List of goofs

The following is a list of goofs, errors, and mistakes in the series Gravity Falls .

Unaired pilot

 * In the deleted scene where Stan, Mabel, and Dipper are falling into a pit, Mabel's headband mysteriously disappears.
 * In one deleted scene, Mabel yells "D'oh!" when Norman is a bunch of gnomes. This was taken out due to copyright infringement to 20th Century Fox.

Tourist Trapped

 * When Mabel punches Dipper, she punches him in the cheek, but his eye is black.
 * While Dipper was reading from 3, he spoke the word "studying" even though the book states "researching."
 * The book 3 that Dipper discovers has a hand symbol on the book cover that alternates between five and six fingers in several shots.
 * After Dipper and Mabel crash the Mystery Cart, it's position moves several times throughout the scene.
 * When Mabel showed Dipper the leaf blower mark, one can see it's there, but when she finishes the story about how she got it, it was gone.
 * When Dipper and Mabel are being chased, a rear shot of the back of the Mystery Cart shows that Dipper's hat is missing despite it being present in the preceding and following shots.
 * The leaf blower sucked Mabel's lips, but the "smooch mark" was on her cheek.
 * When the Giant Gnome monster is zoomed out and Jeff is on the top of it, his beard is white instead of brown.
 * Norman has a cut on his face from which "jam" is spilling. Later shots do not include this cut.
 * When you see the triangle stained window from the inside it is centered with a double ring, but from the outside it has a single ring
 * Up close Mabel's sweater says MEOW WOW, but zoomed out it is wordless.
 * If Norman's hands were just gloces on a stick then he wouldnt be able to pick anything up like his hand.
 * When Mabel is responding to Jeffs proposal, Jeff's beard is red, but it's actually brown.
 * When Wendy pulls up in the Mystery Cart there are four flaps across the top, but when Dipper goes to save mabel there are only three.
 * When Mabels on the floor her head band disapeared
 * Even though Jeff is on the top of the Gnome Monster, when zoomed out the Gnome on top has a white beard all though Jeffs is brown.
 * After Mabel punches Dipper, his black eyes magically heal.
 * Dipper's book changes size throughout the episode.
 * Kelsey Hatfield is totally awesome.

The Legend of the Gobblewonker

 * Grunkle Stan's license plate reads "STNLYMBL" which is 8 characters long, but in the state of Oregon, the max number of characters allowed on a license plate is 6.
 * When Soos lost his shirt, it reappeared during one of the fishing pictures and disappeared again after the pictures.
 * When Old Man McGucket said "Aw, banjo polish" when he was leaving the screen, his mouth didn't move.
 * Soos still had part of his shirt but when he fell out of the boat his shirt was completely gone. Also he lost his life jacket but it reappeared.
 * When Dipper's hat was shown in the picture, all of the letters were the same color, although the time his hat was first shown, it was different shades of blue and the first P was green.
 * Dipper's fishing hat lost the last two letters during the pictures, but later all the letters are back.
 * During Mabel's daydream with the hamster ball, the blue haired man had blue sunglasses, but then the glasses turn pink after Mabel talks to the men.
 * In the pictures of Stan, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos the letters on Dipper's hat are all blue and the letters on Mabel's hat are all pink.
 * In the first picture Dipper took, Mabel's hat's name colors are the same, plus, before Dipper took the picture you can see Soos's arm, but in the picture you don't.
 * Online, the episode is simply called "The Gobblewonker" instead of its full title.

Headhunters

 * Wax Larry is first shown to be the same height as Wax Sherlock Holmes, but in the next scene he is much shorter.
 * Mabel's drawings of her sculpture ideas had color, but she was using a regular pencil.
 * When Grunkle Stan left to use the bathroom, the lights were on, but when he came back, the lights were off.
 * The footprints left holes in the shag carpet the pushed down into the carpet. If the shoe had a hole in it, the carpet fabric would push up into the shoe.
 * When Blubs and Durland checked the axe for fingerprints, they would have found Soos, Dipper, and Mabel's prints because they each touched it earlier.
 * The first time the surveillance footage of Toby Determined was shown did not accurately correspond with the second time.
 * All of the wax figures have the hole in their shoe on the right. The ones on the carpet show a hole on the left.
 * The wax figures' unveiling is outside in broad daylight, but the figures don't melt.
 * The wax figures say they come alive during a waxing moon, but the moon shown during the fight between Dipper and Wax Sherlock Holmes is waning.
 * Toby Determined had a picture of wax Grunkle Stan's head, despite it being missing at the time.
 * When Grunkle Stan leaves to use the bathroom, Wax Stan has a stand. Yet, when he is on the ground, the stand is missing.
 * Manly Dan's name is misspelled as "Manley Dan" in Dipper's list of suspects.
 * Wax Robin Hood's bow switches from having an arrow to nothing.
 * In the scene where Mabel says, "Are you saying you could outwit Duck-tective?", before she says her line, her eyebrows and eyelashes are missing.
 * In the flashback when Dipper explains why Toby Determined was the murderer, Toby's left shoe had the hole inside. But when they show the footprints, the hole was in the right shoe and earlier it was in the left shoe when they looked on the carpet.
 * Although Toby Determined was a suspect, his name was not on the list of suspects that Dipper had.

The Hand That Rocks the Mabel

 * Before Mabel shows her makeover to Dipper, Dipper's book has a 2 instead of a 3. The book labeled 2 actually belongs to 'Lil Gideon.
 * When Mabel complains that Dipper never does girly stuff with her, we see the book he was reading resting on the arm of the chair, but when Soos shows up with the hot dogs, it disappears.
 * When Dipper and Mabel are playing with Soos, Mabel is wearing a seafoam green-colored headband, but when Dipper hears the phone ring, her headband changes to red, then back to seafoam green.
 * When Mabel blinks, the "bezazzles" on her right eye fall off, but later they are back.
 * While Mabel is on the boat with Gideon, she has on a headband, but when she gets back home, she is wearing a hair clip.
 * When Grunkle Stan runs away with the clown picture, his leg is missing.
 * During the end credits Soos, Mabel and Dipper are using a flashlight, but it did not cast a shadow.
 * Also during the end credits, when Soos spins to the side with no jewels on it the wall still has the disco ball effect.
 * Once again during the ends credits, you can clearly see the colored lights repeatedly cover Mabel's face but not Dipper's.
 * When 'Lil Gideon and Mabel are on the factory together the factory switches between having an elevated roof in the background to have no elevated roof at all.
 * When 'Lil Gideon and Mabel are on their date we never see Mabel's glass filled with water and yet when the waiter leaves, it is full of water.
 * Before we see Gideon and Mabel close-up on the boat you can't see her headband.
 * When Gideon is rubbing Mabel's hair, it's not behind her ear, but when she slaps his hand away, her hair is like it usually is.
 * The website entitles the episode "The Hand That Rocks" as opposed to its full title.
 * When Mabel comes back from Gideon's dressing room with her makeover down. Mabel doesn't have any eyebrows in that scene.
 * When the telephone rings Mabel's headband is pink, but after she says,"Not it" it turns green.

The Inconveniencing

 * If the store was actually condemned, it is unlikely there would still be food there. Also, Dipper saw a newspaper that was dated back to 1995, meaning all the food would be expired and unsafe to eat.
 * In the scene when the first arrive Dipper goes to get the newspaper. When the newspaper is on the stand the title reads USA WEEK but Dipper rubs of the dust the title now says NEWZ.
 * If the store had been closed for years with the power off, then the ice they got from the freezer would have just been bags of water.
 * When the three teens reflections are shown in the window as normal, Tambry is smiling instead of just staring.
 * In the same scene, Tambry's leggings disappear.
 * Ma and Pa collapse from heart attacks by the window near the front door, but their bodies are chalked near the end of the store.S1e5_thompson_car_02.png
 * In the chalk outline, Ma's arms are sprawled out but when they show her collapsed in the flashback her arms are on her chest.
 * Robbie was the only teen besides Wendy that did not get turned into anything and he vanished when Wendy and Dipper were lifted onto the ceiling, and appears again when the ghosts let them go.
 * When the two were lifted onto the ceiling, the hot dog machine was not turning the hot dogs.
 * One of the "normal teenage things" that causes the ghosts to get angry is texting, but in 1995, texting was not considered a "normal teenage thing."
 * Tambry is not spotted in the minivan when Thompson drives the "gang" to Dusk 2 Dawn, even when there was a seat next to Mabel and Dipper.
 * When Wendy is telling everyone about how Dipper saved them, the mud on her boots are at the top, but when it shows her again the mud is on the bottom of her boots.
 * In the scene when Dipper is opening the vent to get inside, Tambry's leggings briefly vanish again.
 * The open and closed sign changes from open to closed many times in different scenes.
 * When Dipper does the Lamby Lamby Dance, Ma's name tag is on her shirt, but when he finishes, it is gone.

Dipper vs. Manliness

 * When Sheriff Blubs is eating pancakes, he is almost done, but when it shows the number of pancakes then back the Sheriff Blubs, it starts from top again.
 * When Dipper is first seen walking down the street, the fire hydrant was fine and Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland weren't anywhere around it.
 * Dipper's beef jerky is also nowhere to be seen, but later appears in his hand.
 * When the animals are running away in the forest Dipper's hat disappears then appears in the next scene.
 * Mabel couldn't have seen Dipper's chest hair because his shirt would have covered it.
 * When Soos runs out the door, the door moves a little and then stops, but the style of the door and its position, etc could not let it do that.
 * When Mabel gets an idea Soos's shirt is pink but when Mabel gets up his shirt is back to normal.
 * In the background of the diner, at one point the sign on the manliness test is misspelled as "manliess." It goes back to normal by the next scene.
 * One of the Manotaurs claims he has fists for nipples, but before and after they are shown, they disappear.

Double Dipper

 * When Stan answers Soos' question about who's birthday it is, his bow-tie disappears.
 * Dipper says the first thing on his list is to talk with Wendy, but later it shows "smile" instead of talking.
 * Dipper says he has to follow steps 1-11, even though there are 20 steps.
 * Some of the people from inside of the party reappear in the the line by the ticket stand.
 * When Pacifica Northwest comes out of the bathroom, her colors are faded.
 * When Dipper and Wendy cheer, Dipper picks up his soda on the floor but he did not bring a soda in the hallway in the first place. Also, when the cup was on the ground before Wendy and Dipper cheer, nothing spilled so there was no soda. When the clones confronted Dipper, he dropped the cup and soda spills out.
 * When Dipper is talking to Wendy outside the bathroom, Wendy says "that guy" would be the leader of the island. They cut to a shot of "that guy" and Pacifica is near him on the dance floor. Moments later, she emerges from the bathroom.


 * Dipper sets off the fire sprinklers with smoke from a party popper. However, fire sprinklers are activated by heat, not smoke.
 * The red spreader stick in the crackers and cheese snack is not visible in the package, but it appears in Dipper's hand later.
 * When Mabel was dancing, there was a chair next to Candy Chiu but in the next scene, when she sat down to drink water, the chair disappeared.
 * When Dipper is on his way to ask Wendy to dance, he sees her and tells her she should be on the dance floor in exactly 42 seconds looking at a watch on his wrist, but the watch disappears after that.
 * When Mabel sprays her silly string at Dipper in the copier room, the string comes out of the side instead of the nozzle.
 * When Dipper drops his spray deodorant, the appearance of the can changes.
 * When Wendy tells Dipper she and Robbie are sitting on the couch her bow tie is missing, and later it reappears.
 * In the part where Dipper is reaching for his body spray, there is no blue jar on the case. Later, a blue can appears.
 * Soos said Robbie's dirt bike was being stolen, though it was actually a regular bike.
 * Robbie pulls out his new guitar from its case and plays it. However it shouldn't work considering it's an electric guitar and therefore needs to be plugged in and have an amp in order to work.
 * When Dipper spills soda on the copied arm, it only covers half the arm but in the next scene all of it is covered.

Irrational Treasure

 * When Dipper is going through the slides in the library, one says "Numerology" but contains astrological symbols.
 * Mabel's mouth doesn't move when she laughs when Dipper says to look out for "booby traps".
 * In the video, they cover the picture of Quentin Trembley with a picture of William Henry Harrison. Above Trembley's picture it says "8th President" even though he succeeded the 8th president. The picture shows above that he is the 9th president when the video is about to end.
 * In the top secret document that reveals Quentin Trembley as the founder of Gravity Falls, in the second paragraph, the "Falls" in "Gravity Falls" is not capitalized.
 * In the document, it says there are 6 babies, but there are only 4.
 * While watching the video, Mabel's eyebrows raise in surprise at the revelation that Quentin Trembley was once president. Her expression then shifts to confusion and her left eyebrow curves down onto her eye, but the surprised eyebrow is still on her face, giving her three eyebrows.
 * When the twins and Trembley climb the ladder to the top of the train, they are in the rear car. However, when they emerge on the top of the train, there are more train cars behind them.
 * While Dipper and Mabel read about the conspiracy in front of the statue, the bottom of Dipper's shoes change from white to black.
 * When Quentin Trembley is inside the block of peanut brittle, his expression changes throughout different scenes.

The Time Traveler's Pig

 * Blendin Blandin's watch switches hands when he is confronted by Mabel and Dipper.
 * Dipper's question mark corn dog disappears when Robbie shows up.
 * The caramel apple Mabel feeds Waddles disappears after she drops it.
 * The flash of light caused by Blendin's time machine in the credits during the events of "Headhunters" is not featured in the actual episode.
 * After Mabel hands Blendin tickets to the fair and he leaves, Mabel turns to the side, and her flower has vanished.
 * When Mabel looses her flower, it is on the other side on her head.
 * When Waddles is dressed as a doctor and follows Mabel to Blendin, its clothes disappear.
 * When Blendin walks to the barrel ride, the time machine is not on his belt. When the camera zooms in, it is on his belt.
 * The first time Dipper plays the ball toss Robbie comes 10 or 20 seconds after Wendy gets a black eye, but many times while Dipper "do-overs" with the time machine Robbie comes earlier or right away sometimes even coming at a different direction.
 * In one of the scenes where Dipper and Mabel are talking to Blendin, Mabel's eyebrows have disappeared.
 * Even though in the previous episode Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland leave for vacation, and Grunkle Stan enforces that they aren't around near the beginning of the episode ("Anything's legal when cops aren't around!"), the two briefly appear riding the ferris wheel when Mabel and Waddles are.
 * When Dipper and Mabel travel back in time to the episode "Headhunters", you see the Pizza shirt guy wearing a green shirt, but in the actual episode, his shirt is red.
 * When Mabel is riding the ferris wheel with Waddles the ticket booth in front of the ferris wheel is facing to the right, while in all the other "do-overs", it is facing toward the front.
 * When Wendy First sees the stuffed animals they are seated on a board, but when they walk up, and the rest of the time, they appear to be dangling.

Fight Fighters

 * When Wendy and Robbie were playing the game they were moving the joy stick and pressing the buttons, but in the next scene nothing was happening.
 * When Rumble McSkirmish came out of the video game he slammed his fist down causing cracks in the ground, but in the next scene they were gone.
 * When Mabel wins the crackers in the card game, nobody else had any. However, in the next scene, Dipper and Grunkle Stan both have more crackers.
 * When Robbie pushes Dipper down and then walks away, the trash cans and Dipper's hat disappear. They reappear when Grunkle Stan comes out.
 * When Mabel puts on her scout's honor sweater, her skirt and headband immediately turn blue.
 * When Robbie was on the Water Tower, Rumble looked up at him to see where he was, but when Dipper was on top of a tree, Rumble said he didn't have a look up animation even though he looked up at Robbie a few scenes back.
 * Rumble said that he couldn't stay still, but when Mabel meets him, she hands him the paper with words for him to say, and he stays perfectly still and constantly stays still when talking to Dipper.
 * When Dipper is following the instructions "to unleash ultimate power", he doesn't do all of the code.
 * When Grunkle Stan falls backwards away from the TV, he falls on the floor. However, there is usually a wall behind the dinosaur skull.
 * When Dipper is at the arcade and looks at the posters of Robbie, his watch disappears but then later reappears.

Little Dipper

 * The Gummy Koala candy bag had a net weight of 5.29, but later, it reads that the net weight is 6.29.
 * When Gideon grabs the contract, the front of it is faced towards Stan. In the next scene, the paper switches to the other side without Gideon moving his hand.
 * When Grunkle Stan knocks the jar of termites out of Gideons hands, it falls on the porch. When Gideon runs away, it is in the doorway.
 * When Dipper and Mabel are playing chess, Dipper tells Mabel that black isn't her color. When Dipper checkmates Mabel he moves the white pawn to knock over Mabel's black king.
 * Dipper grows the pawn while it is on the chess board, but later, it is shown in the background, out-of-place.
 * When Dipper and Mabel are fighting over the flashlight, the catepillar ran over a couple of cars but when Dipper and Mabel drop the flashlight the cars are gone.
 * Dipper wasn't seen changing his head back to normal unless it happened off screen before Mabel's head shrunk.
 * Normally (sometimes) in real life the older twin is shorter, in this case Mabel was born first.