While the Pines twins also occasionally get help from Mystery Shack employee, Wendy Corduroy. Though Stan is jaded to the supernatural and sees rational explanations for most of what his grand-nephew and niece find due to the ease with which he fakes similar phenomena, the Mystery Shack repairman, Soos frequently follows along, being easily lead but concerned with the kid's safety enough to follow them on their adventures. Once Dipper's Journal is confirmed, Mabel and Dipper start accepting the Journal as a hard fact, and use it as a reference point for anything even slightly out of the ordinary so as not to be caught unaware. Mabel has a well stimulated imagination and so humors the supernatural aspects of the town almost instantly. Though this exasperates him sometimes, Dipper has adapted by just trying to document the supernatural for knowledge-sake. Sometimes due to shaky evidence, sometimes due to jaded or dim-witted locals, and sometimes due to association with his grunkle, Dipper almost never is able to prove the existence of the spectacular, to the public. The Journal, was written by someone who had started similar research, but with several more years experience, and confirmation of actual supernatural occurrences, once which he/she says are drawn to the region.īy following the Journal, Dipper quickly starts finding his own confirmations. By chance Dipper finds a hollowed out tree-stump, with a journal inside. Intrigued, but unimpressed with his Uncle's claims, Dipper goes looking for his own evidence of the paranormal. Grunkle Stan runs a tourist trap called the Mystery Shack and upon meeting them, they quickly discover that he is a showman, falsifying the the mundane into "evidence" of the strange and supernatural. Smith Harrison.ĭipper in the first episode of the series.ĭipper is a 12-year-old boy who, alongside his sister Mabel, are sent by their parents to spend their summer with their paternal great-uncle Stan.
Ever since, Dipper and his older twin sister Mabel Pines star in every episode of the show. He originally appeared in the unreleased unnamed pilot created by the series' creator, Alex Hirsch which was used to pitch the show, and then appeared on the first episode "Tourist Trapped". Mason "Dipper" Pines (born on August 31, 1999) is the main protagonist of the Disney XD animated series, Gravity Falls.
~ Dipper's final words and the last line in the entire series in the closing narration. It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. If you've ever taken a road trip through the pacific northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called "Gravity Falls". We've traveled to heck and back to get you, and we're going back together. And I'm not taking Ford's apprenticeship. Spend my entire teens cooped up in a basement with a lab coat? How ridiculous would that be? I don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but whatever it is, you don't have to fear because we'll do it together. Look! (Flashbacks) Mabel, I thought you were living in fantasy, but look at me! I actually thought I was gonna stay here and be Ford's apprentice. It's how we've gotten through our entire lives. But there's a better way to get through then denial, and that's with help from people who care about you. (Mabel: Uh.LA LA LA LA LA LA! I'm not listening! Guards! *clap clap* The FIngers!) Look, real life stinks sometimes.
(Mabel: Uh.Pssh! Yeah, right!) You're scared. And I know that even though you might act like it, you don't wanna be in this fantasy world. (Mabel clones boo) But I do know one thing well, and that's you. I'm not stylish, and I'm not cool, and I can't make pugs appear out of thin air.