History Recap / GravityFallsS1E20GideonRises

* BackForTheFinale: The gnomes from the first episode.

Back at the Shack, Gideon takes a closer look at Dipper's journal and sees that it's actually #3. Thinking Dipper must have the first journal, Gideon activates his Gideonland statue (Actually a giant robot built by Old Man [=McGucket=]) and chases the twins' bus down. Gideon demands Dipper hand over Journal #1, but Dipper has no idea what he's talking about, so Gideon takes Mabel to be his queen. This is the last straw, and Dipper throws himself into Gideon's cockpit and fights Gideon. The battle sends the robot off a cliff, and the twins are able to survive the fall thanks to Mabel's grappling hook. The townspeople gather at the crash site, and Gideon claims that the twins blew up his statue. Before the police arrest Dipper and Mabel, Stan shows up to reveal the truth; Gideon's so-called 'psychic visions' are actually from a surveillance system he uses to monitor Gravity Falls; all his Li'l Gideon pins are cameras, whose feeds he gleans information on the town. Gideon is arrested, but before he's hauled off Stan shakes him down for the deed. "The Mystery Shack is back, baby!"

* BookEnds: The grappling hook and the gnomes from the pilot come back. Both the first and the last episode of the season ends with Stan entering his secret lair though this time we see more of it. Also, Dipper saves Mabel from a villain who tries to make her his "queen".

* PhonyPsychic: Lil Gideon is exposed as one, cue his VillainousBreakdown.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The whole town towards Gideon.

* DramaticIrony: Journal #1 was under the Mystery Shack the whole time, meaning that Gideon chased after Dipper and Mabel when he didn't need to. Even moreso, if he hadn't, Stan wouldn't have exposed his scam, though it does leave one to wonder [[FridgeLogic why Gideon's surveillance system was inside his robot]].

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Old Man [=McGucket=] towards Gideon, apparently.
** Heck, the whole ''town'' towards Gideon.

* TemptingFate: Gideon does this, which doubles as a VillainBall moment, when he claims that Dipper is useless without the journal and steals away Mabel. Dipper proceeds to leap from a cliff into the Gideon robot, deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with a HeroicSecondWind.

* VillainousBreakdown: Gideon loses his shit ''completely'' when he realizes he needs one more journal, and it finally reaches his head when he's finally exposed as a fraud and sent to prison yelling and ranting after being arrested.

* YouMonster: Mabel calls Gideon this after he dress Waddles in a Gideon costume.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Just before Grunle Stan knocks over another car with his, Blendin is calmly walking away from the incoming accident while the other people there run terrified as it happens.

* InformedAttribute:
** Despite what Gideon claims, Dipper doesn't always use the journal to defeat whatever creature is causing trouble. In fact, many episodes don't feature him using the journal at all. Even Dipper, in his depression, forgets that for a while.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: In-universe example; the newscast of Gideon taking over the Mystery Shack contains a picture of Stan dressed as a devil and dancing around flames. Stan claims the photo "taken out of context" when he sees it.

* MadeOfIron: Zigzagged. See [[DeadlyNosebleed Undeadly Nosebleed]].

** Despite what Gideon claims, Dipper doesn't always use the journal to defeat whatever creature is causing trouble. In fact, many episodes don't feature him using the journal at all. While it makes sense for Gideon to assume that, it's odd that Dipper doesn't realize it.
** Dipper had just been through several failings, and genuinely felt helpless to do anything in that situation. It's not unusual for people, especially children, to in moments like this take a much more negative opinion of themselves and their past successes.

* BookEnds: The grappling hook and the gnomes from the pilot come back. Both the first and the last episode of the season ends with Stan entering his secret lair though this time we see more of it.

* DarkestHour: Things have never been darker than they are now for the Pines.

** Stan goes to his secret room with Dipper's journal, where he has the one from Gideon and the first already.
--->"After all these years... Finally, we have them all."

That night, Stan enters his vending machine passageway and takes an elevator into a mysterious room full of computers. Reaching a desk, he pulls out another journal...''1''. "After all these years...finally, we have them all." With journals 1, 2, and 3, Stan activates a strange machine...

* ThatWasNotADream:Dipper wakes up and hopes the last episode was a dream, only for Soos to inform him that it wasn't.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Dipper battles Gideon inside ''the head of a giant robot'' and manages to ''beat him''.

** Also Stan's "Kids, you're going home'', qualifies.

! This ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode provides examples of:

** Mable & Dipper wind up being put on a bus back to California after Stan realises he can't take care of them anymore.

* DespairEventHorizon: Dipper and Mabel (and Stan) come pretty close when Gideon forces them out of the Shack.
** Dipper ''seems'' to hit it for a second later on, but it turns out to be a subversion.

* ShakeSomeoneObjectsFall: This is how Stan retrieves the deed from Gideon at the end of the episode. For the record, he also carries around an axe and a picture of Mabel.
** Journal #2 also fell out, which the ending revealed that Stan also grabbed.

* TemptingFate:
** Gideon does this, which doubles as a VillainBall moment, when he claims that Dipper is useless without the journal and steals away Mabel. Dipper proceeds to leap from a cliff into the Gideon robot, deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with a HeroicSecondWind.

--> "After all these years... Finally, we have them all." -''Grunkle Stan, about the journals.''

* InformedAttribute: Despite what Gideon claims, Dipper doesn't always use the journal to defeat whatever creature is causing trouble. In fact, many episodes don't feature him using the journal at all. While it makes sense for Gideon to assume that, it's odd that Dipper doesn't realize it.
** Dipper had just been through several failings, and genuinely felt helpless to do anything in that situation. Its not unusual for people, especially children, to in moments like this take a much more negative opinion of themselves and there past successes.

* MotionCaptureMecha: Gideon's robot, which he controls with a mocap suit with ping-pong ball sensors.

* SequelHook: A second season will be made, as evident by Stan saying "Gravity Falls will return." over the credits.

** Wendy notes that without her job at the Mystery Shack, her dad's shipping off to her cousin's logging camp for the rest of the summer.

* ButIMustGoNow:
** Wendy notes that without her job at the Mystery Shack, her dad's shipping off to her cousin's logging camp for the rest of the summer.
** Mable & Dipper wind up being put on a bus back to California after Stan realises he can't take care of them anymore.

* {{Kissgusting}}: Stan is so ecstatic about figuring out Gideon's secret that he kisses Soos' grandmother. She responds that she's going to vacuum her face.

* AllJustADream: Subverted, Dipper wakes up and hopes the last episode was a dream, only for Soos to inform him that [[ThatWasNotADream it wasn't]].

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: After the Mystery Shack closes, Soos starts taking other jobs, including cooking at the diner and driving the bus taking Dipper and Mabel back home. It is implied that he isn't very good at them.

* AllJustADream: Subverted, Dipper wakes up and hopes the last episode was a dream, only for Soos to inform him that [[ThatWasNotADream it wasn't.]]

* BreakingSpeech: Gideon tries to give one to Dipper but it fails.

** [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Cute Biker's real name is Tyler.]]

* TheUnReveal: The season ends before we find out what the secret device that needed the journals to be activated actually ''does''.

* YouMonster: Mabel calls Gideon this after he dress Waddles in a gideon costume.

* BilingualBonuhs: What does that machine do? If you decipher the encoded text in the Journals, you'll find that it's a "Universe Portal".

** The commercial for the Tent of Telepathy from "The Hand That Rocks Mabel" labels Stan as a fraud. When Stan exposes Gideon's surveillance system, he rhetorically asks, "Who's the fraud now?"

* ContinuityNod: In "Dreamscaperers" Wendy said that she'd once caught Gideon stealing her moisturizer. In this episode, when Gideon tells the gnomes he's not a girl, they reply "But your skin is so soft. Do you moisturize, or...?"