Between the Pines

Between the Pines is a behind the scenes special hosted by Alex Hirsch and Time Baby. It aired at 8 P.M. on February 8, 2016 on Disney XD and also aired at 9:30 P.M. on February 12, 2016 on Disney Channel.

Synopsis
This is a half-hour special hosted by the Time Baby which introduces exclusive facts and information about Gravity Falls, featuring special commentary from Alex Hirsch himself.

Lightning Round
This segment is 60 seconds of Alex talking about supporting characters.
 * Lazy Susan
 * Deputy Durland
 * Toby Determined
 * Preston Northwest

Wheel of Secrets
Facts revealed:
 * Blood or Jam?: In Tourist Trapped, whether the red thing on Norman's face is blood or jam.
 * The Bear Bear: The original name for the Multi-Bear specifically so that Dipper could have a line of "There, there, Bear Bear".
 * Blendin's hair
 * McGucket's songs
 * Footbot Dream

There were several topics on the wheel that were not discussed:
 * Mabel's Secret
 * Dipper's Name
 * Tapestry
 * Missing Clones
 * Mrs Corduroy
 * Grenda's Book
 * The Teens
 * Mr. and Mrs. Pines
 * Gompers
 * Monocle
 * Fingers
 * Northwests

Cast

 * Alex Hirsch as himself
 * Dave Wittenberg as Time Baby

Character Revelations

 * Priscilla Northwest was Miss Mudflap ~1985. This was how Preston met her.
 * Blendin is bald because his constant time traveling causes his hair to catch on fire.
 * The Multi-bear was originally going to be named the Bear Bear.
 * In Tourist Trapped, it is jam on Norman's face. The previous gnome queen had recently died, and as part of her funeral ceremony they ate bereavement jam.
 * The writing team considered revealing that Gideon Gleeful's big hair concealed his malformed twin, but that idea was shelved.
 * Bill Cipher was originally going to be green, but they thought it looked too much like a leaf.
 * Time Baby commented that he now looks like a nacho, alluding to the common fan joke that Bill resembles a Dorito.
 * Time Baby has no object permanence.
 * There is a resemblance in Dipper and Mabel's name which is close to the construction of a pan-cake on a dipper.
 * The Cipher Wheel was shown again which was from the S02E15 Mabelcorn.
 * Most of the Clips in the episode were taken from other episodes of the series
 * Alex Hirsch created this Episode as a bonus or extra and was made when the series was complete in making, Alex Hirsch aligned the Clips from the series to show that it was made after the last episode of the series 'Weirdmageddon' was made.
 * Hirsch confessed that he and his team made a song about the Gobblewonker to be sang by McGucket, but was cut due to the song being too lengthy and McGucket being a terrible singer.

Clips from various episodes are used:

 * A clip from Scary-oke where Stan attempts to bribe the government agent