"No no no, it didn't die. See, my Grunkle Stan lived in Gravity Falls -- which is where Great Uncle Ford lived before he fell through the portal and got lost in the multiverse? And the town is like a gravity sink for weirdness. So the apocalypse happened and the entire town turned into a waking nightmare filled with eldritch abominations and human suffering," he says very casually.

He holds his hands together to mime a little bubble.

"Except the natural weirdness-attracting force of the town meant the apocalypse was localized around Gravity Falls. We were able to stop Bill Cipher and make everything go back to normal before he figured out a way to spread it over the entire world and turn everything into a dystopian nightmare where people had to resort to cannibalism or whatever."

It was a mini apocalypse. Fun-sized.

"The apocalypse only happened to us and then it got undone."