Mr. and Mrs. Pines are minor characters who are mentioned in the series Gravity Falls. They are the parents of Dipper and Mabel Pines.
Role in the series[]
In the pilot episode of the series, "Tourist Trapped", Dipper states that his parents sent him and Mabel to Gravity Falls, Oregon for summer vacation for them to get some "fresh air".
Their mother was mentioned in "The Inconveniencing", where it was revealed that she used to dress Dipper up in a lamb costume and make him do the "lamby dance".
They were mentioned in "Gideon Rises", when Grunkle Stan lied to their father on the phone that Dipper and Mabel were safe and were staying at a five-star hotel.
Trivia[]
- Mr. and Mrs. Pines's real names, faces, or voices are never seen or heard through the show.
- Dipper and Mabel's middle names are their parents' first names[2], like Alex and Ariel Hirsch. Though, neither of their middle names are mentioned throughout the series.
- In The Book of Bill, Bill Cipher reveals that Dipper has nightmares about overhearing a fight that the two of them had that he wasn't supposed to hear, implying it was why they were in a rush to get him and Mabel out of the house for the summer. While not directly stated, it implies that Mr. and Mrs. Pines' marriage may be going through a rough patch.
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- ↑ Stacy Conradt (September 12, 2016). Q&A: Alex Hirsch and Rob Renzetti on 'Gravity Falls' Fandom. Mental Floss. Archived from the original on 2020-11-15. Retrieved on 2016-09-12. “Alex Hirsch: I imagine that [their] parents see themselves as slightly counter-culture and chose purposefully archaic names just so their kids would stand out among the 12 Chrises and 14 Jessicas in Dipper and Mabel's preschool.”
- ↑ "letter from Hirsch 1". Retrieved on August 4, 2015.