Gravity Falls' Theories

A Tale Of Two Stans

Yea it's blurry but u kno^

Character revelations

Grunkle Stan's real name is Stanley Pines, while the Author's name is Stanford Pines.(And let's talk about this, everyone in that town, actually thought Stanley was the mysterious person who lived in the woods this whole time. idk that's wow.)
Soos writes fanfictions about Stan.
Stan has been banned from at least thirty two states in America: New Jersey, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, Wyoming, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Vermont, New York, Ohio, , Missouri, Pennsylvania , North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Ford and Stan are about sixty years old or at least in their early sixty's.
Grunkle Stan's tattoo is actually a burn mark from the portal control console.
Lazy Susan got her eye burned in an accident at the first tour of the Mystery Shack which explains why her left eye is always closed.
Stanford and Stanley's father is named Filbrick.
Stanford and Stanley have a younger brother named Shermy Pines, who is Dipper and Mabel's paternal grandfather.
Stanley is the outcast of the family due to accidently breaking Stanford's device.
Stanley and Stanford were unexpected twins at birth
Blubs' first name is Daryl, as revealed by his name tag at the convenience store.
The Northwests' own a reality company.
When ford sees the mind eraser machine, he says one of 'these' meaning there is more.

This episode continues where Not What He Seems left off.
The science project next to the Ford's "Motion Machine" is a "Footbot 1000", appearantly a prototype of the Footbot in Stanley's story he tells during Bottomless Pit!.
The memory eraser from Society of the Blind Eye returns.
Shmebulock's father, Shmebulock Sr., is shown being examined by Ford.
Ford is featured briefly in The Time Traveler's Pig during the scene where Mabel and Dipper time travel to the house in the snow.
The Dusk2Dawn convenience store from The Inconveniencing is seen before it closed and Ma and Pa Duskerton are seen alive.
The Shape Shifter from Into the Bunker is seen hatched from an egg.
Octavia, the eight-legged cow from Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo appears as an illustration in Journal 1.
On 'the very real report' Stanford is reading the Agents, Mabel has drawn the possible outcome of the Snakes and Badgers lovechild, a snadger. A couple brought together previously on The Love God.
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The episode is thirty minutes long and its debut airing with no commercial breaks.[3] For reruns, the run time of this episode will be 38 minutes including ad breaks.
Since Ford and Stan are the twins's great uncles, the two brothers have another sibling, considering the fact that neither of them are Dipper and Mabel's grandfather. The other sibling is Shermy Pines, baby that Ma is seen holding when Stanley is kicked out.
In this episode, a new photo is added to the theme song. That Ford is putting the journal in his jacket.
This is the first episode where Mabel does not wear a different sweater.
When Stanford is looking at a map of the United States, a box nearby him can be seen reading Dungeons, Dungeons, and more Dungeons. This is the same title as the episode that follows this one.

A Tale of Two Stans Allusions

The title of this episode is a reference to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
The "Mothgar" poster in Stanley and Stanford's childhood room is based on the American theatrical poster for the 1961 film Mothra.
There is a poster in one of the rooms in the Mystery Shack which shows a colorful, bitten-off apple similar to the Apple logo, and the words "Ponder alternatively," which is a play on Apple's slogan "Think differently."
Stanford's explanation of Mcgucket is a reference to Apple creator Steve Job's origin where he started his company in his parents garage.
The Shamtotal is a parody of Shamwow!.
Stanford's car is dragged away by a treelike hand which is a reference to the season one promotional art.