Big Bu$ine$$

> *With the town in financial trouble, Mayor Cutebiker assembles a crack team of business experts to improve Gravity Falls' coffers. Unfortunately, among them is the bitter, angry and desperate Preston Northwest - who's got a plan to save the town, get back on top and take his daughter back in one fell swoop.*
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## Big Bu$ine$$ - Hostile Takeover

### FF.net URL

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***Big Bu$ine$$ - Hostile Takeover*** is the third episode of Return to the Falls.

It is preceded by ***Escape from Bloodcraft!*** and proceeded by ***It Came From Thrifty's.***

### Synopsis

With Gravity Falls encountering a stiff financial deficit, Tyler Cutebiker soon sees it fit to create a group to try and increase profits in the town's coffers - consisting of the town's most successful business owners. The team of Susan, Manly Dan, Soos and Toby Determined are worse than useless – until the arrival of Preston Northwest.

Preston introduces the world of Big Business to Gravity Falls. Oil companies, chain restaurants, mining companies and more begin to arrive, armed with compulsory purchase orders. It's not only a damned good revenge tactic from Preston, but a targeted hit to try and get rid of the Diner once and more all.

When the Shack is lost to the corporations, it becomes clear that the town needs to fight back in style. With gnomes and manotaurs.

### Chapter Titles

1. Get 'em!
2. Big Business Brings Big Results
3. The Awesome Express
4. Morning at Greasy's
5. Inner Capitalist
6. Planning
7. Soos vs Contracts
8. Tyson
9. Ice Box Avalanche?
10. Breakfast at Greasy's
11. The Handover
12. Eviction
13. Barbed Wire
14. Gathering
15. Rich People Fights: Coming Soon to UTBAHC
16. The Battle
17. A Pines
18. Loose Ends

### Character Revelations

* Pacifica officially cuts ties from her father.
* Susan reveals her intimate pride in Greasy's Diner.
* First appearances of Frank Catt and Horace Tyson, chief executives of McBurger and OregCo respectively.
* Preston is revealed to have very little respect in his business circles.
* Gravity Falls is ripe for mining operations.
* Jeff and the gnomes are still looking for a queen.
* Manly Dan is not actually scared of Manotaurs, and just owed them some money.
* In the afternath, the ruins of the OregCo gas station became a landmark.
* The arrival of the Awesome Express / The Mystery Express – the shack's miniature train ride.
* The gnomes love Icelandic Pop Sensation, BABBA.
* In ther aftermath, as per the contract, Northwest Realty have to share its profits with the Cutebiker office of 30% per month.

### References

* Soos makes reference to the Chestburster from ***Aliens***.
* Proprietorship is, of course, a thinly veiled copy of ***Monopoly***.
* Soos being misnamed as Zeus is a reference to Journal 3.
* Northwest Realty and Preston's business interests in town are explicitly explained in Journal 3.
* The *post-prohibition pancake battle of 1933* is a reference to the Maple Syrup prohibition mentioned in Journal 3.
* Puppy aliens are a reference to Remoolians from Men in Black - specifically, ***Frank the Pug***.
* Mabel claiming they can get things done in twenty one minutes - much to Dipper's confusion - is a gag referencing the average length of a Gravity Falls episode.
* McCatt briefly references ***Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.***
* Tad's love of Wonderbread is a slightly off-kilter reference to the infamous 'DeviantART Wonderbread Guy', ***Murrlogic***.
* Shivsworthy the Possum is a reference to Stan's own pet possum, Shanklin the Stab Possum, as seen in Lost Legends.