History Recap / GravityFallsS2E16RoadsideAttraction

* BrokenAesop: The episode appears to be trying for "Being a playboy is wrong"; however, despite Dipper's conversations [[AndThatsTerrible constantly being referred to as "flirting" and thus unfair to the girls]], the only shown example of Dipper's "flirting" is an amiable conversation around thirty seconds long while Dipper helps a girl with her camera, and the closest thing to flirting we hear about is him talking with one of them on a log flume. Also, Dipper only gets the emails so he and the girls could keep in touch and continue talking. Therefore, instead of actually teaching the above aesop, the episode looks like it's telling people off for... daring to be social with more than one member of the opposite gender.

* AbsenteeActor: Grunkle Ford is absent in this episode, even after the other tourist trap owners vandalize the Mystery Shack upon the group's arrival. Wendy is also absent, though she's mentioned throughout the episode.

* AbsenteeActor: Grunkle Ford is absent in this episode, even after the other tourist trap owners vandalize the Mystery Shack upon the group's arrival (this is actually due to the episode being held back from the season's first half). Wendy is also absent, though she's mentioned throughout the episode.

* OutOfOrder: WordOfGod is that the episode was held over from the season's first half, resulting in the oddity of everyone going far outside the Shack right after they had to seal Bill out.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: As Soos demonstrated, when you get lost, staying where you are is normally a good thing...except when you're in the middle of a maze with nobody around. Also, being a pick-up artist will hurt people's feelings, cause trouble, and possibly get you eaten by a spider-monster.

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!! Tropes:

-->CARLA MCCORKLE RETURNED ALL HIS FLOWERS\\

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Candy gets too close to Dipper during her crush. Whenever they sat together, she edges closer to him and later rests her head on his shoulder.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of Candy's pamphlets is on "arachnimorphs", beings depicted as [[OurCentaursAreDifferent having]] [[ExtraEyes various]] [[Film/TheFly combinations]] of human and spider anatomy. Later, a woman at one of the tourist traps named Darlene is revealed to be one.

* KarmaHoudini: Besides Stan being saved, Darlene practically gets away with what was implied to have been killing ''many'' men. She even says that as long as there's gullible men she'll be free to feed on them. With that said, she is trapped under Paul Bunyan's boot, and perhaps if no men come up the mountain then she'll starve.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: As Soos demonstrated, when you get lost, staying where you are is normally a good thing...except when you're in the middle of a maze with nobody around.

* ShipSinking: Dipper has no romantic feelings for Candy, and though Candy starts crushing on Dipper, she's over it by the end.
** This basically reinforces what Alex Hirsch said about Dipper/Candy, as he said the concept was [[BrutalHonesty "Grasping at straws"]].

* BaitAndSwitch: When Stan is trapped in Darlene's lair, at first, it looks like he'sun praying to god, but he's actually praying to Myth/PaulBunyan, who actually comes to Stan's aid in a way.

* KarmaHoudini: Besides Stan being saved, Darlene practically gets away with what was implied to have been killing ''many'' men. She even says that as long as there's gullible men she'll be free to feed on them.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Dipper's actions are treated as wrong and Stan's advice towards flirting is treated as being "kind of a jerk" (even though it was actually [[AndThatsTerrible really mild and harmless]]), but Stan's right in that the more you do it, the better you get at it. In addition, Stan encouraged Dipper to show confidence, which was exactly what Dipper lacked around girls.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Stan's advice towards flirting is treated as being "kind of a jerk" (even though it was actually [[AndThatsTerrible really mild and harmless]]), but he's right that the more you do it, the better you get at it. In addition, he encouraged Dipper to show confidence, which was exactly what Dipper lacked around girls.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Stan is trapped in Darlene's lair, at first, it looks like he's praying to god, but he's actually praying to Myth/PaulBunyan, who actually comes to Stan's aid in a way.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The girls who get mad at Dipper in the episode. Considering they only had simple, non-romantic conversations with him, gave Dipper their numbers to keep in touch, and really had no expectations to see him again, the idea that they would get mad at him for going on a date with another girl after he talked with them is absolutely ridiculous. This causes Candy's more justified hurt to ''also'' become unsympathetic, because Mabel, Candy, and Grenda's anger at Dipper is based more on the other girls' overreaction and misunderstanding than anything Dipper did wrong, but they still get mad at ''Dipper'' for this, with Mabel even hissing "''Betrayer!''" at him when he tries to apologize.

-->'''Darlene''': Let me slip into something a little more horrifying.

* Foreshadowing: When the mummy exhibit has a sign saying "new mummies daily", Dipper discusses this wondering how it's possible and it seems like a joke about the mummies being just as blatantly fake as the Mystery Shack's oddities. It turns out the mummies are Darlene's victims.