So my brother and I were rewatching SotBE when we had an epiphany: the song “Straight Blanchin’” that Soos sings along to on the radio, is about McGucket.

In case you’ve forgotten, the lyrics are as followed:

Am I blanchin’

Girl we blanchin’,

I live up in a mansion

(…)

Eat your own pants,

Eat your own pants

(..etc)

The first thing we noticed was the timing of the song. It was played in the beginning of the episode prior to Dipper, Wendy, Mabel, and Soos’ escapade to the junkyard, and in the end after McGucket got his memories back (resolution of the story), so we wondered if it was relevant somehow and not just a running gag (after all, the GF crew is infamous for sneaking plot significant details into things you normally wouldn’t pay attention to).

We then started paying closer attention to the lyrics and noticed the parallels it drew with the the episode itself. The “eat your own pants” line, if you generalise, can be interpreted as people going insane and doing weird things, which we then noticed was relevant to the members of the Blind Eye society and the crazy things they did (more specifically McGucket as the episode focused on him and his backstory. He did go insane, as seen in the tape, and he even says “are my pants on backwards?” at some point (see, pants = pants?)



We then looked up what “blanching” meant and it turns out it means “to flinch or grow pale from shock, fear, or a similar emotion”. Interesting, because it was fear and paranoia that motivated McGucket to erase his memory, after all.

And finally: “I live up in a mansion”.

tl;dr: the GF crew are trolls, and literally everything, even something as innocent as a song can be used as a foreshadowing element.