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Mr B Natural wrote: He was saying "three thousand and twelve" because of the myth that the world would end in 2012, not because it is the current year. It's possible that's the reference. Failed end-of-the-world predictions are quickly forgotten, however (I had already forgotten myself), so I think Dipper's reference is more likely to the current year (2012), which would also make the other reference more memorable to him.

Just because it has an arc doesn't mean it can't have an "open-ended, endless summer." In fact, the summer being normal length is virtually impossible, unless Dipper and Mabel are homeschooled or something like that.

Consider this: a normal summer is 90 days at the most. There are twenty episodes. This would mean that there would have to be an adventure every third day, allowing just ten days for Dip and Mabel to bug their parents enough to get them to send them to GF, and for Dipper and call their time there a "boring routine." So, yeah. Every third day. The episodes definitely suggest that there is some time between the adventures (a week, maybe). And that not even counting the shorts and the two whole remaining seasons. There is possible time-compression, but it doesn't mean the year would shift.

On the tax form, I think there's a good possibility that Grunkle Stan was pulling their legs about the whole "tell nothing but the truth" deal. He has an immunity, or he took the teeth out and replaced them with a fake set when they weren't watching. The man has huge secrets. Are we supposed to believe he never gave a hint of all the other secrets, like the underground base, with a full day or more of compulsion to reveal all? The tax form was one he never intended to submit, so the date on it is a red herring.