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Gravity Falls: Boss Mabel

Reviewed: 11/05/2017

Having Hawaiian Shirt Day Everyday!


Okay; here's the plot for this thrilling episode: When Mabel questions the way Stan runs the Mystery Shack, he challenges her to a bet – whoever can make the most money in three days wins the chance to run the Shack however they wish for the rest of the summer. Mabel takes the bet and implements a new bossing method that coddles her employees and gives them the freedom to follow their hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, the results are not as expected and Mabel finds herself just trying to get back some normalcy. Meanwhile, Grunkle Stan sets off to win big money on a television game show. So, how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!

Boss Mabel is written by Tim McKeon and Old Man McGucket. Storyboards were done by Chris Sonnenburg and Niki Yang; while direction is done by John Aoshima. Animation is done by Digital Emation Inc.


Episode opened with a shot of the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM and then we head in the living room with Stan, Mabel and Dipper watching television. Mabel is eating a box of crackers with Waddles sitting next to her. They are watching Cash Wheel; which is basically a parody of Wheel Of Fortune which is sponsered by the same crackers Mabel was just eating. The host is a black man with black hair, mustache wearing a red suit with striped white tie voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, and his name is Rich. Nowhere near related to Tommy Rich. Anyhow; someone gets a cash shower as Stan sings along with the audience. Stan claims to love that guy's style which begs the question: The host or the guy getting showered with money and punching and shoving the contestents afterwards. Because if it's the later; he's not only an asshole, he's a bigot. Soos comes in panicking because the tourists have arrived. So a bus arrives as the brown goat named Gompers bleets; as I realize it's the same goat from Bottomless Pit. Yeah; I did that episode first, so shoot me. Stan loves this as he orders Soos to make some new attractions (and generally mess the area up), Wendy to mark up the prices (and generally not give two damns about it), and Dipper complaining about Stan treating customers like wallets with legs. That's unpossible Dipper; that would mean Stan is on the GAAS~! So Stan looks out the window and sees a family coming in; only he literally sees them as wallets with legs. Damn; those glasses make rose-colored glasses seem believable. One child comes out and throws up; which explains why they did the wallets with legs joke in the first place. He's throwing up MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH! Stan rubs his eyes and orders Dipper to mop up the mess of money vomit. Dipper sighs and takes the cleaning stuff outside. WE HIT THE OPENING~! So the kid with the prop top hat puts a penny into the jukebox of doom and out comes a card that thanks the kid for the penny. I betcha the card cost more than the penny he put in; so hell of a profit scheme there, Stan. We head inside the Mystery (S)hack as Stan is doing the grand tour of the most blandish redneck shack ever made.

We get a picture of a horse riding another horse and calling it so wrong. The crowd is taking pictures in awe; so it doesn't take much to amuse them. Stan goes to a conveniently placed curtain and unveil Dipper wearing a wolf's costume and looking like a furry cosplayer on stage. Dipper takes out the wolf fangs and calls this demeaning. Stan claims that he doesn't know "de meaning" of that word; because he's a scumbag and the adults laugh, so it's clear the bus tourists were plants who think Stan is hilarious. Stan then claims that if they throw money at him, he dances. The tourist throw money on him; he dances and sweats; now it's truly demeaning and completely violating consent laws; which no one should be surprised by. Jump cut to the gift shop as Mabel is tending the counter and showing off a bowl of bumper stickers; while wearing a sweater with a hamburger on front and fries on the arms. Mabel shows off one called "What Is The Mystery Shack?" claiming that you can stick it to a bumper or over your husband's mouth as a woman with a pointed nose and a wide mouth, and she wears a pair of glasses and black stud earrings proclaims that Mabel is bad...but in a "you are salty" kind of way. She is normally seen carrying around a brown purse. She has reddish-brown hair, wears a navy blue long-sleeved shirt with a white undershirt, blue ankle pants, and brown flats. I believe she is voiced by Jennifer Cody and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Her career began as Dainty June in the touring production of Gypsy immediately after graduationg from college.[2] She then began her stage career on Broadway as a replacement in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats in the role of Rumpleteazer (after touring with the production). She was featured in Grease as Cha-Cha (replacement), Beauty and the Beast as a Silly Girl (replacement), Seussical (as Cat's Helper and Ensemble) (2000),[4] Urinetown the Musical (2001), Taboo (2003), and The Pajama Game (as (Poopsie) (2006).[1]

She starred as the Shoemaker's Elf, among other characters, in the original Broadway cast of Shrek the Musical, opposite sister-in-law Sutton Foster, from November 2008[5][1] through August 2009. She performed Off-Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of the Andrew Lippa musical The Wild Party (as Mae) in 2000.[6] Cody appeared in the role of Annie in the musical version of the children's book Henry and Mudge in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and received a Drama League Award nomination.[7][8] She played Junie in Junie B. Jones in 2008 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre[9] She also played Betty in the staged concert of No, No Nanette at New York City Center Encores! in 2008 opposite Sandy Duncan and Mara Davi.[10] In regional theatre, Cody performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Milburn, New Jersey as the wicked stepsister Joy in the musical Cinderella in October 2005 to December 2005[11] and as Hildy in On The Town in November and December 2009.[12] Cody appeared at the The Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts) in productions of Lend Me a Tenor (as Maggie) in 2007,[13] Moon Over Buffalo in 2009 (as Rosalind) with Gary Beach, John Scherer and her husband, Hunter Foster.[14] and appears in The Odd Couple in June 2014 as one of the Pigeon sisters with Michael McGrath and Noah Racey.[15] This cast had performed The Odd Couple at the Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, New York in April 2014 through May 18, 2014.[16] Cody played roles in Oklahoma (as Ado Annie) and Into the Woods (2009) (as Little Red) at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.[17] At the Ogunquit Playhouse (Ogunquit, Maine) Cody played Natalie Haller in All Shook Up opposite Sally Struthers in 2009[18] and appeared in Damn Yankees as Gloria in 2012.[19]

She performed at the Sacramento Music Circus, starring in productions of West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street and Oklahoma! as Ado Annie in 2004.[20] Cody voiced Charlotte La Bouff in the Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog (2009).[25] She voiced Fifi the Zebra in the Triggerfish Studio animation film Khumba (2013).[26] Cody was featured on the Law & Order episode "Crimebusters" as Vicki Sandusky, which was televised in 2009.[27] Cody was a series regular on the short-lived CBS television show Untitled Paul Reiser Project, (2006) playing Clarissa Ruiz.[28][29] She also provides the voice of Darcy on the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club.[30][31] She can be heard on the cast albums of Lippa's The Wild Party (2000),[32] Vincent Youmans's Through The Years (2001),[33] The Pajama Game, with Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara, Shrek the Musical with Sutton Foster and Brian d'Arcy James (2009),[34] Taboo and Seussical. She began her acting career as Duloc Doll in Regis & Kelly In Prime Time in 2002. Gravity Falls is her DTVA debut and only appearance. OTP (Christina), Lucky Stiff (Mary Alice), Blue Bloods (Amber) and Unforgettable (Paula White) are her most recent credits. She has 19 Acting credits and 9 Self credits to her resume. She asks how much this will cost and Mabel proclaims that it's on the house and does the "Nintendo Difference" promo with a wink and a thank you for visiting. Stan is screaming behind a dummy of himself with a paper that reads "Spend" and demands answers to this outrage. Mabel claims that she's doing business while making bell ringing sounds. Stan turns Mabel around informing her that she cannot make money by giving stuff away; which is kind of true, but considering that they watched Cash Wheel; this is sort of hypocritical. And Stan is kind of a scumbag actually. Stan boots Mabel off cash making duties and we go into a long sequence of forcing Stan to say please; complete with stickers of "please" and "thank you" in Stan's face. HA!

"Please" goes onto the cash register while "Thank You" goes to the back of Soos' head. I guess "kick me" was too bigoted even for this show. Dipper comes in whining about wearing a wolf costume because he's scratching his legs and might be getting hookworm. Stan laughs it off because he wants to see Dipper suffer, thus setting back the furry movement by about three years or so. Dipper throws down his ears and claims that Stan should hunt down a real attraction which can be easily found in the forest instead of faking and lying about it. Oh please Dipper; how will I enjoy professional wrestling now with your attitude? At least concussion knowledge and steroid use are legit concerns in that business! Mabel demands better treatment of employees too; and they slap skin. Considering that they are under the age of eighteen, they should not be on the payroll at all. Stan blows them off and shows a filled up trash bin to zing them. Mabel has a purple pen with a troll on the top as she write a strongy-worded letter about how awful Stan's business is. HAHA! Mabel covers the letter and this segueways to the kids and Wendy painting the Mystery (S)Hack logo in purple lit paint glitter; with Stan ordering them not to stop until it's done. Soos gets attacked by a bald eagle for more abuse, because Soos apparently hasn't been screwed enough in this episode as it is. Soos bails, Stan laughs and leaves; Dipper is pissed off because Stan is the worst boss ever. Soos goes into a long sequence of suggesting he be the official mascot of the Mystery Shack; called Questiony The Question Mark. Let me guess; he rejected it because he didn't want to pay royalites to a latino guy. What a bigoted asshole Stan is?! And Mabel is PISSED and I do mean PISSED! Uh-oh! Her bigotry sensors are at full power now as we jump cut to the bus leaving with Stan carrying the money jar proclaiming that he puts the "fun" in no re"fun"ds. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Stan walks in --calling them suckers -- and then closes the door, Mabel shows up, out of nowhere with the Gruffi pose on full blast. So this segueway into Stan's office for the meeting of the minds; which would be a main event anywhere in the business world. Not. Anyway; the guise of this is: Stan basically claims that a boss must command respect or people will walk all over him if he gives them everything and Mabel disagrees with him on it.

Here's the thing: Absolution 90% of the time, doesn't work. Yes; you do have to command some respect on some level in order to keep things from getting way out of hand. But Stan isn't commanding respect because there is NO respect for what he does. He doesn't know the word respect and even if he did, he has contempt for it. In order to command respect, you have to EARN respect and Stan's scumbagish ways prevent him from doing that. So Mabel's complaints are completely justified and understandable. However; as you will see, Mabel's way of proving herself is going to backfire so hard, it makes her look like a stupid idiot. More on that as we go along. Mabel slaps a purple star sticker on her face as Stan decides to call her bluff on this one. The rules of engagement are: Mabel gets to run the place for 72 hours while Stan goes on vacation. If Mabel makes more money than Stan does; Stan will concede that he should respect his workers more, Mabel gets to run the place for the rest of the summer and Stan has to sing an apology song written by Mabel. If Stan makes more money than Mabel does; she must wear a white shirt that says "Loser" in black maker for the rest of the summer. BURN BABEE BURN! (Since the sweaters are part of Mabel's character actually) This better end with Mabel winning; because the payoff songs hilarious to me. Stan shakes on this deal; they say deal a lot and then Mabel seals it with a purple heart on Stan's nose. Jump cut to Mabel holding the money jar, watching Stan wearing a blue popcorn shirt and white pants packing the back of his car. Stan taunts her, throws the fez cap on her head and goes into his car. He drives away as Dipper comes in, asking if she made a bet with a con-man. Mabel basically admits it because making profit will be a cinch. Yes folks; this is Double Or Nothing now, and whatever. Mabel also smashes the money jar in response and then claims that she can always get a new one; because there's no way Stan is going to win this bet since he's a scumbag and the world outside Gravity Falls won't buy into his schemes. Would they? Jump cut to the backstage area of Cash Wheel as a black shirt director is writing on a clipboard and notices Stan standing proud because he's the next contestent on Cash Wheel BABEE! Well; there goes any hope of Mabel winning this one. That ends the segment seven minutes in. Well; at least Mabel is not Baloo, so this will be far less painful than Double or Nothing at least.

After the commercial break; we head inside Boss Mabel's office, which looks so hilarious that I'm shocked Nintendo hasn't stolen it yet for Reggie's office. Anyhow; Dipper, Soos, and Wendy all walk into the office as Mabel turns around and looks like the biggest CEO tool ever witnessed. Yup; she's wearing the "Loser" shirt when this is over. We also get off two more references to death as everyone exchanges notes on the situation as Soos looks like a stupid idiot as usual. Mabel also bought shoulder pads to make her look more bossy, I suppose. Rebecca would laugh Mabel out of the building if she saw this, Mabel's being so overdramatic. See; she's the Computerized Woman of 1983 if you believe the book she held up. She's also drinking from a coffee mug that says #2 boss as Dipper questions this; Mabel claims that the real number one is them as she holds up a mirror to them. She walks them over to a chalkboard and reveals her Krackpotkin Plan for "Success" and then slaps thumbs up stickers on them. Ooooookkkkaaayyyy. Waddles is the secretary and gnaws on the phone and drools on it when Mabel tells him to hold her calls. Mabel goes to the gift shop and sits on a chair backwards. Basically; Mabel lets Wendy hang out with her friends at work, Soos gets to be Questionary The Question Mark mascot and Dipper gets to explore the entire area as she destroys the wolf costume, getting off two more death references as we are up to four. I should note that the shredder is called Shred Pal (TM). So Dipper takes out a morning star and falls out of an open window like a moron. There is forty eight hours left as Mabel wants everyone to show her that nice bosses finish first. Mabel draws a red marker on the top of the new money jar on the counter, as she wants $600 billion. Wendy questions this as Mabel feeds dollar bills to Waddles as she wants Waddles to get her a latte. Yup; that "LOSER" shirt is as good as worn now because Mabel is acting the opposite end of the Absolution spectrum, which fails as much as Stan's Absolution. When you deal with absolutes, you look like a fool. Mabel has too many scruples to bail herself out of it. And Stan know it, too.

Jump cut to the audition line up to Cash Wheel as Stan is deep within the line and as I expected, Stan has no patience nor scruples whatsoever as he fakes a heart attack. Of course; if this were a sane universe, everyone would not buy Stan's heart attack simply because he mentions being a contestent on Cash Wheel. The black shirt director talks to a red shirt exec as the red shirt exec proclaims that Stan is a scumbag with no human decency...and they are going to put him on television. Of course! Jump cut to Mabel giving a thumbs up in the mirror and it's MONTAGE TIME with TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM, which is a rarity on this show actually. There are a lot of changes, mostly with Mabel being cocky and replacing an eagle's head with her own on a motivational poster. Yawn! I also see the water cooler replaced with chocolate milkshake of course. So the shack is under management as seen on the poster and all the tourists walk out the shack and literally put money into Mabel's money jar. Mabel thanks them for coming as Dipper comes in with a giant sack of something that manages to bit Dipper on the arm; so Dipper punches it in the face. Yeah; maybe you should come back with a less dangerous, but still awesome attraction, Dipper. Soos is in a conveniently placed Port-A-Potty wearing the Questionary The Question Mark as Mabel seems to already love it, but Soos is having second thoughts. Soos comes out and is clearly wearing this costume the wrong way; as Mabel tells him to imaginze it and somehow, no rainbows come out, just to complete the obvious Spongebob SquarePants "imagination" promo knock off. Soos has no idea what that means; so Mabel shuts him up in a funny way before backing up telling Soos to believe in himself. Soos stammers like a stupid idiot as the wind blows and he shivers because it's cold, even though it's summer. Mabel walks into the gift shop and it's a mess as Wendy is with Nate, Lee, Thompson and Tambry. No Robbie in this one; why? Why not?!

So they are kicking around a goblin head and one of the idiots unintentionally kicks it into the eye of a kid named Billy. Billy's mother is pissed as Mabel gives her a refund and the mother steals money from the jar before leaving in an angry rage. Mabel gets on Wendy's case about the cleaning up. Personally; I would just tell her to make sure none of her friends doesn't hit anyone else in the eye at this point, because we should at least respect the customers as well. But since Mabel wants Wendy to clean up the mess; Wendy takes offense to this and accuses Mabel of acting like Stan. Mabel is all on defense here, like a football player with shoulderpads on. Mabel tells Wendy that she is basically suspended for the rest of the day with pay and Wendy is all like "okay" complete with thumbs up and leaves. Mabel pats herself on the shoulderpads on a job not done and then Soos gets pepper sprayed by a woman who screams after seeing Soos as Questionary The Question Mark. Wear some clothes for god sakes, Soos! Fade to black and we start CASH WHEEL OF FORTUNE~ with Rich Callahan. Okay; I made up about half of that promo; but whatever. Spinning logo splashes into the hard camera, making it clear that this is a parody of Wheel of Fortune. So we meet the contestents, who are decked out in dollar bills with their mugshots in the middle. The first is Doug from Fairfield, California, who looks generic. Donna tries to tell us her name; but Stan cuts her off and introduces himself complete with cash register sounds. Rich looks like he wants to be somewhere else as he laughs this off as this is going to be a long night. Compared to Mabel's long night, I think Stan is winning here. I see the heat machine is officially on tonight. Stan takes the red one and I feel bad for poor Doug having to draw the short straw in taking Gedo's favorite color here. And Stan cuts off Rich and laughs because he's a scumbag. So we have Carla, who has tan skin and long curly brown hair that goes down to her waist. She is seen wearing large, round, pink earrings along with a pink, sparkly dress and bright pink lipstick. Her high heels are also pink. She's playing Vanna White in this gimmick.

Stan cuts her off wanting some "S"'s. Umm; Stan doesn't even know DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS~!) of this game and accuses MABEL of not knowing business? For shame, Stan; for shame! Oh wait; that would imply that Stan has a sense of shame. Rich tries to point that out; but two S's appear in the first and last letter anyway. Stan wants to solve the puzzle now as Rich insists that the game hasn't started yet and Stan solves the puzzle as "Shut your yaps"?! I betcha it is. I check the DVD....Damn; I'm good. Stan gets $1000 despite not spinning the wheel at all; and even Rich has to concede that this was well played. I betcha Stan stole the random sentence generator this game has too. Stan crosses his fingers for the cash shower after spinning the wheel and it lands on cash shower, so Stan must have gimmicked the wheel while no one was looking. Stan cheers and then strips on television, much to the disgust of Rich. Stan is to his boxer shorts as Rich covers the hard camera and we go to commercial. Fade to black as we head to the Mystery (S)hack as we head inside to see two tourists looking at a piece of paper inside the area where the stage is. Dipper introduces himself beside his morning star and makes sure to bury Stan in the process during his promo. He claims that he's Honest Dipper (Riiiiggggghhhtttt...Talk honestly about your insecurities and I might believe you...Might...) as he gets off death reference #5 for the episode (and the first kill word of the episode); as he shows off a giant goblin version of a gargoyle in a steel cage. Dipper pats Mystery Book #3 inside his vest for fun and the goblin spits out a skeleton bone arm and hand with a ring attached to it. OUCH! The female tourist isn't buying it because there are strings...made of body hair. Pfft; whatever. So the tourists look at the six-pack-a-lope and I don't have to describe the thing as it speaks for itself. Pfft, give it eight pack abs and I might be impressed. The male tourist takes pictures and Dipper is offended by this and does the old Vince Russo thing; only Dipper at least is acting his age, unlike Vince. Dipper motions them over to the goblin and claims that if you look into his eyes, you will see your worst nightmare. As opposed to the rose-colored glassed from Dave The Barbarian (nope; I'm not stooping to that joke today)? Anyhow; they look into the eyes and they are shell shocked so much that we segueway to them being put on stretchers and into the back of an ambulance and the ambulance drives away.

Dipper feels bad and we head to the gift shop as Mabel is just working like a boss and completely screwing up everything, and somehow the customers cannot help; but feel bad for Mabel and happy that she's doing this. Mabel slumps down in front of the counter with the radio clock as there is 22 hours and 57 minutes left in the bet. Dipper slumps down with her and they exchange notes on the situation. Mabel explains that she gave Wendy the rest of the day off; so she did her job. Dipper tells her to be a little tougher and Mabel instantly blows it off because that would mean Stan was right all along. See; this is why moral absolution almost never works. Sure; there are moments where it is absolutely neccessary in order to maintain real life. But when you do it all the time; it creates the bigots and assholes of the world because they don't realize that life is much more complex than they think it is. Mabel's simpleton approach will be the loser of her; and might even be the death of her if she doesn't toughen up a bit, for self-preservation sake. Mabel of course no sells the deal and then the GOBLIN OF DEATH comes in and it's showing off it's boobies. And has mushrooms for shoulderpads. The customers all run out of the (s)hack as Dipper demands to know how the goblin got out of the cage; and this leads to a flashback as Mabel put the WCW KEY OF DOOM inside the damn cage and offered the monster a five minute break. Awww! My heart melted. Yes; what Mabel did was reckless and irresponsible; but never mind the fact that Dipper CAUGHT this beast IN THE FIRST PLACE is also reckless and irresponsible. Dipper is angry at Mabel as Mabel also told Soos to take a soothing nature walk to let him breathe. So we logically segueway to Soos walking in the woods in his underwear and socks as a storm is brewing and a wolf is howling. So back at the gift shop as the goblin is wrecking the joint; somehow, him throwing a television set in the living room turns it on to reveal Rich proclaiming that Stan Pines could be the next champion, and he has already won $100,000. Yup; Dipper is going to being that "L" for the rest of her life, let alone summer now. And wouldn't you know, Stan shows off the loser shirt just to rub it in. Wooden Golden Sun coin destroys the exit door and that ends the segment 15 minutes in. Wow; Stan is carrying this episode to a decent outing for a change. Imagine that! Grunkle Stan -- the worst character of this show -- is carrying this episode kicking and screaming. It seems to me that the Mabel awesomeness shine is starting to wear off; which is a bad sign for her when it took more than 60 episodes before Kit's shine wore off.

After the commercial break; the goblin stalks Mabel and Dipper as they hide in the living room by going through the door that says "Employees Only". Despite a hole clearly in the wall; somehow the goblin doesn't see them and just decides to steal Mabel's stickers and puts them on him. When he puts on the "You're A Star" sticker on, he smiles as the kids close the door. HAHA! Mabel wonders what to do; because he's stealing sticker he didn't even earn. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. Dipper consults the Mystery Book #3 and apparently, water works...Mabel runs in and splashes a glass of water and it doesn't work as it turns into Bronx from Gargoyles now. Even Dipper is blowing this off; so you know that sucks. Oh; and a poor cucko-clock just got flamethrowered as Dipper claims that he will leave soon enough. So it's BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset) as the Bronx Goblin is playing with the Singing Salmon trophy over and over again. Of course! Pfft; whatever. Unlike most people; I do not get offended by these trends; however dated. Mostly because I watch TaleSpin on a regular basis and everything in that show is from the 1930'; thus is dated from day one. Even though most critic praise THAT show anyway. Mabel protests this and then runs in because Bronx Goblin just found the money jar. This is truly not going to end well for Mabel as she gets grabbed literally seconds later. Mabel protests this outrage and wishes she had an evil eye to stop it; and then looks into the monsters' eyes and she's shell shocked. Dipper then sees their way out as somehow; he stole Mabel's mirror and uses it on the goblin. You can guess the rest from here as it's the same finish used to stop Medusa because turning to stone is too scary to be used on this flimsy episode. The best part of this was the dream sequence of him looking exactly like his father as he stares into a mirror inside his own musty cave. Bronx Goblin flies away and destroys a totem pole and a car on the way out.

Dipper is not happy about this as somehow the timer shows up out of nowhere as there is seven hours left before Stan is victorious and playing Bobby Roode's theme song. Too bad Disney doesn't have the licensing rights to the song...yet. Suddenly, Wendy and Soos return and Mabel is glad to see them...for three seconds as Wendy and Soos completely try to weasel their way out of cleaning up the place for Stan because Wendy has a headache and Soos wants to be raised by wolves. Sorry Soos; but Kit already beat you to that gimmick and it's old dirt now. Soos also wants dibs on the three pop treats on the floor, completely out of nowhere. Mabel is almost broken and as they turn around to leave, Mabel then breaks her pen and she is PISSED. And I do mean PISSED. I'm just going to copy and paste from the Gravity Falls wikia, the transcript of Mabel's triade here. This might be the funniest ish I have ever heard:

Mabel

ENOUGH! I have HAD IT! I fought a monster to save this business, and this is how you repay me?! I'm gonna get an ulcer from your lollygagging!

Wendy

Lollygagging?

Soos

Ulcer? You're acting... different.

Mabel

You shut your yaps! I've been doing everyone's job while you bums have been bleeding me dry!

Wendy

But I-

Mabel

No buts except yours on the floor cleaning! Now quit loafing and get to work!

Wendy

Yes, Mabel.

Mabel

That's yes, BOSS! (Slams her hand on the counter and Stan's fez falls and lands on her head. She looks in the mirror and gasps.)



Yeah; I decided to use a chart for the first time in my career. Don't get used to it, okay? Mabel just realized that all she did was the exact same form of absolution, only she had the scruples and thus almost killed herself in the process in the name of respect. This tirade was complete self-preservation on her part and let's face it: Mabel at least tried to do her job and everyone, including her screwed it up royalfully. If anyone should be called out on the floor, it's Dipper for capturing that dangerous beast in the first place. That doesn't happen; although Dipper takes Mabel's side on this whole tirade. The storyline was that Mabel is supposed to be a horrible boss; but when she finally realized that her logic wasn't working and that Stan's worked, we were suppose to hate her for doing it, but since Mabel did (almost) all the work (with some help from Dipper) covering Soos and Wendy's ass, Mabel ends up being a bigger babyface acting like Stan, because unlike Stan, Mabel is not a scumbag. She's naive, but not a scumbag. So this renders the ending in which Mabel wins the bet (Spoiler Alert everyone!), but barely because Stan has to be a stupid idiot in order to continue Mabel's sweater gimmick since losing would mean an end to the gimmick that does many buys. And speaking of Mr. Scumbag; he just got the cash flood on Cash Wheel; Stan wins $300,000 and is buried in a cash tomb; the only one that makes Stan happy. He's also not giving any of this to chairty, not that it matters anymore. So Rich offers him to go home; or we play Double Or Nothing for real. Stan teases going for option one by turning his back and then returns to risk it all; because he's really stupid. Crowd cheers on as we jump cut to the totem pole being repaired as Mabel is on the megaphone yelling orders as a bus shows up in front of the shack. Mabel barks at Dipper, Dipper complains, Mabel blows him off and orders him to come up with anything. I do agree with Dipper being a knucklehead though. So Dipper ponders this over. We jump cut to him with the tourists while he gives the grand tour dressed up as Stan Junior as Soos becomes the horrible Question Mark Baby as Dipper offers them to take picture for one...hundred...bucks! Crowd teases turning and then offers the shack money. Dipper waves at the crowd as the tourists leave and it's the fun in no refunds. Dipper really is better at faking than Stan is. Partially because he's a kid and the tourists aren't going to punch down on him.

Dipper flips the eyepatch as we go into the gift shop as they filled the money jar successfully. However; we have to do the accounting to replace all the stuff due to damages and the profit came out to one dollar. So the door open and in comes Stan who has a timer of his own, for no reason. So Dipper is not thrilled by Stan's comment about dressing up as Mabel asks how much he beat her by and Stan claims that he got $300,000...and it's all over...for Stan. Because you see; Stan couldn't solve a one word puzzle word known as please since Stan is a complete scumbag and that kills his reputation. So yes; his lack of scruples cost him a bet with Mabel Pines. I realize that "Status Quo Is God" and you cannot do the "Loser Shirt" gimmick on Mabel; but come on, now! And yes; there was a flashback ending with Mabel pointing out the sticker on the cash register that Stan slapped on. So yes; Mabel won and the employees want no more of Mabel's bossassery anymore (and even MABEL doesn't want this anymore) as Mabel admits that she didn't win until she became like Stan and gives Stan the fez cap back as Stan is the boss now. Stan even hugs Dipper and Mabel for fun, because he's back. Stan orders them off of him; and orders Wendy and Soos back to work, please. Soos and Wendy bail stage left as Stan has "Please" back pain of doom still. Dipper then remembers (somehow; because I don't recall Dipper knowing this) that Stan still has to sing the "I was wrong song" written by Mabel and do a stupid dance, since Mabel still won the bet anyway. Stan panics on cue and stammers like an idiot as Mabel brings out her notes and Wendy bails to get the camera. Stan teases accepting this and then runs away stage left. Mabel yells at him...and the ending shows Stan wearing a golden cheese jogging suit and coat with slippers on against a green curtain background as the video camera is on. Stan protest this outrage; but Mabel blows him off. So we do the stupidest dance I have ever seen complete with a parody of Lambchop's Play-Along Song "I'm going to sing the "I was right" song". It ends with Gompers eating Stan's fez cap and Stan protesting this outrage. Mabel is the director of this and asks Waddles for approval. Waddles oinks "This is crap; do it again!" and it's take #30. HAHA! This song is sung and danced in such a crappy way; I cannot take a * off this episode. That ends the episode and the second DVD set at 21:34. Somehow; this ending was a lot more fitting than Stan falling in a bottomless pit saying that this is stupid. This episode was a lot better than it had any right to be; mostly for Stan's segment (along with the ending) and Mabel's tirade at the climax. The rest was hit and miss. *** 1/2 (70%).


THE REVIEW LINE

Well; despite a lot of fury and stupidity, this episode was good actually. Sure; the whole Mabel as the boss thing is so stupid and most of the damage can be blamed on Dipper; I came out loving Mabel even more now thanks to the tirade she demonstrated in the climax. As much as I didn't like the finish because they had to render Stan into a braindead idiot with the "slip on the banana peel; my scummy makes me not believe words like please exist" to prevent Mabel from losing, at least the word he lost too was a payoff to the beginning of the episode. The ending was hilarious and Stan on Cash Wheel was in fact funny, so good job Grunkle Stan. The Dipper stuff was just stupid and it didn't help the storyline which was Mabel had to stoop to Stan's level to be effective, simply because Mabel (and Dipper) were being honest kids and actually tried to make this work. Soos and Wendy showed they didn't have the work ethic to make it work and thus it put sympathy heat back on Mabel. I felt bad for her; even if her way of things was her ultimate undoing. This is what happens when you play with moral absolution, we now have two fools and Mabel is still going to get sympathy heat, simply because she just naive, unlike Stan; who is a scumbag. However; SQIG and Stan has to be the boss, although Mabel's confession in the end was a valid promo, it still doesn't make me want to like Stan here. Overall; this was a better episode than it had any right to be. Kind of like Double Or Nothing from TaleSpin actually; inspite of the scumminess of Baloo Von Bruinwald XIII. So that ends Gravity Falls, and I'm not going to do a tally count here. Let's just say this show has more thumbs down than TaleSpin after 14 episodes and be done with it. So...

Thumbs in the middle for this episode and I'll see you all next time.

 

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