158 Fun Facts About Gravity Falls

Which real person in creator Alex Hirsch's life inspired Mabel Pines in Gravity Falls?

His twin, Ariel Hirsch, shaped Mabel right down to her wardrobe: Ariel really wore ridiculous sweaters as a kid, so Mabel turns up in a different one every episode.

Ford Pines was born with which unusual trait?

Six-fingered hands: bullied for them as a boy, Ford grew fascinated by oddities like himself and went looking for the place with the most of them, Gravity Falls.

Bill Cipher's flat home dimension, which was annihilated in a catastrophe he caused, is called what?

Euclydia is Bill Cipher's flat two-dimensional home world, which he destroyed; The Book of Bill hints at deep guilt beneath his sneer about 'flat minds in a flat world with flat dreams'.

Which 15-year-old part-time cashier at the Mystery Shack is Dipper's unrequited crush in Gravity Falls?

Wendy Corduroy hears Dipper confess his crush in 'Into the Bunker', admits she always suspected it, and lets him down gently: she is too old for him, and they stay close friends.

The 2016 'Cipher Hunt' ended when fans found the Bill Cipher statue in a forest near which Oregon town?

Reedsport kept the statue only briefly: police removed it over a property-line dispute, and Alex Hirsch arranged a new home for it at a California roadside attraction.

In 'Scary-oke', what does Dipper need to read the invisible ink hidden in his journal?

A black light: under its glow the journal's invisible ink reveals that zombies fall to a three-part harmony, so Dipper, Mabel and Stan sing karaoke to save the Shack.

What job does Soos Ramirez do for Grunkle Stan?

Handyman: Soos has fixed things around the Shack since Stan hired him as a twelve-year-old in 2002, and by the finale he takes over as the new Mr. Mystery.

Which Gravity Falls character is ultimately revealed to be the author of the journals?

Stanford Pines, Ford, is the twins' other great-uncle, the journals' author, lost beyond an interdimensional portal for decades until Stan reactivated it and brought him back.

Why did Gravity Falls end after two seasons?

Creator's choice: Alex Hirsch wrote that the show 'isn't being cancelled – it's being finished', because he had always designed it as one epic summer with a real ending.

What is the real first name of Dipper Pines?

Mason went unspoken on screen and surfaced only in the real Journal 3 book, while 'Dipper' comes from the Big Dipper-shaped birthmark he hides under his hair.

What is the name of Mabel Pines' pet pig?

Waddles moves into the Shack with Mabel, and Stan's attempts to put the pig out of the house set the two of them against each other for the first time.

Lazy Susan waits tables at which Gravity Falls eatery?

Greasy's Diner is where Dipper flunks the Manliness Tester in 'Dipper vs. Manliness', the humiliation that sends him off to train with the Manotaurs.

In 'Little Gift Shop of Horrors', Mabel's pig briefly speaks with the voice of which scientist?

Neil deGrasse Tyson voices the speech machine the pig builds in the 'Abaconings' segment, after eating a brain-boosting mushroom paste meant for Dipper turns him into a genius.

Which actor voices Dipper Pines?

Jason Ritter won the part after child actors fell short: Alex Hirsch said they lacked the sharpness of Dipper, the straight man he had based on his own younger self.

Which comedian and actress voices Mabel Pines?

Kristen Schaal was the only Mabel that Alex Hirsch would accept: he said it had to be her 'or there's no show', and that he would probably have quit without her.

Which Oscar-winning actor joined the cast in season 2 as Stanford Pines?

J. K. Simmons joined in season 2 as Stanford 'Ford' Pines, Stan's long-lost twin who steps out of the portal, a few months after winning his Oscar for Whiplash.

Which Freaks and Geeks star voices Wendy in Gravity Falls?

Linda Cardellini, Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks, voices Wendy, the laid-back teen who turns hardened survivor in Weirdmageddon and helps Dipper rescue Mabel.

Dipper and Mabel are dropped off in Gravity Falls from their home in which California city?

Piedmont, California, is the twins' hometown; creator Alex Hirsch really grew up there and folded many of his own childhood experiences into the series.

In the series premiere 'Tourist Trapped', Mabel's boyfriend 'Norman' turns out to be what?

Dipper had suspected a zombie; Mabel finally drives the gnomes off with a leaf blower.

Which gnome leader tries to make Mabel queen of the gnomes in Gravity Falls?

Jeff leads the forest gnomes, who stack into one giant gnome to carry Mabel off as their queen; creator Alex Hirsch supplies his voice.

Which symbol is on the front of Soos's T-shirt in Gravity Falls?

A question mark: the same sign is Soos's place on the zodiac circle Ford draws in the finale, so he steps onto it when the townsfolk form the circle to try to defeat Bill Cipher.

In 'Not What He Seems', Stan is arrested by government agents for stealing what?

Chemical waste: Stan had been stealing drums of toxic waste to power the portal hidden beneath the Shack, and the machine's side effect was the town's sudden bursts of anti-gravity.

The code the twins find in Stan's box of fake IDs is a button combination for what?

A vending machine: the code swings it aside to reveal the hidden door to the lab beneath the Shack, a door first glimpsed in the pilot's closing scene.

Grunkle Stan's cane is topped with what object?

A billiard 8-ball tops the cane Stan carries as Mr. Mystery, and the nickname follows him: one of the fake IDs that make the twins doubt him reads Andrew '8-Ball' Alcatraz.

The Pines twins Stanley and Stanford grew up in Glass Shard Beach, a fictional town in which US state?

New Jersey: Glass Shard Beach is the Pines twins' Jersey Shore hometown, where their father ran a pawn shop and disowned Stan after he accidentally ruined Ford's shot at a prestigious university.

To take his missing twin's identity, what did Grunkle Stan fake?

His own death: Stan staged a fatal car crash for 'Stanley Pines', took his brother's name and ran the Mystery Shack for decades as cover while he worked to reopen the portal and bring him home.

In Gravity Falls, which Southern-accented showman with a white pompadour runs the Tent of Telepathy, rival to the Mystery Shack?

Gideon Gleeful, 'Li'l Gideon', once wielded a telekinetic amulet that Mabel destroyed.

What is Old Man McGucket's full first and middle name?

Fiddleford Hadron McGucket looks like the town kook, yet he ends the series a millionaire, selling his patents to the government and moving into the Northwests' mansion.

At the Northwest Mansion party, which of Mabel's friends wins the heart of the young Austrian baron Marius?

Grenda: Mabel and Candy shut her out to flirt as a team and get nowhere, but Grenda's bold, forward style is exactly what leaves Marius smitten.

Gravity Falls sits in which fictional Oregon county, policed by Sheriff Blubs?

Roadkill County is Sheriff Blubs's beat, though he and Deputy Durland would sooner lounge about and joke than chase the monsters on their doorstep.

By possessing whom does Bill Cipher trick Mabel into handing over the rift that starts Weirdmageddon?

Blendin Blandin: wearing the time traveler's body, Bill talks Mabel into handing over the rift, then smashes its glass case and tears a hole between dimensions.

What is the name of the goat that hangs around the Mystery Shack in Gravity Falls?

Gompers the goat chews on whatever is nearest from the pilot onward, and when Weirdmageddon's wave of weirdness hits he swells to giant size and chases Stan off.

Soos's long-distance girlfriend Melody, who later becomes the Shack's cashier, is from which city?

Portland: Melody is working in Gravity Falls for only a few weeks when Soos meets her at the mall, so they date by video chat until she moves to town to work at the Shack.

The Bill Cipher statue found in 2016 was given a permanent home at which California roadside attraction?

Confusion Hill, a roadside attraction in Piercy, California, became the statue's home after a property dispute forced its removal from the Oregon forest where fans had found it.

Which warning, underlined in the journal Dipper finds, becomes his watchword in Gravity Falls?

Trust no one: the journal's unnamed author warns that in Gravity Falls there is no one you can trust, a rule tested hardest when Stan begs Mabel to trust him in 'Not What He Seems'.

Which comedian's minor Weirdmageddon role did Disney redub in 2017?

Louis C.K. voiced a monster, the Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity, in two Weirdmageddon episodes; after his 2017 misconduct admission, Disney had Alex Hirsch re-record the part.

Alex Hirsch's 2018 graphic novel of four new stories is titled Gravity Falls: what?

Lost Legends: Alex Hirsch wrote all four of its adventures himself, including one that drops Mabel into a pocket dimension crowded with other lost Mabels from across the multiverse.

Creator Alex Hirsch drew on childhood summers spent at whose cabin in the woods for Gravity Falls?

His great-aunt Lois's cabin was where 'Graunty Lois' hosted Hirsch each summer and enforced hours of reading time; he said the boredom made his imagination grow to fill the space.

Before Gravity Falls, its creator wrote and storyboarded on which Cartoon Network series alongside Pendleton Ward?

Flapjack, in full The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, proved a launch pad: its crew went on to create Adventure Time, Regular Show and Hirsch's own Gravity Falls.

In 2021 Bill Cipher made a cameo on which long-running animated series, as one of Loki's incarnations?

The Simpsons: in an October 2021 episode the trickster god Loki briefly takes Bill's triangular form, with Alex Hirsch returning to voice him.

The Gravity Falls video game released for Nintendo 3DS was subtitled Legend of the what?

Gnome Gemulets: Ubisoft built the 2015 side-scroller on the engine behind its Rayman games, working with Alex Hirsch to give it an original story rather than retell episodes.

In the Gravity Falls finale, how do Dipper and Mabel travel home?

By bus: when the driver refuses to take Mabel's pig aboard, Stan and Ford threaten him until he gives in, and the twins ride home with their pet.

Gravity Falls twice won which award?

An Emmy: neither went to the show itself, because juries gave them to two of its artists, Ian Worrel and Alonso Ramirez Ramos, in a category that names no nominees.

A road sign for an Oregon town with what name helped inspire Gravity Falls?

Boring: Alex Hirsch never visited Boring, Oregon, but said he was enchanted that a town had that name and pictured Gravity Falls as what it might be like, or its opposite.

Which rare ingredient does Ford need for the barrier that keeps Bill Cipher out of the Mystery Shack?

Unicorn hair: Mabel and her friends trek into the forest to get it from the vain Celestabellebethabelle, who insists that only the pure of heart may take it.

Which Gravity Falls creative director pulled all-night script rewrites with Alex Hirsch before every deadline?

Mike Rianda, season one's creative director, rewrote each script with Hirsch in marathon sessions, sleeping on the couch in shifts; he went on to direct The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

Which Gravity Falls storyboard artist went on to create The Owl House?

Dana Terrace storyboarded on Gravity Falls and later created Disney's The Owl House, where her old boss Alex Hirsch voices both King and Hooty.

After the summer ends in Gravity Falls, what do Stan and Ford finally set off to do together?

Sail away hunting anomalies: Ford detects strange readings in the Arctic Ocean and asks Stan along, so the brothers finally get the round-the-world voyage they planned as boys.

What carved fruit replaces pumpkins as jack-o'-lanterns during Summerween?

Watermelons: for Summerween, the town's June version of Halloween, residents carve 'jack-o'-melons' instead of pumpkins, and the Summerween Trickster punishes anyone lacking holiday spirit.

Gravity Falls ends just after the twins celebrate which occasion?

Their thirteenth birthday: Mabel's dread of turning thirteen and growing up is the fear Bill exploits to start Weirdmageddon, yet the whole town ends up throwing the twins their party.

In 'Double Dipper', which Mystery Shack machine does Dipper use to clone himself?

A photocopier: the Shack's patched-up copier turns out living paper clones of Dipper, who dissolve when they get wet, so he can work Stan's party and still chase a dance with his crush.

Which letter has fallen loose from the Mystery Shack's roof sign?

S: the S in 'Shack' hangs fallen from the Mystery Shack's roof sign, so the building appears to advertise the 'Mystery Hack' in the opening credits.

Between which dates did the 2016 Cipher Hunt run?

One clue was a 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that took several days to complete.

Which gadget does Mabel pick from the Mystery Shack gift shop in the pilot?

A grappling hook: Mabel chooses it from the gift shop at the end of 'Tourist Trapped', and it becomes her signature gadget, fired to escape many later scrapes.

Which game is the basis of a 2020 Disney short that sends Dipper and Mabel downhill to the Gravity Falls theme?

Line Rider: Disney had three track artists from the sled game's own community design the run, which carries Dipper, Mabel and Stan along to an orchestral version of the theme.

In 'Boss Mabel', Stan leaves Mabel running the Shack to compete on which game show?

Cash Wheel: Stan wins $300,000 on the show, then loses it all on a double-or-nothing word puzzle whose answer, the 'magic word' he never thinks of, is 'please'.

In 'The Legend of the Gobblewonker', what does the monster chasing the twins across the lake turn out to be?

A robot: Old Man McGucket built and piloted it to get some attention, because his own son had stopped making time for him.

Which Gravity Falls storyboard artist went on to create Big City Greens?

Chris Houghton left storyboarding to create Disney's Big City Greens with his brother Shane, and he voices its hero, Cricket Green, himself.

Former Gravity Falls writer Shion Takeuchi went on to create which Netflix series?

Inside Job, Takeuchi's comedy about an office that runs the world's conspiracies, reached Netflix in October 2021; Netflix renewed it for a second season, then reversed course and cancelled it in January 2023.

Which Gravity Falls writer directed the 2023 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem?

Jeff Rowe cast actual teenagers as the four Turtles and recorded them together in groups, so the young actors could play off each other and improvise.

Dipper was born how long after his twin sister Mabel?

5 minutes: Mabel is the older twin, and creator Alex Hirsch says she uses the gap as an excuse to tell Dipper 'I'll tell you when you're older', which drives him nuts.

Which fictional president makes Mabel a US congresswoman in "Irrational Treasure"?

Quentin Trembley, the 'eighth-and-a-half president', is freed from the block of peanut brittle he sealed himself in, makes Mabel a congresswoman, and she at once declares: 'I'm legalizing everything!'

How does Mabel win her pet pig at Stan's Mystery Fair in Gravity Falls?

By guessing his weight: Mabel says fifteen pounds for the pig the stallholder calls 'old 15-Poundy', and he asks if she is some kind of witch before handing him over.

What does Stan sacrifice to defeat Bill in the Gravity Falls finale?

His memory: Stan lets Ford wipe his mind with the memory gun while Bill is trapped inside it, erasing Bill; Mabel's scrapbook later helps the memories return.

Which CalArts animator friend did Hirsch base Soos on?

Jesus Chambrot, a classmate and friend from Hirsch's CalArts days, was the model for Soos; Hirsch has said the character's name and easygoing manner come from him.

Which character is Soos's possessive girlfriend before he meets Melody?

GIFfany: the self-aware heroine of the dating sim Romance Academy 7 turns violently jealous once Soos falls for Melody, until he destroys her by melting the game's disc in an oven.

In which episode do the twins learn why Soos dreads his July 13 birthday?

Blendin's Game: the twins find out that on Soos's twelfth birthday a postcard arrived in place of his long-absent father, the day he realised his dad was never coming back.

Wendy's father, Manly Dan, works as what?

A lumberjack: Manly Dan shoves Dipper aside and beats the manliness tester with one pinky, winning free pancakes for the whole room.

What was Ford doing when the portal pulled him into another dimension?

Fighting Stan: Ford had called his estranged twin only to send him off again, Stan took it as one more rejection, and an angry shove sent Ford into the running portal.

What is the middle name of Ford Pines in Gravity Falls?

Filbrick: Stanford Filbrick Pines carries the name of his father, the pawnbroker who threw teenage Stan out and told him not to come home until he had made the family a fortune.

In 'Northwest Mansion Mystery', Dipper is hired to rid the Northwests' party of what?

A ghost: a woodsman's spirit haunts the manor because the Northwests shut out the workers who built it from the party they were promised, and it rests only when Pacifica opens the gates to the town.

In which Gravity Falls episode does Gideon summon Bill Cipher for the demon's debut?

Dreamscaperers: Gideon summons Bill to enter Stan's mind and retrieve the combination to the safe holding the Shack's deed; the twins and Soos follow him in.

Bill's reversed last words invoke which creature?

Axolotl: played backwards, Bill's dying gibberish becomes 'A-X-O-L-O-T-L, my time has come to burn, I invoke the ancient power that I may return', a plea to a godlike amphibian being.

What does Bill Cipher offer Dipper in the deal that ends with Bill stealing Dipper's body?

A hint to a password: with a locked laptop about to wipe itself, Dipper agrees, Bill asks only for 'a puppet' in return, then takes Dipper's body as the puppet and smashes the laptop.

Bill Cipher's design is drawn from what emblem on the US one-dollar bill?

The Eye of Providence: Bill is the dollar's all-seeing eye as a one-eyed yellow triangle, a demon who must work through other people's minds until Weirdmageddon gives him a physical form.

Which filmmaker declined to voice Bill Cipher, whose voice now imitates him?

David Lynch: his Twin Peaks was a big influence on the series, so the crew asked him first, and when he said no Alex Hirsch 'just did a bad impression of him'.

What is the only thing the gnome Shmebulock can say in Gravity Falls?

His own name: a later comic reveals that a warlock's curse limits Shmebulock to that one word, and that once every thousand years he can speak normally.

Which Henchmaniac is a rhombus-shaped grey demon resembling Bill?

Kryptos: the grey rhombus arrives through the rift with Bill's gang of Henchmaniacs and, once Bill is erased, is sucked back into the Nightmare Realm with the rest of them.

In Gravity Falls, which boy band do Mabel, Candy and Grenda adore?

Sev'ral Timez is the show's parody boy band; in 'Boyz Crazy' the girls discover its members are clones kept caged by their manager.

In which city was McGucket building computers in a garage when Ford called him to Gravity Falls?

Palo Alto: Ford phoned his old college friend there because he thought the brilliant mechanic was 'wasting his talent trying to make personal computers in some garage'.

Which comedian voices Robbie Valentino?

T.J. Miller, the comedian from Silicon Valley and Deadpool, voices Robbie Valentino, Wendy's moody boyfriend whose song for her hides a backmasked mind-control message.

Which actor voices Gideon's father Bud Gleeful?

Stephen Root, of Office Space and King of the Hill, voices Bud Gleeful, the used-car salesman who runs for mayor only so that he can pardon his jailed son.

Which Firefly star voices Preston Northwest?

Nathan Fillion, Captain Mal Reynolds on Firefly, voices Preston Northwest, Pacifica's snobbish father, whose face Bill scrambles when he tries to bargain during Weirdmageddon.

Which Parks and Recreation actor voices Agent Powers?

Nick Offerman, Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation, voices Agent Powers, the government investigator dragged off by the zombies Dipper raises to prove to him that the town is paranormal.

Which actress voices Lazy Susan, the waitress?

Jennifer Coolidge, the American Pie and White Lotus actress, voices Lazy Susan, the pie-serving waitress whom Mabel helps Stan woo in 'Dipper vs. Manliness'.

In Gravity Falls, the eighth-and-a-half president appears on a bill of what denomination?

Negative twelve dollars: the eighth-and-a-half president hands the twins a bill of that denomination, literally less than worthless; he had founded the town after riding his horse backwards off a cliff.

Which Star Wars actor voices the Shape Shifter, Experiment #210?

Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself, voices the Shape Shifter, which copies Wendy so exactly in the bunker that Dipper can tell the real one only by a secret gesture.

Which SNL alum voices Tyler Cutebiker, later mayor of Gravity Falls?

Will Forte voices Tyler Cutebiker, the town's excitable 'Get 'em!' guy, who becomes mayor in 'The Stanchurian Candidate' as the only candidate who completed the paperwork.

Which Futurama voice actor plays Manly Dan?

John DiMaggio, Bender on Futurama, voices Manly Dan, who punches a pole and roars 'In your face!' when the free food Stan's flyers promised turns out to be a 'typo'.

Xyler and Craz, the teen idols who come to life for Mabel, are characters from which fictional film?

Dream Boy High: Bill reads Mabel's mind and snaps the VHS movie's heroes into being inside Stan's head, and they return as the tour guides of her prison bubble in Weirdmageddon.

In the Gravity Falls finale, what do Wendy and Dipper swap so they will remember each other?

Their hats: Wendy takes Dipper's cap, sets her own hat on his head, and hands him a letter that turns out to say 'See you next summer', signed by his friends in town.

Which high-school contest did Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch win as a junior, landing him on Letterman?

Bird calling: a biology teacher started his school's contest in 1963, and it grew famous enough that its winners earned a trip to New York to perform their calls on David Letterman's show.

Which future Rick and Morty creator helped Alex Hirsch develop the pilot of Disney's Fish Hooks?

Justin Roiland worked on the Fish Hooks pilot with Hirsch, and their later shows share a hidden gag: the mug, notepad and pen Stan loses into the portal had already dropped out of a portal in Rick and Morty.

In Gravity Falls, what is the name of the abandoned convenience store Wendy's friends break into?

Dusk 2 Dawn: the shop's late owners, who hated teenagers in life, torment Wendy's friends until twelve-year-old Dipper wins them over by performing his childhood Lamby Lamby Dance.

Which hooded secret group erases townspeople's memories of Gravity Falls' weirdness?

The Society of the Blind Eye: its robed members also wipe their own unhappy memories, and have done it so often that none of them can remember who founded the society.

Which town holiday has Gravity Falls dressing up as if it were 1863 in 'Irrational Treasure'?

Pioneer Day: the town marks its founding with candle-dipping and gold panning, and Stan, who mocks the whole thing, is locked in the stocks for heckling the police.

Who co-wrote Gravity Falls: Journal 3 with Alex Hirsch?

Rob Renzetti, the show's supervising producer, co-wrote Journal 3 with Hirsch; its pricey limited edition drew so many pre-orders that the release was pushed back so more copies could be printed.

In 'Headhunters', who turns out to have cut the head off the statue of Grunkle Stan?

The wax figures: cursed to come alive, they wanted revenge on Stan for shutting them away in storage, and when they came for him they beheaded his wax double by mistake.

Which banned candy sends Mabel into wild hallucinations in Gravity Falls?

Smile Dip: Mabel finds it in a shop that closed years ago, says she thought it was banned in America, empties packet after packet, and is soon lost in hallucinations.

In 'Dipper vs. Manliness', the Manotaurs order Dipper to slay which creature?

The Multi-Bear: the Manotaurs demand Dipper kill the many-headed bear to prove his manliness, but he refuses once the beast admits to loving the song 'Disco Girl' as much as he does.

What does Preston Northwest use to make his daughter Pacifica obey on command?

A small bell: Pacifica falls silent whenever her father rings it, until the night she resists the ringing, declares the family name broken, and opens the manor gates to the town.

In 'The Land Before Swine', what prehistoric creature snatches Mabel's pig?

A pterodactyl: the flying reptile, thawed from sap-preserved dinosaurs beneath the town's abandoned mines, carries off Mabel's pig, and Stan fights it to win back her trust.

Mermando, the merman Mabel meets in the public pool, comes from which body of water?

The Gulf of Mexico: Mermando was netted there by fishermen whose cargo was bound for Gravity Falls, and after Mabel frees him he writes that he must marry the Queen of the Manatees to stop an undersea war.

Pacifica is the great-great-granddaughter of a supposed town founder with which first name?

Nathaniel Northwest is the founder the Northwests claim; 'Irrational Treasure' reveals he was a waste-shovelling village idiot installed by a government cover-up, undermining the family's prestige.

At which punningly named food stand in the Gravity Falls mall does Melody work?

Meat Cute: Melody, who works the stand, walks up to Soos as he rides the mall's kiddie train, and the two bond over his claim that extreme lunch meats are the food of the future.

Darlene, the villain of 'Roadside Attraction', is secretly what kind of creature?

A spider: Darlene, voiced by Chelsea Peretti, is a giant spider-woman who lures men to her Mystery Mountain attraction and cocoons them for later.

Rumble McSkirmish, summoned from the arcade cabinet Fight Fighters in Gravity Falls, parodies which fighting game series?

Street Fighter is the model: Dipper frees Rumble to scare Robbie, loses control of him, and stops him only by taking a beating, because Rumble's win brings up 'Game Over' and erases him.

Handed a wish that could bring him his absent father, Soos heals the twins and asks for what else?

An endless slice of pizza: Soos decides that a father who never once visited can 'take a hike', calls the twins his real family, and spends the wish on a slice that regrows after every bite.

After one insult too many, Mabel challenges her rich rival Pacifica Northwest to a showdown in which sport?

Mini golf turns dangerous when the twins discover the course is run by tiny living golf balls called Lilliputtians. Beating them together makes friends of the two rivals.

To free Wendy's friends from two vengeful shopkeeper spirits, Dipper Pines must perform which childhood routine?

The Lamby Lamby Dance wins the elderly pair over once Dipper admits he is not yet a teenager, because their grudge is against teens.

Hidden ink in Dipper's journal reveals that the zombies besieging the Mystery Shack can be destroyed by what?

Three-part harmony shatters their skulls, so Dipper, Mabel and Stan climb onto the roof and defeat the horde with a karaoke number.

As Grunkle Stan's secret portal powers up in season two, which side effect ripples through the whole town?

Things float into the air, people included, and then crash back down each time gravity cuts out, a literal take on the town's name.

In Gravity Falls, Mabel drives off the gnomes who want to make her their queen by turning which garden tool on them?

A leaf blower does the job after Mabel pretends to accept the gnomes' marriage proposal, which gets their leader to drop his guard.

Why did Gravity Falls end after only two seasons, by creator Alex Hirsch's own account?

He chose to finish it: Hirsch announced in late 2015 that stopping was his decision rather than the network's, with the story reaching its planned ending.

Dipper and Mabel switch bodies while fighting over a newly discovered room in the Mystery Shack that contains what?

A shag rug in the room Soos uncovers switches the twins' bodies in the middle of their contest for Stan's approval, with the room itself as the prize.

Which Grammy-winning musician voices Probabilitor, the wizard who escapes a board game to capture Dipper and Ford?

Weird Al Yankovic plays the wizard, set loose when Stan carelessly rolls an infinity-sided die belonging to Ford.

Fed up with Grunkle Stan's constant lying, Mabel slips him an enchanted set of what to get the truth out?

False teeth that compel their wearer to tell the truth are her fix, in one of four tall tales the family trade while tumbling down a bottomless pit.

When Grunkle Stan runs for mayor, Dipper and Mabel secretly steer his speeches using a mind-controlling what?

Necktie in place, Stan says whatever the twins feed him, until Gideon cheats from prison by casting a possession spell on his own father, the rival candidate.

Feeling overshadowed by Mabel, Dipper Pines searches the forest for which magical object to make himself taller?

A crystal that can make things grow or shrink does the trick, until Gideon gets hold of it and shrinks both twins to capture them.

Teenage Stan Pines breaks which invention of his brother Ford, costing him a place at a top university?

A perpetual motion machine was Ford's ticket to a prestigious college, and its wrecking got Stan disowned and thrown out of the family home.

Which British comedian voices a wax Sherlock Holmes in the Gravity Falls episode 'Headhunters'?

John Oliver voices the wax detective, in an episode where Larry King and Coolio also turn up as wax figures of themselves.

Which Twin Peaks star has a cameo as the bus driver in the final episode of Gravity Falls?

Kyle MacLachlan's cameo salutes Twin Peaks, the eerie small-town mystery that the show's creator counts among his biggest inspirations.

Before Grunkle Stan turned it into a tourist trap, the building that houses the Mystery Shack was originally what?

A scientist's cabin, built by Ford with his research grant so he could study the town's anomalies, became the Shack only after he vanished through the portal.

When Gideon swindles the Pines family out of the Mystery Shack, they move in with Soos and which relative of his?

His grandmother takes them in during the season one finale, in which the twins are almost sent home before Gideon is exposed as a fraud.

As a boy, Alex Hirsch taped his own voice to master which trick, later echoed in Gravity Falls' hidden messages?

Speaking backwards fascinated the young Hirsch, who would play his recordings in reverse to practise, and reversed audio clues later ran through the series.

The digits 618, which open every Gravity Falls production code and Grunkle Stan's street address, stand for what?

The creator's birthday is June 18, so Alex Hirsch's date opens each production code and turns up again at 618 Gopher Road, home of the Mystery Shack.

Which Gravity Falls director went on to create Amphibia, the Disney series that later paid tribute to his old show?

Matt Braly directed episodes such as 'Soos and the Real Girl' and 'Northwest Mansion Mystery' before creating Amphibia.

Alongside California's Mystery Spot, which real roadside attraction helped inspire Grunkle Stan's tourist trap?

The Oregon Vortex was one of the roadside stops from the creator's childhood summer holidays that fed into the show.

Which nickname does Bill Cipher use for Dipper, after the symbol on the front of the boy's cap?

Pine Tree also marks Dipper's place on Bill's zodiac of ten symbols, where Soos is the question mark and Robbie the stitched heart.

Besides his floating top hat, which accessory completes the outfit of the one-eyed triangle Bill Cipher?

A bow tie is his only clothing apart from the hat, and because he has no mouth his whole body flashes brighter whenever he speaks.

When Bill Cipher loses his temper in Gravity Falls, his yellow body turns which colour as his voice deepens?

Red takes over his body while his eye turns black, and everything on him that was black, such as his hat, flips to white.

Bill Cipher takes over Dipper's body only after its owner agrees to a deal, sealed by a handshake wreathed in what?

Blue flames wrap his hand whenever a bargain is struck, and even at full power he cannot take over a body or a waking mind without that handshake.

During Weirdmageddon, Bill Cipher rules Gravity Falls from a towering throne that is built out of what?

Petrified townspeople, turned to stone by the lasers of his Eye Bats, are stacked up to form the seat, the town's mayor among them.

As Weirdmageddon begins, Bill Cipher locks Mabel away inside which kind of prison, home to her own dream world?

A giant bubble holds Mabel, and when Dipper, Soos and Wendy break in to rescue her they find it is her own personal paradise.

Bill Cipher is glimpsed in every episode of Gravity Falls season one because his image appears at the end of what?

The opening credits end on a flash of Bill ringed by ten symbols, so viewers saw him long before his first proper scene late in season one.

Once Weirdmageddon begins, what stops Bill Cipher and his monsters from spreading their chaos beyond Gravity Falls?

A force field hems him in, and Ford blames the same strange pull that draws so many oddities to the town in the first place.

In the finale of Gravity Falls, how do Stan and Ford fool Bill Cipher into making his deal with the wrong brother?

They swap clothes, so Bill, who is after an equation only Ford knows, strikes his bargain with the wrong twin.

Gideon first summons Bill Cipher to slip into Grunkle Stan's mind and steal which piece of information?

A safe combination is the prize, because Stan keeps the deed to the Mystery Shack locked inside and Gideon wants the building.

Bill Cipher first lures Dipper into a deal by offering the password to what, found in the author's bunker?

A laptop is about to wipe itself after too many wrong guesses when Dipper gives in, and Bill's price turns out to be the boy's own body.

While Bill Cipher is using Dipper's body, the boy's disembodied spirit can only speak to Mabel through what?

A sock puppet of himself, made for Mabel's stage show, gives Dipper a voice until she wears his stolen body out and Bill is forced to leave it.

What is the punning name of the giant pyramid that Bill Cipher summons as his castle during Weirdmageddon?

The Fearamid, a blend of fear and pyramid, hosts Bill's victory party and crumbles to nothing once he is destroyed.

When Ford refuses to join him during Weirdmageddon, Bill Cipher freezes him in which material as a back-scratcher?

Solid gold is Ford's fate after his one shot at Bill only clips the demon's top hat, and he stays frozen until Bill wants something from him.

One clue in the real-world Cipher Hunt for Bill Cipher's statue kept fans busy for days because it came as what?

A jigsaw puzzle of 2,000 pieces took several days to complete, with someone working on it almost around the clock.

The real-world Cipher Hunt for Bill Cipher's statue began with a clue hidden inside a cathedral in which country?

Russia held the first clue, tucked inside Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, in a country Alex Hirsch had visited for a convention that spring.

The Book of Bill reveals that Bill Cipher ended up in which interdimensional mental hospital after his defeat?

The Theraprism treats him with arts and crafts therapy, and the book itself is presented as something he made during those sessions.

Pacifica's father loses the Northwest family fortune by investing it all in which scheme of Bill Cipher's?

Weirdness bonds prove worthless once Bill is beaten, so the Northwests have to sell their mansion to the town's eccentric old inventor.

In the Gravity Falls finale, Mabel frees Stan and Ford by blinding Bill Cipher's single eye with what?

Spray paint to the eye distracts Bill long enough for the brothers to get free, and that eye is the slowest part of him to heal.

The hat on the real-life Bill Cipher statue had to be thrown away after becoming infested with what?

Fire ants ruined the hat while the statue sat in police custody, though Alex Hirsch at first believed a fan had stolen it.

Dipper Pines owes his nickname to a constellation-shaped birthmark that he hides on which part of his body?

His forehead carries a mark shaped like the Big Dipper, which he hides under his fringe until the episode 'Double Dipper' reveals it.

Which style of music does Dipper Pines secretly love, a guilty pleasure revealed in 'Dipper vs. Manliness'?

Bubblegum pop is his guilty pleasure, an awkward fit for an episode he spends trying to prove himself to a forest tribe of Manotaurs.

Which hapless local reporter writes for the Gravity Falls Gossiper newspaper?

Toby Determined sounds like 'to be determined', and the luckless newsman nurses a hopeless crush on TV reporter Shandra Jimenez.

The parents of gloomy teenage rocker Robbie Valentino are relentlessly cheerful members of which profession?

Undertakers by trade, the Valentinos are sunny where their son is sullen, and he finds their good cheer odd for people who handle funerals every day.

Mabel's stolen love potion pairs the heartbroken Robbie Valentino with which phone-obsessed friend of Wendy?

Tambry and Robbie stay together even after the potion wears off, which finally ends his moping over Wendy.

Before Mabel destroys it, the amulet worn by fake child psychic Li'l Gideon gives him which genuine power?

Telekinesis is real enough for Gideon to try to kill Dipper with it, which is why Mabel smashes the amulet and ends their brief courtship.

Which Gravity Falls resident worked for Grunkle Stan at the Mystery Shack until he was fired and replaced by Soos?

Deputy Durland held the post back in 2002, a flashback shows, but he was so clumsy and unreliable that Stan sacked him and hired a young Soos.

The mild-mannered father of child psychic Li'l Gideon earns his own living away from the stage by selling what?

Used cars are Bud's trade, and in season two his jailed son pushes him into running for mayor as a way to get out of prison.

Lazy Susan's permanently closed eye dates from a shock she received on Stan's first tour, caused by what?

One of Ford's gadgets zapped her on the very first tour Stan gave of his brother's house, which is how the waitress came by her lazy eye.

In 'Northwest Mansion Mystery', Pacifica defies her parents and lifts the curse on their party by doing what?

Letting the townsfolk in through the mansion gates makes amends to the workers who built the house and were then barred from it.