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Fridge Brilliance
- The Island Head Beast pages
◊ was initially a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the "Society of the Blind Eye" episode, but the context for the right page reveals that Ford was musing about his childhood memories—with that, the scribbled-out boat is heavily implied to be a repaired Stan O' War, which makes this moment the first on-screen instance that indicates that Ford does miss his brother Stan.- Also on the same page, a cryptogram where he reflects about when he and Stan hunted for the Jersey Devil is one of the stories in Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.
- When Ford makes a list of the things he scanned from Dipper's brain in "The Last Mabelcorn", the message of "Wendy! Wendy! Wendy! Wendy! Wendy!" is conspicuously absent. Do bear in mind the very first thing Dipper said after that crossed the screen was "You should probably ignore that." Seems Ford respected his wishes. Which makes sense, given that Ford is all too familiar with the feeling of having embarrassing difficulty with girls.
- One has to wonder why Blendin's message to Dipper and Mabel was written in a cryptogram? It's so that the Time Police won't discover the message, and figure out where Blendin is.
- Blendin's message never being decoded is a good thing, since it would've caused a paradox - if Ford had managed to decode it, he would've immediately stopped building the portal, since he would now know that Bill was using him to jumpstart an apocalypse. As a result, Fiddleford wouldn't have accidentally seen Bill during the portal test, and thus have no reason to found the Society of the Blind Eye out of a desire to forget the incident, thereby keeping his sanity intact. However, this means that Stan would still be homeless and running from the authorities, since Ford no longer has any reason to contact him. And if Dipper was the one to decode Blendin's message, he'd refuse to listen to Ford and immediately warn Stan and Mabel about the interdimensional rift and what it could do, since he now knows the consequences of not doing so. This would've caused Weirdmageddon to never occur since Mabel would know not to give the "snowglobe" to the disguised Bill, and Blendin wouldn't have become a criminal. Thus, there would be no need for the message to even exist.
- You maybe wondering why the Time Police would even bother to deem Blendin an outlaw despite the fact that with Time Baby gone, the people of the year 207̃012 have won back their freedom? This actually demonstrates that the entire Time Police is still loyal to Time Baby, even after his death.
- Ford throwing all three journals into the Bottomless Pit was ultimately beneficial in the long run. Each of the three journals has one piece of a schematic blueprint that, if pieced together, explains how to construct an inter-dimensional portal - information that could be catastrophic in the wrong hands. Now that the Pit has scattered the journals into different dimensions, a repeat of Bill will never happen again.
- The reveal that Dipper's name is actually Mason means he and Mabel fit into the same similar naming that their Grunkles do. Stanley and Stanford and Mason and Mabel.
- When Ford meets Jheselbraum (AKA The Oracle) in Dimension 52), she tells him that if he wants to face Bill again, he needs to protect his mind from his intrusion, and he allows her to install a metal plate in his head for that purpose. But this wasn't even necessary- Word of God states that while Bill can feely haunt people's dreams, he can't enter their minds unless they shake his hand and let him in. While Bill did con Ford into a deal to let him into his mind freely "till the end of time", Jheselbraum, with her clairvoyant abilities, knows it won't matter - once Bill unleashes Weirdmageddon and (temporarily) kills Time Baby, time in Gravity Falls will be "dead", thus breaking the original deal between them. Without the deal giving him 24/7 access to Ford's body, Bill won't be able to simply pluck the secret to collapsing Gravity Falls' Weirdness Magnet directly out of Ford's mind the second he learns he knows how to do so - he'll have to get Ford to give up the secret willingly, which Ford staunchly refuses to do. If Jheselbraum knows Ford's never going to be in danger of being possessed by Bill again, why install the plate at all? Simple: to protect him from the memory gun. She knows that during the events of "The Last Mabelcorn", Dipper (mistakenly believing Ford is working with Bill) is going to panic and attempt to use the memory gun on him, and that Stan's The Chosen One who's destined to destroy Bill. The plate solves both problems in one stroke- it ensures that Ford survives Dipper's misguided attack with his memories intact while denying him the chance to make the Heroic Sacrifice needed to destroy Bill for good himself, allowing Stan to fulfill his destiny by taking Ford's place!
Fridge Horror
- The Journal revealed that the Lumberjack Ghost from Northwest Manor Mystery was actually an ancestor of Wendy's family. In said episode, the Lumberjack ghost used his powers to turn the party guests into wood. During the Weirdmageddon trilogy, Wendy's dad, Manly Dan and her brothers were turned to stone. Wendy herself was even turned into a tapistry in Part III. This unfortunately means that Wendy and her family were being punished for what their ancestor's ghost did.
- It may not necessarily be the case, given how Wendy and her family were transformed by Bill...
- Within the pages of the Journal, there was a secret message written by Blendin Blandin. The message details how Blendin made a deal with Bill Cipher, was deemed a criminal for being responsible for the death of Time Baby, and got stranded in the 1800s. Blendin hoped that Dipper and Mabel would decode the message so that they know that Blendin was alright. Unfortunately, neither Ford nor the twins decoded the message, and Dipper didn't recognize Blendin due to the latter growing a mustache. Also, Ford's last entry revealed that he plans to throw the Journals into the Bottomless Pit. Ultimately, Blendin's attempt to contact Dipper and Mabel was All for Nothing.
- Speaking of which, just how long was Blendin being chased by the Time Police?
- Better World!Stan Pines' fate after leaving Ford and taking Journal 1 are unknown, leaving fans to fear the worst, to the point that he may have killed himself after hiding the book. Worse, the Ford of that dimension doesn't care that he could be dead, only hoping that Journal 1 is hidden.
- In-between "Gideon Rises" and "Scary-oke", Stan had possession of Journal 3. It's highly likely that he read some of Dipper and Mabel's articles. That said, Stan probably read Mabel's entry on the events of "Carpet Diem". This means that Stan found out that he gave The Talk to the wrong person, and unintentionally traumatized his Great-Niece. Can you imagine how Stan must have felt about this?
- On that same note, after "Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons", Ford read Dipper and Mabel’s entries…which also included the events of "Sock Opera", which was made worse by the reveal that Bill planned to kill Dipper by throwing his body off the water tower. How did he react to that?
- Apparently, the amulet Gideon used corrupts the user's soul. Mabel also used the amulet. Could using it have caused her to take some of the more negative actions that she does in the series, such as planning to trap Sev'ral Timez with her in the Shack, be ignorant of Dipper's needs in Sock Opera, and disregard morality and willingly work with a Bill-possessed Blendin to trap Gravity Falls in a time bubble?
- If you read Ford's entries after Fiddleford created The Memory Gun, you can see that he's already creating The Society Of The Blind Eye (he's shown giving Ivan a card when he meets him at the carnival) and mind-wiping the lumberjacks who built the Bunker. And if you read the blacklight edition, he used it on Ford after Ford protested about using it on the lumberjacks. It puts his moral compass into question…
- If so, what did Fiddleford want Ford to forget about?
- In one of Dipper's first entries, he wrote down that he saw a ghostly apparition that strongly resembles Blendin Blandin. This means that Blendin's ghost has been trying to get in touch with Dipper ever since he was trapped in the 1800s. The problem with this is that Dipper wrote the article before the events of "The Time Traveler's Pig". This means that Dipper believes that he was being haunted by a ghost without realizing who the ghost really was.
- Several details in the book basically confirm Gravity Falls is in the same multiverse as Rick and Morty, with one cipher outright saying "RICK WAS HERE". One wonders if Ford ended up in one of the many Fascist universes or the one from the official comic book where everybody looks like Hitler. Even worse, Alex has stated Stan was raised Jewish. Since Ford is his twin, it stands to reason he was raised Jewish as well. Granted, Ford doesn't seem to be the religious type, but that's still an uncomfortable thought.
