New Happy Place
Aug. 26th, 2013 01:34 pmI've found a new happy place, guys, and it's called Gravity Falls. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
absolutedestiny recommended it to me specifically at Club Vivid this year, so I set-up the DVR (luckily, Disney Channel re-runs stuff a lot).
The first episode I caught (copy machine clones) was cute and clever and more than once, I found myself going, "Wow, I am really happy they did not go the way I expected with that."
The second episode (Boss Mabel) was okay -- still funny, but more routinely Saturday Morning Cartoon.
The third episode won me over completely when an old man in a fez started punching a pterodactyl in the face while quoting "Moby Dick." Said old man also had a pig strapped to him at the time. As you do.
Since then, every episode I've caught has been amazing and hilarious and sometimes I smile so much it aches.
Basically, it's like an unholy mix of Twin Peaks and Eureka, but for kids! Mabel and Dipper are twins who go to stay with their great-uncle (grunkle) Stan, who runs a tourist trap with a bunch of fake exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. However, the surrounding woods are filled with actual oddities from the mystical to the cryptozoological to the just plain weird. It's coursing with a bizarre sense of humor and doesn't mind tossing in a few jokes for the adults in the audience here and there.
It is really, truly amazing. I should totally vid this show. I just need a good song.
absolutedestiny recommended it to me specifically at Club Vivid this year, so I set-up the DVR (luckily, Disney Channel re-runs stuff a lot). The first episode I caught (copy machine clones) was cute and clever and more than once, I found myself going, "Wow, I am really happy they did not go the way I expected with that."
The second episode (Boss Mabel) was okay -- still funny, but more routinely Saturday Morning Cartoon.
The third episode won me over completely when an old man in a fez started punching a pterodactyl in the face while quoting "Moby Dick." Said old man also had a pig strapped to him at the time. As you do.
Since then, every episode I've caught has been amazing and hilarious and sometimes I smile so much it aches.
Basically, it's like an unholy mix of Twin Peaks and Eureka, but for kids! Mabel and Dipper are twins who go to stay with their great-uncle (grunkle) Stan, who runs a tourist trap with a bunch of fake exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. However, the surrounding woods are filled with actual oddities from the mystical to the cryptozoological to the just plain weird. It's coursing with a bizarre sense of humor and doesn't mind tossing in a few jokes for the adults in the audience here and there.
It is really, truly amazing. I should totally vid this show. I just need a good song.
