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Previously on Gravity Falls:
Dipper and Mabel Pines are sent to Gravity Falls to spend the summer with their Grunkle Stan, who runs a tourist trap called the Mystery Shack. Dipper finds a journal in which the enigmatic Author has chronicled some of the unusual happenings and inhabitants of the town, and he vows to follow in his (or her) footsteps to unravel Gravity Falls’ mysteries while bonding with his wild sister and cranky Grunkle.
So Gravity Falls not only has supernatural occurrences happening on a daily basis, it also has its own popular television series, Ducktective. I’ll give you one guess as to what it’s about.
…Really?
While Dipper and Mabel are watching it, Soos appears and tells them that while cleaning the Mystery Shack he found a hidden door. They check it out together and find it full of creepy wax figures of famous people including Sherlock Holmes, Ghengis Kahn, Lizzie Borden, Groucho Marx, Coolio, Shakespeare, and more.

Also some kind of strange goblin man, the Journal says he’s a mythical beast known only as a Larry King. What he’s king of I have no clue.
Then they get startled by a wax figure of Grunkle Stan, which turns out to be the real Stan, which scares them even more.
With the intro out of the way, Grunkle Stan explains that the wax figures used to be part of the Shack’s exhibits, but he put them into retirement when they stopped drawing crowds. Now’s as good a time as any to bring them back, but when Stan discovers Wax Abraham Lincoln has melted (with Wax John Wilkes Booth as the primary culprit) Mabel promises to make a new wax figure for him. She even finds her muse – Stan himself.
Soon the day of the grand re-opening arrives complete with a gala event that promises fun – and no refunds – will be had. The Grunkle Stan wax figure is unveiled and it is an exact likeness (the glitter coating notwithstanding). Stan is interviewed by failing reporter and sad sack Toby Determined, who can only afford a turkey baster to use as a microphone, and serious reporter Shandra Jiminez, who calls Stan out for the lack of free pizza promised on the flyers. Stan ends the conference with a smoke bomb and flees while most of the crowd, especially Manly Dan, takes their anger out on anything in sight.
Stan considers the day a success and he attributes it to his wax doppelganger. He even starts talking to it like a real person, which is…a little weird. He leaves it propped up on the chair in the living room while he goes to the kitchen.
Moments later, Dipper and Mabel hear a scream from downstairs – Wax Stan has been murdered.

Oh the wax humanity!!