#mike rianda

[ahb-writes]

(from The Mitchells vs. the Machines, 2021)

[titlecards]

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), dir. Mike Rianda

[george-rr-binks]

Between The Owl House, Inside Job, and The Mitchells vs the Machines, I can deduce that Gravity Falls was an incubator of absolute geniuses

[mikyapixie]

𝟡 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕘𝕠 𝕥𝕠𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝔽𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕚𝕤𝕟𝕖𝕪 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕝!!!

[ter-claw-thorne]

it kills me that Mike Rianda had to be told to leave the office when working on Gravity Falls because he stank and needed to shower and he was so committed to staying and writing those jokes.

[crispyflowerblaze]

is anyone else who has gravity falls on dvd just absolutely obsessed with the commentaries? they have them for every episode, it's the whole episode in the background with alex hirsch and at least one other person who worked on the show (sometimes voice actors, sometimes writers, sometimes artists, his twin sister one time, etc.) doing commentary over it and i dunno they're just so comforting to me, like i just watch them over and over again and will never get tired of doing so. and they're sooooo funny and you learn so much cool stuff about the show and they're great! and all of the people are just so great, like i'm way too attached to all of them lol

some personal highlights: (some might be paraphrases, i dunno)

- "i'm alex hirsch and i'm not rob renzetti" "i'm rob renzetti and i'm not matt chapman" "i'm matt chapman and i'm BOTH alex hirsch and rob renzetti" "whoa really?" (introductions at the beginning of commentary for Into the Bunker)

- "i'm matt chapman and i'm an ungodly monstrosity" "not JUST an ungodly monstrosity, the ungodly monstrosity who wrote this episode!"

- every single time alex says something as a character he plays (stan, soos, mcgucket, bill, quentin trembley, etc.) ("uh oh! gravity is a real problem in this town! i'm quentin trembley" - commentary for Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future; "this is what dates are like for Stan!" - commentary for Roadside Attraction; "yeah yknow, say whatever you want, then you won't see them again, other people don't have feelings" - commentary for Roadside Attraction) (ahhh they're so much less funny written out than they are when he actually says them i promise)

- jeff rowe wanting to be called stabby the boss cat (commentary for Blendin's Game)

- every time they mention how alex chews on pens

- "what if the love potion comes from cupid, and what if cupid is... mike rianda" (commentary for The Love God) (hmm I don't know if this is funny out of context for who mike is, well that's not my problem!)

- the whole thing about jason ritter getting a bit electrocuted by a ms. pacman video game when he was a kid (commentary for Fight Fighters)

i will probably add more as i rewatch more of them. but yeah the commentaries are the best!!!!!!

[bolly--quinn]

the weird family who saved the 🌏

bonus:

[bisexualgodofchaoss]

I love alex hirsch but i hate how the success of gravity falls is all thrown on him

like alex hirsch is not some sort of god of creativity and animation he is good at what he does and he is creative and talented but the quality and success of gravity falls he probably should have 10% of the credit at most, like seriously all the people that started their own shows after gravity falls didn’t get blessed by alex hirsch’s golden god buddha touch and become creative and talented creators, THEY WERE ALWAYS GREAT CREATORS!!!!!!

like seriously if a piece of media is made by a group of creative and talented IS IT SUCH A SURPRISE IT TURNS OUT GOOD?!

like shion takeuchi, matt braly, dana terrace,mike rianda and rest of the crew.

all these people didn’t evolve into a new level just cause they worked with alex hirsch.

please remember to give credit to all the people who put in their hearts and souls into media no matter what it is.