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Goodness, yes! I thought the moral on this one fell totally flat. "Don't be a sleazy jerk" and "don't lead people on" are great lessons, but they work better if somebody actually DOES those things. I dunno, maybe Disney didn't let them be douchey enough, or maybe they ran into time constraints, but I don't really see that Dipper did anything wrong. Even Stan wasn't a 'sleazy' pickup artist...he was a lame one.

And Dipper...he's a 12 year old kid on a roadtrip, doing some harmless flirting. Assuming he acted with all the other girls as he did with Emma Sue, he flirted a bit and got their emails and/or phone numbers. When has this ever constituted a big romantic commitment? And Candy, jeez! So she gets a crush on him because he paid her a single compliment, SHE asks HIM out on a sort-of date, and then gets upset that he flirted with some girls before any of that. Good heavens, he's a monster!

I liked this episode overall, some really funny stuff in this one. But the big 'lesson' was done so poorly that it almost inspires the opposite message. "Don't flirt, because girls are clingy psychos!" (And just so nobody gets the wrong idea, I know very well that they're not, but you'd certainly think the creators of the show think that after this episode!)