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Gravity Falls Season 1 Episode 9

The Time Traveler's Pig

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AIRED: 8/24/12

Dipper wishes he could travel back in time and fix his mistake he made in the past. He then discovers a time machine that can help him. Meanwhile, Mabel finds her first love when she wins a pet pig at the fair.

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Another perfect episode of Gravity Falls

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By Ayranci, Mar 12, 2013

Dipper wishes he could travel back in time and fix his mistake he made in the past. He then discovers a time machine that can help him. Meanwhile Mabel wins a pig at the fair and names "Waddles". I thought this episode was an excellent episode of Gravity Falls beause I really like time travel episodes and movies so much. I liked Phineas and Ferb's time travel episodes, I liked Penguins of Madagascar's time travel episode, I liked Steiwe and Brian's time travel adventure episodes from Family Guy and I liked this episode too. This episode was so enjoyable, funny and also mysterious. Did you know that a mystery man appeared in the first three episodes of this show and nobody knows who is he? I watched that episode and I know who is he. I'm not gonna say anything about the mystery man. Anyway this episode has lots of good moments. Dipper and Mabel's time travel adventure was excellent. It was hilarious when Mabel spent good times with Waddles. It was hilarious when everyone couldn't dunk Stan when he was in dunk tank and in the ending one of the guys from the future dunked Stan with his laser gun. It was hilarious when Dipper threw lots of baseball to Wendy's eye. It was hilairous when Dipper said that the skytram and also his bones are brokken after the skytram fell down. The only moment that I didn't like was when Dipper fixed his mistake and later Pacifica won Waddles and Mabel becomes sad about that. I was sad about Mabel. Also Dipper told her that she is gonna forget it in one day and travels to future and saw that Mabel was still sad. What happened to Dipper? In "Tourist Trapped", Dipper warned Mabel about her boyfriend and he protected Mabel in this episode, In "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel", Dipper told Gideon that Mabel doesn't wanna date with him. But in this episode, Dipper only cared about his relationship with Wendy. Dipper was a jerk to Mabel in this episode. At least he feels sad about Mabel later and he made his mistake again for Mabel. It's great that Mabel got Waddles back. It's sad that Dipper will never travel back in time to fix his mistake again. In this episode, Dipper accidently hit Wendy's eye with the baseball and get some ice for her eye but he crashes into the mystery man on the way back, spilling ice everywhere and later Dipper sees Robbie soothing Wendy's eye with a snow cone and Robbie then asks Wendy if she would like to go out with him. Wendy says "Yeah, I guess so,". It's bad that Robbie became Wendy's boyfriend. I hope they break up soon. Also It's great that Justin Roiland (who voices Oscar from Fish Hooks and lemongrab from Adventure Time) voiced the mystery man. I really liked this episode and It's definetly one of my favorites. This review is one of the longest reviews that I wrote. 10/10moreless
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Dipper and Mabel's Excelent Adventure

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By sh811a, Oct 09, 2012

"The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make of it."

John Connor

Movie: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

This is probably another one of my favorate episodes, yeah it's a time travel premise but I love the time travel genere. It's always fun thought because there are just endless possiblities and things to do. Yeah, it's true the only thing the subgenere is guilty of is inconsistances but I never really cared and sometimes that's part of it's charm.

I really like the device both Dipper and Mabel travel with which is a tape messure. Yeah, I know daft but I love that because it's a non cleche device just like the Phone Booth in "Bill and Ted's Excelent Adventures" and the Hot Tub in "Hot Tub Time Machine". It was just fun seeing both of them use it and have the adventure with it. One moment that I thought was cool was when Mabel was helping Dipper with the throw which was like a Rube Golburg cartoon because as we see the cause and effect of the ball's travel to the mark.

Another cool and funny moment was when Mabel steels the Tape Messure and Dipper chases after her thoughout time, it's one of my favorate chase scenes ever because it's a change in arenas and it was funny seeing how the little things each did during the chase were affecting time.

But then at one moment the fun stops when Mabel doesn't get her pet pig she loves because she helped Dipper get Wendy and of course the only way is with the tape messure. But Dipper refuses because it would mean the loss of Wendy, and then we see Mabel is just heartbroken and goes into a state of mental shut down as she keeps hitting her head on the pole. Dipper then goes to the future to see if she got over it but she didn't she's been there doing the same thing for about a year became a crazy woman, I'll admit it was sad and a little disturbing.

It just demonstrates how the actions and decisions we make in the present affect the future. Dipper is faced with a choice on which person will he risk losing his sister or the girl he loves Wendy. And he does make the right choice in the end, yeah he might lose Wendy but there is still the open possiblity of having her because I doubt she's going to stick with Robbie. Dipper chooses his sister because seeing Mabel in that Mental Funk hurt him more than losing Wendy; Dipper proves that he's a good brother but most of all a good man.

I like near the end as the dumb time traveler gets arrested by Time Cops that look and are dressed as the Unisols from the film "Universial Soilder" and there is an injoke as you see the name tags on each of them which spell out an action star's name I'll give you a hint the movie "Rocky 4".

And in the end both get what they want without the use of time travel, as a saying goes there's no time like the present.moreless
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Kristen Schaal	Mabel Pines
Alex Hirsch	Grunkle Stan, Soos, additional voices
Jason Ritter	Dipper Pines
Linda Cardellini	Wendy
Jackie Buscarino	Pacifica
T.J. Miller	Robbie, additional voices

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Justin Roiland

Blendin Bladin, additional voices

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- Blendin Blandin had made prior cameos in Tourist Trapped, Legend of the Gobblewonker and Headhunters, picking up random objects. At the end of this episode, it is revealed that he has been forced to recover these objects, which Dipper and Mabel left during their antics with the time tape.
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- Dipper: (about the time tape) Here it is, Mabel. Our ticket to any moment in history.
  
  Mabel: Let's get two dodos and force them to make out!
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- Grunkle Stan: There she is, Mabel. The cheapest fair money can rent. I spared every expense!
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- Dolph Lundgren
  
  The time-paradox-avoidance enforcment officers are named Lolph and Dundgren. Their appearance is that of the soldiers in the movie Universal Soldier and they are named after actor Dolph Lundgren who starred in said movie.
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- Babe
  
  At the end of the episode, Dipper tells Waddles the pig "that'll do pig; that'll do". This is the line that Farmer Hogget says to Babe the pig in the movie Babe.
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- The uniforms worn by the Time Paradox Avoidance Enforcement Squadron resemble the suit worn by Dolph Lundgren's character in Universal Soldier. Their names are Lolph and Dundgreen, which is Lundgren's first and last names with the first letters swapped.
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  Referencing the 2003 novel The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Librarian Henry Detamble has a rare genetic disorder that causes him to travel uncontrollably through time. The novel was made into a movie in 2009.
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