Recap / Gravity Falls S2 E5 "Soos and the Real Girl"

Virtual reality is about to get real. Real possessive.

Soos needs to bring a date to his cousin Reggie's engagement party to please Abuelita, so Dipper and Mabel try to help him talk to girls and get said date. After a few failed attempts, Soos buys a Japanese dating simulation game, Romance Academy 7, to help him talk to girls. This is despite the store clerk mentioning how many times the game has been returned, along with a warning written on the game's box telling people to destroy it.

It turns out the dating sim, .GIFfany, is sentient, and falls in love with Soos. Soos is at first more than happy to spend all his time in his room talking to .GIFfany, even though she makes several sinister comments about her previous "boyfriends" and how she "deleted" the game's designers. Dipper and Mabel end up dragging Soos back to the mall to try and find a date again. This time, Soos manages to meet a girl named Melody who shares several of Soos' quirks and interests, and she's more than happy to go out with him. They end up at a Chuck E. Cheese-style arcade place that they both loved going to when they were kids. However, .GIFfany is not willing to lose Soos to another girl, and after possessing the animatronic performers in the restaurant, prepares to do anything she can to keep Soos all to herself. Anything.

Also, Stan becomes obsessed with stealing an animatronic badger from the aforementioned pizza place, thinking it will attract more customers to the Mystery Shack.

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Tropes in this episode:

• A Day in the Limelight: For Soos.
• Affectionate Parody: Romance Academy 7 is one of dating sims, albeit a really dark one.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: .GIFfany.
• An Aesop: Dating in the real world is hard, especially for those who are socially awkward. Keep at it, however, and you will eventually end up finding someone who likes you despite your flaws.
  • Additionally, diving into escapist fantasies to avoid dealing with your problems is unhealthy and won't make you happy in the long-term.
• Annual Title: Romance Academy 7 is made by "Year 2000 Electronics".
  Soos: Man, I can't wait for the year 2000!
• Animesque: .GIFfany, who's a character in a Japanese Dating Sim.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Soos refuses to leave .GIFfany despite landing a date with an actual girl, Dipper reminds him why he put himself on the dating market in the first place.
  Soos:: But I like .GIFfany! She's good to me. She's predictable.
  Dipper:: Soos, can a computer game go to Reggie's engagement party with you?
  Soos: ...Uh...
• Awesomeness by Analysis: .GIFfany. In minutes she figures out the right words to convince Soos that they should be together "forever", inverting Dipper's claim that Soos needs to meet "real girls" when Soos is uncomfortable around them. She also quickly identifies Dipper and Mabel as "tiny enemies" at Hoo-Ha's Jamboree.
• Awful Wedded Life: Implied to have been the case with Soos' grandfather. Abuelita is apparently quite certain that she won't be reuniting with him in Heaven.
  Abuelita: I would like to see you settled before I ascend to heaven and live with the angels.
  Soos: And with Grandpa!
  Abuelita: [looking down] No, he is not there.
• Ax-Crazy: .GIFfany, who has all but outright stated she has killed people. Or rather, she "deleted" them.
• Big Sister Instinct: Despite only meeting Dipper and Mabel seconds after the animatronics start attacking, Melody rushes to defend them from .GIFfany's assault. She saves Dipper by knocking off one robot's head with a folding chair, allowing him to temporarily get away.
• Birds of a Feather: Soos catches Melody's eye since he's comfortably riding a toy train meant for children. Melody appreciates it since she also wishes she didn't have as many responsibilities as she does now. They also turn out to both be fans of Hoo-Ha's.
• Blood from the Mouth: Goldie does this with oil whenever it malfunctions. As Wendy points out to Stan, it's still very creepy.
• Brain Uploading: .GIFfany tries to force this on Soos so they can be together forever.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
  • The options on the menu for "Romance Academy 7" read "Start", "Quit" and "Shizenhakka" (Japanese for "Spontaneous Combustion").
  • One of the options on the very first screen of RA VII is "Hey, look! A squid!" God only knows what would have happened if Soos had clicked that instead of "carry your books".
• Break Them by Talking: .GIFfany tries to convince Soos that real girls would never accept him like she does, and that Melody wouldn't want anything to do with him after their disastrous date.
• Bright Is Not Good: .GIFfany is all smiles and bright colors... but she has serious issues.
• The Cameo: Rumble McSkirmish briefly appears in the Fight Fighters arcade game at Hoo-Ha's. When .GIFfany appears on the screen, he challenges her to a fight. She destroys him.
• Cargo Ship: In-universe, Grunkle Stan and Goldie hit Las Vegas in The Stinger, even getting married by an Elvis priest.
• Cassandra Truth: Because Soos tends to be a Manchild and Cloudcuckoo Lander most of the time, Dipper and Mabel don't take his claims seriously that .GIFfany is "real", or at least sentient.
• Chairman of the Brawl: When .GIFfany takes over the Hoo-Ha animatronics and sics them on the gang, Melody fights back by grabbing a folding chair and using it to knock off one robot's head.
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject: When Soos is getting advice from the Mystery Shack about romance, Wendy tries to encourage him by telling him he's a catch. When Stan then asks her if she'd date Soos, she starts mumbling and hides behind her magazine.
• Chekhov's Gun: After being thrown in the dumpster by Stan, partially for having a tendency to malfunction and bite people's arms, Goldie inadvertently saves him from the possessed badger animatronic during .GIFfany's rampage by doing just that.
• Chekhov's Gunman: When Soos first goes to the mall to attempt to flirt with girls, Melody can be seen at the "Meat Cute" cart, foreshadowing her later role in the episode.
• Chekhov's Lecture: Although he doesn't read the warning on the back of the box, or really pay much attention to the store clerk's warning about how many times the game has been returned, Soos somehow remembers the instructions to destroy .GIFfany's CD-ROM.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: .GIFfany acts exactly like this when Soos tells her that he wants to date a real girl.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Soos mentions the time he switched bodies with Waddles (phrasing it as "I've been inside of a pig"); and in addition to The Cameo mentioned above, Dipper notes that .GIFfany's rampage won't end well, citing his personal experience with summoning video game characters.
  • The dumpster Stan tosses Goldie in is adorned with one of Robbie's muffin-like explosions graffiti.
  • Grunkle Stan mentions that he has to avoid being caught stealing the animatronics, wishing to have "no more Colombian nights".
• Contagious A.I.: .GIFfany is able to leave Soos's computer and travel all the way to the ersatz Chuck E. Cheese, where she can appear on monitors, in arcade cabinets, and even hijack the animatronics.
• Creepypasta: When you think about it, the episode is one, In the Style of Ben Drowned. A video game the shopkeeper warns the protagonist about: check. The game turns out to be haunted: check. There are deaths linked to the game: check. The protagonist somehow disposes of it after finding out the Awful Truth: check. In a way that would result in another poor schmoe getting it: not exactly; although Soos was the game's fourth owner...
• Dating Sim: Soos's communications skills with women are very low, so he decides to play a Dating Simulation game to improve them. There he meets a living Dating Sim, .GIFfany, who becomes very attached to him.
• Deadly Euphemism: .GIFfany claims she "deleted" the programmers who created her when they tried to delete her (displaying an animation of a programmer being zapped by lightning from the computer), and threatens to "delete" Soos and his friends if he doesn't go with her.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: .GIFfany gets rather upset when Soos breaks up with her.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: .GIFfany's interactions with Soos, especially towards the end of the episode, are uncomfortably reminiscent of an emotionally abusive relationship.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: A variation. The Romance Academy 7 box has a sticky note on the back warning that the game needs to be destroyed. Soos doesn't hear it being read and the twins, having Seen It All, are desperate enough to ignore it.
• Epic Fail: All of Soos's attempts at flirting; see Failure Montage. The best has to be the first:
  Soos: Your face is good! I am a Soos!
• Eye Scream: When activated, Goldie's eyeballs pop out of his head as he screeches horribly.
• Failed a Spot Check: .GIFfany reveals that she has stalker tendencies, can follow Soos anywhere, doesn't want him to date other girls, and also "deleted" her programmer when he tried to delete her. She then tells Soos that she wants to be with him "forever". Soos' reaction?
  Soos: That sounds awesome! Sort of a red flag, but mostly awesome!
• Failed Attempt at Drama: When leaving to go steal the animatronic badger, Stan goes through the Mystery Shack's window, an exit that would have looked more impressive had he not lost his footing halfway through, hurting his back.
• Failure Montage: Soos tries to flirt with numerous girls at the mall. Even with Mabel and Dipper's coaching, Soos keeps messing things up.
• Fantastically Indifferent: When the animatronics come to life, Melody is understandably scared, but she quickly gets over her confusion and starts actively fighting back against them to protect Dipper and Mabel. She even says that she's been on worse dates and agrees to keep in touch with Soos despite the near-death experience.
• Foreshadowing: When Mabel asks whether Soos is "ready to explode a charm-bomb on these poor, unsuspecting ladies", Melody, the only girl Soos actually charms, is briefly in her vision.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • The agents can be seen at the mall. Not only that, but Stan sees them and is not happy about it.
  • The post-it note stuck to Romance Academy 7 has the emoticon for Flipping the Table (usually "(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", but here written with a few Japanese characters), written below the part advising the game's destruction.
  • At Hoo-Ha's, you can briefly see an arcade game called Virtual Owl Trowel, referring back to the odd infomercial for the Owl Trowel Grunkle Stan watched in the season 1 finale.
  • A home version of Virtual Owl Trowel is on the shelf at Beeply Boop's. Other offerings include NORT and Fight Fighters.
  • When .GIFfany is explaining her backstory to Soos, the flashback has the programmer that accidentally created her shout in Japanese that translates to "I don't understand!"
  • When .GIFfany appears to Soos, Dipper and Mabel at Hoo-Ha's, we get a shot from her perspective. Soos is her "Target" while Dipper and Mabel are "tiny enemies".
  • The back of the box for Romance Academy says "ロマンス・アカデミー！！", which is "Romance Academy" in katakana.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Soos is forced to choose between a virtual girlfriend who loves everything he says and does, and the possibility of a real relationship that might not work out. With some prodding from Dipper and Mabel, he decides to take a chance on going on an actual date with Melody. Unfortunately, the idol in this case is a sentient Yandere...
• Frothy Mugs of Water: While in Vegas, Stan and Goldie drink from a fancy bottle that is handily labeled "Rich People Water".
  Drivin' way too fast,
  I got water in my glass
• Gaslighting: .GIFfany does it throughout the episode, but a particularly bad example is in her rant when she says Melody won't forgive Soos for the awful first date - despite the fact it only went this badly because .GIFfany ruined it in the first place to get Soos back.
• Gold Digger: Discussed by Stan, who claims that the only way Soos can get a girlfriend is if he either gets rich or at least pretends to be rich. Considering that we later learn that Stan's own marriage with a Gold Digger fell apart after anywhere from six to 48 hours (because she was after his car), it's quite possible that Stan hasn't learned from his experience.
• Good Parents: Abuelita encourages Soos as an adult to find someone special. So one day she can pass on peacefully knowing Soos will be okay with someone being with him.
  Abuelita: I would like to see you settled before I ascend to heaven and leave with the angels.
• Groin Attack: When .GIFfany chases Soos through the Pizzeria, several hard skeeballs hit him in the nuts.
• Growing Up Sucks: A sentiment shared by Soos and Melody.
• Honor Before Reason: Why Stan tries to steal the Badger, instead of letting the pizza manager's insults go: "No one tells Stan Pines he's out of the game!"
• Hostile Animatronics: After Soos breaks up with .GIFfany for Melody, she possesses the animatronics at Hoo-Ha Owl's to attack Soos and Melody.
• Idiot Ball: Sure, Soos, announce to the psychotic Dating Sim that you're going to return her to the store, after a date with a "real girl". Even though she just followed you to the mall, there's no possible way she overheard you thinking aloud after you turned her off and removed her CD.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Soos starts playing Romance Academy 7 in hopes of improving his dismal romantic skills, but it only makes him worse because he gets used to having an "undo" button (prompting a woman he offends to tell him "You can't undo who you are!"). It did indirectly help him get a girlfriend, but only because thinking he had one already took his mind off it, which was really the biggest problem he had.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: "I have to go to the bathroom for a long time... Not in a weird way!"
• Inelegant Blubbering: The poor kid who watches Goldie's huge malfunction runs away crying.
• Intentional Engrish for Funny: The opening of .GIFfany's game Romance Academy 7 was evidently translated from Japanese to English by someone without spellcheck, and who doesn't know English rules of capitalization.
  "when the cherry petals of magic romance academy are in bloom... anthyding can hadplen."
• Ironic Echo: "Who wants to get badgered!?" Spoken by Hoo-Ha Owl's badger mascot twice: once while performing to a group of children, and once while attacking Stan after being possessed by .GIFfany.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Stan was cruel, but he did have a point about Soos having poor chances with women at the start of the episode, due to his eccentricity and poor social skills. When Wendy tries to make Soos feel better by telling him he's a sweet guy with a steady job, Stan pointedly asks if that means she would date him, to which she meekly retreats from the conversation. It goes to show that despite Soos being a Nice Guy, women still aren't going to be immediately attracted to him and he has to place himself out there and be himself.
• Keystone Army: After Soos burns the Romance Academy 7 disc and .GIFfany dies, this causes all the animatronics (including Will E. Badger) to shut down, since .GIFfany was controlling them.
• Kill It with Fire: Soos burns the disc for Romance Academy 7 in an oven, erasing .GIFfany from existence.
• Laugh of Love: Both cases involve Soos:
  • .GIFfany sometimes does a robotic laugh while talking to Soos, at least until he decides to go out with a real girl and she starts going off the rails.
  • Melody also laughs at some of Soos' awkward remarks, which she finds funny.
• Logical Latecomer: When Soos plans to distract .GIFfany in Hoo Ha's, he says Dipper and Mabel will protect Melody. Melody, not knowing the twins have experience with all sorts of supernatural monsters, responds "Soos, these are children."
• Machiavelli Was Wrong: During the climax, .GIFfany tries to discourage Soos from having a real relationship with Melody by pointing out how real girls are difficult and judgemental. She remarks that Melody isn’t any different, and will dump him due to how badly their first date has gone. But when the dust has cleared, Melody is actually forgiving, as she once went out on a worse date with a magician. Better still, she and Soos agree to develop their relationship, even if it has to be long-distance once she moves back to the city. Guess .GIFfany had Melody pegged wrong: her budding relationship with Soos isn't so fragile after all.
• Magical Computer: Even for a show that plays as fast and loose with technology as this one, the treatment of computers sails right across the divide into just plain magic. The emotional climax of the episode is Soos throwing a CD into a fire, which spontaneously erases the killer AI after it's been installed. On a machine that runs without being plugged-in, no less.
• The Matchmaker: Mabel is giddy that she gets to be this for Soos.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Darkly subverted with .GIFfany. She's even referred to as a "Manic Pixel Dream Girl" on the development team'sofficial Tumblr account.
• Meaningful Name: .GIFfany, as in the .gif file type. Also a Punny Name.
  Soos: Or maybe it's pronounced "Jiff-any"? I was never really sure.
• Meet Cute: Lampshaded when Soos meets Melody; she works at a store called "Meat Cute" and has the name printed on her shirt.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Played With. In the beginning, Mabel's braces get caught on the Mystery Shack's screen door. She immediately assumes she's dying and wants to dictate her will, then thanks Soos for "saving" her after he uses pliers to unsnag the screen wire. On the one hand, she's obviously not dying, but on the other, the snag was painful.
• Mock Millionaire: Invoked. Stan's advice to Soos is to either become rich or pretend he's rich.
• Never Say "Die": Zig-zagged throughout the episode. Both Wendy and .GIFfany outright use the word "death", but the latter always says she has "deleted" people who stood in her way before. It works to great effect, as the Deadly Euphemism allows viewers to imagine what she did as possibly worse than murder.
• Nightmare Face: .GIFfany pulls one after Soos leaves for his date with Melody.
• Non-Standard Character Design:
  • .GIFfany is Animesque with pink hair and Sailor Fuku.
  • Two of the background characters have visible colored irises. One is a Mystery Shack customer that was scared off by Soos and the other is a clerk at Beeply Boop's.
• Noodle Incident: Melody mentions that she's had worse dates, one with a magician, apparently.
• No Time to Explain: Soos says this to Melody when .GIFfany possesses the animatronics. Subverted, as when .GIFfany locks them and the Pines twins inside the restaurant, he's able to summarize the situation for Melody.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Abuelita is somehow able to keep track of Soos at all times without being seen by anyone. After .GIFfany is destroyed and Melody agrees to go to Cousin Reggie's engagement party, Abuelita pops out of the ball pit in milliseconds to say how happy she is. It's lampshaded by Dipper—"Have you been following us all day?"
• Oh, Crap!: Soos panics when he realises just how badly .GIFfany is handling their "break-up". He panics even harder when she later shows up at Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizza-ma-tronic Jamboree despite him having paused the game and removed its CD.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The gang becomes concerned when Soos skips work due to his obsession with Romance Academy 7.
  Grunkle Stan: He didn't come in today. It's the first time he's missed work ever.
  • For most of the episode, .GIFfany speaks in a very robotic and stiff tone. When Soos tells her that they should probably break up, her speech during that scene sounds a lot more normal. Her sudden change in behavior causes Soos to freak out and take the CD out of the computer.
• Pet Heir: While under the belief she's dying from being stuck on the screen door, Mabel says she's leaving everything to Waddles.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Before he destroys the game disk, Soos yells, "Game over, .GIFfany!"
• Shaped Like Itself: .GIFfany says she comes from "School University".
• Shout-Out:
  • The title is a reference to the film Lars and the Real Girl.
  • When .GIFfany mentions "deleting" her programmers, the display she shows mimics the style and animation of the Aperture Science staff information videos from Portal.
  • When .GIFfany is stalking Soos in the body of an animatronic beaver, her digital form is shown mirroring her movement on the arcade games behind her, similar to the moments of The Mirror Shows Your True Self in Perfect Blue.
  • Decoding the secret messages on the journal page that flashes at the end of the episode◊ reveals a reference to the English Sailor Moon theme song:
    Winning hearts by daylight!
    Possessing robots by moonlight!
    Her emotional baggage is a real fright!
    She has the one name .GIFfany
  • .GIFfany and the game she's from, Romance Academy 7, are very reminiscent of the Tokimeki Memorial games.
  • "Anthyding can hadplen" is a Shout-Out not to a specific game, but to the general tendency of old video games (especially Nintendo games) to have terrible English translations, some of which have undergone Memetic Mutation ("A winner is you", "Conglaturation", "All your base are belong to us").
  • There is a poster with ponies on it in Soos' room, with the words "Neigh Day" and "June 16" on it, likely referring to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, which was released on that day.
  • At the game store, Soos tries flirting with a cardboard standee of the shapely female protagonist of Pit Spelunker.
  • .GIFfany's father is an octopus man.
  • Will E. Badger and his Totally Radical rock-star attitude is, of course, a parody of Chuck E. Cheese, while both the name "Pizza-ma-Tronic Jamboree" and certain characters in it (the beaver cheerleader, the fat beaver in striped pants) are direct references to The Rock-afire Explosion from the now-defunct Showbiz Pizza (these being Mitzi Mozzarella and Billy Bob Brockali, respectively).
  • Two of the animatronics in Hoo-Ha's are possums.
  • Soos's need to find a date to a party, and his attempt to talk to a number of girls at the mall (and repeatedly failing) is very reminiscent of the 'Someday Your Prince Will Be In Effect' episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air right down to Soos ending up with the sweet girl from the cafe. The parallel is especially clear when Mabel shouts 'Where dem sweet honeys at' when they enter the mall.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Soos's response to .GIFfany's Break Them by Talking speech is to throw the disc for Romance Academy 7 into the oven, melting it and destroying .GIFfany.
• Skewed Priorities: The three people who returned .GIFfany before found it more important to get a refund for the game than to destroy the Yandere living inside it.
  • When Mabel is being chased by the animatronics, she runs to the play area, but stops to leave her shoes in the shoe holder.
• Soul Jar: .GIFfany's disc serves as one—burning it destroys her and releases all of the electronics she took over with her powers.
• Spell My Name With An S: The name of the girl in "Romance Academy 7" is .GIFfany, or simply "Giffany" in the captions.
• Stalker with a Crush: .GIFfany the dating sim girl becomes dangerously obsessed with Soos and gets violent when he chooses Melody over her. This is likely the reason why the game was returned the times. She even admits that she's crazy.
• Standard Female Grab Area: Soos tries to drag Melody out of the restaurant this way after saying No Time to Explain. Justified in that he takes her by surprise, and by the time the animatronics are chasing them, she's running on her own.
• Status Quo Is God: Melody lives in Portland and has already returned there by the time the next episode rolls around, so Soos getting a girlfriend makes no real change to the show.
• Storefront Television Display: Soos' video game girlfriend .GIFfany starts stalking him outside the game. When Soos has trouble talking to real women at the mall, .GIFfany appears on the TVs in an electronics store display to comfort him, eventually appearing on all the TV screens at once to appear large and intimidating as she tells Soos that they can be together forever.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Soos and Melody both think Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizza-ma-tronic Jamboree is the best restaurant of all time and that extreme meat lunches are the food of the future.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Cousin Reggie looks identical to Soos except for a different hairstyle and a mustache. Soos even refers to him as the "poor man's Soos".
• Suck E. Cheese's: Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizza-ma-tronic Jamboree, the restaurant where Soos and Melody go on their date. Honestly, the place isn't that bad until .GIFfany's invasion.
• Suddenly Bilingual: Soos appears to be fluent in Japanese, considering how he can apparently understand the Japanese description on the back of Romance Academy 7's box.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: .GIFfany's sentience and powers were unintentional, but it's never explained why the animatronics at Hoo-ha's are able to move freely, have sharp claws, or a USB connector.
• Sweet and Sour Grapes: Soos could've taken up .GIFfany's offer to be with a virtual girl instead of a real one, but he decided to take his chances with Melody and took down the virtual girl. However, it's revealed Melody will eventually leave Gravity Falls to return to college, and she suggests that their relationship can continue via video chat. By choosing a real girl over a virtual one, Soos gets exactly what .GIFfany was offering in the first place:
  Soos: A relationship with a girl that I can only see through my computer... sounds perfect!
• Tear Your Face Off: The animatronic beaver boasts to Dipper that's he's gonna "eat your face like a pizza".
• Tears from a Stone: When Stan throws out Goldie, some oil leaks from Goldie's eye in this manner. Rather than persuading him to take it back, Stan is just further convinced of Goldie's creepiness.
• Tempting Fate:
  • Becomes a Running Gag with .GIFfany and how the humans treat her.
    • After installing her, Soos says "It's almost like you're alive."
    • After dragging Soos away from .GIFfany, Mabel quips, "It's not like [the game]'s going anywhere." Cue .GIFfany following them to the mall via telephone wires.
    • At Hoo Ha's, Soos is confident that .GIFfany can't leave the electronic screen. Then she enters the animatronics...
  • Stan, after stealing the Badger, exclaims, "I feel invincible!" Thanks to .GIFfany, the Badger then immediately comes to life and starts attacking Stan.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: Melody is the friendly tomboy to the toxic girly girl .GIFfany.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Dipper's reaction to .GIFfany revealing herself to be sentient and capable of travelling through electronic devices at will:
  "Speaking as someone who once brought a video game character to life, this won't end well."
• Totally 18: Parodied with the Sailor Fuku-wearing .GIFfany claiming to be a student at High School University.
• Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: Dear god, Goldie. As well as the animatronics at Hoo-Ha's once .GIFfany catches up with Soos.
  Wendy, on Goldie: Its face reminds people of the inevitability of death.
• Visual Pun: Wendy ducks out of the conversation regarding Soos' desirability by burying her face in a copy of Evading Eye Contact Monthly magazine.
• Wingding Eyes: .GIFfany gets multiple highlights in her eyes for every compliment Soos gives her.
• Wham Shot: During Soos's first interaction with .GIFfany, the camera pans down to show that the computer hasn't been plugged in.
• The Worf Effect: Rumble McSkirmish, previously established as a powerful and hard-hitting fighter, gets effortlessly destroyed by .GIFfany.
• Woman Scorned: .GIFfany at the restaurant when she sees Soos on a date with Melody. She even shows a picture of Melody's face with a red X superimposed over it.
• Yandere: .GIFfany, which she even admits when explaining how she "deleted" her programmer after he tried to delete her, and later admitting she's crazy when attacking Soos at the pizzeria. Worse, Soos finds her clingy behavior "predictable" compared to "real girls", implying she was programmed to be this way.
• You Were Trying Too Hard: Soos's attempts at finding a date fail in this manner, as he is too nervous and says whatever comes out of his mouth. Once he's "dating" .GIFfany and riding toy trains with her, he becomes more relaxed when Melody approaches him. Truth in Television!

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