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Glad Eric saw the agents in the last episode. Agent Powers and Trigger pop up in the background in episodes. You really have to be on alert to see them.

I'm so impressed that Eric found the key. This was a tough one to spot.

Man this episode. From the references, the hands, the claymation, the unexplained horrific thing at the start, the animation jokes and the fact that Stan just drugs someone & uses them as an attraction. It sure is one hell of an episode.

Honestly, this has one of my favourate things in gravity falls... when Waddles got smart, he didn't go evil. Intelligence is not vilified in this show.

By the way, most people love the extra long speculation and codebreaking, your editor does a great job to cut it down to an enjoyable length.

Eric when the key turned out to actually be in the claymation segment: "They called me a madman....."

This episode, Eric found the key, again. He’s really good at this. Eric: 3 Rick: 1 Calvin: 1 Aaron: 1

The biggest take aways from this episode for me were that Stan has the Eye of Sauron, Neil deGrasse Tyson voiced smart Waddles, and "Glad I'm facing Towards it"

They're gonna lose their minds for the Love God episode where the key was letters scattered throughout a scene 💀

Man, them rewatching the whole episode just to find the key feels just as entertaining as them watching the episode

The reason why y'all are the best reactors is because it really seems you get super into the universe of each show or movie and care about all the details alot of other people just care about trying to over react to the big stuff going on

Neil deGrasse Tyson killed it in his Smart Waddles role!

At first I thought Rick was saying his sister also, but he was just confirming Maggie is afraid of claymation. 😂

I’m glad you guys do the cyphers. Cause other reactors either don’t do them or just look them up and say them

Oh boy, can’t wait for next week episode

Laughed at: "How are you going to bowl [with no hands]?" Rick: "Not well"

I love this episode. Jokes are on point, a good amount of horror... for a kids show. But the next episode.. Now, this is were the fun begins. Also.. *TROGDOR!* _sick guitar sounds_ *TROGDOR!*

Little Gift Shop of Horrors Fun Facts: - A story about Wendy's sentient tattoo was scrapped in favor of Hands Off because it lacked substance - Waddles was originally voiced by Jad Abumrad (host of Radiolab) but he lacked the deep and thoughtful register the character needed - Neil DeGrasse Tyson had absolutely no issues with the smarticle accelerator - The line "“Yummy, yummy for my fat pig tummy” was added last minute as Alex wanted to see if Neil would actually read everything written for him - The stop-motion was done by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios who are best known for their work on Robot Chicken. - Originally, Stan was going to shoot Gumby Suess with a shotgun. - Similar to Bottomless Pit, the episode was made because the crew was behind schedule and needed to do a lighter episode to makeup for lost production time.

This is the only fully non canon episode of Gravity Falls.

4:46 LOL Aaron. And I totally got Doof energy from her talking to the hands.

"Can I have my hands back? There's a certain gesture I want to show you."

Love this episode. Especially the clay stop motion one lol

What I love about Gravity Falls is that no matter who you are or how old you are once you start this series you will also fall in love with the characters, the story, the clues and theories and I am glad that they also enjoy the episodes and after that explore them in depth

About stop motion: Check "Kubo and the Two Strings" and "Coraline". And yes, stop-motion is creepy! Some kids cant watch Coraline until the end.

In season two episode nine Love God they purposely made the key extremely difficult to find and thought it would take ages for people to find it. However 10 minutes after the episode aired it had been found and was online. The gravity Falls production crew couldn’t believe it had been found and so fast.

I love that you guys realized it was Neil that voiced Waddles lo Also, fun fact, the key is "noncannon" cause this is the only fully non cannon episode.

I am really happy that you do the riddles, it is so much fun to watch you. Back when the show was on TV I missed so many, glad that now we can pause everything

I love watching them solve the codes, but I don't hold it against other reactors that don't because yeah, I wouldn't either lol

Just so y’all know at least for me I ABSOLUTELY LOVE when I see y’all figure stuff out and write things down 😍

Those 3 "aha" in row were so fun 😂 Also man i love them hunting fot the keys 😂 so fun! Yes now you are the Hint Hunters Rick

11:36 How dare Aaron not complete the "ah ha" quadruple

My brother couldn't take a bath without my mom covering the drain with her hands because he watched the original Stephen King's "It". That lasted a better part of a year... lol.

When I was a kid, I used to have nightmares about that music sting and visual graphic of the triangle hitting the screen for that old show, “A Current Affair.” Something about that weird electronic glissando on the keyboard and the triangle hitting the screen really freaked me out. My nightmares were about that triangle repeatedly coming at my face with that weird sound. It haunted me for a long time.

Some codes do contribute to the overarching plotline and deepen the whole mystery aspect of the show. While others are just some jokes for fun (from the writers and the master of trolling, Alex Hirsch).

They’re never going to find it in the love god episode. That keyword was brutal. 😅

By the way, the guy who voiced Dr. Doofenshmirtz in Phineas & Ferb is one of the show’s two co-creators and co-writers, Dan Povenmire. The funny this is that Major Monogram is voiced by the other creator/writer, Jeff “Swampy” Marsh.

The hands are giving me flashbacks to Caria Manor in Elden Ring. Dear Neptune.

“I’m a jerk!” - Grunkle Stan Savage

I use to dabble in stop motion as a hobby I can confirm that secret is black magic

I LOVE watching you guys figure out the cyphers! I watched this show with my son and we just watched it like a regular show so now rewatching it’s with you guys doing the cyphers is like watching it for the first time again. So much fun.

Fun Fact: Little Shop of Horrors, which inspired the title, came out 40 years ago today!

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad's Cyclops fucking scared me as a kid. I saw it on VHS and the scene where It tries to cook one of the sailor's haunted my little kid brain for years. So to see it later referenced in Gravity Falls as nightmare fuel vindicates young me so much.

You guys should know that there is an actual "Journal 3" That is cannon to the story. It has all of the pages shown in the show and more. After a while it gets to the point of Dipper explaining each episode in order so if you decide to read make sure not to past the page of the current/last episode u guys watched. There are no spoilers until you get past the page with the episode you are on. It also has cyphers to uncover. You could get it to read or just as a collectable. Just thought you should know.

Can't wait for the next episode 😉 ❌👁️

His hand is called shaky cause he shakes his fist at kids

Love this! Feels like I’m experiencing this mystery all over again!

I feel like a lot of reactors just miss that there even are any ciphers and they just keep watching happily without ever realizing there was something xD Which is fine but I definitely prefer you guys' reactions over the other channels, it's such a joy to watch you solving them and speculate stuff regarding them x)

Manos: The Hands Of Fate was created entirely by fertilizer salesman Harold Warren. He had a friend who was supposedly a Hollywood producer and Harold bet him that he could make a film and make it profitable. Against all odds (and with some creative marketing) he won the bet.

Wow, the distinct generational gap. 😂 "He voices Strong Bad." Rick and Eric: instant recognition Calvin: "Nope."

Hi Blind Wave! I hope you all have a great day! Enjoy the rest of Gravity Falls!

No idea if you guys read these but, yeah, you guys are basically the only ones that do the cyphers! Though I will say, for people that WANT cyphers, they're actually all over in the show, almost everywhere, revealing future plots..... or sometimes just being jokes lmao. Theres a whole list of them on the Gravity Falls wikia :)

I’m looking forward to Blind Wave reacting to the next episode 🥰👀

Really appreciate your channel, I massively enjoy the decoding

AHHHH WE'RE ALMOST THERE

Next week, we learn what the sleeping man has seen

The stop motion and the animation look so good

"Rated O for old people"

The Tales from the Crypt puppet thing. I had a dream when I was like, 5. It started out as a dream where I was working with the Power Rangers (in costume) and we were in our hideout, but not the one in the show. We had this picture that looked like that creepy puppet lady with no eyes. In true dream fashion, an old timey door to door salesman comes into the dream. We let him in and he takes interest in the painting. We tell him to stay away from it because it's cursed or something. Then I see the dude walk up to the painting and freak out, turns around and runs at the "4th wall" maniacally laughing with no eyes to reveal the painting now has his eyes. I say 4th wall because it was like it switched to a movie and I wasn't there, if that makes sense. Still remember it 27 years later.

Not my fav episode but I do really enjoy the claymation. Excited for next week

Man, I gotta say, rewatching this with you guys makes me realize how many episodes I've forgotten existed

Laika, the studio who does Coraline, paranorman, and kubo does stop animation.

One does not simply skip the gang searching for the keyword

I’ve been watching too much of these reactions. I just had a dream about fast forwarding through the episode looking for a key symbol.

God, I'm so exited that you get to the juicy episodes.

I didn’t expect “Gumby is like The Thing” to be a take that was made in this video… but here we are

Galifrey Gals did most of the ciphers

As the key word says, this episode was "noncanon"

I am soo stoked for episode 7!!

I thought it sounded like Doofenshmirtz too lol

If the problem with Disney+ is that the show goes into that small box in the bottom right, you can double click on it and it will open it back up so you can see it full screen again!

I know it's because I'm an ancient 36, but it broke my heart these guys who love animation and voice actors didn't recognize Matt Chapman's name as one of the co-creators/voices of Homestar Runner. lol He and his brother were so important to my teen years. I'M NOT OLD YOU'RE OLD.

Thanks for doing the Ciphers it means a lot and adds to the experience

Big thanks to the amazing editor :D

16:47 - *“You know what'd be really cool… or annoying? If it was, like, on the lantern, and, like, you Can't see it all in one shot, but it gets turned throughout the episode, so you see it at different angles.” - “Ohh no, Aaron!“ - “Don't give them that idea.”* Too late. They already had it, back in 2012. While they never spread a keyword across several scenes throughout the episodes, they did several where it's not a single, connected word, but the letters are spread widely across the background of the scene, and I remember _at least_ one where the entirety of the word is never seen on-screen at once, but only in bits and pieces. 17:32 - *“We should have played the- the talking backwards. It would have told us.”* Nah, that would only have told you what you already know, namely that the code message uses a vigenère keyword cypher. _Almost_ all the episodes in the second season have that as the backmasked speech in the intro. When the inevitable time comes that you don't find the key, even on the 10th re-watching, just remember that these were designed for an internet community of _thousands_ of obsessive fans, going over _every! single! frame!_ of the episode with a fine-toothed comb, as they waited two months for the next episode to air - not four guys, trying to do their best, while fighting a streaming service that is designed to shepherd them to the next episode and/or another series chosen by the algorithm as efficiently as possible. Matt Chapman - one of "The Brothers Chaps" famous for _Homestar Runner_ - was a staff writer on _Gravity Falls_ and lent his voice to quite a few characters. Mostly one-offs, like the Hand Witch, and incidentals, but also some recurring ones, like Soos' Abuelita. After you are done with the series, you should _definitely_ listen to the commentaries by the creators, to get a glimpse into their behind-the-scenes processes. Turns out the answers to the vast majority of your "But Why?!" questions fall neatly into two categories: 1) "Because we were totally over-thinking this _one_ little part that, it turned out, _nobody_ in the audience cared about." and 2) "Because it was dumb and it made us laugh." 😁

9:22 As an animator, I can confirm I use black magic to animate my videos

The hands cloak, the egg jokes from the writer’s room perspective, scary Gumby phobia anecdotes compared to T1000 … I’m laughing so hard my stomach hurts This reaction confirms again why you’re the best. I appreciate the little nuggets of insight each of you bring to the discussions. Love you guys!

This was a great episode. Each segment was cool. The stop motion was nice and cool

This episode was just Alex wanting Neil to say as many silly things as possible

Can't believe you guys forgot about Laika Studios when you were discussing modern stop motion!

I love that Neil cameo. :'D

They are getting closer...

the bat criminal from The Great Mouse Detective scared me, it was all his sharp pointed teeth

Right off the bat, a visitor at the mystery shack at night.

Chucky still has the strength of a adult

And people were surprised by Stan's actions in Amphibia......

It would be so amazing after this episode they added the legdary cheapskate in the backgrounds of the mystery shack like omgg

When I was younger I had no idea the title was a reference to little shop of horrors lol

38:00 This clay guy sounds like a part of the Wheel of Time The Gholam.

The different animation techniques they used in this episode is so good.

The Gallifrey Gals used to do the cyphers until it hit the point of needing to find the keywords.

The next episode is going to load your mind.

The pig goes oink, the pig goes oink! 😂

I feel like you guys would really enjoy amazing world of gumball

It'll get only harder to find those keys. And God damnit, Aaron. Its "So patiently i watch this TOWN"

Calvin, you can find the LeMat revolver on Rdr2

I think it's funny any time they find Kari Wahlgren in the cast of a show like this since that's the voice of Saber in Fate

Eric, you fking jumpscared me.

Claymation is terrifying. Especially after Coraline

next episode gonne be crazy i cant wait