It Came From Thrifty's

> *After the events of Big Bu$ine$$, Pacifica Northwest has finally given up on her family name - but what could happen after Summer's end is beginning to evoke a sense of dread. When a trip with her new family to the Gravity Falls Mall results in them taking home a mysterious artefact from Gravity Falls' crooked past, the people she cares about most begin to act strangely.*
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***It Came From Thrifty's*** is the fourth episode of Return to the Falls.

It is preceded by ***Big Bu$ine$$*** and proceeded by ***The Hunter.***

## It Came From Thrifty's

### AO3 URL

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24882139/chapters/60201730

### FF.net URL

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13624955/1/Episode-4-It-Came-from-Thrifty-s

### Synopsis

During a trip to Gravity Falls' Mall, the Pines stumble across a cheap, tacky Gravity Falls snowglobe, something that Dipper, Stan and Mabel become immediately enamoured with. Pacifica agrees to buy Dipper the ornament as a gift, something he seems disproportionately happy with.

Together, she and Wendy notice their increasingly erratic behaviour, and decide to investigate - leading them to The Crawlspace. There, they discover the item is under a curse towards out-of-towners, a manipulative ploy to sell more merchandise by a biker bar, long forgotten - all thanks to an amiable, shadowy market seller called Curzon Cankerblight.

Unravelling the mystery, they soon also discover that Curzon has a greater secret under his sleeves - one that has taken route throughout Gravity Falls. In the process, they discover their biggest, scariest rogue of the summer - and one that, through hook or by crook, is dedicated to covering his existence.

### Chapter Titles

1. Post sleepover
2. Family Values
3. Thrifty's
4. Trinkets
5. Food Court
6. Fixation
7. Mission Implausible
8. The Business Card
9. Curzon's Curses
10. Dreamcatchers and Airbrush Pumas
11. The Mad Shack
12. Shattered Glass
13. Angus
14. So Here's How It All Went Down
15. Explanation and Reconciliation
16. The Cankerblight Conspiracy
17. Suspicious Eggs Benedict
18. Not Quite A Fish
19. The Collapse
20. The Cavalry Arrives
21. Resilience
22. Finest Hour
23. Like a Sailor
24. Epilogue

### Character Revelations

* Pacifica is a compulsive coffee drinker.
* Stan has only just learnt Dipper's real name.
* The first idea of Pacifica joining the Grunkles after summer is touted.
* Candy keeps charts of her friends' emotions.
* Ford has become an avid player of Bloodcraft: Overdeath.
* Mabel is an avid reader of Dipper's diary.
* Wendy is not entirely aware of Dipper and Mabel's adventures - including Quentin Trembley and The Crawlspace.
* Dipper had a photo of Pacifica from 2012 inside his vest pocket - alongside the journal, a tiny black walking stick, an ancient candy bar, a bottle cap collection and a reporter’s notepad. And the President's key.
* Tyler's grandfather, Cornwell Q. Cutebiker, was similar in appearance to Manly Dan.
* Tyler's grandfather was particularly unscrupulous and not above using curses to sell merchandise.
* The Cutebiker family used to own a rockabilly bar in Gravity Falls, which became a tourist attraction in its own right.
* Soos has been visiting the Crawlspace for some time, since he traded Shmebulock for a key.
* The water in Gravity Falls is, like the town itself, an amplifier for weirdness.
* Curzon is the only character in Return to the Falls to outright swear, outside of *damn, hell,* or *crap.*
* Dipper injures his arm, something referenced for the next few episodes and comic strips.
* Tyler is mind wiped to forget Curzon and the Crawlspace, something referenced throughout the rest of the season.

### References

* The Crawlspace - and even Curzon himself - are both taken from Face It, the Dipcifica ship-fuel story in ***Gravity Falls: Lost Legends.***
* Build-a-Beaver is apparently a Northwest variant of Build-a-Bear.
* Stan's somewhat flawed memories are a pastiche of ***Grease***.
* The 1974 Scientific Magazine talking about future Space Colonisation - with laughably poor predicted dates - is based upon numerous articles from that era with exactly that concept, and a mass of missions to Mars attempted by the USSR over 1974.
* Dipper's theories regarding Alien 51 are all very real theories.
* Dipper's theory for the future president of the United States is a satirical take on the election of Donald Trump.
* Roberto Clemente was featured in numerous baseball card sets. Considering Pacifica got it for fifty bucks, ***it was probably fake.***
* Curzon's cockney accent is inspired by the infamous 'market accent', exaggerated in the style of Dick Van Dyke in ***Mary Poppins.***
* Angus's accent is classic Scots vernacular, particularly Dundonian, as used in Scottish comic strip, ***The Broons.***
* Curzon's unseen identities would have been further British stereotypes:
	+ The man selling pies in a flat cap would have been a Yorkshireman, the author's county of birth
	+ That with the miner's helmet was originally planned to be Welsh or Cornish.
	+ The butcher can be left up to your own imagination...!
* Irishing a drink quite literally involves adding Whisky to an otherwise non-alcoholic beverage. Stan does this multiple times.
* The building No.42 is taken straight from ***The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy***. Here, No.42 is the answer to Dipper and Mabel's escape.