"Much more," Ford confirms. "All it'd take is a flood where memories are broadcast on the network. We're extremely lucky my journals didn't end up in his cabin last week, and that Double Trouble didn't record any of Bill's pages. If Bill's alive again, I don't believe he'd immediately be free: living inmates are still bound to the Barge, and given what I know about Gravity Falls' limited scope, it's very possible he'd simply return to a contained, fictional dimension."

(Or a DVD box set, but Ford doesn't know this.)

"But it's hard to say without a practical test."