History Recap / GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems

-->''"Grunkle Stan...I trust you."''

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Dipper asks Stan why he should trust him, despite the latter’s misdeeds.
--> '''Dipper''': And I should trust you why?! After you stole radioactive waste?! After you’ve lied to us all summer?! I don’t even know who you are!

--> '''Trigger''': [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome I'm taking you to Child Protective Services.]]\\
'''Mabel''': Boo!

--> '''[[{{Mooks}} Random Mook]]:''' [''{{Super Window Jump}}s and tackles Waddles''] PIG SECURED. WE HAVE SECURED A PIG.\\

--> '''Stan:''' ''[drops barrel on his foot]'' Gah! [[HurtFootHop Hot Belgian Waffles!]] ''[beat]'' Wait, I'm alone. I can swear ''for real! [takes deep breath] SON OF A''--\\

-->'''Soos''': Attack glitter! It's pretty but it hurts!

** The effects of the device on Gravity Falls resemble a blowout from the ''[[Videogame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise]]'', including random gravity anomalies and the sky turning red.

--> '''Tyler:''' Is it just me, or did the entire world just hiccup?\\

'''Government Agent''': [[WhamLine ...you don't know your uncle at all.]]

--> '''Stan:''' I don't understand! What did I do that warrants ''this much'' arresting?

--> '''Dipper''': And I should trust you ''WHY?!'' After you stole radioactive waste?! After you lied to us all summer?! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

---> '''Mabel:''' Grunkle Stan... [[PowerOfTrust I trust you]].

---> '''Dipper:''' "Who's that?"\\

** When Soos think he hears Stan's voice coming from a drive-in speaker, he asks [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera if this is some "possession" episode.]]

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Dipper asks Stan why he should trust him, despite the letter’s misdeeds.

--> '''[[{{Mooks}} Random Mook]]:''' [''{{SuperWindowJump}}s and tackles Waddles''] PIG SECURED. WE HAVE SECURED A PIG.\\

* BerserkButton: Badmouthing Sev'ral Timez in front of Manly Dan is a very bad idea.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Stan was willing to do ''anything,'' including risk an apocalypse or large gravitational anomalies, to get his brother back.

* ArtShift: When the portal activates the cast are briefly rendered with colored outlines.

* BadassInDistress : The Pines get captured by the agents, but they escape by themselves.
* BaitAndSwitch: Agent Trigger is told to "take care" of the kids after the agents arrest Stan, implying a DeadlyEuphemism; Mabel nervously asks what he's going to do with the twins.

* BerserkButton: Badmouthing Sevral Timez to Manly Dan is a very bad idea.

** Manly Dan lets one when he sees Mabel writting "Sev'ral Timez is overrated".

** The government agents from [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E1Scaryoke 'Scaryoke']] come back to arrest Grunkle Stan.
** "Northwest Mansion Mystery" reveals that they haven't left town since the events of the party.

* CharacterFocus: On Grunkle Stan obviously, but also on Mabel. She overcomes most of the obstacles and figures out most of the puzzles and is the one to make the decision at the end.

* ClearTheirName: Dipper and Mabel tries to prove their grunkle's innocence but unfortunately discover that the agents are right.

--> '''[[{{Mooks}} Random Mook]]:''' ([[SuperWindowJump Super Window Jumps]] and tackles Waddles) PIG SECURED. WE HAVE SECURED A PIG.\\
(Two more {{Mooks}} barricade Waddles in police tape)

** [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Sev'ral Timez]] are also brought up.

** When Soos think he hears Stan's voice coming from a drive-in speaker, he comments [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera if this some "possession" episode.]]
* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: When Stan needs to escape from the agents in the police station, a gravity anomaly occurs which Stan takes advantage of to help him escape.

--> '''Stan:''' ''(drops barrel on his foot)'' Gah! [[HurtFootHop Hot Belgian Waffles!]] ''(beat)'' Wait, I'm alone. I can swear ''for real! (takes deep breath) SON OF A''--\\
''(Dipper quickly fast-fowards the surveillance tape, while Mabel claps her hands over her ears)''\\

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Discussed. An old newspaper reveals that Stan Pines reportedly died in a car crash. Dipper and Mabel wonder if a stranger had been impersonating Stan all along. Eventually subverted as the real Stanford Pines isn't dead.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Manly Dan rammed Trigger's humvee off the road after Mabel wrote on a fogged-up window that "Sev'ral Timez is overrated." [[FridgeHorror Had the humvee crashed differently, this could've gotten Mabel, Dipper, and Trigger seriously injured or killed.]]

* EasterEgg: There is, of course, the usual puzzle. But also the license plate on the agent's car translates as "GUVAMENT".

* FailedASpotCheck: This was probably done for time, but the federal agents while investigating the Shack don't take in Wendy or Soos for questioning when they show up for work. They also missed the attic, where Dipper and Mabel find the gift shop footage.

* FollowThatCar: Stan cleverly inverts this trope by paying a cab driver to [[WildGooseChase lead the government agents on a chase]] while he runs in the other direction.

** What Trigger describes about Stan to the twins all turned out to be true.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Mabel has to decide whether or not to shut off the portal; she chooses the latter.
* GambitRoulette: Mabel's plan to get away from Agent Trigger was half BatmanGambit, half Gambit Roulette. If the Humvee had crashed in any other way, she, Dipper and Trigger [[FridgeHorror could've been injured or killed.]] Alternatively, if that tree branch hadn't restrained Trigger he might have just A.) gotten out and chased after the twins or B.) been ''impaled.''
* GenerationXerox: The credits imply that Dipper and Mabel are not the first Mystery Twins in the Pines family.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Parodied. When Stan on the security camera footage drops a barrel of toxic waste on his foot, he cries out “Hot Belgian waffles.” Upon realizing no one is around, he decides to swear for real. Dipper fast forwards through the video just before Stan finishes.

* HeroAntagonist: The federal agents; they really think that Stan is building a doomsday device and react accordingly.

* LaserSight: All pointed at Stan.

* LiteralMetaphor: When Soos is trying to keep Dipper and Mabel away from the vending machine, he says "This hurts me more than it hurts you". It actually does as Mabel is twisting his side and kicking him in the face.
* MassOhCrap: When Dipper reads aloud from the Journals that if the timer ever hits zero, the world is doomed. Dipper, Mabel and Soos look up and see that ''there's only a minute left on the timer'', resulting in this reaction.

* NoEndorHolocaust: The gravitational anomalies eventually get to the point where buildings are being torn from their foundations, but the episode never suggests anyone is in any real danger.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: As mentioned below, the series gives us one of the biggest ones: the Author of the Journals is finally revealed.

* OnePhoneCall: Stan asks for this while being interrogated.

** If Agent Trigger had been gentler with the twins, while showing them more definite proof that their uncle was guilty if he had it on hand, they would have probably cooperated.
** If Stan had told the twins and Soos about his machine a LONG time ago, they wouldn't have impeded his attempts to get his brother back. As a result, they don't trust him after reading the article that he could be pulling a DeadPersonImpersonation.
* PowerOfTrust: Despite the evidence against Grunkle Stan, Mabel still allows the portal to reach its countdown. Her faith in him appears to pay off, though due to the Cliffhanger we only really see a small portion of the aftermath, leaving the exact effects of the Portal unknown.
* RealMenWearPink: Guess who's a fan of boy band Sev'ral Timez? None other than ''Manly Dan''! In fact, his reaction to seeing someone trash talk them is to [[SeriousBusiness run them off the road]].

** Soos assumed Stan is the Author because he had the other two journals. It's not him, it's his brother.

* SiblingYinYang: Much of the episode's drama is the gulf in Dipper and Mabel's reaction to finding out that Stan has been keeping secrets. Exemplified in the scene where they come across the desk of his bunker: Mabel takes the framed picture of herself and Dipper to be proof that he loves them despite the secrets while Dipper has a breakdown when he finds that Stan was hiding the other two journals from him.
* SkewedPriorities: When Stan is letting Dipper and Mabel play with fireworks, Blubbs and Durland's concern is over whether they have a permit, not that it's dangerous.

(Offscreen ClickHello)\\
'''Stan:''' [[OhCrap OH NO.]] [[TalkToTheFist *Gets tackled to the ground*]]\\
'''Government Agent''': [[WhamLine ... you don't know your uncle at all.]]
** Later on Mabel and Dipper cheer when the Mystery Shack's surveillance footage [[HopeSpot seems to provide Stan with an alibi]] . .. then the footage cuts to [[OhCrap Stan coming in with barrels of toxic waste and cursing.]]

* VehicleVanish: The Pine twins pull it off while going back to the Mystery Shack.
* VillainHasAPoint: AntiVillain in this case. When Trigger tells Dipper he and Mabel shouldn't be trusting Stan, Dipper tells him he's wrong, but it's clear Dipper is starting to think this. [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] since while Trigger and Dipper were wrong about Stan ''intentionally'' making a doomsday device, [[WellIntentionedExtremist he did almost destroy Gravity Falls and was willing to endanger the whole world to get his brother back.]] Plus, despite Stan's intentions and debatable ignorance, a doomsday device ''is'' functionally what the machine in the basement was made to be, and we get a taste of the apocalypse it was built to create at the end of the season.

* WhamEpisode: Oh, SO much! Dipper and Mabel and Soos finally discover Stan's portal underneath the shack along with the revelation that the author of the journals is revealed to be Stan's '''''twin brother.'''''

** The Author stepping out of the Portal, grabs a journal with his six fingered hand, then takes off his head coverings to reveal he's Stan's twin brother.

** Stan usually gets away with stealing a lot of things over the course of the show, but the line is drawn at radioactive waste stolen form the national government. Theft of government property ''never'' goes unnoticed.

->''"Grunkle Stan...I trust you."''

''"Grunkle Stan...I trust you."''

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: The agents only pull out [[StunGuns tasers]], not firearms. Some of them even have extra-large tasers substituting in for rifles.

* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Stan's realization on the security tape that he can "swear for real" now that he is alone, shows that all his use of GoshDangItToHeck and UnusualEuphemism throughout the show has really been him trying to watch his language around Dipper and Mabel.

--> '''Mabel''': Grunkle Stan may shoplift the occasional tangerine but he's not a crazy super-villain.

-->'''Mabel:''' Is the part where one of us faints?
-->'''Soos:''' Oh, I am ''so'' on it, dude. ''(Faints'')

--> '''Stan:''' ''(drops barrel on his foot)'' Gah! [[HurtFootHop Hot Belgian Waffles!]] ''(beat)'' Wait, I'm alone. I can swear for real! ''(takes deep breath)'' ''SON OF A''--\\
''(Dipper quickly pauses the surveillance tape, while Mabel claps her hands over her ears)''\\

* ThisIsThePartWhere: Mabel's reaction to ''the Author'' stepping out of the portal, and the reveal that he's ''Stan's long-lost brother'', prompts her to remark "Is this the part where one of us faints?" Soos tells her he has it covered.

* BaitAndSwitch: Agent Trigger is told to "take care" of the kids after the agents arrest Stan, implying a DeadlyEuphemism; Mabel nervously asks what he's going to do with the twins
--> '''Trigger''': [[RealityEnsues I'm taking you to Child Protective Services.]]\\

* RealityEnsues:
** When Stan is captured, Agent Powers tells Agent Trigger to [[DeadlyEuphemism "take care"]] of the twins. When Mabel asks what that means, Trigger explains he's taking them to Child Services. Mabel is not impressed.
** Stan usually gets away with stealing a lot of things over the course of the show, but the line is drawn at radioactive waste stolen form the national government. Theft of government property ''never'' goes unnoticed.

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