#thompson: biggest mastermind in gravity falls

[callipraxia]

And now we're to "Love God!"

Chipmunk, huh, Mabel? I think it looks more like a kitten...but then, for the longest time my first thought about the obviously waffle-shaped cloud Thompson fails to identify was "shoeprint!," so perhaps I shouldn't comment on other people's ability to label clouds.

"Clouds don't come in colors." I mean, sometimes they look like they do

"You've never had an awesome crew to roll with before!" (cut to everyone else chanting for Thompson to lick a moldy sponge someone presumably littered in the cemetery...that's all.) I guess it really is indicative of the degree to which the twins have been accepted as the members of the crew that Dipper has "ordering Thompson around" privileges.

"That might work for a goat and a pig, but Robbie's a hopeless case!" haha, I'd forgotten Wendy was funny.

Considering how often he sing-narrates his actions this season (the "car-drivin' song" from "Golf War," and now "puttin' a rainbow wig on a big white gorilla"), I guess Stan really did enjoy karaoke, huh?

Ooh, the weapons box is real! I was sure I saw that thing, sure enough that it was the subject of a whole sub-point in one of the Ford essays, but it's good to have more visual confirmation. (As soon as I state something with confidence, I...immediately become worried I remembered it wrong. It's an issue.)

And Soos has one of his Moments of Surprising Intelligence, which makes one wonder what's going on in his head sometimes...we know Stan sometimes explains business concepts to him, but here, he kinda explains one to Stan!

Also, Stan, uh...I don't know how to tell you this, but the oldest person you interact with regularly? Yeah, he's 22...though admittedly, a) he's Soos and b) you also pay him, so, eh, fair enough.

I hate to give Robbie a point, but...he's got a point about his parents, their cheerfulness is...I suspect it would be just a bit unsettling even if there weren't corpses on screen with 'em.

"I'm like Girl Dipper!" Maaaaaybe not the best pitch in the world, Mabel...in present company...

"Robbie's not a bad guy, he's just a heartbroken soul who needs love!" Pominent in the background, directly beside Mabel's head as she says this: graffiti reading "Die, Dipper, Die!"

Sometimes I worry about how detached from reality Mabel can get....

Am I wrong, or is this the only episode where Wendy wears a different outfit in real life? The only other time I can recall her entirely shedding her usual outfit was in "Double Dipper," and that only happened in a couple of fantasies of Dipper's and Tyrone's (Dipcificae, y'all can use the fact that Dipper's fantasy version of Wendy dresses more like Pacifica if you want, I suppose).

In retrospect, nice job planting the idea (by revealing that he's not actually as idiotic as he usually acts when he goes off on the twins) that Thompson is actually potentially a mastermind who miiiight just have what it takes (eventually) to play with the likes of Stan or Bill or the Axolotl early in the episode...even if he does still betray wince-inducing naivete in sharing Mabel's notion that breaking Tambry and Robbie back up would actually unite the friend group again. Wendy would still be angry that Tambry had dated her ex...and probably even angrier that Robbie had now hurt both her and her friend-since-kindergarten. Lee and Nate would still have issues about trust and mockery. Nothing would have improved...Unless that was just the Future Mastermind taking a little revenge - if Mabel had gone to any conventional lengths to create said break-up, then she'd have been guaranteed to at least no longer be friends with Tambry permanently, and that could have affected her relationship with Wendy, and since Wendy is the main link between the twins and everyone else....

...I...spend way too much time coming up with ways to interpret events as elaborate, malicious schemes, don't I?

Mabel, hon, at least Dipper's wearing a different shirt than usual. He also pulls it off fine as far as I can tell? (This episode, I admit, is one of the ones where I don't Mabel especially likable. I'd say it's just because Pacifica one-upped her in the newspaper by declaring v-necks the look of the season back in "Golf War," but I thought the implication was that the whole "I nearly got you killed trying to cheat at mini-golf" thing cancelled out both the newspaper thing and the earlier mockery thing and that they were in a truce from there on out?)

For anyone who wonders Mabel is, apparently randomly, polyamorous in my story "The Earth Never Tires," this episode is why. "Yes, I will marry all of you!" It's canon!

"It's heaven's punishment for our terrible taste in everything!" Just one of the times Stan would act as an agent of the gods, I suppose...just not Love God. Good thing he was immortal!

Well - the house is mostly in order, except that the vacuuming needs doing, but it's too late in the day for that now - too hot. With that therefore postponed to tomorrow morning and with my Spanish lessons done, I shall see if my DVD player will cooperate with watching GF S2 Disc 2.

...initial efforts aren't promising, we only got as far as Dipper and Mabel declaring that twinship makes them "birthday experts" into "Blendin's Game" before the DVD player glitched out - turns out that the first disc of S1 might not be wonky after all, and that it's actually this DVD player. Still - perseverance!

Bad children. going through people's things...I tend to regard the interior of one's handbag and/or wallet as a rather private space, and would react very loudly to anyone presuming to go through mine. Soos is probably better-natured than I am, but dangit, Mabel, you at least definitely know this, because you outright admitted you were snooping for "Soos secrets!"

Y'know, I don't know if the problem with the giant hummingbird story is that "Soos is very naive" or "it's Gravity Falls, that's actually perfectly reasonable."

...yeah, forget perseverance, let's find the old laptop with a disc drive in it, I do not have the fortitude to watch the scene where Blendin invokes Globnar five more times, and in the past three minutes the disc has twice skipped back to the beginning before I could even get past the menu. Stupid rubbbish property.