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** Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Soos and Harry Claymore watch the clay monsters fight to the death, and when all of them have died, they ''aplaud.''

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** Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Soos and Harry Claymore watch the clay monsters fight to the death, and when all of them have died, they ''aplaud.''applaud.''



* VignetteEpisode: The second one after "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit Bottolmess Pit]].

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* VignetteEpisode: The second one after "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit Bottolmess Bottomless Pit]].
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Almost certainly the case, considering that [[spoiler: the cipher keyword is "noncanon".]]

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* CanonDiscontinuity: Almost certainly the case, considering that [[spoiler: the cipher keyword is "noncanon".]]
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** The Hand Witch is wearing The Master's robe from Manos: The Hands of Fate.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Almost certainly the case, considering that [[spoiler: the cipher keyword is "noncanon".]]
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* TakeThat: Clay Day takes a lot of shots at Stop Motion Animation, and a couple at animation in general.

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* 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.]]

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
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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.]]
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** Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Soos and Harry Claymore watch the clay monsters fight to the death, and when all of them have died, they ''aplaud.''
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** You can also see Waddles eating out of a [["Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween Melon-o-Lantern"]] at one point.

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** You can also see Waddles eating out of a [["Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween Melon-o-Lantern"]] [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween Melon-o-Lantern]] at one point.
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** You can also see Waddles eating out of a [["Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween Melon-o-Lantern"]] at one point.

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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything]], then Dipper and Mabel being undisturbed by seeing him trapped in the credits and don't help him out.]]

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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything]], then Dipper and Mabel being undisturbed by seeing him trapped in the credits and don't help him out.]]


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* 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 is being kissed by a hot woman in a one-piece swimsuit. "Whoa. That's false advertising I could 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.

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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything]], then Dipper and Mabel being undisturbed by seeing him trapped in the credits but and help him out.]]

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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything]], then Dipper and Mabel being undisturbed by seeing him trapped in the credits but and don't help him out.]]


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* PunBasedTitle: All of the shorts in the episode each have one.
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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything, then Dipper and Mabel undisturbed at see him trapped in the credits but don't help him out.]]

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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything, anything]], then Dipper and Mabel being undisturbed at see by seeing him trapped in the credits but don't and help him out.]]
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* ComedicSociopathy: Stan trapping the customer in a glass cage and use him as tourist attraction in the Mystery Shack because [[DisproportionateRetribution he didn't buy anything, then Dipper and Mabel undisturbed at see him trapped in the credits but don't help him out.]]


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* TheUnreveal: We never find out who the person whom Stan tried to sell to was.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end, [[spoiler: 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.]]

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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end, [[spoiler: 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.]]
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end, [[spoiler: 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.]]
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no it\'s a lost tourist.


* NoFourthWall: The premise of the episode is Stan telling stories to the viewer.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Stan locks the visitor to the Mystery Shack in a glass cage and makes him a new attraction because he didn't buy anything.
-->'''Stan:''' Yeah, I'm a jerk!

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* ContinuityNod:
** Tyler the Cute Biker's wind chimes stand is called "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Sev'ral Chimez]]".
* DisproportionateRetribution: Stan locks the visitor to the Mystery Shack in a glass cage case and makes him a new attraction because he didn't buy anything.
-->'''Stan:''' Yeah, That's right, I'm a jerk!jerk!
* FreezeFrameBonus: During "Hands Off!", you can briefly see Agent Powers at the swap meet and Agent Trigger at the bowling alley.



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* HelpingHands: The Handwitch from "Hands Off!" has a small army of disembodied hands at her bidding.

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* HelpingHands: The Handwitch from "Hands Off!" has a small army of disembodied hands at her bidding.beck and call.


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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The spooky tinkling music that plays when the Hand-Witch meets Grunkle Stan turns out to be coming from the Cute Biker's wind-chimes.


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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In "Clay Day", Harry Claymore used black magic to animate his stop-motion monsters and make filming easier, but when computer animation made his creations obsolete, they went berserk and trapped Claymore in his own home.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The latter half of the battle between Claymore's stop-motion monsters and Twinklestar is done as a ShadowDiscretionShot, with the characters remarking that stop-motion is really expensive.
-->'''Soos:''' Sure is an impressive battle, though. I sure am glad I'm facing towards it.


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** At the end of "Clay Day", Soos turns into ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}''.

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Grunkle Stan regales a lost traveler with a series of "Tales Designed to Sell My Merchandise".

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Grunkle Stan regales a lost traveler with a series of "Tales Designed to Sell My Merchandise".
Merchandise":

'''Hands Off!:''' Stan loses his hands after provoking a "Hand-Witch" who lives in the mountains.

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

'''Clay Day:''' Grunkle Stan's attempts to help Mabel overcome her fear of stop-motion leads to an assault by ferocious claymation monsters.



* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The questions Genius!Waddles says that the machine will answer are, "What is the origin of life? What is the meaning of life? Why do dudes have nipples?".
* BreatherEpisode: "The A-bacon-ings" was more a cutesy story about Waddles gaining intelligence, sandwiched in-between scarier stories of Stan and the kids attacked by cursed disembodied hands and claymation monsters.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The questions ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Genius!Waddles says that the machine his Smart-icle Accelerator will answer are, "What is help him find the answers to such dilemmas as "the origin of life? What is life, the meaning of life? Why do existance, [and] why dudes have nipples?".
nipples!"
* BreatherEpisode: "The A-bacon-ings" "Abaconings" was more a cutesy story about Waddles gaining intelligence, sandwiched in-between scarier stories of Stan and the kids attacked by cursed disembodied hands and claymation monsters.



* GenreSavvy: Dipper knows that shoplifting a witch isn't a good idea.

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* GenreSavvy: Dipper knows that shoplifting from a witch isn't a good idea.



* MediumBlending: The third tale features stop motion film in-universe done in actual claymation.

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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Waddles gives up being a genius in "Abaconings" when he realizes solving the worlds' problems will give him no time to be with his owner/best friend Mabel.
* LargeHamRadio: At the start of "Abaconings", Mabel and Waddles play at being "May-May and the Hogg".
* MediumBlending: The third tale features stop motion stop-motion film in-universe done in actual claymation.

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Grunkle Stan regales a lost traveler with a series of "Tales Designed to Sell My Merchandise".



* DisproportionateRetribution: Stan locks the visitor to the Mystery Shack in a glass change and makes him a new attraction because he didn't buy anything.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Stan locks the visitor to the Mystery Shack in a glass change cage and makes him a new attraction because he didn't buy anything.



* {{Expy}}: The claymation cyclops the Pines family face is one of the cyclops that appeared in [[The7thVoyageOfSinbad The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]], while the skeletons are themselves expies of the skeleton warriors that appeared in [[JasonAndTheArgonauts Jason and the Argonauts]]. Fitting, considering that Harry Claymore is himself an expy of Ray Harryhausen.



* MediumBlending: The second act features stop motion film in-universe done in actual claymation.
* ShoutOut: Stan grabs a sphere that looks like the eye of Sauron.
* ThreeActStructure: Three Halloween shorts based on "items" in the Mystery Shack that Stan tries to sell to the passer-by. One of them being Waddles.

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* HelpingHands: The Handwitch from "Hands Off!" has a small army of disembodied hands at her bidding.
* MediumBlending: The second act third tale features stop motion film in-universe done in actual claymation.
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Stan grabs a sphere that looks like [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings the eye of Sauron.
* ThreeActStructure: Three Halloween shorts
Sauron]].
** The claymation cyclops the Pines family faces resembles the cyclops that appeared in Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad, while the skeletons are
based on "items" in the Mystery Shack skeleton warriors that Stan tries to sell to the passer-by. One appeared in Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts. Fitting, considering that Harry Claymore is himself a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of them being Waddles.Ray Harryhausen.



* VignetteEpisode: The second one after: ''Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit''.

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* VignetteEpisode: The second one after: ''Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit''.after "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit Bottolmess Pit]].
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* ShoutOut: Stan grabs a sphere that looks like the eye of Sauron.
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* GenreSavvy: Dipper knows that shoplifting a witch isn't a good idea.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Dipper and Mabel act [[ComedicSociopathy astoundingly undisturbed]] by the man trapped in a glass cage in TheStinger.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Dipper and Mabel act [[ComedicSociopathy astoundingly undisturbed]] by the man trapped in a glass cage in TheStinger.TheStinger.
* VignetteEpisode: The second one after: ''Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit''.

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* Expy: The claymation cyclops the Pines family face is one of the cyclops that appeared in [[The7thVoyageOfSinbad The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]], while the skeletons are themselves expies of the skeleton warriors that appeared in [[JasonAndTheArgonauts Jason and the Argonauts]]. Fitting, considering that Harry Claymore is himself an expy of Ray Harryhausen.

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* Expy: DisproportionateRetribution: Stan locks the visitor to the Mystery Shack in a glass change and makes him a new attraction because he didn't buy anything.
-->'''Stan:''' Yeah, I'm a jerk!
* {{Expy}}:
The claymation cyclops the Pines family face is one of the cyclops that appeared in [[The7thVoyageOfSinbad The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]], while the skeletons are themselves expies of the skeleton warriors that appeared in [[JasonAndTheArgonauts Jason and the Argonauts]]. Fitting, considering that Harry Claymore is himself an expy of Ray Harryhausen.



* ThreeActStructure: Three Halloween shorts based on "items" in the Mystery Shack that Stan tries to sell to the passer-by. One of them being Waddles.

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* MediumBlending: The second act features stop motion film in-universe done in actual claymation.
* ThreeActStructure: Three Halloween shorts based on "items" in the Mystery Shack that Stan tries to sell to the passer-by. One of them being Waddles.Waddles.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Dipper and Mabel act [[ComedicSociopathy astoundingly undisturbed]] by the man trapped in a glass cage in TheStinger.
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* Expy: The claymation cyclops the Pines family face is one of the cyclops that appeared in [[The7thVoyageOfSinbad The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]], while the skeletons are themselves expies of the skeleton warriors that appeared in [[JasonAndTheArgonauts Jason and the Argonauts]]. Fitting, considering that Harry Claymore is himself an expy of Ray Harryhausen.
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* HalloweenEpisode: Part of Disney's "Monstober" month-long special, and the 2nd one for the show after [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E12Summerween "Summerween."]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The questions Genius!Waddles says that the machine will answer are, "What is the origin of life? What is the meaning of life? Why do dudes have nipples?".
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* BreatherEpisode: "The A-bacon-ings" was more a cutesy story about Waddles gaining intelligence, sandwiched in-between scarier stories of Stan and the kids attacked by cursed disembodied hands and claymation monsters.
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* ThreeActStructure: Three Halloween shorts based on "items" in the Mystery Shack that Stan tries to sell to the passer-by. One of them being Waddles.

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