Gravity Falls, Friday nights on The Disney Channel
The televisions in our home seem to be exclusively on Disney Junior and The Disney Channel. Occasionally, the adult-like folks can sneak in more mature fare when the boy is distracted by other shiny objects. Or we learn to love what the House of Mouse is airing. There really are some great shows for kids like Doc McStuffins, The Octonauts, and Jake and the Neverland Pirates. There are also the inane ones that mom and dad hate but baby seems to love like Secret Agent Oso (most.inept.secret.agent.ever.) or Chuggington (if I hear, “Traintastic” one more time…)
One new show quickly became a standout and, in my opinion, is a wonderful addition to The Disney Channel animated line-up. That show is Gravity Falls.
Dipper Pines voiced by Jason Ritter. “When life gives you lemons, extract the juice and use it to draw a treasure map in invisible ink. That really works! Seriously!”
Dipper and Mabel Pines are 12 year old twins sent to live with their Great Uncle Stan (or Grunkle Stan as they call him) for the summer. Uncle Stan resides in Gravity Falls, OR and runs a tourist trap called, “The Mystery Shack.”
Mabel Pines voiced by Kristen Schaal. “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on those lemons and wrap them in a blanket. Ta-daaa! Now you have Lemon babies.”
The twins quickly learn that Gravity Falls truly is a mysterious place when they find a hidden book labeled with the number “3″ on it’s cover. Within it’s pages are accounts of all sorts of supernatural… stuff.
Grunkle Stan voiced by Alex Hirsch. “When life gives you lemons, call them ‘yellow oranges’ and sell them for double the price.”
The writing on the show is great and a real treat. The first episode featured a very clever twist that even I didn’t guess and I was one of those a-holes who figured at Bruce Willis was really a ghost in The Sixth Sense… oh, oops… spoiler alert!
Soos also voiced by Alex Hirsch. A sweet man-child with mad DJ skills.
Wendy voiced by Linda Cardellini, angsty teenager with a heart of gold and object of Dipper’s affection.
The show started back in June and has aired eight really solid, funny episodes. If you’re not watching this show, then you are really missing out. It may be the grown-up in me who is starved for television not exclusively for the preschool set but I will go out on a limb and say I am pretty confident that this is a great show!
Need more pluses? The theme song is catchy:
And, any show who’s first episode ends like this…
Is stellar in my book.
I am intrigued. Great animation and concept!
Watch it! Now!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to the intro theme on this show. Its actually been my ringtone for a while now. It replaced Frog’s Song from Chrono Trigger.