#stan's title changing from greedy old bastard to greedy old man... got nerfed...

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Being reminded about the pitch for Ford and being fascinated with the way Stan's age changed from "in his 80s" in the pilot to "ambiguous but still old" in season 1 to "wait shit, his backstory timeline means hes still in like his early 60s at most" so they ended up changing his design in season 2

Another tidbit is pilot!Stan's secret being him as the guardian of the town and him planning to pick one of the twins to be his successor.

and well....

A certain spiel sounds familiar. And is likely unintentional cos the initial plan was to have the agents make an offer to Dipper instead! It was switched to Ford because Dipper already idolised him so much

EDIT: The pitch's description of pilot!Stan's secret

(Also reminder that Ford's name was set from Gideon's debut, with the name Stanley appearing in ep2 via license plate and Gideon calling Stan 'Stanford', so like. His name wasn't actually going to be Tim. It's likely the same case as Weirdmageddon 1 being known as Xpcveaoqfoxso to stop leaks from spoiling everything)