Alex Hirsch

Alex Hirsch
Full Name	Alexander Robert Hirsch
Nickname(s)	Alex
Sex	Male
Born in	Piedmont, California
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Brown/red
Occupation	Storyboard artist; Producer; Voice actor
Website	https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch
Role	Stan Pines Soos Ramirez Old Man McGucket Bill Cipher Various supporting and minor characters

Alexander "Alex" Robert Hirsch (born June 18, 1985) is the creator and executive producer of the American animated television series Gravity Falls.

He voices two of the main characters, Grunkle Stan and Soos. He also voices the recurring characters of Old Man McGucket, Bill Cipher, and the Gnomes, as well as a few guest characters including Quentin Trembley and some members of the group, Sev'ral Timez. He has two siblings: his twin sister, Ariel Hirsch, and his half-sister, Lauren Hirsch.

He places many of his real-life experiences in the show, such as living in Piedmont and trick-or-treating with his sister as cats. He also based the series off the summers he spent camping with his great aunt. Both he and his sister wished they would go on the adventures that Mabel and Dipper do in the show. He based Mabel on his twin sister, Ariel Hirsch, Grunkle Stan off of his Grandpa Stan and based the entire show loosely on his childhood summers. He gave Mabel a pet pig because his sister had always wanted one when she was a kid.

Episodes written by Alex Hirsch

Unnamed Episode (pilot)

• "Unaired pilot"

Season 1

• 101. "Tourist Trapped"
• 102. "The Legend of the Gobblewonker"
• 103. "Headhunters"
• 104. "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel"
• 105. "The Inconveniencing"
• 107. "Double Dipper"
• 108. "Irrational Treasure"
• 109. "The Time Traveler's Pig"
• 110. "Fight Fighters"
• 111. "Little Dipper"
• 112. "Summerween"
• 113. "Boss Mabel"
• 114. "Bottomless Pit!"
• 116. "Carpet Diem"
• 117. "Boyz Crazy"
• 118. "Land Before Swine"
• 119. "Dreamscaperers"
• 120. "Gideon Rises"

Season 2

• 201. "Scary-oke"
• 202. "Into the Bunker"
• 203. "The Golf War"
• 204. "Sock Opera"
• 205. "Soos and the Real Girl"
• 206. "Little Gift Shop of Horrors"
• 207. "Society of the Blind Eye"
• 208. "Blendin's Game"
• 209. "The Love God"
• 210. "Northwest Mansion Mystery"
• 211. "Not What He Seems"
• 212. "A Tale of Two Stans"

Roles in Gravity Falls

Hirsch voice acting Stan.

Alex Hirsch at SDCC 2014 holding a puppet of Grunkle Stan.

• Stan Pines
• Soos
• Gnomes
• Old Man McGucket
• Macaw
• Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire
• Paper Jam Dipper
• Quentin Trembley
• Cackling skulls
• Sev'ral Timez members
• Bill Cipher
• Yumberjacks drive thru cashier
• Backupsmore University Speaker
• Various others

Other Work

Alex Hirsch was the creative consultant for Fish Hooks, which he developed for television alongside Maxwell Atoms, where he portrayed Clamantha, her father, Fumble, one of the fish police and a Ferret. He was also a writer and a storyboard artist for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He also provided the voice of Officer Concord the Juice Time Juice Box Flavor Cop in the "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror" episode of Phineas and Ferb, which is also on Disney Channel. He also provided additional voices to the video game Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes in late 2014.

Early life

Alex Hirsch was born and raised in Piedmont, California, and he graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles County, California, in 2007. He also enjoyed going to Oregon, and went there often. He was very fond of The Simpsons as a child, and cited this as one of his main influences. After watching the episode Bart's Comet he attended child therapy. Shortly after graduating, he worked at the digital entertainment studio JibJab and was a writer/storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He also served as a creative consultant and helped develop the hit Disney Channel animated series, Fish Hooks, and voices the character Clamantha in the series. Hirsch chose Oregon as the setting for Gravity Falls after spending a summer there during college working for the animation studio Laika.

Trivia

Alex in Mystery Tour 2013.

• In Spring 2007, he created a short film called Off the Wall, which was one of his student films at CalArts. Mike Moon, an animation executive at Disney eventually saw it. Impressed, he asked Alex to pitch the network a television series, which eventually lead to Gravity Falls.
• He based Dipper off of himself.
  • Mabel is based off of his twin sister Ariel Hirsh.

Alex the clown.

• Hirsch has appeared a few times in the show as himself.
  • The bottom half of his face is visible among the photos in the opening theme song.
  • A caricature of Hirsch is seen in "Bottomless Pit!" riding a unicycle.
  • A photo of him is posted among "Suspicious Townsfolk" on Dipper's Author board in "Society of the Blind Eye" with the words: Who?
  • On the cover of a magazine on Stan and Ford's bunk-bed in "A Tale of Two Stans".
• Alex's college roommate was the show's art director, Ian Worrel.
• Alex guest voiced Officer Concord for a special Phineas and Ferb Halloween episode.
• Alex has joked about the rumors that he is hiding occult symbols in the show on multiple occasions, because they are hidden in plain sight.
• Alex has a habit of tweeting misleading "Facts" to trick some fans for fun
• Alex prefers Nintendo over Sega, and his favorite Nintendo game is Kirby's Pinball Land.
• Alex named one of the Manotaurs after his full size adult taxidermy buffalo "Beardy"Template:Cite which he keeps in his office at Disney and insists people sit on when they take tours.
• The number 618 that appears throughout Gravity Falls is a reference to his birthday, June 18th (otherwise 6/18).
• He created the "McGucket Hoax" by leaking a fake photo of Old Man McGucket writing the Journals, which fooled a lot of people into thinking that Old Man McGucket was the Author of the Journals.
• Hirsch is skilled at bird calling and even went on the Late Show with David Letterman at the age of fifteen to share his talent.
• Hirsch has a set of rules regarding Dipper and Mabel's relationship which were created at the start of the series due to the writers frequently and incorrectly assuming that the two didn't get along. So far only two rules were revealed which were,
  • The first rule is that "the kids like each other. no matter how much they get on each others nerves, this never changes"
  • "Dipper wants to grow up too fast and Mabel doesn't"

List of articles and interviews

Publication	Date	Title/Link
Animation Magazine	Jun 2, 2012	Tales from the Weird Side
MTV Geek	Jun 15, 2012	Interview: Alex Hirsch Returns To His Weird, Monster-Filled Childhood In Disney's 'Gravity Falls'
Collider	July 7, 2012	Creator Alex Hirsch Talks GRAVITY FALLS, How He Ended Up Making a Show for the Disney Channel, His Love for TV Animation and More
GamerLive.TV	Aug 4, 2012	Alex Hirsch and Jason Ritter Talk Disney Channel Gravity Falls
New York Times	Aug 17, 2012	An Undercurrent of Darkness, Even at Disney
TV Guide	Aug 22, 2012	Watch My Show: Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch Answers Our Showrunner Survey
Comics Alliance	Aug 24, 2012	Alex Hirsch on 'Gravity Falls,' Mabel's Sweater Collection and TV's Fear of Sincerity
A.V. Club	Sep 28, 2012	Comedy Showrunners Week: Alex Hirsch on the real in the unreal of Gravity Falls
Media Mike's	Apr 12, 2013	Alex Hirsch talks about recent trip to get inspiration for Disney’s “Gravity Falls”
Time Warner Cable - On Set	May 10, 2013	On Set Episode 16: Phineas & Ferb and Gravity Falls
Animation Magazine	Jun 10, 2013	A Day in the Life of Alex Hirsch
HappyCool	Aug 10, 2013	Alex Hirsch Interview - Gravity Falls Season 2
Young Hollywood	Aug 19, 2013	"Gravity Falls" Cast's Secret Message from D23
A.V. Club	July 31, 2014	Gravity Falls’ Alex Hirsch previews the show’s new season by recapping its first
Vox	Aug 1, 2014	Disney's Gravity Falls is one of the best kids shows on TV. Here's how it got that way.
Time	Aug 1, 2014	Disney’s Gravity Falls Creator on How to Create a Show for All Ages
Animation Magazine	Aug 19, 2014	‘Falls’ Inevitable Return
D23	Mar 6, 2015	Gravity Falls Creator/Executive Producer Alex Hirsch—and Grunkle Stan—Answer D23’s Questions…and Yours!
Huffington Post	Mar 9, 2015	Is Gravity Falls' Grunkle Stan 'Not What He Seems'? Disney XD Episode Answers Big Questions Tonight
A.V. Club	Mar 11, 2015	Gravity Falls’ Alex Hirsch on his show’s big cliffhanger

External links

• alexhirsch on Blogger
• Alex Hirsch at deviantART
• Alex Hirsch on Facebook
• Alex Hirsch at the Internet Movie Database
• Alex Hirsch on Twitter
• Alex Hirsch on Vine.
• Alex Hirsch on YouTube