GRAVITY FALLS S1E12 SUMMERWEEN 🤩

“It’s the one day the entire family can get together at once and celebrate what really matters. Pure evil.”

While working at Disney on their streaming apps, I didn’t take the trip to GRAVITY FALLS to watch this dark series on Disney XD. Luckily, I have the next-door neighbor’s kid (age 12) and my stepson (age 11) to force me to watch the content I’ve missed. 

GRAVITY FALLS is the best type of family-friendly TV. It forces you to face fears, has dark themes, a twisted sense of humor, and, most importantly, life lessons that aren’t taught heavy-handed. While the second season of GRAVITY FALLS goes down a mysterious bottomless pit that you have to experience, the first is much more approachable. 

The self-contained SUMMERWEEN episode is this series at its best. The concept of a scary monster, the Summerween Trickster, seeking revenge against kids who think they are too cool to participate in Halloween is non-stop demented fun. Furthermore, the monster’s design is actually scary. Watching the kids trying to save their lives before the jack-o-lantern goes out works on many levels. I still feel for poor Gorney. The kid just wanted to Trick-or-Treat. 🤣

SUMMERWEEN deserves to be on everyone’s Halloween watchlist. Cheap candy may be bad, but this is one piece that you will be satisfied with. Oh, and be sure to stay for the memes of Waddles the Pig during the post-credits. I “pigged out” on all of them as they were hilarious. 

The entire GRAVITY FALLS series is available on Disney+. Try SUMMERWEEN to see if it’s your type of treat. I promise. I’m not tricking you.