption-width-right:350:"HOW CAN YOU LAUGH, WHEN YOU KILLED THIS BOY'S FATHER?!?!!"]]

At the Gravity Falls Video Game Arcade, tensions mount between Dipper and Robbie. Robbie is unusually threatened by a twelve year old boy trying to "steal" his girlfriend, and Dipper is still convinced that a chick as cool as Wendy deserves someone much cooler than Robbie. As Wendy is going camping with her family this weekend, Robbie declares a fight between the two of them to settle things once and for all after Dipper accidentally breaks the emo's cell phone.

Dipper is quickly dismayed when he realizes how completely outmatched he is. Even Grunkle Stan would bet against him. But things start to look up when, hiding out at the arcade, Dipper finds a cheat code scratched into the side of his favorite game, ''[[TitleDrop Fight Fighters]]''. When he unlocks it, Dipper finds he is able to bring his favorite character, world fighting champion Rumble [=McSkirmish=], to life! Now that'll scare the daylights out of Robbie, for sure!

Except things get out of hand rather quickly...

Meanwhile, Mabel tries to cure Stan of his fear of heights.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Mabel manages to win big at Omaha poker despite not even knowing what they're playing.
-->"King me!"
* {{AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle}}: Rumble talks this way. Mabel takes full advantage of it.
-->'''Mabel:''' Wow! He's got a crazy voice! Here, say these words.\\
'''Rumble:''' ''(reading from card)'' Ef-fer-VESCENT! Ap-ple FRITTER! Ri-bo-FLAVIN!
* AffectionateParody: To late 80s/early 90s arcade games.
* AndThenISaid:
--> '''Wendy:''' So, then I told Thompson: "Hey, save some for the rest of us!"
* AngryCollarGrab: Robbie does this to Dipper after the latter ends up destroying the former's phone.
* AssholeVictim: Robbie nearly became a victim of Rumble's wrath.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
--> '''Dipper:''' I wish one of these guys would fight Robbie for me.
* BigNo: Rumble's reaction when he dematerializes after his fight with Dipper.
* BilingualBonus: Near the end of the episode, the symbol that appears on Rumble's back is the Chinese character for "fart".
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Being a character from a fighting video game, Rumble has this mindset. While in the real world, it functions as BlackAndWhiteInsanity.
* BondOneLiner: Dipper gives one to Rumble after Rumble wins their fight, but is about to be sent back to his game as a result.
-->'''Rumble''': Winners don't lose!\\
'''Dipper:''' I wouldn't be too sure about that, man...
* BrickJoke: Mabel's comment on how girls choose to hate each other in silence, as opposed to how boys choose to express hatred by fighting, is repeated by Robbie near the end.
* CallingYourAttacks:
-->'''Rumble''': [[LargeHam FIREBALL! UPPERCUT! DOWNERCUT! BOOOWL OF PUNCH!]]
* CaptainErsatz: Rumble is Ken (and a little bit of Ryu and Sagat, with Akuma's back tattoo) from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', down to his fighting stance, moves, and motivations. Dr. Karate appears to be a mashup of M. Bison and Guile.
* CaptainObvious: Rumble has "Winners don't lose!" as a victory line.
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: When Mabel changes into her scout's honor/fingers crossed sweater, she manages to also change her skirt and hair band. No, it's not a coloring mistake.
* ContinuityNod:
** Mabel asks if she should sic Waddles on Robbie as she did in the previous episode. Another to the same episode is how Mabel is alerted to Robbie by smell again, though this time she says he smells like 'anger and hormones' instead of body spray.
** You can see [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing Robbie's graffiti muffin]] at one point when Mabel, Stan, and Robbie are on the water tower.
** Looks like Grunkle Stan finally got around to fixing the {{jackalope}} figure that broke in "Tourist Trapped".
* CurbStompBattle: Dipper really never stood a chance against Rumble.
* DeathIsCheap: Apparently this is true within the ''Fight Fighters'' universe, as Dr. Karate killed Rumble's father "again".
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** The arcade game the episode is named after is called ''Fight Fighters''.
** Rumble's opening move against Dipper: "Fireball-throw-lightning-ball-throw! FIRE!!"
** "YOU CAN HIDE, BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE!"
* DidYouDie: A third-person example: Soos tells Dipper a story about how his cousin Reggie got beat up by a teen once and thinks Reggie might have died. Then Soos adds that he was just talking about it with Reggie.
* DiegeticVisualEffects: When Dipper distracts Rumble from killing Robbie, the view shifts to a letterboxed close-up on Dipper's face. Then the camera zooms out to reveal the effect is from Dipper holding up a pair of black-colored planks, which he throws away.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight for breaking the former's phone when it was a total accident.
* DoWrongRight: Stan comes out and calls out Dipper and Robbie for starting a fight... because they need to wait for Stan to settle in and place bets. Unfortunately, Robbie GaveUpTooSoon before Stan could elaborate.
* EnforcedColdWar: Dipper and Robbie realize that if they actually fought they both would lose Wendy, so they both agree to hate each other in silence. [[BrickJoke Like girls do!]]
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Rumble's finishing attack on Dipper causes a mushroom cloud shaped like a fist.
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Invoked by Dipper with a pair of boards to catch Rumble's attention and stop him from killing Robbie.
* FinalBoss: Rumble sees Dipper as this.
* FinishingMove: Rumble's "SUPER POWER NINJA TURBO NEO ULTRA HYPER MEGA MULTI ALPHA META EXTRA UBER PREFIX COMBO!"
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Dipper is explaining why he doesn't like Robbie, he mentions that Robbie posts 'an annoying amount of status updates. [[spoiler: Later, in 'The Love God', Robbie ends up dating the chronically-online Tambry]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The game next to "Insert Token" is called "BG Painter Extreme".
* TheGameComeToLife: Dipper meeting Rumble is the current page image.
* GetItOverWith: After the whole ordeal with Rumble, Dipper outright tells Robbie to give him what he deserves because Dipper just wants to get it over with. No tricks, no running. Robbie decides beating up Dipper would be no fun if it's going to be this easy.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Discussed by Dipper as he's looking for power-ups for Rumble in the fridge.
-->'''Dipper:''' Well we don't have any traditional power-ups -- turkey legs, pizza boxes, or gold rings.
* HyperactiveSprite: Lampshaded when Dipper tells Rumble to stand still, which of course, he can't.
-->'''Rumble:''' This is as still as I can stay!
* InsideAComputerSystem: Soos tries to go into a the arcade game ''[[VideoGame/{{Tron}} Nort]]'' by [[LiteralMinded actually climbing into the cabinet]]. He gets stuck in there and thinks it's the same as being TrappedInAnotherWorld.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When Stan sees Robbie about to beat Dipper up it looks like he's coming to help, but he just wanted to watch with his friends and place bets.
* LampshadeHanging: When Rumble picks up increasingly dangerous objects on his way to fight Robbie, Dipper comments "this street has really dangerous litter."
* LargeHam: Rumble [=McSkirmish=] [[NoIndoorVoice shouts nearly every line he speaks]] and over-reacts wildly to things.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After Dipper starts fighting Rumble, Soos tries to help by interfering with Rumble's health bar, though his hand just phases through.
* LimitBreak: Rumble has at least two: his "FIST PUNCH RAIN!" and the combo with the OverlyLongGag name that he uses to finish Dipper.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lampshaded when Robbie points out that Dipper wears the same shorts every day.
* LoveTriangle: Robbie quickly found out about Dipper's crush on Wendy in the beginning and now it has become your typical love triangle between those two.
* LyingFingerCross: On the back of Mabel's sweater.
* MeaningfulEcho: Done by Soos when Dipper realizes his responsibility to finish what he starts.
-->'''Stan:''' You can either go face [Robbie] like a man, or you can hide indoors like a wimp. What'll it be?\\
''({{smash cut}} to Dipper in the arcade, hiding under a pinball table)''\\
'''Soos:''' 'Wimp' it is!\\
...\\
'''Soos:''' You sure you wouldn't rather hide like a wimp?\\
''(Dipper punches the "START" button to begin the fight with Rumble)''\\
'''Soos:''' 'Fight like a man' it is.
* MediumBlending: Rumble is designed like a 16-bit game sprite. All pixel animation in this episode was done by Creator/PaulRobertson, a sprite artist who's done work for video games such as ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame''.
-->'''Robbie:''' Who's your friend? And why is he... blurry?
* NoPeripheralVision: Parodied. Rumble physically can't look up because he "has no 'looking up' animation." [[RuleOfFunny Even though he looked up not moments ago]] to locate Robbie on the water tower; maybe that part counted as a {{cutscene|PowerToTheMax}} because Rumble hadn't initiated the fight with his opponent yet.
* NoodleIncident: During a ''Fight Fighters'' cutscene, Rumble shouts that Dr. Karate has killed his father '''again'''.
* TheNoseKnows: Mabel senses Robbie coming when she smells anger and hormones.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: After all the fracas, Wendy comes across a battered Robbie and Dipper. She grills them about if they've been fighting and says she hates it when boys do. The irony is that if Dipper hadn't summoned Rumble, then she would have been right.
* NoYou:
--> '''Mabel:''' Grunkle Stan, why you ackin' so cray-cray?
--> '''Stan:''' ''You're'' the one who's ackin' cray-cray!
* OhCrap: So, Dipper's plan to scare off Robbie with Rumble is working like a charm! Now he'll never bother-- wait, why is Rumble still beating him up?
-->'''Rumble''': I will not rest until the man who dishonored you is ''destroyed''!!! (punches a tree with one of Robbie's posters on it)\\
(Rumble runs after Robbie while tearing up the town)\\
'''Dipper''': ...this isn't good.
* OverlyLongGag: Rumble's finishing move against Dipper lasts for about ten seconds: ''SUPER POWER NINJA TURBO NEO ULTRA HYPER MEGA MULTI ALPHA META EXTRA UBER PREFIX '''COMBO'''''
* PassThePopcorn: Stan comes out of the shack carrying a bag of popcorn, prepared to watch Dipper and Robbie fight.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Dipper lands an uppercut on Rumble, with dramatic slowdown and reactions to accentuate the impact. Dipper then looks at the lifebar, sees his opponent only lost 0.5% health, and runs away in panic.
* SchmuckBait: Mabel's suggestion to Stan to go to nowhere in particular and her confronting him over his fear of heights really should have tipped off Stan that they were gonna go somewhere high. He later acknowledges that he should expected it to happen when he finds himself on the water tower thanks to Mabel.
* SdrawkcabName: Soos plays an arcade game called ''NORT'', with gameplay resembling the Light Cycle sequence of Film/{{Tron}}, except on Segways.
* SheatheYourSword: More or less how Dipper beats Rumble. When avoiding him and attacking back prove not to work, Dipper calmly lets Rumble pummel him and take his remaining "game life". Rumble wins the fight but in doing so ends his "game" and is sent back to the arcade to his horror. "Game Over" indeed.
* ShoutOut: Numerous video game references throughout the episode. See [[ShoutOut/GravityFalls the series' Shout-Out page]] for more complete list.
* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Soos tries to manipulate Rumble's health bar to help Dipper. It doesn't work.
-->'''Soos''': It was worth a shot.
* SpitTake: Mabel surprises Grunkle Stan with a proposition to go out for a walk to "nowhere in particular" while he is drinking a Pitt Cola and watching TV.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: While Dipper explains why he hates Robbie, Rumble repeatedly asks whether Robbie killed Dipper's father, and Dipper eventually shrugs and says, "Sure, why not?" This comes back to bite Dipper hard.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During Mabel's first attempt at "Operation Get Stan Over His Fear of Heights".
-->'''Mabel''': Happy Great Uncle's Day!\\
'''Stan''': ''(startled)'' Wha? There's a Great Uncle's Day?\\
'''Mabel''': ''(laughs uncomfortably)'' Of course it's not a day I made up!
* TapOnTheHead: Grunkle Stan's advice to Dipper for fighting Robbie.
-->'''Stan''': Just bonk 'im over the head! It's nature's snooze button.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Rumble.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Grunkle Stan is revealed to have a fear of Heights. The B-plot involves Mabel trying to help Stan conquer his fear. By the end of the episode, Stan no longer shows any fear of heights. But Mabel suddenly develops a fear of heights of her own after the fight between Dipper and Rumble.
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: PlayedForLaughs. Rumble requests that Dipper takes him to the Soviet Union to challenge the world's strongest Fight Fighters, as Rumble comes from a turn-of-the-90s arcade game. Dipper responds that it'd be difficult "for a number of reasons."
* WouldntHurtAChild: As angry as he is for nearly getting him killed by a living video game character, Robbie can't bring himself to lay a hand on the unresisting Dipper.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** In the ''Fight Fighters'' game, Rumble's motivation is to avenge his father's death -- er, deaths -- at the hands of Dr. Karate.
** Rumble assumes that Robbie killed Dipper's father. Dipper [[SureLetsGoWithThat just goes with it]], which proves to be a mistake when Rumble insists on killing Robbie to avenge Dipper's father. Dipper has to come clean about the lie and redirect Rumble's attention to himself to get the warrior to back off.
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-->''[[TheStinger HLIIB, WRKKVI, YFG BLFI DVMWB RH RM ZMLGSVI XZHGOV]]''. [[note]][[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Sorry, Dipper, But Your Wendy Is In Another Castle.]][[/note]]
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