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is anyone else who has gravity falls on dvd just absolutely obsessed with the commentaries? they have them for every episode, it's the whole episode in the background with alex hirsch and at least one other person who worked on the show (sometimes voice actors, sometimes writers, sometimes artists, his twin sister one time, etc.) doing commentary over it and i dunno they're just so comforting to me, like i just watch them over and over again and will never get tired of doing so. and they're sooooo funny and you learn so much cool stuff about the show and they're great! and all of the people are just so great, like i'm way too attached to all of them lol
some personal highlights: (some might be paraphrases, i dunno)
- "i'm alex hirsch and i'm not rob renzetti" "i'm rob renzetti and i'm not matt chapman" "i'm matt chapman and i'm BOTH alex hirsch and rob renzetti" "whoa really?" (introductions at the beginning of commentary for Into the Bunker)
- "i'm matt chapman and i'm an ungodly monstrosity" "not JUST an ungodly monstrosity, the ungodly monstrosity who wrote this episode!"
- every single time alex says something as a character he plays (stan, soos, mcgucket, bill, quentin trembley, etc.) ("uh oh! gravity is a real problem in this town! i'm quentin trembley" - commentary for Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future; "this is what dates are like for Stan!" - commentary for Roadside Attraction; "yeah yknow, say whatever you want, then you won't see them again, other people don't have feelings" - commentary for Roadside Attraction) (ahhh they're so much less funny written out than they are when he actually says them i promise)
- jeff rowe wanting to be called stabby the boss cat (commentary for Blendin's Game)
- every time they mention how alex chews on pens
- "what if the love potion comes from cupid, and what if cupid is... mike rianda" (commentary for The Love God) (hmm I don't know if this is funny out of context for who mike is, well that's not my problem!)
- the whole thing about jason ritter getting a bit electrocuted by a ms. pacman video game when he was a kid (commentary for Fight Fighters)
i will probably add more as i rewatch more of them. but yeah the commentaries are the best!!!!!!
Happy birthday to Alex and Ariel Hirsch, as well as a (late) happy tenth anniversary to Gravity Falls! Can’t believe it’s been ten years. I will forever be crying tears of both joy and sadness from the finale, and screaming about the stupidity of S&P.
Amazing Facts I’ve Learned from the Gravity Falls DVD Bonus Features
More content to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gravity Falls! As I watched the bonus content on Shout! Factory’s complete series release, I’ve learned many hilarious things about this show. Here are some of my favorite facts:
The scavenger hunt wasn’t sanctioned by Disney. Alex Hirsch did the whole thing with the staff of the show and zero official approval.
In “Golf War”, Mabel was originally supposed to abduct one of the golf balls and stick it into her pocket.
In “Scary-oke”, the truck originally had a “honk if you love the Patriot Act” bumper sticker.
Many of the incidental character names are based on Ariel Hirsch’s childhood crushes.
As he hid the first clue of the scavenger hunt, (in Saint Petersburg, Russia) Alex Hirsch was afraid of being mistaken for a spy.
Very cursed information: Bill was originally going to be green. He is, after all, based on the eye at the top of the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill.
In “Not What He Seems”, Mabel and Dipper were originally going to plot in a classroom instead of the back of a cop car.
Something I feel we really missed out on: “A Tale of Two Stans” was originally going to open with hilarious recap commentary from Soos.
On a cursed note: As per the original storyboards for “A Tale of Two Stans”, Stanford was originally supposed to have a beard. I dislike this.
When creating the character designs, the artists gave every character at least one distinguishing article of clothing. Why? So fans could easily cosplay them. Maybe I’m a little sappy, but I think that’s amazing!
(As an aside, I somehow failed to realized that Agent Powers is voiced by Nick Offerman. This explains why he sounds so familiar, but I still wonder how it took me a decade and a behind-the-scenes interview to realize that.)
The interviews and behind-the-scenes content also added plenty of details that I’d missed when I watched the show! One of my favorites was that the pyramid in the “secret” Mystery Shack room is there to let people know that the room used to be Stanford’s.
I’m going to wrap this up by pointing out that I’m still annoyed at Disney for removing the “fists for nipples” joke in “Dipper vs Manliness”. That was one of the funniest gags of the entire show.