History Recap / GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing

! This ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode provides examples of:

** Mabel offhandedly mentions the "Lamby Dance" and shows a photo of Dipper in a lamb costume. Dipper actually has to ''do the dance'', complete with Lamb costume to free his friends.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dipper, laying in his bed at night after his rooftop scene with Wendy, gets an uncomfortable look on his face, and says "Uh, oh." Admittance of a crush that he was in denial about, or a RagingStiffie? Made even more racy as the next episode shows that he is going through puberty.

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: The Smile Dip candy. It makes Mabel have a DisneyAcidSequence with brightly flashing colors and candy creatures.

* RagnarokProofing: The old convenience store - abandoned since 1995 - still has electricity, all the food is unspoiled, and the ice in the freezers is still frozen, despite the power being turned off until Wendy turns it back on. Justified since it is haunted and possibly frozen in time.
* RealityWarper: Inside of the old abandoned convenience store, the ghosts of the store owners are omnipotent and can do whatever they want - Including magically trapping you inside TV sets, video games or cereal box images, turning you into a barbecue hotdog, or conjuring up a lamb costume out of nowhere.

* ShoutOut: Mabel doing Film/TheThreeStooges or [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]-style whooping while spinning on the ground.
** The British show Stan watches could be an AffectionateParody of ''DowntonAbbey'', or film adaptations of Victorian romantic drama in general.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Robbie was never seen attacked nor transformed by the ghosts and it's unknown if he witnessed Dipper's Lamby Dance.

* WouldntHurtAChild: The convenience store ghosts would hurt teenagers, but if you're under thirteen...

** Mabel is clearly [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything high]] on [[GRatedDrug Smile Dip.]] [[SarcasmMode Pretty subtle, Disney]].

* AffablyEvil: The convenience store ghosts. They're such a sweet, old couple that for you could easily forget that they're also vengeful and sadistic spirits who inflict horrible punishments on the teenagers who broke into their haunting grounds.

* ChekhovsSkill[=/=]ChekhovsHobby: The Lamby Dance.

** Pa's response when Dipper asks him if he may do something else than dance to save his friends.

* RealityWarper: Inside of the old abandoned convenience store, the ghosts of the store owners are basically omnipotent and can do whatever they want - Including magically trapping you inside TV sets, video games or cereal box images, turning you into a barbecue hotdog, or conjuring up a lamb costume out of nowhere.

* GilliganCut: When Mabel claims Dipper has a crush on her, he denies it, since it's not like he's "awake all night thinking about her". Cut to Dipper doing exactly that, via TemptingFate.

** The British show Stan watches could be an AffectionateParody of ''DowntonAbbey.''

[[caption-width-right:328:Yep. That pretty much sums it up.]]

* WorstNewsJudgementEver: "Cheese crust pizza declared delicious" is more important than "War or something..."

* LostInTranslation: Dubs. Eg. Polish dub - while after they find the outline, Dipper claims to be 13. When he says truth, he claims to be [[BlatantLies ten]][[note]]Because the equivalent of teen prefix starts in Polish at eleven, rather than at thirteen[[/note]]. On other hand, the TV description says the twins are twelve.

* GilliganCut: When Mabel claims Dipper has a crush on her, he admits it, but it's not like he's "awake all night thinking about her". Cut to Dipper doing exactly that, via TemptingFate.

* LostInTranslation: Dubs. Eg. Polish dub - while after they find the outline, Dipper claims to be 13. When he says truth, he claims to be [[BlatantLies ten]][[note]]Because the equivalent of teen prefix starts in Polish at eleven, rather than at thirteen[[/note]]. On other hand, the TV description says twins are twelve.

* DisneyAcidTrip: When Mabel uses the [[GRatedDrug Smile Dip]], [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroinshe gets hallucinations.]]

* PowerViaPossession: Mabel gets this when being possessed by the ghosts.

* MushroomSamba: Mabel while overdosing on Smile Dip

* ChekhovsSkill: The Lamby Dance.

Soon, the store goes insane. One teen is trapped in the security camera (with her screams being recorded in her cell phone), another is put on a cereal box IN THE CEREAL, and another is forced INTO "Dancey Pants Revolution", and tries to dodge the arrows. Then a ghost possesses Mabel, who tells them to leave if they apologize. Dipper apologizes, and the ghost tells them that hot dogs are 50% off. However, it was a trick, and a teen is turned into a hot dog. The store is turned upside down, and Wendy and Dipper have to hide out in a squishee machine. However, Dipper realizes that this was because the ghost may be irritated by "what teens do", and decides to out himself as 12 years old.

Meanwhile, Stan cannot find the remote, and refuses to get up. He has to watch "The Duchess Approves", a film about the life of a royal. He does not take this well at first, but becomes hooked into the movie.

** Grunkle Stan's reaction to being stuck watching ''The Duchess Approves''.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Robbie was NEVER seen attacked nor transformed by the ghosts and it's unknown if he witnessed Dipper's Lamby Dance... could this be a clue that would foreshadow some unforetold event?

Then, Mabel is released.... and the ghosts were just two seniors who, in the 1990s, were irritated by teens, and had fatal heart attacks because of "rap music" ("Homework's whack and so are rules, tucking in your shirt's for fools!") Dipper has to dance his way out.... with the "Lamby Lamb Dance" that he was forced to perform during his younger years. The teens are freed, Mabel gets off her sugar trip, and Wendy thanks Dipper, and tells him that they should hang out more often.

Soon, the store goes insane. One teen is trapped in the security camera (with her screams being recorded in her cell phone), another is put on a cereal box IN THE CEREAL, and another is forced INTO "Dancey Pants Revolution", and tries to dodge the arrows. As it turns out, the ghost possesses Mabel, who tells them to leave if they apologize. Dipper apologizes, and the ghost tells them that hot dogs are 50% off. However, it was a trick, and a teen is turned into a hot dog. The store is turned upside down, and Wendy and Dipper have to hide out in a squishee machine. However, Dipper realizes that this was because the ghost may be irritated by "what teens do", and decides to out himself as 12 years old.

After arriving at said convenience store (Dusk 2 Dawn), Dipper decides to slip over the fence, to prove that he is not afraid to Wendy. Dipper then decides to slip in the locked convenience store that one of the teens could not unlock, and is rewarded with praise from the teens. Said teens wind up going insane, eating expired food, putting mints in soda to see it explode, and having fights with bags of sugar. Mabel decides to eat some "Smile Dip", which was banned in America. Mabel consumes the entire sugar packet, and undergoes strange hallucinations, including dogs and riding a four headed dolphin with hands in it's mouths. ("ONWARD AOSHIMA!") Dipper is told to go get ice for two of the teens... and winds up seeing a recreation of the nervous system. In monster form. He distracts the teens with "Dancey Pants Revolution" ("the game that tricks you into exercising!"). Dipper then winds up finding the outlines of two bodies on the floor. After being told to lay in them, Dipper refuses, earning him the title of "Captain Buzzkill" from all of the teens, including Wendy. Dipper reconsiders.... only for the outlines to disappear.