History Recap / GravityFallsS2E6LittleGiftShopOfHorrors

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Smart Waddles merely has to "talk" with UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson's voice to show how awesome he has become. He's even using Nerf darts to chase away Gompers.

** Waddles also temporarily does this to Mabel, preferring to share his genius with the world than to make Mabel happy. Mabel convinces him to reverse that decision.

* HalloweenEpisode: Part of Disney's "Monstober" month-long special, and the second one for the show after [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween "Summerween."]] It's [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]], not unlike the Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" specials, given that the post-credits cipher reads "noncanon." Since the stories fit into the rubric of the show, the only way anyone would've known (aside from the extreme ComedicSociopathy) is that cipher.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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-->'''Dipper:''' What?! But how are these things real? What about stop-motion animation?\\

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Dipper in "Abaconings," finding a Percepshroom that would stimulate brain power, and rubbing it all over his forehead. You'd think he would have learned from "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E11LittleDipper Little Dipper]]" about messing with strange substances. Justified in that Stan is telling the story.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Stan locks the visitor to the Mystery Shack in a glass case and makes him a new attraction because he didn't buy anything. To make it worse, the guy only even came there because his car broke down.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end, Stan gives the viewer a potion that causes the viewer to collapse on the ground. The next day, the viewer wakes up, as an attraction in the Mystery Shack that Stan calls "The Cheapskate" for not having bought any of the items he offered. Tourists look at the attraction in awe.

* FreezeFrameBonus: During "Hands Off", you can briefly see Agent Powers at the swap meet and Agent Trigger at the bowling alley.
** Mabel's VHS of ''Shimmery Twinkleheart and Cinnamon'' is so [[StylisticSuck low-quality]] that it has a background cel with the episode production number visibly written on it.
* GeniusSerum: In the story "Abaconings", Waddles becomes super intelligent from eating a Percepshroom that Dipper found, choosing to pursue the answers to life's questions and problems. He chooses to give up his intellect because his pursuits will not give him any time to spend with Mabel (and he misses getting his tummy rubbed), much to the dismay of Dipper.

* HalloweenEpisode: Part of Disney's "Monstober" month-long special, and the 2nd one for the show after [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween "Summerween."]] It's [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]], not unlike the Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" specials, given that the post-credits cipher reads "noncanon." Since the stories fit into the rubric of the show, the only way anyone would've known (aside from the extreme ComedicSociopathy) is that cipher.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Mabel manages to give one to Waddles, when her friendship with him is threatened and tries to get him to realize what he became.
* ImpairmentShot: When Stan gives the customer a sleeping potion.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Smart Waddles merely has to "talk" with UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson 's voice to show how awesome he has become. He's even using Nerf darts to chase away Gompers.

* PunBasedTitle: All of the shorts in the episode each have one.

** The Hand Witch made a chair of hands that looks like the [[Series/GameOfThrones Iron Throne]].

** Genius Waddles is a shout out to two prominent scientists. The first with the mobile wheel chair and voice synthesizer is Creator/StephenHawking, the second with his whimsical and awe-inspiring speech on science that is typical of him, is UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson, who in fact voices Waddles.

* SpoofAesop: According to "Clay Day," all stop-motion animation is evil. Also, it's rational to be scared of it.

* ThrowTheDogABone: While Dipper is heartbroken that Waddles would give up learning the secrets of the universe all at once just to be with Mabel, the pig uses what little time he had with his intelligence to tell Dipper that "science is a horizon to search for, not a prize to hold in your hand". This makes Dipper feel a little better but he doesn't completely get over until the end where Waddles gives him a lick on his face, and spits out his What-The-Heck-A-Hedron.

** Waddles also temporarily does this to Mabel, preferring to share his genius with the world than to make Mabel happy. But Mabel convinces him to reverse that decision.

* UnreliableNarrator: Stan, in telling the stories. He even makes up "Abaconings."

* AesopAmnesia: "Well, ''I'' learned nothing!"

* WeWantOuridiotBack: The short "Abaconings" involves Waddles becoming super-smart by accidentally ingesting magical mushrooms, and getting more unattached to Mabel because of his desire to pursue intellectual topics (which instead made him and Mabel's brother Dipper get closer). In the end Mabel, quite tearfully, begs Waddles to go back to normal and he does. The short's AntiIntellectualism bent also clearly shows that Mabel doesn't enjoy that her brother has become increasingly separated from her by his obsession to seek mysteries.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In the first segment "Hands Off," Stan asks for his hands back from the witch who stole them because [[FlippingTheBird he has a gesture to show her.]]
** And then, when he gives her back the watch he stole from her, she drops it down the front of her shirt for safekeeping.
** In "Hands Off" as well, the witch is reading a magazine that says "[[WitchWithACapitalB Witches]] Be Trippin."
** In "Abaconings", the puzzle box Dipper has says that if you solve the crazy-hard puzzle, you could get your picture on the box. The nerd on the box [[spoiler:who looks like Stanford as a kid]] is being kissed by a hot woman in a one-piece swimsuit. Dipper says with a grin, "Whoa. That's false advertising I can get behind."
** When Dipper and Genius!Waddles build the machine to find out all of the answers to the universe's questions, Genius!Waddles says that one of the questions it will answer is "Why do dudes have nipples?".
** This wonderful little tidbit from Grunkle Stan:
-->'''Stan''': Movies are great! You watch the movie, you scare the girl, the girl snuggles up next to you, next thing you know you gotta raise a kid, your life falls apart...forget that last part.

* {{Homage}}: The "Clay Day" short is one to Creator/RayHarryhausen, right down to the animated director being a stand-in for the late director.

'''Abaconings:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} An intelligence-boosting mushroom makes Waddles a genius, but threatens his friendship with Mabel]].

** Subverted when it turns out to be Stan's retelling of [[spoiler:the things that happened to him and his brother.]] Suddenly, it isn't so cute anymore...

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: The cart that smart Waddles rides on.

* ConspicuousCG: The cart that smart Waddles rides on.

** In "Abaconings", the puzzle box Dipper has says that if you solve the crazy-hard puzzle, you could get your picture on the box. The nerd on the box [[spoiler:who looks like Stanford as a kid]] is being kissed by a hot woman in a one-piece swimsuit. "Whoa. That's false advertising I could get behind."