The character is voiced by Jason Ritter, and is loosely based on the childhood of series creator Alex Hirsch.

"[6]Coming from Piedmont, California, Dipper and his twin sister Mabel are forced to spend their summer with their great uncle (grunkle) Stan in the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.

Dipper first arrives in Gravity Falls bored and upset,[9] but after he accidentally comes across a mysterious red journal in the forest around Gravity Falls, he begins to adjust to life in town and starts going on adventures with his sister to unravel the supernatural secrets of the town as told by the entries in the journal.

Starting with "The Inconveniencing", Dipper is shown to have a crush on 15-year-old Mystery Shack cashier Wendy Corduroy.

[10] In "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" the 2014 penultimate episode of the first season of the American science fiction comedy television series Rick and Morty, created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, directed by Stephen Sandoval, and written by Ryan Ridley, twin girl and boy versions of protagonist Mortimer Chauncey "Morty" Smith, modelled after Mabel and Dipper Pines, are featured in the background of the episode in Easter egg cameo appearances, subsequently named as Mortabel and Mortipper Pines–Smith by Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch,[11] with both featuring as playable characters in the role-playing video game Pocket Mortys, before later cameoing again in the third season episode "The Ricklantis Mixup".

On her return, Mabel apologizes to Dipper for her past selfishness and gives him a blue journal with a pine tree on it which she got from Mabipper, hoping to start new adventures together again in the aftermath of "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls".