Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25548156-20141011232805/@comment-36510345-20180808130750

Bill Cipher100 wrote: '''i think the baby in the Tale Of Two Stans is not shermy but Shermys kid aka dippers and mabels dad, because if you do the math the boy in the episode is 1 maybe 2 and stanley and stanford are 16-18 cuz there in high school now after some 15 years when ford was making the portal and another 30 when he was stuck in it that makes stan and ford in their 60's which is confirmed. now after all this if you do the math 2+15+30= the baby in that episode is only 47 with is a little young to have grand kids so that is probably dippers and mabels dads age. SPOILER ALERT also as we now know dipper's real name is mason and mabel's is well mabel and they have the same last name and there middle names are there parents first names so in conclusion dipper and mabel have names that are very similar to each other.'''

I agree with you. I have a theory I use when I want to write a Gravity Fall's story.

Sherman "Shermy" Pines was born seven year before the twins and left the house à sixteen (when the stans were 9) because he didn't get along too well wih  their parents (the father being a jerk and the mother a pathological liar). He found a job, married and had a child. Unfortunately, soon after the birth of his son, he was sent to fight in Vietnam and died. His wife, needing help to take care of her child, contacted her step-parents and asked them to babysit him when she was at work, which explains why the baby, mable and dipper's father; was there durng the fight between his two uncles.