🌲 Desperate to Be Cool
As they head back, Wendy reassures Dipper that he doesn't need to fake being older to hang out with them. He may not be a teenager yet, but in Wendy's eyes, he is already plenty cool.
The fun stops when the store's supernatural elements awaken. The ghosts of the former owners, Ma and Pa, manifest with a burning hatred for teenagers. They trap the group inside and begin picking off the teenagers one by one, possessing Mabel's sugar-overloaded body to speak. [S1E5] The Inconveniencing
They start food fights, ride shopping carts, and mess with the arcade machines.
Satisfied by the pure, un-teenaged display of innocence, the ghosts release the gang and let them leave the store safely. 🌅 A Secret Between Friends 🌲 Desperate to Be Cool As they head
To save his friends, Dipper realizes he has to drop the cool-guy act. He steps forward and confesses his biggest secret: he isn't a teenager at all, but a 12-year-old kid.
The gang piles into a van driven by Thompson and heads to an old, abandoned convenience store called the Dusk 2 Dawn. The store has been boarded up for years after the previous elderly owners mysteriously died. The ghosts of the former owners, Ma and
Mabel discovers a shelf stocked with Smile Dip , a highly concentrated, banned candy. Ignoring the warning labels, she eats the entire stash and spirals into a wild, pink, dolphin-filled sugar hallucination.