He set out to make a portal to this other dimension and got in contact with his old college buddy, Fiddleford McGucket, better known today as “Old Man” McGucket, Local Kook. His research eventually led him to believe that there was a source to all the weirdness found in Gravity Falls, another dimension that was bleeding into ours. Here he started keeping the journals, which grew into the three books that we know today. This research led him to a place with a higher concentration of anomalies than anywhere else, Gravity Falls.
Eventually he’d been awarded a grant to fund his scientific research, and, inspired by his six fingered hands, decided to focus his research on other scientific anomalies. Stanford meanwhile found himself at a community college where he got a PhD in just three years. In order to survive, Stanley came up with project after project, scheme after scheme, all of which failed every time, forcing him to repeatedly change his name and move all over the country, sometimes out of it, in order to stay one step ahead of the cops. When everyone suddenly blames him for ruining Stanford’s future, Stanly suddenly found himself homeless, as his dad kicked him out. In high school we find out that Stanford had a real chance to make something of himself, but everything was riding on a science project that Stanley accidentally broke. We montage through their childhoods and we see that Stanford was very gifted, and Stanley was not. The twins spent their days away from home exploring the beach, and being each other’s best friends. Here we get a glimpse of their parents, who were not the greatest people, and were apparently not very involved in their kids’ lives. When they question this, his brother is aghast, asking why he would take his name! The kids demand answers, and Grunkle Stan complies, saying that the story started a lifetime ago.įrom here we flash back to “1960 something,” to the two kids from the opening, Stanley and Stanford as children. The kids demand an explanation for everything, and Grunkle Stan’s brother agrees, addressing him as “Stanley.” The kids are shocked, as up until now, they, and everyone else in Gravity Falls, have been under the assumption that his name was Stanford. Though, in retrospect, it probably should have been obvious. Their fight is interrupted by Dipper and Mabel, who Grunkle Stan introduces as “Shermy’s grandkids,” revealing another sibling that, up until now, we had not known about. This leads to an angry fight over whatever happened thirty years ago, whatever led to his being trapped on the other side of the portal. Grunkle Stan seems overjoyed to see his brother, who does not seem to share his feelings, and immediately punches him in the face. After the opening theme, we come back right where the previous episode left off, with the Mystery Shack crew still reeling from the revelation of Grunkle Stan’s brother, not to mention the discovery of his secret life, the stolen or fake identities, and the giant, interdimensional explosion.
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