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Phineas and Ferb
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The title screen for Phineas and Ferb!, with Candace dubbing them in; " Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!"
Created byDan Povenmire
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
Voices ofVincent Martella
Thomas Sangster
Alyson Stoner
Ashley Tisdale
Mitchel Musso
Caroline Rhea
Maulik Pancholy
Dee Bradley Baker
Opening theme"Today is Gonna Be a Great Day" by Bowling for Soup
Country of originUSA
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes36 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time22 min. (11 min. per episode)
Original release
NetworkDisney Channel Kids WB! [2008]
ReleaseAugust 17, 2007 –
present

Phineas and Ferb is a new Disney Channel animated television series that centers on two step-brothers and their adventures in their backyard during summer vacation. The series premiered worldwide on February 1, 2008. It is also the first DCOS to premiere simultaneously worldwide. The show's official US premiere was marketed as Phineas and Ferb-uary, due to new episodes being shown everyday during the month of February. [1][2] Many of the show's voice actors also appear on other Disney Channel shows, such as Hannah Montana, and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Vincent Martella, the voice of Phineas, co-stars on the show Everybody Hates Chris as Greg on the CW Network.

On April 9, 2008, it was announced that Phineas and Ferb would return for a second season in 2008. [3]

Plot

Phineas Flynn (Vincent Martella) and Ferb Fletcher (Thomas Sangster) are two step-brothers who live with their older sister Candace(Ashley Tisdale), and Phineas and Candace's mom, Linda (Caroline Rhea) and Ferb's dad Laurence (Richard O'Brien) in the town of Danville. The brothers find themselves dissatisfied with just spending their summer vacation outside of school, so they pull off unbelievable and often outlandish stunts (i.e. visiting the moon, entering a race car competition, giving a monkey a shower etc.) in order to make summer more exciting. Their sister, Candace, is aware of their activities and tries to tell their mom so it can be put to an end (mostly out of jealously that she wouldn't be able to get away with the same acts). However, their action are always covered up, due to sub-plot of the family's pet platypus Perry being a secret agent (by the name "Agent P!") that fights an evil scientist called Dr. Doofenshmirtz, by coincidence, leaving behind no evidence of their daily activities. This causes their mother to question Candaces's sanity when she tries to prove what her brothers are doing. It is possible that the boys don't care about their actions, as they don't cause harm, since they occasionally ask their mother if she saw their handiwork.

A DVD release entitles Phineas & Ferb: The Fast & The Phineas is to be released July 29. This is the first volume of the series. Source: Tvshowsondvd.com.

Characters

Phineas Flynn (Vincent Martella): One of the two titular characters, Linda Flynn's son, Candace's brother,Ferb Fletcher's stepbrother and Lawrence Fletcher's stepson. Phineas is an intelligent, creative boy inspired to make the summer as great as it can be by coming up with ideas for unusual, exciting, and sometimes impossible activities (such as building a Paramount Pictures logo in their backyard). His most important traits are oratory skills, creativity and optimism. He is very polite and is never selfish or rude to anyone. His stepbrother Ferb is his best friend and partner in their activities. He also gets along with his stepfather quite well, calling him "Dad." He loves his sister Candace, yet usually upsets her with his schemes. He has a normal relationship with his mom. He often wonders about the whereabouts of his pet platypus Perry. His catch phrases are, "Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!" "Anybody seen Perry?", and "Hey where's Perry?". A lot of people ask him if he is too young to be working on his current project to which he almost always responds, "Yes, yes I am." (One exception is "Aren't you a little young to be a pop star?") Phineas can play the guitar, the organ, the tamborine, the big bass fiddle, and he is good at scratching records.

Ferb Fletcher (Thomas Sangster): Ferb is a very intelligent boy who rarely speaks. He usually has at least one line in every episode. When he does speak he reveals his baritone voice and British accent, though sometimes, he changes his voice to sound like T-Pain, for example, in "The Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror", he changes his voice to sing "The Backyard Beach". He and his father are from the United Kingdom. Ferb is Lawrence's son, Linda's stepson, and Candace's and Phineas's stepbrother. He always helps Phineas with his nearly impossible plans. In the episode "I Scream, You Scream", he is shown to like Vanessa Doofenshmirtz by saying to Phineas "I was weak" when he took the wrong blueprints. He's good at playing the guitar, the keyboard, maracas, tambourine, bass, trumpet, bagpipes, harmonica and the drums.

Candace Flynn (Ashley Tisdale Candace is a 14-year-old-cute teenage girl. She is always aware of all of the boys' plans. Usually she attempts to get the boys in trouble with their mom, but when she gets her mother to see what they are doing they always look perfectly innocent and normal. She has a love interest in Jeremy. She often uses her cell phone and acts much like a stereotypical teenager when not trying to stop her brothers' antics. She is allergic to dairy (even though she was eating milk with cereal in Journey to the center of Candace, but it might have been soy) and to wild parsnips; they turn her face red and puffy. Also, it makes her voice deeper and it makes her sing like a blues singer. She is also terribly afraid of heights. She also has a teddy bear named "Mr. Miggins". She also gets sick when hanging on monkey bars. She also likes grilled cheese. It is also revealed that she has a "Panic Room" for when she goes crazy. While she is constantly angry at her brothers, there are signs that underneath it all she loves them. Her catch phrases are, "You are so busted." and "Hey, Mom! You need to see what Phineas and Ferb are doing!" Candace is good at singing and playing a number of instruments, all of which, begin with the letter "B". Her birthday is July 11th. She also had a tree house which Phineas and Ferb remodel. Apparently, she is Right-handed.

Isabella Garcia-Shapiro (Alyson Stoner): Best friend of Phineas and Ferb. She is also the leader of the local Fireside Girls troop. She can variate her voice as Ferb can. She often assists the boys in their plans, enlisting the whole troop of girls in the process, often for badges or other credits. She is also a big fan of the boys and their plots, particularly Phineas, whom she has a crush on and show feelings for him at times. Phineas apparently does not return the feelings and only views her as a friend. It is unclear whether or not he is aware of her crush and most likely is void of it. Isabella makes no efforts to get Phineas to notice her. She is also seen to have a pet chihuahua named Pinky who temporarily spazzes out as shown in "Journey to the Center of Candance". Alyson Stoner's new catchphrase is, "Whatchya doing?"

Perry the Platypus (Dee Bradley Baker): He is Phineas and Ferbs's pet platypus, who talks, unknown to his owners, and also lives a double life as a secret agent. He has a lair under the Fletcher's house that can be entered through a lot of passages, like a tree in the backyard the "Chimneylator", (an elevator inside the chimney), or lots of other places that lead to underground tube systems. His nemesis is Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, and he is always sent to foil the doctor's plans, which he always successfully accomplishes. A running gag in the show, is that his missions always end up covering evidence of Phineas and Ferb's activities by accident, thus Linda never finds out about the boys' schemes.

Linda Flynn (Caroline Rhea): Mother to Phineas and Candace, stepmother to Ferb . She is married to Lawrence Fletcher, but she seems not to use his last name as her cooking teacher called her "Miss Flynn", although in "Candace loses Her Head!", Alyson Stoner called her Mrs. Fletcher. She is a regular American mother, although she plays in a free form jazz band with Isabella and Jeremy's mothers, and was once a one hit wonder pop star under the name 'Lindana' in the 80s. She is generally busy, or trying to relax, while her daughter tries to get her to see that the boys are up to some crazy plan. Her catch phrase is, "What is it, Candance?" Linda seems to think Candace is crazy and needs professional help. Linda can play the keyboard, the triangle, and the guitar. Her favorite band is Love Handel. Her birthday is June 11th and her anniversary with Lawrence Fletcher is June 15th. It is revealed in "Dude, were getting the band back together" that Linda has her hair styled after Bobby from Love Handel.

Lawrence Fletcher (Richard O'Brien): Father to Ferb, stepfather to Candace and Phineas. Lawrence is an archaeologist from the United Kingdom. He is generally unaware of any of his kids' plans. He once became aware of one of the their plans, but was okay with it because they were trying to help their sister. He also keeps his treasured memories in a toolbox. His anniversary with Linda Flynn is June 15th. Isabella has only once called him Mr.Flynn

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire): Mad scientist, comic relief and head of "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incororated". His lair appears to be a standard major corporation, and even has its own new "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!" theme song. All his plans tend to be thwarted by Perry The Platypus. The Doctor turned to evil because of his unhappy childhood (celebrating his birthday alone, etc). Now he attempts to wreak havoc across "the entire tri-state area." Dr. Doofenshmirtz is divorced and has a teenage daughter named Vanessa. Like Candace, Vanessa is dedicated to exposing her father's evil schemes to her mother. He is not really a doctor as pointed out by his daughter, as his Doctorate Degree has a $15 price tag on it. His catchphrase is "Curse you Perry the Platypus!" His nemesis is Perry the Platypus and it is often sited that the two enjoy loathing each other. However, in the episode "It's About Time", Dr. Doofenshmirtz meets Peter the Panda and makes him his new enemy. This greatly saddens Perry. After going on a parody of Dr. Phil, Dr. Feelbetter, things are worked out and Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz are enemies again.

Jeremy Johnson (Mitchel Musso): Jeremy is the love interest of Candace. Whenever activities are going on in the Fletcher-Flynn house, he goes to visit just to enjoy the activity. In an interview with Mitchel Musso, he revealed that Jeremy returns Candace's feelings for him.

Major Monogram (Jeff "Swampy" Marsh): He is Perry's superior on a huge screen in his secret hideout (which was shown in one episode to be a warehouse with a screen that appears when he talks to Perry, a camera, and his assistant) and tells Perry if he needs to do anything.

Karl (Tyler Mann): The person who operates the camera for Perry's secret hideout. He is a bit forgetful and sometimes humiliates the Major, ending up with the usual screen gag. It is revealed once that he is actually an intern.

Stacy Hirano (Kelly Hu): Candace's very enthusiastic best friend. She rarely appears in episodes, but is usually with Candace when something very exciting happens; in "The Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror", she appeared telling Candace that she could be the most popular kid in the neighborhood for having a backyard beach and that Jeremy was there. She also appears in "Ready for The Bettys!", joining Candace on a tour bus with a band called "The Bettys".

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (Olivia Olson): Dr. Doofenshmirtz's 16-year old teenage daughter. Her dad and mom are divorced, yet her mother still has a good relationship with him thinking he is just a bit eccentric, but Vanessa knows about the original fact that he is the evil head of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, and even about Perry The Platypus, so she constantly tries to demonstrate her mother that her former husband is evil. She is very sarcastic and mild mannered. Her character's relation to Dr. Doofenshmirtz is like that of Candance's relation to Phineas and Ferb, as they both want to show their mothers something odd about someone related to all of them. In this case, Vanessa tries to prove to her mom that Doofenshmirtz is evil, and Candace wants to prove to her mom about Phineas and Ferbs's schemes. In the episode "I Scream, You Scream", it is revealed that Ferb has a crush on Vanessa.


The Fireside Girls Troop 46231: They are the girl scout group who are guided by Isabella. They like music and never have been seen without a smile on their faces. They usually count on Phineas and Ferb to help get their badges. One's name is Gretchen, as heard in "The Fast and the Phineas".

Buford Van Stom (Bobby Gaylor): The neighborhood bully. He is tough, yet not. He likes tough stuff, but is afraid of the most trivial things, as shown in "Raging Bully," in which ice-cream falls on his pants and he screams, and in "Get that Bigfoot Outa My Face," in which he became afraid when he was told about Bigfoot (by Phineas). He also fainted when Ferb pinched him on a spot on his neck.

Baljeet (Maulik Pancholy): He is a foreign child (most likely from India's Punjab region, judging by his name) who is often portrayed as weak and scared, especially around Buford. He did do something interesting in the episode "Jerk De Soleil" (creating the illusion that he had pulled his thumb off of his hand).


Charlene Doofenshmirtz (Allison Janney): Doofenshmirtz's ex-wife although she still seems to like Doofenshmirtz a little. She is in the same cooking class as Linda Flynn. Her daughter, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, tries to show her that her ex-husband, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, is evil and fights against Agent P. Charlene is friends with Linda. Charlene seems to think that Vanessa is crazy and needs professional help.

Grandma Betty Jo and Grandpa Clyde (Caroline Rhea and Barry Bostwick): The Flynn-Fletcher kids' maternal grandparents (they appear in the episode "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face!" and "The Ballard of Badbeard"). They are old, evidently, and they invite the Flynn-Funnies and the neighborhood kids to a lake house every summer. Though they are old, they sometimes like to get the best of the kids. The names come from the creator "Swampy"'s great Aunt & Uncle.

Cast

Musical Numbers

  • Rollercoaster- “Perry The Platypus!”
  • Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror!-“Backyard Beach”
  • Flop Starz- “Gitchee Gitchee Goo"
  • The Fast and the Phineas- “Go, Phineas”
  • Raging Bully- "He’s a Bully"
  • I, Brobot- “Phine-Droids and Ferb-Bots”
  • Run Away Runway- “Forever Summer”
  • The Magnificent Few- “In the Mall” and "On The Trail"
  • S’Winter- "S’Winter"
  • Jerk de Soleil- "EVIL BOYS"
  • Are You My Mummy?- "My Undead Mummy and Me"
  • Ready For The Bettys!- "Ready For The Bettys!"
  • I Scream, You Scream- "Busted"
  • Toy to the World- "Toy Factory"
  • Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face! -"He's Bigfoot"
  • It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World -"She's a Truck Drivin' Girl"
  • Journey to the Center of Candace- "Hemoglobin Highway"
  • It's About Time!- "My Nemesis," and "The Moments When We Didn't Get Along"
  • Dude, We're Gettin' the Band Back Together!- "Danny's Story" "You're Fabulous" "I Ain't Got Rhythm" "You Snuck Your Way Right Into My Heart" "Music Makes Us Better"
  • Tree To Get Ready-"My Goody-Two-Shoes Brother"
  • The Ballad of Badbeard-"The Ballad of Badbeard"
  • Greece Lightning-"My Chariot"
  • Leave the Busting to Us-"Summer" and "Leave the Busting to Us!"
  • Mom's Birthday- "Mom, It's Your Birthday"
  • Crack That Whip!-"The Ring of Fun"
  • The Best Lazy Day Ever!-"Everything Nice" and "Our Do-Nothing Day"
  • Voyage to the Bottom of Buford-"The Only Fish For Me"
  • The Flying Fishmonger-"The Flying Fishmonger"

Episodes

Main article: List of Phineas and Ferb episodes
Season Ep # First Airdate Last Airdate
Season 1 32 August 17, 2007 July, 2008

References to Other Media/Goofs/Trivia

In the episode It's About Time, when Dr. Doofenshmirtz locks all of the secret agents to their seats, one secret agent is not locked up.

Also, in the episode It's About Time, they say that Phineas misspelled "Time" to "Tie", though he really spelled it right.

In the episode "Jerk de Soleil", Candace is laying in bed with her regular clothes on, but when she gets out of bed, she has on pajamas.

Also, in the episode "Jerk de Soleil", it is revealed that Candace is Right-Handed.

In the episode "Dude We're Getting the Band Back Together" Lawrence says it is Thursday, but when Candace comes out she shows their anniversary on a Tuesday from her calendar.

In the episode "Dude We're Getting the Band Back Together" there is a slideshow of their parents when they where young, but Phineas and Ferb are step brothers, so there parents should not have known each other when they where young.

In the episode Flop Starz: The first time the band sings Isabella is wearing her girl scout uniform. But when they sing for the last time she is wearing her regular clothes.

In the episode "I Want My Mummy", when Phineas, Ferb and Perry have their picture taken while being swept away by water, Perry is seen facing backwards. In the picture, he is facing to the side.

In the episode Greece Lightning. Bajeet is holding a scroll of paper in his hand when Phineas announces that he and Buford will be in a chariot together. When Phineas begins handing out maps, Bajeet no longer has the scroll of paper.

In the episode 'Candace Loses Her Head', in the song the guy says that Candace is allergic to dairy but, on the episode 'Journey to the Center of Candace' in the starting of the show Candace is eating cereal with milk, which is dairy. However, the milk could have been soy milk, made from soy beans, which does not actually contain milk or dairy. The grilled cheese sandwich she ate could of had soy cheese.

In the episode "Tree To Get Ready" Dr. Doofenshmirtz plots against his brother, however on "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror!" when his childhood is shown, his family is portraied as being only himself and his parents, with no brother whatsoever.

In the episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together!"the man is seen holding the guitar strings with his hand. In the next scene his whole right arm is gone.

In the episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together!" when Doofenshmirtz is firing a ray gun at Perry the Platypus, Doofenshmirtz is wearing a green hat in one scene, a pink hat in the next, and then a green hat in the next.

References

  1. ^ "Phineas and Ferb - Disney Channel".
  2. ^ "Press Release".
  3. ^ http://www.disneychannelmedianet.com/web/homepage/HomePage.aspx


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