23 Facts About Grunkle Stan

Stanley Pines, known as "Grunkle Stan", is one of the main characters of the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls, created and voiced by the series creator Alex Hirsch.

Grunkle Stan often is depicted wearing a black suit with a white shirt and red string bow tie, along with a red fez, and a cane topped by a billiard 8-ball.

Besides the main series, Grunkle Stan has made appearances in the 2018 graphic novel, Gravity Falls Lost Legends.

Grunkle Stan later used these boxing skills to save a woman named Carla McCorkle, nicknamed "Hotpants", from a robber.

In school, Ford was a serious, successful student, while Grunkle Stan was a prank-loving slacker.

On one fateful night, Grunkle Stan wandered into a science fair hall, inadvertently breaking his brother's prize-winning perpetual motion machine, ruining Ford's chances of being accepted into a prestigious university and straining their relationship.

Filbrick disowned Grunkle Stan, refusing to allow him back home until he could make real money.

Grunkle Stan first took an interest in sales after seeing a billboard glamorizing it.

Grunkle Stan was chased away by angry mobs every time his products' flaws were discovered, and they were banned in most American states.

Grunkle Stan was once arrested in Colombia and deported back to the United States where he was placed on the No Fly List for life, both for reasons unknown.

Grunkle Stan came to Gravity Falls upon receiving a postcard from Ford, who used his research grants from college to build a house there and study supernatural anomalies.

Ford hid two of his three journals documenting his findings, and entrusted the first book to Grunkle Stan hoping he would agree to bury it "as far away as possible".

Outraged that Ford did not call him to reconcile, Grunkle Stan got into an argument with Ford and tried to burn the journal.

Grunkle Stan even faked his death as Stanley by staging a car crash, erasing his past, and avoiding further pursuit from the police.

For much of Gravity Falls, Grunkle Stan is shown as a simple, miserly character who devises mischievous, comical plans to earn money mainly from Mystery Shack tourism.

Unbeknownst to Dipper and Mabel, Grunkle Stan has the first of Ford's journals.

Grunkle Stan promotes his handyman Soos to the manager of the Mystery Shack, and he is last seen fighting an anomaly at sea with Ford aboard a ship dubbed the "Grunkle Stan-O-War II".

Grunkle Stan originally looked considerably different than he does in the show.

In conceptual art, Grunkle Stan was shorter, did not have his shoulder pads, and had a pointy pink nose instead of a big orange one.

Grunkle Stan's face resembled more a puppet than a grizzled old conman.

Grunkle Stan was featured in the Gravity Falls series of shorts entitled "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained", as well as a short in which the twins investigate the mysterious tattoo on Stan's shoulder.

Alex Hirsch voices a character similar to Grunkle Stan named Mr Ponds, referred as The Curator, in the Amphibia episode "Wax Museum".

Grunkle Stan is an amphibian who runs a wax museum similar to the Mystery Shack.