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Was northwest mansion mystery in an alternate universe?

posted 9 years ago by magolding
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Was "northwest mansion mystery" in an alternate universe to the one where Stan Brought Ford back and then the Weirdmageddon happened?

At the end of "northwest mansion mystery" McGucket looked at the computer with the countdown showing 21 hours, some minutes, and some seconds. And we can be sure it was not days, hours, and minutes, because the seconds were counting down at about one per second.

But if every episode takes place after the previously aired episode, many days and probably weeks passed until Friday, August 24, 2012, precisely a week before their birthday on August 31. With no apocalypse until the Weirdmageddon started that day.

So that leaves several possibilities.

1) maybe whatever McGucket was using to count down to the apocalypse was incorrect in the first place (an apocryphal apocalypse) or else changed by something which Dipper and Mabel had done, which changed the schedule without changing McGucket's computer countdown.

2) Maybe the countdown was months, days, and seconds, or weeks, days, and seconds, even though it would be weird to skip over hours and maybe weeks.

3) Maybe the "seconds" were a little longer than seconds,and the "minutes" were actually 144 of those "Seconds" (144 is the base-12 equivalent of 100), and the "hours" were 144 of those "minutes".

Thus each hour would have 20,736 extra-long "seconds" and 20 of those hours would have 414,720 extra-long "seconds". 414,720 normal seconds would be 4.8 days of 86,400 seconds. And if the extra long "seconds" were 1.10 seconds long that would be 5.28 days, if they were 1.25 seconds long that would be 6 days, if they were 1.333 seconds long that wold be 6.3984 days, and if they were 1.5 seconds long that would be 7.2 days.

That might give enough time for the six episodes between "Northwest Mansion Mystery" and "Dipper and Mabel vs the Future", especially if several happened each day.

4) Maybe "Northwest Mansion Mystery" Happens out of sequence, on Thursday, August 23, 2012, with the start of Weirdmageddon less than 24 hours after the last scene. But the old Mayor was alive in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" and died in "The Stanchurian Candidate", and the new Mayor acted as mayor in "Weirdmageddon part 1". So that would seem to put "Northwest Mansion Mystery"
in an alternate unvierse.

5) So maybe "Northwest Mansion Mystery" happens on August 23, 2012 in an alternate universe where the old mayor did not die and be replaced in "The Stanchurian Candidate", though of all the inhabitants of Gravity Falls he seems least likely to survive the Weirdmageddon.

So can anyone think of sixth or seventh possibilities?

[–] comicman117 9 years ago

Nah. I'm pretty sure Northwest Mansion Mystery was meant to be set in the current time, but that's a nice theory anyway.

I wasn't waiting, I was just sitting and breathing. Got a problem with that?

[–] Deadpool_vs_theLeprecorn 9 years ago

No. McGucket's computer was picking up the time left until the activation of the portal. In the next episode, "Not What He Seems", as McGucket is packing to flee town, the computer is now at 4:57:42.

[–] magolding 9 years ago

No. McGucket's computer was picking up the time left until the activation of the portal. In the next episode, "Not What He Seems", as McGucket is packing to flee town, the computer is now at 4:57:42.

you are saying it was the first alternative in my possibility number 1:

1) maybe whatever McGucket was using to count down to the apocalypse was incorrect in the first place (an apocryphal apocalypse) or else changed by something which Dipper and Mabel had done, which changed the schedule without changing McGucket's computer countdown.

You are saying it was an apocryphal apocalypses. McGucket traced the activity of the portal charging and building up energy to open up a rift in space time and feared it would cause armaggedon. So the computer was counting down until what McGucket assumed was doomsday but actually only had an unknown probability of causing doomsday.

[–] Deadpool_vs_theLeprecorn 9 years ago

1) maybe whatever McGucket was using to count down to the apocalypse was incorrect in the first place (an apocryphal apocalypse) or else changed by something which Dipper and Mabel had done, which changed the schedule without changing McGucket's computer countdown.

No, I don't agree with that.

You are saying it was an apocryphal apocalypses. McGucket traced the activity of the portal charging and building up energy to open up a rift in space time and feared it would cause armaggedon. So the computer was counting down until what McGucket assumed was doomsday but actually only had an unknown probability of causing doomsday.

I guess.

McGucket's computer was counting down to when the portal opened, not to the apocalypse. But it just so happens that the machine could destroy the world, which is why McGucket fled.

[–] jackjack-61817 9 years ago

Agreed w Deadpool... the countdown wasn't to the apocalypse itself. It was triggered by Stan opening the portal and was counting down till the portal's full activation. McGucket was most afraid of the portal reaching full activation because he knew how unstable it was and, even though it didn't DIRECTLY cause the apocalypse with Bill, he was correct in its potential to cause mass destruction.