Why the Gravity Falls Pilot is COMPLETELY Different from the Official Show! (Pilot vs Official)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Did you know the pilot episode of Gravity Falls is completely different from the official first episode, "Tourist Trapped"? In this video, we’ll take a deep dive into the behind-the-scenes process of how Alex Hirsch created the original version of this beloved Disney Channel show. We’ll explore the differences in animation, character designs, and storylines that make the Gravity Falls pilot such a fascinating part of the show’s history.
You’ll discover hidden Easter eggs, fun facts, and the creative evolution that brought Dipper, Mabel, and the Mystery Shack to life. If you’re a fan of Gravity Falls or curious about how pilot episodes shape animated series, this is a must-watch!
Join us as we uncover the secrets of the Gravity Falls pilot, how it compares to "Tourist Trapped," and why Disney made such big changes. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more videos on your favorite cartoons, animation history, and Disney Channel classics!
For those who are saying this was from frozen:
Gravity falls aired a little more than a year earlier than frozen, and GF didn't even make the sandwiches joke. the joke started to get popular around 2005. Here are a couple more examples of the joke being used before frozen:
"We think alike, we act alike, we finish each others sandwiches" was said on The Simpsons
“We’ve been dating so long, we finish each other’s sentences."/"Well, I was going to say sandwiches but whatever” was said on That 70's show
“It’s like we finish each other’s..."/"Sandwiches?" was said on Arrested Development
“And they’re always finishing each other’s…"/"Pie" was said on the comedy television series Community
And all of these were said before 2011.
Bill was first meant to be a running gag were he would appear in dream scenes and yell conspiricy theories
Really? It makes sense, well its something he would do
@DramaticusMaximus I wish the Bill we have now would be mixed with that one
12:14 you can also see how the glass window is not in the shape as bill because he wasn’t yet going to be the main villain
Interesting!!
Giddin looks like Dunold trump in the pilot
And final version looks like Bill Clinton or like 1st Russian president Boris Eltsyn
WE NEED TO BUILD A WALL TO KEEP THE DIPPER OUT
This comment made me laugh so hard ngl
He sure acts like him
He also kind of looks like Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter
9:56 very true. Bill is such an icon that i would be depressed if he never existed
At least they got the
MYSTERY
HACK
S
Joke still
Mabel was able to lift Grunkle Stan with her mind because she's holding a magic spoon that gives her that power.
🤨🤓🤫💯😂😭
She was trying to control the spoon
BTW, Soos did existed, he was just not shown in the pilot.
What makes you say that?
@@CipherFlix concept art of pilot soos existed, I guess he just was gonna be initially shown in ep.2 of the show until it got its huge revamp.
But his name was different
He was based on Alex's college roommate and was always going to be in the show. Wendy is just all their ideas of what a cool girl would be and that's all she ended up being just a cool girl but soos was fully planned out. But there was also art of soos fm the start that is kinda based on the roommate.
Mobster Gideon gives off so much more scariness. I definitely prefer the Gideon we got that's still evil but not as openly.
Not only “time to spill the beans” made it into the cut but “I guess I’m just IRRESISTABLE” is another scene that made it into the cut. 7:02
I wanna know what bill cipher would look like if they kept the art style
I like how Mabel and Dipper have a bit more tan in the pilot
16:47 I THOUGHT IT WAS BLANIN BLANDIN (time traveler)
YEAH
It is. Blendin is voiced by the same person.
It’s Blendin Blengiman Blandin
6:48 no it’s a BOO-BERRIES
WAIT... OMG, HELP I REALIZE WHAT IT SPELLS
Boo-berries
@@Glizzy137akacombathabitat O... I misread it..
@@Bees2go noooooooo😭😭
@@Glizzy137akacombathabitat YEAA
The Gnome King sounds like Lemongrab from adventure time
Also in book of bill with smebuloc wizard lore it was kinda cool seeing a king too maybe it’s really smebuloc in disguise
22:10 bats backwards Is stab so they sorta kept it the same?
In the scene with the twins, Mable says sandwiches, which is a reference to Anna in frozen who also says sandwiches when she is singing love is an open door.
It can't be a reference, the pilot was made 3 years before Frozen. Though Soos and the Real Girl predicted both ddlc and fnaf, so you never know.
(Not to be the "Erm, actually ☝🤓" guy, I hate those guys)
ita not from frozen as stated by the pinned comment
There's the Jersey Devil in the original journal! That's one thing that I wish they would have left in.
Also Mable has over 100 sweaters in the series and when she is not in the show she is off making another sweater!
The king also sounds like Blinden blanden
Morty and Blandin have the same voice actor
Is that an ai voice
Yea it is, my own voice sucks cuz i've a huge accent.. english is my second language
Don't say that
@@CipherFlix I think with your voice even with the accent would be much Better, It gives It more personality! But it's still your choice
@Yellowbeing08 I agree, but some accents sometimes make it difficult to understand🤷
What is your first language?
Fun little fact about the Justin Royland thing. Morty's voice and in general, Morty was already around in 2010, idk if that was before or after the Gravity Falls Pilot since the Pilot only says 2010, but Fish Hooks was released September 3rd of 2010, but regardless, the public didn't know the Pilot existed till August 3rd, 2016.
Which is why i love Morty, because i love Oscar from Fish Hooks. Oscar is quite literally a Fish Version of Morty and Oscar also Simps over a redhead girl in Fish Hooks(Bea), just like how Morty Simps over Jessica. Wild how that is.
And the Gnome doesn't sound like Morty, he sounds like a Mr. Meeseeks imo.
ITS BOOBERRY NOT BLUEBERRY!!!
cool video
😀👍
Thanks 😁
@@CipherFlix 😉 your wellcome
Actually, they didn’t really change the tattoo. They just mirrored it because stab and bats is the same word just in reverse so pretty clever on Alex.
Stap backwards is bats
Dayum very different artstyle, I like this
Giddin looks like trump sleeping with yoshikage kira
accurate
17:47 Dipper: "FINE!!"
I wonder if this is canon as an alternate universe
I made a mockup of what bill cipher would look like in that style lolz
On my channel ofc-
The sandwiches joke at the end of the video is from a line from a song in frozen 1
actually, frozen came out just a year after the first episode of gravity falls premiered, so they did it first! :D
but in reality, the simpsons did it in 2005 and has everybody else beat, lolll.
I'm not gonna tell you guys what this early low budget animation reminds me of
''Wendy didnt look cool'' BRO A TOMBOY! IS A TOMBOY! HOW DARE YA
The gnome wizard also sounds like the time traveler guy to me
In the gidian scene the two henchmen in the back kinda look like the fbi agents.
Yea ur right! Great observation!
sooz is absolutely diabolical
The gnome reveal reminds me of Toasty from the first Spyro game.
Did y’all know that dippers real name is mason it tells you in journal 3 ( you can buy it online )
when this got uploaded to youtube, i refused to believe it was real, and i still do... theres no way the pilot actually looked like this
I actually like Mabel's design in the pilot,the rest eh not so much
The Lych from adventure time is actually bills rival when comes most vial , evil etc .
Also that Morty voice was present in lemon grab from adventure time again and Oscar from fish hooks
What would bill cipher look like
Edit:this is the most likes I ever got
Bill Cipher was originally supposed to be green like the dollar bill. Which is horrible because all the twinkafied Bill’s would look like the onceler from the Lorax.
Square.
i imagined that pilot Bill would be pretty much the same but the artstyle of him would be constantly changing, and each part of him (arm, leg, eye, bowtie, top hat, triangle etc) would be constantly changing and shifting from different materials.. i just think that'd look so cool
Love the “Frozen” reference!
i feel like the 'stan's twin arc' was already planned there and the 'telekenesis incident' was the stuff that happended underground which made stanley to fly up :3
Justin Roiland also did a version of the Morty-voice for Lord Lemongrab in Adventure Time. Witch came out before Gravity Falls.
U know that Gravity falls episode where Stan finally opens the portal and three items being a notebook, pencil, and mug. The one episode in Rick and morty where there are portals (and a bunch of chickens idk why) one of the portals spews out the exact same items that flew into the portal back in gravity falls. That shows that they might be in the same multiverse.
i've made a video about that specific reference too!
Stab is bats spelled backwards so they didn’t really change that tattoo just made it backwards
Can we all agree soos not being in gravity falls is a absolute crime
Good video 😊
26:37 thats literally a line from Frozen. specifically the song love is an open door.
Imagine if they went with this version and the version we have was the pilot.
Actually in plans (that wasa in leaked concept materials) this old Stan had sibling, who locked himself between dimensions aka mysterious "cousin Tim", who was great scientist and inventor.
But we haven't it in Pilot. Bill possible was in plans, and being inspired by Eye of Providence from $1 bill, he planned to be green. And in final series looks like Ford had that "cult of Bill" from beginning - Bill's images was everywhere in Mystery Shack, and even revealed Potral had shape of Bill, so as neytral trickster he possible planned in that pilot-only version.
On old version of map we don't see any "floating cliffs". Wendy looks like kind of bum in that patched coat, she has visibly bigger breast, but she's not redhead. Redheads allways 20% cooler.
That blond twins in light-blue clotches looks like fictional "Reverse Pines"...
6:07 I feel it too I like this version a lot😊
"She now sucks the gnome leader"👀
10:06 bill is best boi.
not even a minute in and i already like this youtuber!
"wendy looked not cool at all" - 0:04
Wait...... Did Justin roylend also voice blendin in gravity falls cause thats also who the gnome sounds like
Also dipper is the only one that talks in some episodes! If Mable doesn’t talk ih a episode dipper still does
Just remember if your feeling down Gravity falls exist
she said boo-berry
He didn't like the art style? But I love this style more than what we got.
Thank goodness they redesigned it
2:44 by chance it was another monster? Just a theory, A FILM THEORYYYY
Also did u know that dippers birth mark is based on one of the creators friends from school thay had a really weird birth mark
Mabel said booberrys
Thats Tower Bridge
Also u can find bill on ur dollar bills 💵 also in the 3rd journal it shows u how to summon bill
The gnome king sounds like belndin blandin...
Gidion looks like Homelander in the pilot.
Mabel with telekinesis…
if that's your actual voice? Dang, props to awsome professionalism, Cipher.
No it's not, ai voice over... and thanks! :)
The jornal in the pilot looks exactly like THE BOOK OF BILL
there is a trailor AND I DID NOT KNOW?!
NEXT SUMMER IS NEVER CAME 😭😭
🎵the London Bridge is falling down🎵 6:11
Cookies and screams
2:11 the fishing scene seems to be reused with the amphibia cast in its own intro
Gideon looks like Donald trump in the pilot 😭
19:15 holy shirt is that a parallel to a bird on bill cipher's statue
5:28 It's Tower Bridge 😭
Is Gideon should be Pacifica Twins?
GIDEON WAS BLONDE?? 😰
Stan will haunt me forever
I'm actually called goat man
And that’s all my facts for now!
It doesn’t say cracker pot it says crockpot
you can watch the pilot on yt and its literally just episode one lol
Stan had 4 fingers :)
21:35 that was same thing from episode of powderpuff girls and I think maybe amazing world of gumball maybe they are connected
Bro has a big chin like peter Griffin
Hey did u know that dippers real name is mason? It is in the book of bill
what are the odds.. Mason.. like the Freemasons..
I mean, I would say it sounds more like Lemongrab than Morty, but they are both voiced by Justin Roiland.
the gnome king sounds more like blendin blandin, not morty
Not the frozen joke 26:37
Gravity falls aired a little more than a year earlier than frozen, and GF didn't even make the sandwiches joke. the joke started to get popular around 2005. Here are a couple more examples of the joke being used before frozen:
"We think alike, we act alike, we finish each others sandwiches" was said on The Simpsons
“We’ve been dating so long, we finish each other’s sentences."/"Well, I was going to say sandwiches but whatever” was said on That 70's show
“It’s like we finish each other’s..."/"Sandwiches?" was said on Arrested Development
“And they’re always finishing each other’s…"/"Pie" was said on the comedy television series Community
And all of these were said before 2011.
@BradleeBlevinss please also post this response as an normal comment (not as a reply to a comment) so i can pin it! :)
@@CipherFlix why? this is just a correction to a comment :P
@@BradleeBlevinss haha well, i thought it was a fun fact. and i see multiple people saying it's from frozen.
@@CipherFlix Alright, It has been posted as a comment
whats with the ai voice 😭great vid tho! 👍
Sorry about that, my own english sucks..
I was wondering the same lol
Dipper still look cute tho 😅😅😅
16:49 leamon grab
Justin roiland is also blendin blanchin in the original
ware did the journal come from
10:51 what is this
Bill getting arrested