Review: Gravity Falls – “Society of the Blind Eye”

Spoilers Below

Disney has promised us some very big reveals in this episode. All of the commercials hint that they will be revealing who wrote the journals! But…but…they can’t! Can they?

We start out in Greasy’s Diner. Lazy Susan is closing up for the night. After cleaning the diner and chasing Old Man McGucket out from under a table, she locks up and heads home. Before she gets far, she finds gnomes trying to steal her pie. Susan runs to the payphone to call for help but she is kidnapped by some mysterious men in red robes. “It is unseen.” The gnomes go back to stealing the pie and cue theme song!

Dipper chews on the end of a pen, trying to figure out who wrote the journals when Mabel bursts into the room. She has received a message in a bottle from Mermando, her ex-boyfriend. Apparently, he is destined to be wed to the Queen of the Manatees. Heartbroken, Mabel notes all of her failed summer romances. Dipper points out that he hasn’t fulfilled his summer wish of figuring out the journal either.

For some reason, Mabel grabs the empty message bottle and uses it to look at the broken laptop. She manages to find a plate that reads “McGucket Labs.” So, the twins grab Wendy and Soos and head off to find the crazy old hobo.

At the dump, the gang finds McGucket chasing off some terrible teenagers spray-painting his shack. Dipper confronts the hobo, demanding to know about the journals. Sadly, McGucket notes that he has never done anything worthwhile and he can’t remember who he used to be. The last thing he remembers is the History Museum. So the gang, plus McGucket, head off to the museum to try to job the hobo’s memory.

As they enter the museum through an open window, Wendy notices that Mabel isn’t acting very Mabel-like. Mabel tells Wendy how she can’t think of anything besides her failed summer romances. Just then, Soos notices a shadowy figure in the hallway. The gang chases him into a very creepy room filled with eyeballs but their prey has managed to escape. Dipper notices that all of the eyeballs are looking at one point on a wall. It has the symbol of the Unseen Eye. Dipper presses the symbol and a secret passageway slides open. Of course, the gang goes in.

Mysterious chanting fills the passageway. Behind a red curtain, the gang finds Lazy Susan being strapped to a chair. The men in red robes surround her. She tells the men that she saw little men. The leader of the robed figures types “Little Men” into a strange gun-like object. Suddenly, the leader shoots her with the gun and she loses her memory. The memory is sealed into a container and launched into a vacuum tube, much like a bank’s drive-through. As the meeting of the red robes disperses, Dipper concludes that this is what happened to McGucket. He orders the girls to stay put while the boys rush off to find McGucket’s memory tube.

The boys follow the vacuum tube strapped to the ceiling all the way to the vault of memories, where there are hundreds of memory tubes lying around. Meanwhile, Mabel and Wendy talk about Mabel’s boy problems. Wendy tells Mabel to forget about guys, which Mabel takes a little too literally. She sits down in the big chair and gets ready to use the memory gun on her self.

Back in the memory vault, the boys come across McGucket’s memory tube. Removing the tube from the shelf sets off an alarm. Dipper, Soos, Wendy, and Mabel all end up captured by the red robed figures.

From here on, you really need to see the episode. You’ll find out who the red robed men are, who McGucket is, and a little bit about the origin of the journals. Trust me, you want to see it for yourself.

This is an amazing episode. The writers managed to pack a ton of information and fun into one 30-minute episode. I was hoping that they wouldn’t give everything away because I was afraid what would happen to the rest of the season. Thankfully, they answered some questions but left plenty for the future. I can’t wait for the next episode!