I think that looks pretty good, I won’t get scared; it should be fine, right?
Then we have to code the whole thing ![]()
I’ll try to be careful.
Registering this thing is really hard.
Just went to check the water source (hadn’t seen it before
I think it should be fine (?) although the eyeballs are indeed a bit off san, but the overall shape and details have been handled more like an artwork rather than blood‑splattered eyeballs.
Of course, if the OP still plans to add something else inside, then consider me silent ![]()
Yay!
No, if the content is inappropriate it will be blocked/deleted, only frequent violations will get banned, and currently there hasn’t been such a case in the community (except for a certain machine ID).
Okay, thank you ![]()
It feels like 土源 is quite suitable for me to organize my crazy content
First open a to do list
commentary(0/40)
journal 3 (0/40)
dvd commentary (1/40)
Today’s progress: S1E01 tourist trapped
Commentators: Alex Hirsch, Jason Ritter & Kristen Schaal (the main trio)
Thoughts while listening
Thoughts and shorthand
Episode 1 is the 7th episode produced
alex:“Jason hasn’t fully gone through puberty yet” ![]()
Jason: The first episode used some pilot audio, causing Dipper’s voice to be slightly different, a bit nerdier
alex: We have to quickly show Mabel being Mabel! to make you fall in love with Mabel (the pacing arrangement of episode 1)
kristen: she is the heart and soul of the show(jason:what does dipper has ? kristen: I don’t know!)
There are many 618 references throughout the series (Alex and his sister’s birthday)
The main thread the team explored in season 1 episode 1:
Stan has a twin brother
That brother wrote many journals
That brother built a lab, which later became a mysterious cabin
That brother doesn’t get along with Stan
That brother’s life seemed better than Stan’s (I feel this becomes a bit untenable as the plot progresses)
The brother’s supernatural connections caused him to be taken away
Stan took over his life and is searching for him
The main thread later conceived (didn’t exist at first):
Bill is the mastermind behind the scenes
Portal accident
McGucket’s identity
Jason: During production, I kept asking Alex for spoilers while dubbing (didn’t get any
)
alex: When the three of us first got together, I looked like a werewolf (
)
In the 2018 commentary, Alex said that some secrets in Journal 3 haven’t been discovered?? :zhihu_surprise:
Alex was really young when he made this show
Alonzo beat Annie and Emmy? ![]()
Jason really loves Dipper’s hat ![]()
Alex: In our first episode we hadn’t decided what was behind the vending machine. It’s related to searching for the brother, but the lab and story were thought up later
Jason: What about the tattoo?
Alex: The tattoo was planned from the start
Next episode: S1E02 The Legend of the Gobblewonker
Commentators: Alex Hirsch & Mike Rianda (creative director)
Listen when you have time tomorrow or later
DVD commentary (2/40)
Today’s progress: S1E02 The Legend of the Gobblewonker
Commentators: Alex Hirsch (Creator and Executive Producer) & Mike Rianda (Creative Director)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/R5DpdbS1vBw?si=b7lvRPll_Jjev0PZ
Listening while updating
Notes and Rants
The second episode is the first one we produced, and also the first script Alex and Mike have ever written in their lives.
Hahaha alex wrote it in text
mike wrote it in Word ![]()
We wrote 8 versions of this episode.
One discarded version: everyone on a party boat, with a steel‑drum player.
Hahaha ![]()
alex: Even fools like us can learn how to indent scripts and write stories :huanhu:
alex&mike: The syrup competition doesn’t exist in reality and is unrelated to the plot, but it shows that Dipper and Mabel have a great relationship, the characters are lively, and it helps the audience fall in love with Dipper and Mabel (they’re so cute
).
Unfortunately
the thing we were worried about still happened, and we couldn’t tell whether Alex or Mike was speaking.
alex really cares about continuity.
Fiddleford naming changes: crazy Larry → old man mcguffin (mcguffin means a plot‑driving but actually unimportant element) (thankfully we didn’t use this; later Fiddleford became way too important) → old man mcgucket.
The three anglers in the scene are members of the production team.
alex: I think the key task for the first five to ten episodes of a TV series is to try to make the audience love these characters.
mike: At the beginning, setting the tone was a huge problem. We didn’t know whether to write something fairly scary or something light and goofy; we wanted a story somewhere in between. This episode didn’t end up as mysterious as we wanted, but it’s interesting to rewatch.
alex: The camera joke is a memory from my 90s. I’m a million years old (???
). We couldn’t take photos with a phone, so I had to buy a disposable camera. I firmly believe absolutely that when I was in third grade in elementary school I absolutely believed in magical elves. I looked everywhere, bringing a bunch of disposable cameras to try to capture them.
alex: (When designing characters) Soos’s mind is elsewhere. Mabel is energetic and sees the best in things. Stan is a fraudster. Dipper… is the normal one. (
)
alex: Even though our show is script‑based, if an artist has a new idea or joke we like, we keep it.
alex: In this scene the question mark on Soos’s shirt disappeared, but it seems no one noticed ![]()
alex: Every episode must have mysterious creatures and puzzles, but we must never copy existing ones; for example, we never made an episode about Bigfoot or vampires.
alex: That hole we originally thought might hide some big secret, but we never mentioned it again (and then Fiddleford became the most important foreshadowing).
mike: mcgucket was originally a crazy miner character that only appeared once.
Hahaha
alex keeps speaking with Stan and mcgucket’s voices.
alex: Early in the series we tried to hint everywhere that Stan had been in jail. If you pay attention, you can see how messed up Stan was (can’t translate).
Next episode: S1E03 Headhunters
Commentators: Alex Hirsch (Creator and Executive Producer) & Mike Rianda (Creative Director)
Listen tomorrow or whenever you have time.
DVD commentary (3/40)
Today’s progress: S1E03 Headhunters
Commentators: Alex Hirsch (Creator and Executive Producer) & Mike Rianda (Creative Director)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/q4DewFqbFwE?si=279ACL5xkAoRvqP9
Listening while updating
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The third episode is the second episode produced
mike: Weird, why does everyone love ducktective so much
alex is literally a superhero
wrote this episode in three days
alex: mike, what was my state at that time
mike: I don’t know, I just know that one day I walked into your office and the letters on the keyboard were scattered everywhere
alex: I probably smashed the keyboard in anger, because the document crashed halfway and wasn’t saved (okay, if it were me I’d already start screaming, twisting, crawling
)
alex: We wrote the first episode too hard, and after finishing we realized — there are still 19 episodes to do ![]()
alex: I have two goals: 1) have a plausible mystery in the show. 2) showcase the town.
alex: It’s great to work with so many awesome writers. We came up with using a wax figure to display murders in a children’s show
alex: oh, we could get away with killing peopleᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
alex: soos’s keyboard appears multiple times after this episode. We’re happy soos has a keyboard. He plays it well (randomly reminds me of a girl band) (what keyboardist) (keyboardists are everywhere)
Draft: Grunkle Stan meets a bunch of to-be-determined characters that we haven’t invented yet
alex: toby determined the name came like that
Those two officers were originally not set as a couple? ![]()
alex: We initially just wanted to subvert expectations, but as we wrote, they became soulmates (they’re really sweet
)
alex: toby is set as an ugly guy. But the early version was too ugly, so I said: “Please make him a bit more presentable, the audience can’t stand it”
toby was beautified three times
the original would have been so ugly
alex: We pretend Stan loves the
It’s actually a water source exclusive emoticon
What does it look like? I’ll repost it.
I can’t reach the water source ![]()

like this
DVD commentary (4/40)
Today’s progress: S1E04 The Hand That Rocks the Mabel
Commentators: Alex Hirsch (Creator and Executive Producer) , Mike Rianda (Creative Director) & Rob Renzetti (Supervising Producer)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/NVdqfX4Qb68?si=1G87-jspBi5JPhRq
Updating while listening
Notes and Rants
Bad
I can’t tell whose voice is whose among the three
alex: mike always wants to change something (like the day before a deadline: “Let’s scrap it and write a new version” :huanhu:), rob is very rational (a weird adjective
probably the most normal person in the production team), he’s my arch‑enemy (lololol I’m now lying on the desk laughing wildly
makes sense, makes sense, alex is too crazy, rob is too rational) (oh my god rob is really awesome
he previously worked on Teenage Robot, My Little Pony, The Powerpuff Girls). I’m the middle ground. I’m as crazy as mike, but the show still has to be made.
Without any warning, alex suddenly spoke in a soos voice
Alright now it’s stan
how are his vocal cords so flexible?
Now it’s clamantha
so many people.jpg
mike is too loud and blew out the microphone ![]()
Next episode: S1E05 The Inconveniencing
Commentators: Alex Hirsch (Creator and Executive Producer) , Mike Rianda (Creative Director) & Rob Renzetti (Supervising Producer)
The commentary I’ve heard so far has been fully transferred.
Oh, by the way, just to mention, the avatar is a tooth tuxedo little person
voted on the water source and narrowly defeated the baby tuxedo little person
9:50
It’s not raining heavily, let’s ride a bike to the Electrical Institute.
11:50
(Watching the rain curtain)… how should I get the bike back?
20:20
It’s not raining heavily, let’s ride a bike to the Electrical Institute.
21:00
(Watching the rain curtain)… how should I get the bike back?
How can a person step into the same river twice in one day? ![]()
