Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5889122-20150326081213/@comment-11643042-20150328001037

I first saw commercials while watching Phineas and Ferb, the only Disney show I watched at the time. I didn't think much of it at first, but I was free the night it premiered so I decided to give it 22 minutes. By the first commercial I was a little surprised that the entire half hour block would be 1 episode. I kept watching. Then, I watched through to the end and was about to turn off the TV... when Stan disappeared behind the vending machine. From then on I was hooked.

Somewhere during the first hiatus, I was playing the game Fright Night. Then I beat the game and it came up with a secret message. I wrote it down, put it through various ciphers, and asked my brother, but no cigar. The next day I was watching a rerun of Tourist Trapped. During the credits my eyes were wandering, and that's when I noticed the episode's cryptogram. I looked up "Gravity Falls secrets" on YouTube, and the rest is history.