History GravityFalls / TropesPToZ

* TakeThatUs: In "Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons", the [[ShowWithinAShow Ducktective]] season finale is on. It reveals that [[spoiler:Ducktective has a twin brother]]. This parallels an event that happened in the show two episodes ago. All the characters exclaimed exasperatedly at the TV, complaining about how unoriginal it is, and how some of them had already called that fact.
** In "Little Gift Ship of Horrors," Grunkle Stan explains to Mabel that claymation is just figures being moved around by "an anti-social shut-in." Soos follows up with, "Those people are called 'animators.'"

** Grenda and Candy want to read "Wolfman Bare Chest", an obvious {{Expy}} of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', on their sleepover. Dipper ([[FreakyFridayFlip in Mabel's body]]), is disgusted.

-->'''Stan:''' [[HypocriticalHeartwarming The only wrinkly monster who harasses my family is]] ''me!''
-->'''Stan:''' You're a [=REAL=] wiseguy, but you made one fatal mistake. You messed with my family!
** [[spoiler:Ford becomes this fairly soon after his return, despite not having known Dipper and Mabel very long.]]

---> '''Tyler:''' Is it just me or did the entire world just hiccup?
---> '''Lazy Susan:''' I'm sure it's just a baby-sized earthquake.
---> '''Tyler:''' Aww, baby-sized!

-->'''Ford:''' [[spoiler:"We're too late. It's the end of the world."]]

---> '''Jeff:''' I understand. We'll never forget you, Mabel. [[spoiler: Because we're going to kidnap you.]]

---> '''Stan:''' After all these years... [[spoiler: finally, I have them all.]]

---> '''Dipper:''' So what puppet are you going to pick, anyway?
---> '''Bill:''' Hmm, let's see. Eenie meenie miney...[[spoiler: '''''YOU!''''']]

---> '''Stan:''' [[spoiler: The author of the journals...my brother.]]

---> '''Gideon:''' I'm finally ready to make a deal.

** It's unknown what happened to Filbrick and Caryn Pines after [[spoiler: Stan was kicked out.]] But given that Stan speaks of them in the past tense, it's possible that they died some time ago.

-->'''Dipper:''' "When life gives you lemons, extract the juice and use it to draw a treasure map in invisible ink. That really works! Seriously!"
-->'''Mabel:''' "When life gives you lemons, draw faces on those lemons and wrap them in a blanket. Ta-daaa! Now you have Lemon Babies."
-->'''Grunkle Stan:''' "When life gives you lemons, call them 'yellow oranges' and sell them for double the price."

* TheWildWest: The theme of the ''Tumbleweed Terror'' pinball game.

* AWizardDidIt: A number of plot holes are filled by the reminder that Quentin Trembley passed a ''lot'' of weird laws in his time in Gravity Falls office and nobody apparently bothered to change them. It's why holding the physical deed to a building - holding it in your hand - means you own the building, and why the police are allowed to [[spoiler: send a nine-year-old to adult prison.]]

* PinkIsErotic: A child-friendly example, the Love God is a cherub who has the ability to use potions to make people fall in love. When the Love God uses a pink potion on a snake and a badger as a demonstration for Mabel, she says, "They're gonna make a snadger!"

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Bill Cipher]]]] rapidly loses his cool in the finale with a sequence of OhCrap moments- [[spoiler: first when he's been [[OutGambitted tricked into Stan's mind, rather than Ford's,]] second when he realizes [[TakingYouWithMe Stan's letting his mind be erased with Bill trapped inside,]] and finally, realizing there is absolutely ''no way out.'']]

* TheVillageIdiot: Mcgucket is a strange, old hillbilly known for his rather broken understanding of logic and is not remotely respected by anyone in town. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out he used to be Ford's friend who became so traumatized by the town and their work that he invented the machine to take his memories, but overuse of it cost Mcgucket his mind]].

--> '''Mabel:''' Listen, Robbie, I always used to see you as a creepy jerk. Like the human version of rat poison.
--> '''Robbie:''' ...uh...go on?
--> '''Mabel:''' But when I saw you at the cemetery today, I realized Robbie's not a bad guy. He's just a heartbroken soul who needs love. And gloves with fingers!

** In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", the mudslide [[spoiler: that killed the lumberjack]] was the result of the deforestation that ensued from [[spoiler: him building [[DeathByIrony Northwest Manor]] ]]. Deforestation can cause mudslides because the lack of trees destabilizes the soil, so whenever it rains in a treeless era, the ground becomes saturated and slides.

** As [[spoiler: Bill is dying]], he shouts out a phrase in backward speech: [[spoiler: AXOLOTL, MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN, I INVOKE THE ANCIENT POWER THAT I MAY RETURN.]] Interestingly enough, while this is a clear reference to Alex Hirsch frequently responding with a picture of an Axolotl when asked spoiler questions, [[spoiler:Xolotl is the name of the [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztec god of death... and]] ''[[Myth/AztecMythology twins.]]'']]

* RecurringExtra: Tyler the Cute Biker, whose appearances are limited to showing up when events are happening to drop his CatchPhrase, "Get 'em! Get 'em!" Tyler becomes an AscendedExtra when he runs against Stan and Bud for mayor in "The Stanchurian Candidate" [[spoiler: and wins.]]

** Averted and {{lampshaded}} with Soos' story: [[LongTitle "Soos' Really Great Pinball Story: Is That A Good Title? Do They Have to Be Like Puns or Whatever?"]]

** Because Stan didn't tell the kids as to what would happen to him at the end of the summer, they do not understand the severity of the former's [[spoiler:strained relationship with his brother, causing them to mistakenly believe that they'll reconcile in given time and led to Dipper spending more time with Ford, causing Mabel's mental anguish that ultimately led to Bill manipulating her into causing Weirdmageddon]].

* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Averted with [[spoiler:Giffany]]. There are points in the episode where her [[spoiler:relentlessly stalking Soos]] is played for comedy, but it's not because she's a girl and he's a guy; it's because [[spoiler:[[KissMeImVirtual she's a computer program and he's a human]]]]. The stalking is otherwise depicted as very serious and disturbing. Soos himself notes the situation is one big red flag, but he's so happy for the attention he goes along with anyway.

** At the very end of the theme song when the logo pops up, a backward whisper can be heard, which, depending on the episode, is the answer to how to decode the cryptogram in the end credits. The only exceptions are "Not What He Seems", where the whisper says "Stan is not what he seems," and the GrandFinale Weirdmageddon arc, where Bill whispers "I'm watching you nerds" in the first part, and angrier "I'M WATCHING YOU" in the second, and the third has the more appropriate "Goodbye Gravity Falls."

* RaptorAttack: The raptor from "Land Before Swine". Like the PteroSoarer from the same episode, it is guilty of possessing all pop-culture stereotypes: oversized, lack of feathers, pronated hands, and reptilian eyes. It also has two-fingered hands, a feature that doesn't correspond to any known deinonychosaur.

* PteroSoarer: The "pterodactyl" from "Land Before Swine", which looks like an unholy mixture of all stereotypes, down to the scaly skin, being called a "dinosaur", having eagle-like hindlimbs, leathery wings, having a ''Pteranodon'' crest alongside rather mismatched teeth, making chicken-like nests and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having zero to no body fat]]. Strangely enough, though, it walks quadrupedally, like a real pterosaur.