Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • JustinKalb

    Just takin a stab in the dark with the googles, but could Aoshima be related to Chiho Aoshima  J-Pop artist?   

  • mmatonis

    John Aoshima apparently directs some of the episodes.

    I’m consistently impressed by Gravity Falls and how well it’s thought out, and I’m glad your daughter seems to be as into it as I am!

    • JustinKalb

      you are correct! http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/John_Aoshima

    • http://jello-bomb.tumblr.com/ Jello

       I have heard tell that Aoshima’s episode was made after this episode, but aired before this episode. So ‘the future is in the past!’ is a happy coincidence.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    I remember a candy like Smile Dip. The high sugar content kind of burned my tongue raw.
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    Man, I’m glad someone is gathering those cryptograms. My DVR keeps clipping the end of the episodes.

  • TheMudshark

    Clearly, we´re dealing with a satanist Illuminati ploy here.

  • Charles B

    Hunt down the Gravity Falls wiki. They suggest:”Mabel’s halucination dolphin Aoshima is likely named after Gravity Falls director John Aoshima.”

  • Rick Mesler

    Me and my 7 year old boy love this show… he loves Mabel, and I love that gnomes, when punched in the stomach hurl Rainbow vomit in a constant stream of awesomeness

  • Sean Nelson

    How does “VWDQ LV QRW ZKDW KH VHHP” decode to “STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS”?  That is, unless the cipher text is simply missing a V at the end of it.

    • Sean Nelson

      nevermind… Silly me – I just looked at the graphic and see what you mean.  It is just misspelled in the post.

      • Mark_Frauenfelder

        Thanks for pointing it out. I fixed it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Duanburge/100000313244887 Mark Duanburge

    Mark, do you know about the Futurama cyphers too?

    http://theinfosphere.org/images/2/2f/ALsymbols.jpg

  • http://www.facebook.com/Babylonian Nick Robinson

    Another great thing about this episode: in the first Smile Dip hallucination scene, the creature that speaks nonsense to Mabel is actually saying “DON’T TRUST GRUNKLE” played backwards. Eerie!

  • theophrastvs

    The little item that blew me away comes from episode #9, “the time traveler’s pig”.  In that episode a time traveler (Blendin Blandin) is sent back in time (after the closing credits by the horrific “Time Baby”) to fix all the time anomalies caused by the twins misadventures in time which includes visiting events in previous episodes.  so, if one managed to record those prior broadcast episodes and go back to check.. great googly moogly… you can just glimpse the time traveler in the background flitting about making those fixes (something we’d all ignore in our first viewing).  now that’s some global consideration in writing.

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

    Occult… Pacific Northwest… this screams for a Twin Peaks/Gravity Falls crossover.

  • Neill “Dire” Mitchell

    I also love this show – But what’s with the “French” animation style noses? They are really off-putting, mostly as it puts me in mind of poorly dubbed French shows from my youth. :)

  • oodja

    Last week’s episode (“Summerween”) had a fantastic Spirited Away homage, when the Summerween Trickster morphed into a monster made up of cut-rate Halloween candy that was a dead ringer for No-Face.  LOVE.  THIS.  SHOW.

  • VideoMonkey

    The Pacific Northwest is not the only connection to Twin Peaks…”The owls are not what they seem” is the second message the Giant gives to Agent Cooper.