If it wasn't for you, Soos would have grown up without any family besides Abuelita and Wendy would have had to go to Lumberjack camp.
[Dipper steps forward cautiously, still holding onto the railing. He doesn't want to be dragged off either.]
We might have had to stay in Piedmont all summer, and Mabel would never have gotten Waddles!
[Not all of that's directly because Stan pushed Ford into the portal, of course, but things would have been very different. Sure, it's possible he occasionally fantasized about what it would be like if they'd been with cool science uncle Ford instead of Stan, but things would have been so different he doesn't even know how to contemplate it.
Not least because odds are good Bill would have manipulated his way into this world a lot sooner with someone who already knew how to work the Portal still there. He doubts it'd help to tell Stan that now, but it's occurred to him.
He braces himself and delivers the final, most crushing logical blow.]
Besides, think about how much money people not you would have held onto if they didn't have Mystery Shack souvenirs to blow it on!
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[Dipper steps forward cautiously, still holding onto the railing. He doesn't want to be dragged off either.]
We might have had to stay in Piedmont all summer, and Mabel would never have gotten Waddles!
[Not all of that's directly because Stan pushed Ford into the portal, of course, but things would have been very different. Sure, it's possible he occasionally fantasized about what it would be like if they'd been with cool science uncle Ford instead of Stan, but things would have been so different he doesn't even know how to contemplate it.
Not least because odds are good Bill would have manipulated his way into this world a lot sooner with someone who already knew how to work the Portal still there. He doubts it'd help to tell Stan that now, but it's occurred to him.
He braces himself and delivers the final, most crushing logical blow.]
Besides, think about how much money people not you would have held onto if they didn't have Mystery Shack souvenirs to blow it on!