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Gravity Falls Season 1 Episode 12

Summerween

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AIRED: 10/5/12

Dipper and Wendy are excited to take part in Gravity Fall's annual event, Summerween. But when Dipper hears Wendy say that trick-or-treating is for kids, he reconsiders.

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Excellent Halloween Special

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By Ayranci, Mar 14, 2013

It's Gravity Falls' version of Halloween that takes place in Summer with Jack O' Melons and lots of trick-or-treating. Dipper and Mabel are excited to join in on the fun, but when Wendy casually mentions that trick-or-treating is for kids, Dipper's whole outlook on the evening changes. The night gets even more complicated when a monster that Dipper accidentally insulted makes them fulfill his candy quota by the night's end or else he will eat them. I thought this was an excellent Halloween special and It was better than Fish Hooks' and Phineas and Ferb's Halloween episodes. I really enjoyed so much and It's great that Gravity Falls town celebrates Halloween twice a year. It has funny moments too but not much. It was hilarious when some of kids scared Stan witha screamer video. It was hilarious when Dipper and Mabel used their cuteness for candy. It was hilarious when Soos pressed one of the talking skeleton head toys (their sound is similar to Old Man McGucket). Waddles' moments were so hilarious. Also some parts of this episode was emotional. This episode is one of the best episodes of this show and It was defiently better than "Little Dipper" episode. By the way, after this episode, all fans of this show waited 4 months for new episodes. I really got sick of waiting the new episodes but I thought It was worth to wait new episode episodes because the new episodes are great just like other Gravity Falls episodes too. Anyway, this episode is one of the best Halloween specials and one of the best Gravity Falls episodes. 10/10moreless
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Season of Terror

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By sh811a, Oct 09, 2012

This is another great one it's pritty much a Halloween episode and it's one of my favorate ones. I really like the fact that the town has a hollday called "Summereen" which just like Christmas in July it's Halloween in the summertime. Personally I feel just like with Chirstmas in July it's by it's nature, it's just a scam by stores just to get more money. But that's really not important for this episode.

I really like how it kinda parodies on the slasher movies, the monster they have doesn't disapoint it's both funny and creepy. From that voice down to the happy face burlap sack mask, it's always the common device in the slashers which to me always made them more creepy because it gives them that sense of mystique.

As usual I really liked the back and forth between Mabel and Dipper. It was funny that both of them were in the costumes of food products Penut Butter and Jam, not just the fact both went together but it was almost like both were wearing bullseyes since the monster eats Trick or Treaters, on a sidenote Mabel's friend Candy dressed up as well Candy. I even liked some of that action with the monster, my favorate scene is when Zeus, Mable, Dipper, Candy, and Grechen they all run to the Summerween store for Santurary, it's almost remincent of the Slasher movie "Intruder" which was about a killer hidden in a department store. I like how the charcters are hiding from the moster mainly Zeus which is funny because he doesn't keep hidden well. One really hillarous moment was when Zeus as usual is about to do something stupid which will give away their presense to the monster by pressing one of those talking decorative skulls, I won't say anymore than that but why this moment was really funny was it turned a cleche on it's head where in the slasher film usually someone would do something like make a noise or even just not shut the frak up when they should which makes the monster/slasher zero in on the unwitting victim, in Zeus's cas it was something that could easily of been avoided.

There was a great moment when Dipper, Mabbel, Grechen, and Candy they all then deside to fight off the monster and all are armed with Medevil weapons which are actually real, how the heck that Summerween store leagally sells them is anyones guess; but it was just cool seeing them actually use them and kick some butt. The reveal of who the monster is doesn't disapoint and is both daft and funny because the monster is bad halloween candy, you know candy like black lickarishe and other crap you can think of that you might have tried a time or two. But I thought the origin setting of how the monster was formed was even funnier, it's sort of an homage joke to some of those 50's as well as some 80's horror flicks where monsters usually would come or be formed from a dump with radioactive material or toxic waste.

However the episode as usual had some morality. I really like this touching scene when both Mabel and Dipper hid, Dipper states more of his reasons to not Trick or Treat because he's getting older and he wanted to be with Wendy at the party. Then Mabel states she knows both of them are growing up and are getting too old for the activity, but she wanted both of them to go because it was going to be their last. I can relate to that feeling I stopped doing it when I was about 12 (last costume was a Batman costume on a sidenote), I did it I wanted one more good time because I knew I wasn't going to do this again. And that's the lesson Dipper learns is that childhood and certain traditions with it are fleeting and you should make the most of it before their gone.

So in the end Dipper, Mabel and the rest had their one last great trick or treattng adventure and they didn't come back empty handed as Uncle Stan was able to scare two jerk kids whom left their bags of candy, Dipper got Wendy, and well you get it. So, happy Summerween.moreless
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Alex Hirsch	Grunkle Stan, Soos, additional voices
Jason Ritter	Dipper Pines
Kristen Schaal	Mabel Pines
Linda Cardellini	Wendy
Jennifer Coolidge	Lazy Susan
Niki Yang	Candy Chiu

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Jeff Bennett

The Summerween Trickster

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- The teens seen dumping the "loser candy" in the Summerween Trickster's origin story are the same ones from Pa and Ma's flashback in The Inconveniencing.
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- Soos: Waht's up, Gordy?
  Gordy: I'm Twamatized.
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- Soos: What's going on out here, dudes? I heard a ruckus. Heh-heh, that's a funny word. "Ruckus."
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- Mabel: I'm so excited!
  Dipper: We're gonna have the best costumes, get the most candy...
  Mabel: And have the biggest stomach aches ever!
  Dipper: Yeah!
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- The scene where Grunkle Stan is failing and trying to scare the trick-or-treaters, and one says "We're not scared" to which Stan replies "You will be. You Will be." Is a reference to a conversation between Yoda and Luke in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
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- The Summerween Trickster's form seemed to be based off of the Noh face character from the movie Spirited Away.
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- The Summerween Trickster being made of bad candy and coming to get those on Summerween makes him like Sam from "Trick r' Treat" about a pumpkin head boy attacking those who don't care about Halloween and kills them.
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- The scenes where Waddles "bursts" out of Grunkle Stan's chest and Soos bursts out of the Summerween Trickster's chest are references to the "chestburster" scene from Alien.
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