When Dipper says "Blar-Blar", he is AWFULLY CLOSE to referencing a certain Tina Fey/Betty White SNL skit….

SOOS! SOOS! SOOOODIO! (If you don't remember that song, don't worry….Li'l Big Doggg's new single samples it! Boy, I can hardly wait 'til "Blanchin'4Eva" drops - gonna be some HOT jamz on this one!)

Only shame is, we are forever deprived of the chance to speculate that it's short for "Soossudio".

Oh, and regarding the Spanish, you're right, in fact up until this episode I thought that accent was supposed to be Italian.

The best part about that is that now we know, if ever someone sees him and says "Hey, Soos!", they're just saying his name.

The best case for this possibility is that the way that scene is executed makes no reference -not even a subtle background one- to the VERY well-established fact that the door to Stan's lair is back there. That in and of itself feels like a trick. Like the show WANTS you to think it's uncharacteristically unaware of…

Don't forget, it's entirely possible that that entrance has already been sealed and replaced with a different one. Not because there's any precise evidence of this, but simply because, well….let's say you had that thing in YOUR basement. And you built it yourself. and the entrance is already secret and hidden. Would…

The inverse of this problem is the Thing That Looks The Same From Every Angle Even Though It Shouldn't, which can be a handy shortcut in limited animation, but disasterous in full, because if one part moves AROUND when it moves and the other doesn't, how are we supposed to believe the two are connected, or even exist…

The eye-going-behind-the-hair bit is probably the product of Clashing Model Sheet Syndrome, a common affliction in animation. Here's what happens: The artist responsible for the character bible sees two distinct possibilities for how a part of a character's design can be handled by the animators, both of which are…

Because clearly he didn't give up on the ACT of tap dancing, only the full-time career. Nobody goes ten years without dancing and then fits perfectly into the same outfit and has exactly the same moves. He obviously kept practicing, he just never moved to New York. Or if he did, he was suddenly up against the best in…

I mean, you COULD look at it as her saying, "Look, you could tap-dance as well as Astaire, but as long as you stay in Gravity Falls, the only place that's going to hire you is The Mystery Shack." In which case she is exactly right.

So yes, in case you were wondering, what I'm saying is that Mabel is going to get EVEN MORE AWESOME.

Whaaaa?? That's a solid-gold instant classic Mabel Moment! And here's why: the fact that she writes a rock….sorry, SOCK opera introduced by Candy wearing Aladdin Sane facepaint a few episodes earlier is no accident - Mabel is all about cute, wacky things because she's 12, but like all kids (ESPECIALLY girls) who…

I'd like to take this opportunity to echo the sentiments of one John Mulaney: "Thirteen-year-olds are the meanest people in the world." As far as I'm concerned, the show could crank the selfishness of those characters up an additional nine zillion degrees and STILL be airbrushing the truth. Also, if you don't think…

Oh my god, they're becoming *gasp*…..REALISTIC ADOLESCENTS!

I find it ironic that Giffany having no sympathetic element is "regressive", while the same being true of Bill Cipher is simply entertainingly creepy. Is that inconsistent critique not an example of a sexist double standard in and of itself?

If Giffany has a quality that is subtly hinted at rather than outright stated, it is this: Go back to when she says, "My programmers tried to delete me….SO I HAD TO DELETE THEM." It would seem that those programmers made a mistake: They made her artificial enough to be completely vain, but not artificial enough to be…

This ongoing complete misunderstanding of that episode continues to baffle me. The subtext of Giffany was instantly obvious to me - her patterns of thinking and behavior match those of the people (read: MEN) who created and cultivate the subculture she embodies. She is simultaneously shallow enough to need someone who…

I would also add, on a less analytical and more purely humour-related note, that Giffany's inability to posess more than one dimension is also a happily convenient excuse to give her THAT VOICE. Good god, some of those line readings are going to take a loooong time to grow old for me. HA.HA. HA.HA. HA.HA. HA.HA. HA.HA.

Yes, in THEORY it would be nice if this episode were built around a more nuanced protagonist/antagonist dynamic. The only problem is it's 2014, which WILL -mark my words- go down in history as the year the fight to permanently force the issue of rape and domestic abuse into the spotlight of serious societal discourse…