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The second and final season of the American animated television series Gravity Falls premiered on Disney Channel on August 1, 2014 and on Disney XD on August 4, 2014, and ended on February 15, 2016.[1][2] It was greenlit on July 29, 2013.
The second season continues right where the first season left off. The first 12 episodes mainly focus on Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy working on discovering the identity of the author of the journals, while Stan Pines continues to work on operating the mysterious portal beneath the Mystery Shack. The last eight episodes primarily focus on the gang trying to stop Bill Cipher, a dream demon with infinite power who wants to take over the world with weirdness, with J. K. Simmons joining the main cast as Ford Pines.
Production
On July 29, 2013, the show was renewed for a second season.[3] On February 16, 2014, it was announced that Gravity Falls would move from Disney Channel to Disney XD in Spring 2014, and that the second season would be shown on that channel.[4] On March 4, 2014, Alex Hirsch announced on his Twitter account that the second season would premiere in Summer 2014. On June 14, 2014, it was confirmed that Season 2 would premiere on August 1, 2014 on Disney Channel and on August 4, 2014 on Disney XD. On the same day, it was announced that Season 2 would air on both Disney XD and Disney Channel. However, most of the new episodes would premiere on Disney XD before Disney Channel. It was announced that the second season will consist of 20 to 22 episodes.[5]
On November 20, 2015, creator of the show Alex Hirsch announced that the second season would be the show's last and that it was his decision to end the show, not the network's.[6]
Cast
The main characters, voiced by Jason Ritter as Dipper, and Kristen Schaal as Mabel, with series creator Alex Hirsch portraying Grunkle Stan and Soos, and Wendy Corduroy played by Linda Cardellini, reprise their roles. Hirsch also voices Bill Cipher, who returns in the fourth episode, "Sock Opera". J. K. Simmons plays Stan's twin brother, Stanford Filbrick "Ford" Pines, starting with the twelfth episode, "A Tale of Two Stans".
The recurring characters comprises the voices of Dee Bradley Baker as Mabel's pet pig, Waddles, and Hirsch also playing Old Man McGucket, the "local kook" of the town. Kevin Michael Richardson plays Sheriff Blubs, with partner Deputy Durland being voiced by Keith Ferguson. Pacifica Northwest is played by Jackie Buscarino. T. J. Miller plays as Robbie Valentino. Frank Welker voices Gompers, a goat who lives in the forest of Gravity Falls. Thurop Van Orman voices the recurring villain Li'l Gideon. Voice acting veteran John DiMaggio plays Manly Dan, a strong lumberjack and father of Wendy. Niki Yang and Carl Faruolo play Candy Chiu and Grenda, Mabel's two best friends, respectively. Toby Determined, a journalist for Gravity Falls' Gossiper, is voiced by Gregg Turkington, and Will Forte plays Tyler Cutebiker.
Broadcast
For this season, the show broadcast most of its original episodes on Disney XD,[7] with Disney Channel airing reruns, although "Scary-oke" and "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" aired on Disney Channel first. The season premiered on Disney Channel Europe, Middle East and Africa on December 3, 2014.[8] It also airs on Disney XD Canada with differently assigned numbers: "Northwest Mansion Mystery" is counted 11 instead of 10,[9] "Not What He Seems" is counted 10 instead of 11,[9] "The Last Mabelcorn" is counted 17 instead of 15,[10] "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" is counted 16 instead of 17,[10] and "Weirdmageddon 3" is counted 24 instead of 20.[10]
Episodes
Production codes for this season start with the string 618G-2 (the first three numbers numerically represent the birth month and date of series creator Alex Hirsch), with the last two numbers representing the order the episodes were produced in, which may not represent the order in which they air.[7][11][12]
The viewership of the episodes are given from the channel in which aired the episode first.
Episode 10 has been released on different platforms under two names: "Northwest Mansion Mystery"[13] and "Northwest Mansion Noir".[14]
Stan continues to work on the portal while the Mystery Shack throws a grand re-opening party after the Li'l Gideon incident. Meanwhile, when Dipper meets two government agents, he tries to tell them about the mysteries of Gravity Falls by showing them his journal. When the agents don't believe anything written in the journal, Dipper ends up conjuring up zombies to prove to them he's not crazy.
Dipper's journal pages lead the gang to the author's hidden bunker where they find themselves face-to-face with an evil shapeshifter whom the author raised from a mysterious egg. Meanwhile, Dipper finally builds up the courage to tell Wendy how he feels about her.
After being belittled by Pacifica one too many times, Mabel challenges her to a miniature golf-off which gets out of control when she and Dipper discover that living golf balls control the courses.
Mabel attempts to make the perfect sock puppet show to impress her new crush. Meanwhile, Dipper tries to figure out the password to the laptop found in the bunker, while Bill Cipher wants to make a "deal" with him.
After Soos promises his grandmother to find a date for his cousin Reggie's engagement party, Dipper and Mabel offer to help him. Eventually, he uses a dating simulator to help him talk to girls. However, Giffany, the girl in the game, obsessively falls in love with Soos and eventually reveals herself as a sentient, malicious and extremely jealous AI after Soos asks Melody, a girl who works at a meat stand, for a date. Meanwhile, Stan plans to steal a kiddie robot for the Mystery Shack.
In this non-canon episode, Stan tries to sell Mystery Shack merchandise to an unknown buyer by telling stories about each item he sells. Stories include:
"Hands Off": After stealing her gold watch, Stan is cursed by a witch and loses his hands.
"Abaconings": Waddles becomes smart because of a mysterious mushroom and soon becomes so smart he forgets about Mabel.
"Clay Day": Mabel confronts her fear of stop motion animation by fighting clay monsters.
Blendin Blandin returns to face off against Dipper and Mabel in a futuristic, potentially deadly battle. Meanwhile, Soos is upset about his birthday, and Dipper and Mabel try to figure out why.
Mabel takes matchmaking too far when she steals a love potion from a real Love God to use on Robbie and Tambry. Meanwhile, Stan decides to create a hot air balloon for the Woodstick music festival.
Guest star: John DiMaggio as Love God and Jillian Bell as Melody
The Northwests hire Dipper to deal with a ghost that threatens to disrupt their party but Dipper soon find out the Northwests's secret from that ghost. During the party, Candy, Grenda and Mabel fight over a boy they all want to date.
Guest stars: Nick Offerman as Agent Powers, Brad Abrell as Agent Trigger and Nathan Fillion as Preston Northwest
After government agents take Stan into custody, Dipper and Mabel begin to question how much they really know about their Grunkle and must work out whether or not they truly trust him anymore. Finally, the portal is activated and the author of the journals is revealed to be Stan's long-lost brother, who emerges from the portal as Dipper, Mabel, Soos and Grunkle Stan look on.
Guest stars: Nick Offerman as Agent Powers and Brad Abrell as Agent Trigger
Stan has to reveal his past to Dipper and Mabel, along with the secrets of his twin brother, Stanford "Ford" Pines. Stan's real name is actually Stanley Pines: thirty years ago Ford constructed the portal but was trapped inside it due to a mishap with Stanley, his estranged con-artist brother. Stanley assumed his brother's identify as "Stanford Pines", and spent the next thirty years trying to fix the portal to get Ford back. He was finally able to reactivate the portal after the kids discovered Ford's missing journals. In the end, the agents leave after having their memories erased, and Stanford decides to live in the underground lab under the Mystery Shack. Grunkle Stan makes him promise he will leave the kids alone after being told that he would have to leave the Mystery Shack at the end of the summer.
Guest stars: Nick Offerman as Agent Powers, Brad Abrell as Agent Trigger and Jonathan Banks as Filbrick Pines
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"Dungeons, Dungeons & More Dungeons"
Stephen Sandoval
Matt Chapman, Alex Hirsch & Josh Weinstein Additional Written Material by: Zach Paez
Dipper finds his favorite board game called "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons", and Great Uncle Ford joins him. When Grunkle Stan accidentally rolls Ford's Infinity-Sided Dice, the characters from the game come to life and capture Dipper and Ford. Meanwhile, Mabel, Grunkle Stan and Grenda try to watch the Ducktective season finale.
Mabel and her friends go on a magical quest to get unicorn hair in order to protect the Mystery Shack from Bill Cipher. Meanwhile, Dipper finds out that Bill and Ford used to be partners and designed the portal together. However, Bill tricked him the whole time, so Ford had to shut down the portal. Bill has been waiting for the reactivation ever since, and once he gets his hands on the interdimensional rift created by the portal will mean the end of the world.
Mabel decides to plan her and Dipper's 13th birthday party, it's a big deal to Mabel because it also the same day they have to leave Gravity falls, Ford however needs Dipper's help in sealing up the rift, Mabel who doesn't know about the rift lets Dipper go with Ford giving him matching backpacks and walkie talkies when they need help. Meanwhile, Ford reveals to Dipper the most surprising secret yet – a giant UFO which, according to Ford, crashed millions of years ago and is buried under the town. It was by using parts of this alien technology that Ford was able to construct the dimensional portal. Bill Cipher tricks Mabel into handing him the interdimensional rift, which Bill then uses to enter the physical world and open a portal from his own dimension.
"Weirdmageddon Part 1"[note 4]–The battle for the fate of the world begins as Bill Cipher and his minions are released from their dimension. Meanwhile, Dipper and Wendy try to save Mabel from a prison bubble designed by Bill and guarded by Gideon.
Guest stars: Louis C.K. as The Horrifyingly Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity[note 5], Danielle Fishel as Pyronica, Patrick McHale as Hectorgon, Andy Merrill as Teeth, Brian Bloom as Rumble McSkirmish, Nathan Fillion as Preston Northwest, Justin Roiland as Blendin Blandin and Dave Wittenberg as Time Baby and Lolph
Note: Jason Ritter and Linda Cardellini also briefly appear as Dipper and Wendy, respectively, in a live-action shot.
"Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality"–Dipper, Soos and Wendy enter Mabel's bubble to save her and discover an odd world inside of it. Meanwhile, Bill and his friends try to initiate the second phase of their master plan.
Guest stars: Jon Stewart as Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Schwartstein, John Roberts as Xyler, Greg Cipes as Craz, Danielle Fishel as Pyronica, Patrick McHale as Hectorgon, Eric Bauza as Ernesto and Alfred Molina as the Multi-Bear
"Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls"[note 6]–Dipper and Mabel rally the town to fight against Bill Cipher and his minions in one final stand to save Gravity Falls from destruction.
Guest stars: Nathan Fillion as Preston Northwest, Larry King as Wax Larry King, Alfred Molina as Multi-Bear, Cecil Baldwin as Tad Strange, Danielle Fishel as Pyronica, Andy Merrill as Teeth, Louis C.K. as The Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity[note 5] and Kyle MacLachlan as Bus Driver
Reception
The season received widespread acclaim from critics.
1 2 As of December 21, 2017, Louis C.K. has been dubbed out of this role for future airings due to his sexual harassment allegations. Series creator Alex Hirsch redubbed this character and is credited for doing so at the end of the re-dubbed rerun.
↑ This episode is a one-hour special. Since its original airing, this episode has sometimes been split up into two separate episodes, with the first maintaining the original title, while the second is titled "Weirdmageddon 4: Somewhere in the Woods"; the splitting is also observed on Disney+.
1 2 "Gravity Falls". RogersOnDemand.Com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Season 2 EP 10 Not What He Seems Aired on 04/06/15 EP 11 Northwest Mansion Mystery Aired on 03/22/15
1 2 3 "Gravity Falls". RogersOnDemand.Com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2016. S2: EP 24 Weirdmageddon 3/4 Finale Season 2 EP 16 Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future Aired on 01/26/16 EP 17 The Last Mabelcorn Aired on 01/26/16 EP 18 Weirdmageddon Part 1 Aired on 01/26/16 EP 19 Weirdmageddon Part II Escape... Aired on 10/26/15
↑ {{Cite magazine|last=Eadicicco|first=Lisa|date=July 27, 2017|title=All the Rick and Morty Easter Eggs You Missed in Seasons One and Two|url=https://time.com/4868184/rick-morty-easter-eggs%7Caccess-date=June 21, 2021|magazine=TIME|quote=If you look very closely, there's one scene in which a pen, a notepad, and a mug emerge from one of [[Rick Sanchez|Rick [Sanchez]]]'s portals as he attempts to dodge the Council of Ricks. [Stan Pines] on Gravity Falls [later] loses these [same] items in a portal during one episode.|language=en-US}}
↑ {{Cite web|last=Hernandez|first=Danny|date=March 16, 2019|title=7 Rick And Morty Easter Eggs You Missed|url=https://time.com/4868184/rick-morty-easter-eggs%7Caccess-date=March 16, 2019|website=Screen Rant|quote=Eagle-eyed fans of the Disney XD series Gravity Falls may have noticed while watching "Close Rick-Counters Of The Rick Kind" that Grun[k]le Stan's Mug, pen, and notebook that were sucked into a gigantic portal. While Rick [Sanchez] and [[Morty Smith|Morty [Smith]]] are trying to get the Squanch out of dodge, Rick opens several portals to throw off the Ricks on their tail. One of the portals he opens spits out the exact items Grun[k]le Stan [later] lost in Gravity Falls.|language=en-US}}
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