Diggity Dungeons and All That Yeah. If they win, Probabilitor will return to his game. That night, Dipper lies awake thinking of potential strategies he could use to beat Ford, keeping Mabel awake. He shows him the remains of the Portal, now fully dismantled. This kind of die used in the game is an Icosahedron, which is a shape made of 20 equilateral triangles. When the show returns from its super catchy theme music, Mabel is scribbling a letter to her parents.
That dude is a serious entertainer. I think he was just too fat to get out. Dipper invites Mabel to play with him. Unsurprisingly, Stan and Mabel have no idea what to do, but Dipper tells them to make the moves up as they go. The Impossibeast could only be defeated with a perfect 38 die roll, and was banned in subsequent editions. These things are outlawed in 9,000 dimensions.
Even when he casts an Impossibeast, a banned character only defeated by rolling a perfect 38, they still manage to do the impossible and handily defeat it. Instead of answering the question, Ford shows off a souvenir from across the dimensions, an Infinity-Sided Die; when rolled, anything can happen. You can find him on , , and , jonjnorth. We now know why he and Goldie were kicked out of that casino after raking in winnings. Papa needs a new pair of. Stan walks by and makes fun of the game's nerdiness and antiquated language, with Mabel joining in, Dipper then snaps at both of them.
He created the series and frequently contributes to scripts, but he also oversees the massive, increasingly intricate mythology and voices beloved characters Grunkle Stan and Soos. Maybe I should start obsessing over Wendy again. Infinity die gets locked up Theories state that other priceless treasures will be locked up in the empty lockers here. If so, was this something that you had wanted to write into the show for a long time? Stan: suddenly furious Duck-tective has a big mystery element, and a lot of humor that goes over kids' heads! Ford takes Dipper into the basement again, locking the infinity sided die in a glass cabinet and telling him he can use it when needed. Toby is carried off by the griffin, and everyone is too lazy to go rescue him.
It feels like an ominous warning, but I couldn't figure out exactly what it meant. Probabilitor gains initiative and has his ogre-minions attack Dipper and Ford. This sends the Probabilitor back to his own dimension. In the process he loses his 38-sided die under the house. The critical component comes in tone and direction. Dipper reading Journal 2 Interesting. Eventually averted by the end of the episode: Stan mellows enough to let Dipper and Ford hang out, and Ford confides in Dipper about the consequences of the portal.
Dipper goes out back and tries to play with , but Gompers ends up chewing on the 38-sided die needed to play the game. Weird Al Yankovic can do no wrong in my eyes, and even with the disturbing lack of polka medleys in this outing he makes Improbabilitor such a fun villain. Simmons and introducing a new, even more dangerous threat in the form of the rift. They gather up weapons and run into the forest with Mabel vowing to get back Dipper, Great Uncle Ford, and possibly that hot elf. Mabel even tells her parents about Ford.
Dejected, Dipper goes outside to pretend to play with Gompers the goat. This also proves that other dimensions have lifeforms and laws, just like our dimension. Mabel lies awake thinking about what Dipper says. On the cover of the box is Probabilitor the Annoying, Hot Elf on a unicorn, and a large ogre. Dipper reads Journal 2, Grunkle Stan reads a newspaper, and Mabel is eating an entire bag of Cheese Boodles without using her hands. If not, well, you know the rest. What he is saying is that even obsessing over Wendy was more fun than playing a board game with Gompers.
She shows interestā¦until he begins explaining the lengthy rules to set up the game before even going into how it works. The focus is much more on roleplaying and storytelling ā thinking up a character and acting them out in a fantasy adventure. Stan and Mabel realize that they are in their element, and use their own skills to defeat Probabilitor at his own game. What can you tease about future episodes? All in all, this was a pretty solid episode. Grunkle Ford then storms in from the basement, struggling with a cycloptopus. How did you make it past my one guard? Probably the second one, since he would have only had a little over 1 day in each dimension if he visited all 9,000.
While Mabel insists the show is all the mystery Dipper needs, he longs for something more ā¦ otherworldly. Does she receive any responses from her parents? Also, the meta humour was great, I mean, Alex sure has the fans pegged. A real 38 sided die would be made of multiple squares, regular hexagons, and irregular hexagons. Later that day, Mabel is writing home to her parents when Dipper runs in with a new game, Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons, a fantasy game played with statistics and graph paper. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand it. He enjoys keeping the mystery in the Mystery Shack.
Also notice that Ford was not watching with the family. With the wizard thwarted, the family watches the finale of Duck-tective. Did you play these types of role playing games as a kid? Ford takes care of the creature, and Dipper approaches Ford, asking him if he can spend time with Ford in the basement. Then, he pulls back the curtain to reveal that he completely dismantled the portal. When Stan needs to roll a 38, he manages it thanks to a wad of gum. Suddenly, Dungeons, Dungeons and More Dungeons becomes very, very real.