Canonically, Soos is 22 years old at this point. Gravity falls is actually supposed to be in the early 2010s not the 90s. The joke is the video game is old. Wendy is 15
Soos is 20 at this point. When Mable and Dipper went back 10 years in the past, they saw Soos's 10th Birthday, meaning he turns 20 in that episode. He is 19 for all of season 1.
the fact that this episode predates ddlc by years and came out a few weeks after fnaf (meaning it was definitely in production before then) is CRAZY Also this pixel art is so AMAZING!! It was done by the same person who did rumble mcskirmish in the arcade game episode '... Soos, these are children.' LMAOO
@caitrose2198 it's ok. I'm trying to not process that FNAF is 10 years old. Doesn't matter, anyway. Time is an illusion and the universe is a hologram.
@@giboit. ... no idea where you're getting that information. Scott Cawthon started developing the first FNAF in February of 2014 and Dan Salvato started working on DDLC in 2015. This episode, like most animated shows, was written and storyboarded over a year prior to release, so in 2013. This episode pre-dates both franchises by a considerable amount.
So, the term "meet cute" refers to when two people meet for the first time in a cute, charming, or amusing way. That's why the food stall Melody works at is called Meat Cute. 😊
Fun fact: the equation in the chalkboard behind Giffany is a hamiltonian function and it's mathmatically correct. ... It's not relevant to anything, but I like the detail.
tbh one of my favorite little facts about this episode is how the crew designed characters for two make-a-wish kids and they actually got to voice them! you can see them in the background and iirc its the boy in the blue hoodie and girl with the short hair and lavendar shirt
I LOVE THIS EPISODE, I'm predicting Giffany will remind you of Monika from Ddlc Also i love all of your reactions they're so fun to watch and i'm so excited for The Owl House reactions and maybe you guys could also check out Amphibia in the future if you'd like 🫶
Fun fact: The creator of Gravity falls apparently said that one little regret he had was not being able to explore Giffany's backstory a bit more. But he also confirmed that Giffany is still alive. Also, this episode was into production after FNAF was teased but both FNAF and DDLC were in development way before this episode was even into production (those two games have very similar concepts with anomatronics and visual novel characters that have a dark side).
No Book of Bill spoilers here, but if you do decide to read it, 1000% recommend reading Journal 3 first. Despite coming out years apart, they both equally tie into the Gravity Falls series as well as each other.
The codes were easy in season one. Listening to the whisper on the title screen backwards gave you a hint how to solve them. But season two's codes got much more difficult if you didn't know what you were doing. Many required combining the first three codes from season one, and another is known as a Vigenère cipher which requires a grid of letters arranged according to a keyword they would hide in the episode. Some were obvious, some were well hidden, but all were accompanied by the shape of a key so you'd know. This episodes codes translated to... Credits: ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN Numbers card: WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT SHE HAS THE ONE NAME GIFFANY (Which I love is a refference to the american dub opening of Sailor Moon. :P )
In the discussion you noticed that Grunkle Stan and Soos have the same VA - he's also the creator and showrunner. I don't think I've ever seen a reaction where the reactors didn't compare this episode to those two games and have the comments full of people telling them it predates ddlc and (kind of) fnaf. The octodad and catherine references are new though. I don't know enough about catherine to see the resemblance, but it did come out early enough to potentially be an influence. Octodad is also old enough that "her dad is an octopus man" could easily be a reference. I think this is only the second reaction where I've seen someone reference yandere sim. The timing for this episode to be a reference to that would be very tight, and would require the writer to be hanging out on 4chan before the game got into actual development, plus a faster turnaround time on episode production than I think is likely. Yandere is a trope that predates the simulator anyway (hence existing as a named concept that could be used for the title), and I don't think there's too much more resemblance here than yandere + schoolgirl + dating sim, all of which are pretty nearby concepts in the first place. It seems like there was just something in the zeitgeist around that time that led to people mashing together horror, romance and technology. The uncanny valley? Uncertainties around the future of human connections? Whatever it was, we got some neat fiction out of it.
