So, awkward confession: When this show started I was in high school, but when I started high school I told myself to grow up & stop watching cartoons. However, I heard a few classmates talking about Gravity Falls, so I decided to sit down 1 day & watch it. Unfortunately, Not What He Seems was the very 1st episode I watched since it was airing new the night I decided to finally start watching the show. So, not only did I get spoiled for the 1st Season & half of the 2nd, but then the 2nd Season went on hiatus for half a year. On the bright side, I binged watch the rest of the show & fell in love with it, but I was still spoiled since so much of the show led up to this moment.
It's been suspected that Mabel didn’t trust Stan until he said “Please” and as we and Mabel learned in S1E13, “Boss Mabel” Stan has trouble saying “Please”. That's how she knew he was serious, what this meant to him. Such a great callback.
Mabel's "I trust you" line is quite possibly the most dramatic moment of the whole show. We as the audience don't know if we should trust Grunkle Stan because even to us his intentions weren't made clear. We don't know what his plans are and we don't know if he's using the machine for his own selfish intentions or the good of the world. We can just hope.
It's made even better by the fact that we had an ENTIRE EPISODE dedicated to Stan's inability to say "please" and the competition between him and Mabel that spawned because of it. He said "please" here, showing Mabel exactly how important this was to him, and _that_ is why she trusted him.
I also remember that Mable's saying "I trust you" to Stan had also unintentionally created this conflict of choosing Stan over her brother that made everyone in the Gravity Falls fandom/community just hate Mable (well her being annoying mostly but still)
Spoilers for people who haven't watched past this point: Well, it also doomed the world too. The portal is the focus of the entire show when you think about it.
@theAstarrr SPOILERS Really, this entire show is his fault. Because if he would have just destroyed his journals instead of trying to hide them, he and everyone else would be ok
@@mag-narwhal well one point of keeping them is, what if someone else did something dangerous, the journals were useful for stopping things. Like how the zombies could have gotten to them in the s2 premiere. Edit: yes ok bad example Dipper used the book to summon them. But some stuff was just happening because Gravity Falls had the weird dimension leaking into it. The books were pretty helpful with info
@@theAstarrr The zombies only came out because dipper used as a book. Plus you wouldn't hide them if you wanted the knowledge to be around for safety. He was just too obsessed with his own work he couldn't part with it.
you're talking about the zombie that dipper made come by using the journal ? in general the book did cause way more issue than it resolved @@theAstarrr
one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in the entire show is when Soos, Mabel and Dipper go down the stairs behind the vending machine and they says “It’s like something out of a video game… or a dream… or a nightmare” that line alone is a perfect representation of the three characters and how they view the world around them. It’s so small and often over looked but i love it
What makes this episode so special, is that it actually makes us doubt Stan, even though we should know better. Most Disney shows would never dare to turn one of their lead characters into a potential villain but here we are, contemplating about wether the portal should be closed or not. That's a damn impressive feat for a kids cartoon.
I agree it was one of those what just happened moments that will live on and remember forever like it was amazing. That’s why it’s one of my favorite cartoons/TV shows of all time from Disney. They did it hit it on the park there I think they did a great job in my opinion
Not only that but when Stan is being taken by the police he swears he didn't do it and its genuinely believable, I think everyone trusted him when he said that because he legit said "This time I'm innocent." Then we see later PROOF that he did do it, and it makes us and the characters feel betrayed. Which makes us more likely to believe that he now was doing something bad.
@@bel410la yeah, he was actually doing something bad until we all realize he was never actually doing nothing bad he was just doing something crazy and doing something bad only just so he can try and do the right thing by doing something that almost ruined, and could’ve haunted his life forever that’s why it all started to make sense
Fun fact: Dana Terrace animated the reveal of the Author. It was a scene so important that Alex Hirsch and the team didn't want this job sourced outside the US. And Stan's bandaged hand happened in episode 7 (Society of the Blind Eye).
" the author of the journals... my brother! " i was not part of the fandom when the show was coming out but as someone who actually jumped out of her siit after hearing that line , i can only imagine how chaotic it must've been 😂
it's not just plot and progression, the art direction , the voice acting , the jokes , the little character moments, the animation , the vibes , this episode is a masterpiece no matter which angle you look to it from
That and also "akshually 🤓☝️" he was kinda saying the truth. The U.S. government was accusing him of purposely building a "doomsday" device to end the world. When in reality he was just trying to get his brother back despite it being very dangerous. To stans eyes he really was innocent because he had no ill intentions, and in a way he kinda was.
mabel kinda carried the progression of this episode ✅️ got them out of the car ✅️ found the records ✅️ knew the code belonged to the vending machine ✅️ didn't push the bottom MABEL SUPREMACY
It’s because the twins were trying to solve a question about Stan, Mabel gets Stan, they think the same way, so to her finding the answer was second nature, whereas for Dipper he couldn’t think in that way, it’s like the Silliest President episode.
Kids nowadays complain that they had to wait till the summer for a new Murder drones episode. They have no idea what my generation and I had to endure waiting for "The tale of two Stan".
Remember how Stan did not like using the magic word in Boss Mabel? He actually said it to her during the countdown. Probably one of the reasons why Mabel didn’t press that button
Something people don't often notice, the broken swing set from Dreamscapers, is the exact same one Stanley and Stanford are sitting on in the post credits scene
isn't it crazy that stan, who didn't finish high school, who never went to college, who had none of his brother's knowledge of mathematics, machinery, or physics, was able to put together a portal to another dimension. he spent 30 years working at what should have been a futile endeavor. and he succeeded.
Well if it was only by Stan, he would never make it to work, but let’s not forget after a long time he gathered the 3 journals, when he got Gideon and copied Dipper’s one, he finally got the full manual of the machine.
That's what's cool about this. Stan had to aquire the knowledge and intelligence to get the portal working again but Ford likely had to learn to fight and defend himself during his dimensional travels. Each spent the last 30 years learning to do what always came natural to the other.
_THIRTY YEARS AND NOW HE'S BACK_ _THE MYSTERY IN THE MYSTERY SHACK_ Fun fact about this pivotal episode! Before this episode aired there had been several years worth of discussions and theories proposed among the _Gravity Falls_ fanbase about the identity of the author. Some were very far off the mark, but a few correctly deduced that it was Stan's brother. Some of the main points they sighted came from looking deeper at Stan's memories from the season 1 episode "Dreamscaperers" that showed memories that hinted at a past family relative (the swing set with one broken swing next to another working one, the kid with his face obscured by a book in the background of Stan's boxing class memory that had a similar hairstyle). They also looked at the way Stan reacted to the murder of his Wax figure (believing it was like losing his brother again) and how he looked oddly contemplative while holding a pair of glasses he found in the unknown Mystery Shack room in "Carpet Diem." The fan theory that arose from those observations was that Stan had a sibling (likely a brother) who was the author of the journals. Something horrible had also happened between the two that resulted in them being separated and Stan's work to locate and use all three journals was an attempt to fix something he had broken. The problem for Alex Hirsch was that this fan theory was spot on and threatened to ruin the big reveal he had planned for season 2. So, in an effort to throw people off the trail, he enacted what became known as "The McGucket Hoax." Using a different Twitter account, he posted a fake screenshot of a younger-looking McGucket writing in one of the journals, claiming he had acquired it from a leaked episode from season 2. Then, from his main twitter account, he re-tweeted the fake leak sounding outraged that such a breach could happen and that his entire narrative setup for the moment was compromised. It actually worked in throwing most people off, thus preserving the big reveal. Just another amazing layer of creative engagement the creators had with the show's viewers.
which is so freaking genius by the way that is a perfect way to throw them off track because I imagine if that never happened and someone would’ve guessed it already The show would’ve been ruined because we already knew that it had been something like that thank God that wasn’t the case
To add to this, according to an interview with one of the people working on the show, Alex saw the theory gaining traction on Tumblr and immediately called an all-hands meeting to come up with a way to throw people off. He had one is the artists draw the younger McGucket with six fingers (the older one notably has bandages on one of his arms) writing in the journal, and he staged the photo to make it look like someone has just been walking by, saw it, and snapped a photo. He posted it to Reddit and left it there for a little bit before deleting and burying it.
@@Gestrid that is pretty awesome sick all at the same time I never knew about the fact of the show until now it’s a pretty fascinating story I’m glad that you guys are saying about it now so thank i always know about it, but I didn’t know about it until now
21:56. True, Stan should've explained more about what was going on, however, time was running out and one doesn't tend to think straight under enormous pressure, not to mention the twins and Soos would have more questions like "You have a brother?" "Why have you never mentioned him before now?" etc. all of which he wouldn't have time to answer.
i can’t help but tear up every time i watch this episode, everyone’s complete desperation: Stan’s for family, Dipper’s to protect and Mabel’s to trust. Stans facial expression/voice acting, and Mabel letting go and floating up, this scene is one of my favorites in all cartoons i’ve watched. Love these characters so much.
Gravity falls is probably my favorite show of all time, and this episode is a major part of why. Definitely one of those “you had to be there” moments in the fandom. Honestly this ranks in my top 5 favorite episodes of any show I’ve seen.
So, awkward confession: When this show started I was in high school, but when I started high school I told myself to grow up & stop watching cartoons. However, I heard a few classmates talking about Gravity Falls, so I decided to sit down 1 day & watch it. Unfortunately, Not What He Seems was the very 1st episode I watched since it was airing new the night I decided to finally start watching the show. So, not only did I get spoiled for the 1st Season & half of the 2nd, but then the 2nd Season went on hiatus for half a year. On the bright side, I binged watch the rest of the show & fell in love with it, but I was still spoiled since so much of the show led up to this moment.
if you look at the swing in the post credit scene , it the same one from stan's mind although destroyed . I like that detail a lot it tells you the relation between the brothers
7:37 I like how there was also a (sort of) clue by that report card in the back, acing everything BUT phys ed seems like the exact opposite of something Stanley would do in school
One of the coolest forms of easter eggs is actually Stan's bandage. He injured himself in 2x7 (Society of the Blind Eye) and ever since he's had the bandage on to as a little nod to say like "Don't worry. We haven't forgotten about what Stan's up to."
I watched this episode in the living room when this aired. I roped my sister into watching it by season 2, and by this point, i had managed to wrangle mom away from the dishes to watch it. We were screaming, hollering, going "WHAT?!" I wasnt part of the internet discourse back then, but i distinctly remember how impactful this episode was for me.
11:49 I don't know why, but almost no one pays attention to the fact that the newspaper says Stan, not Stanford, as it should be written in the official style.
Kinda a neat thing, Twins are a genetic thing and can run in the family, some people are more predisposed to having twins and you can see it through generations!
Like the Philip Wittebane/Belos twist, the twin brother twist was fairly easy to figure out if you pay attention to the small details. (The Belos thing was slightly easier to predict imo) However, the story, the characters/character development, the relationships, the emotion, and everything else in between are what makes these series phenomenal, despite certain plot twists being fairly easy to predict. 💜
The Owl house had the problem that Gravity Falls raised a generation of fans who literally do nothing but theorizing. But yes, the Philip twist was easier to catch since Ford was never mentioned, unlike Philip. Not to mention that Dana couldn't fake a leek.
The prank show that was shown on the TV is supposed to be a parody of a show that was also playing on Disney Channel at the time called Walk the Prank. At least, I think so lol
that happend in a dredits scene aboot the matchene... it was an easter egg to make sure fans new they hadnt forgoten through a large portion of episodes that didn't aknolage it 7:48
If you go back and watch the episode with the time traveler, when Dipper and Mabel are back at the Shack while in the past, if you look closely, you'll see it's Stan's brother who sicks his head outside, not Stan.
Yeah. The way season 2 aired on Disney XD was very spread out over the span of three years. I initially thought Season 2x11 was the Season 2 finale and it felt that way when it originally aired (March 9, 2015). 2x12 aired in July 13, 2015 and it really felt like the start of Season 3
The best part about the twin twist is that it was hinted at the entire time. You can go back to the start of the series and the foreknowledge of Stan's twin allows you to pick up on the clues.
This episode has many callbacks. The swing in the after credits scene actually shows up in the first Bill episode but in that episode the swing is broken and the toys are also broken almost like something was missing and because of that its left damaged. Its meant to represent Stan being broken without his brother. Mabel trusted Stan because she knows its impossible for him to say please and in this moment he said it. She knows he isn't lying because he was able to say the one word he can't say normally. Also this is not the first time you see his brother. In the time travel episode you see his brother look outside in the winter also I think the Stan you see on Bill was the brother. Also you see his brother's glasses when Stan grabs them in the body swapping episode. When his wax figure shows up in the wax figure episode Stan is initially scared because he thought it was his brother at first and he is so happy to have wax Stan around because it reminds him of his brother. When Wax Stan is killed Stan feels the loss of his brother all over again.
"Wait... So why is he saying he's innocent" Oh sweet summer child, that's called "lying" xD Joke aside I get what you mean, when a character says something like: Wait, I'm innocent *this time* 99% of the time they're genuinely innocent from this specific crime even if they're delinquents or criminal otherwise, especially if they're sympathetic figures. GF's writers used our own meta knowledge against us.
We see his brother in a couple of episodes. Mainly in one where they are in Stan's mind S1E19. When we get his flashbacks about learning boxing. Also in the episode where Dipper and Mabel go back in time to get back the pig and etc. At one point they are in the past when the shack wasn't a tourist attraction and we get to see Stan, but look at the glasses he's wearing there. There is also a subtle hint in season 1, the episode about carpet that changes bodies. The whole thing was started when Soos found a room that even Stan didn't know about. If you watch him entering that room, he picks up and quickly hides glasses that were on a stand there, ones that were worn by Stan in the flashback I talked previously.
Lol I've literally seen this whole show before but even so rewatching this episode I had the same reaction as Kenny. "Wait, there's more after this? Isn't this finale material??"
I had a lot of fun listening to you guys' theories while watching this episode. I wish we we're this blind to the story when me and my siblings watched this cause we only started watching after the author reveal (since people started talking about it and how good the story is and we were curious enough to want to check it out).
"Shermy" is a younger sibling of Stanford and Stanley. If "Shermy" is female, and the Mystery Twins are her kids, that would make them bastards, if they were conceived out of wedlock. (Unless there's a "Joe Pines" at the marriage altar.;)
No, they're Stan's brother's grandkids (not the brother that came out of the portal though). In the next episode Stan refers to Dipper and Mabel as "Shermie's grandkids," with "Shermie" being short for Sherman.
I have been waiting for so long for you guys to get to this episode ahhhhh. I love this show. Please watch Doctor Who next, its an amazing show and I would love to see you discuss some of the ethical dilemmas the show encounters.
You should really watch Steven universe after this! The episodes are quite short so you could always do two in one but the show deals with really important topics such as grief and identity so I think Montana would really like it!
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So, awkward confession: When this show started I was in high school, but when I started high school I told myself to grow up & stop watching cartoons. However, I heard a few classmates talking about Gravity Falls, so I decided to sit down 1 day & watch it. Unfortunately, Not What He Seems was the very 1st episode I watched since it was airing new the night I decided to finally start watching the show. So, not only did I get spoiled for the 1st Season & half of the 2nd, but then the 2nd Season went on hiatus for half a year. On the bright side, I binged watch the rest of the show & fell in love with it, but I was still spoiled since so much of the show led up to this moment.
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It's been suspected that Mabel didn’t trust Stan until he said “Please” and as we and Mabel learned in S1E13, “Boss Mabel” Stan has trouble saying “Please”. That's how she knew he was serious, what this meant to him. Such a great callback.
One of the most powerful scenes in the show.
i like that detail sm
Oh my gooosh
Damn
I love how so called "filler" episodes are actually foreshadow that we just didn't understand at the time. Just like so many on season 1
Mabel's "I trust you" line is quite possibly the most dramatic moment of the whole show. We as the audience don't know if we should trust Grunkle Stan because even to us his intentions weren't made clear. We don't know what his plans are and we don't know if he's using the machine for his own selfish intentions or the good of the world. We can just hope.
It's made even better by the fact that we had an ENTIRE EPISODE dedicated to Stan's inability to say "please" and the competition between him and Mabel that spawned because of it.
He said "please" here, showing Mabel exactly how important this was to him, and _that_ is why she trusted him.
Ikr! I got goosebumps when I first heard it
I also remember that Mable's saying "I trust you" to Stan had also unintentionally created this conflict of choosing Stan over her brother that made everyone in the Gravity Falls fandom/community just hate Mable (well her being annoying mostly but still)
We only find out about it, if partially, AFTER it's too late to turn back as well.
The irony.
In the first episode, the author told us, not to trust anyone. And it was trust, the thing that saved him.
Irony
Spoilers for people who haven't watched past this point:
Well, it also doomed the world too.
The portal is the focus of the entire show when you think about it.
@theAstarrr SPOILERS
Really, this entire show is his fault. Because if he would have just destroyed his journals instead of trying to hide them, he and everyone else would be ok
@@mag-narwhal well one point of keeping them is, what if someone else did something dangerous, the journals were useful for stopping things.
Like how the zombies could have gotten to them in the s2 premiere.
Edit: yes ok bad example Dipper used the book to summon them. But some stuff was just happening because Gravity Falls had the weird dimension leaking into it. The books were pretty helpful with info
@@theAstarrr The zombies only came out because dipper used as a book.
Plus you wouldn't hide them if you wanted the knowledge to be around for safety. He was just too obsessed with his own work he couldn't part with it.
you're talking about the zombie that dipper made come by using the journal ? in general the book did cause way more issue than it resolved @@theAstarrr
one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in the entire show is when Soos, Mabel and Dipper go down the stairs behind the vending machine and they says “It’s like something out of a video game… or a dream… or a nightmare” that line alone is a perfect representation of the three characters and how they view the world around them. It’s so small and often over looked but i love it
So glad someone is finally talking about that 👏
What makes this episode so special, is that it actually makes us doubt Stan, even though we should know better. Most Disney shows would never dare to turn one of their lead characters into a potential villain but here we are, contemplating about wether the portal should be closed or not. That's a damn impressive feat for a kids cartoon.
I agree it was one of those what just happened moments that will live on and remember forever like it was amazing. That’s why it’s one of my favorite cartoons/TV shows of all time from Disney. They did it hit it on the park there I think they did a great job in my opinion
Well it's also like, "Disney gives us twist villains all the time!" It's a little plausible when you're watching it
@@kristenyarbrough4287 sometimes, but not all the time so I think you’re wrong but it’s not just always possible
Not only that but when Stan is being taken by the police he swears he didn't do it and its genuinely believable, I think everyone trusted him when he said that because he legit said "This time I'm innocent." Then we see later PROOF that he did do it, and it makes us and the characters feel betrayed. Which makes us more likely to believe that he now was doing something bad.
@@bel410la yeah, he was actually doing something bad until we all realize he was never actually doing nothing bad he was just doing something crazy and doing something bad only just so he can try and do the right thing by doing something that almost ruined, and could’ve haunted his life forever that’s why it all started to make sense
Kenny: "Do you think Stan has to be there when it happens?"
Montana: "No"
Stan, at the EXACT same time: "I gotta be there when it happens!"
Fun fact: Dana Terrace animated the reveal of the Author. It was a scene so important that Alex Hirsch and the team didn't want this job sourced outside the US.
And Stan's bandaged hand happened in episode 7 (Society of the Blind Eye).
" the author of the journals... my brother! "
i was not part of the fandom when the show was coming out but as someone who actually jumped out of her siit after hearing that line , i can only imagine how chaotic it must've been 😂
As someone who was hearing the theories while this show was ongoing, I was bewildered when I saw how spot on the theories were.
As someone who was there, i can confirm this episode exploded the fandom. The chaos was unparalleled
Just saying: tables were flipped.)
it's not just plot and progression, the art direction , the voice acting , the jokes , the little character moments, the animation , the vibes , this episode is a masterpiece no matter which angle you look to it from
11:25 “so why is he saying he’s innocent?”
Because he doesn’t want to go to prison, Kenny.
right lmaoo who would admit to be guilty
That and also "akshually 🤓☝️" he was kinda saying the truth. The U.S. government was accusing him of purposely building a "doomsday" device to end the world. When in reality he was just trying to get his brother back despite it being very dangerous. To stans eyes he really was innocent because he had no ill intentions, and in a way he kinda was.
mabel kinda carried the progression of this episode
✅️ got them out of the car
✅️ found the records
✅️ knew the code belonged to the vending machine
✅️ didn't push the bottom
MABEL SUPREMACY
Her sweater says it all: She was the *key*
It’s because the twins were trying to solve a question about Stan, Mabel gets Stan, they think the same way, so to her finding the answer was second nature, whereas for Dipper he couldn’t think in that way, it’s like the Silliest President episode.
dont forget the grappling hook
(Spoilers if you haven't finished the series)
Not pushing the button did lead to Weirdmageddon though. Stan got Ford back but at a huge cost.
A shame that her character will never be handled this well again.
Kids nowadays complain that they had to wait till the summer for a new Murder drones episode. They have no idea what my generation and I had to endure waiting for "The tale of two Stan".
Remember how Stan did not like using the magic word in Boss Mabel? He actually said it to her during the countdown. Probably one of the reasons why Mabel didn’t press that button
Something people don't often notice, the broken swing set from Dreamscapers, is the exact same one Stanley and Stanford are sitting on in the post credits scene
dreamscaperers
The fact that Stan had a lost twin brother explains so much his overreaction over the "death" of his wax statue.
isn't it crazy that stan, who didn't finish high school, who never went to college, who had none of his brother's knowledge of mathematics, machinery, or physics, was able to put together a portal to another dimension. he spent 30 years working at what should have been a futile endeavor. and he succeeded.
Well if it was only by Stan, he would never make it to work, but let’s not forget after a long time he gathered the 3 journals, when he got Gideon and copied Dipper’s one, he finally got the full manual of the machine.
That's what's cool about this. Stan had to aquire the knowledge and intelligence to get the portal working again but Ford likely had to learn to fight and defend himself during his dimensional travels.
Each spent the last 30 years learning to do what always came natural to the other.
Since Stan has trouble with the word "please" (as seen in the episode Boss Mabel), him saying it made Mabel trust him. 💜
_THIRTY YEARS AND NOW HE'S BACK_
_THE MYSTERY IN THE MYSTERY SHACK_
Fun fact about this pivotal episode!
Before this episode aired there had been several years worth of discussions and theories proposed among the _Gravity Falls_ fanbase about the identity of the author. Some were very far off the mark, but a few correctly deduced that it was Stan's brother. Some of the main points they sighted came from looking deeper at Stan's memories from the season 1 episode "Dreamscaperers" that showed memories that hinted at a past family relative (the swing set with one broken swing next to another working one, the kid with his face obscured by a book in the background of Stan's boxing class memory that had a similar hairstyle). They also looked at the way Stan reacted to the murder of his Wax figure (believing it was like losing his brother again) and how he looked oddly contemplative while holding a pair of glasses he found in the unknown Mystery Shack room in "Carpet Diem."
The fan theory that arose from those observations was that Stan had a sibling (likely a brother) who was the author of the journals. Something horrible had also happened between the two that resulted in them being separated and Stan's work to locate and use all three journals was an attempt to fix something he had broken.
The problem for Alex Hirsch was that this fan theory was spot on and threatened to ruin the big reveal he had planned for season 2. So, in an effort to throw people off the trail, he enacted what became known as "The McGucket Hoax."
Using a different Twitter account, he posted a fake screenshot of a younger-looking McGucket writing in one of the journals, claiming he had acquired it from a leaked episode from season 2. Then, from his main twitter account, he re-tweeted the fake leak sounding outraged that such a breach could happen and that his entire narrative setup for the moment was compromised.
It actually worked in throwing most people off, thus preserving the big reveal. Just another amazing layer of creative engagement the creators had with the show's viewers.
which is so freaking genius by the way that is a perfect way to throw them off track because I imagine if that never happened and someone would’ve guessed it already The show would’ve been ruined because we already knew that it had been something like that thank God that wasn’t the case
To add to this, according to an interview with one of the people working on the show, Alex saw the theory gaining traction on Tumblr and immediately called an all-hands meeting to come up with a way to throw people off. He had one is the artists draw the younger McGucket with six fingers (the older one notably has bandages on one of his arms) writing in the journal, and he staged the photo to make it look like someone has just been walking by, saw it, and snapped a photo. He posted it to Reddit and left it there for a little bit before deleting and burying it.
@@Gestrid that is pretty awesome sick all at the same time I never knew about the fact of the show until now it’s a pretty fascinating story I’m glad that you guys are saying about it now so thank i always know about it, but I didn’t know about it until now
@Gestrid this actually sounds fun ! i love when creators are this involved in fandom shenanigans but not in a cringe way
@@satiramalek2572 facts I guess
21:56. True, Stan should've explained more about what was going on, however, time was running out and one doesn't tend to think straight under enormous pressure, not to mention the twins and Soos would have more questions like "You have a brother?" "Why have you never mentioned him before now?" etc. all of which he wouldn't have time to answer.
i can’t help but tear up every time i watch this episode, everyone’s complete desperation: Stan’s for family, Dipper’s to protect and Mabel’s to trust. Stans facial expression/voice acting, and Mabel letting go and floating up, this scene is one of my favorites in all cartoons i’ve watched. Love these characters so much.
the fact that when stanley escaped he took the agent wallet to pay the taxi guy is amazing alex did so much work on gravity falls and its crazy
Gravity falls is probably my favorite show of all time, and this episode is a major part of why. Definitely one of those “you had to be there” moments in the fandom. Honestly this ranks in my top 5 favorite episodes of any show I’ve seen.
7:47: Stan got a cut on his hand at the end of episode 2x07 and has had that bandage ever since.
I personally really like the fact that they kept the continuity from the end of “Society of the Blind Eye” very well done
11:25 an advanced technique, it's called lying
So, awkward confession: When this show started I was in high school, but when I started high school I told myself to grow up & stop watching cartoons. However, I heard a few classmates talking about Gravity Falls, so I decided to sit down 1 day & watch it. Unfortunately, Not What He Seems was the very 1st episode I watched since it was airing new the night I decided to finally start watching the show. So, not only did I get spoiled for the 1st Season & half of the 2nd, but then the 2nd Season went on hiatus for half a year. On the bright side, I binged watch the rest of the show & fell in love with it, but I was still spoiled since so much of the show led up to this moment.
if you look at the swing in the post credit scene , it the same one from stan's mind although destroyed . I like that detail a lot it tells you the relation between the brothers
7:37 I like how there was also a (sort of) clue by that report card in the back, acing everything BUT phys ed seems like the exact opposite of something Stanley would do in school
One of the coolest forms of easter eggs is actually Stan's bandage. He injured himself in 2x7 (Society of the Blind Eye) and ever since he's had the bandage on to as a little nod to say like "Don't worry. We haven't forgotten about what Stan's up to."
EVERYTHING CHANGES.
I watched this episode in the living room when this aired. I roped my sister into watching it by season 2, and by this point, i had managed to wrangle mom away from the dishes to watch it. We were screaming, hollering, going "WHAT?!" I wasnt part of the internet discourse back then, but i distinctly remember how impactful this episode was for me.
11:49 I don't know why, but almost no one pays attention to the fact that the newspaper says Stan, not Stanford, as it should be written in the official style.
Kinda a neat thing, Twins are a genetic thing and can run in the family, some people are more predisposed to having twins and you can see it through generations!
Like the Philip Wittebane/Belos twist, the twin brother twist was fairly easy to figure out if you pay attention to the small details. (The Belos thing was slightly easier to predict imo) However, the story, the characters/character development, the relationships, the emotion, and everything else in between are what makes these series phenomenal, despite certain plot twists being fairly easy to predict. 💜
The Owl house had the problem that Gravity Falls raised a generation of fans who literally do nothing but theorizing. But yes, the Philip twist was easier to catch since Ford was never mentioned, unlike Philip. Not to mention that Dana couldn't fake a leek.
The prank show that was shown on the TV is supposed to be a parody of a show that was also playing on Disney Channel at the time called Walk the Prank. At least, I think so lol
nah it's meant to be a parody of the classic Punk'd. a prankshow from back in the day, pranking celebs.
@@theswedishdude1 ohhh okay lol
30 years, and now he's back,
the mystery in the mystery shack.
Stan? going to the police? ahhahaahaaha, good one.
Interesting I always interpreted it that the day normally ends up being saved because of Mabel trusting people.
IT'S THE MOMENT YOU GUYS HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR AND ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT! IT'S FINALLY HERE!
That would be the episode AFTER this episode
@@masteroox THAT TOO!
Stans reaction to his Wax figure also makes a lot of sense when you know he has a twin
If you go back to the dreamscapers episode you can see the same swing set that you see at the end of this episode
this show was my whole childhood and this episode was HUGE I can't wait to see the reaction
that happend in a dredits scene aboot the matchene... it was an easter egg to make sure fans new they hadnt forgoten through a large portion of episodes that didn't aknolage it 7:48
7:49 this is when I realize how forgetful we can be in just a span of a few days 😔 (I'm the worst at remembering things)
If you go back and watch the episode with the time traveler, when Dipper and Mabel are back at the Shack while in the past, if you look closely, you'll see it's Stan's brother who sicks his head outside, not Stan.
Yeah. The way season 2 aired on Disney XD was very spread out over the span of three years. I initially thought Season 2x11 was the Season 2 finale and it felt that way when it originally aired (March 9, 2015).
2x12 aired in July 13, 2015 and it really felt like the start of Season 3
This episode is so dark and shocking. The ending surprised everybody. Stan has a twin brother, and he's the author of the journals
😲😲😲😱😱😱
The best part about the twin twist is that it was hinted at the entire time. You can go back to the start of the series and the foreknowledge of Stan's twin allows you to pick up on the clues.
Mable noticed, Stan said "please"
We're now on the home stretch to the big day! 💜
This episode has many callbacks. The swing in the after credits scene actually shows up in the first Bill episode but in that episode the swing is broken and the toys are also broken almost like something was missing and because of that its left damaged. Its meant to represent Stan being broken without his brother. Mabel trusted Stan because she knows its impossible for him to say please and in this moment he said it. She knows he isn't lying because he was able to say the one word he can't say normally. Also this is not the first time you see his brother. In the time travel episode you see his brother look outside in the winter also I think the Stan you see on Bill was the brother. Also you see his brother's glasses when Stan grabs them in the body swapping episode. When his wax figure shows up in the wax figure episode Stan is initially scared because he thought it was his brother at first and he is so happy to have wax Stan around because it reminds him of his brother. When Wax Stan is killed Stan feels the loss of his brother all over again.
I swear you get a new animal every new series
Attack Glitter: It's Pretty But It Hurts!
Product name and slogan, all in one
"Wait... So why is he saying he's innocent" Oh sweet summer child, that's called "lying" xD Joke aside I get what you mean, when a character says something like: Wait, I'm innocent *this time* 99% of the time they're genuinely innocent from this specific crime even if they're delinquents or criminal otherwise, especially if they're sympathetic figures. GF's writers used our own meta knowledge against us.
It also took me some time to understand the pig joke 😂
The best episode in whole Gravity Falls! Even final, which is also incredibly amazing, isn't as outstanding as this episode in my opinion.
Next week...MASSIVE lore drop! 💜
I really hope someday I find someone that I can enjoy shows like this with like you two do! Be sure to always treasure each other!
We see his brother in a couple of episodes. Mainly in one where they are in Stan's mind S1E19. When we get his flashbacks about learning boxing. Also in the episode where Dipper and Mabel go back in time to get back the pig and etc. At one point they are in the past when the shack wasn't a tourist attraction and we get to see Stan, but look at the glasses he's wearing there.
There is also a subtle hint in season 1, the episode about carpet that changes bodies. The whole thing was started when Soos found a room that even Stan didn't know about. If you watch him entering that room, he picks up and quickly hides glasses that were on a stand there, ones that were worn by Stan in the flashback I talked previously.
My partner and I just adopted our first cat as a couple (we each brought one to the relationship). Love that you named it Waddles.
Lol I've literally seen this whole show before but even so rewatching this episode I had the same reaction as Kenny. "Wait, there's more after this? Isn't this finale material??"
Not kenny with the shirt sizer sticker still on LMAO, good episode btw!
I had a lot of fun listening to you guys' theories while watching this episode. I wish we we're this blind to the story when me and my siblings watched this cause we only started watching after the author reveal (since people started talking about it and how good the story is and we were curious enough to want to check it out).
2:41 bro casually predict the whole plot of this episode
My favorite episode, nice Reaction and directly after this is "The Story of two Stans" 2nd best episode xD
An interesting note about the end credit scene: in the episode where they go into Stan's mind, there's a swingset with two broken swings.
i think this was Dana Terraces (the owl house creator) first story board
pretty sure dipper and Mabel are stans sisters grandkids, though I can't remember for sure. his sister is a few years younger then him.
"Shermy" is a younger sibling of Stanford and Stanley. If "Shermy" is female, and the Mystery Twins are her kids, that would make them bastards, if they were conceived out of wedlock. (Unless there's a "Joe Pines" at the marriage altar.;)
No, they're Stan's brother's grandkids (not the brother that came out of the portal though). In the next episode Stan refers to Dipper and Mabel as "Shermie's grandkids," with "Shermie" being short for Sherman.
"grandpa shermie" was confirmed to be his full title in the video games
This episodes is one of my favorites
12:30 Kenny that's basically fullmetal alchemist 😂😂😂
This is my favourite episode of the series! The next episode is a banger too. 😊
Thee show has so many nods to its previous episodes all so subtle but great
Your mics and voices create such a mix... I feel like listening to an ASMR video
Watching this live was the peak of my childhood
This is the wholesome version of "the author of the journal has a brother".
I cant wait to see your reaction to the next episode. I know it’ll be amazing.
oh 2x11 dang let me catch up
this episode is where it starts to get REALLY good
noticing the bandage on stans hand at the last possible episode 😅
This episode was the perfect payoff for an amazing setup the whole way.
"I came here as soon as I could!!"
Wonder if y'all will recognize the Author's voice next episode . . .
They'll probably recognize it as Tenzin from LOK.
@@Delta_Aves That's exactly what I was thinking.
And that man killed Inigo Montoya's father
>are they trying to recruit him
BASED!
I have been waiting for so long for you guys to get to this episode ahhhhh. I love this show. Please watch Doctor Who next, its an amazing show and I would love to see you discuss some of the ethical dilemmas the show encounters.
Jesus Kenny you are so smart
How the hell did Kenny guess the entire plot in 30 seconds 😭😭
React to Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts or Amphibia after Gravity Falls
You should really watch Steven universe after this! The episodes are quite short so you could always do two in one but the show deals with really important topics such as grief and identity so I think Montana would really like it!
1:15 Well, now it is!
oh my what a twist
NOO I'M GONNA BE AT SCHOOL
I literally can't wait omggggg
Can we get a kenny says 'woah' counter
Kenny “Genius” 🙂lol bruh whatever tho 😂
3:50
Let her talk bro , stop yapping
Best episode in the series 👏
Guys do a reaction on Heavenly Delusion, I bet you’ll like it
OMG WADDLES!!!
I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED IT