8.8/1026 votes#1 - Gideon Rises (2)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/2/2013
Li'l Gideon swindles the Mystery Shack away, forcing Grunkle Stan and the kids to move in with Soos. While Stan weighs how he can still care for his grandniece and nephew, they decide to take on Gideon.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
8.5/1025 votes#2 - Fight Fighters
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2012
After being challenged to a video game battle by Robbie, Dipper is shocked when his favorite playable fighter, Rumble McSkirmish, comes to life to defend him. But Dipper soon loses control over Rumble McSkirmish and has to find a way to stop him.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
8.5/1025 votes#3 - Dreamscaperers (1)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/12/2013
Dipper, Mabel, and Soos must travel through Grunkle Stan's mind to defeat a tricky dream demon summoned by Lil Gideon.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
8.2/1046 votes#4 - Tourist Trapped
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/2012
Twins Dipper and Mabel Pines visit their eccentric great-uncle for a summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon, where he operates the world's most bizarre museum. As soon as the twins arrive in Gravity Falls, they discover something amiss in the remote town.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
8.0/1025 votes#5 - Summerween
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/5/2012
Dipper and Mabel go trick-or-treating in the summer and encounter a candy-loving monster who threatens to devour them if they don't bring him sweet things to eat.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
8.0/102 votes#6 - Wife Insurance
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/29/2009
Stan is kidnapped in Colombia, but the real trouble begins after he's released and returns home. Meanwhile, Steve and Roger play detective duo "Wheels and the Legman."
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Erik Sommers
7.7/1024 votes#7 - Land Before Swine
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 6/28/2013
When Waddles is snatched by a prehistoric beast, Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Soos, and Old Man McGucket must journey to a mysterious land trapped in time to rescue him.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
7.7/103 votes#8 - Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/2010
Wanting to have the scariest haunted house on the block, Stan comes up with a ''killer'' setup; Steve competes to win the heart of his overprotective friend's younger sister.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Eric Weinberg
7.6/1032 votes#9 - The Legend of the Gobblewonker
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/29/2012
When Dipper and Mabel hear rumors of a sea monster that lives at the bottom of the local lake, they enlist Soos to take them on a boating expedition to prove it really does exist.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
7.5/102 votes#10 - Shallow Vows
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/2009
Upset that Francine has let herself go, Stan takes drastic measures when she asks him to renew their wedding vows.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Rick Wiener
7.4/1029 votes#11 - Headhunters
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/30/2012
When someone tampers with Mabel's life-size wax statue of Grunkle Stan, she and Dipper set out to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Grunkle Stan mourns over the loss of his wax doppelganger.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Aury Wallington
7.3/1023 votes#12 - Boss Mabel
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/15/2013
Stan leaves Mabel in charge of the Mystery Shack while he is gone and the power goes to her head.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
7.3/103 votes#13 - Dr. Klaustus
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 3/11/2012
Roger acts as the family therapist as his alter-ego "Dr. Penguin" until he is sent out to fight the war in Iraq. Klaus decides to take Roger's role while he is away, but not without major ruckus being caused.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Brian Boyle
7.2/1029 votes#14 - The Hand That Rocks the Mabel
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/2012
Dipper and Mabel discover that their seemingly cherubic new neighbor, Lil' Gideon, happens to be the town's adored psychic. But when Lil' Gideon guilts her into dating him, she and Dipper soon learn that his cuteness can fade all too quickly.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
7.2/104 votes#15 - Stan's Best Friend
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 3/18/2012
Despite Stan's objections, Francine buys Steve the dog he has always wanted. However, when the dog suffers a horrific accident, Stan refuses to take the pup off life support because of a traumatic childhood incident.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Jonathan Fener
7.1/1014 votes#16 - Woo-oo!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2017
Donald Duck reluctantly takes his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie to the home of their reclusive great-uncle Scrooge McDuck. Enthralled by their once legendary great-uncle and the wonder of McDuck Manor, the triplets and their newfound fierce friend Webby learn of long-kept family secrets and unleash totems from Scrooge's epic past, sending the family on an adventure of a lifetime to the Lost City of Atlantis.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Francisco Angones
7.0/102 votes#17 - A Jones for a Smith
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/2010
Stan puts down liberal social programs because he thinks they are a waste of money and gives Francine a hard time for lending a helping hand at the local homeless shelter. When Stan develops a nasty addiction and needs help, he suddenly has a change of heart.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Laura McCreary
7.0/103 votes#18 - License to Till
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/2011
When Steve has trouble crossing over into the "cool kids" social circle, Klaus and Roger place their bets to see how quickly Roger can make him cool. Everything they try backfires until Steve becomes the in-crowds designated driver. Meanwhile, Stan and Francine take turns pranking each other.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Matt Fusfeld
6.9/1023 votes#19 - Boyz Crazy
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/19/2013
When Mabel discovers that her favorite boy band is actually a bunch of imprisoned clones, she sets them free, only to decide on keeping them for herself. Meanwhile, Dipper is convinced that Robbie plans to brainwash Wendy with a secret message hidden inside one of his songs.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alex Hirsch
6.9/108 votes#20 - The Most Adequate Christmas Ever
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2007
Stan dies on Christmas Eve while trying to find a perfect Christmas tree, then wreaks havoc in heaven (and limbo) trying to return to Earth to save his family--who were dragged along on his quest--from freezing to death in the woods.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Jim Bernstein
6.8/108 votes#21 - With Friends Like Steve's
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 5/7/2006
After Steve shows a lack of interest in Stan's job, Stan replaces him with Barry, Steve's malicious friend. Barry frames Steve to eliminate him from the household, but when Steve discovers Barry's weakness, he relies on his CIA skills to save the family. Meanwhile, Roger takes an impressive keg-stand and uses it to become a fraternity brother.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Erik Durbin
6.7/109 votes#22 - Stannie Get Your Gun
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/2005
Francine insists that Stan and Hayley spend an entire day together, after their arguments drive her crazy, so they can work out their differences about gun control. However, her plan backfires when he takes Hayley to the "National Gun Association Land," where their conflicting opinions about gun control drive them even further apart. Back home, Roger schemes to get revenge on Steve for eating one of his cookies by convincing him that he's adopted.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Brian Boyle
6.6/107 votes#23 - An Apocalypse to Remember
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/25/2007
Stan arrives late to a CIA nuclear drill and thinks it's real. He decides to move the family into the mountains to survive the apocalypse. Even though he realizes his error, he begins to enjoy the attention that he gets from the family so much that he doesn't tell them the truth. However, when the family meets a mountain man and learns the truth, Stan has some explaining to do.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Erik Durbin
6.6/107 votes#24 - Big Trouble in Little Langley
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/2007
Stan seeks out Francine's birth parents because her visiting adoptive parents annoy him so much. But they don't annoy Steve, especially after they give him fireworks.
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Rick Wiener
6.5/102 votes#25 - An Incident at Owl Creek
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2010
In preparation for a neighborhood pool party, Stan tells his family to get in tip-top shape. But when an accident ruins the Smith family name, a humiliated Stan fakes his family’s deaths and moves everyone out of Langley Falls to escape his shame
Director: John Aoshima
Writer: Alan R. Cohen
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"Gideon Rises (2)" is the best rated episode directed by John Aoshima. It scored 8.8/10 based on 26 votes. It was written by Alex Hirsch. It aired on 8/2/2013 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Fight Fighters".