Finally, I Have Them All

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Warning: this entry contains major spoilers for animated TV series Gravity Falls.

About

Finally, I Have Them All refers to a memorable scene from animated TV series Gravity Falls in which character Grunkle Stan puts together three cryptic journals. Online, a multi-panel screen capture of the scene has been used as an object-labeling exploitable.

Origin

On August 2nd, 2013, season finale "Gideon Rises" of season one of Gravity Falls animated series premiered on Disney XD. ^[1] In the final scene of the episode, character Grunkle Stan enters his secret hideout and puts together three cryptic journals written by Stanford Pines, commenting on his long-awaited success at collecting all three of the books.

After all these years… Finally, I have them all.

Spread

Since the release of the episode, the quote has often been referenced by the Gravity Falls community. On July 16th, 2017, an unknown Instagram user posted a since-deleted two-panel still image based on the scene which gained over 600 likes in two years (post scraped by Me.me; shown below, left).^[2]^[3] On August 19th, 2018, Redditor^[4] ninjanewt4 posted a FNAF meme based on the format (shown below, right). On December 26th, 2018, Redditor JHWestor used the quote as a title of their post about their "Gravity Falls" merchandise collection.^[5]

n March 15th, 2019, Redditor^[6] JUndead posted a three-panel meme based on the scene to /r/MemeEconomy subreddit, providing a template for the format in the comment section.^[7] The post gained over 25,000 upvotes in three days.

In the following days, multiple examples of the meme were posted across a number of subreddits, including popular posts in /r/dankmemes,^[8] /r/historymemes^[9] and other communities. Many notable posts utilized the older, two-panel format based on the scene.