History Recap / GravityFallsS2E1Scaryoke

* NoodleImplements: The cure for zombification.
--> '''Dipper (reading from journal):''' It's gonna take a lot of formaldehyde.\\
'''Mabel:''' Ooh, and cinnamon.

* RefrainFromAssuming: The song Dipper, Mabel and Stan use to defeat the zombies is "Taking Over Midnight", but when they sing it, they say "''tonight''" instead of "midnight".

The next morning, the Mystery Shack has its grand re-opening, where Stan shares the glory with exposing Lil' Gideon's fraud with Dipper and Mabel. He announces an after party, which Mabel adds will feature karaoke, and that the Pines Family will do a song of their own. This...isn't something Dipper and Stan agreed on, as neither of them are good singers. Dipper asks for and gets his journal 3 back, unaware that Stan photocopied its contents. Taking Mabel to their room, Dipper notes that even the summer half over, they're still no closer to solving the big mystery of Gravity Falls and the journal; Gideon wanted journal 3 bad enough to destroy the town, and Bill Cipher had mentioned a day when "Everything would change." Mabel dismisses these concerns and tries to get him to enjoy the upcoming after-party.

Back in the gift shop, Stan's pleasure at how things are finally turning his way are brought to an end when Soos' observes a government vehicle of sorts driving up. Panicking, Stan closes the gift shop and chases everyone out. He then meets Agents Powers and Triggers, who have been sent to investigate any strange activity in the area. Dipper is ecstatic- finally, someone else has noticed the town's weirdness, and tries to show the agents his journal. Stan, however, claims as usual that any 'weirdness' is just to sell gift shop items and discredits Dipper as overly-imaginative. Stan confiscates the agents' contact card, much to Dipper's frustration.

As the after-party begins, Wendy helps Dipper find the card which he uses to arrange a meeting with the agents, but are caught by Stan, who is furious that Dipper hasn't given up yet, deciding to ground Dipper after the party. Down in his secret room, Stan notes that Dipper's stubbornness is very much like his own, but decides to focus on his own work. Outside, Dipper shows the agents his journal, but the entries on the sillier creatures of Gravity Falls convince them that it is just another product of the Mystery Shack gift shop. Desperate not to be dismissed, Dipper randomly rattles off a magic spell that summons a horde of zombies!

The zombies attack the party, and while Wendy is able to evacuate the guests, poor Soos is zombified! The twins retreat into the house, but find themselves almost overwhelmed- until Stan bursts in to save the day! As he fights off the undead horde, Dipper notes that Stan can no longer deny the supernatural, but Stan admits to always knowing about the town's weirdness. He claimed otherwise to keep the twins away from it, because that weirdness is dangerous. Though they manage to find sanctuary in the twins' attic room, they know it is just temporary- until Mabel notices that the light from a black light causes new text to appear in the journal. One of these hidden messages shows that zombies can be destroyed by three point harmony; which means that Mabel can have her karaoke trio with her family after all. The three sing "T8king Over Midnight", which eliminates the zombies, except for Soos, who got distracted watching TV. Luckily, the journal reports that zombification can be undone by a mixture of formaldehyde and cinnamon. Stan agrees to let Dipper keep his journal, provided that he only uses it for self-defense, and not to go looking for trouble. Dipper agrees, but only if there are no secrets between them anymore. Both were lying, though.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Soos turns into a zombie after getting bitten. He gets better fortunately.

* ChekhovsGag: The picture of Thompson with his shirt off ends up distracting Wendy while she's doing lookout duty for Dipper.
* ChekhovsGun: Dipper finds brass knuckles in a drawer while searching around Stan's office; Stan later uses them to fight the zombies.

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: "Thirty long years, and it's all led up to this... my greatest achievement! (''beat'') Probably should have worn pants."

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Stan switches to Brass Knuckles after the bat breaks.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: Dipper and Stan are hesitant about singing on stage, and Mabel assures them that karaoke is about "singing bad together." However, they actually manage a three part harmony to destroy the zombie horde and get into it; one video clip shows Jason Ritter ''actually'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNd1xzuiuU singing better]] in the recording studio.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: When a caught Dipper tries to tell Stan about the supernatural in Gravity Falls, he replies that all he knows is that his obsession is going to get their family in trouble one of these days. The thing is that Stan ''does'' know about the supernatural in the town, he is telling the truth about Dipper's antics causing trouble for the family, as he's wanting to talk to ''government agents'' who might expose the secrets that Stan has been hiding if they're convinced to follow his tracks and tear their family apart.

** In his aforementioned anxiousness to prove that Gravity Falls is supernatural, he wound up directing the attention of the Government to the town which could expose whatever Stan's planning with the machine.

* NoSenseOfHumor: Agent Powers claims to be "physically incapable of experiencing humor".
-->'''Stan:''' (''laughs nervously'')\\
'''Agent Powers:''' (''deadpan'') I don't understand that sound you're making with your mouth.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "You ''never'' shut down the gift shop..."
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The zombies summoned by the spell Dipper casts are considerably more decayed and inhuman than the "undead" described elsewhere in the journal, and can infect people with a bite. Also, "perfect three-part harmony" is their AchillesHeel.

* ThePowerOfRock: Zombie skulls can be shattered by "perfect three-part harmony". Dipper, Mabel, and Stan singing karaoke manages to be close enough to save the day.

-'''Stan''': ''(Flatly)'' Not going to happen.
* SequelHook: Ultra-violet lighting reveals the author's underground bunker in one page of the journal. And the Government now has taken an interest in Gravity Falls.

* ShmuckBait: The spells Dipper finds in the journal are clearly marked "DO NOT READ ALOUD", and yet he reads one anyway.

** Stan at the beginning: "Who could possibly catch me now?" Cue mysterious agents detecting the signal from his machine…
** After Agent Powers takes out the zombie, Dipper says "Good thing it was just that one..." Cue horde of zombies emerging from the ground.

* WhamEpisode: Grunkle Stan finally comes clean to Dipper and Mabel that he's aware of the town's weirdness, but he claims he hid it in order to protect them from the dangers. He allows Dipper to keep the book - which was also revealed to have secrets written in invisible ink - for self defense and not seek trouble. Dipper agrees on the account that Stan promises he has no more secrets. Both swear while performing the LyingFingerCross. What's more, the Government plans to start investigating soon after seeing proof there is something supernatural about Gravity Falls.

-->'''Stan''': ''(To Waddles)'' You didn't see nothing!

* AdultFear: For Stan, trying to protect your niece and nephew from the weirdness of the town by lying about it, and realizing you didn't lie well enough. Not to mention Dipper and Mabel almost getting eaten by zombies.

* ChekhovsGag: The picture of Thompson with his shirt off ends up distracting Wendy while she's doing lookout duty for Dipper.

* BrickJoke: "What's the one thing I asked you not to do tonight?!" "Raise the dead..."

* NotSoDifferent: After Stan comments on Dipper's stubbornness, in regards to his attempts to make a deal with the government agents, he admits to himself it's a fault he has as well.

** Stan at the beginning: "Who could possibly catch me now?" Cue mysterious agents detecting the signal from his machine

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In his attempt to prove his point to the agents, Dipper unleashes a ZombieApocalypse on the shack.
** Not only that but in his anxiousness to prove that Gravity Falls is supernatural, he wound up directing the attention of the Government to the town which could expose whatever Stan's planning with the machine.

* AltumVidetur: The spell Dipper casts to summon zombies is in Latin, and roughly translates as "Corpse, rise! Devil's Dominion! Conquer the world!"

The zombies attack the party, and while Wendy is able to evacuate the guests, poor Soos is zombified! The twins retreat into house, but find themselves almost overwhelmed- until Stan bursts in to save the day! As he fights off the undead horde, Dipper notes that Stan can no longer deny the supernatural, but Stan admits to always knowing about the town's weirdness. He claimed otherwise to keep the twins away from it, because that weirdness is dangerous. Though they manage to find sanctuary in the twins' attic room, they know it is just temporary- until Mabel notices that the light from a black light causes new text to appear in the journal. One of these hidden messages shows that zombies can be destroyed by three point harmony; which means that Mabel can have her karaoke trio with her family after all. The three sing "T8king Over Midnight", which eliminates the zombies, except for Soos, who got distracted watching TV. Luckily, the journal reports that zombification can be undone by a mixture of formaldehyde and cinnamon. Stan agrees to let Dipper keep his journal, provided that he only uses it for self-defense, and not to go looking for trouble. Dipper agrees, but only if there are no secrets between them anymore. Both were lying, though.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: A meta example. Blubs and Durland rap about how their job gets them girls despite all the HoYay between them in the past season.

* ChekhovsGun: Dipper finds brass knuckles in a drawer while searching around Stan's office; Stan later uses them to fight the zombies with.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: Dipper and Stan are hesitant about singing on stage, and Mabel assures them that karaoke is about "singing bad together." However, they actually manage a three part harmony to destroy the zombie horde and get into it; one video clip shows Creator/JasonRitter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNd1xzuiuU singing ''better'']] in the recording studio.

-->'''Soos''': I wouldn't mind a kiss on the chee-
-->'''Stan''': ''(Flatly)'' Not going to happen.

* YouAreGrounded: Stan tells Dipper he's grounded after the party.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: From Dipper's perspective, it looks as if the zombies he summoned killed Power and Trigger, which would essentially be manslaughter. Dipper seems to have forgotten about them by the episode's end.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Soos after he's infected.