Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1674355-20140207052707/@comment-8161155-20140502215751

RockSunner wrote: There's another indication it's 2012. When Dipper reads out the end of the world date from "The Mailbox" he says "three thousand and twelve". If it were currently 2013, the emphasis would be a flat "three thousand and twelve". 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. I would agree with that possibility if this were a show like "Phineas and Ferb" with an open-ended, endless summer with little story arc. But this show has an arc and Al Hirsch has said it will end with the twins going home at the end of the second season. So there's no reason to do comic book time here. 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.