Easter Eggs and Ciphers
Gravity Falls is renowned for its hidden secrets, Easter eggs, and ciphers throughout the episodes. The show's creators embedded numerous codes and messages within the series, often using Bill Cipher's code or other cryptic languages. Fans have discovered these secrets by closely examining episodes, credits, and even special features on DVD box sets [1]. For example, the special features disc of the box set contains hidden buttons that reveal clues written in Bill's cipher
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Mystery Elements and Foreshadowing
The show is designed with intricate details that contribute to its mysterious atmosphere. Viewers are encouraged to pay attention to background elements, as they often contain Easter eggs and foreshadowing hints [3:3]. There are no coincidences in Gravity Falls; every detail serves a purpose, whether it be a window looking odd or a peculiar item in the background
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Community Resources
For those interested in exploring the secrets further, there are several community resources available. The Gravity Falls Wiki and TV Tropes pages provide comprehensive lists of ciphers, secrets, and Easter eggs found throughout the series [5:1]. Additionally, fans have compiled guides to help decode the various ciphers used in the show
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Confirmed Secrets and Trivia
Some secrets and trivia have been confirmed outside of the show. For instance, Dipper's real name is revealed to be Mason [4:4]. Moreover, there is an actual statue of Bill Cipher located in Reedsport, Oregon, which was part of a real-world treasure hunt organized by the show's creator
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Recommendations for Viewing
To fully appreciate the depth of Gravity Falls, it's recommended to watch the series multiple times. Each viewing can offer new insights into the foreshadowing and hidden details. After watching, exploring the collector's edition DVD/Blu-Ray and its special features can enhance the experience further [4:1].
We have one final major mystery ahead of us super fans. Throughout the gravity falls box set special features disc there are several hidden Easter eggs when you click left or right on certain words (the symbols of which spell gravity falls in Bill cypher’s code). You can find clues (written in bill’s cypher) that hint to these hidden buttons through breaks in several different videos on the special features disc. On one of these Easter eggs bill speaks backwards and tells us of a secret hidden code somewhere in the set which has the keyword “inside job”. This makes the cypher appear to be a Vigenère. The trouble comes in finding this hidden cypher, but as a community I know we can come together and find/crack it. Time for one last epic gravity falls adventure :)
That’s a really good point actually. And I checked it out and I didn’t see any changes end ciphers. It could be In the book. Idk though because didn’t bill say “somewhere hidden on here”
yeah, he didnt say 'on here', just 'there's a message somewhere'. just double checked
I gotcha
It’s cool that everyone’s discovering all the secrets, when I eventually got the set I’d probably just focus on the episodes and special features without taking a second glance at the secrets.
I get that. It’s full of stuff
Damn. Can everyone wait until I order the box set? I want to help!
i'm sure we wont figure it all out by the time you do haha. you know this show. Alex said actually in a part of it that theres is actually a good bit of stuff in the journal that hasn't been discovered.
If there is, it's got to be those boxes in the margins of the pages nobody ever figured out how to crack.
Did anyone get a signed box? I was told if you preordered there was a small chance that box was signed.. or maybe im crazy..
My guess is that 'inside job' might be related not to the boxset but instead to the upcoming graphic novel. We'll know soon enough. I just don't see any clear signs of extra text in the 3rd disc apart from what people have already found, and I don't THINK the animation has changed to include different ciphers either in-show or at the end cards (I'm not 100% on this tbh)
Is there a recorded lexicon of all the ciphers and secrets in the episodes? I remember going on the Gravity Falls Will nearly religiously in 2013 when the show came out, and I went there recently but I couldn't find the large list like back then. I want to reminisce about all the secrets all over again. Just got the Collectors Edition of the DVD and it really makes me want to take a step back at the show. I'd prefer as up to date as possible but honestly I'll take as much as I can get.
It should be available on the wiki
Was watching GF for the first time, but i know theres someone called Bill Cipher. If you go to 2:16 on season 1 ep 3 the window looks a bit odd… yall probably discovered this the day it came out but please lmk if this is just a coincidence
There are no coincidence in gravity falls
Make sure you read the credits, there’s codes in them. And be on the lookout for background elements as well, theres Easter eggs and codes all over
Watch it without clues from the audience, its more immersive if you pick it up along the way
Such thing as coincidence doesn't exist on gravity falls, there is always a why/because. You just have to find the reason (no matter how silly it seems to sound)
Everything. Anything and everything. Secrets, monsters, stuff confirmed outside of the show, what the heck was all the crap at the end of the credits? Isn’t their an actual statue of Bill somewhere? I want to hear it all. A L L
Dipper's real name is Mason.
And apparently everyone in the Pines family know that except for Stan
And yes Wendy also knew about it somehow. Not sure about Soos
This isn’t really something related to the show, but whatever you do, if you ever see a certain Gravity Falls fanfic that has the words “Taco Bell” in its title, do NOT click on it.
now you got me curious (it's too late by the way)
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Hey welcome to the fandom. Glad you love the show. Here's a post GF To-Do List, In order if you or anyone haven't already.
Watch all the shorts
Watch it all again and look for foreshadowing/hints
Watch it again and try to decode the ciphers
Get the Collector’s Edition DVD/Blu-Ray and watch all the special features
Read the Journal 3 hardcover
Read the Gravity Falls: Lost Legends graphic novel
Read the Curse of the Time-Pirate’s Treasure Select-Your-Own-Choose-Venture book
Read through the Alex Hirsch AMA and Bill Cipher AMA Listen to the Gravity Falls Gossiper (podcast) interview with Mr. Mystery
Read Anyway, I’ve Been There by Caleb_Nova and A Return to the Falls by J_COTW (Fan Fic but it’s absolutely amazing)
Check out the artwork of MoringMark and TurquoiseGirl35
Get sucked into the Gravity Falls TV Tropes page for some deeper analyses of the series and the tropes it uses (and subverts)
Ducktective
I’m rewatching the show for spook month, and I want to remind myself of all the secrets and such as I go through. Is there anything like that y’all can link me to?
I was looking up codes on this is not a thisisnotawebsitedotcom.comI noticed something in very small text beneath the last entry when I came across this here's what I got so far :VDD DZDB LURP FISKAU. VKH KDV WKH SURWHRWLRQRI WKH OXPEHUIR ONV VSLULWV. I think it's out of the Caesar Cipher or the A-Z Cipher
got it ?? it says :SAA AWAY IROM CFPHXR. SHE HAS THE PROTEOTIONOF THE LUMBERFO LKS SPIRITS.
some some of it doesn't make sense any of you got ideas on what it means ??
SAA AWAY IROM CFPHXR. SHE HAS THE PROTEOTIONOF THE LUMBERFO LKS SPIRITS
This is what I got.
STAY AWAY FROM CIPHER. SHE HAS THE PROTECTION OF THE LUMBERFOLKS SPIRITS.
you know it's getting suspicious how much gravity falls content we're getting
I'm currently halfway through deciphering it right now
I'm going to edit this this again once I figured out the code this might take a couple minutes
Ping me when you do I need to know
SAA AWAY IROM CFPHXR. SHE HAS THE PROTEOTIONOF THE LUMBERFO LKS SPIRITS.
Good job!
This has been documented. It translates to "STAY AWAY FROM HER CIPHER. SHE HAS THE PROTECTION OF THE LUMBERFOLKS SPIRITS." It is a reference to Pacifica earning the forgiveness and respect of the lumberjack ghost in the episode Northwest Mansion Mystery.
Edit: Forgot to mention that the code uses a caeser cipher, shifted three letters. Also in the future for codes that are typed out like this you can copy-paste them to help prevent accidentally missing letters.
oh ok
sorry :(
Why are you apologizing?
Been watching gravity falls and found this code and I dechiphered it. Nothing important but fun. " Next up: 'footbot two grunkle's grevenge"
Every single episode has and end screen code. And some of them are a lot more important than a fun throwaway joke.
Just finished it. Wow what a ride. Time to start my rewatch and look for all the stuff I missed the first time!
He had the best story
There was even a robot for the kids!
Footbot: I love you Stan
The 7th and final disc of the Gravity Falls Box Set contains a new documentary on multiple aspects of crafting the show, entitled "One Crazy Summer". The documentary is split into seven sections, with each cutaway screen containing a cryptogram using Bill's cipher wheel. Decoding all seven cryptograms that appear results in the following messages:
After some snooping around, I discovered that these seven statements refer to bonus scenes that can be selected in the bonus disc menu. For example "RIGHT AT TATTOO" refers to the short "Stan's Tattoo". As the message implicates, pressing the "Right" selector button on your disc-playing device highlights a previously unseen cryptographic symbol on the selector screen. Selecting each of these new symbols leads to a new behind-the-scenes video; listing each symbol in order and decoding them with Bill's cipher wheel reveals the message "GRAVITY".
Pressing the "Right" selector button over the promo video "Gravity Paws" leads to a video of Bill Cipher speaking backwards, which, when reversed, reveals that "There's a message somewhere that could use this code to decode it. And that code is 'INSIDE JOB'." This leads me to believe that "INSIDE JOB" is part of a Vigenère cipher possibly hidden further within the bonus disc or inside one of the other six discs. Furthermore, a final cryptogram can be seen in the introduction screen to the short documentary "The Hirsch Twins", which, when decoded, reads:
This inclusion is particularly confusing, as the previous seven messages and their correlating symbols on the menu screen neatly spell the word "GRAVITY", highlighting the difference between this lone cryptogram and it's brothers. What is this "message somewhere" that Bill is referring to? Where is the final 8th cryptogram that is "left from triangles"?
i looked through all the easter eggs, later im going to look through all the disks for more, when you reverse the video where bill speaks backwards he says there's a secret code for something, the code is "inside job" so i looked at a bunch of official websites devoted to gravity falls but i haven't found a place for a code yet, hopefully the book has more clues. but on a different note, has anyone tried shining a black light on the note that comes with the box set, because i've always wondered if there was a secret message on it, ill post if i find anything of intrest
I did it and when you do all of the other ones it spells falls. So it’s “gravity falls” and you press left on all of the words for falls instead of right. I tried doing both words in order to unlock it but it did nothing but I may have messed up
Interesting. Thanks for the info! I’ll check this out and see what I can do with it tomorrow.
Tell me if you find anything. I’ll be working on it too. Looks like we’re the only ones with the box set yet haha
Left at Triangles is just the conspiracy corner triangles short. It's just another hidden Easter egg. Forgot what it is specifically, but nothing super special.
Okay, so some of your stuff is not matching up completely with what I have found.
Here is where I found every cipher symbol I can for the Easter Eggs (most of the clues from the “One Crazy Summer” and “The Hirsch Twins” features (I’ll use an astersik for the ones I found through those features):
-Left on “Shorts” (G)
-Right on “Stan’s Tattoo” (A)*
-Right on “Mabel’s Guide to Stickers” (V)*
-Right on “Fixin’ It with Soos: Cuckoo Clock” (I)*
-Right on “Mabel’s Scrapbook: Petting Zoo” (T)*
-Right on “Gravity Paws” (Y)
-Left on “‘Old Man’ McGucket’s Conspiracy Corner: Triangles” (F)*
-Left on “‘Old Man’ McGucket’s Conspiracy Corner: Cryptograms” (A)*
-Left on “‘Pocalypse Preppin: Checkers’” (L)*
-Left on “Mystery Shack: Shop at Home with Mr. Mystery - Deer Teeth” (L)*
-Left on “Grunkle Stan’s Lost Mystery Shack Interviews: Zendaya from K.C. Undercover” (S)
So based on just the feature clues I found, that would have only given me “AVITFALL” on their own. The others ones (G, Y, & S) I actually found because I was paranoid and combed though EVERY menu option going left and right (even up and down when I could). I even tried the arrows. No cipher symbol for “R”. So basically all I have is “GAVITYFALLS”...so that means there is an R symbol and an easter egg I can’t find.
Based on your description, I have not seen this one where Bill rattles off conspiracy theories (only the ones with the backward message and him singing his own rendition of “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”)
EDIT: Nevermind. I found it by going right while highlighting “TV Shorts”.
Thank you very much for this input! I completely missed the symbols hidden deeper in the menu’s, such as those in McGucket’s Conspiracy Corner and ‘Pocalypse Preppin’.
So now the hint for this possible Viginere cipher is on!
Yep, they are cursed by the number 6. And there's some other things pretty sure, but those are the main things I found. Pretty cool coincidences huh? If there ever is a season 6... Well they better watch out-
Six silenced Rocky, so he can only say a few things
Rocky vilain origin story
i wonder what’ll happen in season SIX
They'll become first 🅱️oots 😔
so season 6 is Rocky either winning or getting first boot and Fries getting the opposite
Better be the opposite, even tho I love Rocky
I need to see more of those two interactions
Bleh
The goat and the pig from gravity falls children literally just chilling in SVTFOE. I completely forgot these two canonically got married UNTIL I rewatched this scene from SVTFOE. I know that Gravity falls is connected to that show but I forget just HOW connected it can be. Lol funny thing that clicked in my brain and just wanted to share it. I know this probably has already been discussed and discovered by many others but it’s now just clicking for me sadly T-T
That implies Star's actions at the end of her show eradicated all the magic in Gravity Falls. Poor Dipper, no more cryptids to hunt.
Cryptids aren't inherently magic.
Most of Gravity Falls' happenings are canonically classified under "weirdness"
SVTFOE finale never happened, I refuse to acknowledge it
Strong Velociraptors That Fear Oregonian Esnakes
Made funnier when you remember Gravity Falls is in Oregon
As someone who has never seen SVTFOE I appreciate the share as this is hella cool
Rocky spotted in a different subreddit? G'day to you!
And here I thought their wedding was just a bit of fun on Mabel’s part. They really loved each other.💕
Thank you. People really need to stop assuming everyone familiar with one property is familiar with every other tangentially related one.
Star vs. The forces of evil.
Star versus the forces of evil
hidden secrets in gravity falls episodes
Key Considerations and Takeaways:
Ciphers and Codes: Many episodes contain hidden messages using ciphers. For example, the "Mystery Shack" logo often features a code that can be deciphered for additional lore.
Background Details: Pay attention to background characters and items. Many have connections to the overarching plot or foreshadow future events. For instance, the "Bill Cipher" symbol appears in various episodes before he is introduced.
Recurring Themes: Themes of family, friendship, and the supernatural are woven throughout the series. Look for how these themes are represented in subtle ways, such as character development and interactions.
Cameos and References: The show includes numerous references to pop culture, other Disney properties, and even creator Alex Hirsch's personal experiences. Keep an eye out for familiar faces or nods to other media.
Hidden Messages in the Credits: Some episodes feature hidden messages or images in the credits that provide additional context or clues about the story.
Recommendation: To fully appreciate the hidden secrets, consider rewatching episodes with a focus on the details mentioned above. Engaging with fan theories and discussions can also enhance your understanding of the show's deeper meanings and connections. Websites and forums dedicated to "Gravity Falls" often compile these secrets and provide insights that can enrich your viewing experience.
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