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* Mabel's desire to meet a vampire (something she may have done offscreen, based on a line of dialogue from "The Deep End") is particularly funny since her actress, Creator/KristenSchaal, would go on to play a vampire in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''.

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* Mabel's desire to meet a vampire (something she may have done offscreen, based on a line of dialogue from "The Deep End") is particularly funny since her actress, Creator/KristenSchaal, would go on to play a vampire in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''.''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019''.
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* Alex Hirsch deliberately gave Mabel an OutdatedName that would sound archaic, old-fashioned, and uncool to viewers in 2012, which Pacifica Northwest lampshades when she calls it "a fat old lady's name." Not only would Mabel see a revival in popularity as a girl's name, but much of that revival was ''[[BabyNameTrendStarter due to the show itself]]'' and parents naming their daughters after the character Mabel.

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* Alex Hirsch deliberately gave Mabel an OutdatedName that would sound archaic, old-fashioned, and uncool to viewers in 2012, which Pacifica Northwest lampshades when she calls it "a fat old lady's name." Not only would Mabel see a revival in popularity as a girl's name, name in the 2010s, but much of that revival was ''[[BabyNameTrendStarter due to the show itself]]'' and parents naming their daughters after the character Mabel.
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* Alex Hirsch deliberately gave Mabel an OutdatedName that would sound archaic, old-fashioned, and uncool to viewers in 2012, which Pacifica Northwest lampshades when she calls it "a fat old lady's name." Not only would Mabel see a revival in popularity as a girl's name, but much of that revival was ''[[BabyNameTrendStarter due to the show itself]]'' and parents naming their daughters after the character Mabel.
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* Celebrating Halloween twice a year was considered a strange tradition unique to Gravity Falls in 2012 (in order to have a HalloweenEpisode set during the summer). But in more recent years, some companies, including Disney, now celebrate Halfway to Halloween around April or May.
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* Summerween becomes this, once you realise [[Film/HocusPocus Disney's most iconic Halloween]] CultClassic was in fact released in July.
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* Mabel's desire to meet a vampire (something she may have done offscreen, based on a line of dialogue from "The Deep End") is particularly funny since her actress, Creator/KristenSchaal, would go on to play a vampire in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''.
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* 5 months before the finale landed, famed fanartist Markmak [[http://markmak.deviantart.com/art/Deal-with-a-trickster-559807177 drew a scene depicting]] [[spoiler: Bill Cipher making a deal with Stan, only to have been conned by Gravity Falls' greatest conman.]] During the climax [[spoiler:this is part of how Bill is actually defeated. Doubles as Awesome and HarsherInHindsight considering that it also marks Stanley's HeroicSacrifice.]]

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* 5 months before the finale landed, famed fanartist Markmak Creator/{{Moringmark}} [[http://markmak.deviantart.com/art/Deal-with-a-trickster-559807177 drew a scene depicting]] [[spoiler: Bill Cipher making a deal with Stan, only to have been conned by Gravity Falls' greatest conman.]] During the climax [[spoiler:this is part of how Bill is actually defeated. Doubles as Awesome and HarsherInHindsight considering that it also marks Stanley's HeroicSacrifice.]]
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* The episode “The Golf War” features a race of small golf ball people who operate the insides of the machines of a mini golf course. A few years after the episode’s airing, there would be a different [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney]] show that would star [[WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens people that look just like]] the mini golf people portrayed in the episode.

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* The episode “The "The Golf War” War" features a race of small golf ball people who operate the insides of the machines of a mini golf course. A few years after the episode’s airing, there would be a different [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney]] show that would star [[WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens people that look just like]] the mini golf people portrayed in the episode.
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* In "Weirdmageddon Part 1", Gideon and his hench angels arrive with an aesthetic reminiscent of ''Film/MadMax''. Due to AnimationLeadTime, this was likely meant as a nostalgic ShoutOut to an [[TheEighties 80s]] film series Hirsch and the crew may have remembered from their childhood, but became newly relevant when ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' released six months prior to this episode.

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* In "Weirdmageddon Part 1", Gideon and his hench angels arrive with an aesthetic reminiscent of ''Film/MadMax''. Due to AnimationLeadTime, ProductionLeadTime, this was likely meant as a nostalgic ShoutOut to an [[TheEighties 80s]] film series Hirsch and the crew may have remembered from their childhood, but became newly relevant when ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' released six months prior to this episode.
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* "Soos and the Real Girl" features animatronics at a pizza place coming to life and attacking people. [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Sound familiar]]? Alex Hirsch actually had to make a statement confirming that it was a complete coincidence, thanks to AnimationLeadTime. The same episode also has an anime girl from a dating sim who became self-aware at some point in the past, falls in love with the player (not the player character, ''the player'') and [[{{Yandere}} tries to win him by affecting how the game works and by "erasing" her competition]]. That exact concept is [[ItWasHisSled the infamous plot twist]] to ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', which came out exactly three years after the episode aired (on the same ''day''). So yes, this show essentially predicted ''two'' popular indie horror games... with ''one episode''.

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* "Soos and the Real Girl" features animatronics at a pizza place coming to life and attacking people. [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Sound familiar]]? Alex Hirsch actually had to make a statement confirming that it was a complete coincidence, thanks to AnimationLeadTime.ProductionLeadTime. The same episode also has an anime girl from a dating sim who became self-aware at some point in the past, falls in love with the player (not the player character, ''the player'') and [[{{Yandere}} tries to win him by affecting how the game works and by "erasing" her competition]]. That exact concept is [[ItWasHisSled the infamous plot twist]] to ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', which came out exactly three years after the episode aired (on the same ''day''). So yes, this show essentially predicted ''two'' popular indie horror games... with ''one episode''.

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