Of course, there is something clearly Jewish in episodes like “Dipper vs Manliness.” Mortally embarrassed when Stan catches him, wrapped only in a towel and singing along to Abba’s “Dancing Queen” in the bathroom mirror, Dipper decides to become a man. All the more so when, still a child and still Jewish, you find yourself flung into a place like Gravity Falls, as alien and goyish as the YMCA camp buried in the Poconos where I was banished one summer. It certainly is for Louisa - who also happens to have a Jewish father and gentile mother - who finds something Jewish in the show’s attraction for the awkward and the marginal, the outsider and the other. Photo by Getty Imagesīut the show’s Jewish sensibility seems to be a topic of interest in “Gravity Falls” fandom. Alex Hirsch’s imaginary world has something in common with that of Rocky and Bullwinkle the Moose, seen here flying at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In a tweet a few years ago, he remarked that Uncle Stan was raised Jewish but became an atheist. While Ward did not make much of this background, Hirsch has. Like Alex Hirsch, Ward was born in California to a Jewish father and gentile mother and eventually dropped his paternal last name Cohen. Rocky and Bullwinkle, as well as the iconic “George of the Jungle,” was the brainchild of Jay Ward. The distance between Gravity Falls and Frostbite Falls is not all that great. After listening to the speeches - one senator demands that “We get government out of government!” while another lambastes sending foreign aid “to places like Hawaii and Alaska” - Boris and Natasha conclude that goof gas would be redundant. How could she not? Take “Goof Gas,” where the Pottsylvanian spies, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, debate whether to spray the gas into the Senate chamber, turning its members into goofballs. Looking back, I relished the voices and slapstick, but my mom cherished the dialogue.
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