Gravity Falls - "Society of the Blind Eye" McGucket's Memories

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  • @nothasnaf1831
    @nothasnaf1831 Před 8 lety +5600

    Now I understand why Ford felt extremely guilty to him...

    • @xqueen1234
      @xqueen1234 Před 5 lety +282

      Well it's not ENTIRELY his fault.He started it,no doubt about that,but McGuckett really only needed it once, it's his fault he kept using it for petty things.

    • @Rick-ty9ky
      @Rick-ty9ky Před 3 lety +243

      @@xqueen1234 I think he kept using it because of all the weird things that he kept seeing around the town, always reminding him of what he saw through that portal.
      Like with Stan, as long as you have something that’ll help you remember what you forgot, McGucket would’ve never forgotten about the other side of that portal.

    • @Sedlo64
      @Sedlo64 Před 3 lety +45

      @@Rick-ty9ky damn i guess there were some epic shit through that portal but.. idk. ford spent years there and he came back just fine. maybe just mcgucket was a soft man

    • @cesartheguy9413
      @cesartheguy9413 Před 3 lety +91

      @@Sedlo64 McGuckett apparently saw Bill remove his own exoskeleton which terrified him. I think Ford didn’t see something like that

    • @Sedlo64
      @Sedlo64 Před 3 lety +81

      @@cesartheguy9413 one thing also funny in the end when mcgucket makes a triangle with his fingers which means he never actually got rid of bills memories with that machine but erased everything else, including his sanity

  • @AngryLittleAmericansCartoons
    @AngryLittleAmericansCartoons Před 2 lety +7306

    I remember back in the day when a "leaked" picture of McGucket showed him writing in a Journal and everyone believed that he was the Author. Good times

  • @cubed.public
    @cubed.public Před 2 lety +5006

    ironically, out of all the memories he lost, the only thing he remembered is the one he first tried to get rid of

    • @eterty8335
      @eterty8335 Před 2 lety +537

      Shows that what lies through the portal is just way too much for the human brain

    • @snowhunter7536
      @snowhunter7536 Před 2 lety +164

      @@eterty8335 yet Grunkle Ford managed to retain his insanity for some reason (?).
      If there is a difference I want to know.

    • @ProGamerDenji
      @ProGamerDenji Před 2 lety +266

      @@snowhunter7536 cause probably when ford met Bill the first time he wasn't creeped out by it and of course the other monsters he's been finding and logging on his journal

    • @multigrandmarquis
      @multigrandmarquis Před 2 lety +147

      @@snowhunter7536 It's probably because either Bill (or the creatures that would later become his army) intentionally drove Fiddleford insane, or held himself (themselves?) back when Ford came through.
      He speaks backwards when he comes through, something we really only see in relation to Bill.
      Or maybe it was just incomprehensible and Fiddleford wasn't prepared.

    • @thebananaspeedruns9275
      @thebananaspeedruns9275 Před 2 lety +20

      @@snowhunter7536 it is because there is metal in his head

  • @olianims
    @olianims Před 2 lety +1790

    The worst part is that mcgucket is around the same age or even younger than Stanford, but he looks much older probably due to unimaginable stress

    • @DNKG669
      @DNKG669 Před 2 lety +43

      wouldn't he not have "stress" due to having forgotten what was causing his "stress" in the first place

    • @hello-wl7pk
      @hello-wl7pk Před 2 lety +123

      @@DNKG669 it could have been happening underneath all that. he didn’t forget completely, just made it harder to remember. he regained his memory

    • @darealconman
      @darealconman Před rokem +36

      If I'm not mistaking, Ford and McGucket were in college together, so I would assume they're around the same age

    • @eyeballheadinalabcoat
      @eyeballheadinalabcoat Před 4 měsíci +2

      I think it's more likely to be a side-effect of memory erasure.

    • @thereisnoacounthere489
      @thereisnoacounthere489 Před 3 měsíci +5

      ​@@DNKG669 He just forgot that he remembered. But he still remembered.

  • @fmni1
    @fmni1 Před 2 lety +8504

    You notice at the very end of the log. He formed a triangle with his hands. That means the memories of Bill Cipher is still there deep inside of him.

    • @Mooni_Real
      @Mooni_Real Před 2 lety +806

      Not only a triangle, but a triangle with his eye in the triangle

    • @Gestrid
      @Gestrid Před 2 lety +945

      He also says "YROO XRKSVI GIRZMTOV", which is a cipher for "BILL CIPHER TRIANGLE".
      It's the same thing he says when he accidentally gets sucked into the portal in Stan's backstory episode.

    • @Nhatanh0475
      @Nhatanh0475 Před 2 lety +82

      Yeah. It been debunked 10 years ago. Or at least more than 5 years ago.

    • @alexlovelady8249
      @alexlovelady8249 Před 2 lety +309

      @@Mooni_Real probably why he called it the society of the blind eye, he wanted to remove any memories of Bill

    • @feritperliare2890
      @feritperliare2890 Před 2 lety +110

      @@alexlovelady8249 you know I find it weird no one theorized that the society of the blind eyes had a major factor is stopping bill cause think about if someone started finding the mysteries and go crazy they would've found him

  • @hasnaaryantha880
    @hasnaaryantha880 Před 8 lety +4727

    This is just so sad. His famiy left him after he went insane. He was a brilliant person, before.

    • @gustavoc4131
      @gustavoc4131 Před 4 lety +329

      He still smart, he build a lot of machines over the show

    • @LazyAndFabulous
      @LazyAndFabulous Před 4 lety +235

      @@gustavoc4131
      True and it has something to do with muscle memories. Though he had no idea how he identify each objects but once he touch it he remembered that it needs to be attached.

    • @ms.yawhaw8831
      @ms.yawhaw8831 Před 3 lety +118

      When the series credits rolled in, his son(the fishing shop guy) was with him on the lake or pool i guess. I wonder what was his early days like and how his family split up and his son in gravity falls. Since MGucket was from Colorado

    • @luckyshibe
      @luckyshibe Před 3 lety +39

      Vincentalot-XD Ms.Yawhaw Oh actually he was from Palo Alto, but he was born in Tennessee and his family had no money. The Journal 3 book has all that stuff about him and more, he’s definitely my favourite character.

    • @damndoublehomicide5425
      @damndoublehomicide5425 Před 3 lety +5

      Hasna Aryantha he still is so brilliant

  • @nuclearcatbaby1131
    @nuclearcatbaby1131 Před 2 lety +2502

    He didn’t just delete his memory. He accelerated his own aging and fried his brain.

    • @striker8961
      @striker8961 Před 2 lety +277

      I think part of that could be not taking care of himself while going insane but it is weird that his hair goes pure old man white after 2 years from being less than middle aged man

    • @nuclearcatbaby1131
      @nuclearcatbaby1131 Před 2 lety +90

      @@striker8961 It’s also weird that he still fully has his mechanical genius skills

    • @striker8961
      @striker8961 Před 2 lety +149

      @@nuclearcatbaby1131 I suppose that might just be a skill ingrained into him, or more likely just a hint from the show runners that he’s more than he seems

    • @jn2292
      @jn2292 Před 2 lety +22

      He didn't use Rick Sanchez's perfected version of the brain eraser.

    • @mithril5155
      @mithril5155 Před 2 lety +112

      @@striker8961 Stress makes your hair go white faster. For a man haunted by what he once saw and what he kept seeing, it's only fair that happened.

  • @TheOfficialDjProduct
    @TheOfficialDjProduct Před 2 lety +5127

    This gives me strong Ice King vibes. A character while at a glace lacks depth, through further inspection there is more. While trying to protect themselves and others, they suffered greatly, losing both themselves and their sanity.

    • @theparrishshow9803
      @theparrishshow9803 Před 2 lety +167

      I knew I wasn’t the only person who believed they felt similar

    • @knightslayer8759
      @knightslayer8759 Před 2 lety +85

      Ice king.. Man I miss Adventure Time. Welp, time to Rewatch!

    • @christopherlake9667
      @christopherlake9667 Před 2 lety +22

      I wonder come with first gravity fall or adventure time since both scene have similar outcomes lol

    • @theparrishshow9803
      @theparrishshow9803 Před 2 lety +54

      @@christopherlake9667
      Both the show, Adventure Time, and the episode where the tapes reveal Ice King’s backstory, were released before Gravity Falls

    • @christopherlake9667
      @christopherlake9667 Před 2 lety +1

      @@theparrishshow9803 so diseny copy that scene lol

  • @bclynch30
    @bclynch30 Před 2 lety +4273

    This was honestly so sad, watching him lose his mind. Sure McGucket is funny and kooky, but watching this just makes you feel bad

    • @returnedtomonkey8886
      @returnedtomonkey8886 Před 2 lety +139

      In the end he gets the Northwest manor all for himself. So he ends up ok. Some silver lining i guess.

    • @L_Lawliet62
      @L_Lawliet62 Před 2 lety +27

      At least he is sane again.

    • @xqueen1234
      @xqueen1234 Před rokem +21

      I always knew he was a genius of some kind when he made that robotic Loch Ness monster

    • @robertthreadgill5356
      @robertthreadgill5356 Před rokem +9

      @@xqueen1234 He did also create that giant robot for Gideon

    • @UpsTubeTreeZeeMusic
      @UpsTubeTreeZeeMusic Před 9 měsíci

      Post awareness confusions

  • @team10leader1
    @team10leader1 Před 8 lety +9370

    I just realized McGucket's glasses are symbolic of his sanity. In the flashback, he first lost them when he was testing the portal. In these videos, he lost his glasses at one point when he tore out his hair. After he sees his memories, he puts on some glasses with a missing lenses to signify he's regained his sanity. Even if it's a bit broken, like he said, he can start to put himself back together again.

    • @martinawolf2983
      @martinawolf2983 Před 5 lety +355

      And if we go with this interpretation in day 189 the lent is cracked and the glasses were slipping.

    • @vheahe8262
      @vheahe8262 Před 5 lety +256

      SO THS IS WHY GLASSES WERE HIS SYMBOL ON CIPHER WHEEL!

    • @fruiz284
      @fruiz284 Před 5 lety +80

      That's some real mature junk right there

    • @do_or1546
      @do_or1546 Před 4 lety +24

      You are so fricking smart:3

    • @do_or1546
      @do_or1546 Před 4 lety +22

      Yo I really want another season of this show I love this my mom bought me the actual copy of journal 3 and a Gravity Falls "don't color this book, it's cursed" coloring book!

  • @artistgamerdude
    @artistgamerdude Před 9 lety +1905

    The first time i saw this I felt really bad for him...

  • @YowLife
    @YowLife Před 5 lety +5979

    When I first watched this part, I was worried he would smash the memories or something stupid like that and deliver a dumb message like "I know who I am, and I don't need nothing to tell me otherwise!".
    I was so glad he saw his memories and learned about his true self.

  • @kingstonnacagilevu5812
    @kingstonnacagilevu5812 Před 3 lety +1068

    Bruh it only took less than two years to transform him into some senile grandpa

    • @linus5183
      @linus5183 Před 3 lety +77

      no that was 30 years

    • @lilredrobyn44
      @lilredrobyn44 Před 3 lety +17

      how is he still alive

    • @HANDSSSS
      @HANDSSSS Před 3 lety +34

      Not sure if 2 the number exceed from year 2 to year 3 to ??? Probably, 30 seems reasonable enough or 20

    • @kingstonnacagilevu5812
      @kingstonnacagilevu5812 Před 3 lety +39

      @@linus5183 How come it only says Day 618 tho when he has the beard

    • @willowoodz
      @willowoodz Před 3 lety +3

      shit you’re right-

  • @SC-RGX7
    @SC-RGX7 Před 2 lety +1253

    I remember when they leaked a picture of Mcgucket writing the journals to prevent a fan theory that Stanley really had a twin brother. And it worked.

    • @ps4pro668
      @ps4pro668 Před 2 lety +218

      The fact they prevented a fan theory that would end up actually being correct to make Stanford’s reveal really shocking was really clever.

  • @dance_ofThaDEAD
    @dance_ofThaDEAD Před 2 lety +6816

    I think this is important to show how Stanley Pines got his memory back, Mcgucket was starting to remember as soon as he saw his memories on the screen, even after years had gone by. Why couldn't Grunkle Stan regain his memories using Mabel's scrapbook??

    • @coralroper6876
      @coralroper6876 Před 2 lety +853

      If Fiddleford is allowed to get his memories back, then Stan is too, dang it!
      *Aggressively flips table*

    • @Daniel-wu6pl
      @Daniel-wu6pl Před 2 lety +330

      but he did...

    • @prosecutorwalton
      @prosecutorwalton Před 2 lety +432

      Theory. The device that McGucket made didn't erase any memories like he thought it did. All that happens is that it creates some kind of mental block around the given subject. People block out bad memories all the time,, and the device forces the reaction inside their head.

    • @ceu160193
      @ceu160193 Před 2 lety +266

      @@prosecutorwalton Not really. More like device reduces strength of memories, but is unable to erase them completely. Basically, it makes it much harder to remember, but it never actually makes you forget.

    • @FlyingLine
      @FlyingLine Před 2 lety +21

      He did though

  • @zman4002
    @zman4002 Před 2 lety +817

    For a "kids show" Gravity Falls sure had some tragic characters. McGucket, a guy who wanted to help his college buddy change the world, foresaw that he'd helped destroy, and when he tried to forget it, he forgot himself

    • @ulfberht4431
      @ulfberht4431 Před rokem +10

      This is why I both love and hate this show. Love it because it’s extremely complex and deep with a lot mystery and hard work put into it. Hate it because of Mabel and her selfishness!

    • @zman4002
      @zman4002 Před rokem +12

      @Cathal Carson literally yes, people act like Mabel is this great character, she's not. Dipper is ALWAYS the one having to make sacrifices for her

    • @ulfberht4431
      @ulfberht4431 Před rokem +4

      @@zman4002
      There’s one guy, I can’t remember his name, but he makes such an effort to try and defend Mabel by making excuses on why she isn’t the worse. And his excuse is “she’s not real, why are you complaining about how unrealistic she is”. Meanwhile another user makes great points on why Mabel is terrible and why some of the excuses don’t work and why her “redemption arc” felt lack lustre.

  • @krasotabella9675
    @krasotabella9675 Před 8 lety +914

    "I HIT ANOTHER CAR IN TOWN TODAY!"
    Wait... Another?
    Who do we know that used a car wreck as a cover up story?....

    • @lavaman8836
      @lavaman8836 Před 6 lety +83

      On day 78 he saud he come across little men possibly the gnomes

    • @zarchblarch2490
      @zarchblarch2490 Před 5 lety +49

      I like that but i think he means that he was driving a car and he hit another car as in a different car than his own.

    • @do_or1546
      @do_or1546 Před 4 lety +4

      😱

    • @do_or1546
      @do_or1546 Před 4 lety +2

      @@lavaman8836 just like LAZY SUSAN!

    • @baileyryan6958
      @baileyryan6958 Před 4 lety +11

      Or maybe that's how he broke his arm.

  • @lilredrobyn44
    @lilredrobyn44 Před 3 lety +1106

    for some reason he never forgotten the memory of bill cipher

    • @lilredrobyn44
      @lilredrobyn44 Před 3 lety +157

      sadly he failed because the end message was bill cipher triangle in a different language he also said it after he went through the portal

    • @hannahrose9722
      @hannahrose9722 Před 3 lety +61

      @@lilredrobyn44 so that means that Stan also technically never forgot either 👀

    • @preds43
      @preds43 Před 2 lety +14

      @@lilredrobyn44 Tbf here, that likely got rigged into his mind regardless, since Cosmic Horrors tend to do that.

    • @groovydudewithdumbintentions
      @groovydudewithdumbintentions Před 2 lety +24

      】 Nᴚ∩⊥Ǝᴚ ⅄∀W I ⊥∀H⊥ ᴚƎMOԀ ⊥NƎIƆN∀ ƎH⊥ Ǝ⋊OΛNI I 'Nᴚ∩ᙠ O⊥ ƎWOƆ S∀H ƎWI⊥ ⅄W ˥ ⊥ O ˥ O X ∀【

    • @1stAid
      @1stAid Před 2 lety +13

      @@groovydudewithdumbintentions I totally didn't turn my phone upside down and crane my neck just to read this

  • @silverflight01
    @silverflight01 Před 2 lety +479

    1:25 The one thing he's been trying to forget remains while everything else was lost.

    • @denq5505
      @denq5505 Před rokem +34

      He says "Bill Cipher Triangle in atbash code

  • @domki366
    @domki366 Před 9 lety +535

    "YROO! XRKSVI! GRZMTOV!"
    Translates to:
    "BILL! CIPHER! TRIANGLE!"

    • @digikate813
      @digikate813 Před 9 lety +5

      Really?! What kind of cipher is that?

    • @domki366
      @domki366 Před 9 lety +8

      Atbash I think.

    • @NOVAGH0ST
      @NOVAGH0ST Před 9 lety +5

      Yep, ATBASH.

    • @spaceneko3075
      @spaceneko3075 Před 9 lety +13

      Thank you i spent like 2 hours looking for a youtube reverser then i looked at the comments should have done that first.

    • @Xelipho
      @Xelipho Před 9 lety +14

      domki366 Holy shit, if you reverse what Fiddleford says in ATOTS, it's this message.
      Alex you genius!

  • @ianstonecypher3820
    @ianstonecypher3820 Před 8 lety +1437

    It is so creepy that on days 74 and 189 we can see the words HELP ME scrawled in red across the wall, possibly in blood.

    • @MrX626
      @MrX626 Před 7 lety +28

      Ernest Jon Gimeno Zulueta A.K.A WORKER OF SECRETS its Hadron, like the Collider

    • @jasperquartz4612
      @jasperquartz4612 Před 4 lety +49

      that would take a lot of blood to make the lettering that big.
      maybe perhaps he used pig's blood.

    • @9nikolai
      @9nikolai Před 4 lety +36

      @@jasperquartz4612 Or maybe he just stumbled across some red paint :P

    • @fruitsnack4893
      @fruitsnack4893 Před 4 lety +32

      it’s jam.

    • @extrility7086
      @extrility7086 Před 4 lety +20

      Its jam....
      I hope

  • @paulrippcord506
    @paulrippcord506 Před 9 lety +3536

    I really like how they handled McGucket in this episode. The guy lost eventually lost everything: his marriage, his relationship with his son and his sanity. I really like the glimmer of hope for McGucket at the end.
    People will compare Ice King/Simon and Old Man McGucket. McGucket was given his salvation and has the ability to move forward. Whereas Simon's only salvation will come with taking off the crown, getting his mind back and accepting that his fiance is dead and letting go.

    • @goldtaills
      @goldtaills Před 9 lety +122

      but his fiance isnt dead and is in the land of ooo trying to save him.
      But yes, i agree that McGucket was done really well here.

    • @Sweet_Venom0027
      @Sweet_Venom0027 Před 9 lety +105

      Taking off the crown wont reverse it's effects, it'll cause ice king to think more clearly but he won't be sane by a long shot. If the crown's magics are dispelled improperly Simon will just age to death. But Betty is now in ooo and is looking for a proper way.

    • @paulwebb2078
      @paulwebb2078 Před 9 lety +39

      Simon's only salvation, it seems, will come with despelling the crown and finally accepting Death.

    • @goldtaills
      @goldtaills Před 9 lety +6

      if that isnt stated as fact by the people who made it then I don't accept it. Cause that would be a very despair inducing conclusion.

    • @UltraEgoMc
      @UltraEgoMc Před 5 lety +23

      Simon is stuck in 1000 years in the future where their is no human civilization like how he was before.
      Betty died or turned into Golb. Simon is way better.

  • @TF2Fan101
    @TF2Fan101 Před 8 lety +2135

    Props, Disney. This is some pretty dark stuff.

    • @inuyashasmells
      @inuyashasmells Před 8 lety +176

      give props to alex

    • @Longsword.
      @Longsword. Před 8 lety +5

      lel

    • @inuyashasmells
      @inuyashasmells Před 8 lety +48

      +Mettaton Wearing A Frogit T-Shirt all the credit goes to him and his crew , seriously disney won't give him a DVD release

    • @Rainbow-lr9uy
      @Rainbow-lr9uy Před 4 lety +7

      Tyleah Morales In the Owl House, literally

    • @pillowmcnormalman2753
      @pillowmcnormalman2753 Před 3 lety +4

      Extra bit of information, in the comic that takes place after the finale, the leader of the blind eye’s face can be seen being sold by a demon who sells faces in an anomalous black market.

  • @johnobuchowski8992
    @johnobuchowski8992 Před 9 lety +2162

    On the last day recorded, or Day ???, it may sound like McGucket is just saying nonsense. Believe it or not, he is talking in a cipher. The Atbash cipher. He says "YROO. XRKSVI. GIRZMTOV." Gibberish without being decoded. When decoded, it reads "BILL. CIPHER. TRIANGLE." To further show that, he makes a triangle shape in front of his eye.

    • @catsheei
      @catsheei Před 9 lety +43

      I saw that too!

    • @yooringonghan
      @yooringonghan Před 9 lety +103

      Joseph garcia Some were speculating Stanley was fighting Bill in the room with the universe portal, then Stanford rushed in but was too late.
      If anyone remembers the image Bill conjured up of Stan (not the tattoo) during the negotiations with Gideon, you'll understand this theory...

    • @aqilmuqri2707
      @aqilmuqri2707 Před 9 lety +13

      nice!! it all makes sense now

    • @hotuka
      @hotuka Před 9 lety +31

      Then he made a triangle on his eye, like Bill too!

    • @asperRader
      @asperRader Před 9 lety +7

      Joseph garcia Ciphers are canon, not just used hideously without characters knowing?

  • @maureen2193
    @maureen2193 Před 6 lety +207

    I think it's so scary that someone so intellegent can go nuts over a thing he saw.

    • @lavaman8836
      @lavaman8836 Před 6 lety +5

      It was when he looked in the portal

    • @zarchblarch2490
      @zarchblarch2490 Před 5 lety +19

      @@lavaman8836 It was actually when he saw the Gremgoblin and looked into it's eyes. But he began using it way more after the portal. This was revealed in the Journal 3 book.

    • @SonicPlayer2004
      @SonicPlayer2004 Před 2 měsíci

      @@zarchblarch2490
      Really? Because the way it sounds in the clip of him talking about the portal, it sounds like he’s using it for the very first time.
      “I believe I have invented a machine that can erase these memories from my mind.”
      “It worked! I can’t recall a thing!”

  • @42Fossy
    @42Fossy Před 9 lety +417

    I won't be able to look at "The Legend of the Gobblewonker" the same way after this...

    • @jaysflight.
      @jaysflight. Před 5 lety +22

      I’m 4 years late, but I rewatched that episode today, and this was exactly what I was thinking about :(

  • @thomasd3104
    @thomasd3104 Před 7 lety +495

    Now they know his terribibble secret. They know... that he used to wear glasses!

    • @chuckingreaper8654
      @chuckingreaper8654 Před 7 lety +14

      Thomas D ADVENTURE TIME

    • @CompleteIndie
      @CompleteIndie Před 7 lety +24

      Terrible. I've been forgetting words recently.
      I wonder if there is any negative side effects...
      *STATIC*

    • @coolbionicle
      @coolbionicle Před 7 lety +8

      dude, stop using that eraser, youre starting to forget words.

  • @nerdyespurr
    @nerdyespurr Před 9 lety +717

    Oh man, it's Simon Petrikov all over again! THE FEELS!

  • @gasjebasje99
    @gasjebasje99 Před 2 lety +123

    Fiddlefords voice slowly progressing is by far the best part

    • @MV96_
      @MV96_ Před 2 lety +16

      Alex Hirsch is a vocal god XD

    • @kidz4p509
      @kidz4p509 Před 6 měsíci

      1:19

  • @kittenclysm116
    @kittenclysm116 Před 2 lety +204

    I like how Gravity Falls first wrote McGucket's character as being the stereotypical crazy hillbilly that everyone tries to avoid, but then delves deeper into the storyline by turning him into an amnesiac genius, who slowly begins to retain his memories and pushes him into the mystery of the entire show

    • @SeBa-xb3jn
      @SeBa-xb3jn Před rokem +6

      Like the Ice King

    • @ostardreamz4832
      @ostardreamz4832 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Pretty sure the creators had it planned out from the start

    • @kittenclysm116
      @kittenclysm116 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@ostardreamz4832 Well, yeah. I just mean that he wasn't just there as a joke character

    • @ostardreamz4832
      @ostardreamz4832 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@kittenclysm116 oh yeau

  • @SalamenceFury
    @SalamenceFury Před 8 lety +407

    "Yroo Xrksvi! Girzmtov!" on Atbash means "Bill Cipher! Triangle!".
    The triangle on the eye gesture gives it away.

  • @amogus-bk4qn
    @amogus-bk4qn Před 2 lety +111

    1:28 you can clearly see, his subconscious mind still remembers bill.

    • @jwagner3396
      @jwagner3396 Před 2 lety +7

      @ amogus
      1:01-1:30
      Plot Twist: He got bitten by an aggressive gnome when he came across the colony and it results in a gradual gnome transformation.
      That’s something I learned about.

  • @alastor_radio
    @alastor_radio Před 2 lety +217

    I think Mcgucket is underrated. He’s a great character.
    Also just wanna say he looks cool with the goggles lol

  • @yeaboa1760
    @yeaboa1760 Před 3 lety +381

    Its just weird how he transformed from average human height to short old man

    • @chodaricat4739
      @chodaricat4739 Před 3 lety +81

      Maybe its the way he stands with two wide legs and bent back now? If you imagine mcgucket standing normally he'd be the same height as before

    • @yeaboa1760
      @yeaboa1760 Před 3 lety +24

      @@chodaricat4739 ok that actually make sense i guess

    • @K1ng_Sl4y3r
      @K1ng_Sl4y3r Před 3 lety +28

      Getting rid of his memories might’ve taken away some tissue/cells from his brain, making him stop growing. How he became shorter, McGucket knows..

    • @sssilver_wing
      @sssilver_wing Před 2 lety +2

      @@K1ng_Sl4y3r What happen to his house cuz he would live in that motel, then the junkyard, also was he already going insane or was it bc he was over using it

    • @sssilver_wing
      @sssilver_wing Před 2 lety +1

      @@K1ng_Sl4y3r Where was grunkle stan(ley) when this all happened

  • @chr0min0id
    @chr0min0id Před 2 lety +98

    Me first seeing Mcgucket: “Ah good, a causal comedic-relief charact-“
    **Dark and relevant backstory**
    _Sigh…_

  • @Tristan-Shout
    @Tristan-Shout Před 9 lety +255

    My favorite part about this video is that it explains why McGucket's beard has a bandage on it. Clearly he put it on his face after he hit another car and left it there as the beard started growing in. XD

    • @monikaking8553
      @monikaking8553 Před 9 lety +33

      i have always wonderd why his beard had a bandaid and no one pointed it out like he said himself

    • @emmalawler799
      @emmalawler799 Před 6 lety +25

      He even wonders himself why it's there.

  • @charlieinthe_box
    @charlieinthe_box Před 2 lety +63

    "Go ahead and take your best shot! You can't break what's already broken!"
    One of the freakish quotes of the show.

  • @Kimarnic
    @Kimarnic Před 8 lety +131

    "Let's give him buck teeth" - Wendy
    But Wendy, Mabel already drew him buck teeth

  • @duduamrosh
    @duduamrosh Před rokem +45

    0:10
    I can see how gentle and kind-hearted Mabel is.
    Despite she disliked the first time she saw him.

  • @manuelrodriguez6864
    @manuelrodriguez6864 Před 3 lety +168

    Wow after seeing what hes seen, he actually gone crazy while he was working with Stanford it reminds me of that Adventure Time Simon Petrikov scene

    • @isaiassalles1180
      @isaiassalles1180 Před 2 lety +4

      Exactly! The moment he put the tape to run and the video started I just remembered that first glimpse of who Simon was in Aventure Time during the Christmas, when they put the tape and we saw the of Simon tl Ice King

    • @JoshSweetvale
      @JoshSweetvale Před 2 lety +3

      Good artists imitate.
      Great companies steal.

  • @BaronVonMott
    @BaronVonMott Před 2 lety +68

    So he learned the terrible existential truth... but cleared it out of his mind to preserve his sanity... then ended up losing his sanity anyway, directly BECAUSE of his method of protecting himself... and somewhere deep in his subconscious, still remembered the original horrifying knowledge that drove him down that path in the first place.
    Now there's a story arc H P Lovecraft would be proud of...

  • @George-ii1nc
    @George-ii1nc Před 3 lety +97

    "old man mcgucket, spittin in a bucket"

  • @pastelwasteland1204
    @pastelwasteland1204 Před 3 lety +166

    he’d get along with ice king

    • @drakorex9
      @drakorex9 Před 2 lety +8

      I'm sure this will become a stereotype "the smart man who had a good life, slowly degrading it's sanity"

    • @pastelwasteland1204
      @pastelwasteland1204 Před 2 lety +3

      @@drakorex9 emperor belos is going down that path if he turns out to actually be phillip wittebane

    • @DynamicSaturn36Gaming
      @DynamicSaturn36Gaming Před 2 lety +4

      90th like

  • @Eric-py8yy
    @Eric-py8yy Před 2 lety +41

    I love how he accepts who he is and decides to move forward

  • @bengilhooly3616
    @bengilhooly3616 Před rokem +27

    Alex Hirsch has so many voices. It’s hard to believe he voiced both Grunkle Stan and this old kook. They don’t sound anywhere near the same

    • @Nahobinoah
      @Nahobinoah Před 3 měsíci +1

      The dude has crazy range

  • @stanfordpines9668
    @stanfordpines9668 Před 8 lety +198

    Am I the only one who thinks Mc Gucket (when he was younger) was actually really cute.
    I'm guessing just me

  • @kaylaanselmo9136
    @kaylaanselmo9136 Před 3 lety +810

    If only I could use the memory gun to erase manga spoilers for the aot final season

  • @NevanSlone
    @NevanSlone Před 2 lety +72

    Every single character in Gravity Falls was amazing.

  • @deathstarskeetshooter8418
    @deathstarskeetshooter8418 Před 2 lety +78

    I like how they set up early on that you can get your memories back with familiar images. These aren’t memories being beamed back into his head, it’s recordings of those interviews the society does right before wiping your memory.

  • @Lotselance
    @Lotselance Před 9 lety +224

    This looks really familiar... Old man who's lost his mind and memories, is now a miserable guy who everyone makes fun of, but is revealed to have once been a brilliant scientist through video logs, lost his mind trying to investigate supernatural stuff? ...Simon Pterikov? They even look a bit similar.
    Still cool though.

  • @Nosoulnopower
    @Nosoulnopower Před rokem +21

    1:35 Speaks for every one who ever saw this.

  • @NRF-zf7qt
    @NRF-zf7qt Před 4 lety +18

    This is deep and philosophical.
    If you can't learn from your mistakes, you're doomed to repeat them. Never forget.

  • @rum_coke_17
    @rum_coke_17 Před 5 lety +73

    This one kinda kept me up at night. The idea of wiping your own memories so many times you lose it, it’s honestly really scary.
    Also, are we all just going to ignore the red spray paint on the wall behind him that says *’HELP ME’* ???

    • @CKVanilla
      @CKVanilla Před 3 lety +9

      Let’s be honest
      That’s not spray paint

    • @diegolemos7085
      @diegolemos7085 Před rokem +4

      I think that’s not spray paint

    • @liamphibia
      @liamphibia Před 9 měsíci +2

      It's uh... Blood.

  • @YowLife
    @YowLife Před 5 lety +562

    Wait, if the video screen shows what the memories inside the canister are, why did it show Mcguckit talking to a camera and use the gun on himself?
    Shouldn't that have been the scene of him going into the portal?

    • @jaketheartist8093
      @jaketheartist8093 Před 4 lety +28

      YowLife I think he was going into the portal and quit and just do record himself talking?

    • @YowLife
      @YowLife Před 4 lety +7

      @@jaketheartist8093 What?

    • @andytheawesome7592
      @andytheawesome7592 Před 3 lety +175

      I don’t think the actual memories can be recorded. The society is shown recording people describing their memories before using the gun, which is where those recordings come from. As shown in the last episode with Stan, the memories can still be regained if the subject is reminded, so those recordings are probably made to facilitate this process, allowing subjects to regain their lost memories if necessary.

    • @annaliesecancilla894
      @annaliesecancilla894 Před 3 lety +1

      I was just wondering that

    • @uns33nbois81
      @uns33nbois81 Před 3 lety +7

      could've just programmed the recordings into the cannister

  • @SirMalorak
    @SirMalorak Před 9 lety +556

    This is a really touching scene to be honest. Really sad to see one of the most brilliant scientists become something like this.
    1:33 made me sit there with an open jar. What a cartoon this is. Amazing stuff, Disney.

  • @RexMK-
    @RexMK- Před 2 lety +100

    Did anyone notice that by day 189, Mcgucket hair is greyish when in day 74 his hair is still brown, this kinda implies that besife causing damage to the mind (And quite possible brain) to victim, prolonged exposure/usage of the Memory Eraser also causes visible phsicall effect like loosing the color of one's hair.
    This could implied that the memory eraser also affects the chesmistry of the body negatively and quite possible it's celular structure.
    Also notice how Fiedelford gradually became shorter as he started to descend into insanity.
    I belive that the memory eraser uses some form of radiation to affect the neural conection of the brain and thus damaging and blocking memories, but prolonged exposure to this form of radiation is harmfull for the body, the psicolocall effect might also be a direct result of the umbalanced Brain chemestry.

  • @huntercool2232
    @huntercool2232 Před 2 lety +25

    It makes sense when you also remember early in season 1 McGucket’s love for inventions even tho he was crazy.

  • @k_Emptyhead
    @k_Emptyhead Před 4 měsíci +5

    Mcgucket's downfall was heartbreaking to see.

  • @kaylaearley1742
    @kaylaearley1742 Před 5 měsíci +7

    There's realism in this. People dont seem to realize that even the most brilliant and intelligent people still have a limit to how much trauma they can mentally handle.

    • @lpallad1
      @lpallad1 Před měsícem

      The problem is more that McGucket built that device to forget what he saw in the portal, but then began to abuse it to avoid anything, becoming a coward incapable of facing problems. Same thing for the rest of the Society of the Blind Eye.

  • @kazaligog
    @kazaligog Před 4 lety +23

    While reading the my own copy of the cannon Journal 3, I realized how sad his story was. He left his wife and son, his entire family behind just to help Ford with the experiments. The first time he created that gun was after a certain deadly experience with a Gravity Falls creature. Soon after, he started deteriorating, ford noticed this and ended up having the gun used on him, forgetting most of the interactions Fiddleford had with the townspeople. He started to give out invitations to people in the town to join his society. One of which was the man with the bald head, he was from a freakshow the Ford and him visited. He kept using the gun until the incident, of which he disappeared, never seen by Ford again. That's likely when he overused it. His family called him out on his insanity and disowned him. That's why he tries to redeem himself to his son during the Gobblewonker episode.

  • @DylTheRetroDemon
    @DylTheRetroDemon Před 2 lety +5

    "I've done a lot of forgetting,maybe I should try forgiving."
    ~Fiddleford Mcgucket.

  • @cd6572
    @cd6572 Před 2 lety +61

    1:53 How did I not notice where he slipped the memory canister LMAO

  • @davethelong5093
    @davethelong5093 Před 3 lety +19

    The worst part is that the gibberish he was saying at the end “Yroo Xrksvi! Girzmotv!” If placed in the Atbash cipher translates to “Bill Cipher! Triangle!”. The very thing that he so desperately wanted to forget. He ended up losing everything else but the one thing he wanted gone remained in his mind haunting him

  • @whinottoonish
    @whinottoonish Před rokem +17

    I never realized it in the moment, but that second to last memory may be the saddest one. The final turning point between Fiddleford and ‘Old Man McGucket’. You can see the last bit of sanity in his eyes as he realizes his pants are on backwards. And he has seemingly nothing to erase on this tape. He’s just there. The last of his unbroken mind just waiting to go.😢

  • @AbrasiousProductions
    @AbrasiousProductions Před 5 měsíci +5

    I'm proud of how mcgucket handled that, as crazy as he is, he's got a good heart and wants to move on with his life for the better❤

  • @charliepea
    @charliepea Před rokem +13

    This is my most favourite scene in the series, as well as the saddest for me. If McGucket never approved to help Ford in the first place, he would've been a revolutionary computer inventor instead of being an insane hillbilly. I feel bad for him, man. His whole life was ruined.

    • @duduamrosh
      @duduamrosh Před rokem

      Poor McSuckit

    • @raad8150
      @raad8150 Před 9 měsíci

      he became rich in the final episode though

  • @glutymaximusy866
    @glutymaximusy866 Před 9 lety +496

    That gibbrish at the end isn't actually gibbrish, it's a sort of language that translates to "BILL CIPHER! TRIANGLE!"

  • @trolloldragon
    @trolloldragon Před 9 lety +32

    This is soo dark, the background changes already after day 22. That's very creepy

  • @shadoka9409
    @shadoka9409 Před 7 lety +71

    Old man with long beard
    Watching old video footage of himself
    Genius that wore glasses
    Went crazy
    Forgot who he was
    McGucket is the Ice King confirmed

    • @Zach135
      @Zach135 Před 5 lety +1

      *BETTY*

    • @ZazzyGauss
      @ZazzyGauss Před 3 lety

      Yeah I was just thinking about that

    • @kimgerero2896
      @kimgerero2896 Před 2 lety

      But he is a mechanical genius hes not crazy

  • @altosynesthesia
    @altosynesthesia Před 4 lety +40

    Fiddleford is such a good, one might even say overpowered character, and here’s why:
    1. He is used in the prophecy wheel to defeat Bill Cipher
    2. He is impervious to memory gun/rays.
    3. Even without his sanity reclaimed, he could still remember his engineering and mechanic skills, and all of the unknown creatures Ford told him about, BEFORE getting his memory and sanity back.
    These are just 3 out of dozens of reasons why Fiddleford McGucket is such a good and underrated character. Like, literally. He is impervious to a FREAKING MEMORY GUN!!!!!!!

  • @ebearw197
    @ebearw197 Před 4 lety +16

    I just realized that he put a triangle over his eye.

  • @spacex6997
    @spacex6997 Před 4 lety +12

    "The Society of the Blind Eye" sounds more like an SCP Foundation interest group.

  • @randomchannel-px6ho
    @randomchannel-px6ho Před 4 měsíci +3

    Scenes like this in kids show gets more disturbing when you're older and painfully aware of how real people completely losing their minds is...

  • @nefelibata3901
    @nefelibata3901 Před rokem +9

    I remember feeling so bad for McGucket when I watched this episode for the first time. It was so sad to watch his descent into madness.

  • @chaoflaka8132
    @chaoflaka8132 Před 9 lety +250

    Well, atleast this is less emotional then Simon Petrikov.

    • @monikaking8553
      @monikaking8553 Před 9 lety +19

      probly cus everybody seen this before with simon and simon had more family that we know of his fiance betty his daughter marcy mcgucket only has a son that we know of wich hates him

    • @ConfettiBunny
      @ConfettiBunny Před 9 lety +35

      Yeah, but if you think about it. It's really upsetting how just erasing his memories a few time causes him to lose his successful future, ending him up in a dumpster.

    • @Sweet_Venom0027
      @Sweet_Venom0027 Před 9 lety +28

      Unlike Simon and Smeagol, McGuckett did this to himself time after time. He created the device, so he should have tested it better and found out the side effects. Simon and Smeagol were both pretty much forced into their situations.

    • @ConfettiBunny
      @ConfettiBunny Před 9 lety +10

      Venom0027 Rewatch the video. He didn't have the time to test it better. How is he gonna test it better anyway? He needed to make the device right away cause he didn't want to be haunted forever. Sure he "did it to himself" but I think he only used it just a few times and afterwards became too stupid to know that there would be side effects. I usually don't watch adventure time but why I can tell from Simon's is that he could've easily taken off the crown and destroyed it unless the crown was consuming his sanity or whatever.

    • @MonteCreations
      @MonteCreations Před 9 lety +5

      I wish this WAS as emotional as Simon's. Emotional stuff is awesome

  • @itsmorbintimememememememem5463

    When stanford pulled mcGucket out of the portal he started saying gibberish
    When you reverse those word it sounded like the same thing he said at 1:25 when its reversed

    • @417Owsy
      @417Owsy Před 3 lety +3

      Yroo xrksvi grzmatov means Bill Cipher Triangle in atbash cipher

  • @jaysonklein6018
    @jaysonklein6018 Před 8 lety +95

    anyone else find it mildly unsettling that there's a FIVE-DAY-GAP between him erasing his memory, and proclaiming it worked five days after the blast?
    I mean, was he unconscious, or a vegetable, or what happened to Stan happened to him, but worse?

    • @terry2788
      @terry2788 Před 7 lety +39

      Maybe he wanted to test it for 5 days if he could still remember something or not. Once he realized he couldn't recall a thing then he claims "It worked!"

    • @alecLogan
      @alecLogan Před 5 lety +20

      Jayson Klein Reckon he was “fine” for those days, but played straight not remembering he erased anything to begin with; after that Day 1 shot, Fiddleford ‘awakens’ in front of a camera, holding a alien-gun looking thing, with no idea what he was doing except for his notes, _if_ he immediately checked them. Maybe he doesn’t even pick up that anything’s amiss, figuring he just fell asleep at his table, and left to go home.
      Four days later, he sees Ford, hears he’s no longer working with him, and looks at his notes.
      “Welp, I... guess that worked!”

  • @conntoons_4848
    @conntoons_4848 Před 5 lety +21

    1:02 the wall says “help me”

  • @DeathRocket4990
    @DeathRocket4990 Před 7 lety +20

    1:32 That part got emotional...

  • @domidium
    @domidium Před 4 lety +14

    Reminds me of when Fin and Jack saw the recordings of Simon Patricov and how he became the Ice King.

  • @16centpictures
    @16centpictures Před 3 lety +9

    That slow descent into madness and bringing the character we just thought of as comic relief into a whole new light.

  • @jacobb4795
    @jacobb4795 Před 2 lety +31

    This reminds me of when Finn and Jake found the ice kings video tapes and they learned who he used to be

  • @stsars13
    @stsars13 Před 9 lety +121

    Of course my two favorite shows would have the same tragedy twist character development. Adventure Time and Gravity Falls are the best shows for a reason. TAKE NOTE OTHER ANIMATED SHOWS!

    • @elvondrago96
      @elvondrago96 Před 9 lety

      Same to me and i agree with your opinion!

    • @letsmakepancakes3
      @letsmakepancakes3 Před 9 lety +5

      But adventure time is shit.

    • @mr.goodboi2780
      @mr.goodboi2780 Před 9 lety +3

      Now its shit, seasons 1-5 were okay.

    • @mr.goodboi2780
      @mr.goodboi2780 Před 9 lety

      Season six has lost so much focus, its because pen ward left.

    • @mr.goodboi2780
      @mr.goodboi2780 Před 9 lety

      Well for starters where the hell did they put you, Flame Princess, they dropped that subplot and we haven't heard about it since. Everything has been REALLY WEIRD this season, I'm not saying I don't like weird I'm just sick of all these strange experimental writers fucking with the show's flow. Finn and Jake seem to have had post- traumatic. Stress disorder for at least a year now

  • @natasharanawake407
    @natasharanawake407 Před 3 lety +5

    me first time I see FIDDLEFORD - well misunderstood and smart....... but yeah cannot have a tragic backstory
    me when I see this - *sobs uncontrollably* FIDDLEFORD

  • @theidknetworkowo4721
    @theidknetworkowo4721 Před 5 lety +17

    OLD MAN MCGUCKET
    *SPITIN IN A BUCKET*

  • @lewa18
    @lewa18 Před 9 lety +40

    Hm...the encoded message and finger gesture at the end both allude heavily to Bill Cipher.
    Okay, this might be a long shot, but I think I know how Bill might be related to McGucket's transformation. At the beginning he says he "lies awake at night." We know that Bill can control people's dreams. In "Sock Opera" Bill is hellbent on destroying the journal, suggesting that the author found something that Bill wants to keep hidden. Therefore, Bill would probably want to silence McGucket, so he entered McGucket's dreams and gave him terrible nightmares that made it impossible for him to sleep and reminded him of his involvement in the author's research. Finally, Bill planted the idea for the memory gun in one of McGucket's dreams, ensuring that McGucket's knowledge would be hidden forever and establishing a convenient way for Bill to silence people who got too close to the truth.

    • @givethatrabbitabanana4321
      @givethatrabbitabanana4321 Před 5 lety +2

      SO TRUE!!! seriously i liked it.... but i would prefer to learn that myself, i wish i could forget about it
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    • @kylerbelshaw1465
      @kylerbelshaw1465 Před 4 lety

      @@givethatrabbitabanana4321 Pvvk rg fk yfwwb. (R'n fhrmt zm lmormv gllo uli gsrh olo)

    • @athan13590
      @athan13590 Před 4 lety

      @@kylerbelshaw1465 YGD R ZN GSV HZNV ZXXLFMG ZH RXV YVZI KOH WLMG GVOO ZMBLMV RN HFKKLHG GL YV ZM RMGVIMVG YLG

  • @TheDUDERulez1
    @TheDUDERulez1 Před 6 lety +19

    McGucket: Now you all know my secret...I USED TO WEAR GLASSES!

  • @jeffreymichael2778
    @jeffreymichael2778 Před 4 lety +14

    y’all notice how everyone in this show is left handed

  • @Radek_Lemon
    @Radek_Lemon Před 3 lety +181

    This is the lockdown in a nutshell

  • @animegx45
    @animegx45 Před 9 lety +17

    This was such a hilariously heavy scene. This may be my favourite moment in Gravity Falls now.

  • @christianbyers8332
    @christianbyers8332 Před 3 lety +6

    Now it makes sense on why he was always so paranoid, because deep deep down he still knows that he had seen some terrible things even if he doesn’t know what they are.

  • @DeletedDevilDeletedAngel
    @DeletedDevilDeletedAngel Před 3 lety +12

    0:35 hey its that head from dippers guide to the unexplained

  • @crewdroid7146
    @crewdroid7146 Před 2 lety +11

    2:23 this is like the Morty’s mind blowers episode of Rick and Morty. Except Mabel learns from her mistakes.

  • @kaylenvee8150
    @kaylenvee8150 Před 6 měsíci +2

    After two years of slowly going insane from trying to erase his memories, that last clip was him showing the symbol for the thing he wanted so desperately to forget: Bill Cipher.

  • @EliasTressa
    @EliasTressa Před 5 měsíci +2

    I like to believe when he mentioned he came across a colony of little men, he’s referring to the same creatures featured in the GF short “dippers guide to the unexplained: Candy Monster”

    • @killme9534
      @killme9534 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I thought he was talking about the gnomes. He probably met Shmebulock.

  • @nichalospenaloza2414
    @nichalospenaloza2414 Před 5 lety +4

    I actually had ptsd and what he described best described what it was like " I wish I can forget but I keep getting flashbacks" I wanted to erase it but no matter how hard I tried it wont leave my mind

  • @animeloverhaven
    @animeloverhaven Před 2 lety +11

    Crazy how he got fleshed out after just being a joke character

  • @Bms010
    @Bms010 Před 2 lety +5

    Wanna know what makes it 100x worse, he had a wife and son before he came to help Ford and was planning on going back to them until he started erasing his memories.

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn Před 5 měsíci +3

    If you use a machine to erase memories on yourself, how do you know it worked?

  • @dieselexkore2063
    @dieselexkore2063 Před 2 lety +13

    I just realized. These weren’t his memories. These were recorded journal entries. The memories are seeing Bill, the gnomes and other stuff.