Стэнли Филбрик «Стэн» Пайнс (англ. Stanley Filbrick «Stan» Pines), ранее известный как Стэнфорд Пайнс[22][3] — двоюродный дедушка Диппера и Мэйбл Пайнс, постоянный житель городка Гравити Фолз. После многих лет мошенничества и преступлений он поселился в отдаленном городке Гравити Фолз, штат Орегон[23], где руководит ловушкой для туристов, Хижиной Чудес.
Несмотря на изначальный скептицизм по отношению к сверхъестественному[4], позже выясняется, что он сам тесно связан с паранормальными явлениями в Гравити Фолз[24][25].
Биография
Ранняя жизнь
Маленький Стэн исследует пещеру вместе со своим братом.
Стэн родился 15 июня в 1950-х годах в городе Пляж Стеклянных Осколков, Нью Джерси.[2][23] вместе со своим старшим братом — Фордом. Несмотря на то, что Стэн, в отличие от Форда, не обладал выдающимся умом, он, по словам мамы, обладал личностью, что превращало дуэт двух братьев в непреодолимую пару. В ранней юности, дети Пайнс столкнулись с частыми издевательствами, прежде всего от Крампелтера. Он издевался над Фордом за его шестипалость, а над Стэном — за его характер. Их отец, Филбрик Пайнс заставил посещать детей уроки по боксу, закаливая и тренируя их, чтобы они впоследствии смогли дать отпор обидчикам. В будущем, эти уроки помогут Стэну завоевать сердце Карлы Маккоркл[2].
Стэн и Карла «Шортики» Маккоркл.
Юношеские годы Стэна изначально проходили приятно: он со своей девушкой посещал кафе «Зазноба», оформленное в стиле 1950-х, и строил лодку под названием «Боевой Стэн» с Фордом, надеясь исполнить свои детские мечты: путешествовать по миру на парусном судне. Тем не менее, все стало рушиться ближе к концу учебного года. Форд возжелал уехать в престижный университет на другом конце страны, а Карла ушла от него к одному хиппи (в качестве мести, Стэн позже загнал его автомобиль в овраг)[2]. На грани потери своего самого близкого друга и окончания средней школы, Стэн, которому было суждено остаться в этом городе навсегда, нечаянно сломал гениальное изобретение Форда (вечный двигатель), которое тот планировал показать представителям Западного Технологического Университета. Форд, из-за этого потерявший шансы попасть в университет мечты, а за ним и родители близнецов, решили, что он сделал это нарочно. Отец выгнал его из дома, и оставшийся без друзей или членов семьи Стэн уехал из города, сказав, что разбогатеет и заставит их пожалеть об этом.
Стэн в торговле — сплошная катастрофа.
Основав компанию «Stan Co. Enterprises», самозанятый Стэн пробует себя в торговле, продавая дешевые и некачественные товары для дома: начиная от вил и заканчивая «Странными тряпками» — замшевыми полотенцами; обоих оказалось достаточно для того, чтобы запретить Стэну въезд в штат Нью-Джерси. Процесс повторился после того, как Стэн изменил свои документы открыл магазин в Пенсильвании, где пластыри «Оторва» вынудили его убежать из штата. С многочисленные столкновениями с законом, множеством фальшивых личностей и бракованными, некачественными продуктами, Стэн расширил свой бизнес, после чего последовал неудачный грабеж в Колумбии[10], и он оказался в иностранной тюрьме, где его сокамерниками стали Хорхе и Рико. После своего освобождения, обедневший и практически бездомный, он вернулся в Соединенные Штаты, остановившись в одном из мотелей штата Нью-Мексико. Жизнь Стэна достигла дна — ему был запрещен въезд в 32 из 50 штатов США, он был в тюрьме в трех странах, а также был должен своему бывшему сокамернику Рико — но тут к нему пришла открытка от Форда с надписью «Пожалуйста, приезжай. Форд».
Стэн конфликтует с Фордом за мгновения до исчезновения последнего.
Следуя просьбе, Стэн прибывает в дом своего брата, расположенный в лесу Гравити Фолз, штат Орегон, где воссоединяется с ним, находящимся на грани потери ума и, вследствие паранойи, запершимся в собственном доме на несколько месяцев. Только лишь увидевшему вселенский портал, построенный прямо под подом, Стэну поручается забрать дневник №1 и уехать с ним куда подальше. Сердитый — брат не имеет намерений с ним мириться (и спустя столько времени позвал его только для того, чтобы тот опять уехал), Стэн хочет сжечь книгу, но Форд препятствует этому, вызывая драку в лаборатории. В ходе драки случайно включается портал, и когда Стэн толкает Форда, его засасывает в портал, после чего портал отключается. Сокрушенный потерей брата и друга, Стэн в течение многих недель пытается сделать все, что можно сделать, используя единственный имеющийся у него дневник (после того, как узнал, что существуют еще два), пока у него окончательно не заканчивается еда и не остается другого выхода кроме, как отправится в город.
Жители Гравити Фолз отчаянно хотят увидеть «дом» Стэна.
По прибытию в город, Стэн понимает, что жителям Гравити Фолз любопытно узнать о таинственном доме в лесу, чем и воспользовался для получения денег. Он размещает ветхие и, на первый взгляд, паранормальные экспонаты, привлекающие достаточно внимания, чтобы превратить дом в «Лачугу Страха», а затем переименовать его в Хижину Чудес — ловушку для туристов, заполненной дешевыми достопримечательностями, продающимся по завышенным ценам. Забрав личность и имущество брата, Стэн скрывает все упоминания о брате, запирает его старую спальню и прячет подземную лабораторию за торговым автоматом. Инсценировав собственную смерть в автокатастрофе, новый Форд Пайнс днем берет на себя роль Человека-Загадки, но ночью неустанно работает над поиском сокрытых дневников своего брата и включением портала, в надежде вернуть настоящего Форда.
Стэн и Гидеон ожесточенное соперничают друг с другом.
С годами, Стэн бесчисленное множество раз ремонтирует и обновляет свою бесценную ловушку, намереваясь сохранять ее странность и привлекательность. Украв коллекцию проклятых восковых фигур из гаражной распродажи, он открыл восковой музей Тайн, который быстро стал популярен среди туристов, но вскоре восковой музей Тайн стал не популярен, в итоге Стэн закрыл музей. С увеличением популярности ловушки, Стэн принял решение нанять подростка Эдвина Дурланда в качестве разнорабочего. Через некоторое время, Эдвин был уволен и в считанные секунды заменен 12-летним Сусом. Успех Хижины (а также Стэна) способствовал созданию конкурентов, одним из которых является шатёр телепатии Гидеона. Ожесточенное соперничество между Гидеоном и Стэном подпитывается желанием Гидеона захватить Хижину Чудес для своих собственных гнусных целей.
Спустя 30 лет после исчезновения настоящего Форда, Стэн превратил Хижину Чудес в дорогостоящую и империю с маленьким бюджетом, загребая тысячи от доверчивых туристов. Летом 2012 года Стэн связался с племянником, который просил Стэна присмотреть за своими детьми, Диппером и Мэйбл, в течении лета[4]. Несмотря на свою непригодность в этом вопросе и обладание опасными скрытыми мотивами, Стэн соглашается, что позволяет его двоюродным племяннице и племяннику проживать и работать в Хижине Чудес.
Во время визита близнецов
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Стэн приветствует своих внуков-племянников в Гравити Фолз
В июне, племянники Стэна Диппер и Мэйбл Пайнс, отправляются из Пьемонта в Гравити Фолз[26], чтобы пожить у него в течение лета. Близнецы сразу же начинают работать у него в Хижине Чудес вместе с двумя другими сотрудниками: Вэнди и Сусом. В конце эпизода «Ловушка для туриста», было показано, что в доме Стэна присутствует секретный проход за торговым автоматом.
Стэн хандрит.
В эпизоде «Легенда о Живогрызе» Стэн хочет взять Диппера и Мэйбл к озеру Гравити Фолз, дабы сблизиться с ними. Он утверждает, что никто не поехал с ним, так как никто ему не доверяет. Он даёт близнецам «Рыболовные шапки семьи Пайнс» ручной работы, однако последние пытаются уйти от рыбацкой идеи Стэна, уплывая с Сусом искать Живогрыза, чтобы получить 1000$ в фотоконкурсе. Стэн расстраивается, однако Диппер и Мэйбл предпочитают искать чудовище, а не идти на рыбалку с ним, поэтому он пытается найти себе других рыболовных приятелей в озере, но эта идея не оборачивается в пользу Стэна, так как все считают его раздражающим и жутким. Позже, когда Диппер, Мэйбл и Сус возвращаются из своего путешествия, близнецы спрашивают, могут ли они сблизится со Стэном, чувствуя себя неловко, так как они оставили его одного до этого. Стэн соглашается, и все они в конечном итоге прекрасно проводят время всей семьёй, как и ожидал Стэн.
Стэн просит детей отомстить.
После того, как близнецы и Сус нашли множество восковых фигур в заброшенной комнате в эпизоде «Охотники за головами», Стэн рассказал им, что ранее у него был восковой музей Тайн. Мэйбл создает восковую копию Стэна, которую он позже представляет городу. Когда раскрывается, что обещание Стэна о бесплатной пицце оказалось ложью, разозлившаяся толпа горожан расходится. Позже ночью, кто-то убивает Воскового Стэна, обезглавив его. Пока Диппер и Мэйбл пытаются найти убийцу, Стэн готовит похороны. На похоронах Стэн в слезах покидает комнату, а Сус следует за ним. В это же время раскрываются убийцы, которыми оказались восковые фигуры, желающие отомстить Стэну за то, что он забыл о них. Мэйбл и Диппер побеждают их и рассказывают Стэну о произошедшем, но он просто смеется и говорит, что у детей просто слишком богатое воображение.
Стэну угрожает его враг, Гидеон.
В эпизоде «Рука, качающая Мэйбл», когда близнецы и Сус смотрят рекламу малыша Гидеона, Стэн рассказывает им, что Гидеон его враг, и у него от него много неприятностей. Он также запрещает им смотреть шоу, но Диппер и Мэйбл все же идут туда. Позже, когда Стэн узнает о свиданиях Гидеона и Мэйбл, то он приходит в ярость и направляется к отцу Гидеона, Баду Глифулу, но вскоре меняет свое мнение и становится Баду партнером по бизнесу. Стэн сообщает Мэйбл, что она обязана выйти замуж за Гидеона. Когда Гидеон принуждает отца отозвать сделку, Стэн крадет у них картину и убегает.
В эпизоде «Стеснённые ситуацией» Стэн влюбляется в старый романтический фильм, «Выбор графини», и приклеивается к телевизору, смотря его. В конце эпизода, разочаровавшись в сюжете фильма, он выбрасывает телевизор в окно.
Стэн получает номер Ленивой Сьюзан.
Когда Стэн вместе с близнецами приходят в Обед Жирнушки в эпизоде «Диппер против мужественности», Мэйбл узнает о его чувствах к Ленивой Сьюзан и пытается помочь ему улучшить его внешность и поведение, дабы он понравился Сьюзан. После ряда неудач Мэйбл решает показать Стэна Сьюзан таким, каков он есть, что на удивление срабатывает. Тем не менее, непрекращающиеся впоследствии телефонные звонки от Сьюзан вынуждают Стэна сожалеть о том, что он выразил свои чувства к ней.
В эпизоде «Дважды Диппер» Стэн устраивает вечеринку в Хижине Чудес.
Большую часть времени на дне Первопроходца Стэн проводит на позорном столбе.
В эпизоде «Сокровище вкратце» показывается, что Стэн презирает день Первопроходца. После нападения на механика Стива Стэн оказывается на позорном столбе. где и проводит большую часть времени дня. К запертому в колодках Стэну подходит Гидеон, забросавший его помидорами, а позже и Пасифика[12], которая просит Стэна написать о том, что Нортвесты — лучшая семья в Гравити Фолз, но вместо это он пишет фразу «ты воняешь».
В эпизоде «Свинья путешественника во времени» Стэн открывает Ярмарку Чудес с целью заработать как можно больше денег. Сам дядя Стэн садится в бочка для макания — аттракцион, где нужно попасть в мишень, чтобы опрокинуть Стэна в холодную воду. Но из-за хитрости Стэна (и умелости Суса) рычаг не работает и сбить Стэна практически невозможно. Хотя Сус и говорит, что это возможно с помощью какой-нибудь «лазерной пушкой», что в и происходит в конце эпизода.
Мэйбл принуждает Стэна смотреть в глаза своему страху.
В эпизоде «Бой бойцов» Стэн тусуется с Сусом и близнецами, прежде чем Робби вызывает Диппера на драку, что поощряет Стэн. Позже, Мэйбл, несмотря на попытки Стэна скрыть это, узнает, что у него имеется страх высоты, и всячески старается помочь ему его преодолеть. Когда он и Мэйбл оказываются на водонапорной башне, которую атакует Рамбл, преследующий Робби, то он в конце испытывает такое облегчение, выжив, что потерял страх перед высотой.
Гидеон прижимает Стэна к стенке.
В эпизоде «Малыш Диппер» Стэн, Диппер и Мэйбл смотрят телевизор, когда вдруг раздается стук в дверь. У крыльца Хижины Чудес появляется адвокат Гидеона. Стэн принимает его за сборщика налогов и пытается спрятать деньги. Адвокат заявляет, что Стэн выиграл 10.000.000 долларов, но чтобы их получить нужно подписать договор. Стэн подписывает и тут выпрыгивает Гидеон и заявляет, что Стэн подписал передачу Хижины Чудес Малышу Гидеону. Но Стэн прочёл договор и знал, что это обман, поэтому написал: «Съешь лимон, коротышка». В течении эпизода Гидеон пытается забрать Хижину Чудес у Стэна, но все его попытки с треском проваливаются. Когда Гидеон получают волшебный фонарик вместе с Диппером и Мэйбл, он вызывает Стэна, сообщая тому, что у него находятся Диппер и Мэйбл, а для того, чтобы их вернуть, ему придется отказаться от Хижины Чудес. Стэн не верит ему, считая, что тот даже говорит не на английском, и вешает трубку. Гидеон приходит к Хижине Чудес, где Стэн и Сус создают зеркальный лабиринт. Гидеон находит Стэна, но так как Стэн находится в зеркальном лабиринте, попытки Гидеона найти его, проваливаются, поэтому он начинает ломать зеркала, и, в конце концов, находит его. Гидеон прижимает его к стенке, но вскоре начинает валяться на полу от смеха — уменьшенные Диппер и Мэйбл щекочут его, Стэн пугается, отмечает, что, их соперничество зашел слишком далеко, после чего выкатывает Гидеона из Хижины.
Одна из бесплодных попыток Стэна напугать двух детей.
В эпизоде «Летоуин» Стэн рассказывает близнецам о том, что жители Гравити Фолз любят Хэллоуин столь сильно, что празднуют его дважды в году. Впоследствии он крадет ряд товаров из магазина Летоуина, используя дымовую гранату. Позже, группа детей, занимающихся колядованием, подходят к Хижине Чудес, а Стэн открывает дверь в маске скелета — это пугает большую часть детей, но двое из них остаются. Стэн интересуется, почему они не испугались, а они отвечают, что смотрят фильмы ужасов еще с двух лет. Оставшуюся часть эпизода Стэн пытается напугать их: он вытаскивает «кишки» из живота, свинья «вырывается» из его живота; но все его попытки безуспешны. Стэн отправляется смывать позор в душе. Тем временем два ребенка отправляются искать Стэна в Хижине, где их пугает вид частично голого Стэна, которого они нашли в ванне. Когда близнецы приходят домой после колядований, они оказываются расстроенными, так как все их конфеты были потеряны. Стэн показывает им две большие сумки, наполненные конфетами и оставшиеся после убежавших ребят. В конце эпизода Стэн, Диппер и Мэйбл наряду с Сусом, Вэнди, Кэнди и Грендой вместе смотрят фильм ужасов в Хижине Чудес.
Стэн на шоу «Колесо денег».
В эпизоде «Босс Мэйбл» постоянными попытками заработать денег и плохим отношением к сотрудникам Стэн выводит из себя Мэйбл. Они спорят о том, кто заработает больше денег за три дня: Стэн в отпуске или Мэйбл, работающая в Хижине Чудес заместо его. В результате Мэйбл и Стэн заключают пари. Уйдя в отпуск, Стэн направляется на съемки шоу «Колесо денег», и, несмотря на уверенную игру, теряет все 300 000 тысяч долларов долларов, не сумев угадать правильный ответ — слово «пожалуйста». Вернувшись домой, Стэн предлагает Мэйбл стать новым боссом в соответствии с залкюченным пари, но она отказывается, хотя по-прежнему заставляет спеть обещанную в пари песню.
Стэн падает в бездонную яму.
В эпизоде «Бездонная яма!» Стэн приводит близнецов и Суса к бездонной яме, где они избавляются он ненужных вещей. Внезапно усиливается ветер, а Стэн упрямствует и не желает уходить, пока не выбросит бумажки, не желающие выбрасываться. Вскоре порыв ветра забрасывает всех прямо в яму.
В попытках скоротать время внутри ямы, они рассказывают друг другу различные истории. В истории Диппера Стэн насмехается над ломающимся голосом племянника, а в конце рассказа (после того как Диппер подлил в его кофе особую микстуру) приобретает женский голос. В собственном рассказе Стэн выигрывает значимую футбольную игру при помощи своего футбота, преподав урок остальным игрокам и получив гигантский трофей. В истории Мейбл Стэн пытается научить медведя водить машину и легко заставляет остановивших его полицейских поверить в то, что медведя ему прописал врач. Постоянное вранье Стэна не нравится Мэйбл и она находит зубы правды. Однако оказывается, что эти самые зубы заставляют Стэна говорить всю правду, включая информацию о его манипуляциях с налогами и законами. В результате Мэйбл решает выкинуть зубы правды, пока дядю не арестовали полицейские Гравити Фолз. Когда близнецы, Сус и Стэн возвращаются с ямы, Стэн опирается на вывеску, но та ломается и он вновь оказывается внутри ямы.
Гидеон занимает шезлонг Стэна.
В эпизоде «На дне», в самый жаркий день лета, семейство Пайнсов вместе с Сусом направляются в бассейн Гравити Фолз в поисках прохлады. Когда Стэн пытается сесть на, по его словам, идеальный шезлонг, он обнаруживает, что Гидеон сумел его опередить. Тогда он попытался выгнать Гидеона силой, но был пойман персоналом бассейна, после чего посажен в местную камеру. Для того чтобы занять шезлонг, Стэн решает проникнуть в бассейн ночью и переночевать прямо на шезлонге. Однако, Гидеон опередил его и здесь, покрыв шезлонг клеем.
Ключ от комнаты в руках Стэна.
В эпизоде «Ковёр преткновения» Стэн забирает ключ от случайно найденной комнаты в Хижине Чудес. Поскольку и Диппер, и Мэйбл хотят её получить, он заявляет, что отдаст ключ тому, кто будет лучше подлизываться. Стэн заставляет племянников выполнять его поручения, награждая их при этои баллами. После того, как Диппер и Мэйбл меняются телами, он ловит Мэйбл в теле Диппера, подглядывающую за девочками с ночёвки. Стэн отводит «Диппера» в свой кабинет, где рассказывает «ему» про переходный возраст (к ужасу Мейбл, с помощью илюстированной книги «Почему я потею?»). Когда она пытается саботировать Диппера, обзывая Стэна, тот говорит, что гордится мальчиком и отдаёт ему ключ.
Стэн услышал скрыто послание в песне Робби.
В эпизоде «Парнепокалипсис» запасается тушёнкой к концу света. Он выслушивает Диппера, который рассказывает о том, как Робби промыл мозги Вэнди, после чего свою историю о Карле «Шортиках» Маккоркл. Стэнли сопровождает Диппера в его поисках секретного послания в песне, а затем привозит племянника к смотровой площадке, чтобы помочь ему рассказать об этом Вэнди. Затем, когда Вэнди расстается с Робби, он называет это «победой ради всех, у кого руки не в состоянии совладать с музыкальным инструментом». Диппер пытается предложить Вэнди сыграть с ним и Стэном в боулинг, но та расстроена и говорит, что все парни одинаковые и думают только о себе. Стэн подбадривает Диппера, сказав ему, что он поступил правильно, а также предлагает сыграть в боулинг с ним.
Стэн бьет птеродактиля в морду.
В эпизоде «Земля до начала свиней» Стэна оставляют смотреть за Пухлей, поскольку Мэйбл понадобилось покинуть Хижину Чудес. Однако, Стэн, не смотря на предупреждения Мэйбл выгоняет Пухлю на улицу, и вскоре становится свидетелем того, как поросёнка уносит птеродактиль. После чего Стэн изобретает рассказ, согласно которому динозавр ворвался в Хижину Чудес, а Стэн отчаянно пытался защитить Пухлю. Когда группа, спасающая поросёнка Мэйбл, находит динозавров, заключенных в древесной смоле, Стэн начинает придумывать, как он мог бы обставить новый экспонат для туристов. В это же время он также невольно признается, что оставил Пухлю снаружи, и расстроенная Мэйбл отказывается с ним разговаривать. Позже, Стэн меняет своё мнение о питомце Мэйбл и героически спасает Пухлю (с элементами из его рассказа), заслужив её прощение.
Разум Стэна
В эпизоде «Пленники разума», Гидеон пытается отобрать у Стэна права на владение Хижиной чудес. Он призывает Билла Шифра и заключает с ним сделку. Билл проникает в разум Стэна, намереваясь украсть воспоминания о коде от сейфа с документом. За ним в сознание дяди отправляются Диппер, Мэйбл и Сус. Им удаётся помешать Биллу завладеть кодом и выгнать его из головы Стэна. Гидеон, тем временем, применяет запасной план и взрывает дверь сейфа с помощью динамита. Таким образом, согласно местным законам, владельцем Хижины Чудес становится он.
После событий эпизода «Гидеон восстаёт», Стэн с Диппером и Мэйбл становятся героями, а Стэн же находит Дневник №2. Вскоре Диппер показывает ему и собственный Дневник №3, но тот забирает его предлогом поиска материалов для Хижины, а сам отправляется активировать портал в подземной лаборатории.
2 сезон
Дядя Стэн приходит на помощь.
Поздней ночью эпизода «Жуткое караоке» Стэн продолжает свои таинственные исследования с тремя дневниками. На следующий день он отдает Дипперу дневник № 3, оставив себе копии его страниц. Два правительственных агента — агент Пауэрс и агент Триггер появляются в Хижине Чудес с целью расследования обнаруженной ими странной активности. Стэн настаивает на том, что в Хижине Чудес нет ничего необычного, хотя Диппер и пытается заговорить о дневнике. В итоге Стэн выпроваживает агентов и забирает у Диппера визитку, что те ему вручили. Позже, он ловит Диппера, пытающегося связаться с агентами, и обещает наказать его за этот поступок. Ночью, Диппер случайно воскрешает зомби, от которых его и Мэйбл спасает Стэн. Он признается, что знал об аномалиях Гравити Фолз, но притворялся, будто не знал, дабы защитить своих племянников.
В эпизоде «В бункер» Стэнли отдаёт приказы рабочим, восстанавливающим Хижину Чудес после инцидента с зомби. Когда один из рабочих интересуется причиной этих разрушений, Стэн заявляет, что виновен «гигантский дятел» и даёт взятку рабочему.
В эпизоде «Гольфовая война» он вместе с близнецами и Сусом направляется в «Королевский клуб минигольфа». В клубе они обнаруживают Пасифику Нортвест с родителями. В то время как Пасифика пытается задеть их компанию, Стэн интересуется у Суса: «Детей ведь бить непедагогично?» Стэн поддерживает Мэйбл после того, как его племянница вызвала Пасифику на реванш.
В эпизоде «Носочная опера» Стэн пытается игнорировать шутки Мэйбл и предпринимает попытку пошутить над Диппером, увидев его с мешками под глазами. Он присутствует на кукольном представлении, где сидит рядом с Сусом и Вэнди.
Стэн интересуется барсуком.
В эпизоде «Сус и настоящая девушка» дядя Стэн показывает ребёнку старый автомат под именем «старика-старателя», но получив монету тот вместо выступления начинает ломаться и пугает ребёнка. Стэн выбрасывает автомат и случайно заходит в пиццерию, в которой аниматроники привлекают детей песней и получают от них деньги. Стэн пытается купить аниматроника-барсука у Гэри, но ему отказывают, и тогда он решает украсть его. В ходе похищения оживший Вилли-барсук нападает на Стэна, но его жизнь спасает старик-старатель. В титрах показано, что впоследствии он вместе с ним отправился в Лас-вегас.
В эпизоде «Общество Слепого Глаза» Стэнли продолжает работу над некоей машиной под Хижиной Чудес. Он получает травму от случайно отлетевшей трубы, но говороит, что зашёл уже слишком далеко, и ничто его не остановит.
В эпизоде «Игра Блендина» Стэн направляется в Клуб лазерных боёв вместе с друзьями, чтобы поздравить Суса. Он отмечает, что раньше здесь находился магазин матрасов.
Неудачная попытка Стэна привлечь молодежь
В эпизоде «Бог любви» дядя Стэн работает над новым экспонатом, когда замечает аттрибуты «Древостока»: воздушные шары, старые велосипеды и рок-музыку. В панике он просит Суса закрыть Хижину Чудес, а сам пытается сбить шары арбалетом. Но тот говорит, что Стэн упускает потенциальную прибыль, и тот решает привлечь молодёжь собственным воздушным шаром. Впоследствии, созданный им и Сусом шар загорается и падает в разбегающуюся толпу людей.
В эпизоде «Не тот, кем кажется» агенты ФБР вламываются в Хижину и арестовывают Стэна. Но он возвращается, и уговаривает Мэйбл не закрывать портал, откуда потом выходит его брат.
В эпизоде «Повесть о двух Стэнах» он рассказывает свою предысторию. В конце эпизода Стэн разговаривает со Фордом, который требует, чтобы по окончании лета брат вернул ему имя и хижину. Стэн соглашается, но только с условием, чтобы он не подходил к детям, так как он уверен в том, что они единственная семья, что у него осталась.
Стэн, Мэйбл и Гренда отправляются выручать Диппера и Форда.
В эпизоде «Подземелья, подземелья и ещё больше подземелий» Стэн вместе с Мэйбл готовится к просмотру заключительного эпизода шоу Утка-тива. Но шоу им не дают посмотреть Форд с Диппером, которые заняли всю комнату для игры в «Подземелья, подземелья и ещё больше подземелий». Между братьями происходит ссора, в результате которой Стэн в гневе выхватывает мешок с Бесконечно-гранником у Форда и швыряет на пол, освобождая Вероятника.
Чародей забирает Диппера и Форда, чтобы стать умнее съев их мозги, а Стэн, Мэйбл и Гренда пускаются в погоню освобождать пленников. Расправившись по пути с огром, они настигают Вероятникуса, тот ставит условия: Стэн и Мэйбл должны сыграть с ним в игру, если они победят, чародей отпустит пленников и вернётся в свой мир, если они проиграют — он съест мозги Форда и Диппера. Следуя советам Диппера и Форда, Стэн и Мэйбл учатся играть на ходу, для победы им остаётся только выбросить редкую комбинацию 38. Стэн пользуясь своим умением мастерски жульничать выбирает нужную цифру и клеет на нее жвачку тем самым получается нужная комбинация и в итоге победа Пайнcов. Вероятникус возвращается в свой мир. Позже он признаётся Дипперу, что его настольная игра не возможно слишком заумная для него, но самое то для мальчика и Форда.
В эпизоде «Стэньчжурский кандидат» дядя Стэн выдвигает свою кандидатуру на пост мэра Гравити Фолз, тем самым выступая против своего вечного соперника Бада Глифула. Но как выясняется, что оратор из Стэна никакой, поэтому Диппер обращается за помощью к прадедушке Форду, и тот даёт ему своё изобретение — галстук, который помогает контролировать человека. С помощью этого галстука, Стэн добивается высоких показателей, его популярность среди избирателей растёт. Это обстоятельство не нравится Баду и он идёт просить совета у «руководителя предвыборной компании», которым оказывается Гидеон . Узнав новости Гидеон переходит к следующему шагу, с помощью вырванной страницы из дневника № 2, он берёт под контроль своего отца.
Тем временем Стэн приходит в кафе на встречу с близнецами, он отказывается надеть галстук, из-за чего выводит Диппера из себя и тот в порыве чувств признаётся, что они контролировали все его действия. Стэн сердито заявляет, что справится сам без их помощи, близнецы решают вывести на дебаты кандидатуру Суса. На дебатах Бад неожиданно захватывает лидерство, а Стэн понимает, что ничего у него не выходит без чужой помощи. Диппер и Мэйбл подозревают, что что-то тут не так, Бад ведёт слишком странно, их догадки подтверждает сам Гидеон. Он приказывает отцу схватить близнецов и отнести их внутрь статуи мэра, там он угрожает замуровать их внутри после окончания дебатов. Близнецам удаётся привлечь внимание собравшихся внизу: они вываливаются из носа статуи, но верёвка вот-вот лопнет, и дети просят о помощи, их крики слышны далеко внизу и это привлекает собравшихся жителей. Стэн без промедления бежит на подмогу своим племянникам и вовремя спасает их. Гидеон уже собирается взорвать динамит, перед тем как прыгать, дядя Стэн просит об одолжении близнецов: если он погибнет, его надгробье должно быть больше, чем у Форда. Они прыгают как раз вовремя, избиратели ликуют и орёл выбирает новым мэром Стэна. Позже из новостей выясняется, что Стэн выбывает из предвыборной гонки из-за своих нарушений. Мэром становится Тайлер, а Стэн с племянниками идут пакостить новому мэру.
В эпизоде «Последний Мэйблорог» дядя Стэн контрабандой вывозит мопсов из страны.
В эпизоде «Придорожный аттракцион» Стэн отправляется в поездку вместе с племянниками, Сусом, Кэнди и Грендой в дорожное путешествие, чтобы насолить своим конкурентам по туристическому бизнесу.
Попутно он даёт советы Дипперу в общении с девушками и помогает забыть Вэнди. В итоге Стэн сам становится жертвой своих же приёмов. Опробовав их на местной девушке Дарлин, он попадает к ней в сети в прямом смысле — Дарлин оказалась гигантским пауком, умеющим менять облик на человеческий. Чуть не становится новым экспонатом музея мумий, но Диппер с девочками его спасают. На обратном пути Стэн признаётся Дипперу, что никогда не пользовался популярностью у женщин и был разведён. По возвращению, герои видят что оскорблённые владельцы придорожных аттракционов в долгу у него не остались и успели отомстить. Стэн искренне удивляется и говорит, что не заслужил этого.
В эпизоде «Диппер и Мэйбл против будущего» дядя Стэн подбадривает расстроенную Мэйбл и говорит, что брат всегда её поддержит и будет рядом.
В эпизоде «Странногеддон (часть 1)» Стэн убегает от увеличившегося Гомперса.
В эпизоде «Странногеддон (часть 2): Побег из реальности» Стэн укрывается в Хижине Чудес, вместе с группой выживших жителей Гравити Фолз, он организовывает Сопротивление и становится его лидером.
Личность
Дядя Стэн убегает с кассовым аппаратом.
На первый взгляд, дядя Стэн является прирождённым продавцом. Он успешно управляет туристической ловушкой в городе, где достаточно наивных туристов, готовых купить безделушки или отдать деньги за экскурсии по местным «тайнам». Свой бизнес он ведёт талантливо и обдуманно[4], стремясь заработать деньги любым способом и несмотря на законность методов. Вне управления делом, в свободное время, он в основном смотрит телевизора. Его любимые шоу: «Колесо денег», «Утка-тив» и различные мыльные оперы. Помимо этого, он также любит рыбачить.
Стэн видит в туристах лишь деньги.
Стэн производит впечатление жадного и эгоистичного человека. Однажды он заявил, что цель его жизни состоит в обладании богатством[21]. Туристы для него — не более, чем кошельки, заполненные деньгами.[4] Корни этой одержимости, похоже, кроются в молодости, когда собственный отец вышвырнул Стэна из дома, и он долгое время волочил нищенское существование. При этом Стэн весьма расчётлив — множество раз он раскрывал заговоры Гидеона[6], а в конце сериала сумел перехитрить самого Билла Шифра.
Несмотря на это, он любит семью и очень ей дорожит. Он ответил на запрос своего брата о помощи после многих лет разлуки, но оказался глубоко опечален, когда понял, что им придётся расстаться вновь. Потеряв брата, Стэн не пожалел тридцати лет своей жизни и приложил все усилия к его спасению. Несмотря на свой возраст, Стэн физически в состоянии дать отпор. Он стремится защитить Диппера и Мэйбл, в какие передряги они бы не попали (например, нападение зомби). Когда он предположил, что Форд может подвергнуть его племянников опасности, то не постеснялся предупредить брата держаться от них подальше. Ярче всего его чувства к семье показал Странногеддон — он не побоялся пожертвовать собой ради спасения близких.
Внешность
Часть ожога Стэна (вверху) и символ с устройства из лаборатории (внизу).
У Стэна карие глаза[27] (при этом он болен катарактой[28]), серые брови и седые волосы (каштанового цвета в молодости). Впрочем, его волосы почти всегда скрыты под темно-бордовой феской, на которой был изображен полумесяц (в период с первого по тринадцатый эпизоды); впоследствии (феска была съедена Гомперсом) символ полумесяца был заменён на аналогичный. У дяди Стэна красновато-розоватый, грушевидной формы нос, большие уши, а также светлая кожа.
Ввиду возраста, у Стэна морщинистая кожа, он носит слуховой аппарат и зубные протезы[1]. Походка у него сутулая. У Стэна есть ожог на лопатке в виде символа с приборной панели из подземной лаборатории. Обычно он носит прямоугольные очки с черной оправой. При туристах и на работе он ходит в чёрном костюме, который состоит из брюк, застёгнутого пиджака с красным галстуком и коричневых туфель, а также ранее упомянутой фески. Достаточно часто он опирается на трость с бильярдным шаром вместо ручки и носит повязку на правом глазу. Дома Стэн ходит в грязноватой белой майке, тапочках, очках и феске. Как и Мэйбл, пишет левой рукой.
Сравнение фесок Стэна.
Стэн без фески.
Стэн в домашней одежде.
Изменение внешности Стэна с годами.
Отношения
Диппер Пайнс
«Обнимашки устроил?»
Диппер является внучатым племянником Стэнли. При этом, Стэн присматривает за ним не так тщательно, как был бы должен — ведь ему доверили смотреть за ребёнком в течение лета. За Стэном замечена склонность накладывать на Диппера большое количество весьма неприятных обязанностей, что, конечно, злит мальчика и даже заставляет его усомниться в семейных отношениях. Дядя не прочь подразнить Диппера за низкий рост или неуверенность последнего[21], что, опять таки, раздражает племянника[1]. А интеллектуальные увлечения Диппера кажутся Стэну скучными и не вызывают интереса. Тем не менее, близнецы — это своего рода слабость Стэна[9] и за таким отношением к племяннику скрывается истинное желание помочь ему[11]. Диппер напоминает Стэнли себя в детстве, когда он сам частенько становился жертвой хулиганов. Дядя считает, что таким образом он закаляет характер племянника, а это, несомненно, поможет ему в дальнейшей жизни.
Стэн гордится теми моментами, где Диппер показал, что способен постоять за себя. Стэнли сочувствует Дипперу в его проблемах с отношениями к девочкам и даже, по возможности, предлагает помощь в такого рода вопросах. Дядя склонен ревновать, когда племянник находит кого-то более интересными или симпатичными, чем он сам[28] (и особенно, если этим «кем-то» является Форд[22]). В дальнейшем, он принимает тот факт, что Диппер больше общается с Фордом, чем с ним. После инцидента из эпизода «Подземелья, подземелья и ещё больше подземелий», он понимает, что Диппер нуждается в ком-то с похожими интересами и решает больше не препятствовать их общению.
Мэйбл Пайнс
Мэйбл и Стэн рыбачут.
Мэйбл является внучатой племянницей Стэнли. Противоположные личности Стэна и Мэйбл порой сталкиваются, что изредка (если Стэнли в чём-то соглашается с племянницей) приводит к попыткам решения различных проблем дяди: лечению страха перед высотой[14] или помощи в отношениях с Ленивой Сьюзан[11]. При этом иногда Стэн всё же отказывается от участия в её экстравагантных планах[13] или отказывается принять её мировоззрение[29]. Стэн способен защитить свою племянницу[13]. Как и в случае с Диппером, он ревнует если она предпочитает проводить время с другим человеком[28] или восхищается Фордом[22]. Дядя также имеет склонность симпатизировать Мэйбл больше, нежели Дипперу[29]; они разделяют общие интересы (например, любовь к Утка-тиву).
Сус Рамирез
Сус дополняет идею Стэна.
Сус является подчинённым Стэнли. Стэн видит в Сусе верного сотрудника — тот работает в Хижине Чудес многие годы, но также не прочь воспользоваться некоторой его наивностью в своих целях. Сус же восхищается Стэном и выполняет капризы своего босса, проводя большую часть своего времени на работе. В целом, Стэн искренне заботится о своем сотруднике, хотя его иногда немного раздражает инфантильность последнего. В эпизоде «Не тот, кем кажется» доверие Стэна к Сусу пошатнулось после того, как он и близнецы раскрыли его тайну. Сус отказывался слушать Стэна, когда тот кричал ему остановить близнецов, но Стэн простил его за помощь близнецам. В конце сериала, Стэн отдает право собственности на Хижину Чудес Сусу.
Вэнди Кордрой
Венди отказывается выполнять поручение Стэна.
Вэнди является подчинённым Стэнли. Она относится к Стэну не очень уважительно и известна нарушениями правил в то время, когда Стэн этого не видит[16]. Стэн суров в ее отношении, что поддерживает её мнение о нем как о «худшем боссе»[16], однако, по-видимому, Стэн просто понимает её характер и считает, что без строгих правил она будет бездельничать да отлынивать от работы.
Она также периодически подшучивает над ним[30], на что Стэн, впрочем-то, похоже, не обижается. Тем не менее, Вэнди готова помочь Стэну, даже если это дело его личной жизни. Так что, у них сложились довольно хорошие приятельские отношения[11].
Стэнфорд Пайнс
Форд отчитывает Стэна за то, что он включил Портал
Являясь братом-близнецом Форда, в детстве Стэн был очень дружен с ним. Они вместе проводили много времени и всегда что-нибудь придумывали, совсем как Диппер и Мэйбл. Форд так же разрешал списывать у него, когда братья учились в школе. Однако, их отношения начали портиться с того момента как Стэнли испортил изобретение брата, и Форд не поступил в университет своей мечты. Они долго жили каждый своей жизнью. С тех пор взаимные обиды близнецов только копились. Когда Стэнфорд попросил Стэнли приехать к нему, Стэн надеялся помириться с братом, но Форд позвал только для того, чтобы передать дневник. Произошла новая ссора, в результате которой, Форд застревает между мирами на 30 лет. Стэнли чувствует свою вину в случившимся и все эти годы пытается вернуть брата. И когда ему это удаётся, Форд вместо того, чтобы поблагодарить за спасение отчитывает Стэнли за то что, тот поставил под угрозу весь мир. Стэн затаивает обиду, которая будет длится почти до конца истории и станет роковой во время спасения мира во Странногедонна от Билла Шифра. Стэнфорд, всё же, благодарит брата за спасение из Портала, но мирятся они только после того, как Стэн жертвует собой ради спасения мира и возвращает память. Со временем братья восстановили свои прежние отношения и отправились вместе в плаванье.
Гидеон Глифул
Гидеон угрожает уменьшить Стэна.
Гидеон и Стэнли являются врагами. Сначала их вражда была на основе конкуренции, так как шатёр телепатии, являясь ловушкой для туристов, соперничал с Хижиной Чудес. По словам Диппера «Гидеон ещё больший мошенник, вот дядя и завидует». Однако, после того как Мэйбл разбила мистический амулет Гидеона, он решил отомстить Пайнсам и отобрать Хижину. Гидеон после этого возненавидел Пайнсов, Стэнли всегда относился к нему легкомысленно и постоянно подшучивал, считая Гидеона не серьёзным соперником до событий эпизода «Гидеон восстаёт». Однако, семье Пайнсов удаётся победить и отправить Гидеона в тюрьму, где он строил планы мести. Отношение Гидеона к Пайнсам и самому Стэнли меняется только после Странногеддона, когда после своего спасения он меняется в лучшую сторону.
Список появлений
1 сезон
- Все эпизоды 1 сезона
Мини-эпизоды
- 1. «Конфетный монстр»
- 2. «Тату Стэна»
- 6. «Прячущийся»
- 7. «Советы Мэйбл о свиданиях»
- 8. «Советы Мэйбл о стикерах»
- 9. «Советы Мэйбл о моде»
- 10. «Советы Мэйбл о цветах»
- 11. «Советы Мэйбл об искусстве»
- 12. «Ремонт с Сусом: Гольф-мобиль»
- 13. «Ремонт с Сусом: Часы с кукушкой»
- 14. «ТВ Гравити Фолз 1»
- 15. «ТВ Гравити Фолз 2»
- 16. «Альбом памятных событий: Поход в кино»
- 17. «Альбом памятных событий: Детский зоопарк»
2 сезон
- 201. «Жуткое караоке»
- 202. «В бункер»
- 203. «Гольфовая война»
- 204. «Носочная опера»
- 205. «Сус и настоящая девушка»
- 206. «Подарочный магазинчик ужасов»
- 207. «Общество Слепого Глаза»
- 208. «Игра Блендина»
- 209. «Бог любви»
- 211. «Не тот, кем кажется»
- 212. «Повесть о двух Стэнах»
- 213. «Подземелья, подземелья и ещё больше подземелий»
- 214. «Стэньчжурский кандидат»
- 215. «Последний Мэйблорог»
- 216. «Придорожный аттракцион»
- 217. «Диппер и Мэйбл против будущего»
- 218. «Странногеддон (часть 1)»
- 219. «Странногеддон (часть 2): Побег из реальности»
- 220. «Странногеддон (часть 3): Вернём Гравити Фолз»
Цитаты
«Гм. Ответственный взрослый запретил бы детям играть с топором?! Хорошо, что я не такой! Отомстите за меня! Отомстите!»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Пока рядом нет полиции, все законно!»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Женщины! Вот где загадка природы. Стараешься, сталкиваешь машину их дружка в овраг, и почему то ты ещё и плохой»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Э… непригоден! То есть, превиновен!»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Детишки, после кончины мэра я задумался: я — старик и, увы, моложе не буду. Исследования моего братца сделают его знаменитым, а чего я достиг в жизни? Что напишут на моём надгробье? Мелкий жулик? Лучше уж «Жулик-мэр»!»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Народ живущий у нас в городе, самый тупой в мире!»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Должен ли мужчина платить за ужин? Мы что, в России что ли?»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
«Глянь сюда. Смотри на меня демон одноглазый. Ты очень умный парень, но допустил фатальную ошибку — ты угрожал моим родным!»
—Стэн Пайнс[источник]
Интересные факты
«Нельзя просто так взять и …»
- Бобу Оденкерку изначально было предложено озвучивать Стэна, но он отказался от сделки.[31]
- В русском дубляже Стэна озвучивает тот же актёр, что и Боромира в сериале Властелин колец (Владимир Герасимов), а Боромир является главным героем мема «Нельзя просто так взять и …».
- Стэн был воспитан по догматам иудаизма, но в настоящее время является атеистом.[32]
- У Стэна нет своих детей.[33]
- Стэн ненавидит день Первопроходцев.
- Стэн — второй персонаж, который меняет одежду. Он либо в своей форме, либо в майке с шортами и тапочками.
- В эпизоде «Земля до начала свиней» нам показывается поддельная татуировка, которая после декодирования шифром Цезаря означает «Лжец» (при расшифровке шифром Атбаш мы получаем слово «потеря»).
- Феска, которую носит Стэн — это головной убор Shriners.[34]
- Символ на феске Стэна может быть Лувийским иероглифом слова «Luna».
- В некоторых странах первый символ на феске Стэна удален из-за схожести с исламским полумесяцем.
- Символ на феске Стэна был изменён после эпизода «Босс Мэйбл».
- Скорее всего, козёл Гомперс просто сжевал феску и Стэн взял себе новую.
- Стэну принадлежит 10 оружий.[14]
- Как показано в неофициальном пилотном эпизоде, изначально Стэн сильно любил мороженое.
- Стэн родился позже Форда.[35]
- В эпизоде «Последний Мэйблорог» показано, что Стэн умеет говорить по-испански.
- Он практикует один и тот же трюк с монеткой с 1982 года, но до сих пор не может его освоить.[36]
- В Дневнике Диппера и Мэйбл на стр. 69 Билл шифрует послание «Стэн был ребенком-моделью».
- Стэну был запрещён въезд в, по крайней мере, 18 штатов: Айова, Аризона, Вайоминг, Вермонт, Висконсин, Индиана, Канзас, Коннектикут, Колорадо, Массачусетс, Монтана, Мэн, Невада, Нью-Йорк, Огайо, Оклахома, Пенсильвания, Техас.
- Стэн желает, чтобы его тело после смерти подвергли таксидермии и расположили таким образом, чтобы казалось, что он хочет ударить по Хижине Чудес.[37]
- Символ с панели управления порталом, об которую обжёгся Стэн, был срисован с реальной татуировки индейцев. Является древним индейским знаком защиты от всевидящего ока и сглаза, отражения злых духов. Делает владельца более проницательным, зорким и мудрым (в плане интуиции).
- В мультфильме «Стар против сил зла» в одной из серий Стар примеряет головные уборы, и одна из них является феской Стэна.
- В этом же мультфильме в другой серии появляются туристы, которые посещали Хижину Чудес в эпизоде «Ловушка для туриста».
- Стэн учил юного Суса боксу.
- В 12 лет праздновал бар-мицву. Его отец был расстроен тем, что Стэн надел очки, как у комика Граучо Маркса.
- В 1973 году Стэн подрался с (ныне покойным) писателем Стэном Ли.
- Узор на всех пальцах Стэна одинаковый.
- Когда Стэн был в Лас-Вегасе (непонятно какой это был период жизни) он был 6 часов женат на некой Мэрелин, а потом оказалось что она просто его отвлекала чтобы украсть выигрыш и машину. А ее внешность — бордовая одежда, длинные серые волосы (хотя тут спорно, ибо Стэн считает что это был парик), странный острый зуб, бледная кожа — подходит под описание персонажа из мультсериала «Дома совы»: Ида «Совиная Королева/Леди», у которой есть портал в человеческий мир (к слову, создательница «Дома совы» является девушкой Алекса Хирша)
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Stanley «Stan» Pines (born June 15, 15 minutes after his twin brother, Ford Pines)[13], also known as Grunkle Stan, and formerly under the assumed identity Stanford Pines,[9][3] is Dipper and Mabel Pines’ great uncle and summer guardian, and a paternal uncle of Mr. Pines. He is also the tritagonist of the series. After many years of crime and infamy, he has taken up residence in the remote town of Gravity Falls, Oregon,[14] where he exploits local lore and the gullibility of the «dumbest people in the world»[15] to finance himself by running a dubious tourist trap known as the Mystery Shack.
Despite his initial claims of skepticism to the supernatural,[16] he is later revealed to be deeply connected with the paranormal and about the town’s weird paranormal status,[17][18] most notably the decades-long operation of an interdimensional portal[17] he used to rescue his twin brother, Ford Pines.[9]
Stan represents the Crescent Symbol on the Zodiac, which is the same present on his fez.
History
Early life
A young Stan explores his hometown alongside his brother.
Stanley Pines was born on June 15th in the late 40s or early 50s to Filbrick and Caryn Pines in Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey, about 15 minutes after his twin brother Ford.[14][2] He was raised Jewish, but now identifies as atheist.[19]He and his twin brother Stanford were very close. Stan’s strong, brawny personality combining well with Ford’s brilliance: when together, they were an unstoppable pair. Stan also faced frequent bullying due to his weak appearance as a child, most notably from childhood foe Crampelter. This eventually inspired their father to force the twins into taking boxing lessons, as a means of toughening them up and giving them the strength to overcome their tormentors.
Stan and Carla «Hotpants» McCorkle.
Stan’s teenage years were initially pleasant, frequenting the 50’s-themed Juke Joint with then-girlfriend Carla McCorkle [2] and building their ship — named the Stan o’ war — with Ford, as they hoped to fulfill their childhood dreams of sailing around the world searching for adventure. His aspirations began to crumble near the end of senior year, when Stanford’s intellect attracted the interest of West Coast Tech (a prestigious college on the other side of the country, which meant he’d move away from him), and with Carla ending their relationship over her infatuation with hippie musician Thistle Downe. Stan would later confess to having driven Downe’s van into a ravine in an act of revenge, which only served to further alienate Carla from him.[2]
On the verge of losing his closest friend, barely passing high school and seemingly destined to stay in Glass Shard Beach forever, Stan took his frustrations out on Ford’s infinite motion machine, accidentally damaging it and causing its malfunction. As his Toffee Peanuts bag was found at the machine’s display, Ford accused Stan of sabotage, driving a wedge between the twins and prompting their father to disown Stan for losing them the «potential millions» Ford’s scientific achievements would’ve reaped. With no friends or family to turn to, a furious Stanley set out on his own, determined to acquire fame and fortune twice the size his twin ever would’ve earned.
Stan’s fate as a salesman is destined for disaster.
After a failed foray into combing beaches for buried treasure, Stan founded Stan Co. Enterprises. Through his self-managed company, Stan made and sold a variety of cheap and poorly-constructed household utilities, from Stan Co. Pitchforks (whose heads tended to fall off) to the «Sham Total» sham towels, both of which resulted in Stan Co. Enterprises, along with Stan himself, being banned from the state of New Jersey. The process repeated itself in Pennsylvania with his rash-inducing «Rip-Off» band aids. After the failure of his «Stan Vac» vacuums, Stan expanded his business out of the country, resulting in a heist gone awry in Colombia [20], which landed him in one of the country’s prisons alongside cellmates Jorge and Rico. Stan attempted to bond with them, much to both prisoners’ intense dislike.
Upon his release, Stanley returned to the United States. Banned from 32 of the 50 states, imprisoned in three different countries, reduced to renting a room at the Dead End Flats motel, and remaining in debt to Rico, Stan’s life had seemingly hit rock bottom — until the arrival of a postcard from his brother Stanford, the first he had heard from his twin in over 10 years. It contained a desperate plea for Stan’s presence.
Stan confronts Ford minutes before his disappearance.
Stan traveled to his brother’s new home in the woods of Gravity Falls, Oregon, to find Ford confined in his shack and borderline insane with paranoia. Ford then revealed his underground laboratory and the Universe Portal to his brother, vaguely explaining that its powers were too dangerous and that he needed Stan to take one of Ford’s journals, which contained information as to its operation, and go as far away as possible to protect them from falling into the wrong hands. Furious that Ford had only summoned him to send him away again, Stan initiated an argument and prepared to burn the book to spite Ford, causing a fistfight between the two. During the brawl, which caused Stan to burn his back on one of the symbols in the machinery, the device was inadvertently activated, and Stan unintentionally pushed his brother into the portal’s range, sending Ford through the dimensional rift before its immediate shutdown from lack of fuel. Stan spent the following weeks plagued by insomnia and guilt, cloistered in the lab in an attempt to turn the portal on and bring Ford back again, only to realize it was hopeless without the other two journals.
The people of Gravity Falls are desperate to see Stan’s «home.»
Upon venturing into town once the food ran out, Stan discovered the locals were curious about Ford’s house, and even willing to pay for a look, which prompted him to open it up for tours, building fanciful faux-paranormal props when Ford’s inventions failed to garner interest. With Stan’s witty remarks and jokes to liven the visits, the house eventually attracted enough popularity to become the Murder Hut, and later the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap focused on ‘paranormal’ exhibits. Faking his own death in a car crash, Stan took up his brother’s identity to remain legally in the property and pay Ford’s mortgage; he boarded up Ford’s old bedroom and hid access to the lab behind a vending machine in the gift shop. He ran the tourist trap during the day for profit, but by night worked tirelessly to locate his brother’s hidden journals and reactivate the portal, hoping to one day bring him back home.[3]
Stan’s feelings for Li’l Gideon have already grown sour.
As the years rolled by, Stan applied countless renovations to his tourist trap, intent on keeping its oddities and appeal alive, both for profit and for his love of money. He once stole a collection of cursed wax figures from a local garage sale for this purpose, which became the Shack’s Wax Museum of Mystery and was a huge success until Stan inadvertently forgot its existence. Edwin Durland was hired as a handyman for the Mystery Shack during this time; after firing him for his seeming incompetence, Stan caught sight of 12-year-old Soos Ramirez holding a screwdriver and offered him the job on the spot. Over time, the Shack developed a rivalry with the rest of the tourist traps the state, which originated a yearly tradition that involved vandalizing one another.
At some point before 2012, Stan would take a trip Las Vegas, where he would meet «Marilyn,» the woman who was briefly his wife. The marriage came to an end after a mere handful of hours, with «Marilyn» robbing Stan of his car and money, before then disappearing by jumping into a canyon. Little is known about «Marilyn,» with Stan believing her entire identity, and name, was false.
Sometime at the start of the summer of 2012, Gideon Gleeful opened up the Tent of Telepathy, a scam whose success (and whose ads, which often featured unflattering footage of Stan, damaged the Mystery Shack’s profits) made Stan profoundly annoyed. The two soon ended up being business rivals.
During the twins’ visit
Season 1
Stan welcomes his great-niece and great-nephew to Gravity Falls.
Sometime during the month of June of 2012, Stan’s great niece and nephew, Mabel and Dipper Pines, are sent from Piedmont, California [21] to stay with him for the summer. Stan has them help out at the Mystery Shack, often working alongside his handyman Soos and his cashier Wendy. Stan is not above using the twins, as it happened when he planned a family bonding day that consisted of helping him create forged dollar bills, which resulted in the three being taken to county jail overnight. However, he soon seems to appreciate having the twins around: in «The Legend of the Gobblewonker,» he is eager to take them fishing with him, even making them fishing hats with their names, and spends the rest of the day angrily upset at their choosing to go monster hunting with Soos.
Stan moping.
Finding his own fishing buddies around the lake doesn’t turn out well for Stan, since everyone thinks his jokes are annoying or creepy to the point of earning him a tracking anklet from the lake police. Despite the bad day, the twins eventually return and join him in fishing for the rest of the day.
Stan tells the kids to avenge him.
After the twins and Soos rediscover the wax figure collection in «Headhunters,» Stan resolves to reopen the exhibit, and is unhappy to discover Wax Abraham Lincoln was left in front of a window and melted in the sun. Mabel then uses this leftover wax to create a figure of Stan, which an adoring Stan unveils as a central part of the Wax Museum’s Grand Reopening. The ceremony is ultimately a failure, as it was massively attended by a crowd that Stan promised free pizza to; the crowd grows angry and violent upon discovering there is no pizza.
Stan talks to and carries his wax twin around happily, but his joy is cut short when the wax figure is beheaded, an ax beside it and its head missing. Stan is emotionally affected by this (he calls the cops over the ‘murder’ and puts together an elaborate funeral for the wax figure), as having someone (or something) who looked like him beheaded brings back uncomfortable memories of the loss of Ford [22]. After failing to find the culprit, the twins, Soos and the wax figures attend Wax Stan’s funeral, which is officiated by Stan; he is eventually overcome with emotion and leaves the room, with Soos close behind. In his absence, it is revealed that the murderers are the wax figures themselves, eager for revenge on Stan for forgetting about them for ten years — they’d mistaken the wax figure for Stan himself. Mabel and Dipper defeat them, destroying Stan’s parlor in the process. When they tell Stan what happened, he laughs them off, telling them they have overactive imaginations.
Stan is threatened by his archenemy, Gideon.
In «The Hand That Rocks the Mabel,» the twins and Soos watch a commercial for Gideon Gleeful, child psychic, which shows footage of Stan with the label «fraud» across it. Stan angrily informs them that Gideon is his arch enemy and has been nothing but trouble since he arrived in Gravity Falls. He also says nobody living under his roof is allowed under Gideon’s roof, but Dipper and Mabel decide tents don’t have roofs (a loophole) and go watch his show. When Stan learns that Mabel and Gideon are apparently dating, he marches over to see Gideon’s father, Bud Gleeful, intent on complaining about the relationship and declaring himself against it. He is soon converted into a fan when Bud presents him with elaborate plans for an alliance between the Tent of Telepathy and the Mystery Shack, which would involve a lot of profit. After that, Stan takes to wearing a ‘Mabel and Gideon’ t-shirt and tells his niece she’ll eventually have to marry the little boy, also spending his days having expensive food, drink and admiring expensive art at the Gleeful residence.
When Gideon orders his father to call off the deal on account of Mabel refusing to be his girlfriend, Stan is reluctant to part with all the luxury. As he is being dismissed, he grabs an expensive clown painting and runs from the house, yelling «Try and catch me, suckers!»
In «The Inconveniencing,» Stan fails to find the remote control (and refuses to get up), forcing him to watch an old romance film called The Duchess Approves, which to his surprise ends up captivating him. He becomes very invested in the movie, ignoring the ringing phone and crying when a part of it reminds him of his life «in a way». When the fictional Count Lionel appears to interrupt the Duchess’ wedding, Stan becomes so infuriated at the count’s behavior that he tosses the television out through the window.
Stan gets Lazy Susan’s phone number.
When Stan takes the twins to Greasy’s Diner in «Dipper vs. Manliness,» Stan’s awkwardness around waitress Lazy Susan reveals to Mabel that he has a crush on her, although Stan claims she’s too «classy» to ever give him the time of day. Mabel tries to improve Stan’s appearance and behavior in order to appeal to his love, but nothing works. Mabel finally decides that she should present her uncle to Susan as is: the plan works like a charm, and Stan is rewarded with both Susan’s number and a slice of pie on the house. However, Susan’s incessant phone calls quickly become too much for Stan, who eventually stops answering, listening to her messages on the answering machine with horror instead.
Stan hosts a party at the Mystery Shack in «Double Dipper» to attract a younger audience. For profit, Stan charges both an entrance fee and an exit fee (of 15 dollars); he is immediately aware of the moment Dipper tries to leave the concessions table, turning up with a taped recording of his grand nephew promising to stay at it all night. He is baited away from the refreshment table (where he is filling a dish with marshmallows) and the dance floor by a dollar attached to a fishing line, courtesy of Dipper clone number 8.
Stan spends most of Pioneer Day trapped in a pillory.
In «Irrational Treasure» it is revealed that Stan despises the old-fashioned customs of Pioneer Day. Pretending to be living in pioneer times gets on his nerves, to the point where he assaults Steve, a mechanic, when Steve pretends to not know what a car is while Stan’s car is stuck. He is subsequently locked in the stocks. While he is incapacitated, Stan encounters Gideon, who takes advantage of Stan’s captivity to throw tomatoes at his face after Stan tells him he looks «less girly than usual». Pacifica Northwest also comes across Stan as he attempts to pick the lock with a hairpin[23], and tells him to write a statement claiming that the Northwests are the best family in Gravity Falls in exchange for his freedom. Stan instead writes «You Stink», prompting Pacifica to summon the townsfolk and have him pelted with tomatoes once more. He is released when Dipper unlocks him with the President’s Key and Mabel, appointed a US congressman by Quentin Trembley, grants him official pardon.
In «The Time Traveler’s Pig,» Stan opens up a Mystery Fair to earn more cash and rigs the Dunk Tank (with himself as the dunkee, guaranteeing a lot of angry customers) by making the target connected to the seat very stiff, causing it to stay fixed no matter how hard the balls are thrown at it. Later, one of the members of the Time Paradox Avoidance Enforcement Squadron fires his blaster at the target, which causes Stan to fall off the seat and into the water, to the surrounding crowd’s cheering .
Mabel forces Stan to face his fear of heights.
In «Fight Fighters,» Stan is seen hanging out with Soos and the twins for a while before Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight. Stan hears the challenge, tells the boys to stay «right there» and rushes outside excitedly to witness the brawl, being disappointed when he can’t call «the boys» to place bets — he transparently decides to bet on «Skinny Jeans» (Robbie). After reacting strangely to questions about ladders and screaming in terror at the «World’s Most Terrifying Skydiving» show, Mabel realizes Stan is terrified of heights. She tricks him into climbing the Gravity Falls water tower with her in order to face his fear, when the tower’s base is attacked by Rumble McSkirmish, who is pursuing Robbie at the time. After the tower wobbles unstably and threatens to fall with him and Mabel still on it, Stan discovers he is still alive, and realizes he has conquered his fear.
Gideon tries to shrink Stan.
In «Little Dipper,» Stan opens the door to a man in a suit who asks for him by name. Terrified that the tax collectors have found him, Stan runs into the house for the bag of full of cash hidden behind a painting, looking desperately for a trap door button amidst the stones on the wall. The man in the suit then introduces himself as part of the «Winninghouse Coupon Savers Contest», come to give him $10,000,000 as soon as Stan signs his name on a document. Stan apparently acquiesces, stating his lifelong dream to «possess money» had finally come true, but when Gideon bursts through the check, gloating that Stan has just signed the Mystery Shack over to him, it is revealed that Stan actually wrote «SUCK A LEMON, LITTLE MAN!» on the dotted line. Stan thwarts several other schemes throughout the episode, so he is understandably skeptical when Gideon calls him, claiming he has the twins captive in a jar and demanding the deed to the Shack as ransom. He claims Gideon «isn’t even speaking English» when he offers to text him a picture of the twins as proof, revealing he is not quite up to date with technology, and hangs up.
He and Soos are later seen setting up a mirror maze — Soos’ idea, appropriated by Stan — that Stan expects will make him a lot of money. Stan is still deep in the mirror maze when Gideon arrives at the Shack with the shrinking device, which makes most of Gideon’s shots divert harmlessly into mirrors, until he finally happens upon the real Stan. Unseen by both of them, the tiny Mabel and Dipper escape the jar and tickle Gideon into submission — to Stan, who only sees a previously threatening Gideon dissolve into giggles, this looks like a nervous breakdown. He suggests that Gideon may have overexerted himself with revenge and rolls his still giggly arch enemy through the Shack and out the door.
One of Stan’s fruitless attempts to scare two trick-or-treaters.
In «Summerween,» Stan drives the twins and Soos to the Summerween Superstore, and is the one who explains the holiday to Dipper and Mabel. When the store attendant tries to have them ejected from the store by the police, Stan uses a Smoke Bomb to escape, leaving behind a ‘Stan Buck’ as payment and demolishing a Jack-o-lantern float in the parking lot in the escape. It is revealed that Stan takes personal enjoyment in frightening trick-or-treaters away during Summerween: when a group rings the doorbell of the Mystery Shack, he comes to the door and feigns his face melting off. This scares all but two kids away; he tries to scare them by pulling ‘real guts’ (sausages) from his stomach, but fails. He then has pig burst out of his stomach, to no avail, and asks them what they find scary, which prompts them to prank him with a shock video on their cellphone. Stan is terrified and opts to call it a night, drawing himself a bath «wash off the shame». Unbeknownst to him, the two kids come into the Shack and wander into the bathroom, where Stan’s half-naked form finally succeeds in scaring them away. When the twins come home from trick-or-treating, disappointed they couldn’t eat any of the candy they collected, Stan presents them with the two kids’ abandoned sacks of candy, and the family, along with Soos, Wendy, Candy and Grenda, watch a horror movie and eat candy for the remainder of the night.
Stan competing on the game show Cash Wheel
In «Boss Mabel,» Stan’s relentless attempts at making money and poor treatment of his employees get on Mabel’s nerves, and she decides to confront him about it. Unwilling to believe Mabel’s gentler methods are better than his ways, Stan proposes a bet: whoever makes more money in three days’ time—Stan on vacation or Mabel running the Shack—is in charge for the rest of the summer. After heading out, Stan lands a spot competing on the game show Cash Wheel by being dramatic and shameless. While his blatant disregard for the rules earns him $300,000 dollars, Stan eagerly seizes the chance to go ‘double or nothing’ with a final puzzle: unfortunately, as the mystery word is ‘please’, Stan fails to guess and loses everything. This, coupled with the twins making a little money compared to his zero, prompts him to hold up his end of the deal. While Mabel turns down the job, she still makes him perform the apology dance he promised to do if he lost the bet.
Stan falls into the bottomless pit.
In «Bottomless Pit!,» Stan is giving Soos and the twins a tour of the bottomless pit, where they go to dump things they want to get rid of. A storm breaks out, but an eager Stan stays to throw all the Mystery Shack’s suggestion slips down the pit, until a gust of wind knocks him, along with Soos and the twins, down into the abyss.
Inside the pit, they begin to tell stories to pass the time. In Dipper’s tale, Stan makes fun of Dipper’s frequently cracking voice, and develops an obnoxious, female voice after his nephew dumps a voice-altering formula in his coffee. In his own tale, Stan wins a major football game with the help of his robotic sidekick, thereby teaching a group of football players a lesson and winning a gigantic trophy. In Mabel’s story, Stan attempts to teach a bear how to drive and easily cons the cops into believing that it is his doctor-mandated seeing eye bear. Mabel observes his excessive lying habit and grows more and more annoyed by it to the point of forcing him to be honest, via a set of Truth Telling Teeth. Stan’s truthfulness is unfiltered, however, going from annoying to disturbing, until he almost admits to all of his crimes in front of the police. Mabel finally decides to remove the teeth from her uncle’s mouth after he almost gets himself arrested. When the Bottomless Pit ends, depositing them all back outside the shack, Stan leans on its signboard, which breaks and tips him back into the pit.
Gideon steals Stan’s chair.
In «The Deep End,» on the hottest day of the year, Stan, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos go to the town pool to cool off. When Stan tries to sit in the ideal lawn chair, he is horrified to find that Gideon has taken it from him at the last minute. As he tries to forcibly remove Gideon, he is caught and put into pool jail for roughhousing, and Gideon foils his other attempts. Stan resolves to break into the pool after hours and spend the night on the chair, therefore beating Gideon to it; while the plan seems to work, Gideon reveals that he’d coated the chair in glue.
Stan holding the key to the room.
In «Carpet Diem,» when Dipper and Mabel are fighting over a new room they found in the shack, Stan takes the key and tells them that whoever sucks up to him the most will get the room. He makes them run around and do chores and make things for him, all the while rewarding them with ‘suck-up points’. After Dipper and Mabel switch bodies, he catches Dipper (Mabel) spying on the sleepover and thinks that Dipper is at ‘that creepy age where you spy on girls’, which prompts him to drag «Dipper» into his office to explain puberty and where babies come from with the help of an illustrated book, much to Mabel’s horror. When she tries to sabotage Dipper by calling Stan a stupid old jerk, Stan is instead proud of «Dipper» for standing up to him, earning him the key.
Stan does a spit take when he hears the hidden message in Robbie’s song.
In «Boyz Crazy,» Stan can be seen storing canned meat in preparation for the apocalypse. He listens to Dipper talk about how Robbie got Wendy to go on the date with him mind control, which prompts him to share the story of Carla McCorkle leaving him for Thistle Downe. He accompanies Dipper in uncovering a hidden message in the song, and drives Dipper to Lookout Point to help him tell Wendy about it. When Wendy angrily breaks up with Robbie, he calls it «a victory for every man whose hands are either too weak or fat to play a musical instrument.» After Wendy gets upset at Dipper for asking her to go bowling, Stan tells Dipper that he could always just go bowling with him and that he was trying to do the right thing, even if he destroyed a relationship.
Stan punching the Pterodactyl in the face.
In «Land Before Swine,» Stan is left in charge of Waddles as Mabel goes out shopping. He leaves Waddles tethered outside the Shack despite Mabel’s warnings, and later has to witness the pig being taken by a pterodactyl. He invents a story about the dinosaur breaking into the Shack and forcibly taking Waddles from him after a fight to avoid the blame. When the group, en route to save Waddles, finds dinosaurs encased in tree sap, Stan eagerly plans to turn them into another tourist attraction. He also unwittingly confesses to leaving Waddles outside, leading to Mabel not speaking to him. Later, when he and Waddles split from the group, being circled by the hungry pterodactyl, Stan has a change of heart and fights to protect the pig, even punching the dinosaur in the face like he’d said he’d done in the story. He returns Waddles to Mabel, earning her forgiveness.
Stan after his mind is invaded by Bill.
In «Dreamscaperers,» Gideon sends Bill Cipher into Stan’s mind to find the combination to the safe containing the deed to the Mystery Shack. Cipher is prevented from doing so by the efforts of Dipper, Mabel, and Soos, so Gideon uses dynamite to blow open the safe. With the deed in hand, he then forces Stan and the others out of the Shack and has it demolished via a wrecking ball.
Stan and the rest of the family are forced to move in with Soos and his grandmother in following the events of «Dreamscaperers.» He tries to convince the townsfolk that he was robbed of the Mystery Shack’s deed after Gideon unveils his theme park project, to no avail. He is also strapped for cash without the Mystery Shack’s tours for income, despite telling Dipper and Mabel’s parents that they’re actually set up at a four star hotel. He is forced to send the twins back to California; as he muses over his losses, a resounding bleep of interference from his hearing aid leads him to discover that Gideon was spying on everyone through his Gideon pins. He drives to the site of the Gideonbot’s crash in time to reveal Gideon’s secret camera feeds, irrefutable evidence that gets him the deed to the Mystery Shack back. It also leads to Lil Gideon’s arrest.
Back at the Shack, when Dipper finally tells him about Journal 3, Stan laughs and seemingly dismisses the journal, asking to borrow it to collect ideas for the Mystery shack. However, it is revealed that Stan is in fact very interested in it: he takes the Journal to the underground laboratory, where it is revealed that he had Journal 1 all along, and that he likely took Journal 2, along with the deed to the Mystery Shack, from the pile of things he shook out of Lil Gideon prior to his arrest.
Stan thrilled with success.
Stan expresses joy at finally having the three[24] and puts together the unmarked pages, which are revealed to be the blueprints to the portal. With the full image finally at his disposal, Stan sets about activating it.
Season 2
Grunkle Stan comes to the rescue.
In «Scary-oke,» Stan is still in the lab late that night, using the three journals to make the portal operational. He stays there until early next morning, when he gets up to head the Mystery Shack’s grand reopening. He gives Dipper back his journal, claiming it was too boring to read but having secretly made copies of its pages. When two government agents show up to investigate a strange phenomenon they picked up on the radar, Stan insists that nothing is out of the ordinary, even attempting to bribe them. He discredits Dipper when he tries to interest the agents with the journal and confiscates the business card they gave him, hiding it in his room.
Later, at the Mystery Shack reopening after party, Stan is at the admissions table counting the money he’s made, happy at the amount of people that showed up. He ends up catching Dipper in his room talking to the agents and angrily tells him to go enjoy the after party, as he’ll be grounded immediately after. Stan himself leaves the party early to work on the portal, so he is underground when Dipper raises the dead. He becomes aware in time to run upstairs and save Dipper and Mabel from the zombies. Stan then reveals to the twins that he was never skeptical and only lied to avoid making them curious about the supernatural. He is shown in awe of discovering invisible ink in the journal. Once the zombies’ weakness is revealed, he, Dipper and Mabel climb onto the roof to use the sound frequencies from singing karaoke to kill them. After the zombies are dealt with, he asks Dipper to promise that he won’t use the book to go looking for trouble, only for self-defense. In return, he had to promise Dipper that he didn’t have any other ‘bombshell secrets’: with the portal, his real identity and Ford in mind, Stan crosses his fingers behind his back as he promises.
In «Into the Bunker,» he is seen giving orders to the construction workers as they fix the damage from the zombie attack. When one of the workers asked what caused this, he lied and said that «a big woodpecker» did it, before slipping the curious worker some money in exchange for not asking questions.
In «The Golf War,» he, the twins and Soos went to Ye Royal Discount Putt Hutt. While there, they see Pacifica with her parents. She insults each of them and Stan whispers to Soos, «Is it wrong to punch a child?» Pacifica makes a fool of Mabel after she scores the shot Mabel missed. Mabel calls her out and asks her for a rematch after dark. Stan is thrilled to help Mabel and Dipper break in while he and Soos stand look out. Before they go in, Stan gives Mabel a gold trophy sticker for encouragement.
In «Sock Opera,» Mabel enacted her impression of him with her Stan sock puppet while he sipped his coffee, trying to ignore her. He also makes a joke towards Dipper after seeing him with bags under his eyes. He is later seen at the puppet show alongside Soos and Wendy.
Stan facing off against Will E. Badger.
In «Soos and the Real Girl,» he is seen trying to show off with his novelty coin dispenser, Goldie, to a kid. Because it was old and worn out, it leaked oil and made a loud screeching sound that made the kid run away in tears. Wendy suggests he throw Goldie away, which he declines until he slips and his arm gets caught in its mouth. Later, he tosses Goldie in the garbage by Gravity Malls after having a heartfelt moment. He follows some children into Hoo-Ha Owl’s Pizzamatronic Jamboree, where he finds the arcade to be a nightmare. He spots an animatronic badger and thinks it’d be a great way to con others out of their money, to which he asks the manager to sell it to him. The manager, however, declines and insults him. Stan then vows to get the badger at all cost. The next day, Mabel and Dipper ask him if he’s seen Soos, to which he comments he missed work for the first time ever. Later on, he steals the animatronic badger, but after .GIFfany takes control of the electronics, it attacks him and he is forced to face it. Despite being outmatched, he is able to dodge one of its attacks with it mistakenly hitting the garbage, turning on Goldie, which munches on the animatronics’ arm. Not long after, the badger shuts down due to Soos stopping .GIFfany, although Stan believes it was Goldie and suddenly decides to go to Las Vegas with it. While they are there, they get married at a Wed and Breakfast joint.
Stan with no hands.
Stan tells three stories in «Little Gift Shop of Horrors.» In the first story, Hands Off, he plays a major part. He steals a golden watch from the Hand Witch. Despite the Dipper and Mabel’s warnings to return it, he ignores them. The next morning he wakes up with no hands. Though he tries to hide this fact from Dipper and Mabel by putting mittens where his hands would be, the mittens fall off and the twins find out anyways. Stan tries to get along without his hands but eventually decides to go and return the watch. After reaching the Hand Witch’s cave with the twins, they all scream in the surprise of the many living hands in the cave. They fight off the hands but are subdued. Stan is willing to give her the watch back in exchange for his hands back, which she accepts. However, she tells him he has to kiss her to seal the deal, much to his dismay. Refusing, Stan decides to leave, and the Hand Witch confesses that she’s «desperate» to get a date. After Mabel redecorates her cave, the Hand Witch gives Stan his hands back. She then asks him to be her boyfriend. Stan refuses and admits that he learned nothing from the whole escapade.
In «Society of the Blind Eye,» Stan continues to work in secret on the enigmatic machine beneath the Mystery Shack, accidentally cutting his hand on a flying pipe in the process. Bandaging his wound, he proclaims that he’s come too far and that nothing will stop him.
In «Blendin’s Game,» Stan goes to Big Gunz Laser Tag with the rest of the gang to cheer up Soos. He exclaims that it used to be a mattress store. He is then seen in the end credits, in the past, where he fires a younger Deputy Durland for being the worst handyman ever and eventually hires a younger Soos.
Stan’s failed attempt to reach out to younger people.
In «The Love God,» Stan is working on a new exhibit when he notices the Woodstick festival’s balloons, bikes, and folk singers. Panicked, he instructs Soos to lock up and attempts to shoot down the balloons with a crossbow. Soos then stops him, pointing out that there is a potential for profit, and Stan deduces that he can appeal to the youth by advertising to them via a Mystery Shack-themed balloon. Later, when Stan and Soos send off their poorly-made balloon, it terrifies the crowds, ultimately crashing on Love God. When the people see Stan, they panic, and he welcomes their fearful reactions.
In «Not What He Seems,» Stan struggles with the idea of telling Dipper and Mabel the truth about what he is doing, but is suddenly arrested and brought in by the government agents for interrogation. Later on, it is revealed that Stan has used fake identities and may be an entirely unknown person, and it is shown that the actual Stan Pines had died in a car crash. At the end of the episode, Stan convinces Mabel not to turn off the Universe portal. Afterwards, a man walks out of the portal, and is revealed to be the long-lost twin of Stan; Ford, the author of the journals.
In «A Tale of Two Stans,» Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Ford corner Stan in the basement of the Mystery Shack, Stan tells his entire past to explain everything to his relatives and Soos. After Stan’s tale they hear the government agents about to break in the basement until Dipper grabs out the Memory Eraser from the Blind Eye Society and gives it to Ford, who connects the gun’s power to the outside and erases the agents’ memory and makes them leave. The Stan brothers later have a talk. Ford says that Stanley can have the Mystery Shack for the rest of the summer and Stanley tells Ford to stay away from Dipper and Mabel saying that they’re his only family left.
Stan, Mabel, and Grenda set out on their quest to save Dipper and Ford.
In «Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons,» Stan tells Dipper that his brother is dangerous and should be avoided. Later in the episode, Stan and Mabel (who are joined by Grenda afterwards) prepare for the season finale of Duck-tective, but without warning, they find Dipper and Ford playing Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons board game in the TV room. To their dislike, the two new bounding friends take up the entire room with their game, Stan then argues with Ford for the right of the room, then which out of anger, Stan throws the bag containing the infinity sided die on the floor, by doing this he unwillingly sends the main characters from the board game into Gravity Falls’ dimension. As soon as unleashed Probabilitor the Annoying and his servants kidnap Dipper and Ford and bring them to the forest so that Probabilitor can eat their brains to gain their intelligence. Stan then decides to help Grenda and Mabel save Dipper and Ford from getting their brains eaten, but to do so the group must travel to Probabilitor’s base camp and defeat him in a game of Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons «real life» edition, in which Dipper and Ford must face Probabilitor’s characters, two ogres. Stan and Mabel win the game, Probabilitor and the others are forced back into their own realm, and Dipper and Ford are broth out of the game. Stan then tells Dipper that if he wants to hang out with Ford he won’t get in his way. After a day’s work Stan, Mabel, Dipper, and Grenda go watch the Duck-tective season finale’s second showing. Afterwards, Ford reveals that when Stan reactivated the portal to save him, it created an Interdimensional rift.
Stan competes against Bud Gleeful in the town’s mayoral election.
In «The Stanchurian Candidate,» Stan wants to make a name out of himself since everyone sees him as some dumb old man or less than his brother, so he decides to run for mayor against Bud Gleeful. Since his first speech was a total failure, Dipper turns to Ford to help him. Ford gives him a tie to control Stan’s mind. Dipper and Mabel use this tie to make Stan the perfect candidate. Stan later realizes that it has been controlling him the entire time, so he decides to never wear it. But his decision only makes things worse. He goes back to being the worst candidate and with Gideon controlling Bud. Bud starts to win the election. Later, Stan sees Dipper and Mabel falling out of the statue of Mayor Befufftlefumpter’s nose and goes to save them, by saving the twins’ lives he successfully wins the election. Later that day, Stan hears that his title for mayor has been stripped because of his criminal record, so Tyler became the new mayor.
In «The Last Mabelcorn,» Stan is seen speaking to a man named Santiago about smuggling barrels of pugs over the U.S. border. When Ford gives Mabel a crossbow, Mabel accidentally shoots the crossbow outside the shack and Stan mistakes it for the police. Later, when the girls put a treasure chest overflowing with gold that they got from the unicorns on the table, Stan runs towards it, shouting «money!» and taking most of the gold.
Darlene traps Stan in her web.
In «Roadside Attraction,» Stan takes the twins, Soos, Candy, and Grenda on a RV trip to sabotage various tourist traps across Oregon. When he notices Dipper having a hard time forgetting about his crush on Wendy, he gives him advise on how to be confident with girls, which works out extremely well for Dipper at first. When Dipper approaches Stan with feelings of uneasiness due to Candy’s sudden attraction to him, Stan decides to make an example of how confidence can get girls with a woman named Darlene. As Stan flirts with Darlene, she reveals herself to be a «spider-person,» and she captures Stan in order to eat him. Stan calls for Dipper to help over his walkie-talkie, and Dipper along with the girls go to rescue Stan. After being rescued, Stan confides in Dipper that he really isn’t that smooth with women. The gang return to the Mystery Shack, only to see it vandalized by the vengeful owners of the tourist traps they destroyed. The ending cryptogram reveals that he once dated a woman named Beatrice who «slapped him for being a cad» before mentioning Carla and Marilyn and that Goldie was his best girlfriend.
In «Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future,» Stan joins the twins and Soos in the excitement for the upcoming week as his senior ponytail kit arrives on the coming week, stating he is going through some things. When the twins and Soos prepare for their birthday party, Stan forbids them from throwing a party due to their previous party incident, with Stan finding zombie pieces around the Shack. After Mabel becomes saddened over the summer ending, Stan comes to comfort her, telling Mabel that while summer is ending, Mabel still has Dipper around to be with her, telling his niece that not everyone can say their siblings are there for them.
In «Weirdmageddon Part 1,» Stan makes a brief appearance as he’s in the forest putting up signs until Gompers eats the tassel of his hat. As he gets angry at Gompers, a weirdness wave hits Gompers and turns him gigantic, causing Stan to run away screaming from the gigantic goat.
In «Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality,» Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos approach the Mystery Shack to find shelter. Inside, Dipper hears noises and the group proceed inside and find Stan as well as a number of people and creatures taking refuge within the Shack due to its protection from Bill.
Stan relaxes inside the protected Mystery Shack.
During «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls,» after reuniting with the twins, the Mystery Shack is scouted by an Eye-Bat. When the Eye-Bat leaves, Stan explains that after realizing the Mystery Shack is immune to Bill’s powers, McGucket took all the remaining refugees into the Shack to escape Bill, Stan then appointed himself Chief and decided that the best course of action was to wait until they run out of supplies and eat the gnomes as backup. Dipper attempts to get Stan to help rescue Ford from Bill but Stan shrugs it off commenting that Ford should get himself out of the mess. He then persuades Dipper and Mabel to simply stay inside the Shack as it is the safest place to be in. Stan watches with the other refugees as Shandra reports about what happened to the citizen of Gravity Falls. Dipper and Mabel encourage everyone to fight against Bill but Stan objects as the Mystery Shack is the only safe place and there was no way to bring it to Bill. McGucket suddenly has an idea as to how they could fight Bill but Stan remained pessimistic.
When everyone takes a break from building McGucket’s plan, Stan rants to Shmebulock about the resistance’s plan. Dipper and Mabel ask Stan why he’s upset, and he admits to being angry that Ford never thanked him for his efforts to bring him back to their dimension (as well as Ford’s folly causing Weirdmageddon in the first place). He laments that he’s always seen as «the screw-up» while Ford’s always «the hero.» Dipper and Stan argue, but Mabel quickly breaks the argument and reassures the two that everything will turn out fine.
Stan refuses to shake Ford’s hand unless he thanks him.
Stan is next seen inside the Shack-tron, stating it was a bad idea as the Shack is surrounded by Bill’s henchmen. He is then sent inside the Fearamid to help rescue Ford. When all of the citizens of Gravity Falls are returned to normal after toppling Bill’s throne, Dipper asks Ford about Bill’s weakness, which he tried to tell Dipper about before being initially frozen. Ford then draws the Zodiac and tells everyone who matches a sign to stand on their sign and hold hands. However, Stan refuses to join the circle, as it would require him to hold Ford’s hand- and he won’t until until Ford thanks him. Ford grudgingly does so, and the ritual seems to work- however Stan and Ford bicker over Stanley’s grammar, and break the circle. Bill approaches the group and turns everyone on the Wheel but the Pines into tapestries. Bill attempts to persuade Ford to help him but Dipper and Mabel distract Bill. Stan and Ford are imprisoned while Bill chases the younger twins.
Stan and Ford reflect on what went wrong with the bond they used to share.
Stan grieves over the kid’s possible deaths, believing it his fault because he «couldn’t shake [Ford’s] stupid hand.» He laments his belief that that his dad was right about him-that he really is a screw-up. A saddened Ford tells him it wasn’t his fault- he himself was the one who originally made a deal with Bill and fell for his easy flattery, and claims Stan would’ve instantly «seen him for the scam artist he is.» Stan and Ford have a brief moment to reflect on their childhood and how they were once as close as Dipper and Mabel. Ford, believing all hope is lost, tells Stan that he’ll let Bill inside his mind and get the equation needed to completely take over the universe if means the children will be safe. Stan disagrees with the plan, asking if there’s any other solution. Ford brings up the fact that, while he could simply erase Bill with the memory erasing gun once he steps into his mind, the metal plate in his head prevents Ford’s mind from being erased. Stan gives an alternative solution- what if Bill went into his mind instead?
Stan sits back as his mindscape becomes consumed by fire.
When Bill returns, Ford appears to surrender, agreeing to let Bill inside his mind on the condition that he lets Stan and the kids go. However, when Bill enters the mindscape and opens the single door there, he’s shocked to find Stan waiting there instead. Stan reveals that he and Ford switched clothes and faked each other’s voices, tricking Bill into making a deal with the wrong person- and leaving him vulnerable to the memory erasing gun’s effects. In the physical world, Ford begins erasing Stan’s memories to erase Bill along with them, while Stan defeats Bill with a single punch from within his mind. Stan, looking at a photo of himself with the twins, comments that he was «good for something after all» before becoming engulfed by the blue flames consuming his mindscape.
With Bill’s defeat, everything in Gravity Falls returns to normal- but it’s a bittersweet victory. Ford, Dipper and Mabel are saddened by Stan’s sacrifice, with Ford lamenting the fact that Stan has no idea that he saved the world (as well as Ford), calling Stan «our hero» as he hugs him.
Dipper and Mabel attempt to jog Stan’s memory by sharing stories of their summer.
Ford, Dipper, Mabel and Soos then take Stan back to the ruined remains of the Mystery Shack. Stan doesn’t remember the place, but slides easily back into his favorite chair. Seeing everyone’s distraught faces, he asks why everyone seemed downed, claiming that it’s «like [they’re] at someone’s funeral.» Mabel, frantically trying to find some way to bring him back despite Ford’s insistence that he’s gone, finds her Summer Memories scrapbook. After the children’s failed attempt to jog his memories using it, Waddles licks Stan and Stan subconsciously calls him by name. When Soos tells the twins to skip to his page to make Stan remember him, Stan also calls Soos by name, telling him not to try giving himself a raise just because he has amnesia, making everyone happy that Stan is slowly recovering his memories as Mabel reads from the book.
When the town of Gravity Falls return to their normal lives, Shandra reports that Stan has fully recovered his memories and is celebrating Dipper and Mabel’s 13th birthday (and final day in Gravity Falls.) At the party, Ford takes Stan aside and tells him about a new anomaly near the Arctic Ocean. Ford wants to investigate, but feels he’s too old to go it alone. Stan asks if Ford wants someone to go with him on an adventure of a lifetime, but Ford doesn’t want just someone to go with him, but Stan himself, showing Stan a old picture of them together on the Stan o’ War as children. While Stan and Ford seem happy about their new adventure, Ford questions what to do with the Mystery Shack in their absence.
After a hushed conversation between himself and Ford, Stan announces to the town that the Mystery Shack will shut down for good, as Stan and Ford have catching up to do and will be away for quite some time. Soos quickly objects, stating that his own dreams will be shut down should the Mystery Shack close. Stan states that no one would be around to run it, but then quickly takes it back, telling Soos he found someone perfect to run it, and gives Soos his fez as he announces that the Mystery Shack is «under new management.»
Stan and Ford fulfill their childhood dream.
The next day, Stan joins with Soos, Ford, Wendy, and Mabel’s friends in saying farewell to his niece and nephew. Stan makes an excuse about wearing Mabel’s Goodbye sweater and, along with Ford, silences Soos when he brings up how hot it is to be wearing a sweater. When the bus arrives, Waddles appears and wants to go with Mabel, but can’t because her parents won’t let her bring him back with her (as well as the bus not allowing pets) Stan gets upset and tells Mabel that he lived with Waddles all summer, and now Dipper and Mabel’s parents will have to. When the bus driver attempts to remove Waddles from the bus, Stan and Ford threaten the bus driver into letting him stay. Stan says goodbye to the twins one more time, attempting to hide his emotions from them. Mabel says they’ll miss him too. Stan joins everyone in shouting their final goodbyes to Dipper and Mabel, he is then approached by his twin brother and the two look as their niece and nephew depart. In Dipper’s monologue, Stan and Ford are seen venturing the ocean and fighting a giant squid on their new boat, the Stan o’ War II. After the two defeat the squid, they huddle and laugh.
Personality
Grunkle Stan running away with a cash register.
Grunkle Stan is at first sight a wise and cunning salesman being highly manipulative, very charismatic and charming, running a tourist trap in a town with enough unsuspecting customers to sell worthless knickknacks to and take on tours of so-called «mysteries.» He conducts his business with surprising flair and wit.[16] When not planning or executing money-making schemes (both legal and illegal), he’s usually at home watching television. His preferred shows include Cash Wheel, Duck-tective and period dramas. He also enjoys fishing.
Stan is also manifestly greedy and selfish, even stating once that his greatest desire in life is to «possess riches» [8]. He sees tourists as easy cash and nothing more.[16] However, this obsession seems to stem from his father’s words when he kicked him out of the house, and by the harsh, poverty-stricken life he led after being disowned.
While his trickery might appear unremarkable to some, Stan’s cunning transcends his Mr. Mystery persona: he’s been able to figure out Lil’ Gideon’s plots on numerous occasions [25] and even manages to outwit Bill Cipher in the end. Even though he was written off as unintelligent by his teachers and even his father, he was capable of restoring his brother’s universe portal, and can be seen operating its computer in the days leading up to Ford’s return.
Stan envisions tourists as sentient wallets.
Stan has a deep sense of family loyalty. He responded to Ford’s request for help after an entire decade of being estranged, and was deeply hurt when he realized his brother didn’t intend to make amends, even calling him out on how bad a brother Ford turned out to be. He dedicated thirty years of his life to bringing Ford back to their dimension in spite of how strained their relationship had become in the years leading up to the fight. Stan is also shown to be very protective of Mabel and Dipper, despite the morally ambiguous situations he puts them in on occasion: he stood up to hoards of reanimated corpses to protect them, telling the zombies nobody (but him) harassed his family, and ditched the elections for mayor at a crucial moment to rescue the twins as they dangled from Mayor Befufftlefumpter’s monument. When he believes Ford might put Dipper and Mabel at risk, Stan has no qualms about warning his brother away from them.
Stan’s dedication to his family is outright expressed during Weirdmageddon, when he offers to obliterate his own mind to ensure the twin’s survival. Once he and Bill are trapped in his mindscape, Stan points out to the increasingly frantic demon that, while he’s a wise guy, he made a fatal mistake: he messed with Stan’s family. His final thoughts before his mind disappears are for Dipper and Mabel, even remarking that his mind was finally ‘good for something’ if its destruction protected them.
Despite his lengthy history as a con artist, he has a compulsion to state his honest opinions on the subject at hand. Some examples include: during «Headhunters» Stan stated to the man who sold him the cursed wax figures that he would just rob him later on for charging twenty dollars per statue, and has blurted out «non-specific excuse» to get out of a bad date. He even admits in «The Stanchurian Candidate» that he has little to no filter between his thoughts and his words.
Appearance
Partial of Stan’s burn mark (above) and from Stan’s desk (below).
Stan has brown eyes[26] with cataracts,[27] gray eyebrows, and gray hair (Both of which were brown in his youth), that is almost always covered by Stan’s trademark maroon fez, which bore a yellow crescent shape (through episodes 1 to 13) and later a similar figure (after the original fez was eaten by Gompers), albeit with straight edges and a dot next to it, resembling an oyster with a pearl in it. He bears a somewhat large, droopy, pear-shaped, bumpy, reddish-pinkish nose, large ears, and fair skin. As a result of his age, Stan has wrinkly skin, a hearing aid, and dentures [1]. He has a faded burn mark of the symbol on the side of Ford’s desk on his back. He usually wears a pair of rectangular glasses with a black rim which later had its outline thinned. Stan also has a perpetual five o’clock shadow covering his lower face.
Stan’s typical outfit is a black suit, with the jacket buttoned closed, a bow tie similar in color to his fez, and a white dress shirt. He also wears big, light brown shoes, the aforementioned fez and his glasses. He frequently carries an eight ball cane with him and often wears an unnecessary eye-patch over one of his eyes while working. He has mentioned that he owns a girdle [1], which he’d presumably wear while in the suit; this would explain why his prominent belly doesn’t show in this outfit.
Around the house, Stan wears a white wife beater, a gold chain, striped blue boxer shorts, slippers, and his glasses and fez. This outfit reveals Stan’s vast amounts of body hair, burly arms, skinny legs, and his very large belly.
A comparison of Stan’s fez designs.
Stan without his fez.
Stan in his less formal attire.
Stan as Mr. Mystery over the years.
Relationships
Dipper Pines
«Is this a hug?»
Dipper is Stan’s great-nephew. Stan does not often supervise Dipper as he is supposed to as the boy’s summer caretaker, and is known to hand unpleasant duties to Dipper in particular, angering the boy and even leading him to question Stan’s affection for him on occasion. Stan often takes delight in teasing him over his size and his nerdiness [8], which greatly annoys Dipper.[1] Stan finds Dipper’s intellectual interests boring and difficult to empathize with. However, Stan seems to have a soft spot for both of the twins, [28] and is well-meaning in his treatment of his great-nephew [29] [interview]: Dipper reminds him of his younger self and how he was often preyed upon by bullies. Stan believes that making him do hard things will toughen him up and teach him to stand up for himself.
Stan is proud when Dipper stands up to others, including him, and has been shown to empathize deeply with his nephew’s girl troubles, offering his help with them whenever possible. While he tends to become jealous when the boy finds others more fun or likable [27] (particularly when the someone is Ford[9]), he comes to understand that Dipper finds it easier to connect with Ford. After the incident with the Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons game, he decides not to stand in the way of Dipper bonding with Ford, understanding that Dipper needs someone with similar interests around.
Mabel Pines
Mabel and Stan fishing.
Mabel is Stan’s great-niece. Mabel’s sweet, accommodating disposition and love of aesthetics often clash with Stan’s forceful methods and sloppiness, occasionally leading to self-improvement attempts that Stan nevertheless goes along with tolerantly (like curing his fear of heights [30] or overcoming his inability to speak with then-crush Lazy Susan [30]). Stan can be protective of his niece [31] and, as with Dipper, he will get jealous when she spends time with others instead of him [27] or expresses admiration of Ford [9]. Stan appears baffled by and unwilling to participate in Mabel’s more flamboyant plans, sometimes refusing to acknowledge that she is up to something weird [32] or opposing her worldview entirely [33]. He seems more capable of understanding Mabel than Dipper, often joining her in teasing Dipper and sharing interests (like their love of Duck-tective). Stan notably has nicknames for Mabel (calling her ‘sweetie’ and ‘pumpkin’) whereas he has only referred to Dipper as ‘Dippy’ in writing. This ease in showing emotion for Mabel could be due Stan not feeling the pressure of having to toughen her up for the world.
This doesn’t make Mabel exempt from his schemes, as she is shown to be involved as often as Dipper is.
Soos Ramirez
Soos compliments Stan’s idea.
Soos is Stan’s handyman. Stan views Soos as a loyal employee, since he’s been working at the Mystery Shack for many years, and he isn’t above taking advantage of Soos’ haplessness on occasion (like passing off Soos’ ideas for his [8]). He is aware of Soos’ unwavering admiration and trusts him to follow his orders to the letter, as evidenced by Stan tasking him to guard the vending machine while he was taken into custody. While he is sometimes exasperated by the young man’s immaturity, Stan genuinely cares for his employee. He is aware of Soos’ aversion for his birthday and confessed that he tried to have it removed from the calendar altogether, revealing the lengths he would go to in order to spare Soos’ feelings. At the end of the series, Stan transfers ownership of the Mystery Shack over to Soos.
Wendy Corduroy
Wendy does not comply with Stan’s request.
Wendy is Stan’s employee. [34] Stan is harsh on her, contributing to her view of him as the «worst boss ever», but this apparently stems from Stan’s intrinsic knowledge of Wendy’s personality, as he seems to know that she will slack off if he does not strongly enforce his rules. [34] She is not above playing pranks on him [35], which Stan appears to take in good humor if he has not fired her yet. He is also relatively tolerant of how she sometimes openly disregards his requests.
Gideon Gleeful
Gideon nearly succeeds.
Stan and Gideon have been rivals for years, both in business and life. Stan initially sees Gideon as a nuisance [31], annoying but ultimately harmless [8] [35], until Gideon unleashed Bill Cipher upon them and stole the deed to the Mystery Shack. As this resulted in Stan nearly losing his livelihood and the twins, his enmity with Gideon grew, with Stan treating the boy like a force to be reckoned with. The final status of his relationship with Gideon is unknown, but it is presumed that they buried the hatchet after Weirdmageddon, as Gideon is seen thanking «all y’all» (presumably referring to the Pines family) during the twins’ 13th birthday party.
Ford Pines
Ford is Stan’s twin brother. Inseparable as children, Stan was protective of his physically weaker twin, standing up to bullies for him and being wholeheartedly accepting of Ford’s six fingers, even incorporating them into their personal salute (the «high six»). He seemed proud of his brother’s brilliance at first, happily joining him in the celebratory picture when Ford won the Science Fair and shamelessly copying off of him at school. When Ford’s intelligence began to provoke negative comparisons and threatened to end their plans of sailing the world together, Stan began to feel threatened, which led to teasing and belittling on his part; these emotions culminated in Stan venting his anger and fury at losing his brother on the infinite motion machine, unintentionally causing it to stop, destroying Ford’s college plans. This caused Ford’s refusal to intervene on his behalf when their father disowns him.
While Stan would hold a grudge about this for many years to come, he does not forget his brother. He calls Ford at least once, though Stan hangs up without saying a word, and kept a picture of them at boxing practice taped to his car’s shade. He is also quick to seek Ford out once his brother sent him a postcard requesting his presence in Gravity Falls. Believing he’d been called to make amends, Stan lashes out in anger when Ford reveals he intends to make his brother go as far away from him as possible, which results in the fight that sends Ford through the portal. Stan is distraught at this turn of events, spending sleepless nights with Ford’s journal and glasses in hand. [3]
Issues between them not withstanding, Stan spent the next thirty years relentlessly trying to figure out how to reopen the portal and bring Ford back. When Ford does return, Stan is eager to welcome him back amicably, and is taken aback when Ford responds with a punch to the face instead. Stan quickly turns to resenting him when Ford refuses to thank him for bringing him back, mostly ignoring him and becoming jealous when the twins display any kind of admiration for his brother.
Stan’s issues with his brother come to a head during Weirdmageddon, with Stan becoming increasingly resentful of the survivor group’s focus on recovering Ford, as he interprets this as undue admiration towards Ford rather than a way of discovering Bill Cipher’s weakness. In the Fearamid, Stan is reluctant to go along with Ford’s plan, only agreeing to join the Zodiac Wheel after Ford thanks him. Ford’s petty correction of Stan’s grammar gets Stan agitated, leading to him attacking Ford, which disbands the wheel and causes it to fail.
Amnesiac Stan being embraced by Ford.
While imprisoned by Bill, Stan and Ford are finally united in their distress over Dipper and Mabel. They reflect on their failings and what went wrong with the bond they used to share; while they discuss this, they come up with the plan to lure Bill into Stan’s mind. While posing as Ford for the deal with Bill, Stan includes that Bill let his brother and the kids go as a condition to let him in.
Once Stan’s mind is erased and Bill is destroyed, the now amnesiac Stan does not react to his brother hugging him and calling him a hero, as he doesn’t know who either of them is.
After his memory is fully recovered, Stan is deeply moved when Ford asks him to come along on his hunt for anomalies, as it represents fulfilling their childhood dream of sailing the world together. He seems to welcome Ford’s comfort when he is sad after Dipper and Mabel leave, and they are later seen battling a giant squid together and sharing a laugh once it leaves, their bond clearly restored.
Sightings
- Intro: «Gravity Falls Main Title Theme»
Season 1
- Every episode of Season 1
Shorts
- 1. «Candy Monster» (mentioned)
- 2. «Stan’s Tattoo»
- 6. «The Hide-Behind»
- 7. «Mabel’s Guide to Dating»
- 8. «Mabel’s Guide to Stickers»
- 9. «Mabel’s Guide to Fashion»
- 10. «Mabel’s Guide to Color»
- 11. «Mabel’s Guide to Art»
- 12. «Fixin’ It with Soos: Golf Cart»
- 13. «Fixin’ It with Soos: Cuckoo Clock»
- 14. «TV Shorts 1»
- 15. «TV Shorts 2»
- 16. «Mabel’s Scrapbook: Heist Movie»
- 17. «Mabel’s Scrapbook: Petting Zoo»
Season 2
- 201. «Scary-oke»
- 202. «Into the Bunker»
- 203. «The Golf War»
- 204. «Sock Opera»
- 205. «Soos and the Real Girl»
- 206. «Little Gift Shop of Horrors»
- 207. «Society of the Blind Eye»
- 208. «Blendin’s Game»
- 209. «The Love God»
- 211. «Not What He Seems»
- 212. «A Tale of Two Stans»
- 213. «Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons»
- 214. «The Stanchurian Candidate»
- 215. «The Last Mabelcorn»
- 216. «Roadside Attraction»
- 217. «Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future»
- 218. «Weirdmageddon Part 1»
- 219. «Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality»
- 220-221. «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls»
Games
- Fright Night
- Oddity Creator
- Mystery Shack Mystery (mentioned)
- Postcard Creator
- Rumble’s Revenge
- Mystery Shack Attack
- PinesQuest
- Li’l Gideon Shrinks Back
- Disney Channel Holiday Starglobe
- The Great Stanmobile Escape
- Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets
- Waddles Food Fever
- Puzzle Ninja
- Take Back The Falls (game)
Quotes
«Wanna hear a joke? Here goes. My ex-wife still misses me, but her aim is gettin’ better! … Her aim is gettin’ better! … Y’see, it’s-it’s funny because marriage is terrible.«
—Stan Pines[source]
«Sounds like something a responsible parent wouldn’t want you doing… Good thing I’m an uncle! Avenge me, kids! AVENGE ME!!!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«I’m givin’ none of this to charity!«
—Stan after earning 500,000 dollars on Cash Wheel[source]
«When there’s no cops around, anything’s legal!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«At the end of the day, Summerween isn’t about candy or costumes. Or even scaring people. It’s a day when the whole family can get together at one place and celebrate what really matters: PURE EVIL!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«No buts except yours out the door! Now shut your yap and get to work!«
—Stan to Mabel[source]
«Remember folks, we put the ‘fun’ in ‘No Refunds!’«
—Stan Pines[source]
«I don’t understand! What did I do that warrants this much arresting?!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«Hey, look at me. Turn around and look at me, you one-eyed demon! You’re a real wise-guy, but you made one fatal mistake: you messed with my family.«
—Stan to Bill Cipher[source]
«Huh, guess I was good for something after all.«
—Stan before his memory is erased[source]
Trivia
- The name «Stanley» means «Stony Clearing.» «Stanford» means «Stony Meadow.»
- Stan was raised Jewish but is now an atheist.[19]
- Stan is called «Grunkle Stan» by Dipper and Mabel because he believes «Great Uncle» takes too much time to say, and, according to him, time is money.[36]
- «Grunkle» was chosen because Hirsch’s great aunt, Lois, used to insist on being called «Graunty Lois.»[37]
- Beginning with the episode «Bottomless Pit!,» Stan gets a new fez design.
- At the end of the previous episode, «Boss Mabel,» Stan’s fez falls off and Gompers tries to eat it. Although the fate of the hat isn’t revealed, it’s not unlikely that Gompers won the battle and made off with the fez, forcing Stan to get a new one.
- In some countries, the first symbol on Stan’s fez is removed.
- This was initially the version that was seen on Disney+, which caused controversy among fans and Hirsch. The symbol was restored sometime later.
- Excluding Waddles, Stan is the only main protagonist not to be turned into something that isn’t human; Dipper and Mabel were turned to wood, Ford turned to gold and Soos and Wendy were turned into banners.
- Stan owns 10 guns.[30]
- He has been sent to jail in Colombia.[31] As Revealed later in Soos and the Real Girl, this is due to a Heist gone wrong.
- He is often seen running away with various items.[28][31]
- He is similar to Scrooge McDuck from Ducktales and Eugene Krabs from SpongeBob as he has an obsession with money like them.
- When dressed in his typical outfit, Stan’s appearance is simular to British comedian and magician Tommy Cooper, who also wore a fez, black suit and bowtie.
- Stan, Mabel, and Dipper have been to the county jail due to them making counterfeit money during one of Stan’s «family fun days.»
- In «A Tale of Two Stans,» it was revealed that Stan has a sibling, Shermie, who is Dipper and Mabel’s grandfather. Although it isn’t stated outright, it can be inferred from the fact that Stan shares last names with Dipper and Mabel that Shermie is the latters’ paternal grandfather.
- Toffee Peanuts are Stan’s favorite treat.[38]
- In «Gideon Rises,» it is shown that Stan wears a hearing aid.[17]
- Bob Odenkirk of «Breaking Bad» fame was originally going to be cast as Stan, but he turned the offer down.[39]
- Stan wears the same necklace as Sheriff Blubs, Sergei, and the carney who gives Wendy the Stuffed creature of indeterminate species, but they wear them under their shirts.
- In «Bottomless Pit!,» Stan admits to the police that he has violated the Lacey Act.
- In «Dreamscaperers,» it is revealed that his belly button is an innie.
- Stan’s appearance has not changed in at least a decade.[40]
- Stan is banned from airplanes.[40]
- Every depiction of Stan (wax sculpture, puppet, photo, or otherwise) has been «killed» in some way and most deaths have been related to fire or melting.
- The ‘deaths’ of Stan’s depictions may have foreshadowed his showdown in the mindscape with Bill.
- Stan was born 15 minutes after Ford, making him the youngest twin, however he is taller than his twin.
- Stan was revealed to know swear words in «Not What He Seems», making him and Old Man McGucket the only characters to ever swear for real. Additionally, Stan only uses phrases like «Hot Belgian waffles!» when he’s not alone.
- Stan’s real name was hinted in the episode «The Legend of the Gobblewonker» on his cars license plate which is ‘STNLYMBL’ which is a disemvoweling (i.e. vowels removed) version of «Stanley-Mobile».
- Stan has a box of fake IDs and passports. Some of said IDs are:
- Hal Forrester. Idaho ID. His appearance is slightly altered, including the presence of a mole. The number on the card is: [[1]]
- Andrew «8-Ball» Alcatraz. Mississippi ID. His appearance is altered, including a scar on the left side of his face, and a soul patch. He is wearing the gold necklace. He also doesn’t wear glasses. The number on the card is [[2]].
- Stetson Pinefield. United States passport. His appearance is slightly altered, including different hair style and white shirt. Visa stamps include London, Seattle.
- Steve Pineington. He advertised the Rip Off, a non-sticky bandage that gave you rashes, in Pennsylvania.
- All the fingerprints on Stan’s right-hand exhibit a double loop whorl pattern.[9]
- «Northwest Mansion Mystery» is the only episode in which Stan doesn’t appear.
- According to Bill Cipher, Stan’s burn mark means «watch your step.»[41] It is revealed in «A Tale of Two Stans» that Stan got this mark after being kicked by Ford and stumbling backward into hot metal.
- In the original pilot, Stan is in his eighties. In the series, he is in his sixties.[36]
- Stan was divorced from a woman named Marilyn only six hours after being married.
- Stan has no children.[42]
- «Stan legal,» «Precise Legal.» [43]
- He has been practicing the same coin trick since 1982 and still can’t master it.[44]
- In «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls,» it is revealed that Stan can do a perfect vocal impression of Ford.
- Stan has used Ford’s identity twice, with Ford using his only once.
- Stan wants his body taxidermied and placed like it’s about to pounce on the Mystery Shack when he dies.[45]
- He got into a fist fight with Stan Lee in 1973 according to Lost Legends.
- When he was twelve, Stan wore Groucho Marx Glasses at his Bar Mitzvah, which upset his father.[46]
- During the «ULTIMATE CROSSOVER FUNDRAISER!» charity livestream, where Alex Hirsch, Dana Terrace, Rebecca Sugar, and Ian Jones-Quartey drew and sang for The Trevor Project, when asked what Dipper, and Mabel would be as Gems, they answered the following (and then did Stan’s too):[citation needed]
- Mabel — Cherry Tugtupite. On her chest, where her heart would be.
- Dipper — Larimar. On his head, possibly in the shape of his birthmark.
- Stan — Pyrite (also known as fool’s gold). Mirrored to Stan’s tattoo on his back, which indicates vulnerability. This was actually suggested by the chat, which was wholeheartedly agreed upon by everyone else.
- The design of Stan’s glasses and tuxedo was based off of Neil Hamburger, a character portrayed by Gregg Turkington (the voice of Toby Determined).[47]
Wax Realistic Grunkle Stan Head
- Stan’s appearance of his face changed between season 1 and season 2. In season 1 his face, most notable his chin is much longer then it appears in the second season. His ears also appear bigger in season 2.
- Alex Hirsch owns a realistic Stan head made of wax created by KreatureKid.
- Alex Hirsch mentioned in the episode commentary that Ford and Stan are identical twins.
- Polydactyly, or having extra fingers, is caused by genetic mutation. Since identical twins share exact genomes, and since Ford is polydactyl and Stan is not, it is possible that Ford’s polydactyly is not genetic.
Curator Ponds, a homage to Stan.
- Curator Ponds, a character from Gravity Falls’ storyboard artist Matt Braly’s Disney Channel show Amphibia, is a direct homage to Stan and hinted by Braly and Hirsch to be a Stan from another dimension. Mr. Ponds (a pun on «Pines») is a frog voiced by Hirsch and accompanied by Frog Soos.
- Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House is implied to be Stan’s ex-wife Marilyn through an in-character episode commentary for «Land Before Swine» by virtue of her being described with a sharp tooth, large hair, and a shirt that reads «over thirty and flirty,» matching a mug Eda uses in The Owl House and one of her original designs. Later, The Owl House episode «Yesterday’s Lie» confirmed that Eda used the name «Marilyn» when she visited the human realm.
- Eda’s staff and wanted poster also appears in the background of Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.
- The name «Grunkle Stan» is a reference to the common national personification of America, «Uncle Sam».
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 «Bottomless Pit!.» Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. March 1, 2013. No. 14, season 1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 «Dreamscaperers.» Matt Chapman, Tim McKeon, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. July 12, 2013. No. 19, season 1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 «A Tale of Two Stans.» Matt Chapman, Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Sunil Hall (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. July 13, 2015. No. 12, season 2.
- ↑ «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls.» Shion Takeuchi, Mark Rizzo, Jeff Rowe, Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Stephen Sandoval (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. February 15, 2016. No. 20-21, season 2.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (July 18, 2012). Tweet Number 229424586813489152. Archived from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved on April 5, 2015. “My real Grandpa Stan (plus me and my sister, during our «chubby baby legs» stage)”
- ↑ Barnes, Brooks (August 17, 2012). An Undercurrent of Darkness, Even at Disney. Retrieved on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ «Mabel’s Guide to Art.» Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. February 7, 2014. No. 11, inter-season animated shorts.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 «Little Dipper.» Tim McKeon (writer) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. September 28, 2012. No. 11, season 1.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 «Not What He Seems.» Matt Chapman, Jeff Rowe, Shion Takeuchi, Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Stephen Sandoval (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. March 9, 2015. No. 11, season 2.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press. Page(s) July 11. ISBN: 978-1484746691.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Lost Legends by Disney Book Group. July 24, 2018. Published by Disney Press. ISBN: 978-1368021425.
- ↑ Gravity Falls Disney Channnel. Disney. Archived from the original on April 12, 2016.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press. Page(s) Myself. ISBN: 978-1484746691.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Tumblr Post ID 28843074282 (MP3).
- ↑ «The Hide-Behind.» Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. October 18, 2013. No. 6, inter-season animated shorts.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 «Tourist Trapped.» Alex Hirsch (writer) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. June 15, 2012. No. 1, season 1.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 «Gideon Rises.» Matt Chapman, Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 2, 2013. No. 20, season 1.
- ↑ «Scary-oke.» Matt Chapman, Jeff Rowe, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Rob Renzetti (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 1, 2014. No. 1, season 2.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Hirsch, Alex (July 28, 2016). Tweet number 758547032554344448. Twitter. Retrieved on November 12, 2020. “Stan was raised Jewish but is now an atheist. Dip & Mab were raised unreligiously but celebrate all holidays at Mabel’s insistence”
- ↑ «Soos and the Real Girl.» Mark Rizzo, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. September 22, 2014. No. 5, season 2.
- ↑ In the theme song opening, Dipper’s bag says Piedmont on it. Also, Dipper is based on creator Alex Hirsch who is from Piedmont, California.
- ↑ «Between the Pines»
- ↑ «Irrational Treasure.» Tim McKeon, David Slack, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 17, 2012. No. 8, season 1.
- ↑ It’s likely that he says «Finally, we have them all» but the subtitle reads «Finally, I have them all»; there is no consensus on what he actually says. (I am Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls. Ask me anything! (August 16, 2013).)
- ↑ «Double Dipper.» Tim McKeon, Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 10, 2012. No. 7, season 1.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (October 22, 2012). Tweet Number 260514979969646592. Retrieved on October 29, 2014. “@EK_24z Gid- Blue, Stan- Brown, Wendy-Green, Soos «It’s a mystery dude!»”
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 «The Legend of the Gobblewonker.» Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. June 29, 2012. No. 2, season 1.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 «Headhunters.» Aury Wallington, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. June 30, 2012. No. 3, season 1.
- ↑ «Dipper vs. Manliness.» Tim McKeon (writer) & Aaron Springer, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. July 20, 2012. No. 6, season 1.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 «Fight Fighters.» Zach Paez, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. September 14, 2012. No. 10, season 1.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 «The Hand That Rocks the Mabel.» Zach Paez, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. July 6, 2012. No. 4, season 1.
- ↑ «Sock Opera.» Shion Takeuchi, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. September 8, 2014. No. 4, season 2.
- ↑ «Carpet Diem.» Tim McKeon, Zach Paez, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Joe Pitt (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. April 5, 2013. No. 16, season 1.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 «Boss Mabel.» Tim McKeon, Tommy Reahard, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. February 15, 2013. No. 13, season 1.
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 «The Deep End.» Nancy Cohen (writer) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. March 15, 2013. No. 15, season 1.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Sara Goldberg Stan promo art
- ↑ Adams, Erik (July 31, 2014). Gravity Falls’ Alex Hirsch previews the show’s new season by recapping its first. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ «Mystery Shack Mystery» by DisneyGames. Published December 20, 2012. Official webpage.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (30 August 2013). Tweet Number 373275648136998912. Retrieved on October 29, 2014. ““@DudeBro_MoH: You & @mrbobodenkirk need to make something happen” I originally wanted to cast Bob as Stan but he turned us down! #funfactz”
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 «Blendin’s Game.» Jeff Rowe, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. November 10, 2014. No. 8, season 2.
- ↑ I’M BILL CIPHER! I know LOTS OF THINGS! ASK ME ANYTHING! (April 2, 2015). Retrieved on April 28, 2015.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (August 20, 2015). Tweet Number 634431471336337409. Tweet. Retrieved on April 18, 2016.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (October 6, 2015). Tweet Number 651585206982348800. “@oodlesndoodles Stan has always needed glasses, but has gone for stretches without them because he wants to look cool”
- ↑ I am Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls. Ask me anything!. Reddit (August 16, 2013).
- ↑ Serrao, Nivea (February 12, 2016). 7 Things To Know About The Gravity Falls Series Finale. TV Insider. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved on February 25, 2016.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press. Page(s) Grunkle Stan’s Mind!. ISBN: 978-1484746691.
- ↑ Charley Marlowe, Ella Cesari. 26: Gravity Falls «Scary-oke» ft. Rob Renzetti http://mysteryshacklookback.libsyn.com Pipedream Podcasts. (December 8, 2021). Podcast accessed on February 6, 2022.
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Stanley «Stan» Pines (born June 15, 15 minutes after his twin brother, Ford Pines)[13], also known as Grunkle Stan, and formerly under the assumed identity Stanford Pines,[9][3] is Dipper and Mabel Pines’ great uncle and summer guardian, and a paternal uncle of Mr. Pines. He is also the tritagonist of the series. After many years of crime and infamy, he has taken up residence in the remote town of Gravity Falls, Oregon,[14] where he exploits local lore and the gullibility of the «dumbest people in the world»[15] to finance himself by running a dubious tourist trap known as the Mystery Shack.
Despite his initial claims of skepticism to the supernatural,[16] he is later revealed to be deeply connected with the paranormal and about the town’s weird paranormal status,[17][18] most notably the decades-long operation of an interdimensional portal[17] he used to rescue his twin brother, Ford Pines.[9]
Stan represents the Crescent Symbol on the Zodiac, which is the same present on his fez.
History
Early life
A young Stan explores his hometown alongside his brother.
Stanley Pines was born on June 15th in the late 40s or early 50s to Filbrick and Caryn Pines in Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey, about 15 minutes after his twin brother Ford.[14][2] He was raised Jewish, but now identifies as atheist.[19]He and his twin brother Stanford were very close. Stan’s strong, brawny personality combining well with Ford’s brilliance: when together, they were an unstoppable pair. Stan also faced frequent bullying due to his weak appearance as a child, most notably from childhood foe Crampelter. This eventually inspired their father to force the twins into taking boxing lessons, as a means of toughening them up and giving them the strength to overcome their tormentors.
Stan and Carla «Hotpants» McCorkle.
Stan’s teenage years were initially pleasant, frequenting the 50’s-themed Juke Joint with then-girlfriend Carla McCorkle [2] and building their ship — named the Stan o’ war — with Ford, as they hoped to fulfill their childhood dreams of sailing around the world searching for adventure. His aspirations began to crumble near the end of senior year, when Stanford’s intellect attracted the interest of West Coast Tech (a prestigious college on the other side of the country, which meant he’d move away from him), and with Carla ending their relationship over her infatuation with hippie musician Thistle Downe. Stan would later confess to having driven Downe’s van into a ravine in an act of revenge, which only served to further alienate Carla from him.[2]
On the verge of losing his closest friend, barely passing high school and seemingly destined to stay in Glass Shard Beach forever, Stan took his frustrations out on Ford’s infinite motion machine, accidentally damaging it and causing its malfunction. As his Toffee Peanuts bag was found at the machine’s display, Ford accused Stan of sabotage, driving a wedge between the twins and prompting their father to disown Stan for losing them the «potential millions» Ford’s scientific achievements would’ve reaped. With no friends or family to turn to, a furious Stanley set out on his own, determined to acquire fame and fortune twice the size his twin ever would’ve earned.
Stan’s fate as a salesman is destined for disaster.
After a failed foray into combing beaches for buried treasure, Stan founded Stan Co. Enterprises. Through his self-managed company, Stan made and sold a variety of cheap and poorly-constructed household utilities, from Stan Co. Pitchforks (whose heads tended to fall off) to the «Sham Total» sham towels, both of which resulted in Stan Co. Enterprises, along with Stan himself, being banned from the state of New Jersey. The process repeated itself in Pennsylvania with his rash-inducing «Rip-Off» band aids. After the failure of his «Stan Vac» vacuums, Stan expanded his business out of the country, resulting in a heist gone awry in Colombia [20], which landed him in one of the country’s prisons alongside cellmates Jorge and Rico. Stan attempted to bond with them, much to both prisoners’ intense dislike.
Upon his release, Stanley returned to the United States. Banned from 32 of the 50 states, imprisoned in three different countries, reduced to renting a room at the Dead End Flats motel, and remaining in debt to Rico, Stan’s life had seemingly hit rock bottom — until the arrival of a postcard from his brother Stanford, the first he had heard from his twin in over 10 years. It contained a desperate plea for Stan’s presence.
Stan confronts Ford minutes before his disappearance.
Stan traveled to his brother’s new home in the woods of Gravity Falls, Oregon, to find Ford confined in his shack and borderline insane with paranoia. Ford then revealed his underground laboratory and the Universe Portal to his brother, vaguely explaining that its powers were too dangerous and that he needed Stan to take one of Ford’s journals, which contained information as to its operation, and go as far away as possible to protect them from falling into the wrong hands. Furious that Ford had only summoned him to send him away again, Stan initiated an argument and prepared to burn the book to spite Ford, causing a fistfight between the two. During the brawl, which caused Stan to burn his back on one of the symbols in the machinery, the device was inadvertently activated, and Stan unintentionally pushed his brother into the portal’s range, sending Ford through the dimensional rift before its immediate shutdown from lack of fuel. Stan spent the following weeks plagued by insomnia and guilt, cloistered in the lab in an attempt to turn the portal on and bring Ford back again, only to realize it was hopeless without the other two journals.
The people of Gravity Falls are desperate to see Stan’s «home.»
Upon venturing into town once the food ran out, Stan discovered the locals were curious about Ford’s house, and even willing to pay for a look, which prompted him to open it up for tours, building fanciful faux-paranormal props when Ford’s inventions failed to garner interest. With Stan’s witty remarks and jokes to liven the visits, the house eventually attracted enough popularity to become the Murder Hut, and later the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap focused on ‘paranormal’ exhibits. Faking his own death in a car crash, Stan took up his brother’s identity to remain legally in the property and pay Ford’s mortgage; he boarded up Ford’s old bedroom and hid access to the lab behind a vending machine in the gift shop. He ran the tourist trap during the day for profit, but by night worked tirelessly to locate his brother’s hidden journals and reactivate the portal, hoping to one day bring him back home.[3]
Stan’s feelings for Li’l Gideon have already grown sour.
As the years rolled by, Stan applied countless renovations to his tourist trap, intent on keeping its oddities and appeal alive, both for profit and for his love of money. He once stole a collection of cursed wax figures from a local garage sale for this purpose, which became the Shack’s Wax Museum of Mystery and was a huge success until Stan inadvertently forgot its existence. Edwin Durland was hired as a handyman for the Mystery Shack during this time; after firing him for his seeming incompetence, Stan caught sight of 12-year-old Soos Ramirez holding a screwdriver and offered him the job on the spot. Over time, the Shack developed a rivalry with the rest of the tourist traps the state, which originated a yearly tradition that involved vandalizing one another.
At some point before 2012, Stan would take a trip Las Vegas, where he would meet «Marilyn,» the woman who was briefly his wife. The marriage came to an end after a mere handful of hours, with «Marilyn» robbing Stan of his car and money, before then disappearing by jumping into a canyon. Little is known about «Marilyn,» with Stan believing her entire identity, and name, was false.
Sometime at the start of the summer of 2012, Gideon Gleeful opened up the Tent of Telepathy, a scam whose success (and whose ads, which often featured unflattering footage of Stan, damaged the Mystery Shack’s profits) made Stan profoundly annoyed. The two soon ended up being business rivals.
During the twins’ visit
Season 1
Stan welcomes his great-niece and great-nephew to Gravity Falls.
Sometime during the month of June of 2012, Stan’s great niece and nephew, Mabel and Dipper Pines, are sent from Piedmont, California [21] to stay with him for the summer. Stan has them help out at the Mystery Shack, often working alongside his handyman Soos and his cashier Wendy. Stan is not above using the twins, as it happened when he planned a family bonding day that consisted of helping him create forged dollar bills, which resulted in the three being taken to county jail overnight. However, he soon seems to appreciate having the twins around: in «The Legend of the Gobblewonker,» he is eager to take them fishing with him, even making them fishing hats with their names, and spends the rest of the day angrily upset at their choosing to go monster hunting with Soos.
Stan moping.
Finding his own fishing buddies around the lake doesn’t turn out well for Stan, since everyone thinks his jokes are annoying or creepy to the point of earning him a tracking anklet from the lake police. Despite the bad day, the twins eventually return and join him in fishing for the rest of the day.
Stan tells the kids to avenge him.
After the twins and Soos rediscover the wax figure collection in «Headhunters,» Stan resolves to reopen the exhibit, and is unhappy to discover Wax Abraham Lincoln was left in front of a window and melted in the sun. Mabel then uses this leftover wax to create a figure of Stan, which an adoring Stan unveils as a central part of the Wax Museum’s Grand Reopening. The ceremony is ultimately a failure, as it was massively attended by a crowd that Stan promised free pizza to; the crowd grows angry and violent upon discovering there is no pizza.
Stan talks to and carries his wax twin around happily, but his joy is cut short when the wax figure is beheaded, an ax beside it and its head missing. Stan is emotionally affected by this (he calls the cops over the ‘murder’ and puts together an elaborate funeral for the wax figure), as having someone (or something) who looked like him beheaded brings back uncomfortable memories of the loss of Ford [22]. After failing to find the culprit, the twins, Soos and the wax figures attend Wax Stan’s funeral, which is officiated by Stan; he is eventually overcome with emotion and leaves the room, with Soos close behind. In his absence, it is revealed that the murderers are the wax figures themselves, eager for revenge on Stan for forgetting about them for ten years — they’d mistaken the wax figure for Stan himself. Mabel and Dipper defeat them, destroying Stan’s parlor in the process. When they tell Stan what happened, he laughs them off, telling them they have overactive imaginations.
Stan is threatened by his archenemy, Gideon.
In «The Hand That Rocks the Mabel,» the twins and Soos watch a commercial for Gideon Gleeful, child psychic, which shows footage of Stan with the label «fraud» across it. Stan angrily informs them that Gideon is his arch enemy and has been nothing but trouble since he arrived in Gravity Falls. He also says nobody living under his roof is allowed under Gideon’s roof, but Dipper and Mabel decide tents don’t have roofs (a loophole) and go watch his show. When Stan learns that Mabel and Gideon are apparently dating, he marches over to see Gideon’s father, Bud Gleeful, intent on complaining about the relationship and declaring himself against it. He is soon converted into a fan when Bud presents him with elaborate plans for an alliance between the Tent of Telepathy and the Mystery Shack, which would involve a lot of profit. After that, Stan takes to wearing a ‘Mabel and Gideon’ t-shirt and tells his niece she’ll eventually have to marry the little boy, also spending his days having expensive food, drink and admiring expensive art at the Gleeful residence.
When Gideon orders his father to call off the deal on account of Mabel refusing to be his girlfriend, Stan is reluctant to part with all the luxury. As he is being dismissed, he grabs an expensive clown painting and runs from the house, yelling «Try and catch me, suckers!»
In «The Inconveniencing,» Stan fails to find the remote control (and refuses to get up), forcing him to watch an old romance film called The Duchess Approves, which to his surprise ends up captivating him. He becomes very invested in the movie, ignoring the ringing phone and crying when a part of it reminds him of his life «in a way». When the fictional Count Lionel appears to interrupt the Duchess’ wedding, Stan becomes so infuriated at the count’s behavior that he tosses the television out through the window.
Stan gets Lazy Susan’s phone number.
When Stan takes the twins to Greasy’s Diner in «Dipper vs. Manliness,» Stan’s awkwardness around waitress Lazy Susan reveals to Mabel that he has a crush on her, although Stan claims she’s too «classy» to ever give him the time of day. Mabel tries to improve Stan’s appearance and behavior in order to appeal to his love, but nothing works. Mabel finally decides that she should present her uncle to Susan as is: the plan works like a charm, and Stan is rewarded with both Susan’s number and a slice of pie on the house. However, Susan’s incessant phone calls quickly become too much for Stan, who eventually stops answering, listening to her messages on the answering machine with horror instead.
Stan hosts a party at the Mystery Shack in «Double Dipper» to attract a younger audience. For profit, Stan charges both an entrance fee and an exit fee (of 15 dollars); he is immediately aware of the moment Dipper tries to leave the concessions table, turning up with a taped recording of his grand nephew promising to stay at it all night. He is baited away from the refreshment table (where he is filling a dish with marshmallows) and the dance floor by a dollar attached to a fishing line, courtesy of Dipper clone number 8.
Stan spends most of Pioneer Day trapped in a pillory.
In «Irrational Treasure» it is revealed that Stan despises the old-fashioned customs of Pioneer Day. Pretending to be living in pioneer times gets on his nerves, to the point where he assaults Steve, a mechanic, when Steve pretends to not know what a car is while Stan’s car is stuck. He is subsequently locked in the stocks. While he is incapacitated, Stan encounters Gideon, who takes advantage of Stan’s captivity to throw tomatoes at his face after Stan tells him he looks «less girly than usual». Pacifica Northwest also comes across Stan as he attempts to pick the lock with a hairpin[23], and tells him to write a statement claiming that the Northwests are the best family in Gravity Falls in exchange for his freedom. Stan instead writes «You Stink», prompting Pacifica to summon the townsfolk and have him pelted with tomatoes once more. He is released when Dipper unlocks him with the President’s Key and Mabel, appointed a US congressman by Quentin Trembley, grants him official pardon.
In «The Time Traveler’s Pig,» Stan opens up a Mystery Fair to earn more cash and rigs the Dunk Tank (with himself as the dunkee, guaranteeing a lot of angry customers) by making the target connected to the seat very stiff, causing it to stay fixed no matter how hard the balls are thrown at it. Later, one of the members of the Time Paradox Avoidance Enforcement Squadron fires his blaster at the target, which causes Stan to fall off the seat and into the water, to the surrounding crowd’s cheering .
Mabel forces Stan to face his fear of heights.
In «Fight Fighters,» Stan is seen hanging out with Soos and the twins for a while before Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight. Stan hears the challenge, tells the boys to stay «right there» and rushes outside excitedly to witness the brawl, being disappointed when he can’t call «the boys» to place bets — he transparently decides to bet on «Skinny Jeans» (Robbie). After reacting strangely to questions about ladders and screaming in terror at the «World’s Most Terrifying Skydiving» show, Mabel realizes Stan is terrified of heights. She tricks him into climbing the Gravity Falls water tower with her in order to face his fear, when the tower’s base is attacked by Rumble McSkirmish, who is pursuing Robbie at the time. After the tower wobbles unstably and threatens to fall with him and Mabel still on it, Stan discovers he is still alive, and realizes he has conquered his fear.
Gideon tries to shrink Stan.
In «Little Dipper,» Stan opens the door to a man in a suit who asks for him by name. Terrified that the tax collectors have found him, Stan runs into the house for the bag of full of cash hidden behind a painting, looking desperately for a trap door button amidst the stones on the wall. The man in the suit then introduces himself as part of the «Winninghouse Coupon Savers Contest», come to give him $10,000,000 as soon as Stan signs his name on a document. Stan apparently acquiesces, stating his lifelong dream to «possess money» had finally come true, but when Gideon bursts through the check, gloating that Stan has just signed the Mystery Shack over to him, it is revealed that Stan actually wrote «SUCK A LEMON, LITTLE MAN!» on the dotted line. Stan thwarts several other schemes throughout the episode, so he is understandably skeptical when Gideon calls him, claiming he has the twins captive in a jar and demanding the deed to the Shack as ransom. He claims Gideon «isn’t even speaking English» when he offers to text him a picture of the twins as proof, revealing he is not quite up to date with technology, and hangs up.
He and Soos are later seen setting up a mirror maze — Soos’ idea, appropriated by Stan — that Stan expects will make him a lot of money. Stan is still deep in the mirror maze when Gideon arrives at the Shack with the shrinking device, which makes most of Gideon’s shots divert harmlessly into mirrors, until he finally happens upon the real Stan. Unseen by both of them, the tiny Mabel and Dipper escape the jar and tickle Gideon into submission — to Stan, who only sees a previously threatening Gideon dissolve into giggles, this looks like a nervous breakdown. He suggests that Gideon may have overexerted himself with revenge and rolls his still giggly arch enemy through the Shack and out the door.
One of Stan’s fruitless attempts to scare two trick-or-treaters.
In «Summerween,» Stan drives the twins and Soos to the Summerween Superstore, and is the one who explains the holiday to Dipper and Mabel. When the store attendant tries to have them ejected from the store by the police, Stan uses a Smoke Bomb to escape, leaving behind a ‘Stan Buck’ as payment and demolishing a Jack-o-lantern float in the parking lot in the escape. It is revealed that Stan takes personal enjoyment in frightening trick-or-treaters away during Summerween: when a group rings the doorbell of the Mystery Shack, he comes to the door and feigns his face melting off. This scares all but two kids away; he tries to scare them by pulling ‘real guts’ (sausages) from his stomach, but fails. He then has pig burst out of his stomach, to no avail, and asks them what they find scary, which prompts them to prank him with a shock video on their cellphone. Stan is terrified and opts to call it a night, drawing himself a bath «wash off the shame». Unbeknownst to him, the two kids come into the Shack and wander into the bathroom, where Stan’s half-naked form finally succeeds in scaring them away. When the twins come home from trick-or-treating, disappointed they couldn’t eat any of the candy they collected, Stan presents them with the two kids’ abandoned sacks of candy, and the family, along with Soos, Wendy, Candy and Grenda, watch a horror movie and eat candy for the remainder of the night.
Stan competing on the game show Cash Wheel
In «Boss Mabel,» Stan’s relentless attempts at making money and poor treatment of his employees get on Mabel’s nerves, and she decides to confront him about it. Unwilling to believe Mabel’s gentler methods are better than his ways, Stan proposes a bet: whoever makes more money in three days’ time—Stan on vacation or Mabel running the Shack—is in charge for the rest of the summer. After heading out, Stan lands a spot competing on the game show Cash Wheel by being dramatic and shameless. While his blatant disregard for the rules earns him $300,000 dollars, Stan eagerly seizes the chance to go ‘double or nothing’ with a final puzzle: unfortunately, as the mystery word is ‘please’, Stan fails to guess and loses everything. This, coupled with the twins making a little money compared to his zero, prompts him to hold up his end of the deal. While Mabel turns down the job, she still makes him perform the apology dance he promised to do if he lost the bet.
Stan falls into the bottomless pit.
In «Bottomless Pit!,» Stan is giving Soos and the twins a tour of the bottomless pit, where they go to dump things they want to get rid of. A storm breaks out, but an eager Stan stays to throw all the Mystery Shack’s suggestion slips down the pit, until a gust of wind knocks him, along with Soos and the twins, down into the abyss.
Inside the pit, they begin to tell stories to pass the time. In Dipper’s tale, Stan makes fun of Dipper’s frequently cracking voice, and develops an obnoxious, female voice after his nephew dumps a voice-altering formula in his coffee. In his own tale, Stan wins a major football game with the help of his robotic sidekick, thereby teaching a group of football players a lesson and winning a gigantic trophy. In Mabel’s story, Stan attempts to teach a bear how to drive and easily cons the cops into believing that it is his doctor-mandated seeing eye bear. Mabel observes his excessive lying habit and grows more and more annoyed by it to the point of forcing him to be honest, via a set of Truth Telling Teeth. Stan’s truthfulness is unfiltered, however, going from annoying to disturbing, until he almost admits to all of his crimes in front of the police. Mabel finally decides to remove the teeth from her uncle’s mouth after he almost gets himself arrested. When the Bottomless Pit ends, depositing them all back outside the shack, Stan leans on its signboard, which breaks and tips him back into the pit.
Gideon steals Stan’s chair.
In «The Deep End,» on the hottest day of the year, Stan, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos go to the town pool to cool off. When Stan tries to sit in the ideal lawn chair, he is horrified to find that Gideon has taken it from him at the last minute. As he tries to forcibly remove Gideon, he is caught and put into pool jail for roughhousing, and Gideon foils his other attempts. Stan resolves to break into the pool after hours and spend the night on the chair, therefore beating Gideon to it; while the plan seems to work, Gideon reveals that he’d coated the chair in glue.
Stan holding the key to the room.
In «Carpet Diem,» when Dipper and Mabel are fighting over a new room they found in the shack, Stan takes the key and tells them that whoever sucks up to him the most will get the room. He makes them run around and do chores and make things for him, all the while rewarding them with ‘suck-up points’. After Dipper and Mabel switch bodies, he catches Dipper (Mabel) spying on the sleepover and thinks that Dipper is at ‘that creepy age where you spy on girls’, which prompts him to drag «Dipper» into his office to explain puberty and where babies come from with the help of an illustrated book, much to Mabel’s horror. When she tries to sabotage Dipper by calling Stan a stupid old jerk, Stan is instead proud of «Dipper» for standing up to him, earning him the key.
Stan does a spit take when he hears the hidden message in Robbie’s song.
In «Boyz Crazy,» Stan can be seen storing canned meat in preparation for the apocalypse. He listens to Dipper talk about how Robbie got Wendy to go on the date with him mind control, which prompts him to share the story of Carla McCorkle leaving him for Thistle Downe. He accompanies Dipper in uncovering a hidden message in the song, and drives Dipper to Lookout Point to help him tell Wendy about it. When Wendy angrily breaks up with Robbie, he calls it «a victory for every man whose hands are either too weak or fat to play a musical instrument.» After Wendy gets upset at Dipper for asking her to go bowling, Stan tells Dipper that he could always just go bowling with him and that he was trying to do the right thing, even if he destroyed a relationship.
Stan punching the Pterodactyl in the face.
In «Land Before Swine,» Stan is left in charge of Waddles as Mabel goes out shopping. He leaves Waddles tethered outside the Shack despite Mabel’s warnings, and later has to witness the pig being taken by a pterodactyl. He invents a story about the dinosaur breaking into the Shack and forcibly taking Waddles from him after a fight to avoid the blame. When the group, en route to save Waddles, finds dinosaurs encased in tree sap, Stan eagerly plans to turn them into another tourist attraction. He also unwittingly confesses to leaving Waddles outside, leading to Mabel not speaking to him. Later, when he and Waddles split from the group, being circled by the hungry pterodactyl, Stan has a change of heart and fights to protect the pig, even punching the dinosaur in the face like he’d said he’d done in the story. He returns Waddles to Mabel, earning her forgiveness.
Stan after his mind is invaded by Bill.
In «Dreamscaperers,» Gideon sends Bill Cipher into Stan’s mind to find the combination to the safe containing the deed to the Mystery Shack. Cipher is prevented from doing so by the efforts of Dipper, Mabel, and Soos, so Gideon uses dynamite to blow open the safe. With the deed in hand, he then forces Stan and the others out of the Shack and has it demolished via a wrecking ball.
Stan and the rest of the family are forced to move in with Soos and his grandmother in following the events of «Dreamscaperers.» He tries to convince the townsfolk that he was robbed of the Mystery Shack’s deed after Gideon unveils his theme park project, to no avail. He is also strapped for cash without the Mystery Shack’s tours for income, despite telling Dipper and Mabel’s parents that they’re actually set up at a four star hotel. He is forced to send the twins back to California; as he muses over his losses, a resounding bleep of interference from his hearing aid leads him to discover that Gideon was spying on everyone through his Gideon pins. He drives to the site of the Gideonbot’s crash in time to reveal Gideon’s secret camera feeds, irrefutable evidence that gets him the deed to the Mystery Shack back. It also leads to Lil Gideon’s arrest.
Back at the Shack, when Dipper finally tells him about Journal 3, Stan laughs and seemingly dismisses the journal, asking to borrow it to collect ideas for the Mystery shack. However, it is revealed that Stan is in fact very interested in it: he takes the Journal to the underground laboratory, where it is revealed that he had Journal 1 all along, and that he likely took Journal 2, along with the deed to the Mystery Shack, from the pile of things he shook out of Lil Gideon prior to his arrest.
Stan thrilled with success.
Stan expresses joy at finally having the three[24] and puts together the unmarked pages, which are revealed to be the blueprints to the portal. With the full image finally at his disposal, Stan sets about activating it.
Season 2
Grunkle Stan comes to the rescue.
In «Scary-oke,» Stan is still in the lab late that night, using the three journals to make the portal operational. He stays there until early next morning, when he gets up to head the Mystery Shack’s grand reopening. He gives Dipper back his journal, claiming it was too boring to read but having secretly made copies of its pages. When two government agents show up to investigate a strange phenomenon they picked up on the radar, Stan insists that nothing is out of the ordinary, even attempting to bribe them. He discredits Dipper when he tries to interest the agents with the journal and confiscates the business card they gave him, hiding it in his room.
Later, at the Mystery Shack reopening after party, Stan is at the admissions table counting the money he’s made, happy at the amount of people that showed up. He ends up catching Dipper in his room talking to the agents and angrily tells him to go enjoy the after party, as he’ll be grounded immediately after. Stan himself leaves the party early to work on the portal, so he is underground when Dipper raises the dead. He becomes aware in time to run upstairs and save Dipper and Mabel from the zombies. Stan then reveals to the twins that he was never skeptical and only lied to avoid making them curious about the supernatural. He is shown in awe of discovering invisible ink in the journal. Once the zombies’ weakness is revealed, he, Dipper and Mabel climb onto the roof to use the sound frequencies from singing karaoke to kill them. After the zombies are dealt with, he asks Dipper to promise that he won’t use the book to go looking for trouble, only for self-defense. In return, he had to promise Dipper that he didn’t have any other ‘bombshell secrets’: with the portal, his real identity and Ford in mind, Stan crosses his fingers behind his back as he promises.
In «Into the Bunker,» he is seen giving orders to the construction workers as they fix the damage from the zombie attack. When one of the workers asked what caused this, he lied and said that «a big woodpecker» did it, before slipping the curious worker some money in exchange for not asking questions.
In «The Golf War,» he, the twins and Soos went to Ye Royal Discount Putt Hutt. While there, they see Pacifica with her parents. She insults each of them and Stan whispers to Soos, «Is it wrong to punch a child?» Pacifica makes a fool of Mabel after she scores the shot Mabel missed. Mabel calls her out and asks her for a rematch after dark. Stan is thrilled to help Mabel and Dipper break in while he and Soos stand look out. Before they go in, Stan gives Mabel a gold trophy sticker for encouragement.
In «Sock Opera,» Mabel enacted her impression of him with her Stan sock puppet while he sipped his coffee, trying to ignore her. He also makes a joke towards Dipper after seeing him with bags under his eyes. He is later seen at the puppet show alongside Soos and Wendy.
Stan facing off against Will E. Badger.
In «Soos and the Real Girl,» he is seen trying to show off with his novelty coin dispenser, Goldie, to a kid. Because it was old and worn out, it leaked oil and made a loud screeching sound that made the kid run away in tears. Wendy suggests he throw Goldie away, which he declines until he slips and his arm gets caught in its mouth. Later, he tosses Goldie in the garbage by Gravity Malls after having a heartfelt moment. He follows some children into Hoo-Ha Owl’s Pizzamatronic Jamboree, where he finds the arcade to be a nightmare. He spots an animatronic badger and thinks it’d be a great way to con others out of their money, to which he asks the manager to sell it to him. The manager, however, declines and insults him. Stan then vows to get the badger at all cost. The next day, Mabel and Dipper ask him if he’s seen Soos, to which he comments he missed work for the first time ever. Later on, he steals the animatronic badger, but after .GIFfany takes control of the electronics, it attacks him and he is forced to face it. Despite being outmatched, he is able to dodge one of its attacks with it mistakenly hitting the garbage, turning on Goldie, which munches on the animatronics’ arm. Not long after, the badger shuts down due to Soos stopping .GIFfany, although Stan believes it was Goldie and suddenly decides to go to Las Vegas with it. While they are there, they get married at a Wed and Breakfast joint.
Stan with no hands.
Stan tells three stories in «Little Gift Shop of Horrors.» In the first story, Hands Off, he plays a major part. He steals a golden watch from the Hand Witch. Despite the Dipper and Mabel’s warnings to return it, he ignores them. The next morning he wakes up with no hands. Though he tries to hide this fact from Dipper and Mabel by putting mittens where his hands would be, the mittens fall off and the twins find out anyways. Stan tries to get along without his hands but eventually decides to go and return the watch. After reaching the Hand Witch’s cave with the twins, they all scream in the surprise of the many living hands in the cave. They fight off the hands but are subdued. Stan is willing to give her the watch back in exchange for his hands back, which she accepts. However, she tells him he has to kiss her to seal the deal, much to his dismay. Refusing, Stan decides to leave, and the Hand Witch confesses that she’s «desperate» to get a date. After Mabel redecorates her cave, the Hand Witch gives Stan his hands back. She then asks him to be her boyfriend. Stan refuses and admits that he learned nothing from the whole escapade.
In «Society of the Blind Eye,» Stan continues to work in secret on the enigmatic machine beneath the Mystery Shack, accidentally cutting his hand on a flying pipe in the process. Bandaging his wound, he proclaims that he’s come too far and that nothing will stop him.
In «Blendin’s Game,» Stan goes to Big Gunz Laser Tag with the rest of the gang to cheer up Soos. He exclaims that it used to be a mattress store. He is then seen in the end credits, in the past, where he fires a younger Deputy Durland for being the worst handyman ever and eventually hires a younger Soos.
Stan’s failed attempt to reach out to younger people.
In «The Love God,» Stan is working on a new exhibit when he notices the Woodstick festival’s balloons, bikes, and folk singers. Panicked, he instructs Soos to lock up and attempts to shoot down the balloons with a crossbow. Soos then stops him, pointing out that there is a potential for profit, and Stan deduces that he can appeal to the youth by advertising to them via a Mystery Shack-themed balloon. Later, when Stan and Soos send off their poorly-made balloon, it terrifies the crowds, ultimately crashing on Love God. When the people see Stan, they panic, and he welcomes their fearful reactions.
In «Not What He Seems,» Stan struggles with the idea of telling Dipper and Mabel the truth about what he is doing, but is suddenly arrested and brought in by the government agents for interrogation. Later on, it is revealed that Stan has used fake identities and may be an entirely unknown person, and it is shown that the actual Stan Pines had died in a car crash. At the end of the episode, Stan convinces Mabel not to turn off the Universe portal. Afterwards, a man walks out of the portal, and is revealed to be the long-lost twin of Stan; Ford, the author of the journals.
In «A Tale of Two Stans,» Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Ford corner Stan in the basement of the Mystery Shack, Stan tells his entire past to explain everything to his relatives and Soos. After Stan’s tale they hear the government agents about to break in the basement until Dipper grabs out the Memory Eraser from the Blind Eye Society and gives it to Ford, who connects the gun’s power to the outside and erases the agents’ memory and makes them leave. The Stan brothers later have a talk. Ford says that Stanley can have the Mystery Shack for the rest of the summer and Stanley tells Ford to stay away from Dipper and Mabel saying that they’re his only family left.
Stan, Mabel, and Grenda set out on their quest to save Dipper and Ford.
In «Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons,» Stan tells Dipper that his brother is dangerous and should be avoided. Later in the episode, Stan and Mabel (who are joined by Grenda afterwards) prepare for the season finale of Duck-tective, but without warning, they find Dipper and Ford playing Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons board game in the TV room. To their dislike, the two new bounding friends take up the entire room with their game, Stan then argues with Ford for the right of the room, then which out of anger, Stan throws the bag containing the infinity sided die on the floor, by doing this he unwillingly sends the main characters from the board game into Gravity Falls’ dimension. As soon as unleashed Probabilitor the Annoying and his servants kidnap Dipper and Ford and bring them to the forest so that Probabilitor can eat their brains to gain their intelligence. Stan then decides to help Grenda and Mabel save Dipper and Ford from getting their brains eaten, but to do so the group must travel to Probabilitor’s base camp and defeat him in a game of Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons «real life» edition, in which Dipper and Ford must face Probabilitor’s characters, two ogres. Stan and Mabel win the game, Probabilitor and the others are forced back into their own realm, and Dipper and Ford are broth out of the game. Stan then tells Dipper that if he wants to hang out with Ford he won’t get in his way. After a day’s work Stan, Mabel, Dipper, and Grenda go watch the Duck-tective season finale’s second showing. Afterwards, Ford reveals that when Stan reactivated the portal to save him, it created an Interdimensional rift.
Stan competes against Bud Gleeful in the town’s mayoral election.
In «The Stanchurian Candidate,» Stan wants to make a name out of himself since everyone sees him as some dumb old man or less than his brother, so he decides to run for mayor against Bud Gleeful. Since his first speech was a total failure, Dipper turns to Ford to help him. Ford gives him a tie to control Stan’s mind. Dipper and Mabel use this tie to make Stan the perfect candidate. Stan later realizes that it has been controlling him the entire time, so he decides to never wear it. But his decision only makes things worse. He goes back to being the worst candidate and with Gideon controlling Bud. Bud starts to win the election. Later, Stan sees Dipper and Mabel falling out of the statue of Mayor Befufftlefumpter’s nose and goes to save them, by saving the twins’ lives he successfully wins the election. Later that day, Stan hears that his title for mayor has been stripped because of his criminal record, so Tyler became the new mayor.
In «The Last Mabelcorn,» Stan is seen speaking to a man named Santiago about smuggling barrels of pugs over the U.S. border. When Ford gives Mabel a crossbow, Mabel accidentally shoots the crossbow outside the shack and Stan mistakes it for the police. Later, when the girls put a treasure chest overflowing with gold that they got from the unicorns on the table, Stan runs towards it, shouting «money!» and taking most of the gold.
Darlene traps Stan in her web.
In «Roadside Attraction,» Stan takes the twins, Soos, Candy, and Grenda on a RV trip to sabotage various tourist traps across Oregon. When he notices Dipper having a hard time forgetting about his crush on Wendy, he gives him advise on how to be confident with girls, which works out extremely well for Dipper at first. When Dipper approaches Stan with feelings of uneasiness due to Candy’s sudden attraction to him, Stan decides to make an example of how confidence can get girls with a woman named Darlene. As Stan flirts with Darlene, she reveals herself to be a «spider-person,» and she captures Stan in order to eat him. Stan calls for Dipper to help over his walkie-talkie, and Dipper along with the girls go to rescue Stan. After being rescued, Stan confides in Dipper that he really isn’t that smooth with women. The gang return to the Mystery Shack, only to see it vandalized by the vengeful owners of the tourist traps they destroyed. The ending cryptogram reveals that he once dated a woman named Beatrice who «slapped him for being a cad» before mentioning Carla and Marilyn and that Goldie was his best girlfriend.
In «Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future,» Stan joins the twins and Soos in the excitement for the upcoming week as his senior ponytail kit arrives on the coming week, stating he is going through some things. When the twins and Soos prepare for their birthday party, Stan forbids them from throwing a party due to their previous party incident, with Stan finding zombie pieces around the Shack. After Mabel becomes saddened over the summer ending, Stan comes to comfort her, telling Mabel that while summer is ending, Mabel still has Dipper around to be with her, telling his niece that not everyone can say their siblings are there for them.
In «Weirdmageddon Part 1,» Stan makes a brief appearance as he’s in the forest putting up signs until Gompers eats the tassel of his hat. As he gets angry at Gompers, a weirdness wave hits Gompers and turns him gigantic, causing Stan to run away screaming from the gigantic goat.
In «Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality,» Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos approach the Mystery Shack to find shelter. Inside, Dipper hears noises and the group proceed inside and find Stan as well as a number of people and creatures taking refuge within the Shack due to its protection from Bill.
Stan relaxes inside the protected Mystery Shack.
During «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls,» after reuniting with the twins, the Mystery Shack is scouted by an Eye-Bat. When the Eye-Bat leaves, Stan explains that after realizing the Mystery Shack is immune to Bill’s powers, McGucket took all the remaining refugees into the Shack to escape Bill, Stan then appointed himself Chief and decided that the best course of action was to wait until they run out of supplies and eat the gnomes as backup. Dipper attempts to get Stan to help rescue Ford from Bill but Stan shrugs it off commenting that Ford should get himself out of the mess. He then persuades Dipper and Mabel to simply stay inside the Shack as it is the safest place to be in. Stan watches with the other refugees as Shandra reports about what happened to the citizen of Gravity Falls. Dipper and Mabel encourage everyone to fight against Bill but Stan objects as the Mystery Shack is the only safe place and there was no way to bring it to Bill. McGucket suddenly has an idea as to how they could fight Bill but Stan remained pessimistic.
When everyone takes a break from building McGucket’s plan, Stan rants to Shmebulock about the resistance’s plan. Dipper and Mabel ask Stan why he’s upset, and he admits to being angry that Ford never thanked him for his efforts to bring him back to their dimension (as well as Ford’s folly causing Weirdmageddon in the first place). He laments that he’s always seen as «the screw-up» while Ford’s always «the hero.» Dipper and Stan argue, but Mabel quickly breaks the argument and reassures the two that everything will turn out fine.
Stan refuses to shake Ford’s hand unless he thanks him.
Stan is next seen inside the Shack-tron, stating it was a bad idea as the Shack is surrounded by Bill’s henchmen. He is then sent inside the Fearamid to help rescue Ford. When all of the citizens of Gravity Falls are returned to normal after toppling Bill’s throne, Dipper asks Ford about Bill’s weakness, which he tried to tell Dipper about before being initially frozen. Ford then draws the Zodiac and tells everyone who matches a sign to stand on their sign and hold hands. However, Stan refuses to join the circle, as it would require him to hold Ford’s hand- and he won’t until until Ford thanks him. Ford grudgingly does so, and the ritual seems to work- however Stan and Ford bicker over Stanley’s grammar, and break the circle. Bill approaches the group and turns everyone on the Wheel but the Pines into tapestries. Bill attempts to persuade Ford to help him but Dipper and Mabel distract Bill. Stan and Ford are imprisoned while Bill chases the younger twins.
Stan and Ford reflect on what went wrong with the bond they used to share.
Stan grieves over the kid’s possible deaths, believing it his fault because he «couldn’t shake [Ford’s] stupid hand.» He laments his belief that that his dad was right about him-that he really is a screw-up. A saddened Ford tells him it wasn’t his fault- he himself was the one who originally made a deal with Bill and fell for his easy flattery, and claims Stan would’ve instantly «seen him for the scam artist he is.» Stan and Ford have a brief moment to reflect on their childhood and how they were once as close as Dipper and Mabel. Ford, believing all hope is lost, tells Stan that he’ll let Bill inside his mind and get the equation needed to completely take over the universe if means the children will be safe. Stan disagrees with the plan, asking if there’s any other solution. Ford brings up the fact that, while he could simply erase Bill with the memory erasing gun once he steps into his mind, the metal plate in his head prevents Ford’s mind from being erased. Stan gives an alternative solution- what if Bill went into his mind instead?
Stan sits back as his mindscape becomes consumed by fire.
When Bill returns, Ford appears to surrender, agreeing to let Bill inside his mind on the condition that he lets Stan and the kids go. However, when Bill enters the mindscape and opens the single door there, he’s shocked to find Stan waiting there instead. Stan reveals that he and Ford switched clothes and faked each other’s voices, tricking Bill into making a deal with the wrong person- and leaving him vulnerable to the memory erasing gun’s effects. In the physical world, Ford begins erasing Stan’s memories to erase Bill along with them, while Stan defeats Bill with a single punch from within his mind. Stan, looking at a photo of himself with the twins, comments that he was «good for something after all» before becoming engulfed by the blue flames consuming his mindscape.
With Bill’s defeat, everything in Gravity Falls returns to normal- but it’s a bittersweet victory. Ford, Dipper and Mabel are saddened by Stan’s sacrifice, with Ford lamenting the fact that Stan has no idea that he saved the world (as well as Ford), calling Stan «our hero» as he hugs him.
Dipper and Mabel attempt to jog Stan’s memory by sharing stories of their summer.
Ford, Dipper, Mabel and Soos then take Stan back to the ruined remains of the Mystery Shack. Stan doesn’t remember the place, but slides easily back into his favorite chair. Seeing everyone’s distraught faces, he asks why everyone seemed downed, claiming that it’s «like [they’re] at someone’s funeral.» Mabel, frantically trying to find some way to bring him back despite Ford’s insistence that he’s gone, finds her Summer Memories scrapbook. After the children’s failed attempt to jog his memories using it, Waddles licks Stan and Stan subconsciously calls him by name. When Soos tells the twins to skip to his page to make Stan remember him, Stan also calls Soos by name, telling him not to try giving himself a raise just because he has amnesia, making everyone happy that Stan is slowly recovering his memories as Mabel reads from the book.
When the town of Gravity Falls return to their normal lives, Shandra reports that Stan has fully recovered his memories and is celebrating Dipper and Mabel’s 13th birthday (and final day in Gravity Falls.) At the party, Ford takes Stan aside and tells him about a new anomaly near the Arctic Ocean. Ford wants to investigate, but feels he’s too old to go it alone. Stan asks if Ford wants someone to go with him on an adventure of a lifetime, but Ford doesn’t want just someone to go with him, but Stan himself, showing Stan a old picture of them together on the Stan o’ War as children. While Stan and Ford seem happy about their new adventure, Ford questions what to do with the Mystery Shack in their absence.
After a hushed conversation between himself and Ford, Stan announces to the town that the Mystery Shack will shut down for good, as Stan and Ford have catching up to do and will be away for quite some time. Soos quickly objects, stating that his own dreams will be shut down should the Mystery Shack close. Stan states that no one would be around to run it, but then quickly takes it back, telling Soos he found someone perfect to run it, and gives Soos his fez as he announces that the Mystery Shack is «under new management.»
Stan and Ford fulfill their childhood dream.
The next day, Stan joins with Soos, Ford, Wendy, and Mabel’s friends in saying farewell to his niece and nephew. Stan makes an excuse about wearing Mabel’s Goodbye sweater and, along with Ford, silences Soos when he brings up how hot it is to be wearing a sweater. When the bus arrives, Waddles appears and wants to go with Mabel, but can’t because her parents won’t let her bring him back with her (as well as the bus not allowing pets) Stan gets upset and tells Mabel that he lived with Waddles all summer, and now Dipper and Mabel’s parents will have to. When the bus driver attempts to remove Waddles from the bus, Stan and Ford threaten the bus driver into letting him stay. Stan says goodbye to the twins one more time, attempting to hide his emotions from them. Mabel says they’ll miss him too. Stan joins everyone in shouting their final goodbyes to Dipper and Mabel, he is then approached by his twin brother and the two look as their niece and nephew depart. In Dipper’s monologue, Stan and Ford are seen venturing the ocean and fighting a giant squid on their new boat, the Stan o’ War II. After the two defeat the squid, they huddle and laugh.
Personality
Grunkle Stan running away with a cash register.
Grunkle Stan is at first sight a wise and cunning salesman being highly manipulative, very charismatic and charming, running a tourist trap in a town with enough unsuspecting customers to sell worthless knickknacks to and take on tours of so-called «mysteries.» He conducts his business with surprising flair and wit.[16] When not planning or executing money-making schemes (both legal and illegal), he’s usually at home watching television. His preferred shows include Cash Wheel, Duck-tective and period dramas. He also enjoys fishing.
Stan is also manifestly greedy and selfish, even stating once that his greatest desire in life is to «possess riches» [8]. He sees tourists as easy cash and nothing more.[16] However, this obsession seems to stem from his father’s words when he kicked him out of the house, and by the harsh, poverty-stricken life he led after being disowned.
While his trickery might appear unremarkable to some, Stan’s cunning transcends his Mr. Mystery persona: he’s been able to figure out Lil’ Gideon’s plots on numerous occasions [25] and even manages to outwit Bill Cipher in the end. Even though he was written off as unintelligent by his teachers and even his father, he was capable of restoring his brother’s universe portal, and can be seen operating its computer in the days leading up to Ford’s return.
Stan envisions tourists as sentient wallets.
Stan has a deep sense of family loyalty. He responded to Ford’s request for help after an entire decade of being estranged, and was deeply hurt when he realized his brother didn’t intend to make amends, even calling him out on how bad a brother Ford turned out to be. He dedicated thirty years of his life to bringing Ford back to their dimension in spite of how strained their relationship had become in the years leading up to the fight. Stan is also shown to be very protective of Mabel and Dipper, despite the morally ambiguous situations he puts them in on occasion: he stood up to hoards of reanimated corpses to protect them, telling the zombies nobody (but him) harassed his family, and ditched the elections for mayor at a crucial moment to rescue the twins as they dangled from Mayor Befufftlefumpter’s monument. When he believes Ford might put Dipper and Mabel at risk, Stan has no qualms about warning his brother away from them.
Stan’s dedication to his family is outright expressed during Weirdmageddon, when he offers to obliterate his own mind to ensure the twin’s survival. Once he and Bill are trapped in his mindscape, Stan points out to the increasingly frantic demon that, while he’s a wise guy, he made a fatal mistake: he messed with Stan’s family. His final thoughts before his mind disappears are for Dipper and Mabel, even remarking that his mind was finally ‘good for something’ if its destruction protected them.
Despite his lengthy history as a con artist, he has a compulsion to state his honest opinions on the subject at hand. Some examples include: during «Headhunters» Stan stated to the man who sold him the cursed wax figures that he would just rob him later on for charging twenty dollars per statue, and has blurted out «non-specific excuse» to get out of a bad date. He even admits in «The Stanchurian Candidate» that he has little to no filter between his thoughts and his words.
Appearance
Partial of Stan’s burn mark (above) and from Stan’s desk (below).
Stan has brown eyes[26] with cataracts,[27] gray eyebrows, and gray hair (Both of which were brown in his youth), that is almost always covered by Stan’s trademark maroon fez, which bore a yellow crescent shape (through episodes 1 to 13) and later a similar figure (after the original fez was eaten by Gompers), albeit with straight edges and a dot next to it, resembling an oyster with a pearl in it. He bears a somewhat large, droopy, pear-shaped, bumpy, reddish-pinkish nose, large ears, and fair skin. As a result of his age, Stan has wrinkly skin, a hearing aid, and dentures [1]. He has a faded burn mark of the symbol on the side of Ford’s desk on his back. He usually wears a pair of rectangular glasses with a black rim which later had its outline thinned. Stan also has a perpetual five o’clock shadow covering his lower face.
Stan’s typical outfit is a black suit, with the jacket buttoned closed, a bow tie similar in color to his fez, and a white dress shirt. He also wears big, light brown shoes, the aforementioned fez and his glasses. He frequently carries an eight ball cane with him and often wears an unnecessary eye-patch over one of his eyes while working. He has mentioned that he owns a girdle [1], which he’d presumably wear while in the suit; this would explain why his prominent belly doesn’t show in this outfit.
Around the house, Stan wears a white wife beater, a gold chain, striped blue boxer shorts, slippers, and his glasses and fez. This outfit reveals Stan’s vast amounts of body hair, burly arms, skinny legs, and his very large belly.
A comparison of Stan’s fez designs.
Stan without his fez.
Stan in his less formal attire.
Stan as Mr. Mystery over the years.
Relationships
Dipper Pines
«Is this a hug?»
Dipper is Stan’s great-nephew. Stan does not often supervise Dipper as he is supposed to as the boy’s summer caretaker, and is known to hand unpleasant duties to Dipper in particular, angering the boy and even leading him to question Stan’s affection for him on occasion. Stan often takes delight in teasing him over his size and his nerdiness [8], which greatly annoys Dipper.[1] Stan finds Dipper’s intellectual interests boring and difficult to empathize with. However, Stan seems to have a soft spot for both of the twins, [28] and is well-meaning in his treatment of his great-nephew [29] [interview]: Dipper reminds him of his younger self and how he was often preyed upon by bullies. Stan believes that making him do hard things will toughen him up and teach him to stand up for himself.
Stan is proud when Dipper stands up to others, including him, and has been shown to empathize deeply with his nephew’s girl troubles, offering his help with them whenever possible. While he tends to become jealous when the boy finds others more fun or likable [27] (particularly when the someone is Ford[9]), he comes to understand that Dipper finds it easier to connect with Ford. After the incident with the Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons game, he decides not to stand in the way of Dipper bonding with Ford, understanding that Dipper needs someone with similar interests around.
Mabel Pines
Mabel and Stan fishing.
Mabel is Stan’s great-niece. Mabel’s sweet, accommodating disposition and love of aesthetics often clash with Stan’s forceful methods and sloppiness, occasionally leading to self-improvement attempts that Stan nevertheless goes along with tolerantly (like curing his fear of heights [30] or overcoming his inability to speak with then-crush Lazy Susan [30]). Stan can be protective of his niece [31] and, as with Dipper, he will get jealous when she spends time with others instead of him [27] or expresses admiration of Ford [9]. Stan appears baffled by and unwilling to participate in Mabel’s more flamboyant plans, sometimes refusing to acknowledge that she is up to something weird [32] or opposing her worldview entirely [33]. He seems more capable of understanding Mabel than Dipper, often joining her in teasing Dipper and sharing interests (like their love of Duck-tective). Stan notably has nicknames for Mabel (calling her ‘sweetie’ and ‘pumpkin’) whereas he has only referred to Dipper as ‘Dippy’ in writing. This ease in showing emotion for Mabel could be due Stan not feeling the pressure of having to toughen her up for the world.
This doesn’t make Mabel exempt from his schemes, as she is shown to be involved as often as Dipper is.
Soos Ramirez
Soos compliments Stan’s idea.
Soos is Stan’s handyman. Stan views Soos as a loyal employee, since he’s been working at the Mystery Shack for many years, and he isn’t above taking advantage of Soos’ haplessness on occasion (like passing off Soos’ ideas for his [8]). He is aware of Soos’ unwavering admiration and trusts him to follow his orders to the letter, as evidenced by Stan tasking him to guard the vending machine while he was taken into custody. While he is sometimes exasperated by the young man’s immaturity, Stan genuinely cares for his employee. He is aware of Soos’ aversion for his birthday and confessed that he tried to have it removed from the calendar altogether, revealing the lengths he would go to in order to spare Soos’ feelings. At the end of the series, Stan transfers ownership of the Mystery Shack over to Soos.
Wendy Corduroy
Wendy does not comply with Stan’s request.
Wendy is Stan’s employee. [34] Stan is harsh on her, contributing to her view of him as the «worst boss ever», but this apparently stems from Stan’s intrinsic knowledge of Wendy’s personality, as he seems to know that she will slack off if he does not strongly enforce his rules. [34] She is not above playing pranks on him [35], which Stan appears to take in good humor if he has not fired her yet. He is also relatively tolerant of how she sometimes openly disregards his requests.
Gideon Gleeful
Gideon nearly succeeds.
Stan and Gideon have been rivals for years, both in business and life. Stan initially sees Gideon as a nuisance [31], annoying but ultimately harmless [8] [35], until Gideon unleashed Bill Cipher upon them and stole the deed to the Mystery Shack. As this resulted in Stan nearly losing his livelihood and the twins, his enmity with Gideon grew, with Stan treating the boy like a force to be reckoned with. The final status of his relationship with Gideon is unknown, but it is presumed that they buried the hatchet after Weirdmageddon, as Gideon is seen thanking «all y’all» (presumably referring to the Pines family) during the twins’ 13th birthday party.
Ford Pines
Ford is Stan’s twin brother. Inseparable as children, Stan was protective of his physically weaker twin, standing up to bullies for him and being wholeheartedly accepting of Ford’s six fingers, even incorporating them into their personal salute (the «high six»). He seemed proud of his brother’s brilliance at first, happily joining him in the celebratory picture when Ford won the Science Fair and shamelessly copying off of him at school. When Ford’s intelligence began to provoke negative comparisons and threatened to end their plans of sailing the world together, Stan began to feel threatened, which led to teasing and belittling on his part; these emotions culminated in Stan venting his anger and fury at losing his brother on the infinite motion machine, unintentionally causing it to stop, destroying Ford’s college plans. This caused Ford’s refusal to intervene on his behalf when their father disowns him.
While Stan would hold a grudge about this for many years to come, he does not forget his brother. He calls Ford at least once, though Stan hangs up without saying a word, and kept a picture of them at boxing practice taped to his car’s shade. He is also quick to seek Ford out once his brother sent him a postcard requesting his presence in Gravity Falls. Believing he’d been called to make amends, Stan lashes out in anger when Ford reveals he intends to make his brother go as far away from him as possible, which results in the fight that sends Ford through the portal. Stan is distraught at this turn of events, spending sleepless nights with Ford’s journal and glasses in hand. [3]
Issues between them not withstanding, Stan spent the next thirty years relentlessly trying to figure out how to reopen the portal and bring Ford back. When Ford does return, Stan is eager to welcome him back amicably, and is taken aback when Ford responds with a punch to the face instead. Stan quickly turns to resenting him when Ford refuses to thank him for bringing him back, mostly ignoring him and becoming jealous when the twins display any kind of admiration for his brother.
Stan’s issues with his brother come to a head during Weirdmageddon, with Stan becoming increasingly resentful of the survivor group’s focus on recovering Ford, as he interprets this as undue admiration towards Ford rather than a way of discovering Bill Cipher’s weakness. In the Fearamid, Stan is reluctant to go along with Ford’s plan, only agreeing to join the Zodiac Wheel after Ford thanks him. Ford’s petty correction of Stan’s grammar gets Stan agitated, leading to him attacking Ford, which disbands the wheel and causes it to fail.
Amnesiac Stan being embraced by Ford.
While imprisoned by Bill, Stan and Ford are finally united in their distress over Dipper and Mabel. They reflect on their failings and what went wrong with the bond they used to share; while they discuss this, they come up with the plan to lure Bill into Stan’s mind. While posing as Ford for the deal with Bill, Stan includes that Bill let his brother and the kids go as a condition to let him in.
Once Stan’s mind is erased and Bill is destroyed, the now amnesiac Stan does not react to his brother hugging him and calling him a hero, as he doesn’t know who either of them is.
After his memory is fully recovered, Stan is deeply moved when Ford asks him to come along on his hunt for anomalies, as it represents fulfilling their childhood dream of sailing the world together. He seems to welcome Ford’s comfort when he is sad after Dipper and Mabel leave, and they are later seen battling a giant squid together and sharing a laugh once it leaves, their bond clearly restored.
Sightings
- Intro: «Gravity Falls Main Title Theme»
Season 1
- Every episode of Season 1
Shorts
- 1. «Candy Monster» (mentioned)
- 2. «Stan’s Tattoo»
- 6. «The Hide-Behind»
- 7. «Mabel’s Guide to Dating»
- 8. «Mabel’s Guide to Stickers»
- 9. «Mabel’s Guide to Fashion»
- 10. «Mabel’s Guide to Color»
- 11. «Mabel’s Guide to Art»
- 12. «Fixin’ It with Soos: Golf Cart»
- 13. «Fixin’ It with Soos: Cuckoo Clock»
- 14. «TV Shorts 1»
- 15. «TV Shorts 2»
- 16. «Mabel’s Scrapbook: Heist Movie»
- 17. «Mabel’s Scrapbook: Petting Zoo»
Season 2
- 201. «Scary-oke»
- 202. «Into the Bunker»
- 203. «The Golf War»
- 204. «Sock Opera»
- 205. «Soos and the Real Girl»
- 206. «Little Gift Shop of Horrors»
- 207. «Society of the Blind Eye»
- 208. «Blendin’s Game»
- 209. «The Love God»
- 211. «Not What He Seems»
- 212. «A Tale of Two Stans»
- 213. «Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons»
- 214. «The Stanchurian Candidate»
- 215. «The Last Mabelcorn»
- 216. «Roadside Attraction»
- 217. «Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future»
- 218. «Weirdmageddon Part 1»
- 219. «Weirdmageddon 2: Escape From Reality»
- 220-221. «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls»
Games
- Fright Night
- Oddity Creator
- Mystery Shack Mystery (mentioned)
- Postcard Creator
- Rumble’s Revenge
- Mystery Shack Attack
- PinesQuest
- Li’l Gideon Shrinks Back
- Disney Channel Holiday Starglobe
- The Great Stanmobile Escape
- Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets
- Waddles Food Fever
- Puzzle Ninja
- Take Back The Falls (game)
Quotes
«Wanna hear a joke? Here goes. My ex-wife still misses me, but her aim is gettin’ better! … Her aim is gettin’ better! … Y’see, it’s-it’s funny because marriage is terrible.«
—Stan Pines[source]
«Sounds like something a responsible parent wouldn’t want you doing… Good thing I’m an uncle! Avenge me, kids! AVENGE ME!!!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«I’m givin’ none of this to charity!«
—Stan after earning 500,000 dollars on Cash Wheel[source]
«When there’s no cops around, anything’s legal!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«At the end of the day, Summerween isn’t about candy or costumes. Or even scaring people. It’s a day when the whole family can get together at one place and celebrate what really matters: PURE EVIL!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«No buts except yours out the door! Now shut your yap and get to work!«
—Stan to Mabel[source]
«Remember folks, we put the ‘fun’ in ‘No Refunds!’«
—Stan Pines[source]
«I don’t understand! What did I do that warrants this much arresting?!«
—Stan Pines[source]
«Hey, look at me. Turn around and look at me, you one-eyed demon! You’re a real wise-guy, but you made one fatal mistake: you messed with my family.«
—Stan to Bill Cipher[source]
«Huh, guess I was good for something after all.«
—Stan before his memory is erased[source]
Trivia
- The name «Stanley» means «Stony Clearing.» «Stanford» means «Stony Meadow.»
- Stan was raised Jewish but is now an atheist.[19]
- Stan is called «Grunkle Stan» by Dipper and Mabel because he believes «Great Uncle» takes too much time to say, and, according to him, time is money.[36]
- «Grunkle» was chosen because Hirsch’s great aunt, Lois, used to insist on being called «Graunty Lois.»[37]
- Beginning with the episode «Bottomless Pit!,» Stan gets a new fez design.
- At the end of the previous episode, «Boss Mabel,» Stan’s fez falls off and Gompers tries to eat it. Although the fate of the hat isn’t revealed, it’s not unlikely that Gompers won the battle and made off with the fez, forcing Stan to get a new one.
- In some countries, the first symbol on Stan’s fez is removed.
- This was initially the version that was seen on Disney+, which caused controversy among fans and Hirsch. The symbol was restored sometime later.
- Excluding Waddles, Stan is the only main protagonist not to be turned into something that isn’t human; Dipper and Mabel were turned to wood, Ford turned to gold and Soos and Wendy were turned into banners.
- Stan owns 10 guns.[30]
- He has been sent to jail in Colombia.[31] As Revealed later in Soos and the Real Girl, this is due to a Heist gone wrong.
- He is often seen running away with various items.[28][31]
- He is similar to Scrooge McDuck from Ducktales and Eugene Krabs from SpongeBob as he has an obsession with money like them.
- When dressed in his typical outfit, Stan’s appearance is simular to British comedian and magician Tommy Cooper, who also wore a fez, black suit and bowtie.
- Stan, Mabel, and Dipper have been to the county jail due to them making counterfeit money during one of Stan’s «family fun days.»
- In «A Tale of Two Stans,» it was revealed that Stan has a sibling, Shermie, who is Dipper and Mabel’s grandfather. Although it isn’t stated outright, it can be inferred from the fact that Stan shares last names with Dipper and Mabel that Shermie is the latters’ paternal grandfather.
- Toffee Peanuts are Stan’s favorite treat.[38]
- In «Gideon Rises,» it is shown that Stan wears a hearing aid.[17]
- Bob Odenkirk of «Breaking Bad» fame was originally going to be cast as Stan, but he turned the offer down.[39]
- Stan wears the same necklace as Sheriff Blubs, Sergei, and the carney who gives Wendy the Stuffed creature of indeterminate species, but they wear them under their shirts.
- In «Bottomless Pit!,» Stan admits to the police that he has violated the Lacey Act.
- In «Dreamscaperers,» it is revealed that his belly button is an innie.
- Stan’s appearance has not changed in at least a decade.[40]
- Stan is banned from airplanes.[40]
- Every depiction of Stan (wax sculpture, puppet, photo, or otherwise) has been «killed» in some way and most deaths have been related to fire or melting.
- The ‘deaths’ of Stan’s depictions may have foreshadowed his showdown in the mindscape with Bill.
- Stan was born 15 minutes after Ford, making him the youngest twin, however he is taller than his twin.
- Stan was revealed to know swear words in «Not What He Seems», making him and Old Man McGucket the only characters to ever swear for real. Additionally, Stan only uses phrases like «Hot Belgian waffles!» when he’s not alone.
- Stan’s real name was hinted in the episode «The Legend of the Gobblewonker» on his cars license plate which is ‘STNLYMBL’ which is a disemvoweling (i.e. vowels removed) version of «Stanley-Mobile».
- Stan has a box of fake IDs and passports. Some of said IDs are:
- Hal Forrester. Idaho ID. His appearance is slightly altered, including the presence of a mole. The number on the card is: [[1]]
- Andrew «8-Ball» Alcatraz. Mississippi ID. His appearance is altered, including a scar on the left side of his face, and a soul patch. He is wearing the gold necklace. He also doesn’t wear glasses. The number on the card is [[2]].
- Stetson Pinefield. United States passport. His appearance is slightly altered, including different hair style and white shirt. Visa stamps include London, Seattle.
- Steve Pineington. He advertised the Rip Off, a non-sticky bandage that gave you rashes, in Pennsylvania.
- All the fingerprints on Stan’s right-hand exhibit a double loop whorl pattern.[9]
- «Northwest Mansion Mystery» is the only episode in which Stan doesn’t appear.
- According to Bill Cipher, Stan’s burn mark means «watch your step.»[41] It is revealed in «A Tale of Two Stans» that Stan got this mark after being kicked by Ford and stumbling backward into hot metal.
- In the original pilot, Stan is in his eighties. In the series, he is in his sixties.[36]
- Stan was divorced from a woman named Marilyn only six hours after being married.
- Stan has no children.[42]
- «Stan legal,» «Precise Legal.» [43]
- He has been practicing the same coin trick since 1982 and still can’t master it.[44]
- In «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls,» it is revealed that Stan can do a perfect vocal impression of Ford.
- Stan has used Ford’s identity twice, with Ford using his only once.
- Stan wants his body taxidermied and placed like it’s about to pounce on the Mystery Shack when he dies.[45]
- He got into a fist fight with Stan Lee in 1973 according to Lost Legends.
- When he was twelve, Stan wore Groucho Marx Glasses at his Bar Mitzvah, which upset his father.[46]
- During the «ULTIMATE CROSSOVER FUNDRAISER!» charity livestream, where Alex Hirsch, Dana Terrace, Rebecca Sugar, and Ian Jones-Quartey drew and sang for The Trevor Project, when asked what Dipper, and Mabel would be as Gems, they answered the following (and then did Stan’s too):[citation needed]
- Mabel — Cherry Tugtupite. On her chest, where her heart would be.
- Dipper — Larimar. On his head, possibly in the shape of his birthmark.
- Stan — Pyrite (also known as fool’s gold). Mirrored to Stan’s tattoo on his back, which indicates vulnerability. This was actually suggested by the chat, which was wholeheartedly agreed upon by everyone else.
- The design of Stan’s glasses and tuxedo was based off of Neil Hamburger, a character portrayed by Gregg Turkington (the voice of Toby Determined).[47]
Wax Realistic Grunkle Stan Head
- Stan’s appearance of his face changed between season 1 and season 2. In season 1 his face, most notable his chin is much longer then it appears in the second season. His ears also appear bigger in season 2.
- Alex Hirsch owns a realistic Stan head made of wax created by KreatureKid.
- Alex Hirsch mentioned in the episode commentary that Ford and Stan are identical twins.
- Polydactyly, or having extra fingers, is caused by genetic mutation. Since identical twins share exact genomes, and since Ford is polydactyl and Stan is not, it is possible that Ford’s polydactyly is not genetic.
Curator Ponds, a homage to Stan.
- Curator Ponds, a character from Gravity Falls’ storyboard artist Matt Braly’s Disney Channel show Amphibia, is a direct homage to Stan and hinted by Braly and Hirsch to be a Stan from another dimension. Mr. Ponds (a pun on «Pines») is a frog voiced by Hirsch and accompanied by Frog Soos.
- Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House is implied to be Stan’s ex-wife Marilyn through an in-character episode commentary for «Land Before Swine» by virtue of her being described with a sharp tooth, large hair, and a shirt that reads «over thirty and flirty,» matching a mug Eda uses in The Owl House and one of her original designs. Later, The Owl House episode «Yesterday’s Lie» confirmed that Eda used the name «Marilyn» when she visited the human realm.
- Eda’s staff and wanted poster also appears in the background of Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.
- The name «Grunkle Stan» is a reference to the common national personification of America, «Uncle Sam».
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 «Bottomless Pit!.» Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. March 1, 2013. No. 14, season 1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 «Dreamscaperers.» Matt Chapman, Tim McKeon, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. July 12, 2013. No. 19, season 1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 «A Tale of Two Stans.» Matt Chapman, Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Sunil Hall (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. July 13, 2015. No. 12, season 2.
- ↑ «Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls.» Shion Takeuchi, Mark Rizzo, Jeff Rowe, Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Stephen Sandoval (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. February 15, 2016. No. 20-21, season 2.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (July 18, 2012). Tweet Number 229424586813489152. Archived from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved on April 5, 2015. “My real Grandpa Stan (plus me and my sister, during our «chubby baby legs» stage)”
- ↑ Barnes, Brooks (August 17, 2012). An Undercurrent of Darkness, Even at Disney. Retrieved on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ «Mabel’s Guide to Art.» Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. February 7, 2014. No. 11, inter-season animated shorts.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 «Little Dipper.» Tim McKeon (writer) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. September 28, 2012. No. 11, season 1.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 «Not What He Seems.» Matt Chapman, Jeff Rowe, Shion Takeuchi, Josh Weinstein, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Stephen Sandoval (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. March 9, 2015. No. 11, season 2.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press. Page(s) July 11. ISBN: 978-1484746691.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Lost Legends by Disney Book Group. July 24, 2018. Published by Disney Press. ISBN: 978-1368021425.
- ↑ Gravity Falls Disney Channnel. Disney. Archived from the original on April 12, 2016.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press. Page(s) Myself. ISBN: 978-1484746691.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Tumblr Post ID 28843074282 (MP3).
- ↑ «The Hide-Behind.» Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. October 18, 2013. No. 6, inter-season animated shorts.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 «Tourist Trapped.» Alex Hirsch (writer) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. June 15, 2012. No. 1, season 1.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 «Gideon Rises.» Matt Chapman, Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 2, 2013. No. 20, season 1.
- ↑ «Scary-oke.» Matt Chapman, Jeff Rowe, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Rob Renzetti (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 1, 2014. No. 1, season 2.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Hirsch, Alex (July 28, 2016). Tweet number 758547032554344448. Twitter. Retrieved on November 12, 2020. “Stan was raised Jewish but is now an atheist. Dip & Mab were raised unreligiously but celebrate all holidays at Mabel’s insistence”
- ↑ «Soos and the Real Girl.» Mark Rizzo, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. September 22, 2014. No. 5, season 2.
- ↑ In the theme song opening, Dipper’s bag says Piedmont on it. Also, Dipper is based on creator Alex Hirsch who is from Piedmont, California.
- ↑ «Between the Pines»
- ↑ «Irrational Treasure.» Tim McKeon, David Slack, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 17, 2012. No. 8, season 1.
- ↑ It’s likely that he says «Finally, we have them all» but the subtitle reads «Finally, I have them all»; there is no consensus on what he actually says. (I am Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls. Ask me anything! (August 16, 2013).)
- ↑ «Double Dipper.» Tim McKeon, Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. August 10, 2012. No. 7, season 1.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (October 22, 2012). Tweet Number 260514979969646592. Retrieved on October 29, 2014. “@EK_24z Gid- Blue, Stan- Brown, Wendy-Green, Soos «It’s a mystery dude!»”
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 «The Legend of the Gobblewonker.» Michael Rianda, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. June 29, 2012. No. 2, season 1.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 «Headhunters.» Aury Wallington, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. June 30, 2012. No. 3, season 1.
- ↑ «Dipper vs. Manliness.» Tim McKeon (writer) & Aaron Springer, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. July 20, 2012. No. 6, season 1.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 «Fight Fighters.» Zach Paez, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. September 14, 2012. No. 10, season 1.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 «The Hand That Rocks the Mabel.» Zach Paez, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. July 6, 2012. No. 4, season 1.
- ↑ «Sock Opera.» Shion Takeuchi, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly, Joe Pitt (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. September 8, 2014. No. 4, season 2.
- ↑ «Carpet Diem.» Tim McKeon, Zach Paez, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Joe Pitt (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. April 5, 2013. No. 16, season 1.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 «Boss Mabel.» Tim McKeon, Tommy Reahard, Alex Hirsch (writers) & John Aoshima (director). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. February 15, 2013. No. 13, season 1.
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 «The Deep End.» Nancy Cohen (writer) & Joe Pitt, Aaron Springer (directors). Gravity Falls. Disney Channel. March 15, 2013. No. 15, season 1.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Sara Goldberg Stan promo art
- ↑ Adams, Erik (July 31, 2014). Gravity Falls’ Alex Hirsch previews the show’s new season by recapping its first. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ «Mystery Shack Mystery» by DisneyGames. Published December 20, 2012. Official webpage.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (30 August 2013). Tweet Number 373275648136998912. Retrieved on October 29, 2014. ““@DudeBro_MoH: You & @mrbobodenkirk need to make something happen” I originally wanted to cast Bob as Stan but he turned us down! #funfactz”
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 «Blendin’s Game.» Jeff Rowe, Alex Hirsch (writers) & Matt Braly (director). Gravity Falls. Disney XD. November 10, 2014. No. 8, season 2.
- ↑ I’M BILL CIPHER! I know LOTS OF THINGS! ASK ME ANYTHING! (April 2, 2015). Retrieved on April 28, 2015.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (August 20, 2015). Tweet Number 634431471336337409. Tweet. Retrieved on April 18, 2016.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (October 6, 2015). Tweet Number 651585206982348800. “@oodlesndoodles Stan has always needed glasses, but has gone for stretches without them because he wants to look cool”
- ↑ I am Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls. Ask me anything!. Reddit (August 16, 2013).
- ↑ Serrao, Nivea (February 12, 2016). 7 Things To Know About The Gravity Falls Series Finale. TV Insider. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved on February 25, 2016.
- ↑ Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Disney Book Group. July 26, 2016. Published by Disney Press. Page(s) Grunkle Stan’s Mind!. ISBN: 978-1484746691.
- ↑ Charley Marlowe, Ella Cesari. 26: Gravity Falls «Scary-oke» ft. Rob Renzetti http://mysteryshacklookback.libsyn.com Pipedream Podcasts. (December 8, 2021). Podcast accessed on February 6, 2022.
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| V — E — H — D Characters and Creatures in Gravity Falls | |
|---|---|
| Characters | |
| Main | Bill Cipher | Dipper Pines | Gideon Gleeful | Mabel Pines | Stan Pines | Ford Pines | Soos Ramirez | Wendy Corduroy |
| Supporting | Abuelita | Agent Powers | Agent Trigger | Blendin Blandin | Bud Gleeful | Candy Chiu | Deputy Durland | Grenda Grendinator | Lazy Susan | Lee | Manly Dan | Nate | Old Man McGucket | Robbie Valentino | Shandra Jimenez | Pacifica Northwest | Preston Northwest | Priscilla Northwest | Sheriff Blubs | Sprott | Tambry | Tats | Thompson | Toby Determined | Tyler Cutebiker |
| Minor | Alex Hirsch | Anti-Mabel | Ascot and Dickie Sibling | Billy | Blind Ivan | Bobby Renzobbi | Carla | Carla McCorkle | Caryn Pines | Charlie (kid) | Charlie (talk show host) | Crampelter | Davey | Deuce | Donna | Doug | Earl | Emma Sue | Emmet and D’Shawn | Ergman Bratsman | Fertilia Mecc | Filbrick Pines | Gabe Bensen | Gary | Ghost-Eyes | Gorney | Grady Mecc | Granny Sweetkin | Greg and Janice Valentino | Handlebar Bros. | Hank | Harry Claymore | Jean-Luc | Jeffy Fresh, Byrone, and Rosie | Jimmy | Jorge and Rico | Justin Kerprank | Killbone | Lolph and Dundgren | Marcus, Kevin and Gus | Mariah | Marius von Fundshauser | Mayor Befufftlefumpter | Melody | Meredith | Mikey R. | Mr. and Mrs. Pines | Mr. Poolcheck | Mrs. Gleeful | Nathaniel Northwest | Nicolas | Quentin Trembley | Reggie | Reginald | Rich | Rosanna | Santiago | Sassica | Sergei | Shmipper and Smabble | Steve | Stretch | Sue | Tad Strange | Table Mabel | Tate McGucket | Thistle Downe | Tyler’s mother |
| Unnamed characters | America guy | Angry lady | Aquatic restaurant cook | Bats Biker | BeeblyBoop’s clerk | Billy’s mother | Bus Driver | Charlie’s mother | Corn costume guy | Corn maze girl | Greasy’s Diner cook | Greasy’s Diner shopkeeper | Greasy’s Diner waitress | Hank’s son | Hank’s wife | Log Land girl | Mattress King | Mecc children | Meredith’s crush | Mummy Kid | Pacifica’s Friends | Pizza Guy | Pool Jail kid | Pop Pop | Principal of Glass Shard Beach High School | Prison Counselor | Reggie’s fiancée | Soos’ cousins | Soldier Kid | Summerween Superstore worker | Unnamed bald biker | Unnamed bandana lady | Unnamed bearded fisherman | Unnamed beautiful woman | Unnamed big-chinned man | Unnamed big-nosed man | Unnamed biker | Unnamed blonde boy in teal | Unnamed blonde girl with pink bow | Unnamed blonde man in pink | Unnamed blonde woman in blue | Unnamed blue sweatshirt woman | Unnamed bouncer | Unnamed boy in blue | Unnamed boy in green | Unnamed boy in teal | Unnamed brown cap boy | Unnamed brown vest fisherman | Unnamed buck-toothed fisherman | Unnamed buck-toothed girl | Unnamed cat lady | Unnamed chubby man in black | Unnamed chubby boy in blue | Unnamed workman | Unnamed cook | Unnamed doctor | Unnamed elderly man | Unnamed fanny pack man | Unnamed fanny pack woman | Unnamed fisherman with glasses | Unnamed football players | Unnamed girl in blue | Unnamed girl in light blue dress | Unnamed girl in pink | Unnamed girl with a ponytail in pink | Unnamed girl with a ponytail in purple | Unnamed girl with glasses | Unnamed girl with purple sweater | Unnamed goth | Unnamed gray mustache man | Unnamed hiker | Unnamed hillbilly | Unnamed lawyer | Unnamed librarian | Unnamed «Lil’ Stanley» fan | Unnamed lumberjack | Unnamed mailman | Unnamed man in black | Unnamed man in blue | Unnamed man in blue shirt | Unnamed man in blue vest | Unnamed man in brown | Unnamed man in cat sweater | Unnamed man in green | Unnamed man in pink | Unnamed man in red | Unnamed man in white | Unnamed miner | Unnamed mother and baby | Unnamed mustache man in red | Unnamed news anchor | Unnamed Northwest butler | Unnamed old man with a white visor | Unnamed old woman in pink | Unnamed old woman in purple | Unnamed pigtailed girl | Unnamed pointed nosed woman | Unnamed propeller cap boy | Unnamed puffy haired boy | Unnamed purple cap boy | Unnamed red cap man | Unnamed red vested woman | Unnamed rich man | Unnamed rich son | Unnamed scout lady | Unnamed singing hippie | Unnamed soul patch man in blue | Unnamed soul patch man in green | Unnamed sweaty man | Unnamed taxi driver | Unnamed ticket seller | Unnamed traveler | Unnamed turtle guy | Unnamed veteran | Unnamed woman in blue | Unnamed woman in blue overalls | Unnamed woman in green | Unnamed woman in orange | Unnamed woman in overalls | Unnamed woman in purple | Unnamed woman in teal | Unnamed woman in yellow | Unnamed workman | Upside-Down Town boss | Woodpecker guy |
| Groups | Discount Auto Mart Warriors | Football players | Globnar Tributes | Tourists | Pioneers | Real people | Unseen characters | Alternate Universe Versions of Mabel |
| Animals | Cheekums | Donald, Sandy, and Mr. Cat Face | Gompers | List of animals | Northwests’ dog | Waddles |
| Creatures | |
| Species and groups | Arachnimorphs | Creatures of Weirdmageddon | Cursed Egyptian super termites | Dinosaurs | Dipper clones | Disembodied hands | Eye-Bats | Fairies | Floating Eyeballs | Flying skulls | Ghosts | Giant Vampire Bats | Gnomes | Lilliputtians | List of creatures | Little green men | Mabeland inhabitants | Manotaurs | Merpeople | Pan-dimensional beings | Plaidypuses | Snadger | The Undead | Unicorns | Wax figures |
| Resident creatures | Archibald Corduroy | Big Henry | Bigfoot | Candy monster | Celestabellebethabelle | Chutzpar | Cooler monster | Cycloptopus | Franz | Giant eyeball | .GIFfany | Gobblewonker | Gremloblin | Gremularth | Hide Behind | Island Head Beast | Leaderaur | Lilliputtian head knight | Lilliputtian pirate captain | Limby Jimmy | Ma and Pa Duskerton | Mr. What’s-His-Face | Multi-Bear | Octavia | Paper Jam Dipper | Polly | Pterodactyl | Rumble McSkirmish | Sev’ral Timez | Shape Shifter | Sister Mary Hilda Miley | Summerween Trickster | Tentacle Monster | Thing 26 | Tracey and Quattro | Tyrone |
| Non-resident creatures | Axolotl | Chamelius Pendraggin | Darlene | Kraken | Love God | Mermando | The Oracle | Purple Spy | Queen of the Manatees | Sarcasti-Pup | Space lizard |
| Fantasy creatures | Aoshima | British dog man | Clay monsters | Dippy Fresh | Ernesto | Flavor Pups | Footbot | Griffin | Hand Witch | Hot Elf | Impossibeast | Judge Kitty Kitty Meow Meow Face-Shwartstein | Ogres | Probabilitor the Annoying | Shimmery Twinkleheart | Stuffed Animal Tree | Xyler and Craz | Waffle Guards |
| Creatures from the future | Cyclocks | Time Baby |
| Creatures from the Nightmare Realm | 8 Ball | Amorphous Shape | Bill Cipher | Creature with 88 different faces | C-3-lhu | Giant Ear | Hand Monstrosity | Hectorgon | The Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity | Keyhole | Kryptos | Lava Lamp Guy | Paci-Fire | Purple spider with arms in his mouth | Pyronica | Teeth | Zanthar |
| Sentient objects | Cursed Doors | Mailbox | Tumbleweed Terror |
В сериале часто встречаются различные секреты и пасхалки:
В конце заставки мы слышим неразборчивый шёпот, но если перемотать послание в обратную сторону, мы услышим «Twenty six letters» или «Three letters back» (в русской версии шёпот также переведён, но не обращён наоборот), что является отсылкой к разным типам шифров — вначале это Шифр Цезаря и позже — шифр Атбаш.
В конце каждой серии в титрах мы видим непонятный набор букв или цифр, расшифровав который мы получим фразу, относящуюся к прошедшей (иногда следующей) серии.
В начальной заставке после надписи «Гравити Фолз» мелькает Билл Сайфер, в книге также упоминается Билл: это является отсылкой к Иллюминатам.
В 1-й серии 2-го сезона Стэн после активации портала надевает перчатку с шестью пальцами. Так же оборотень в бункере автора говорит что автор был «шестипалым нёрдом».
В титрах 4-й серии 2-го сезона мы видим, что куклы с изображением Стэна и МакГаккета сильно напоминают куклы из сериала «Невероятные злоключения Флепджека», над которым работал Алекс Хирш, автор идеи «Гравити Фолз».
В 10-й серии 1-го сезона на 14-ой минуте заметна отсылка на игру 1981 года Donkey Kong.
Слова Диппера из 2-й серии 2-го сезона «Убежище прямо как в игре Fallout» является отсылкой к данной игре.
В 6-й серии 2-го сезона Стэн забирает у путника шар в котором можно разглядеть «Око Саурона».
В 5-й серии 1-го сезона в галлюцинациях Мэйбл появляется огромный щенок, который говорит ей: «Тебе не следует доверять Стэну» задом-наперёд.
В 9-й серии 1-го сезона мальчик из семьи первопроходцев набирает на калькуляторе 666 — Число зверя.
В некоторых сериях на спине Стена можно заметить татуировку «OLHV». Если прочитать это слово используя Шифр Цезаря, получится слово —»LIES» (рус. врёт).
На протяжении всего мультсериала, часто встречается цифра 618. Скорее всего, это связано с датой рождения создателя мультсериала Алекса Хирша — 18 июня.
В каждой начальной заставке к мультсериалу мелькает йети.
Поза, в которую становится Мэйбл, взяв пистолет с крюком, является отсылкой к компьютерной игре «The Legend of Zelda».
Исландская поп-группа BABBA, упоминаемая в 6-й серии 1-го сезона, является отсылкой к реально существующей шведской группе ABBA.
Лольф и Дундгрен из 9-й серии 1-го сезона, ничто иное как отсылка к известному актёру Дольфу Лундгрену. Также стоит отметить, что они имеют явное сходство с солдатами из фильма «Универсальный солдат», где сыграл Дольф.
В 9-й серии 1-го сезона, Блендин отправляется в прошлое, чтобы подобрать предметы, оставленные близнецами во время путешествий во времени. Если пересмотреть 1, 2 и 3 серии, то в некоторых моментах его как раз-таки можно заметить.
В 7-й серии 1-го сезона выясняется, что Диппер всегда хотел носить имя Тайрон.
В начальной заставке на сумке Диппера видна надпись «Piedmont». Пьедмонт — место рождения создателя мультсериала Алекса Хирша.
Название серии «The Hand That Rocks The Mabel» — отсылка к триллеру «Рука, качающая колыбель» (англ. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle).
Название серии «The Land Before Swine» — отсылка к мультфильму «Земля до начала времён» (англ. The Land Before Time).
Название серии «Carpet Diem» — отсылка к популярной латинской фразе «Carpe diem»
В 3-й серии 1-го сезона, во время показа восковых фигур, Фиддлфорд МакГаккет говорит: «Смогу ли я пережить восстание восковых фигур?». Неясно, откуда он знал о том, что фигуры прокляты.
Во 2 сезоне помимо вышеупомянутых шифров используется шифр Виженера.
По словам создателя мультсериала Алекса Хирша, характер Мэйбл был скопирован с отличительных черт характера его сестры Ариэль Хирш.
Сестра Алекса Хирша Ариэль в детстве мечтала о ручной свинке, поэтому Алекс Хирш даёт Мэйбл свинью в качестве питомца.
В 6-й серии 1-го сезона, в пещере мужикотавров играет музыка из игры «Sonic Generations».
В 4-й серии 1-го сезона Диппер, сидя в кресле, читает Дневник под номером 2, хотя в лесу он нашел Дневник под номером 3. В конце серии Дневник № 2 оказывается у Гидеона.
После начальной заставки к мультсериалу, мелькает страница из дневника, на котором изображён круг. В центре круга нарисован Билл Шифр, вокруг которого видны символы каждого из персонажей — ёлка — Диппер, падающая звезда — Мэйбл, вопросительный знак — Зус и т. д. Также, на этой странице нарисован Код Konami и множество реально существующих алхимических символов.
В «Хижине Чудес» на окнах и стенах часто можно заметить букву H. Скорее всего, это связано с первой буквой в фамилии Алекса Хирша — (англ. Hirsch).
На протяжении всего мультсериала, довольно часто встречаются совы или вещи, так или иначе связанные с совами — настенные часы в форме сов, телевизионные передачи с совами. Интересно, что в одной из короткометражек по мультсериалу, на стене висит обрывок листа, на котором написано о существовании тайного общества, поклоняющегося совам.
В 10-й серии 2-го сезона, выясняется что агенты ФБР шпионили за Пайнсами с самого начала сезона. Если пересмотреть 2-й сезон, то в некоторых сериях как раз-таки этих агентов можно увидеть на заднем плане.
В одной из серий, Стен рассказывал что был влюблён в девушку Карлу, которая ушла от него к представителю субкультуры хиппи. Это объясняет неприязнь Стена к хиппи в 9-й серии 2-го сезона. Примечательно, что на телевидении работает девушка Карла, внешне очень похожая на Карлу, из рассказов Стена.
Помощник Пасифики из 3-й серии 2-го сезона, местный шериф и Стен, носят один и тот же медальон.
В 8-й серии 1-го сезона, Диппер и Мэйбл находят документ, внутри которого есть заголовок «Другие исторические истины включают: «. Если верить тексту под заголовком, 3-й президент США Томас Джефферсон — на самом деле дети, стоящие на плечах друг друга.
В 5-й серии 2-го сезона, когда Гиффани объясняет как действует игра, показывается человек за компьютером. На компьютере изображён бинарный код. Если его перевести, то получится слово «Space Jam» — это служит отсылкой к фильму «Космический джем» (англ. «Space Jam») с легендарным баскетболистом Майклом Джорданом в главной роли.
В 12-й серии 1-го сезона, в магазине Летолуина в битве с Конфетным монстром Диппер использует меч и щит, как у Линка из видеоигры «The Legend of Zelda». Также сам Конфетный монстр срисован с Безликого Бога Каонаси, который является отсылкой к аниме Хаяо Миядзаки «Унесённые призраками».
В титрах одной из короткометражек по мультсериалу, мелькает страница из дневника, на котором изображены цифры. Если перевести их используя шифр A1Z26, то получатся слова из песни к начальной заставке популярного аниме Сейлор Мун.
Ресторан в котором Гидеон дожидается Мэйбл, почти полностью повторяет клуб «Чёрный вигвам» из культового телесериала Твин Пикс.
На одной из страниц дневника изображён Фредди Крюгер из культовой франшизы «Кошмар на улице Вязов». Рядом с ним надпись «Хипстер сна».
Если соединить все страницы Дневника, мелькающие после короткометражек, то получится символ общества слепого глаза.
В 15 серии 1 сезона, в бассейне, в одиночной камере сидит мальчик. Он произносит фразу: «мне бы только ночь продержаться». Эта фраза — отсылка на первую мировую, где при защите крепости Осовец солдатам сказано было продержаться ночь, а они держались почти год. То же происходит в мультфильме с мальчиком.
В 5 серии первого сезона, в конце в титрах код переводится как: «Вперёд, Аошима!» Имя режиссёра в первых четырёх сериях — Джон Аошима.
На кассе хижины чудес, в заставке, стоит цена: 6.18$. Это дата рождения Алекса Хирша — 18 июня.
В 4 серии 1 сезона Венди говоря с Мейбл произносит «парень с татушками на голове…» получается, она встречалась с Незрячим Иваном?
Название 8 серии 2 сезона «Игра Блендина» является отсылкой к книге «Игра Эндера», автор Орсон Скотт Кард
Во 2 серии 1 сезона в самом начале, можно увидеть журнал, в котором Диппер узнает о конкурсе на фотографию монстра: на его обложке можно заметить Гидеона. Там будет написано, что он у же приехал! Но мы точно знаем, что он приезжает в 4 серии!
В 11 серии 2 сезона в газетной вырезке, которая лежала в коробке в его комнате, написано «Стэн Пайнс погиб!». А ещё выясняется что у Стэнфорда было много документов и удостоверений под чужим именем. И в газете было ещё надпись «Безымянного мошенника не нашли» и якобы фотография Стэна. Есть вероятность что на фотографии брат Стэнфорда, Стэнли Пайнс.
Стэн – дядя Диппера и Мэйбл, живущий в Гравити Фолз. Долгое время он был мошенником и занимался преступной деятельностью, но позже обосновался в провинциальном городке штата Орегон, где открыл туристический магазин «Хижина Чудес». Изначально выступает скептиком, но оказывается, что он тесно связан с паранормальными событиями города.
Биография
Мужчина родом из 1950-х. Он с родителями и старшим братом Фордом жил в Нью-Джерси. С детства обделен умом, что вызывало частые насмешки со стороны сверстников. Его отец записал сыновей на бокс, чтобы те могли постоять за себя и навалять обидчикам. В будущем эти уроки не раз сослужили хорошую службу Стэнли.
В юношестве Стэн встречался с девушкой, ходил на вечеринки, мечтал путешествовать по миру на паруснике и кайфовал от жизни. Но в выпускных классах все стало рушится, когда девушка его бросила, а брат решил поступать в университет вдали от дома. Чтобы не потерять единственного друга в лице Форда, Стэн разрушил его изобретение для вступительного экзамена. Форда не взяли в университет, а разозлившийся отец выгнал Стэна из дома.
Оставшись в одиночестве, парень не знал чем себя занять. Он работал в торговле, занимался подделкой документов и часто привлекался к закону за кражу личностей. Стэн отбывал срок за воровство в Колумбии, а по возвращении в США узнал, что за его преступления ему запрещен въезд в 32 штата. Поэтому мужчина переехал в Гравити Фолз, сбросил брата в портал (случайно), а сам стал жить в его доме в лесу.
Спустя время дом Стэна снискал популярность у туристов, которых манила мистика лесного жилища. Поэтому он превратил дом в приманку для туристов «Хижину Чудес», наполненную копеечными артефактами, которые мужчина продает втридорога. Стэн забрал себе личность брата, который пропал в портале, а свою собственную смерть инсценировал.
Так Стэн жил один, имея приличную прибыль со своей хижины, пока в 2012 году его племянник не отправил к нему на лето своих детей – Диппера и Мэйбл.
Характер
Долгий опыт работы в торговле сделали Стэна блестящим торговцем. Он успешно управляет бизнесом, построенном на облапошивании наивных туристов. Свободное от работы время мужчина проводит за телевизором, где смотрит мыльные оперы и ТВ-шоу. Стэн кажется жадным эгоистом, которого не интересует ничего, кроме денег.
Но таковым он выступает только в отношении незнакомых людей. Своих близких он любит, дорожит Мэйбл и Диппером, которым постоянно помогает. Защищает их от потусторонних обидчиков, например, от атаки зомби. Во время Странногеддона он пожертвовал своей жизнью ради близких.
| Стэнли «Стэн» Пайнс | |
| англ. Stanley «Stan» Pines | |
| Персонаж мультсериала «Гравити Фолз» |
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|---|---|
| Первое появление |
Секреты Гравити Фолз (2012) |
| Последнее появление |
Странногеддон: вернуть себе город (2016) |
| Раса |
европеоидная |
| Вид |
Человек |
| пол |
мужской |
| Волосы |
серые |
| Возраст |
около 60 лет |
| Прозвище |
Дядя Стэн |
| Место рождения |
Пляж Стеклянных Осколков, Нью Джерси |
| Дата рождения |
15 июня 1952 года |
| Родители |
Филбрик Пайнс (отец) |
| Семья |
Форд Пайнс (брат) |
| Интересы |
Зарабатывать деньги |
| Прототип |
дедушка Алекса Хирша |
| Создатель |
Алекс Хирш |
| Оригинальная озвучка |
Алекс Хирш |
| Русская озвучка |
Владимир Герасимов |
Стэнли «Стэн» Пайнс (англ. Stanley «Stan» Pines), ранее известный как Стэнфорд Пайнс — двоюродный дедушка Диппера и Мэйбл Пайнс, постоянный житель городка Гравити Фолз. После многих лет мошенничества и преступлений он поселился в отдаленном городке Гравити Фолз, штат Орегон, где руководит ловушкой для туристов, Хижиной Чудес.
Несмотря на изначальный скептицизм по отношению к сверхъестественному, позже выясняется, что он сам тесно связан с паранормальными явлениями в Гравити Фолз.
Биография[править]
Стэн родился 15 июня где-то в 1950-х годах в городе Пляж Стеклянных Осколков, Нью Джерси. вместе со своим старшим братом — Фордом. Несмотря на то, что Стэн, в отличие от Форда, не обладал выдающимся умом, он, по словам мамы, обладал личностью, что в сочетании с его братом превращало их дуэт лучших друзей в непреодолимую пару. В ранней юности, дети Пайнс столкнулись с частыми издевательствами, прежде всего от Крампелтера. Он издевался над Фордом за его шестипалость, а над Стэном — за его характер. Их отец, Филбрик Пайнс заставил посещать детей уроки по боксу, закаливая и тренируя их, чтобы они могли дать отпор обидчикам. В будущем, эти уроки помогут Стэну завоевать сердце Карлы Маккоркл.
Юношеские годы Стэна изначально проходили приятно: он со своей девушкой посещал кафе «Зазноба», оформленное в стиле 1950-х, и строил лодку под названием «Боевой Стэн» с Фордом, надеясь исполнить свои детские мечты: путешествовать по миру на парусном судне. Тем не менее, все стало рушиться ближе к концу учебного года. Форд возжелал уехать в престижный университет на другом конце страны, а Карла ушла от него к одному хиппи (в качестве мести, Стэн позже загнал его автомобиль в овраг). На грани потери своего самого близкого друга и окончания средней школы, Стэн, которому было суждено остаться в этом городе навсегда, нечаянно сломал гениальное изобретение Форда (вечный двигатель), которое тот планировал показать представителям Западного Технологического Университета. Форд, который в результате действий Стэна потерял шансы попасть в университет мечты, а за ним и родители близнецов, решили, что он сделал это нарочно. Отец выгнал его из дома, и оставшийся без друзей или членов семьи Стэн уехал из города, сказав, что разбогатеет и заставит их пожалеть об этом.
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[+] Дядя Стэн относится к Гравити Фолз |
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| Персонажи | Диппер Пайнс • Мэйбл Пайнс • Стэнли Пайнс • Сус Рамирез • Венди Кордрой • Форд Пайнс |
