What if whenever Lucy Ann gets interested enough in something that she might need a good college education for she carefully hires someone to be her “Parent” who is hired to take the class, and bring her along because “They don’t have a babysitter, she’s not much trouble, she’ll just be quietly coloring in the corner” and she gets to listen in to the entire thing. If she had any comments or questions, they could be relayed to the hireling somehow.

What’s really nice about running with the Dinner Crew is that she now has a million volunteers who don’t mind doing this or going with her to an R-rated movie or to the grocery store or a million other things that people tend to look askance at her at. 

Headcanon that when Maddie is a little kid, her favorite bedtime story is “Sir Dipping Sauce and Lady Maple Syrup versus the Evil Nacho Chip.” One night Toby overhears Dipper telling her the story and just gives him a look of mixed shock and admiration, like, “You just explained the entirety of the Transcendence. To a 4-year-old. Using food metaphors.”

Lady Maple Syrup and Sir Dipping Sauce worked hard and Evil Nacho Chip was finally crumbling. But at the last second, he tried to use Sir Dipping Sauce to hold him together! Then began an epic battle where the Nacho flavor tried to overpower the Sauce flavor, and the Sauce flavor tried to overpower the Nacho! However, Dipping Sauce used his delicious salty secret ingredient to defeat Evil Nacho Chip. The day was saved and Evil Nacho Chip crumbled!

But all was not well for Sir Dipping Sauce– you see, the Evil Nacho’s crumbs got in Sir Dipping’s sauce, and he gained not only the Nacho’s powerful crunchiness, but also his dangerously spicy flavor!

Sir Dipping Sauce was worried Lady Maple Syrup wouldn’t like him any more now that he got Nacho taste on him, but she just laughed and said that she didn’t care what flavor Dipping Sauce was…she’d always love him!