He's Amazing!! Gravity Falls 2x14 Episode 14: The Stanchurian Candidate Reaction
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I loved one take in a movie where a senator said "I'm a politician. Which means that when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollypops"
"Hunt for Red October"... the scene continues with: "But it also means I keep my options open."
That actor made that character work for the few scenes he was in.
Mosco: Hi I'm an idiot
Also Mosco: guesses the entirety of Stan's lore based on a chin
Ye, something here doesn’t seem right
It wanst just the chin!! It was the glasses and their body differences in the flashbacks.... lol
... but I get your point HAHAHAHA
@@WeeLassReacts Not just this series either! You are very perceptive!
@@WeeLassReacts I hope it doesn’t annoy you that I’m saying this but I just wanted to take some time to appreciate how you make so many people happy nearly every day with your videos, your smartness and your complete obliviousness to it
-your biggest fan
@@Lyric_thecat AWWWWW This comment just made my day!!!!!!!
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed and produced by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay is by George Axelrod, based on the 1959 Richard Condon novel The Manchurian Candidate. The film's leading actors are Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, with co-stars Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, and James Gregory.[5]
The plot centers on Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw, part of a prominent political family. Shaw is brainwashed by communists after his Army platoon is captured. He returns to civilian life in the United States, where he becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy, aided by homegrown conservative partisan dupes. The group, which includes representatives of the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union, plans to assassinate the presidential nominee of an American political party, with the death leading to the overthrow of the U.S. government.
@@phictionofgrandeur2387 always good. Hope my weird jokes don't go all drama. I stared out as a joke then I was like oh crud its starting to sound too real.
And it's the reason people think brainwashing is real
@@phictionofgrandeur2387 not this post the 2nd post I made
The title of the episode is a reference to _The Manchurian Candidate,_ a book and (I believe) two movies about a brainwashed politician, controlled by someone else.
The Code in the end credits translates to *"Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt 'Em!"* referring to Mayor Tyler's long-standing catchphrase. The code on the journal page reads:
*_Be wary of whom you belittle,_*
*_Big problems can start out widdle._*
Oh, and the backwards "spell" that Gideon recites is, in fact, _"Spooky evil spells! Spooky evil spells! Spooky evil spells! Spooky spells! Spooky spells!"_ referring to what Bud told him immediately prior. "We discussed this: No more spooky spells!"
I love how you focused so much on the "zodiac", the circle design with Bill as of it was something new when it appears at the end of the theme song.
don't spoil her fake fan
Funny story about tad strange is that during the short hiatus between the revel of Stanford, the voice actor for tad updated his role list and when some people saw this there was this theory made that tad strange was the brother of bill and was a cube instead of triangle. I still find that funny
Stan loves his family more than anything else. He spent 30 years trying to get his brother back and loves the twins to death
The way you said "Are we gonna talk about it?" reminded me of the Joyful Kilmarnock Blues, by The Proclaimers.
The title is a refference to The Manchurian Candidate. The spell Giddeon reads is "Spooky evil spells!"
Codes this episode
Credits:
GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT 'EM!
Numbers:
BE WARY OF WHOM YOU BELITTLE
BIG PROBLEMS CAN START OUT WIDDLE
There is exactly one "filler" episode left in the series - and it was *supposed* to run right after "Into the Bunker" (you'll be able to tell), but Disney moved it to break up the "serious" block at the end of the season.
This isn't quite accurate. Disney never took an already-finished episode and moved when it would run within the season. Alex Hirsch is on record as saying that they intended the ep to be a break from all of the plot-heavy stuff, before the intense last four episodes. It's probably true that it was an episode idea that they'd had in mind for a long time. (It involves some very specific references to a road-trip that the crew took, between S1 and S2, to various tourist traps in northern California and southern Oregon, that the Mystery Shack is based on.) But, as far as I know, it's only fans that have speculated that it was an idea originally considered for the first half of S2, pre-NWHS, and that's why it seems so out of place as 2x16. Disney definitely had nothing to do with it.
22:10
I think you missed a Major Big Brain move right there Mosco. I think you should have taken those words you put on screen and place them around your head in the shape of a Triangle. That would have been as funny as Crikey!!!
I’m gonna be honest..
I don’t understand what you were gonna point out at the memorial statue scene.
2 episodes left ! cant wait
Hehe the thumbnail
Oo guess you hadn't heard of the movie
Almost everything seems to b3 ones I've heard of but not seen
8:12 super wrong
And Mabel's continuing to test Soos after his first bout of _fear_
9:00 this
9:10 kYLEEEE
I actually think there was a 50-50 or 40-60 of him agreeing if you asked
_Ah_ or if you just tried on each other
11:50 lol Gideon's short makes it seem like there's some positivity there
13:05 and others I think-- every time he smiles (this time around)
13:27 and _Ford_ again
14:06 wait what
I need to rewatch
15:37 lol there we go
Talking around the issue vs sing around it
I mean Mabel wants an 'epic summer romance' (summer fling)
It's just that Gideon wants a wife queen whatever
You can give false hope
3:04 what? talk about what? I don't get it
Same, I'm just as confused
And fear mongering
bill is going to date dipper
Hello
"Stanchurian Candidate" is a pretty easy reference for kids to get. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate
For all of Stan's flaws he always puts his family first, and honestly I think that's really sweet
Makes him one of my favorite characters in the show overall, especially with everything that happened with him in S2.
That mind control spell Gideon says is literally just him saying “spooky evil spells” backwards…I’m not even kidding
The first time, in Dreamscaperers, he was chanting "Backwards Message" backwards iirc.
@@Gemini-Lion you would indeed be remembering correctly…and while I’m not 100% sure if she’s gotten to this point yet…McGuccet says “Yroo Xbksvi Girzmtov” backwards, which is “Bill Cypher, Triangle” coded in the Atbash cypher (one of my favorite cyphers)
I like how Bud Gleeful is more uncomfortable with Gideon now that the Society of the Blind Eye is no more and he can't keep erasing his unpleasant memories
“Precious Memories”
Fun fact: Alex Hirsh actually pranked Trump's voter fraud hotline while doing the voices of Stan and Soos. I feel this should be mentioned in the context of this episode, just in case you don't already know about it.
Poor Stan he just wants his family to love and appreciate him after his dad kicked him out and said he was worthless. Also Mosco I promise you that it is always meant to be creepy and wrong when Gideon and the gnomes and whatever try to marry Mabel.
Codes:
"GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT 'EM!"
"BE WARY OF WHOM YOU BELITTLE, BIG PROBLEMS CAN START OUT WIDDLE."
Fair warning: Every episode from this point on is very plot heavy apart from episode 16 which I always forget exists.
Dipper: "This is amazing! And ethically ambiguous!"
It's hilarious because I feel like that applies to just about every new innovation these days. Also, the scene where Gideon takes over his dad's mind is still pretty disturbing.
I love that line.
A disturbing scene that does not get enough credit.
You're not wrong.
after the release of the dungeons episode, Alex Hirsch got the voice actor for Tad Strange. He told him not to reveal anything, but he tweeted "Tad's the name, and being normal's my game" and the fanbase FREAKED OUT thinking he was a hugely important character and related to Bill somehow and started this whole headcanon about who Tad Strange was. So when this episode finally came out, everyone was so disappointed. Just goes to show how crazy fans can get.
Well, his love for bread (and other wheat-by-products) is a little concerning…
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In the fans' defense, Hirsch also said in the Bill Cipher AMA, when asked about Tad Strange, "He's a real square, which is an objectively stupid shape" (or something along those lines). Since Bill never speaks the truth plainly and unambiguously, people thought Tad Strange was an actual square, not helped by the fact that he wouldn't be the first character to just be a shape.
I thought it was that he updated his website early to add Tad Strange to his list of roles?
Tad Strange is voiced by Cecil Baldwin, the Voice of Night Vale Cecil Palmer (from the Welcome to Night Vale podcast)
i knew his voice sounded familiar!
A great detail I like is that Stan knew Gideon was a fake from the beginning because he always called him Stanford. If he were a real psychic, he would have known that his name was really Stanley.
Is it any suprise stan won?
You can't lose when you've got family...
Yes I'm still using that meme
15:22 Mosco: "I've seen some of the campaign videos of people running in America and I'm like "How? HOW?"
I'm an American myself and I still question that
The show: depicts obsessiv behavior and forced marriage in a clearly negative light
Mosco: why does the show want Mabel to marry?
16:30 - creepy awful creatures and characters are obsessed with Mabel, because they are creepy and awful.
"The Show" is portraying this as clearly deranged behaviour.
Fun fact if you haven’t seen it yet: Ford’s voice actor is JK Simmons, most notable for J Jonah Jameson from Spider-Man movies, Cave Johnson from Portal 2, and Omni-Man from Invincible.
Someone else may have said it already but the title is a play on "The Manchurian Candidate" a movie where a presidential candidate was brainwashed and controlled.
Am I the only one who thinks it was SO out of character of Stan not being able to lie his way through this? Come on, all he needed to know was doing what he does at the Shack: sell his merch, only that this time he is selling himself.
I thought of that too! But the Shack stuff is meant to confuse and shock. He just needs them to be entertained long enough to hand over money. And he can make up whatever sounds good, it has nothing to do with his opinions or values. Actually answering debate questions and stating what he thinks is right is a different beast. I also think he just got flustered easily in a situation where he had less control than he was used to.
Interesting how you noted that Soos was more affected by the tie than Stan, and that Soos was noted as being smart. This is actually all foreshadowing that he is the evil mastermind behind everything, only sometimes overshadowed by Bill.
I would love mini-episodes of Stan's past fraud and crimespree throughout the Americas. The Columbian Prison Break, whatever the things were that got him banned from a variety of states...
There already is an episode about that: tale of two stans
My days been made with the new Wee Lass reaction for Gravity Falls
1:20 There we go, folks. We saw it with our own eyes. When the universe ends, it's because Mosco dropped the rift during a reaction.
Just right off the bat, you dropping your "fidget thing"...I've never related to you more
7:11 in the United States there's also legalized bribery
The title is a reference to The Manchurian Candidate, a 1962 film about someone who was brainwashed into assassinating a Presidential candidate
You know?
I wasn't convinced at first, but Mosco made some excellent points about politics.
I would 100% vote elect her mayor.
All laws were writen by Quinten Trembley
I can’t wait for the musical episode where Bill cipher plays the piano.
22:02: That's actually the pentagram on top of Gideon's tent.
How many would like to see Wee Lass react to something from that excellent Irish animation studio in Kilkenny, "Cartoon Saloon"? I would love to see her react to "Song of the Sea" or "Wolfwalkers" - two of my favorites.
ALL THE YES.
"Did I forget anything?" I have a friend who served one term in my state's senate. He often said that he thought his colleagues in the state legislature where only there because the vast majority of them were awful and unsuccessful in their careers/jobs and so they decided to grift by being politicians. He noted that many of them were the folks who liked to be interviewed for newspaper articles, tv news stories, etc. He said the ones whose names you don't hear very often and who you don't see very often are the ones he found were actually doing the work and writing up bills, presenting them to the appropriate committees, meeting with experts on the issues, doing research on the issues, and meeting with constituents. He said those were the folks who actually got stuff done, not the folks whose names we know and who we see and hear from most. That was back in the early 2000s and so far there's been nothing that has convinced me that he was wrong. So I'd say you forgot "be bad at the career you got an education/training to do" as a category and "constantly want attention."
In the US the reason we get so many "crazies" running for office is because our political parties aren't like in other countries. In the US when people register to vote one of the things a person will need to select is party affiliation. Besides the two major parties there will be listed all minor parties that have ballot access as well as the option for "no party" which in the US the news media refers to such persons as "independents." In most other countries political parties are actual clubs that people have to apply for membership, pay dues, attend meetings, help with fundraising, etc in order to say they're affiliated with that party. In the US people say they're affiliated simply because they checked a box on the voter registration form. It's not to say that the parties in the US don't have membership applications, membership dues, rules about attending meetings, helping with fundraising, and other stuff. They do. I've been a member of both major parties in my county and state. The ballot access laws in my state, like other places, have rules that require the payment of a fee and having a bond in order to run for office. On top of that if the party the person wants to run under doesn't have ballot access, then they'll have to collect a certain percentage of registered voters' signatures to get the party ballot access. Since that can sometimes be very expensive and difficult a lot of times what happens is people just change their voter registration to one of the two major parties and run in those parties' primaries. I can attest that amongst the dues paying active members of those parties such people, the "crazies", are not very well received. In some cases I've even seen county parties taken over by folks who weren't previously active and paying dues in the party. A group of them will join a county party and if the county party has really easy to exploit rules about membership, getting elected to county party leadership positions, etc then they'll do that. Some county parties have intentionally changed their membership rules, party leadership election rules, etc to try to prevent such take-overs. So like if you came to the US where I live and lived here for a year under the "state citizenship" qualifications you are now a citizen of the state (not of the US, but of my state under their own rules). Then if you met the qualifications for an office you wanted to run for in my city, county, or state you could (and we do have some that don't require US citizenship....something some politicians scream about every election cycle and claim they'll fix, but then they get elected and it's just magically no longer a priority for them) under the major party label. So yeah, that's why such things happen here and don't really happen elsewhere. Elsewhere in the world political parties are clubs that are difficult to become and maintain membership in and only members in good standing can run for political offices. So that does help reduce the potential for crazies to run under the party's name whereas in the US the laws don't really give the parties that much control over who runs under their name. It's essentially why the parties here have primaries in the hopes of getting such people out of the running. But yeah, when you hear an American say they're a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, or whatever that usually mostly just means they checked that box on their voter registration. It very rarely means they're active, dues paying members of the parties who attend meetings, do fundraising, vote in party leadership elections, volunteer for party events, etc. Even most politicians'/candidates' campaign staff and volunteers are just folks who like that candidate/politician and not people active in the party. The actual number of party members is quite small. For example in my state there's around a million people registered Republicans and probably less than 1% are actually dues paying active members of their county party and the state party and maybe even the national party. So yeah, the US is weird and per usual does things differently (and not necessarily different because it's better, more efficient, etc; but different just to be different).
It probably started that way with the intention of not locking out people who couldn't afford to pay dues. It does, on the face of it, fit the American values to ensure that everybody has an equal footing when it comes to running for office. Wild the things that spiral out of control after a couple hundred years unchecked.
The fact that one condition for running is being able to cast a shadow means that at
some time in Gravity Falls' past existed "folks" which could not, or chose not to.
Vampires cast no shadow and you obviously don't want to vote someone semi immortal into a position of mayor for life, duh.
@@IISheireenII Vampires cast a shadow- for a bout ten seconds before they burst into flames.
Well, this IS the reason Ford isn't able to run. He doesn't cast a shadow. /g
The name of the episode is a reference to the film and novel The Manchurian Candidate.
Mosco: "Can't wait to see the Bill stuff again"
Also Mosco: 22:09
It's a shame that Tyler becomes the most tyrannical mayor imaginable. It's funny that Bill inadvertently saves the town from him and is hailed a hero.
My favourite thing about this episode is how it foreshadowed the time Grunkle Stans committed voter fraud during the 2021 American Elections with a big ol' sack and became a local hero all so that he could have a medal from Rudy Giuliani
In a later episode, it's revealed that tad strange is actually an experimental AI created by the US government designed to perfectly imitate a human being.
Codes:
“GIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT ‘EM” (give or take some I’s and T’s”
“BE WARY OF WHOM YOU BELITTLE
BIG PROBLEMS CAN START OUT WIDDLE”
Stan's next crime: Hamish-napping. The only question is where he's going to put Hamish.
You forgot corruption! It's essential for politicians even more important than manipulation. And that's saying something.
"Here in the UK we don't have weird political candidates." - I present to you: Lord Buckethead
No acknowledgement for Tad Strange? The guy loves his bread!
One thing you left out about what Politicians do (at least in some places, including England) is publicly acting like a middle school class.
7:12 you left out the boasting about your crimes that you got away with by being extremely rich
7:47 you forgot bribery and playing dirty tricks on their competition
This video hits different after Elijah's stream...
The Manchurian Candidate
BOOK: 1959
FILM: 1962 Frank Sinatra
FILM: 2004 Denzel Washington
Mosco: Hi, I'm an idiot.
Tad: I'm Strange.
Tad Strange's full name is
Abbott Tadius Strange.
😂A. Tad Strange😂
Well well well well well well well well well well well, aren’t you a sight for sore eye!
The UK has plenty of outlandish candidates. Lord Bucket Head, the Monster Raving Loony Party, Natural Law, generally in higher profile by-elections to parliament, though Lord Buckethead stood for London mayor 15:10
Okay, so every day I check UA-cam to see if you've uploaded anything new. I really want to watch the other shows you've reacted or are reacting to so I can follow along on your videos. Especially as you close in on the end of this series.
This was a fun episode. And the show gets pretty heavy from here. I keep looking forward to seeing more videos from you!
Wait till you get to the scuttlebutt episode, it's a creature that lives and Gravity Falls that looks like Bigfoot with a stock of celery in place of one of his hands and Patrick Duffy in place of one of his legs. Also he likes the weave baskets.
"Am I missing anything out?"
ooh! ooh! you forgot the homophobia! dont forget that! almost every politician has that 🎉
Honestly Gravity Falls’ mayoral election process isn’t the worst I’ve seen. It seems immune to gerrymandering at least
I wonder what you think each of the symbols mean. Because we have seen each of the symbols in the show before.
Illegal Pug Trafficking, the ultimate crime!
YES! Love this episode! Especially with Gideon involved, and that ending though.
She's good at guessing what's going to happen, but she just has no idea what's coming.
About Stan (not) being hunched over... For me, being hunched over is my natural stance, because it's comfortable. I *can* straighten my back and stand upright, but it hurts my back, and requires actual effort to keep it up... Like, I can't just walk with my back straight, and forget I'm doing it, I have to do it intentionally, which requires dealing with discomfort... I've always been like this, or at least for as long as I can remember. I wonder if it's because my schoolbooks were *WAY* too heavy. I didn't have a locker so they were in my schoolbag (backpack) every day.
Manchruian Candidate was a movie based on a book about a politician's son being brainwashed into becoming a Communist assassin. That's the reference in the title.
Lying and manipulation are politician traits directly because of democracy. When the only requirement to getting a position of power is "make more people like you", then lying to and manipulating the voters is a far easy way to win than actually building up the skills required for the job. In fact, often having the skills for the job makes people *not like you* and therefore makes you less likely to win. Is it backwards? Absolutely. But that's democracy for you. We use expert-determined meritocracy for every other job in the world except reality competition shows and politics... let that grouping sink in.
I gotta say; if my choice for president was between Trump, DeSantis or Stan...Stan would seem like the better option.
YES, he's committed his own fair share of crimes but Stan actually LEARNED from his mistakes. Meanwhile, the former president continues to lie about what HE did wrong and DeSantis continues his ongrowing crusade to destroy the LGBT.
Seems like Stan is the better person, in spite of his flaws
At 7:14 you forgot they can also extort and blackmail their competitors and voters
I recognize that "please stand by" from anywhere.
6:54 Wee Lass for Pesident, Prime Minister, and Head Mage-n-Chief.
Remember that pug trafficking it comes up later
Um deep disappointment to bestow on their public.
the only thing she can't figure out is how smart she is
Mosco being super based this episode
That "Twat" face, I'm losing it 😂
We can all agree who the best character is in the show:
Tad Strange
Codes: GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT'EM! and BE WARY OF WHOM YOU BELITTLE, BIG PROBLEMS CAN START OUT WIDDLE.
I forgot this episode existed XD
3:00 What's going on here? I don't get it
I live in Texas of US, and a few nights ago we had a bit of a tornado come through and took out the power to most of my area. So I'm sitting in a pretty hot room about to watch an even hotter reaction. Sorry about the sweat, I swear I'm just hot and not nervous. Supposed to get to 90F (About 32C according to google).
I feel like gaslighting is more difficult in the internet age.😅
Any gaslighting is either allowed or forbidden by the social media companies depending on political views of the companies.
Dear people, does her triangle necklace have any meaning?
That is a Triforce. It has a lot of meaning, but the most important one is probably that she seems to like the Legend of Zelda games.
You got it
Credits: “GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT 'EM!” (Key Word-Workinit)
Page: “Be wary of whom you belittle, Big Problems can start out “Widdle”
And that puts me caught up on this and She-Ra.
Made it here just in time too.
Bill Cypher is my favorite Lovecraftian Entity in any TV show.
Fake spoilers... let's see...
The whole show is actually taking place in McGucket's head in 1982, and the last shot is him coming back out of the portal.
Lazy Suzan was the key all along. If you look back on it, you'll see all the clues.
The title is a reference to the Manchurian candidate. A political thriller novel about a member of a U.S. political family being brainwashed to become an assassin for the soviets.
You forgot brown-nosing all the large, destructive, unethical companies
Your sweater's giving Angel Dust! 😆