Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-26072045-20150321143537/@comment-8161155-20150329002005

OnlyOnTuesdays88 wrote: Mr B Natural wrote: They exist as a pair and unless one of them has a line in an appearance without the other I'm gonna say no. Also, they are totally twins; same height, and it's implied already by them being younger versions of Dipper and Mabel. It's implied but they definitely don't seem like the same height. And the two aren't always seen at  the same time. The number of lines they have shouldn't matter. It doesn't matter with any other characters seen throughout the series. You can't merge Pizza Guy and Unnamed scout lady because they don't appear together. Schmipper and Smabble appear together a lot plus their main appearance (in Legend of the Gobblewonker) had them acting together as a gag. What I meant by the lines thing was that lines are a good indicator of character importance: If a character has a line, at that moment, the show is focusing on it. Whereas if a character doesn't have a line, it is likely to be in the backround. If Smabble had a line in a scene where Schmipper was not present, the show would be focusing on her at that moment, so she was much more significant than if she were just in the backround. At present, the only time that we've had Schipper or Smabble focused on was when they were together, so there's not a big enough difference in their role in the show to have them on separate pages.