User blog:FlashForward21/Summerween Review

"I ate a man alive tonight"

- Soos

What a way to end one of my favorite episodes so far!

Summerween deals with a decision everyone must make: when to give up trick-or-treating. Dipper, who at first wants to collect candy, is invited to a party by Wendy. While I don't prefer Dipper-Wendy plots as much, this episode handled it much better than Fight Fighters. Mabel, who is going with her friends, needs Dipper to get more candy (as evidenced with Lazy Susan). Dipper is torn, but decides to go to the party, invoking the fury of the Summerween Trickster.

The Summerween Trickster is my second favorite villain, just behind Gideon. When I heard he wanted the kids to get him candy, I thought he was pretty lame. Then he ate Gorny, which was a holy crap moment for me. The reveal of him being made out of loser candy (Thrown away by the same kids who danced to Homework's Wack!) was a wonderfully absurd twist.

Soos, Candy, and Grenda all had their shining moments. Soos was by far my favorite, with running over the Trickster and his joy of plastic skulls. Grenda checking Old Man McGucket was another awesome feature, which I hope she'll do again at one point. And Candy climbing into the wheelbarrow and asking Mabel if she got to joke is a good one as well.

The B-Plot with Stan and those two kids was hilarous. With the Waddles as the alien, Grunkle Stan seeing a screamer, and the near flashing which probably scarred the kids for life makes sure that Stan is a great character.

And of course, it wouldn't be Gravity Falls without a credits sequence. Business Waddles unleashed my biggest laugh of the episode!

This one was just pure, pure, epicness. A.