Top 10 Season 1 Gravity Falls episodes (Part 1)

Happy Valentine's day, buds! And tomorrow will be the end of Gravity falls and man does it hurt to think that. Gravity Falls is a show I have come to love and respect. The stories are so much fun and filled with suspense, each one is unique and adds just a bit more character into these...... characters.

So today I will count down my own top 10 season 1 episodes from Gravity Falls. I will let you know this, this list is part torture for me to make. Each episode is awesome, that makes it so hard for me to pick and place the episodes so it led to multiple nights of debating with myself.

10 Headhunters
This is one of the first episodes I truly felt is funny, with a hint of Mystery twins.

Dipper, Mabel and Soos finds an old room where apparently Stan keeps his old wax figures that used to be the Mystery Shack's centerpiece. When they find out that wax Abraham Lincoln is melted (Stan blames wax John Wilkes Booth), Mabel offers to make a new statue out of the old wax and models it after her own Grunkle Stan.

Later that night the statue is beheaded and the head has vanished, so it's up to Dipper and Mabel to investigate the case and search the town for the guilty party.

This story, I will admit it, pretty cliche and I am ashamed to say that I didn't see the twist coming, seeing how it was quite obvious. But the story makes up for it with its humor, it is so funny on how the writers managed to make something ordinary unique by only playing off the characters while introducing new characters and developing the main cast.

Then there was that fight scene with the wax statues, my god that was so funny. Wax Sherlock Holmes is hilarious, his lines are some of the highlights of this episode. In the end, Dipper is recognized as more than just a city boy but he still sneezes like a kitten, he is adorable, ADORABLE!

9 Tourist Trapped
For those who never watched this show before, first of all, what are you doing here? Go watch the show.

Secondly, this is the very first episode of Gravity Falls where we see Dipper and Mabel being sent to Gravity Falls, Oregon from their home in Piedmont, California.

Mabel is determined to have an epic summer romance so she hooks up with a weird kid called Norman but the journal Dipper found warns him to not trust anyone in Gravity Falls and leads him to believe that Norman is a zombie.

In an attempt to save his sister from getting her brain eaten, he tries to prove his case to Mabel but she does not believe him.

In the end, it's shown that Norman is in fact not a normal human kid but...... a bunch of gnomes who want to make Mabel their queen.

Where do I even begin with this episode? I guess first of all, hats off to Alex Hirsch, man. What a way to start off a series. They say the first episode can decide whether a show will make or break and they sure set the bar up pretty high. With My Little Pony and Steven Universe, they took me a few episodes before I truly loved them, this show made me a fan within the first 5 minutes of the first episode. They managed to show their main cast and make them funny and likable, it shows off the show's dynamic and the many interactions between each character.

As for the story, who on earth could have guessed that Norman is a bunch of gnomes the first time watching it? But still it's foreshadowed and so is the way Mabel defeated the gnome monster, I was impressed by its storytelling and all the clues and secrets they hide. This episode perfectly sets the bar for the series and the rest of their summer, and who knows how many mysteries are waiting to be explored?

8. Boyz Crazy

I lived a childhood where Disney was my life, I once thought High School Musical is one of the best Disney movies and I listened to Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez until pop music died for me.

Now I live a life with my K-pop obsessed sister, so imagine my reaction when Gravity Falls made an episode centering around boy bands. I loved it!!!!!

Mabel is excited because her favorite boy band called Sev'ral Times is having a concert at Gravity Falls but Dipper and Wendy don't understand her excitement, saying that boy bands are fake and nothing more than a product of the music industry, they even think that they're all just clones because you know, all boy bands are the same. (Flame shield UP!)

To Mabel's surprise, it turns out the members of Sev'ral Times really are clones and are caged up like hamsters by their manager for their own profits and entertainment so Mabel and her friends decide to break them out, but their manager is still out there hunting them down, the girls decide to let them stay with Mabel until its safe for them to leave.

Soon their manager got arrested, Candy and Grenada are excited for the boys but Mabel has grown attached to them and wants to keep them as her personal boy band. Her friends try to tell the boys the truth but since they only believe Mabel, Candy and Grenada are kicked out.

However, after a guilt tripping pop song dedicated to her, she finally sets them free.

This episode is filled with so many jokes, such as the boys not being able to act like normal human beings and being the stereotypical one dimensional boy band and yet the writers still made them likable. Then there is plotline B, which is Dipper and Stan's story, first of all it is a total hint to solving most of the mysteries in this series, if you didn't figure it out by now, almost every line or sound in this show that sounds like random and non distinctable words are sentences played backwards so playing the sound clip backwards will reveal the hidden messages.

Secondly, it's when Wendy finally leaves Robbie for the lying, inconsiderate douche he is after finding out that the one song he "wrote" for her was also a lie and we even got more development between Dipper and Wendy.

7 The Time Traveler's pig
Remember that pig that Mabel's cuddling in the intro?

Yeah, that pig. That is Waddles, Mabel's favorite thing in the world and this is his origin story. Mabel won him at the fair, the end.

OK, you know I won't stop there. This also introduces Blendin Blandin from the year 207012, a time traveler sent to fix time anomalies, this also introduces the future that Gravity Falls has in mind, still better than Rapture I guess.

In this episode, the Mystery Shack having a fair with the cheapest rides and props money can rent.
Mabel wins a pig that apparently said her name while Dipper and Wendy are hanging out at the fair.

In an attempt to impress Wendy, Dipper tries to win Wendy a stuffed creature of indeterminate species that she wants,

but it backfires and Wendy gets hit in the eye, giving Robbie the chance to comfort her and ask her out.

Later, they discover Blendin and find out that he is from the future so they steal his time traveling tape measure to go back to fix Dipper's mistake and to stop Robbie from going out with Wendy, but as time travel episodes are, things don't go his way and timelines are getting messed up.

This episode is the first time we know how much Dipper really does cares for Mabel, Wendy is Dipper's crush and anyone knows that one of the hardest things to see is your crush dating someone in front of your face.

Watching it happen multiple times and then realized that the only way to make Mabel happy is to let Robbie date Wendy must be one of the hardest things for him to do, but he did to just because he couldn't stand to see Mabel heartbroken. If this isn't the sign of a great sibling, I don't know what is.

6 The hand that rocks the Mabel
This is pretty much where the story of this season comes to play, other than Dipper's journal, in the center of it all is Gideon Gleeful. Gideon acts as the main antagonist for Season 1 and his introduction tells us a lot about him.

The episode starts with Dipper, Mabel and Soos watching an ambiguous commercial from Gideon for the tent of telepathy shows up and they all get curious about it. Stan doesn't like Gideon because Gideon's stealing his customers and he order them not to go there.

They go anyways and we're introduced to the first musical number in the show performed by Gideon. After the show, Dipper calls Gideon a hoax since he's just calling out obvious things but Mabel enjoys the show anyways.

The next day, Gideon comes over to the Mystery Shack to talk to Mabel, saying he wanted to meet her again. They hang out and have makeovers. Dipper doesn't trust him but Mabel thinks otherwise, but Gideon's affections for her start to show itself to her as he asks Mabel out on a date. Mabel, not having the heart to say no to her friend, so she agrees to just one date.

Mabel is not happy with her "date" but Gideon asks on another date, to Mabel's dismay, Dipper tells her to just say no but she just couldn't do it, but Bud had Stan make a deal to agree to let Mabel marry Gideon. Mabel then breaks down and escapes into Sweater town. Dipper, seeing his sister like this, decides to tell Gideon for her.

Gideon doesn't take it well and tries to remove him from the picture, literally by luring him out to a trap. Mabel finds it that she should be the one to tell Gideon, rushes off to find him, in the middle of almost killing Dipper.

She snatches away his magical pendent and destroys it. Gideon breaks the deal and vows vengeance, with his own Journal no. 2.

This is the real episode that got the whole overarching story in motion, Gideon is a lovable villain who I'd said it's the evil kid trope done right. He's really only after 2 things, the other journals and Mabel's love and affection. This episode sets up so much for the whole series that even mentioning Gideon's part in it would be a massive spoiler and for me, this was the episode that would have never let me go after it.

That's all for now, here's to the finale buds.

See you next time