Gravity Falls
Bottomless Pit!
TV Flash files “Bottomless Pit!” as hour 14 of 40 in the TV Flash guide — Gravity Falls (2012–2016) on Disney XD, season 1, episode 14, aired 2013-03-01, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E14: listed hour 14 of 40 in the Gravity Falls guide, hour 14 of 20 in season 1. It aired 2013-03-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Boss Mabel” (S01E13). Next is “The Deep End” (S01E15).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Stan, Dipper, Mabel and Soos find themselves falling into a bottomless pit, they each decide to tell a different story to pass the time.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bottomless Pit! sit in the Gravity Falls guide?
S01E14 is listed hour 14 of 40 — hour 14 of 20 in season 1, season 1 episode 14.
When did Gravity Falls S01E14 air?
Bottomless Pit! aired 2013-03-01 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need to watch in order?
Yes if you want the ciphers and Bill Cipher long game. Serialized kids' mystery: clues reward rewatches. Dip-in episodes exist; the conspiracy does not.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Dipper and Mabel's paranormal summer with Grunkle Stan: journals, cryptograms, Bill Cipher, sibling love as the real supernatural. Alex Hirsch built ARG energy into Disney television and then ended it cleanly. Serialized kids' mystery done right — clues that reward rewatches, and a town that still feels like a puzzle box.
The first look is summer tourist kitsch with a journal that is already a costume. Twins Dipper and Mabel spend a weird season with Grunkle Stan in a town of conspiracies — Alex Hirsch's Disney XD series (2012–2016): Jason Ritter, Kristen Schaal, Hirsch voicing Stan/Soos/Bill, Linda Cardellini, J.K. Simmons's Ford. Journals, cryptograms, Bill Cipher chaos, sibling love as the real supernatural. Tessa's timeline will live in the ciphers until 2 a.m. Let it. **The town is a puzzle box; the twins are the silhouette…
Filed against
- Jason Ritter as Dipper Pines
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- Kristen Schaal as Mabel Pines
Kristen Schaal’s Louise Belcher is the pink-eared coup of Bob’s Burgers — kids generating beautiful problems, songs erupting without warning — and she doubled as Mabel Pines’s summer-supernatural heart on Gravity Falls. Kindest adult…
- Alex Hirsch as Grunkle Stan / Soos / Bill
Alex Hirsch’s Grunkle Stan / Soos / Bill packed Gravity Falls with ARG energy and then ended it cleanly — Dipper and Mabel’s paranormal summer, journals, cryptograms, sibling love as the real supernatural. Serialized kids’ mystery done…
- Linda Cardellini as Wendy Corduroy
Linda Cardellini’s Lindsay Weir drifted toward the burnouts on Freaks and Geeks — 1980–81 Michigan, 1999 soul, authenticity over punch-up — then voiced Wendy on Gravity Falls’ paranormal summer. Eighteen episodes of cancellation lore;…
- J.K. Simmons as Ford Pines
J.K. Simmons’s Ford Pines turned Gravity Falls into a gravel-voiced mystery box — 2010s catalog journals, cryptograms, a great-uncle’s secret as the real supernatural. The Legend of Korra and Invincible kept the instrument in animation’s…