History Recap / GravityFallsS1E20GideonRises

* BitingTheHandHumor: Gideonland is an obvious parody of Ride/{{Disneyland}}, right down to the logo font.

* FindingTheBug: Stan's hearing aid keeps picking up feedback from an unknown source. He figures out that what his hearing aid kept picking up on were the hidden cameras Gideon had bugged them all with, disguised as free Gideon pins, and was using the things he overheard to support his Phony Psychic scam.

* TemptingFate: Gideon repeatedly taunts Dipper about being "nothing" without the journal, then kidnaps Mabel. Dipper proceeds to leap from a cliff into the Gideon robot and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Gideon himself. For bonus points, he specifically said Dipper had "No muscles and no brains", and Dipper defeates him by outhinking and outwrestling him at the same time.

* TemptingFate: Gideon repeatedly taunts Dipper about being "nothing" without the journal, then kidnaps Mabel. Dipper proceeds to leap from a cliff into the Gideon robot and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Gideon himself.

* SpannerInTheWorks: The mere ''existence'' of the third journal is enough to derail Gideon's plan. Up to that point, he'd assumed that there were only two, and that #1 was somewhere inside the Mystery Shack (which it was). Upon taking Dipper's journal and realising that it's number ''three'', he incorrectly assumes that ''that'' must have been the journal hidden in the Mystery Shack, that #1 must be hidden somewhere else, and that Dipper must know its location, setting in motion the chain of events that leads to his downfall.

[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E19Dreamscaperers When we last saw the gang]], Gideon has taken over the Mystery Shack and blasted it with a wrecking ball. Since then, the Pines family has been staying at Soos' Grandma's house. At a press conference, Gideon announces his intentions to turn the Mystery Shack into his own personal theme park, Gideonland. The Pines' try to out Gideon as evil, but the rest of the town are too caught up in Gideon's charm to pay them heed. When he realizes there's nothing else he can do, Grunkle Stan gives up and decides to send the twins back home.

Meanwhile, Gideon reveals to his father why he wanted the Mystery Shack; whoever wrote the journals discovered secrets too powerful for one man, and so hid the journals to protect them. If both journals are brought together the ultimate power would be unleashed. Gideon believes that the other journal is somewhere on the Mystery Shack property. Dipper and Mabel try to take the deed back with help from the gnomes, but Gideon is able to turn the little men against the Pines twins with his dog whistle. During the struggle Dipper's journal is taken by Gideon, who thinks he has what he's been searching for. Defeated and demoralized, the twins take the next bus out of town. Stan, having hit rock bottom, wonders how Gideon always seems to be one step ahead. His hearing aid acts up and the old man has a realization.

Back at the Shack, Gideon takes a closer look at Dipper's journal and sees that it's actually #3. Thinking Dipper must have the first journal, Gideon activates his Gideonland statue (Actually a giant robot built by Old Man [=McGucket=]) and chases the twins' bus down. Gideon demands Dipper hand over Journal #1, but Dipper has no idea what he's talking about, so Gideon takes Mabel to be his queen. This is the last straw, and Dipper throws himself into Gideon's cockpit and fights Gideon. The battle sends the robot off a cliff, and the twins are able to survive the fall thanks to Mabel's grappling hook. The townspeople gather at the crash site, and Gideon claims that the twins blew up his statue. Before the police arrest Dipper and Mabel, Stan shows up to reveal the truth; Gideon's so-called 'psychic visions' are actually from a surveillance system he uses to monitor Gravity Falls; all his Li'l Gideon pins are cameras, whose feeds he gleans information on the town. Gideon is arrested, but before he's hauled off Stan shakes him down for the deed (and discreetly snatches Journal #2 as well). "The Mystery Shack is back, baby!"

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Sheriff Blubs arrests Gideon for "fraud, deception, and breaking our hearts".

** Mabel and Dipper wind up being put on a bus back to California after Stan realises he can't take care of them anymore.

** The commercial for the Tent of Telepathy from "The Hand That Rocks Mabel" labels Stan as a fraud. When Stan exposes Gideon's surveillance system, he rhetorically asks, "Who's the fraud now?"
** In "Dreamscaperers" Wendy said that she'd once caught Gideon stealing her moisturizer. In this episode, when Gideon tells the gnomes he's not a girl, they reply "But your skin is so soft. Do you moisturize, or...?"
** Bud Gleeful can be seen carrying the sad clown painting Stan stole from him in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" before he asks Gideon why he is reading Journal #2.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Right before Gideon enters the cop car, Stan grabs and shakes him to empty his pockets; among the items that fall are Journal #2 and the deed to the Shack, which lands on top. [[SpotTheThread You can see Stan grab both at once.]]

** When discussing what he knows about his Journal, Gideon explicitly refers to "the other journal", with his ImagineSpot showing Journal's #1 and #2, foreshadowing that he was unaware of the existence of Journal #3, the very thing that leads to his downfall.

* LastSecondWordSwap: Double subverted with Soos, who comments on Dipper's crush on Wendy

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: As Dipper lampshades when the Gideon-bot is chasing after their bus: Gideon basically ''won''. Stan figured out the trick to Gideon's secret surveillance on his own, so the latter still may have gotten arrested, but the Pines Twins were ''on the bus home'' at this point, so even if Stan had done so, it may have been too late to bring the twin back by then. However, Gideon's (false) paranoia that Dipper secretly had Journal #1 led to him chasing down the twins' bus in his giant robot, which in turn led to Dipper fighting and defeating Gideon, the robot being destroyed, and the twins getting to stay in Gravity Falls after Gideon is arrested.
** Furthermore the reason Stan figured out how to expose Gideon as a fraud is because of a button Gideon slaps on him when mocking him.

** Gideon wanted the Shack so he could find journal #1 (and he's shocked to find out that #3 existed) and the secret beneath the Mystery Shack.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Gideon pulls one on Stan and the kids so they take the blame for what he did. Fortunately, Stan exposes the truth.

** Realising he can no longer look after Mabel and Dipper without the Mystery Shack, Stan tells them: "[[DarkestHour Kids, you're going home.]]"

* {{Bookends}}: The grappling hook and the gnomes from the first episode come back. Both the first and the last episode of the season ends with Stan entering his secret lair though this time we see more of it. Also, Dipper saves Mabel from a villain who tries to make her his "queen".
* BreakThemByTalking: Gideon attempts this on Dipper but it fails.

* BrokenPedestal: When the town finds out Gideon's a fraud.

** Old Man [=McGucket=]'s ability to build gigantic machines of mass destruction gets one when it's shown that he built Mecha Gideon.

* CatapultNightmare: See Eye Awaken below.

* ChekhovsSkill: It's a good thing Dipper received TrainingFromHell in "Dipper vs. Manliness" which included jumping from cliffs. That helps him make a large leap into Gideon's robot from a cliff.

** Bud Gleeful can be seen carrying the sad clown painting Stan stole from him in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" before he asks Gideon why he is reading Journal 2.
* DarkestHour: Things have never been so dark for the Pines up to this point.

* DeadlyNosebleed: After being thrown to the cliff by the Gideon mecha, Dipper is [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130804054947/gravityfalls/images/thumb/b/b4/S1e20_Nosebleed.png/640px-S1e20_Nosebleed.png shown with a nosebleed]].
* DescriptionCut: "What would a boring old man like Stan want with that book anyway?". You'd be surprised, Mabel.

* DominoRevelation: Stan owns Book 1. He also managed to get the 2nd and 3rd books from Gideon and Dipper, respectively.

--->'''Stan''': (makes a point of showing the deed) I believe ''this'' belongs to me!

* HeroicSecondWind: Dipper gets this after Gideon uses his giant robot to steal away Mabel and toss Dipper onto a cliff, taunting Dipper that without the book he's useless. At first, it seems Dipper is retreating in despair . . . then we see him running on the cliff and making a fantastic leap into Gideon-bot's eye, smashing into the real Gideon.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Really, Gideon might have gotten away with the whole thing had he not decided to go after Dipper.

* KickTheDog: Gideon was ''cruel'' towards Waddles during this episode.

* StopHittingYourself: Dipper does this to Gideon, as he’s wearing his motion capture suit so he ends up caving in the mech’s face

* TemptingFate: Gideon does this, which doubles as a VillainBall moment, when he claims that Dipper is useless without the journal and steals away Mabel. Dipper proceeds to leap from a cliff into the Gideon robot and delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with a HeroicSecondWind.
* ThatWasNotADream: Dipper wakes up and hopes the last episode was a dream, only for Soos to inform him that it wasn't.
* TookALevelInBadass: Dipper jumps off a ''cliff'' and battles Gideon in the ''head of a giant robot''! What do ''you think''?

* WhamEpisode: Stan's got all three of the journals, and is building something big and probably dangerous. Also Gideon goes to jail.

** "[[DarkestHour Kids, you're going home.]]"

[[caption-width-right:350:"I finally won this time!"]]

** Stan entering his secret lair using the vending machine ala "Tourist Trapped".
** Bud Gleeful can be seen carrying the sad clown painting Stan stole from him in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel" before he asks Gideon why he is reading Journal 2.