History Recap / PhineasAndFerbGreeceLightning

* CanadaEh: "Pauuuuuuuuuul Bunyan's... Where food is good!" (But not ''too'' good, eh?)

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Norm first appears in this episode, and although he has his distinct cheerful-sounding voice, he has been programmed by Dr. Doofenshmirtz to destroy all platypi. After this episode, Norm is much more mild-mannered, and his anti-platypus programming has been removed. He also only communicates in contextless StandardFiftiesFather phrases, while later he's shown talking normally. He is also seen being powered by an on[=/=]off switch, while future episodes have him powered by a squirrel on a wheel.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Norm first appears in this episode, and although he has his distinct cheerful-sounding voice, he has been programmed by Dr. Doofenshmirtz to destroy all platypi. After this episode, Norm is much more mild-mannered, and his anti-platypus programming has been removed. He also only communicates in contextless StandardFiftiesFather phrases, while later he's shown talking normally.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Norm first appears in this episode, and although he has his distinct cheerful-sounding voice, he has been programmed by Dr. Doofenshmirtz to destroy all platypuses. After this episode, Norm is much more mild-mannered, and his anti-platypus programming has been removed. He also only communicates in contextless StandardFiftiesFather phrases, while later he's shown talking normally.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Phineas is really insistent on comparing his sister to Medusa, apparently not knowing the implications of this or how he’d think Candace would feel about it.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: A visual version; Phineas mentions they've made a chariot for Candace that looks just like her... and is actually a repulsive gorgon. Candace's response?

* PerplexingPlurals: Both Major Monogram and the narrator of Doofenshmirtz's documentary have trouble figuring out the plural form of "platypus" (debating on whether it's "platypuses", "platypi", or "platypeople"). [[note]] For the record, the correct form is "platypuses".[[/note]]

* NotSoStoic: Even ''Ferb'' was among those spooked by Candace when she was thought to have turned Norm to stone; he outright even refuses to peek even after Candace has run away.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Norm first appears in this episode, and although he has his distinct cheerful-sounding voice, he has been programmed by Dr. Doofenshmirtz to destroy all platypuses. After this episode, Norm is much more mild-mannered, and his anti-platypus programming has been removed.

* ICantLookGesture: When Norm is deactivated after Candace confronts him, prompting the spectators to think she turned him to stone and flee, Ferb promptly covers his eyes, fearing that Candace could turn him to stone, too. The result frightened the stepbrother so much that he doesn't bother to look even after Candace has left.

* OurSloganIsTerrible: There's a running gag about Paul Bunyan's Pancake Hous:

* OurSloganIsTerrible: There's a running gag about Paul Bunyan's Pancake House:
-->''♫Paaaaaaaaul Bunyan's... Where food is good!♫ (But not ''too'' good, eh?)''

* ComplexityAddiction: Doofenshmirtz's plan to kill Perry. He traps him in a abandoned movie theater, shows a documentary with a GreenAesop about how humans are the enemy of the platypus, to explain his plan to kill Perry by sending a giant robot man. It never occurs to him to just shoot Perry while he's trapped.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Buford's declaration of there being no rules in the chariot race bites him when Isabella uses his fact to change his and Baljeet's chariot to a lamppost.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Phineas is really insistent on comparing her sister to Medusa, apparently not knowing the implications of this or how he’d think Candace would feel about it.
* IResembleThatRemark: Candace insists she does ''not'' look like the Gorgon, while wearing an angry scowl that matches that worn by the statue.

* TakenForGranite: Played with. Candace, wearing her Medusa-themed helmet, confronts Norm just as Perry pulls his power switch. Believing Candace turned him to stone, the spectators in the museum mistake her for Medusa and flee. After they leave, Phineas tries to convince her that she's not really Medusa, but as she looks at the human-like marble statues in the front of the building, she is convince that they are real people that she turned to stone; she flees in horror.

* UseYourHead: During the race, Baljeet tells Buford, his teammate, to use Baljeet's helmet, while Baljeet was wearing it, to create sparks and aim them at the other chariots. He also uses Baljeet's helmet to cut the rope after the Fireside Girls tie their chariot to a lamppost.

-->'''Announcer in movie:''' Historically, the enemies of the platypus were well-known. The poisonous swamp viper, the snaggle-tooth badger, and [[DontTryThisAtHome duplicating imitatable (sic) stunts seen on television]].

* ALoadOfBull[=/=]CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: After Norm gets a bull head stuck on his face from one of the statues outside Paul Bunyan's, the kids mistake him for the Minotaur.