Memes / Gravity Falls

Can't disagree with that.

There are moments in Gravity Falls that are so memorable, they become Memetic Mutations.

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Examples:

• The gnome puking rainbows from the first episode. ^note It has been used as a reaction image to express shock or disgust.
  • Someone actually being five gnomes in a trenchcoat.
  • When Pride Month Ends^ExplanationJune is considered Gay Pride Month for the LGBTQ community and every company and corporation puts rainbows on their logos to show their support. Once it's July 1, they revert their logo back to normal.
• "Bill Cipher is a magic Illuminati Dorito", a reference to his triangular shape and heavy involvement in the mythology of the show.
  • Funnily enough, Bill was originally going to be green, but when Alex saw what Green-Bill looked like, he decided to avoid the possibility of jokes of Bill looking like a leaf, and made him yellow at an animator's suggestion, thinking "No one will make jokes about that".
• "BABY FIGHTS!!!"^ExplanationAn in-universe tv show which Grunkle Stan watches in "Carpet Diem", with the show being frequently used to mock both sides of a debate or argument as equally stupid and childish.
• Dipper Goes to Taco Bell^ExplanationAn infamous Gravity Falls fanfic notorious for its graphic content despite having such an innocuous title. The fic became a common subject of parody as a result, be it through depicting Dipper as being afraid of Taco Bell or just associating him with tacos in general. The fic also inspired a number of dramatic readings and reaction videos.
• Grunkle Stan the Rapist^ExplanationA troll fic based on the series known for being even more extreme than Dipper Goes to Taco Bell. Consequently, it also became a subject of parody among fans.
• A fandom example, but some fans are prone to saying "I jumped off the [insert Dipper ship here] and onto S.S. Pacifica" since "Northwest Mansion Mystery", which had a staggering amount of Ship Tease between Dipper and Pacifica, and they left their previous shipping for this one.
• A couple of videos of Dipper saying "Talk dirty to me" followed by a saxophone jingle has humored quite a few. This has also caused the phrase "Talk Dippy to me" to get thrown around.
• Any and all talks about "the Hiatus" like it's some sort of all-devouring monster and/or contagious disease with the power to drive people insane.
• "The author of the journals… My brother."/Dramatic Author ^Explanation Tumblr user Mermandos made a post about having a dream where Dipper finds a stack of pancakes and asks who made them, to which Stan answers "The author of the journals… My brother" and Ford turns to the screen dramatically in the same way as in the end of "Not What He Seems." Phantomrose96 added to the joke by making up a few scenarios where a similar exchange would occur. It quickly went out of control. Even fandom celebrity MoringMark got in on it!
• Editing any scene with Ford with another line from his voice actor, J. K. Simmons. His roles in Spider-Man, Portal 2, and Whiplash seem to be the most popular targets.
• Princess Ford◊.
  • And now it's bizarre hybrid.
• Stan's radio interview in "The Stanchurian Candidate" becomes memetic In-Universe, to the point that one of the memes based on it parodies the "One does not simply walk into Mordor" meme.
• Ford being White and Nerdy. Gets even better when you realize who voiced the villain in the episode most of those clips are from.
• BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL… (This reference has been more or less common from Cipher's inception, but caught fire as a fandom response to the ominous ending of "The Stanchurian Candidate", which foreshadowed Bill's return.)
• WELL WELL WELL WELL WELLWELLWELLWELLWELLWELLWELL. ^ExplanationFrom the beginning of "The Last Mabelcorn" when Bill appears in Ford's dream and materializes copies of himself as he says the line over and over. This caught on due to how much it was repeated.
• ...BUT HER AIM IS GETTING BETTER!... HER AIM IS GETTING BETTER!^note The punchline of Stan's ex-wife joke from episode 2. Very often used as a reply to people saying they will "miss" the show now that it has ended.
• JOAJE.^note  This line comes from a YouTube Poop of Gravity Falls, taking Stan's ex-wife joke from "The Legend of The Gobblewonker", taking the word joke out of it, and reversing the first syllable, thus making the word "Joaje". This and "HER AIM IS GETTING BETTER!" later became overused to the point of becoming dead memes.
  • For some, since the thing was a dead joke to begin with, just taking a break will make it funny again.
• Dipper Selfie Collections.^note  There's even a meme template.
  • MoringMark did it wrong.
• Dryly announcing another hiatus.^note  After the half-a-year hiatus following "Not What He Seems", it's become a Running Gag in the fandom.
  • "tfw no gf", a common complaint. (The original meme, of course, stands for "that feel when no girlfriend.")
• "People stealing credit for Bill's evil."^note The fandom's so divided over Alternative Character Interpretations that they've pretty much blamed everyone but Bill for his Apocalypse How.
• "Friendly reminder: we've never seen [character]'s eyes."^note After a Tumblr post with a similar heading posited the theory that Stan and Ford's father Filbrick was possessed by Bill and cited the fact that the audience never saw him without his sunglasses off.
• "Bill Cipher Did Nothing Wrong 2k15". ^note A parody of the common "X Did Nothing Wrong" fan defense and related to the meme of people stealing Bill's credit, satirizing fans in denial of their favorite character's wrongdoings and faults.
• The phrase, "Listen up, you one-lifespan, three-dimensional, five-sense skin puppets", as well as variations thereof, appears to be becoming memetic. ^note Bill Cipher began his New Era Speech with this line in "Weirdmageddon Part 1."
• "Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, BYE!" ^ExplanationBill Cipher's most famous and commonly imitated quote, originally said in "Dreamscaperers" when he leaves to enter Stan's mind.
• One Punch Stan. With a single punch, Stan defeats Bill in the finale. Cue "OOOOOOOOONE PUUUUUUUUUUNCH!" as a popular caption for the scene.
• #DemonBaby^note When Bill's statue was found in the Cipher Hunt, the streamer's baby brother, Bodhi, shook his hand. Fan art exploded, ranging from Bodhi being possessed by Bill to Bill hanging around as a Not-So-Imaginary Friend. Bill seems to blur the line between fiction and reality just enough to make it unsettling.
• It's popular to take the scene of Grunkle Stan complimenting the sad clown painting from "The Hand That Rocks Mabel" and photoshop something else onto it.
• "Whoa! This is worthless!" ^note Dipper's response to Quentin Trembley giving him a negative 12 dollar bill in "Irrational Treasure". The picture is often edited to take a potshot at something.
  • "It's less than worthless, my boy!" ^note For added emphasis, Trembley's response.
• "There is nothing about this I understand!"^note Stan's response to the portal from "A Tale Of Two Stans". Usually edited to take jabs at something someone finds confusing.
• "Awkward sibling hug." "Pat, pat."^note Dipper and Mabel exchange an uncomfortable yet willing hug in "Tourist Trapped" while patting each other's backs. This has been used to describe relationships within one's family.
• "I've got some children I need to make into corpses!" ^ExplanationA line from Bill in "Weirdmageddon 4: Somewhere in the Woods" before he gives chase to the fleeing Pines twins. Used to indicate someone going full Papa Wolf/Mama Bear on a loved one's tormentor, or to indicate that the poster is (jokingly) going to do something bad to a child.
• "Just another goofy episode full of silly jokes for kids!"^ExplanationQuote from an Alex Hirsch promo for the notoriously intense episode "Not What He Seems". Often used to introduce clips of other dark or scary moments from cartoons that are aimed at children.
• "After all these years, finally, I have them all."^ExplanationWhat Stan says once he acquires all three journals. Often used for when someone manages to get everything they wanted.
• BUY CRYPTO, SUCKERS!^ExplanationA few years after the series ended, Bill Cipher made a surprise cameo in The Simpsons episode "Bart in Jail" (complete with Alex Hirsch reprising the role) saying this line while supposedly acting as an avatar of Loki. The line has begun to make the rounds in videos because of the cypto boom as of late. Fans also loved it because it's not only an update on his infamous "BUY GOLD" non-sequitur but also definitely sounds like something he would actually say.
• Mabel invented NFTs^ExplanationIn "Mabel's Guide to Art" short, one of Mabel's many zany ideas is "Caticatures", which Grunkle Stan notes is the same crummy cat picture with different hats. Naturally with the infamy of NFTs and how similar her idea was to NFTs has quickly led people to making similarities. The fact that Grunkle Stan, a known conman, quickly takes interest when she makes money off of it is just icing on the cake.
• "Look! A fairy!"^ExplanationDuring a montage of Soos messing things up in "The Land Before Swine", Mabel sees a fairy outside the bedroom window. Unfortunately, Soos kills it with a flyswatter. For whatever reason, TikTok got a hold of it in March 2022.
  • "Oh sorry dude. I just killed that fairy!" ^ExplanationSoos' response to killing the fairy.
• This is the way.^ExplanationA phrase used in the Gravity Falls subreddit whenever r/Dipcifica is mentioned.

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