User blog:JessicaFin23/Episode Descriptions

Here's a list of episode descriptions which are put into my own words.


 * Tourist Trapped - Dipper relates the tale of how he came to find a mysterious journal in the woods of Gravity Falls, and becomes determined to use it to solve and chronicle the mysteries of the sleepy little town. His first case? Trying to keep his sister, Mabel, from being drawn in by the clearly sinister creature masquerading as her boyfriend.
 * The Legend of the Gobblewonker - Stan takes the kids out to the lake for a day of fishing, but Dipper and Mabel are far more interested in hunting the supposed monster in the water (and getting a picture that will win them a big cash prize from Dipper's Weekly World News-style tabloid).
 * Headhunters - Soos uncovers a room full of wax figures that were once a Mystery Shack attraction. When Mabel makes a wax tribute to her Grunkle out of a ruined figure, Stan decides to reopen the exhibit. But a beheading most foul leads the twins to a Whodunnit mystery.
 * The Hand That Rocks the Mabel - The twins meet Gideon Gleeful, a ten-year-old supposed psychic who's Stan's biggest rival in scamming the population of Gravity Falls out of its money. Mabel takes a shine to Gideon’s flair for the sparkly things in life; but while she's looking for friendship, Gideon is dead set on pushing for something more.
 * The Inconveniencing - Eager to impress Wendy, Dipper lies about being a teenager and scores an invitation to hang out with her friends. When the group breaks into an abandoned convenience store haunted by teenager-hating ghosts, that white lie turns out to be a potential death sentence.
 * Dipper vs. Manliness - Feeling inadequate and crushed by his lack of chest hair, Dipper seeks help from the manly manotaurs living in the woods. Meanwhile, Mabel tries to help Grunkle Stan showcase his softer side.
 * Double Dipper - Stan decides to host a party to scam local kids out of their money; while Mabel is hoping to make new friends out on the dance floor, Dipper is pretty sure this is finally his chance to spend some time alone with Wendy. When his uber-detailed plan starts to go awry, Dipper makes himself some backup using the life-giving copier in Stan’s office.
 * Irrational Treasure - The twins attend Gravity Falls' Pioneer Day celebration, and returning Popular Rich Girl Pacifica Northwest mocks Mabel for being “too silly” in front of the town. Determined to prove she's serious, Mabel offers to help Dipper crack the conspiracy surrounding the founding of Gravity Falls; meanwhile, Stan’s attempts to escape the festivities end with him spending the day in Ye Olde Stocks.
 * The Time Traveler's Pig - Dipper tries to impress Wendy by winning her a prize at Stan’s dangerously cheap fair but accidentally hits her in the eye with a ricocheting baseball (which also gives sullen fellow teen Robbie a chance to ask her out); meanwhile, Mabel wins a pig that she names Waddles. When the twins cross paths with time traveler Blendin Blandin, Dipper sees an opportunity for a do-over in Blandin's time machine. But endless tries reveal that the only way for Dipper's shot to go right is for Mabel to lose Waddles forever.
 * Fight Fighters - Robbie and Dipper argue over Wendy, which ends with Robbie challenging Dipper to a fight. Knowing he can’t win, Dipper hides out at the arcade and finds a code for gaining “ultimate power.” Using it, he's able to summon Street Fight Fighter Rumble McSkirmish to be his bodyguard. Rumble quickly goes berserk, rampaging through the town in an attempt to beat Robbie to a pulp.
 * Little Dipper - Tired of being teased now that Mabel's grown taller than him, Dipper searches for a quick-growth solution in the pages of the Journal. He finds the answer in the form of some crystals and fashions a makeshift shrink ray using a flashlight. When Mabel catches wise a fight breaks out, allowing the flashlight to fall into Gideon’s possession – the perfect tool now that the child psychic’s decided to steal the Mystery Shack as part of his revenge scheme.
 * Summerween - It's Summerween (Gravity Falls loves Halloween so much it celebrates it twice!) and while Mabel is excited to get an extra chance at trick or treating with her brother, Dipper wants to look grown up and go to a party with Wendy. When Dipper blows off a trick or treater that turns out to be the ghostly Summerween Trickster, he, Mabel, Candy, Grenda, and Soos have only a few hours to come up with 500 pieces of candy and save themselves from getting eaten. Back at home, Stan faces off with a pair of kids unimpressed with his scare tactics.
 * Boss Mabel - After Mabel accuses Stan of being a terrible boss, the two make a bet: that he can make more money on vacation in three days than she can running the Mystery Shack. While Mabel starts off full of optimism, her determination to be 110% nice (and thus nothing like Stan) winds up leading to disaster.
 * Bottomless Pit! - While throwing incriminating evidence and other trash down a nearby bottomless pit, the twins, Stan, and Soos fall in and pass the time by telling stories: Dipper describes a voice-changing serum, Soos has a run in with a vengeful pinball machine, and Mabel gives Stan a truth-inducing pair of dentures.
 * The Deep End - The summer heat means that most of the town is camping out at the pool. Dipper scores a job as a lifeguard in order to spend more time with Wendy, Mabel develops a crush on a mysterious boy who apparently never leaves the pool, and Stan wars with Gideon over the perfect deck chair.
 * Carpet Diem - Frustrated that Mabel keeps having her friends over for sleepovers, Dipper decides he wants his own room – conveniently, Soos has just uncovered a secret room in the Shack that would be perfect. The fight to win Stan’s favor (and thus the key) is on, and accidentally swapping bodies thanks to the room’s mysterious shag carpet only offers new opportunities for sabotage.
 * Boyz Crazy - Dipper sees Robbie win Wendy over with a suspicious looking CD and becomes convinced that she's being mind-controlled; meanwhile, Mabel and her friends discover that the members of their favorite boy band, Sev'ral Timez, are actually vat-grown clones and decide to save them from their manager by hiding them in Mabel's room.
 * Land Before Swine - Waddles is kidnapped by a giant pterodactyl after Stan leaves him tied up outside, resulting in an expedition to an underground Jurassic cavern preserved by tree sap to try and save Mabel's beloved pet.
 * Dreamscaperers - Deciding to steal the deed to the Mystery Shack but unable to get into the safe where it's held, Gideon summons the mysterious Bill Cipher – an ancient, unpredictable triangle who can only interact with humans through their dream – to break into Stan's mind and steal the code. Dipper, Mabel, and Soos follow Bill into Stan's unconscious but find themselves outmatched.
 * Gideon Rises - Things look dire for the Pines family: Gideon is planning to bulldoze the shack to create a theme park dedicated to himself, and with no money or job Stan has no choice but to send the kids back to their parents. Worst of all, Gideon is on the hunt for the other Journals, convinced that bringing them all together will unlock incalculable power.
 * Scary-oke - Stan’s work on the portal attracts the attention of the government, who come sniffing around at the worst possible time. While Stan wants them gone ASAP, Dipper sees a chance to finally get someone to take him seriously about his paranormal discoveries…and trying to prove himself ends in the summoning of an undead horde.
 * Into the Bunker - Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos explore the newly-revealed bunker beneath the tree where Dipper first found the journal. There, they meet an escaped shapeshifting monster, and Dipper finally fesses up about his feelings for Wendy.
 * The Golf War - Mabel and Pacifica's rivalry heats up over a game of mini-golf, which Mabel initially rigs with the help of the tiny ball-controlling Lilliputians by playing on their own inter-group rivalries. Eventually the two are forced to bury the hatchet to fight their way out.
 * Sock Opera - Soos has fixed the laptop the group found in the Author's bunker, but its secrets are locked behind a password. With Mabel too distracted trying to impress some new boy to help out, Dipper gets desperate enough to accept a deal from Bill Cipher – who promptly hijacks Dipper's body in order to destroy the Journal.
 * Little Gift Shop of Horrors - An unwary visitor pays a visit to the Mystery Shack, where they're subject to Stan's tall tales: stealing a cheap watch from a witch costs Stan his hands, Waddles becomes super-intelligent and suddenly has no time to hang out with Mabel, and the Pines discover that stop-motion animation is actually the work of black magic.