Dipper and Mabel Pines were your average identical twins living in Piedmont, California. Months before they had been staying at their great uncle Stan's house in Oregon for the summer. The twins had a hard time adjusting to that place at that time, but in the end found they enjoyed it there. After they had gotten back to California their parents noticed they were spending a great deal more time together than they had before. At first this didn't bother Mr. and Mrs. Pines, but one day they received a phone call from Stan. "Hey, I was just wondering how the kids were doing?" "They're doing fine, but they seem to be a lot closer to each other than before. Did you ever notice that?" "Yeah, towards the end of their stay they started to get really close to each other, I dunno what's going on there." Their parents observed their behavior over the coming weeks after that phone call and found that they hardly parted from each other. The two had never been so close to each other; they never hated one another, just the opposite, but this new found affection between the twins had their parents concerned. One day the Pines parents were watching the Maury Show, just as they always did after work. Just before the commercial break there was a message displayed on the screen, accompanied by the show's host reading it. "Are your children acting as if they could be having an intimate relationship with each other? If so call the Maury Show!" The parents looked at each other and nodded. The twins were at school now, so they called up the show to arrange something. The call was mostly automated, but they eventually made it through with a real person and set up a date for the show, about 2 months away. "Now we're gong to find out," Mr. Pines said. They were scheduled to go to Stamford, Connecticut and have the twins take lie detector tests to prove the truth. The Pines were scared of what might be happening, they didn't want the two to be doing this at all, especially not at this age. When the twins got home that evening their parents explained what they were doing and told them they would be flying across the country to be on television. They did not receive the response they expected. "Uh, ok?" Dipper said. "Uh, ok? What is that supposed to mean?" Mrs. Pines demanded. She was furious her son would mock her in this way, though Dipper was doing quite the contrary. "Why would you think we would do something like that? That's disgusting! Ew!" Mabel attempted to walk away, but was quickly tugged back by her father. "We need to know, have you been doing it?" Mr. Pines wasn't that thrilled about being on TV for this reason, but they had so much reason to believe it was happening that he decided it was best. "No!" The twins both said this simultaneously, catching all four of them off guard. "We'll see about that," Mrs. Pines snarled, and walked away along with Mr. Pines. Mrs. Pines regretted it that night. She was known to overreact and do things out of context without thinking about it thoroughly, and Mr. Pines was no better. "What if we're doing this all for nothing? What if we fly all the way aver there and they aren't doing anything? No, they have to be. Look at the evidence!" If anyone could have read her thoughts they would have locked her up in a mental institution. Mrs. Pines hardly got any sleep that night. That night the twins also elaborated on the occurrence. "Can you believe them?" Dipper asked in a disgusted tone. "I know, it's gross!" Mabel always thought of her brother as sweaty and awkward, but loved him as a brother nonetheless. She would never think of doing something such as this, would she? Dipper saw Mabel as an outgoing, but overly silly person that oftentimes tried to be too funny, but he loved her. As a sister. He could never imagine something of this magnitude happening, or could he?