A Tale of Two Stans is THE episode of Gravity Falls. (This video includes spoilers for The Book of Bill.)

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Content warnings for:
Discussions of homelessness, discussions of antisemitism, discussions of abuse and occasional adult humor

Closed captioning by
David Glennon
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(Seriously, I cannot recommend David's work enough!!!!)

Thumbnail art by StephReynaArt:   / stephreynaart  
Ford voice by Nour386 :   / nour386  

Gravity Falls team resources I referred to throughout this video:
Sage Cotugno’s storyboards, which are honestly some of my favorite storyboards in this series: https://www.scribd.com/user/272934818...
https://www.tiktok.com/@arythusa/phot...
Ian Worrel’s paintings for ATOTS: https://graviteamfalls.tumblr.com/po...

Fandom resources:
Fandom analysis on what Glass Shard Beach could be based on: https://www.tumblr.com/eregyrnfalls/...
(Also shout out to Eregyrn for helping me find not one, but two assets for this video. Seriously, y’all archives in fandom are so important)
Search for the Blind Eye website: https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/...
The Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel’s video on Stan’s tattoo:    • STAN'S TATTOO (DIPPERS GUIDE TO THE U...  
Grunkle for Grandpa FAQ: https://moonturtle6.tumblr.com/post/1...
Analysis of Gravity Falls by Jewish fans:
https://www.tumblr.com/possumbreath/7...
https://runrundoyourstuff.tumblr.com/...
My ancient timeline post that since has become even more bad: https://www.tumblr.com/fordtato/14354...
My interview with Alex Hirsch:    • Interview with Alex Hirsch: Unlocking...  
My interview with Rob Renzetti:    • An Interview with Rob Renzetti on Gra...  

Channels that inspired this vid
   / @quintonreviews  
   / @overanalyzingavatar  
   / @johnny2cellos  

End credits song arrangement:    • Madness  Our House  (piano tutorial)  

Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro and disclaimers
5:48 Cold Open in Glass Shard Beach
14:58 Meeting Ford in the Portal Room
32:41 Finding the Stan O War
45:19 Montage of their preteenage years
54:38 Called to the principal's office
1:03:24 Breaking the perpetual motion machine
1:11:13 Stan gets kicked out
1:24:16 Stan as a deconstruction of antisemitic tropes
1:27:20 Stan’s career in sales
1:38:24 Ford in Backupsmore
1:51:58 Stan living in his car
2:00:36 Ford begins to keep a journal
2:09:35 Overanalyzing Shmebulock.
2:15:47 Everything in Ford’s Lab
2:23:10 Ford calls Fiddleford McGucket
2:29:04 The Portal Test
2:44:42 Ford Calls Stan
2:51:22 Commercial Break
2:53:20 HAVE YOU COME TO STEAL MY EYES
3:06:27 The argument
3:17:36 The portal incident + Aftermath
3:27:28 Dusk2Dawn circa 1983
3:34:25 Stan becomes Mr. Mystery
3:46:07 Getting rid of the agents
3:51:17 Overanalyzing Gompers the goat
4:00:19 When did we become old men?
4:04:15 Mabel in the attic
04:10:27 How I feel about ATOTS