Catching up with Gravity: Season One of Gravity Falls in the TVCU
When
the sun goes down. . .
That
is when the mayhem awakens
And
madness crawls
Out
of nowhere
We
go where adventure calls
While
the people are sleeping behind safe walls,
We’re
explorers of forests and haunted halls
Empty
graves and
Old
Caves and
Abandoned
malls
I
mean there’s nothing else to do here in Gravity Falls
—From an unused
Gravity Falls theme composed by Lemon Demon
Small
towns are boring. The best gossip you’re likely to get is that Mary Helen finagled
her way into editing the town’s two newspapers, or maybe that Thelma, bless her
little heart, is putting bacon in her potato salad now.
Unless
you’re in Gravity Falls.
Then
all your gossip swirls around that cute widdle faith healer down by marshy way,
or the buried president that no-one’s supposed to know is buried there, or bigfoot, or the last gobblewonker sighting, or the man who never turns right, or the mermaids and little men, or
Lazy Susan’s pie.
One
summer, Dipper and Mabel Pines are sent to spend the summer helping their great
uncle run his business, the Mystery Shack. It’s exactly what you’d expect. A
roadside attraction designed only to part you from your wallet, a place
infested with fakes and mummery.
As
fake as the Mystery Shack is, all of the
weirdness in the town outside is very, very
real.
So
they set out to solve it.
Gravity Falls is slated to
take place over the course of a single summer. For the purpose of this
timeline, I’m assuming every episode takes place over the course of one or two
days. Let’s hope that, unlike Phineas and
Ferb, we can contain the series
to a single summer.
The
opening credits, as so often happens, are flashes of cases you’ll never see in
the show proper. Among Dipper and Mabel’s pictures is a clear as day shot of
Bat Boy.
Bat
Boy originates from Weekly World News.
Late
May, 2012—“Headhunters”
Dipper
and Mabel stumble into one of the Mystery Shack’s many, many hidden rooms. They
find wax dummies—mad, homicidal wax dummies. Among many ordinary figures—Larry King,
Coolio, and William Shakespeare—are two who deserve to be highlighted: Sherlock
Holmes and Robin Hood. Both are treated as historical figures. Therefore,
Gravity Falls takes place in a universe in which Holmes and Robin were real
men.
June,
2012—“Fight Fighters”
In
the Gravity Falls arcade, there is a bootleg Tron cabinet. “Cleverly,” the
bootleggers have named it Nort.
Tron,
of course, is an arcade cabinet in Tron
(1982) and Tron Legacy (2010).
June,
2012—“Mabel’s Guide to Stickers”
Desperate to prove that stickers have been fashion accessories “since forever,” Mabel flashes several library books at the screen. The following paragraphs are in her book on Aztecs.
"The
Aztecs had many ritual and ceremonies that have gone unpracticed for hundreds
of years. Most impressive among them was the act of Quzetoheetl, the ritual
of forming a circle around a wolf or wild dog and chanting sacred words which
gave the dog the ability to speak English and play ollamalitzi.
"Once
the Aztecs used this ritual on a very special dog. The special dog befriended a
lonely boy who was the water boy for his local high school ollamalitzi team.
After the dog ran onto the court and became a fan favorite, the mean former
owner kidnapped the dog. Luckily the lonely boy steals him back just in time to
make it to the big tournament, where it is declared that ‘there’s nothing in
the rulebook that says a dog can’t play ollamalitzi.’ The dog scored an amazing
last second point to win the game! Everyone rejoiced! Then the ritual of
Xolitzeunzli was performed to allow the dog to have puppies, save Christmas,
and become Santa’s most special reindeer.'"
The "very special dog" is obviously Air Bud. Perhaps the crossover stands true; perhaps this book is a graduate
student’s thesis and, knowing no-one would ever read it, slipped in two
paragraphs about a movie he saw when he was a kid.
Take
the option that helps you sleep at night.
My
Little Pony Universe—My Little Pony #5
Twilight
Sparkle briefly meets a ponyverse version of Mabel Pines (“Maybelle”). Sweaters
are stylish, no matter what universe you’re in.
[Note:
there are so many TVCU characters in the ponyverse that I’ve abandoned my
previous notion and adopted Ivan’s. Most—if not all—people in the TVCU have
counterparts in the ponyverse. Please don’t write fanfiction about that.]
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Mabel Hornets--Fanart and fanfiction
The
Shack (an alternate timeline)—by Limey
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