Not What He Seems
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| Gravity Falls episode | |
The creator of the books returns at last, and is revealed to be Stan's long lost twin brother.
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Stephen Sandoval |
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| Editing by | Kevin Locarro |
| Production code | 618G-210 |
| Original air date | March 9, 2015 (Disney XD) April 17, 2015 (Disney Channel) |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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"Not What He Seems" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the American animated television series Gravity Falls, created by Alex Hirsch. The episode was written by Shion Takeuchi, Josh Weinstein, Jeff Rowe, Matt Chapman, and Hirsch, and directed by Stephen Sandoval. The series follows twelve-year-old twins Dipper (voiced by Jason Ritter) and Mabel Pines (voiced by Kristen Schaal), who stay for the summer with their grand uncle Grunkle Stan (voiced by Hirsch) in a tourist trap called the Mystery Shack, set within the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. In this episode, Dipper and Mabel begin to question who Stan really is after officers arrest him for stealing chemical waste. The episode, which breaks the show's status quo by revealing Stan's brother, ends with a cliffhanger to the second half of the season.
"Not What He Seems" was first broadcast on March 9, 2015 on Disney XD, and was watched by 1.58 million households in the United States. It was biggest broadcast ever for Gravity Falls during its run on Disney XD until the episode "A Tale of Two Stans" beat that record four months later.
While Dipper and Mabel Pines are spending their summer in the town of Gravity Falls, their great uncle Stan has been working on an unknown machine in his basement underneath the Mystery Shack, trying to make it work without them knowing about his doings.
In his laboratory under the Mystery Shack, Stan rigs drums of chemical waste to power the machine. He sets a timer for eighteen hours, when the machine will activate. Gravity anomalies occur in the meantime as a result of it. The next day, as Stan plays with Dipper and Mabel outside the shack, law enforcement officers arrest Stan for stealing chemical waste the night before. When child services take hold of Dipper and Mabel, the twins decide to clear Stan's name using footage from the shack's security camera of the night before. They break out of the car and head back to the shack. The tapes, however, prove his crime, and Dipper finds a box of fake identity documents and clippings from newspapers reporting Stan's death. In the box, Dipper finds a password on a slip of paper; Mabel identifies this as a button combination for the shack's vending machine.
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