

Stan's strong, brawny personality combining well with Ford's brilliance: when together, they were an unstoppable pair. He and his twin brother Stanford were very close. Stanley Pines was born on June 15th in the late 40s or early 50s to Filbrick and Caryn Pines in Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey, about 15 minutes after his twin brother Ford. Stan represents the Crescent Symbol on the Zodiac, which is the same present on his fez.Ī young Stan explores his hometown alongside his brother. After many years of crime and infamy, he has taken up residence in the remote town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, where he exploits local lore and the gullibility of the "dumbest people in the world" to finance himself by running a dubious tourist trap known as the Mystery Shack.ĭespite his initial claims of skepticism to the supernatural, he is later revealed to be deeply connected with the paranormal and about the town's weird paranormal status, most notably the decades-long operation of an interdimensional portal he used to rescue his twin brother, Ford Pines. He is also the tritagonist of the series. And I oftentimes think people undervalue them because women like romantic comedies so much and it seemed somehow not as intellectual or something, but I just love them.Stanley "Stan" Pines (born June 15, 15 minutes after his twin brother, Ford Pines), also known as Grunkle Stan, and formerly under the assumed identity Stanford Pines, is Dipper and Mabel Pines' great uncle and summer guardian, and a paternal uncle of Mr. But I truly don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. The Late Night actress added: “I feel like people talk about romantic comedies they love, and they say that they’re their guilty pleasures. I really just love the genre and I’ve always felt that it is an undervalued genre.” “It could be, While You Were Sleeping, starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, or Sleepless in Seattle. “I grew up in the time of the great romantic comedy movies of the ’90s and I wasn’t a snob about any of them either,” Kaling told Audible in December 2019 of her love of rom-coms, especially those by Ephron. Mindy Kaling, for example, paid homage to the rom-com during the 2014 finale of her hit comedy The Mindy Project with the lead characters finding each other at the top of the iconic building. The scene, which was inspired by An Affair to Remember, has since become a moment that fans have tried to recreate in their own lives.

She ultimately leaves him and heads to the Empire State Building where Jonah and Sam are waiting. Annie’s lightbulb moment comes while she’s at dinner with her fiancé ( Bill Pullman) in New York City on New Year’s Eve. Listeners from all over fall in love with both Jonah and Sam, who eventually bares his soul on the show, including a reporter named Annie Reed ( Meg Ryan).ĭespite being engaged, Annie quickly realizes that Sam is the man for her.

The Nora Ephron-directed film, which premiered in 1993, has stood the test of time thanks to its heartwarming story of a widowed father Sam Baldwin ( Tom Hanks) and his son, Jonah ( Ross Malinger), trying to get back on their feet after moving to Seattle where they live on a houseboat.Īfter losing his mother, Jonah realizes that his father is still very unhappy, so he calls into a radio talk show late at night to seek advice and get his dad a date. The Empire State building is for lovers! Sleepless in Seattle has captivated audiences - and hopeless romantics everywhere - for nearly three decades.
