Gravity Falls

### Genre

Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

### Written by

Alex Hirsch (creator/ outline)
Matt Chapman
Jeff Rowe (additional material)
Josh Weinstein
Timothy McKeon
Zach Paez (additional material)
Michael Rianda (additional material)
Mark Rizzo (outline)
Shion Takeuchi
Aury Wallington
Nancy Cohen
M.A. Larson (story)
Tommy Reahard (story)
David Slack (story)

### Directed by

Joe Pitt
John Aoshima
Matt Braly
Aaron Springer
Stephen Sandoval
Sunil Hall
Rob Renzetti

### Producer

Rob Renzetti (supervising producer)
Tobias Conan Trost (line producer)
Brian Doell (line producer)
Suzanna Olson (associate producer / line producer)

### Language

English

Gravity Falls is an American animated comedy adventure series that aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD.

## Trivia

* The show uses backwards messages, riddles, and a variety of codes and cryptograms for viewers to crack in order to uncover secret messages. These messages can be found in plain sight at the end of the credits in every episode and hidden throughout the actual episodes. Sometimes the messages can be decoded into something comical, but other times it will be something more serious that will reveal hints and important clues for future episodes or even extra lore on the story and characters. According to Alex Hirsch, the codes for every episode are written out by him and inserted into the episode at the last minute.
* Unlike most Western animated TV series where characters have either 4 or 5 fingers, Gravity Falls manages to mix characters having either number. According to former series writer/creative director Micheal Rianda, this is because some characters look better having 4 or 5 fingers on them.
* The Mystery Shack is based on the Oregon Vortex, a tourist trap that Alex Hirsch encountered while visiting Oregon during his college years.
* At the end of the opening intro, a picture is displayed of a wheel with Bill Cipher in the middle and symbols around him. Each symbol represents a character in the show, though the meanings behind the symbols are not revealed until the series finale. The picture also shows the Konami code and a cryptogram that says "Stan is not What He Seems." This is a reference to "The Owls are not What They Seem" from Twin Peaks and is a foreshadowing to the episode "Not What He Seems."
* Alex Hirsch based the entire series on the exciting summer he wished he and his twin sister, Ariel could have had as children. Since most of their actual summers were pretty boring, Hirsch would spend time daydreaming about encountering gnomes or solving mysteries.
* During an interview with creator Alex Hirsch, he revealed that he is a huge fan of the X-Files and has been since he was a kid, and that Gravity Falls was influenced greatly by it during its creation.
* Northwest Mansion Mystery was the first episode that Stan didn't appear. He was not even mentioned. It was the second time Soos didn't appear but it was the first time he was not even mentioned.
* All throughout Season 2, at various points in episodes, random words can be found etched into the background. These words are actually keys for solving Vigenère ciphers provided on a puzzle piece after the credits. These puzzle pieces fit together to create a Cryptic Page, with Grunkle Stan and Grunkle Ford's faces in the center of it. Along with these ciphers, combinations of Atbash, Caesar and numbered ciphers are seen after the credits in sections of a "Cryptic Page".

## Episodes

Main article: Gravity Falls Episodes list

## External links

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865718/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_0

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Gravity\_Falls?so=search