Bottomless Pit!

"Bottomless Pit!" is the 14th episode in Season 1 of Gravity Falls.

Overview
While Stan, Dipper, Mabel and Soos are falling in a bottomless pit, they tell stories to pass the time.

Credits

 * Written by:
 * Directed by:
 * Storyboards by:
 * With the Voice Talents of:
 * Kristen Schaal - Mabel Pines
 * Jason Ritter - Dipper Pines
 * Alex Hirsch - Grunkle Stan and Soos
 * Linda Cardellini - Wendy Corduroy
 * Dee Bradley Baker - Waddles
 * Kevin Michael Richardson - Sheriff Blubs
 * Keith Ferguson - Deputy Durland
 * Alex Hirsch - Old Man McGucket
 * John DiMaggio - Manly Dan

Production notes

 * See also: List of allusions and List of goofs.

Series continuity

 * Dipper tells Robbie to jump into a bottomless pit, possibly the same one featured in this episode, in "The Time Traveler's Pig."
 * When Dipper talks to Old Man McGucket for the first time, he mentions the events that happened in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker."
 * This is the first episode to have Mabel reading 3.
 * This is the first episode where Stan encounters something with the twins.

Trivia

 * The synopsis of this episode was originally used in a promotion for the show.
 * In the unaired pilot there is a scene of Grunkle Stan, Mabel, and Dipper falling down the pit.
 * When the four are falling and it shows them in different shots (as seen above), Stan's fez looks different than in past episodes.
 * In Soos's story, the number 618 appears on the pinball machine.

Cryptogram
The cryptogram in the end credits reads "14-5-24-20 21-16: "6-15-15-20-2-15-20 20-23-15: 7-18-21-14-11-12-5'19 7-18-5-22-5-14-7-5"

which decoded reads: Next up: "Footbot Two: Grunckle's Grevenge"