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Alex Hirsch with a Grunkle Stan puppet at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013. Hirsch's first job after graduating from CalArts was as a writer and storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, where he worked alongside CalArts alumni J. G. Quintel, Pendleton Ward (who was his writing partner on the show), and Patrick McHale.
Fiddleford Hadron "Old Man" McGucket (voiced by Alex Hirsch) is the "local kook" of Gravity Falls. Despite his apparent insanity and stereotypical hillbilly demeanor, Old Man McGucket is a technical mastermind, capable of creating massive, complex animatronics and a skilled chemist. His son works as a ranger at the lake, and the two seem to ...
After reuniting with Ford, he spray-paints a Zodiac wheel on the ground, having seen the image described as a means to defeat Bill. The wheel requires ten specific people, indicated by symbols on it, which Ford realizes are some of the most important of the townsfolk (Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Ford, Soos, Wendy, McGucket, Gideon, Robbie, and Pacifica).
Prior to the creation of Gravity Falls, Alex Hirsch was helping to develop the Disney Channel animated series Fish Hooks, when Disney contacted him and asked him if he would like to pitch his own animated series to the network, which Hirsch accepted. [8]
The recurring characters comprises the voices of Dee Bradley Baker as Mabel's pet pig, Waddles, and Hirsch also playing Old Man McGucket, the "local kook" of the town. Kevin Michael Richardson plays Sheriff Blubs, with partner Deputy Durland being voiced by Keith Ferguson. Pacifica Northwest is played by Jackie Buscarino. T. J.
Gravity Falls is an American mystery comedy animated television series created by Alex Hirsch for Disney Channel and Disney XD.The series follows the adventures of Dipper Pines (Jason Ritter) and his twin sister Mabel (Kristen Schaal), who are sent to spend the summer with their great-uncle (or "Grunkle") Stan (Hirsch) in Gravity Falls, Oregon, a mysterious town full of paranormal incidents ...
The blocks he was involved in building are being demolished to give room for modernistic city planning. He summarizes his failed life for himself: poverty ruined his relationship, his son ran away and the wife died. He befriends Sven, another man at the retirement home, and together they drink to make the memories fade.
Hirsch explained in an interview with The A.V. Club during production of season 1, that a typical episode is conceived in a room reserved for writers, where a simple synopsis is presented, and from then on dramatic structure is defined, and the plot is modified to include a character-driven subplot, which Hirsch expresses as "the hardest thing... to find a character story that actually ...