History Recap / GravityFallsS1E9TheTimeTravelersPig

* BrickJoke: Mabel feeds Waddles a caramel apple. At the end of episode when Robbie is holding another caramel apple, she sends Waddles after him and his apple.

** To [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E8IrrationalTreasure "Irrational Treasure"]]: Stan's mention of there being no police around, and a pioneer's swear of "By Trembley!"

** Mabel names her pig Waddles, because it waddles.
** And its previous name was Fifteen Poundy.

* TunnelOfLove: Robbie and Wendy go on "The Tunnel of Love and Corndogs" after becoming a couple. Dipper and Wendy go on it when Dipper manages to win her a prize.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Blendin demonstrates his time machine he vanishes and returns in Renaissance garb, after asking the twins to guess where he was he says there was a costume store there 15 years ago.

* ChekhovsGun: Soos speculating on what it would take to trigger the rigged dunk tank target early in the episode.

* CrappyCarnival: Stan even points it out:

* EarlyBirdCameo: This is technically Ford's first appearance, although we are lead to believe he is Stan.

* TyrannosaurusRex: The twins almost get eaten by one when they briefly end up in [[Literature/ASoundOfThunder the Cretaceous period.]]

-->'''Mabel''': Don't worry, brother. Whatever happens I'll be right here, supporting you every step of the-- OHMYGOSHAPIG!! (runs off in excitement)

* NiceShoes: In this episode, Mabel wares a pair of light up sneakers which she shows off to a family in the pioneer days.

* CrappyCarnival

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.deviantart.com/willdrawforfood1/art/Time-Traveler-s-Pig-Poster-324783825 "Do you have any idea how many rules you just broke?"]]]]

* BrokenAesop: The episode teaches Dipper that it is more important to sacrifice your needs for your sibling. Except that Mabel does not do the same for him. Mind you, it involves manipulating your would-be ex-girlfriend via time travel to do the alternate so maybe it's, "don't betray family for pipe dreams."

* ConspicuousCG: The shots of the ferris wheel.

* EarlyBirdCameo: When Dipper and Mabel fight over the time machine, they end up a few decades in the past, and their commotion causes [[spoiler: Ford]] to look out the door, though at the time, many viewers would assume that was [[spoiler: Stan]].

* TyrannosaurusRex: The twins almost get eaten by one when they briefly ended up in the Cretaceous period.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Do you have any idea how many rules you just broke?"]]

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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Dipper and Mabel steal Blendin's time machine and end up ruining his life and causing all sorts of {{Time Paradox}}es. [[ComedicSociopathy They don't express any regret or guilt for it, and Blendin's arrest and trial are both played for laughs.]] Possibly justified in that it was Blendin's incompetence that granted ''two twelve-year-olds'' the power to mess with the time stream.

* BrokenAesop: The episode teaches Dipper that it is more important to sacrifice your needs for your sibling. Except that Mabel does not do the same for him.

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Dipper loses one of his shoes when he chases Mabel through the events of past episodes, and leaves it behind in a past timeline. [[spoiler: When Lolph and Dundgren make Blendin Blandin go back and correct all the time paradoxes, he's seen collecting Dipper's shoe as evidence.]]