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| 21 | * TheQuietOne: Ferb usually gets about one to three lines an episode (singing notwithstanding). Notable exceptions include "The Lizard Whisperer", "What Do It Do?", and "Excaliferb". |
| 22 | * RadioContest: In "Ready for the Bettys", Candace and Stacy win a radio contest to spend the day with their favorite band, The Bettys. |
| 23 | ** In "Delivery of Destiny", Paul the Delivery Guy wins a radio contest after crashing into the station's van. His prize? The band Love Händel will play background music for him while he does his job. |
| 24 | * RapidFireDescriptors: In the song "Truck Driving Girl" from "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud, World", Candace is described as: |
| 25 | --> ''a tire spinnin', gear grindin', clutch burnin', backfirin', paint tradin', red-linin', overheatin', throttle stompin', truck drivin' girl''. |
| 26 | ** From "The Beak": The name of Phineas and Ferb's obstacle course at the beginning of the episode is "The Phineas-and-Ferb-Edge-of-Insanity-Kiss-Your-Butt-Goodbye-Gravity's-a-Stone-Cold-Sucker-Nightmare-Rail-Skate-Track-Obstacle-Course [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]". |
| 27 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: At the beginning of the second Meap episode, the animators who made its trailers were described as a "ragtag group". |
| 28 | * RaisedByWolves: Dr. Doofenshmirtz claims he was raised by a family of ocelots after his birth family disowned him. |
| 29 | * RapidFireBut: Whenever an invention by the boys disappear, their sister Candace, just in time to bust their antics to their mother, loses her words and repeatedly utters "but". The episode "Picture This" has Ferb beatboxing over Candace's string of "but's". Baljeet, in turn, uses these to rap "There's No Candy In Me". |
| 30 | --> '''Buford''': Nerd ain't no pinata! |
| 31 | * RaptorAttack: In "Mandace", Doofenshmirtz is turned into a dinosaur that he calls a ''Velociraptor'', but has little specific resemblance to ''Velociraptor'' besides its size and generic theropod shape. Then again, knowing Doofenshmirtz he either thought it was cooler to call it ''Velociraptor'' or simply doesn't know what ''Velociraptor'' really looks like. |
| 32 | * ARareSentence: |
| 33 | ** Absolutely tonnes. They're practically a staple of the show. The ClipShow episode "Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!" sums many of them up nicely, after being prompted by the line "Super-suit-generated egg renderings always make me a bit peckish": |
| 34 | -->"Nothing says 'mother's love' like a gigantic robotic platypus butt."\ |
| 35 | "Why am I wearing a turtle on my head?"\ |
| 36 | "I wanna float around! ...like ''men''."\ |
| 37 | "Am I sweating milk?!"\ |
| 38 | "Gotta go, Stacy. Good luck with that llama legislation!"\ |
| 39 | "Run for your lives! It's Gnome-a-geddon!"\ |
| 40 | "Stickiness is the most underrated of all the -nesses".\ |
| 41 | "[[NoodleIncident I knew I should have gotten the down payment on the elephant.]]"\ |
| 42 | "It looks a little like a rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig."\ |
| 43 | "Oh no, you did ''not'' just tell me to hench."\ |
| 44 | "What, you think we should have ''more'' Bulgarian folk-related elements?"\ |
| 45 | "I'll be in the dairy section if you want to come yell at some cheese."\ |
| 46 | "Dad, you might want to wipe the Queen off your face."\ |
| 47 | "I too feel a certain element of kebab-ism."\ |
| 48 | "Definitely the giant floating baby head."\ |
| 49 | "I am to metaphor-cheese as metaphor-cheese is to transitive-verb crackers."\ |
| 50 | "I just discovered why cows and frogs don't date."\ |
| 51 | "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Taffeta... make a note of that."\ |
| 52 | "I'm calling Mom... and I am ''not'' using the banana this time!" |
| 53 | ** From "Candace Gets Busted:" |
| 54 | --> '''Doofenshmirtz:''' Oh, Vanessa! Thank goodness you're here! A platypus has tied me up in my own pants! |
| 55 | --> '''Vanessa:''' How did my life get to the point where that is not a strange sentence to me? |
| 56 | ** From "Der Kinderlumper": |
| 57 | -->'''Stacy:''' Can't this thing go any faster?! |
| 58 | -->'''Candace:''' I got the fennel pedal all the way to the rutabaga metal! And, yes, I know that's a weird sentence. |
| 59 | ** From "The Temple of Juatchadoon": |
| 60 | --> '''[[IdenticalGrandson Ohio Flynn]]:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext We've gotta lure that corn colossus away from those backup singers!]] |
| 61 | --> '''Isabella:''' OMG, coolest sentence ''ever''! Somebody write that down! |
| 62 | --> '''Rhode Island Fletcher:''' ''*Writes that down*'' |
| 63 | ** From "Hip Hip Parade": |
| 64 | -->'''Baljeet:''' "Why can't we ''both'' be vegetable samosas?" |
| 65 | ** From "Cranius Maximus": |
| 66 | -->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' "And there's not enough platypus spit in the world to get you out of it!" |
| 67 | * ReactiveContinuousScream: In "Comet Kermillian", when Suzy shows a squirrel to Candace, who has just gotten in a traumatic experience with a bunch of them, starts screaming, which in turn scares the squirrel that starts screaming as well. |
| 68 | ** In "One Good Scare Out to Do It!", Buford dresses up as Suzy (the scariest person or thing he knows). When Candace bumps into Baljeet and Buford, thinking Buford's the real Suzy, she starts screaming at him, which leads to them screaming back, etc. |
| 69 | * ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: In "The Chronicles of Meap". Phineas reveals that he took Isabella's cuteness into account for his cuteness meter. Once he readjusts it to detect her cuteness, the machine explodes. |
| 70 | * RealityHasNoSubtitles: PlayedWith in the episode "Tri-Stone Area". The characters speak in cave-man jibberish, and no sub-titles are given. Of course, if you know all the {{Catch Phrase}}s, {{Running Gag}}s and things that happen OnceAnEpisode, you pretty much know what they're saying, just from the situation and inflections used. The creators [[BreakingTheFourthWall break in]] stop-motion animation, and [[DiscussedTrope talk about this]]: |
| 71 | -->'''Jeff "Swampy" Marsh''': Whoa, whoa, whoa. So--so they're just gonna be talking in "cave-talk"? |
| 72 | %%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Although they are a bit on the [[CloudCuckooLander goofy side]], Lawrence, Major Monogram, and Phineas and Ferb's two sets of grandparents play this straight. |
| 73 | %%* {{Reconstruction}}: The premise for this show sounds suspiciously like all the cartoons you watched back in TheNineties got mashed together in your head, especially the {{animal super|heroes}}spy and OnceAnEpisode songs part. And damn they do a good job of it! |
| 74 | * ReboundBestFriend: When Buford and Baljeet have a fight, so Buford has to get a new nerd to bully. He tries to get the new nerd to speak in Baljeet's Indian accent, but the kid can only do other accents, annoying Buford. |
| 75 | * RecordNeedleScratch: |
| 76 | ** "That Sinking Feeling" has it when the romantic cruise turns out to be for Baljeet; Isabella had been hoping Phineas finally noticed her feelings. |
| 77 | ** Also in "Comet Kermillian" when Phineas invites Isabella to their new project of carving their faces on a passing meteorite and show them to "our grandkids" in the future. Isabella showed too much enthusiasm about the grandkids part, cue record scratch. |
| 78 | ** "Lights, Candace, Action" has it when we get a toes-to-nose shot of Candace in a beautiful gown that ends with her wearing a monster head. |
| 79 | ** This is actually quite common. A gentle wake-up scene for Candace gets one when she realizes Perry's on her bed, for instance, or the boys spotting Perry with his fedora. |
| 80 | ** In "When Worlds Collide" there's an ''actual'' record scratch when Lawrence takes the needle off of an LP, even though he and Linda are listening on headphones. |
| 81 | %%** Used in "The Wizard of Odd" whenever Phineas and Ferb offered Candace a more fun way to Bustopolis. |
| 82 | * RecurringExtra: |
| 83 | ** The farmer that never seems to think his ideas through and his nagging wife asking him if he expected for whatever thing is necessary to just fall from the sky, cue that very thing falling from the sky due to either the boys' and/or Doof's projects. |
| 84 | ** All eight boys who rode the first rollercoaster with Phineas and Ferb have a goodly number of appearances in crowd scenes. However, only Dimitri Popaunicolas ever plays an important role in any episode: he holds a red balloon in the rodeo in 'Robot Rodeo', [[BullSeeingRed angering the mechanical bulls]]. Buford actually lampshades the group's status (or, at least, the status of the trio formed by Pedro, Dimitri, and the boy who remembers Irving) as extras in the episode with the second rollercoaster, stealing the poster to ride for free, noting that he deserves to ride more than them, because they are extras. |
| 85 | ** Django was typically the first person to show up in any crowd for the first season, culminating in his own plot, after which he rarely shows up. |
| 86 | ** There are a handful of unique extras that appear in most crowd reaction scenes. Most notable are [[ThoseTwoGuys two men]] [[CreatorCameo voiced by Dan and Swampy]], and [[RunningGag the woman with her watermelon]]. |
| 87 | * ReCut: "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation" has an extended edition that restores a cut song. |
| 88 | * RecycledSoundtrack: Some episodes use "[[WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch Aloha Oe]]" and "[[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool Kronk for Hire]]" as background music. |
| 89 | * RedHerring: |
| 90 | ** In "Remains of the Platypus", Doofenshmirtz has brainwashed Perry to think he's a butler. Carl laments "Oh, if only you had your hat", and there's an entire sub-plot about Linda finding it. [[spoiler: It doesn't do anything, and Perry breaks out of the brainwashing because of a NoteToSelf instead]]. The ''song'' lampshades this! |
| 91 | ** The title of "La Candace-Cabra" seems to imply that Candace would be mistaken for a chupacabra and there's even a gag early in the episode showing that she shares certain characteristics with the creature. Such a mix-up never occurs. |
| 92 | * RedOniBlueOni: |
| 93 | ** Phineas is the energetic, cheerful Red to Ferb's stoic, soft-spoken Blue. |
| 94 | ** Candace is the loud, short-tempered Red to Stacy's polite, level-headed Blue. |
| 95 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: |
| 96 | ** In "Where's Perry?" [[spoiler:The robot Candace decides to take a lasershot for Candace after hearing the message Jeremy left for her.]] |
| 97 | ** Played for laughs in "Meapless in Seattle". [[spoiler:Ballooney somehow remembers his friendship with Doof and saves him from some soldiers, but one is able to get a final shot and pop him, at the end he is "revived"]]. |
| 98 | * RedundantRomanceAttempt: Jeremy obviously likes Candace just as much as she likes him, but she's so blinded by her own insecurities that she still goes out of her way to make him notice her. In reality, he likes that she acts unhinged out of a deep desire to look after her younger brothers--Jeremy himself is a protective older brother. |
| 99 | * ReedRichardsIsUseless: |
| 100 | ** Any creation by the boys, Doofenshmirtz, or anyone else will be undone by the end of episode and not mentioned again, even though some of them have incredible world-changing potential, such as a pair of ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}''-style teleportation rings. |
| 101 | ** Subverted when Phineas mentions "A jellybean-based monetary system for emerging nations...I dunno, I'm just not feeling it!" |
| 102 | ** Doofenshmirtz explains that he only cares making things for the evil. To the point that when an invention of his is used for improving vision, and he is even being paid for it, he still feels the need to create something to worsen people's vision to "balance" things out. |
| 103 | * ReferenceOverdosed: The show as a whole has a ''lot'' of shout-outs, many of which count as {{Parental Bonus}}es. |
| 104 | * RefugeInAudacity: This is the reason the boys' mom never believes Candace. If your daughter told you that your pre-teen sons were doing something outrageous like, say, building an escalator to the moon, would ''you'' believe her? |
| 105 | %%* RegionalRiff: Lots of those, for any time the cast members are traveling via imagination or literally. |
| 106 | * RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Candace traveled through time, wrestled alligators and was once the queen of Mars. Useful bits when Stacy or Phineas need to remind her of her self-worth. |
| 107 | %%** Phineas and Ferb's past deeds come up a lot. Whenever they do, expect the roller coaster to top the list. |
| 108 | * RepetitiveName: According to the credits, Carl's full name is Carl Karl, apparently as a way to clear up confusion on the topic (his name being spelled differently before). |
| 109 | * RescueRomance: Phineas and Ferb both save their respective love interests (Isabella and [[spoiler: Vanessa]]) at least once over the course of the series. |
| 110 | * ResetButton: PlayedForLaughs, especially with the convoluted and improbable ways P&F's schemes get undone before their mom can see what happens. |
| 111 | * {{Retcon}}: "Oh, There You Are, Perry" shows that Phineas has had Perry since he was a toddler. However, ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' says otherwise, with the boys having gotten Perry much more recently. |
| 112 | * RetiredBadass: The "Doof Dynasty" version of Perry used to be a proud warrior, but retired after [[NoodleIncident some kind of traumatic experience.]] |
| 113 | * RetroactiveWish: The recurring woman who chastises her husband "Did you think [[[ContrivedCoincidence something they need that was just cast off by Doof or the boys]]] was just going to fall out of the sky?" is proved wrong [[RunningGag again]]: |
| 114 | --> '''Woman:''' Okay... What, did you think a million dollars was just going to fall out of the sky? \ |
| 115 | ''[[[{{Beat}} Nothing happens]]]'' \ |
| 116 | '''Man:''' It doesn't work that way. \ |
| 117 | '''Woman:''' Well, how ''does'' it work, then!? |
| 118 | * RevealingContinuityLapse: "Lost in Danville" is set in a parallel universe, as revealed in a twist ending. One of the only two hints to this twist is the fact that Phineas got an extra stripe on his t-shirt, something that would normally be passed off as an animation error. The other one is that Lawrence Fletcher is a polar bear, which was only shown moments before the twist reveal. |
| 119 | * RevengeBallad: "Busted", where Vanessa and Candace sing about how they will make their moms listen to them and bust their father and brothers (respectively) once and for all. |
| 120 | * RewindReplayRepeat: Although they only do one replay; Perry was trying to determine whether Doof's Dull-and-Boring-inator had fired before being destroyed. It had. |
| 121 | ** Also, at the end of "It's About Time!", when Lawrence is seen in bed repeatedly listening to the ending jingle from the audio tour he got at the museum: |
| 122 | -->'''Lawrence:''' Fossils! dun dun dun. Fossils! dun dun dun. Fossils.... |
| 123 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Meap, everyone points out how cute he is, and some tend to get distracted from their tasks when they see him. His whole species take it further, since they literally can weaponize it. |
| 124 | %%** Perry, especially as a baby. |
| 125 | %%** The chinchillas in "Der Kinderlumper" (until they are hit by Doofenshmirtz's inator). |
| 126 | %%** The bat in "Face Your Fear", highlighting Doofenshmirtz's AbsurdPhobia of bats. Then he enlarges it with his inator, and his fear becomes [[BatOutOfHell slightly more understandable]]. |
| 127 | * RidiculouslyFastConstruction: |
| 128 | ** One episode lampshades this by having Phineas begin building a submarine at the same time Isabella begins making a cheese sandwich. When Isabella returns with the sandwich, Phineas is just finishing up the submarine. |
| 129 | ** Lampshaded again the second time they build a submarine (to search for Buford's missing fish), complete with fourth wall breakage. |
| 130 | --->'''Ferb:''' It usually takes us a montage. |
| 131 | ** Also lampshaded in "Candace Disconnected", in which Phineas tells Candace that it took 40 years to come up with cellular phone technology, so they can build her one in 38 minutes. And they build two. With teleporter functionality. |
| 132 | ** Lampshaded again in "Just Passing Through" when Baljeet complains that "You can build a roller coaster in a day, but it takes you 12 minutes to pump up a tire?!" |
| 133 | * RightBehindMe: |
| 134 | ** In "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbstein" [[IdenticalGrandson Constance]] mocks Phineastein and Ferbgor idea of entering a monster contest since they don't have a monster. Not noticing the giant Platypus Monster behind her. |
| 135 | %%** Candace once manages to do a RightInFrontOfMe. To clarify, she's insulting the animals that are in front of her, not realizing that an animal translator is right behind her. |
| 136 | * RobotMe: |
| 137 | ** In "I, Brobot". The boys create robotic versions of themselves to help them with their projects. |
| 138 | ** Karl created robotic duplicates of the entire Flynn-Fletcher family in case of emergency. |
| 139 | %%* RogerRabbitEffect: |
| 140 | %%** The SpinOff ''Take Two With Phineas and Ferb''. See SpinOff below. |
| 141 | %%** It's been said the theatrical film will feature this. |
| 142 | %%** The second Musical Cliptastic Countdown has live action hosts/guest stars, unusually for the show. |
| 143 | * RousingSpeech: In "The Lizard Whisperer" Ferb, in a very uncharacteristic scene, gives a speech on how they will never give up on finding their new friend, Steve the Chameleon. |
| 144 | * RoundaboutShot: |
| 145 | ** In "Voyage to the Bottom of Buford", Buford has one with his goldfish Biff during his flashback. |
| 146 | ** Happens between Phineas and Stacy in "Put That Putter Away" during the GratuitousDiscoSequence. |
| 147 | ** Phineas and Isabella have one in "Summer Belongs to You!" as they dance during the final song. |
| 148 | ** In "The Great Indoors", Candace and Jeremy have one during Jeremy's song as he tries to tell Candace what he likes about her. |
| 149 | %%** In "Lizard Whisperer", [[spoiler:Ferb's apparently been taking lessons from [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragorn]]]] and it's his ''SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome''! |
| 150 | %%** Phineas gets one in "Meatloaf Surprise" as well. |
| 151 | %%** Candace makes one in "Perry the Actorpus". |
| 152 | %%* RousseauWasRight: The BigBad is not evil. |
| 153 | * RoyaltiesHeir: Heinz Doofenshmirtz invented a device that corrects people's eyesight and the royalty checks he receives for this make him feel uncomfortable that one of his inventions is being used to do good. |
| 154 | * RuleOfFunny: If something make sense or not, even in-universe, is dictated on how funny the result would be. |
| 155 | * RummageFail: In "Lawn Gnome Beach Party Of Terror". Doofeshmirtz tries to turn on his screen to explain his backstory, but cannot find the correct remote for the tv. |
| 156 | %%* RunningGag: The show masters this to perfection, particularly the catchphrases. Just ''look'' at the entry! Almost all of these things are said once every ten-minute episode! |
| 157 | %%* RunningGagStumbles: Almost ''every'' running gag in the series has been subverted or parodied at least once. |
| 158 | * {{Ruritania}}: Drusselstein, Doofenshmirtz home country. Which is filled with rustic homes, no modern clothing, and goats roaming freely. |
| 159 | * RushmoreRefacement: In "Candace Loses Her Head", the boys sculpt Candace head into Mount Rushmore as a birthday gift. But a lava flow (created by Doof and Perry) destroys it. |
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| 163 | * SadisticChoice: In "The Beak", Phineas and Ferb have to pick between Isabella falling to her death or letting a billboard fall on several bystanders. [[TakeAThirdOption Third option?]] There are two components of The Beak. Phineas (in control of the upper body) somehow gets out to save Isabella and Ferb (in control of the lower body) takes care of the falling billboard. |
| 164 | * SadistShow: This [[http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_phineasandferb/ article]] mentions that the creators wanted to avert it. Dan says that the easiest way for humor is for characters to be mean to each other, but that they wanted them to actually be nice while still having some edge. |
| 165 | %%* SanityBall: |
| 166 | %%** Whenever Candace is in full busting mode, expect her to drop this. |
| 167 | %%** And during a few of Doof's more absurd schemes, most notably the one in "Perry Lays an Egg". |
| 168 | * SanitySlippage: |
| 169 | ** Candace is having a sort of series-wide version, due to her busting attempts and hallucinations becoming more and more [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] as the show goes on. |
| 170 | ** PlayedForLaughs in "Bully Bromance Breakup". Baljeet insists on climbing Danville Mountain with only his natural strength. Unfortunately, Phineas and Ferb can't stand not building anything. Eventually... |
| 171 | -->'''Phineas:''' ICE CHALET!!! ''(runs off at the speed of light)''\ |
| 172 | '''Ferb:''' If we hadn't been able to invent something soon, I was going to scream. |
| 173 | * SapientCetaceans: The OWCA has whale agents. In addition, a dolphin is apparently one of the world leaders in this universe. |
| 174 | * SapientPet: Perry the Platypus has to hide his sapience from his owners because if they were to discover he's a secret agent, they would have to have their [[LaserGuidedAmnesia minds wiped of that discovery]]. Unlike other examples, Perry can't speak like a human, but he's still sapient nonetheless. |
| 175 | * SarcasmBlind: This moment in "The Mom Attractor" shows that Phineas doesn't exactly seem to grasp the notion of it: |
| 176 | -->'''Phineas:''' Well, y'know how we do something new every day?\ |
| 177 | '''Candace:''' (''pulling a priceless false-shocked expression'') Noo...\ |
| 178 | (''{{beat}}'')\ |
| 179 | '''Phineas:''' ...Oh, well, we try to build some big project, or do something-\ |
| 180 | '''Candace:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I'm aware of the concept, Phineas, I was just being sarcastic.]]\ |
| 181 | '''Phineas:''' ...Really? Hey, that was pretty good. Wow, I totally fell for it. Ferb, I totally fell for it! |
| 182 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: |
| 183 | ** Jeremy. A few episodes tried to expand on his characterization, but for the most part, he didn't seem to have any personality except "ambiguously (or not) likes Candace". Later episodes like "Nerdy Dancing" and "The Lizard Whisperer" fix this a bit, giving him some more personality. |
| 184 | ** Played straighter by Stacy's boyfriend Coltrane and Vanessa's ex-boyfriend Johnny due to their overall lack of appearances. Interestingly, Johnny only gets his character fleshed out in Doof 101, after he's no longer dating Vanessa. |
| 185 | * SaveTheVillain: It doesn't matter if they are "[[FriendlyEnemy enemies]]", Perry would always save Doofenshmirtz if he is in a life-threatening situation. |
| 186 | * SavingChristmas: Subverted, [[spoiler:Christmas was never actually in any danger; Santa Claus arranged the entire plot so that, among other things, Phineas could get a shot at doing this.]] |
| 187 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Jeremy is the nicest, calmest, most level-headed guy in the world. Candace is a neurotic, incredibly high-strung GenkiGirl. |
| 188 | * SawItInAMovieOnce: |
| 189 | ** Doofenshmirtz uses a villain deathtrap on Perry, saying he "saw it in [[Film/JamesBond a movie]] once." He then goes on to add that he "didn't see the end, but [[BondVillainStupidity it seemed pretty foolproof]]." In fairness it's the scene in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' where Bond is StrappedToAnOperatingTable, which was foolproof. Unless you're using it on a platypus who doesn't have wrists to strap down, so he can pull them free the moment you've gone. |
| 190 | ** Also, in "That Sinking Feeling", Phineas claims they've seen [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} a movie about a cruise ship sinking]], and it seemed to have worked wonders for the romantic aspect of the film, which is where they got the idea for Baljeet's date with Mishti. |
| 191 | * ScareChord: Used in a few early episodes as Candace is ready to show the evidence to her mom. |
| 192 | %%* ScareEmStraight: Smile Away Reformatory School from "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted". |
| 193 | * SceneryCensor: |
| 194 | ** Doofenshmirtz, while explaining his plan to flood the coast and make his house beachfront property, rips off his outfit to reveal... The edges of a speedo peeking out from above the wooden railing in front of him. |
| 195 | ** Happened to Ferb while holding a string spool, when the string ran out of the spool, his [[AllClothUnravels own clothing began to unravel]], leaving him naked except for the spool itself. |
| 196 | * ScienceFair: The appropriately named episodes "Unfair Science Fair" and "Unfair Science Fair Redux". In which Phineas and Ferb help Baljeet to create a working portal to Mars so he can get an A+. |
| 197 | * ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Doofenshmirtz, following the example of the mad scientist at the top illustration of the trope page, has a big lever as a on/off switch for the lights. He also has an obsession with installing self-destruction buttons and other buttons or dials that actually make it easier for Perry the Platypus to thwart Doof's plans. Even the titular characters aren't completely immune to the self-destruction button obsession as evidenced when they built a Rainbow-inator. |
| 198 | * SchizoTech: Common throughout the show, but the episode "Doof Dynasty" shines a bright spotlight on it. Taking place in 1542 in China, they often talk about Phineas and Ferb using "tech slightly more advanced than we have today." |
| 199 | * ScoldingTheFourthWallBreaker: Here's Major Monogram chewing out Carl for one such instance. |
| 200 | --> '''Major Monogram:''' What did I tell you about breaking the fourth wall, Carl? |
| 201 | * ScoobyDoobyDoors: |
| 202 | ** One scene in "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!" has this scene happening when Candace explores the brothers' haunted house. |
| 203 | %%** And again in "Phineas and Ferb's Hawaiian Vacation". |
| 204 | %%** A variation appears in the song "Livin' in a Funhouse". |
| 205 | * ScoutOut: Parodied with the Fireside Girls. [[CrazyPrepared They come prepared for any situation,]] [[GreatBigBookOfEverything they have a handbook for various subjects from Car Maintenance to Time Travel Machine Repairing]] and [[MeritBadgesForEverything accomplishment patches for absurd tasks such as Alligator Wrestling and moving mountains with their bare hands.]] |
| 206 | * ScrewPolitenessImASenior: From "Lotsa Latkes": |
| 207 | --> "I don't have to put up with this, I'm part of the greatest generation!" |
| 208 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 209 | ** In "Perry Lays an Egg". When Perry discovers that Doofenshmirtz plan amounts to nothing more than [[ItMakesSenseInContext trash-talking a whale for taking his girlfriend]], he goes away without even trying to thwart him. |
| 210 | ** In "Make Play", when [[IdenticalStranger Candace's double]] basically says that she is more than happy to join the kids to help them with their project, Buford couldn't stand such an out-of-character moment and walked out. |
| 211 | ** Baljeet's reaction to the evil gelatin monster: "Okay, I'm going home." |
| 212 | %%** Candace has done it multiple times, with her CatchPhrase "Candace is out. Peace!" |
| 213 | * SeahorseSteed: In the {{Atlantis}} episode, [[GirlNextDoor Isabella]] mentions that she could get an [[MeritBadgesForEverything underwater equestrian badge]] if they find a seahorse. When they come across some, Baljeet brings that up, only for her [[LampshadeHanging to point out that they are far too small to ride]]. After that, Buford [[DoubleSubversion rounds several up together and proceeds to ride them]]. |
| 214 | * SecretChaser: Candace trying to prove to her mother that her brother's projects are real. |
| 215 | * SecretKeeper: |
| 216 | ** Stacy, as of "Happy Birthday Isabella". [[spoiler: She learns that Perry is a secret agent. She promises to keep this secret, and Perry agrees not to wipe her memory.]] |
| 217 | ** Perry as of "Sipping With The Enemy", he discovers Vanessa on a date with Monty (Doofenshrmitz and Monogram kids respectively), but Vanessa talks to him and he promises to keep the secret from her father. |
| 218 | ** Carl as of "Thanks But No Thanks". He discovers the relationship of Monty and Vanessa, and blackmails Monty about not telling his father. (To be fair, the only thing Carl wanted was a "thank you" from his boss.) |
| 219 | * SecretIngredient: In "Meatloaf Surprise", the secret ingredient in the Doofenshmirtz family meatloaf recipe is hate. "Usually it's love, but Great-Grandma Gretel had some issues." |
| 220 | * SeaAping: One episode features the titular step-brothers using growth elixir to turn the "A-Primes" (short for Aqua-Primates) human-sized. Like the Sea-Monkeys, the A-Primes are depicted as having a whole civilization. |
| 221 | * SeeThruSpecs: In "No More Bunny Business", Phineas and Ferb buy some X-ray glasses that turned out to be fake, so Phineas immediatly decides that they should make their own functional X-ray glasses. |
| 222 | * SeinfeldianConversation: Buford and Baljeet occasionally have conversations like this. The most straightforward example would be from "Backyard Hodge Podge", when they discuss what a vegetarian turned zombie would eat. |
| 223 | %%* SelectiveGravity: In this case, gravity applies to most things, but not to Perry's fedora hat, to give an example. |
| 224 | * SelfDeprecation: In ''Spa Day'': |
| 225 | -->'''Candace:''' I'm sorry we had to clean up everything we destroyed... and had to rebuild it. I'm especially sorry I made us miss our spa appointment. But most of all, I'm sorry for being a bad friend. I was just trying to impress Jeremy and I lost sight--\ |
| 226 | '''Stacy:''' Okay, you can stop that right now. You're starting to sound like [[Series/HannahMontana one]] of [[Creator/DisneyChannel those TV shows we like to make fun of]]. |
| 227 | %%** Done to cartoon makers in "Out of Toon". |
| 228 | %%** Also done in "Tri-Stone Area," Dan and Swampy make fun of their budget, studio, and themselves. |
| 229 | ** One of the locations on Doof's Undesirable Destination Wheel from "Candace Gets Busted" is the city of Burbank. Burbank, California is the city where Disney TV Animation is based, along with many other big name animation studios. |
| 230 | * SelfDestructButton: Doctor Doofenshmirtz puts these on ''everything'', which generally just makes Perry's job easier. The handful of times Doof met with the title characters, Phineas shuts down the idea. |
| 231 | * SelfParody: |
| 232 | ** In "The Wizard of Odd", the credits contain the song "Rusted", a parody of the earlier Phineas and Ferb song "Busted". |
| 233 | ** Also "Perry the Teenage Girl" (parodying Perry's regular theme) and "Couldn't Kick My Way Into Her Heart" (parodying "Snuck Your Way Into My Heart"). |
| 234 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Buford and Baljeet. The former being your typical bully acting rough and preferring masculine things, the later mellower, preferring more intellectual abilities. |
| 235 | * SensitivityTraining: |
| 236 | ** In one episode, the Flynn-Fletchers were sailing and Baljeet and Buford were watching over Perry the Platypus for them, which kept him from responding to Major Monogram's call. Monogram commented he couldn't send another animal agent because all of them were doing sensitivity training. |
| 237 | ** In another episode, the agency had a mandatory Animal Sensitive Seminar. Carl said that any animals where excused and could return to their missions, which Monogram found unfair saying that [[NotHelpingYourCase they were picking on the higher species]]. |
| 238 | * SentientCosmicForce: Candace thinks that there's one preventing her from busting her brothers. Whether there actually is one is ambiguous. [[spoiler: At least until it's named as "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" in the crossover with Milo Murphy's Law.]] |
| 239 | * SeriesGoal: |
| 240 | ** For Candace: Bust the boys. For Doof: Take over the [[LargeHam ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA!!!!!!!!!!]] And Isabella has confess her feelings to Phineas. Phineas and Ferb's stated goal is to have the best summer ever, which technically they don't complete until the end of summer, i.e. the end of the series. |
| 241 | * SeriousBusiness: In the Clip Show episode, Perry gets called into the OWCA headquarters so that they can tell him that his performance has been suffering. It turns out that they mean that his entrances have been getting boring, not that his mission performances have been poor. The look on Perry's face indicates that he is very upset by this. |
| 242 | -->'''Monogram:''' We should wait before we bring up his exits. |
| 243 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: |
| 244 | ** Invoked in "Lotsa Latkes", Phineas and Ferb have a list of "S" words seldom used by kids that they seem to try to use. Among them is "simultaneously" and "septuagenarian". |
| 245 | ** The episode "Let's Take a Quiz", in which the boys create their own game show of the same name. Its goal seems to simply say as many obscure words as possible. The only rules seem to be "answer fast and answer often". |
| 246 | ** Parodied in "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" when Gretchen actually says "sesquipedalian", the Fireside Girls shrug, and Milly gives her a patch for "Saying A Word No One Else In The Room Knows". |
| 247 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In "Quantum Boogaloo". When Candace managed to return in time to bust her brothers but returned to a dark future (created by Doofenshmirtz), she had to go back in time to stop herself from busting her brothers. |
| 248 | * SewerGator: Candace fights one in "Fireside Girls Jamboree". Phineas and Ferb chase one in "What a Croc!" |
| 249 | * ShaggyDogStory: |
| 250 | ** Candace earning all 50 patches of the Fireside Girls to get tickets to the Paisley Sideburn Brothers concert, only to learn that Isabella could bring guests with her. |
| 251 | %%** A lot of episodes end like this for [[CosmicPlaything Candace]] or [[ButtMonkey Doofenshmirtz]]. |
| 252 | ** "Canderemy" is an episode where Stacy challenges Candace's loyalty, demanding the duo spend time together without any mention of Candace's boyfriend Jeremy. Candace becomes [[BodyHorror literally stuck]] on Jeremy, and has to hide him while spending the day with Stacy. The two get unstuck just in time to prevent Stacy from seeing him. Immediately after he leaves and it seems Candace has succeeded in hiding him, Stacy anticlimactically reveals she knew he was there the whole time. At first it seems like a subversion since Candace did refrain from calling attention to him, but she definitely devoted more energy to hiding Jeremy than she did spending time with Stacy. |
| 253 | * ShakingTheRump: |
| 254 | ** Unintentionally done by Candace a couple of times because [[SquirrelsInMyPants she has squirrels in her pants]]. The extended version of the song has extra ass shaking action! |
| 255 | ** Intentionally done by the Fireside Girls in "Waggle Dance". |
| 256 | %%* ShapedLikeItself: The song "Little Brothers". Also, "Space Adventure! It's an adventure in space!" |
| 257 | %%** "That's a very nice imitation of yourself, Candace." |
| 258 | * ShapeshifterShowdown: Doofenshmirtz and Perry have one in "Phineas and Ferb: Hawaiian Vacation!", though this is a rare example where neither of them have any control of what creatures they turn into, so they just have to make the most of it. |
| 259 | * SharedUniverse: ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' takes place in Danville like ''Phineas and Ferb'', with the show making occasional references to its predecessor. A [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/milo-murphys-law-phineas-ferb-crossover-is-coming-1022459 crossover]] aired in early 2019. |
| 260 | * ShipTease: |
| 261 | ** Phineas and Isabella, constantly. It's ''almost'' confirmed in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", when Amanda refers to Isabella as her aunt. A twist is added when Candace points out that Isabella will still be an aunt if she marries Ferb. Then [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ferb starts flirting with her]]. |
| 262 | ** Midway through "Candace Disconnected", Phineas teleports directly in front of Isabella, so close that his nose is literally touching hers. She acts her normal flirtatious way, but Phineas doesn't get it when he teleports away, [[ObliviousToLove as usual]]. Still, it's the closest those two have ever gotten to a kiss as children. [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedAmnesia That they both remember, anyway]]. "Act Your Age" finally ends the teasing and has them get together after high school.]] |
| 263 | %%** The creators seem to like teasing ''lots'' of different pairings -- aside from the {{Official Couple}}s they've also dropped hints that Baljeet may have a crush on Isabella, Vanessa flirts with Jeremy at one point before quickly losing interest, and Albert's interaction with Candace... |
| 264 | ** Baljeet and Ginger get a little in "Bee Day" and "Bee Story". It's the first time we see them actually interact. Baljeet tells Phineas to wait a little while he talks with Ginger. And Ginger actually listed to what Baljeet was talking about where he said earlier most people either leave or fall asleep by that point. |
| 265 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 266 | %%** Candace/Jeremy get support from basically everybody but [[EnfantTerrible Suzy]]. |
| 267 | ** Judging from this bit, Phineas seems to be a Ferb/Vanessa shipper. |
| 268 | --->'''Phineas:''' Hey, where's Vanessa?\ |
| 269 | '''Ferb:''' [[NotWhatItLooksLike She went off with someone else]].\ |
| 270 | '''Phineas:''' That's too bad. [[HypocriticalHumor I thought the two of you, you know, a boy, a girl, alone, in the City of Love -- I thought romance was a forgone conclusion!]] |
| 271 | %%** Doofenshmirtz seems to be a Johnny/Vanessa shipper, despite what one would expect. In an in-character DVDCommentary for "The Chronicles of Meap", however, he objects to Ferb hitting on Vanessa. |
| 272 | %%** The fireside girls are this for Phineas/Isabella, as is Ferb. [[spoiler: "Act Your Age" reveals that Buford and Baljeet and even Vanessa ship them]]. |
| 273 | * ShippingTorpedo: Suzie always does everything in her power to break up her brother Jeremy's relationship with Candace. |
| 274 | * ShoehornedAcronym: OWCA at first looks like it might stand for something interesting, given that it's the group Perry works for... until you learn it stands for Organization [[SelfDeprecation Without a Cool]] Acronym. Similarly named groups include COWCA- Canadian Organization Without a Cool Acronym, HSWCA- High School Without a Cool Acronym and SOKWCA- Secret Order of the Knights Without a Cool Acronym. There's also SS SN- Super Secret Spy Network. |
| 275 | * ShortLivedLeadership: Twice, both times with Candace. The first time, she becomes the Queen of Mars after accidentally going through one of her brothers' portals. Her reign lasts until the boys bring her home for dinner, with the next ruler (A fake volcano made by Doofenshmirtz) being crowned soon after. The next time comes when she wins a contest to become the mayor for a day. At the end of the episode, Doofenshmirtz's new Accelerate-inator gets destroyed, time gets rewound, and an old man from Phineas and Ferb's pioneer town is given the mayor position instead. |
| 276 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: Played with. Phineas and Baljeet are shorter than most of their friends, but Ferb is the tallest in the main group of kids. Gretchen is the shortest of the Fireside Girls, but "Act Your Age" shows that she becomes the tallest during their teenage years. |
| 277 | * ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/PhineasAndFerb Has its own page]]. |
| 278 | %%* ShowDontTell: Defied in one episode to parody the SilentBob trope. |
| 279 | %%* ShowWithinAShow: "Horse In A Bookcase", as seen in "What A Croc!", "Mission Marvel", et al. |
| 280 | * ShownTheirWork: Has [[ShownTheirWork/PhineasAndFerb its own page]]. |
| 281 | %%* SphereEyes: To the point where they try to replicate this in a live-action musical tour. [[{{Squick}} The results aren't exactly pleasant]]. |
| 282 | * SiblingRivalry: |
| 283 | ** A one-sided case with Doofenshmirtz and his brother, who is more successful than him (he is the current mayor of Danville). Half of his evil plans are to supplant his brothers, or at least embarass him. |
| 284 | %%** Also a less extreme, but also one-sided example would be Candace against her brothers, though when the boys aren't inventing, the three get along just fine. |
| 285 | ** Lawrence has a friendly one with his brother, Adrian, where they are always competing in childish games that Adrian always wins. (He doesn't know that Lawrence has hold back in all their competitions). |
| 286 | * SiblingTeam: The titular brothers, especially when the rest of the gang isn't around. |
| 287 | * SiblingTriangle: "Quantum Boogaloo" reveals that Isabella is going to marry one of the Flynn-Fletcher brothers. It will probably be Phineas, but Ferb seems to hint that he's keeping his options open. Another possibility is that Amanda could have called Isabella 'Aunt Isabella' in the sense that she's so close to the family that she's like an aunt. "Act Your Age" shows that [[spoiler:Phineas and Isabella eventually get together in ten years]]. |
| 288 | * SiblingYinYang: A very subdued example with Phineas and Ferb, though they see this a more of an advantage than a drawback. (Well, ''technically'', they're stepbrothers, but they never refer to themselves as such). Phineas is hyper, talkative, and assertive, while Ferb is reserved, quite, and supportive (An easy way to exaggerate this is by their hair colors). However, they also share some core personality traits, such as eternal optimism, naivety, and love of fun and summer. |
| 289 | ** Also, both the boys and Candace. They are creative and always wanting to have some fun, while Candace (tries) to be the mature and responsible sibling. |
| 290 | * SickEpisode: |
| 291 | ** Phineas, Ferb, Isabella and Baljeet are all in bed with colds in "Brain Drain". Buford is just being lazy. [[spoiler:Though Buford ends up catching a real illness by the end of the episode.]] |
| 292 | ** Candace had one in "Put that Putter Away", forcing her to hire Stacy to do the brother-busting for her.[[spoiler:,until the end of the episode where Stacy is sick as well]] |
| 293 | ** Doof has been too impaired for efficient evil at least twice; once with a hangover and a second time with a bad cold. |
| 294 | * SickeninglySweet: "Ducky Momo" appears the be this universe's equivalent to ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]'' and other such sugary-sweet toddler shows, which is probably why Candace catches so much grief for liking it (or believes she would). |
| 295 | * SigilSpam: One of the main symbols of the show is the triangle, since Phineas' head is shaped as such. Thus, it's put ''everywhere'' when a mono-color background is used (most of the time for a song). |
| 296 | * SilentBob |
| 297 | ** Ferb tends to say only one or two lines per episode. His expression doesn't change that much either, though people tend to notice if he is happy or angry. |
| 298 | ** Perry, who cannot talk at all, yet he is able to communicate effectively with any human he has to interact with, mostly Monogram, Carl, and Doofenshmirtz (though the later can be slow at times.) |
| 299 | * SilentPartner: Ferb, who doesn't speak too much and simply allows Phineas to be the "spokesperson" for the team. |
| 300 | * SilentSnarker: Perry. He cannot talk, but it is really obvious when he thinks that whatever Doofenshmirtz is doing is specially dumb even for him. |
| 301 | -->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Don't roll your eyes at me! It's a good plan! |
| 302 | * SiliconSnarker: |
| 303 | ** In one episode, Phineas and Ferb design a tower to try and present themselves with an escape challenge. After taking a hit from Doofenshmirtz's "Rude-inator", it becomes noticeably snarky...and more homicidal. |
| 304 | ** In another episode, Doofenshmirtz finds Norm's "original head" in storage. It's snarky reparte about his (lack of) skills as a mad scientist remind him why he put it in storage to begin with. |
| 305 | ** Even Norm's regular personality had a few moments. Once, when Doof complains about Norm's cooking, the robot replied: |
| 306 | ---> '''Norm:''' WELL NEXT TIME YOU CAN DO ALL THE COOKING AND I'LL STAND AROUND COMING UP WITH EVIL PLANS THAT ULTIMATELY FAIL. |
| 307 | %%* SimpleMindedWisdom: In "The Temple of Juatchadoon". [[ChekhovsGun Twice]]. |
| 308 | %%--> "Or we could just hit it with a rock." |
| 309 | * SimpletonVoice: Doofenshmirtz has a ''bizarre'' voice that not only tells you in a second that he is a total idiot, but also that he is [[ObviouslyEvil evil]] and certifiably insane. |
| 310 | %%* SitcomArchnemesis: Doof and Rodney really have this thing going between them. He also has a one-sided one with his brother Roger. And he tends to have a [[VillainOfTheWeek Sitcom Archnemesis of the Week]]. |
| 311 | %%* SinisterSchnoz: Doofenshmirtz has a long nose. [[AffablyEvil Sinister, though...]] |
| 312 | * SkirtsAndLadders: |
| 313 | ** One of Candace's inventions (long story) is picked up by Doofenshmirtz's hook, she's forced to dangle from the edges while Stacy hangs onto her legs. She glances up her skirt but quickly looks down after that. |
| 314 | ** Doofenshmirtz is very close to getting an upskirt view of Candace in ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' while the main characters dangle in chains above a lava pit, but for most of the time, he was looking down. |
| 315 | * SkywardScream: |
| 316 | ** Candace's BigNo from "Gaming the System", after seeing her brothers die inside the videogame. They get better. |
| 317 | ** Parodied in the song "Way of the Platypus", where the lyrics outright say part of the training is falling in the rain and look into the sky while screaming. |
| 318 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Extremely idealistic, as long as creativity isn't crushed. |
| 319 | %%* SlidingScaleOfLivingToys: Baljeet's dummy in "Cheer Up, Candace" is at Level 0. |
| 320 | * SlowClap: |
| 321 | ** In "Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon" Doof enters the scene while clapping slowly specifically to make his entrace more dramatic. The boys had to admit that it worked. |
| 322 | ** In "Where's Perry", when Perry arrives at the headquarters to save Monogram, but is immediately trapped by Evil Carl, who proceeds to clap in self-indulgence. |
| 323 | --->'''Monogram:''' Carl, you slow clapping fiend! |
| 324 | * SmokescreenCrime: In part one of "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbWheresPerryPartOne Where's Perry?]]", Doofenshmirtz uses a device that locks away everyone's gym equipment with the supposed intent of making his enemies too out of shape to stop him from taking over the world. After Perry the Platypus destroys the device and leaves, Doofenshmirtz reveals that this scheme was just a smokescreen to distract from his true goal: planting a mind control device on Major Monogram, the head of O.C.W.A. |
| 325 | * SnapBack: |
| 326 | ** Doofenshmirtz seems to get into very compromising situations, some of which seem out-and-out irreversible (like getting stranded on the moon) and be okay again by the next episode. |
| 327 | ** Every object in the Universe is expanded to 9 times its size by Phineas and Ferb's growth elixir in "Attack of the 50 Foot Sister", but is somehow reversed later offscreen. |
| 328 | ** In "It's About Time", Monogram appears to have been hit by Doof's -inator of the day offscreen, turning him into a immobile statue. This isn't shown to be fixed by the end of the episode. |
| 329 | ** Invoked in "Agent Doof", where [[spoiler:Phineas, Ferb, Linda, and the Fireside Girls are all turned into babies by the end of the episode]], causing Candace to hope that everything is back to normal by the next episode. |
| 330 | * SnipeHunt: In "Undercover Carl", Major Monogram sends Perry on a ''literal'' wild goose chase because Phineas and Ferb were allegedly involved in Doofenshmirtz's daily scheme, and he feels that Perry is too close to the case. [[spoiler:He finds the goose.]] |
| 331 | * SnootySports: |
| 332 | ** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbShesTheMayor She's The Mayor]]": The rich mayor Roger Doofenshmirtz plays golf with his downtrodden brother Heinz, who finds the game so boring he creates an invention to speed up Roger playing just to get through it quicker. |
| 333 | ** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbInterrupted Phineas and Ferb Interrupted]]": The boys are hit with a ray that makes them dull and boring, and this results in Phineas proudly proclaiming that they're "gonna watch golf on television!" |
| 334 | %%* SnowcloneTitle: Quite a lot. Heck, there was even one ''in the Japanese version''. |
| 335 | * SoapWithinAShow: "The Great Indoors gives us the Mexican soap ''El Matador de Amor''. |
| 336 | * SophisticatedAsHell: In "Nerdy Dancin'": |
| 337 | -->'''Phineas''': So, brother of mine, what endeavor shall we engage in today?\ |
| 338 | ''(Jeremy walks up to Phineas and Ferb)''\ |
| 339 | '''Phineas''': Hey, Jeremy. What's the haps, big guy? |
| 340 | * SoloDuet: Two counts; the first in 'Mom's Birthday' with a recorded version of Candace and Candace singing live. The second is from 'Split Personality' where the two Candaces sing a duet about how happy they are to be separate. |
| 341 | * SoundtrackDissonance: "It's a Perfect Day", a happy song about what a beautiful day it is, plays while Candace is being chased by a mob of angry animals. |
| 342 | %%** To a lesser extent, the spa day was accompanied by a rap song. |
| 343 | * SpaceEpisode: Several episodes involve the title characters going to space, but the most notable is probably "Out to Launch", as it is the first time they have the specific goal of doing so and specifically focuses on their adventure there. |
| 344 | * SpaghettiKiss: Parodied during the "Bouncin' Around the World" song in "Summer Belongs to You"....with [[FoeRomanceSubtext Buford and Baljeet]]. |
| 345 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Unsurprisingly, Doofenshmirtz and his inators. If they hadn't erased all evidence of Phineas and Ferb's big idea before Mom arrives, then Candace would've won. |
| 346 | * TheSpeechless: None of the O.W.C.A. Agents can talk, since they are animals and all. They mostly comunicate through their facial expressions. |
| 347 | * SpellingForEmphasis: When Candace is singing about how her brothers are "evil" due to their shenanigans, she says, "Let me spell it out for you, Mom: E-V-I-L B-O-Y-S!". |
| 348 | * SpellingSong: |
| 349 | ** From "Tip of the Day": |
| 350 | -->[[WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet "A-G-L-E-T, don't forget it!"]] |
| 351 | ** Norm spells out W-E-A-P-O-N-R-Y in his song in the episode "Norm Unleashed" |
| 352 | %%** That is the most prominent example, but it's commonly used throughout the show. "You're Going Down" and "Candace Party" both involve spelling, for instance. |
| 353 | * SpikedWheels: During "Greece Lightning", Buford chariot is equiped with them to take out his competition. |
| 354 | -->'''Phineas:''' [[DidntThinkThisThrough Remind me again]] why [[LampshadeHanging did we put spikes on Buford's chariot]]? |
| 355 | * SpinOff: |
| 356 | ** A [[RogerRabbitEffect mix of animation and live-action]] called ''Take Two With Phineas and Ferb'', in which the characters interview RealLife celebrities. To date, they've covered Creator/JackBlack, Andy Hawk, Tony Hawk, Music/TaylorSwift, Regis Philbin, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, Randy Jackson, Creator/EmmaRoberts, Cedric The Entertainer, David Beckham and Howie Mandel. [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] and Ty Pennington will appear in future episodes. |
| 357 | ** There is a series online called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/doofdaily Doofenshmirtz's Daily Dirt]]'', which involves Doof talking about various online topics. |
| 358 | * SplitScreenPhoneCall: |
| 359 | %%** Done at least twice with Candace and Jeremy. |
| 360 | ** Also during the episode when the gang is at their respective homes sick, their conversation is done this way. |
| 361 | * SpoilerTitle: "Candace Gets Busted", ends with Candace grounded after their parents find out she (accidentaly) made a party in their absence. |
| 362 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: |
| 363 | ** Near the end of the show's run, the A-Plots of many episodes and a majority of the show's merchandise put Perry and Doof in the spotlight. |
| 364 | ** Candace counts as well, possibly getting the most screentime and focus episodes out of all the main characters to the point where the title characters got progressively less focus as a result. The Disney+ movie is focused primarily on her. |
| 365 | %%* {{Squee}}: |
| 366 | %%** Candace and Stacy have been known to do this sometimes whenever they are about to do something exciting. |
| 367 | %%** Carl does it once when Monty finally persuades Major Monogram to thank Carl. |
| 368 | * SquirrelsInMyPants!: |
| 369 | ** [[TropeNamer Trope Name-inator]]. Named from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhtTXJOJxE scene]] in the episode "Comet Kermillain" where Candace gets... What do you ''think'' she gets? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prVTMrb6JHo Now extended!]] -- With extra [[ShakingtheRump ass shaking]] action! |
| 370 | ** In the episode "Fast and the Phineas" Perry slings a piece of cheese down the back of Doofenshmirtz's pants, causing a mouse to run up his pants leg. |
| 371 | * StabTheStorm: Defied in the episode "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein". Phineas and Ferb originally planned to spend their day standing in a field, holding up a metal rod. Since a thunderstorm was happening outside, they had to cancel that plan, perhaps knowing well this trope would take effect if they didn't. |
| 372 | * StaggeredZoom: During the theme song on the line "Like maybe...", the camera zooms in on Phineas in steps before cutting to the chorus. |
| 373 | * StalkerWithACrush: Candace, particularly in the early episodes where she does things like photograph Jeremy hundreds of times and watch him through binoculars instead of just walking up and talking to him, not to mention her elaborate lists and scrapbook projects (which are apparently a secret from everyone besides Stacy). It seems it's not in the nature of this family to do things by halves. Atypical in that Jeremy and Candace develop a healthy relationship based on mutual affection, but the affection on the one side continues to be highly obsessive. |
| 374 | * StandInPortrait: |
| 375 | ** In the opening theme Phineas starts painting a moustache on Candace's portrait, only for her to come out of it to scold them. |
| 376 | ** In "Fireside Girls Jamboree", Isabella is talking about the founder of the Fireside Girls and the rules she imposed while standing in front of a portrait. Candace says the rules are dumb, and the lady comes out of the window. |
| 377 | -->'''Candace:''' [[LampshadeHanging Who puts a picture-frame on a window?]] |
| 378 | * StarCrossedLovers: |
| 379 | ** Norm and Chloe, who are forbidden from seeing each other by their respective creators: Doof and Rodney, who hate each other. |
| 380 | ** Monty and Vanessa, kids of Monogram and Doofenshmirtz respectively, start dating in "Sipping with the Enemy" and try to keep it secret. |
| 381 | %%* StarTrekMovieCurse: Referenced in "Nerds of a Feather" with the ''[[{{Expy}} Space Adventure]]'' movies.[[invoked]] |
| 382 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: |
| 383 | ** In one episode, Phineas and Ferb decide to build a device that can teleport anything from anywhere in the world into the backyard in order to retrieve the skateboard Ferb left in England. Lawrence asks why they don't just build a new skateboard. |
| 384 | ** Happens to Doofenshmirtz from time to time. Like when he wanted to transport the Big Ben from London to his building so he could have an easier time reading the time. When the secrent agent acompanying Perry asks why he doesn't just buy a bigger clock, Doof says that that would be too complicated. |
| 385 | * StatusQuoIsGod: |
| 386 | ** Whenever Candace realizes that her brothers aren't actually nuisances, she warms up to them. But by the next episode she's back to her normal frantic self. One of the biggest jokes of the series is that no matter what happens, it will all go back to normal. Somehow. |
| 387 | --> '''Doofenshmirtz''': [[LampshadeHanging And who would have guessed it, it all goes back to normal]]. Explosion....now. |
| 388 | ** A recording session done by Dan Povenmire confirms that [[spoiler:Doof will return to being evil in season five.]] |
| 389 | * StealthHiBye: Generally the case with Candace; when she comes back outside with Mom to show her what the boys did, the invention is suddenly gone when it was there seconds ago. |
| 390 | * StealthPun: |
| 391 | ** Love Händel is named in the style of [[TheEighties '80s]] rock bands, and the pun becomes hilarious when one realizes that people who listened such bands in their heyday are now middle-aged. |
| 392 | ** In "Lights, Candace, Action!" Candace's personal trainers are a pair of fleas. |
| 393 | ** Roger and Heinz Doofenshmirtz's caddies in "She's the Mayor" are [[Music/KatyPerry Katy and Perry]], respectively. |
| 394 | ** Phineas solved one of the puzzles in 'Escape from Phineas Tower' by undoing a lock with a bone. That is to say, a skeleton key. |
| 395 | ** In "The Belly of the Beast" Ferb pilots a giant mechanical shark from inside a suspended motion-capture shark suit, propelling it forward by agitating the tail. In other words, Phineas may be the shark's captain, but it's Ferb who has to shake his finny ass. |
| 396 | ** In "La Candace-Cabra," Buford dresses up as a goat to serve as bait. He's a 'bully goat,' get it?" |
| 397 | ** In "Last Day of Summer" when Phineas and Ferb are stuck in the time loop they run into a bunch of [[Film/GroundhogDay groundhogs]]. |
| 398 | * StepfordSmiler: Norm the robot is always smiling, both literally and metaphorically, even when is shown that he has [[WellDoneSonGuy his own problems to worry about]] |
| 399 | %%* {{Sting}}: Used a ''lot'' for comedic effect. |
| 400 | * TheStinger: Every episode features something that plays during the end credits. Half the time it's just an encore for the song of the episode, but for the other half it's a brief extension to the final segment. |
| 401 | * StockAudioClip: Candace: various screams, "Meep...". Perry: (chattering). Isabella: "Whatcha doin'?". Bob Weber: (snaps fingers) "OK!" |
| 402 | * StockClockHandHang: In episode "Quantum Boogaloo", the band Music/BowlingForSoup slide off a giant clock during a music video. |
| 403 | * StockFootage: |
| 404 | ** Being a remake of the very first episode [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE IN SONG]], "Rollercoaster: TheMusical" reuses a lot of footage from that episode (though most of the reused lines were rerecorded and some of the jokes were changed). |
| 405 | ** Perry's lair entrance in the first episode was reused in "The Fast and the Phineas" and the GrandFinale. |
| 406 | * StockNessMonster: The Lake Nose Monster. An ancient dinosaur that lives in Lake Nose but has never been seen (except by the brothers). A lifeguard states that the Monster is just a legend that they keep milking for getting tourism and sell souvenirs. |
| 407 | * TheStoic: Ferb doesn't have a whole lot of expression--notably, his face remains completely blank as Phineas employs PuppyDogEyes to persuade Candace to keep Nosey's secret in "The Lake Nose Monster". |
| 408 | %%** Perry as well, though it's more of a "cool, steely" example than an "entirely emotionless" one. |
| 409 | * TheStoolPigeon: Candace is a self-appointed one. She will stop at nothing until she has been able to bust her brothers and reveal their projects to their mother. |
| 410 | * StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: |
| 411 | ** In "The Flying Fishmonger" While Candace is out shopping with Linda, Lawrence and Winifred, she passes a storefront TV and witnesses the ad promoting the jump of the Flying Fishmonger over the gorge in the Flynn-Fletcher backyard. Candace brings Linda back to see, but right when she does so, it quickly switches to another ad promoting pore paste, to which Linda comments Candace's pores aren't ''that'' big. |
| 412 | ** In "A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas", Candace calls Linda, who happens to be near a set of [=TVs=] in a storefront, which is broadcasting the Christmas in July special the boys are hosting. Right when Linda turns to look at the TV, it immediately goes right to commercial and shows the Wintobreath toothpaste the show is promoting, which reminds Linda she needs to pick up toothpaste and ends the call. |
| 413 | * StorybookEpisode: "Excaliferb", where the characters are set into a medieval setting. |
| 414 | %%* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Perry is the former to Dr. Doofenshmirtz's latter. |
| 415 | %%** When Candace and Stacy are together, Stacy tends to be [[OnlySaneMan the former]] to [[GenkiGirl Candace's latter]]. |
| 416 | * StrangelySpecificHoroscope: Doofenshmirtz gets an oddly accurate horoscope about being shot in the butt while covered in honey and hair. |
| 417 | -->'''Doofenshmirtz''': Shot in the butt while covered in honey and hair. What do you know, my horoscope was right. |
| 418 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Occurs often enough to become a running gag. |
| 419 | ** In "S'Winter", the boys create a mix between winter and summer, calling it "s'winter", and Phineas makes an aside comment that it could also be called "wummer". When Candace want to show it to her parents she explains the concept of s'winter to them, but her father says that it seems more like wummer. |
| 420 | ** In "Perry Lays and Egg" Candace become overprotective of said egg and puts on a Platypus suit, calling it her "Mom suit". At the end of the episode Jeremy appears to take Candace out only to find her dressed like a platypus, after an akward pause, he simply compliment her mom suit. |
| 421 | ** In "Gi-Ants", when the kids are douzed with ant pheromones, the first thing Buford can think is that it smells like his grandmother's house. Later, when Candance douze herself with the pheromones, she also says that it smells like Buford's grandma's house. |
| 422 | ** Lampshaded once by Doofenshmirtz. |
| 423 | ---> ''It's a callback to something I didn't even hear! Take that, logic!'' |
| 424 | * StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: In the episode "Make Play", Princess Baldegunde talks like a German accented [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] who just suffered a head injury. While this initially seems like a result of her not being fluent in English, Ferb reveals that this is the proper syntax for royalty to speak in her country. |
| 425 | * StrictlyFormula: Each episode involves the plot with the boys creating a big project and their sister failing to show it to their mom, and Doofenshmirtz setting an evil plan in motion and be thwarted by Perry. |
| 426 | ** After the first season, the creators started to break and play with their formula. |
| 427 | ** They had a caveman episode, where they all talked in grunts. And you still knew exactly what they were saying and what was going on. |
| 428 | * TheStrongman: In one episode, the titular stepbrothers convert their home into a fun house. One of the things found here is a strongman who is trying to lift up a feather that weighs a ton. As this happens, Phineas and Ferb are each holding up a 1,000-lb. weight by their feet. |
| 429 | * StuffBlowingUp: |
| 430 | ** Random objects explode during the fight scene against the Ninja Vampires in "Doof 'n' Puss". |
| 431 | ** Lampshaded by Doofenshmirtz in "Ask a Foolish Question", asking, "Why does everything explode so easily?" after his building has already exploded ''twice'', and no sooner does he finish this sentence does it go up in smoke ''again''. |
| 432 | * StylisticSelfParody: |
| 433 | ** Carl explains he has no sense of smell since he was born without nostrils, alluding to the way his nose is drawn. |
| 434 | ** In the ClipShow episode, Doof tries to use his hand to signal the number 'four' but realizing he wasn't drawn with quite enough fingers, he also stuck out his thumb. |
| 435 | ** In "Run Away Runway" A fashion designer is angry that none of the models can properly wear his new creation, pointing out that only someone with a very long neck could do it, then someone brings Candace. |
| 436 | ** In "Hide and Seek", Doofenshmirtz sees Phineas and Ferb with their friends on camera and mistakes them for a "kiddie TV show". |
| 437 | ** Monogram points out that he can see the smell of Carl's sandwich in "Misperceived Monotreme". |
| 438 | ** Monogram and Doofenshmirtz comment on Phineas having a triangle head and Ferb having green hair in their commentary for "The Chronicles of Meap". |
| 439 | ** In the Halloween episode, Carl notes that his Monogram costume isn't complete because he couldn't put both eyes in the same side of the nose. |
| 440 | ** Monogram wearing sunglasses. (Doofenshmirtz: "Who designed those, M.C. Escher?" Monogram: "He was a Family Friend!") |
| 441 | * StylisticSuck: Doof'n'Puss - a show Doof pitched to [[Creator/SethMacFarlane Seth]]...er, Jeff [=McGarland=]. With an insane premise and ridiculous plot. Even the film stock in those segments is grainy and faded. |
| 442 | * StyrofoamRocks: Played with. When they are constructing their life-sized replica of Niagara Falls, Ferb (on the ground) picks up a boulder and throws it all the way to the top of the structure. Phineas says that even though he knew that that was paper-mâché, the throw was still very impressive. |
| 443 | %%** They show up again in "The Great Indoors", when Jeremy tries to explain to Candace that they're just paper-mâché. |
| 444 | %%* SubvertedCatchPhrase: The show's multiple {{Catch Phrase}}s and {{Running Gag}}s are bound to be subverted as often as they are played straight. |
| 445 | %%* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Doofenshmirtz's rhyme in "Unfair Science Fair". |
| 446 | %%** The supposed "lost lines" of "The Cat and the Fiddle". Phineas suspects this trope is ''why'' they were "excluded by most versions". |
| 447 | * SubliminalSeduction: In "Undercover Carl", whenever Carl plays Phineas' catchphrase "Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!" backwards and with the syllables arranged in a random order, it becomes "Lets help Doofenshmirtz destroy the Tri-State Area!". |
| 448 | * SuckECheeses: "Gunther Goatcheese's!" A restaurant in Drusselstein that has birthday parties with bad animatronics. |
| 449 | * SuddenAnatomy: Perry only has teeth when they're needed for an expression. He also only has fingers when he's in his agent mode. Otherwise, his hands are merely little pads. |
| 450 | * SuddenDownerEnding: Specifically for Doofenshmirtz in "Chez Platypus". During the entire episode, he goes on a date with an equally evil girl, falls in love, sings the most ''adorable'' VillainSong in history with her, and then says that he has "Never been so happy in his entire life". [[spoiler: Then, in ''literally'' the last six or seven seconds, he shoots himself in the foot when she is hit by [[ChekhovsGun his own abandoned De-Love-Inator]] and leaves him.]] |
| 451 | * SugarBowl: Meap's Planet. According to him, cuteness is valued above all other things on that place. |
| 452 | * SummonBackupDancers: Often. In "Rubber Bands and Rubber Balls" the factory has a breakroom specifically for them. Doof also has back-up dancers during his musical numbers. We see him paying them afterwards. |
| 453 | * SuperCellReception: The title characters use Candace's cell phone in prehistoric times and on Mars. Candace lampshades this in "Unfair Science Fair Redux" by asking "How is it we have bars here?" on ''Mars''. |
| 454 | * SureLetsGoWithThat: Lawrence in "Love at First Byte:" |
| 455 | -->'''Lawrence:''' "Alright, everyone on the dance floor; parents, kids...giant robots. Sure, why not?" |
| 456 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "Sidetracked," Agent Lyla (a human) is dangling over the side of a train and Perry tries to pull her up. Since she significantly outweighs him, they both end up falling off. |
| 457 | ** Also, this exchange in "Out to Launch", when Phineas and Ferb ask Candace to jump start their rocket with Linda's car while stranded in space: |
| 458 | -->'''Candace:''' "What? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Can't you guys just find some old nuts and bolts lying around and Jerry-rig up some kind of [[BuffySpeak machiney-deely-bob]] and get us out of this situation?" |
| 459 | -->'''Ferb:''' [[WhamLine Candace, we are just kids]]. |
| 460 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 461 | ** In "It's About Time": |
| 462 | -->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Perry the Platypus! *hides raygun* There's no one else here! |
| 463 | ** When Perry goes undercover at an evil scientist convention, he presents an identification card that includes "Note: Not a platypus." |
| 464 | %%* SwansASwimming: Perry's 1903 counterpart is a bite-happy (and apparently very foul-mouthed) swan. |
| 465 | * SwappedRoles: In "Backyard Hodge Podge", Linda actually sees the boys' recycled material Big Idea, but assumes she's hallucinating due to overwork; Candace, on the other hand, does ''not'' see it because Doofenshmirtz's Eye Fog-inator causes her eyesight to become increasingly blurry. When Linda goes to rest and sees the project still there, she still thinks she's hallucinating. |
| 466 | %%* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: This is how Candace ''considers'' herself. |
| 467 | * SynchronousEpisodes: |
| 468 | ** "Unfair Science Fair" which deals with the brothers helping Baljeet create a portal to Mars for his science fair. At the end Isabella says that is weird they created it but never used it, but Phineas mentions that they did, but that's another story. "Unfair Science Fair Redux" in the middle of the previous episode (after creating the portal, but before the science fair) and deals with the boys saving Candace after she hastily entered the portal. |
| 469 | ** In "Bubble Boys", Phineas and Ferb create a giant bubble to float around. Before doing so, they ask Isabella for an specific ingredient. "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" deals with Isabella and the fireside girls trying to get that ingredient. |
| 470 | %%** And "Bee Day" with "Bee Story". |
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| 472 | |
| 473 | [[folder:T]] |
| 474 | * TakeOurWordForIt: |
| 475 | ** Doof, Rodney and Lawrence once entered a contest to become leader of L.O.V.E.-M.U.F.F.I.N. (Lawrence misread the address of where he was supposed to go and [[spoiler:believed he entered a contest to become king of [[CallBack pharmacists]]) and, after he was hit by a ray that turned him evil, there was an event where each contestant had to scare the others with their evil glare. We never get to see Lawrence's, but all characters who saw it were horrified]]. |
| 476 | ** When Roger's painting is hit by Doofenshmirtz's Stain-inator, we don't get to see the results, nor do we see what the picture is. We also don't get to see Doofenshmirtz's pictures in his backstory. |
| 477 | ** Offscreen in "Candace Disconnected", the boys build their tallest, heaviest, most interesting project of the summer. The guy from the museum was very appreciative, and Ferb notes he can hardly believe that it fit in the truck. |
| 478 | ** The big idea from "Blackout" was never actually seen onscreen, and we never find out what it really is. It is only built in the dark, and the lights come on some times to show Candace is strange situations on it. |
| 479 | ** Whatever was the grand finale for Isabella's birthday party in "Happy Birthday Isabella". We only see it as a shadow, and by the time it is about to be shown, it gets turned into butterflies by Doof's inator. We do get details on it by Phineas later on, however. |
| 480 | * TakeOverTheWorld: Doofenshmirtz's goal, restricted to the ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA!, unless he has a more petty nuisance bothering him. |
| 481 | * TakeThat: |
| 482 | %%** Squarely aimed at Disney's Standards and Practices in "Raging Bully". Standards and Practice's cries of the dangers of "imitatable behavior" quickly became a recurring Take That. |
| 483 | ** "Look! [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants A sponge and a starfish!]] There's gotta be something we can do with these... oh, no, that's ''ridiculous!''" Also qualifies as SelfDeprecation, given Creator/DanPovenmire's work on that show. |
| 484 | ** "Quantam Boogaloo" jabs at MoralGuardians by showing a BadFuture in which they get all fun outlawed due to their refusal to change their parenting ways. |
| 485 | ** There was also one directed quite squarely at parents who blame the media for their kids acting bad instead of their bad parenting in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted". |
| 486 | -->"Today on "The Morty Williams Show," "My Kid Is Bad, and I Want to Blame Others!"" |
| 487 | ** "The Doonkelberry Imperative" is one on American politics, showing Drusselstein being divided thanks to their disagreement on the direction of a machine that produces their doonkelberry supply, causing a doonkelberry shortage. |
| 488 | %%** "The Curse of Candace" has several to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. |
| 489 | * TakeThatAudience: In the song "Hey Ferb", Phineas brings up how glad he is not to have spent his summer vacation sitting and watching TV, while "Summer Belongs to You" encourages the audience to "not waste a minute sitting on that chair". Both of these activities are likely to be what the viewer is doing... ''in order to watch the show''. |
| 490 | %%** "The Beak Song" states that you really are pretty lame compared to the Beak. (Seriously, what d'ya bench?) |
| 491 | * TakenForGranite: In one episode Doofenshmirtz's Freeze-Inator temporarily petrifies Major Monogram, so Carl has to give Agent P his assignment. Later on it manages to freeze a ''Tyrannosaurus'' that our heroes have accidentally brought back from the past, naturally a split-second before it would have eaten them (and Mom would have seen it). Conveniently, it happens to be in the local museum, so everybody assumes it's just a statue. |
| 492 | %%* TakingTheBullet: The robot Candace in "Where's Perry?" does this for the real Candace. |
| 493 | * TalkingAnimal: |
| 494 | ** Candace when she switched bodies with Perry (the Platypus). |
| 495 | ** Olga and Chicago Joe are talking lice. |
| 496 | ** The zebra that shows up in Candace's imagination (and [[NotSoImaginaryFriend rarely outside of it]]) now and then. |
| 497 | ** Bizarrely, an otherwise normal talking rooster appeared in "Cheer Up Candace". It is never explained. |
| 498 | ** Somehow, Doofenshmirtz's pet cockroach can speak, at least after [[ItMakesSenseInContext being combined with garlic ice cream]]. |
| 499 | ** A horse sings part of the song in "Troy Story". |
| 500 | ** In "Lost in Danville" [[spoiler:alternate dimension Lawrence is a talking polar bear]]. |
| 501 | ** The insects in "Doof 101", although they're never seen successfully communicating with humans, so TranslationConvention may be at work. |
| 502 | ** PlayedForDrama in "Night of the Living Pharmacists". [[spoiler: [[SuddenlySpeaking The only time Perry gets any dialogue]] is after he's turned into a Doof-zombie and repeats their "lots of me" MadnessMantra.]] |
| 503 | ** "The O.W.C.A. Files" gives us Maggie the Macaw (justified, as she's a [[PollyWantsAMicrophone parrot]]) and [[spoiler:Professor Parenthesis, who is a talking flea in disguise. Talking insects appear to be common in this universe.]] |
| 504 | ** Subverted in "A Hard Day's Knight" when Perry appears to read from a book out loud, but is actually lip-syncing to a recording. |
| 505 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Beak", Phineas and Ferb try this with Khaka Peü Peü when they realize he was only on a rampage because he had never had a "greatest day ever" himself. However, the attempt fails when it turns out Khaka Peü Peü has an opposing concept of a great day than the boys do, and he's instead defeated [[RunningGag when a chair is thrown at him from offscreen a few moments later.]] |
| 506 | %%* TalkingWithSigns: Meap [[spoiler:before he gets the universal translator from Mitch.]] |
| 507 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: A variation - in "Meapless in Seattle" Linda was listening to french language learning tape, that described what happen right behind her. |
| 508 | -->'''French Audio Teacher:''' The spaceship is right behind you. ''Le vaisseau spatial est juste derrière vous''. Your children are climbing in the spaceship now. ''Vos enfants monter maintenant dont vaisseau spatial.'' Oh, for the love of, will you turn around? ''Oh pour l'amour de, vous de serait tournez?''\ |
| 509 | -->'''Linda:''' ''(as Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Isabella, and Meap take off behind her)'' Well, when is that ever going to come up in conversation? |
| 510 | * TaxmanTakesTheWinnings: In season 4, "Druselsteinoween", when Doofenshmirtz inherits a Drusselsteinian castle from his great aunt, he enlists Perry to help him find a large, hidden treasure that his Great Aunt has placed somewhere within the castle. After they find the treasure, in the form of bags of money, various local officials comes to his castle and makes Doofenshmirtz pay a bunch of fees for owning a castle. He gives each of the officials a bag of money which leaves him penniless. |
| 511 | * TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler: In the episode "That Sinking Feeling" Dr. Doofinshmirtz manages to get rid of the lighthouse thus dragging the boats away allowing him to get a good nights rest. He even gets mad a Perry for losing and kicks him out of his house. Though, in the CreditsGag, the lighthouse crashes into his building that night, bringing the boats with it, so not a full success.]] |
| 512 | %%* TheTeamWannabe: Irving, originally. He's now a sorta an unofficial SixthRanger. |
| 513 | %%-->'''Irving:''' I got in the car when your mom stopped for gas! |
| 514 | * TearsOfJoy: |
| 515 | ** Candace in "Candace Loses Her Head" when she sees her head added to Mt. Rushmore. |
| 516 | ** Tiana in "Candace's Big Day" toward all the weird additions to her wedding with Bob. |
| 517 | ** Everyone in "Phineas' Birthday Clip-o-Rama!" during Phineas' RousingSpeech, even Candace who cannot bring herself to bust her brother on his birthday. |
| 518 | * TearsOfRemorse: In the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately titled]] episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", Candace starts crying when her brothers get their personalities and imaginations cleared because of her actions, as she tells them that she's always been proud to be their big sister and begs them to come back. |
| 519 | %%* TeleporterAccident: Played straight (complete with LampshadeHanging and ShoutOut to ''Film/TheFly1958'') and then subverted via additional [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]]. |
| 520 | %%* TemporarilyAVillain: Buford in "Hip Hop Parade," Baljeet in "Cranius Maximus," [[spoiler: Carl]] in "Where's Perry?" and [[spoiler: Ferb]] in "Phineas and Ferb Star Wars." |
| 521 | * TemptingFate: |
| 522 | ** Phineas is the king of this in "Summer Belongs to You!" where even as bad things keep happening, he won't stop talking. |
| 523 | --->'''Phineas:''' We might even arrive in Danville ahead of time! Y'know, barring any unforeseen mishaps. ''*cue boat falling apart*'' |
| 524 | %%** Also: |
| 525 | %%--->'''Phineas:''' Looks like a real summer storm! Well, our plan to stand alone in a field with a metal rod is out. |
| 526 | ** "You can't stop me, Perry the Platypus! You couldn't stop me with a billion Perry the Platypuses!" Cue Doof falling through a skylight, straight into the assembly line making hundreds of Perry the Platypus toys. |
| 527 | ** "This building is so well-constructed, there is ''no force on Earth'' that can move it before your mom gets home!" And then [[spoiler:it gets hauled away by the ''moon''...]] |
| 528 | %%** In the episode "Gi-Ants" Doof comments that, with Perry the Platypus locked up, he can finally finish his sentences without getting punched in the... |
| 529 | %%* TenMinuteRetirement: Phineas, of all characters, gets one in "Summer Belongs To You!" |
| 530 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: |
| 531 | ** The reverse-engineered -inator in "What Do It Do?" has long eyelashes. |
| 532 | ** The female Aqua Primates are pink/red and have long eyelashes. |
| 533 | ** Perry suddenly has long eyelashes when he switches bodies with Candace. |
| 534 | * ThatPoorCat: |
| 535 | ** A bird flying into the latest tall project or getting hit with something and giving a pathetic squawk is an occasional running gag. |
| 536 | ** The cat yowl is heard whenever Doofenshmirtz throws something away. He doesn't even have a cat. |
| 537 | ** It's heard whenever Candace throws something away as well. She doesn't have a cat either. |
| 538 | %%* ThatRussianSquatDance: Done by Doofenshmirtz's guards in "The Wizard of Odd". |
| 539 | * ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Subverted, as most of the tropes are. When Doofenshmirtz thinks he's insulted Vanessa by saying he'd rather have a son than a daughter, Norm tries to be a surrogate son. Doofenshmirtz repeated refuses to acknowledge him as such, though. |
| 540 | %%* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Whenever Perry does something awesome (i.e.: every other scene he's in), his theme song plays. |
| 541 | * ThemeNaming: All the secret agent higher-up characters (such as Major Monogram, Admiral Acronym and Inspector Initials) not only share the {{alliterative nam|e}}ing scheme, but they are all also named after glossary terms in language and typography. Similarly, every OWCA agent who gets named typically has the name of "Agent (letter)", with the letter being the first letter of their species (a frog named Agent F, for example). |
| 542 | * ThereWasADoor: |
| 543 | ** Very frequently {{lampshaded}} when Perry breaks into Doofenshmirtz's building by crashing into the window, wall, or the door, up to the point where Doofenshmirtz actually convinces Perry to ''pay'' for the broken door. He gives Perry keys, too, and they are repeatedly mentioned. Doofenshmirtz never fails to praise him for using them. [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage There is still generally a trap, though]]. |
| 544 | ** Prehistoric Doof had a similar problem with Prehistoric Perry. (Along with the ClarkKenting) |
| 545 | %%** Isabella and the troop could have just as easily "driven" their van through the archway at the old abandoned Old Abandoned Amusement Park, but just drive through the wall. |
| 546 | * ThingOMatic: |
| 547 | ** Doofenshmirtz's inventions always end in some variation of "-inator". He occasionally uses a ''pair'' of "-inator" suffixes, with a hesitation before the second one. {{Lampshaded}} in "Unfair Science Fair" when Doofenshmirtz flashes back to his first science fair and talks about his very first invention, called simply 'INATOR'. |
| 548 | -->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Yeah, I wasn't very clever with names back then so it was just 'Inator'. |
| 549 | ** -inator seems to have been retooled into referring to pretty much any device intended for evil in later episodes. In "Finding Mary McGuffin", Doof refers to his recent purchase as simply an -inator, since he didn't know what it did and couldn't give it a proper name, and in an evil scientist contest, the devices they build are all referred to as -inators. And then retooled again, with every MadScientist apparently using their own unique naming convention for their devices. So far, Doofenshmirtz sticks with "-inators", [[SitcomArchNemesis Rodney]] uses "-izers", and [[TheNapoleon Dr. Diminutive]] uses "-erators". |
| 550 | %%* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: Occasionally there's a Candace subplot in addition to the titular characters and Doof and Perry. |
| 551 | %%** Lampshaded (like everything else in this series): |
| 552 | %%-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' (on a Mexican SoapOpera) It has three simultaneous story lines that interconnect. Genius! |
| 553 | %%* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Doofenshmirtz has this reaction whenever his inators backfire on him. So...pretty often. |
| 554 | %%-->'''Computer:''' "Overload in progress." |
| 555 | %%-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' "This should be fun..." |
| 556 | %%-->'''BOOM!''' |
| 557 | %%* ThisIsMySide: Doofenshmirtz tries this when he is stuck on an island with Perry in "Phineas and Ferb Hawaiian Vacation", but it doesn't last long. |
| 558 | * ThinksOfSomethingSmartSaysSomethingStupid: When trying to covertly investigate the titular brothers' invention of the day in "Undercover Carl" due to [[MakesSenseInContext mistakenly thinking it's actually an evil antigravity device]], when asked his name, Carl thinks to himself, "Say a cool name, like Nitro Dax or Steel," and then when actually introducing himself, just says "My name... is Carl." |
| 559 | * ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting: In the DVD character commentary of "The Chronicles of Meap", Doofenshmirtz is shocked that Candace would play baseball in a life-or-death situation, while Monogram (quite rightly) realizes that she's saving the day. |
| 560 | * ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: From "Comet Kermillian", we get this gem: |
| 561 | -->'''Phineas:''' Can I have everyone's attention? Please don't panic. We're experiencing technical difficulties. Calmly head towards the exit in a calm, orderly--\ |
| 562 | ''A large chunk of structure falls right behind him.''\ |
| 563 | ''[[{{Beat}} Phineas glances at the fallen rock]].''\ |
| 564 | '''Phineas:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Okay, now you can panic]]. |
| 565 | * ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels: |
| 566 | ** From "Journey to the Center of Candace", when the boys find out they're inside Candace's body: |
| 567 | -->'''Phineas:''' Yeah, we're inside Candace's stomach.\ |
| 568 | '''Ferb:''' That's creepy on so many levels. |
| 569 | ** And later... |
| 570 | -->'''Phineas:''' Candace is on her date with Jeremy. That means ''we're'' on a date with Jeremy.\ |
| 571 | '''Ferb:''' Again, creepy on so many levels. |
| 572 | * ThisLoserIsYou: |
| 573 | %%** Irving the fanboy in "Hide and Seek" is this personified. |
| 574 | ** "[[http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/The_Beak_(song) The Beak's]]" theme song seems mostly to consist of [[TakeThatAudience deriding the listener for not being as awesome as The Beak]]. |
| 575 | %%* ThoseTwoGuys: Buford and Baljeet, combined with FriendlyEnemies. |
| 576 | %%* ThreateningShark: |
| 577 | %%** The main point of "Belly of the Beast". |
| 578 | %%** In "Live And Let Drive", one of the sharks from Doofenshmirtz's SharkPool seemingly eats Perry. But then subverted when it later spits him out, revealing that it was actually an undercover OWCA agent. |
| 579 | %%* TrainingMontage: |
| 580 | %%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuY_HdIt-7M "Your opponent is as big as an ape, so if you wanna avoid being mangled..."]] |
| 581 | %%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpcweDd9XN8 "In other circumstances you might fail, 'cause I know you don't have a beaver tail..."]] |
| 582 | %%* ThrowItIn: In-universe example in "Lights, Candace, Action!" when Ferb drops the wrong prop during filming, and Phineas decides to keep it in the film anyway. |
| 583 | * ThrowTheDogABone: |
| 584 | ** Candace does occasionally benefit from the boys' ideas and gets with Jeremy. Heck, Jeremy may possibly be the physical manifestation of this trope to Candace on the show. Despite all the horrible things that happen to Candace and her futile efforts to bust her brothers, Jeremy's mere presence (along with a kind word or a helpful gesture) would always lift her spirits up somehow. Later, she become his official girlfriend. |
| 585 | ** Every now and then, good things happen to Doofenshmirtz. Although most of those tend to be [[YankTheDogsChain yanked away]], one of the ones the weren't (and usually one of the most satisfying parts of the series) are the times when Vanessa actually acknowledges that Heinz is actually a pretty decent dad, all things considered. |
| 586 | ** A good example is "We're Getting the Band Back Together". While Doof was defeated by Perry, the launch of the giant firecracker burned all the birthday decorations for Vanessa's party, giving the area [[{{Goth}} a gloomy atmosphere that she actually enjoyed]]. The firecracker also launched him straight to the Love Händel (his favorite band) reunion concert, which he hadn't even been aware was happening and would have missed otherwise. |
| 587 | ** In "Finding Mary McGuffin", Doofenshmirtz manages to get out of being beaten by Perry since the -inator he purchased didn't actually do anything evil, and he even seems to get a chance to bond with Vanessa at the end. |
| 588 | ** In "Happy Birthday, Isabella", Isabella (with some help from Ferb) gets to have her birthday wish -- to have time alone with Phineas -- come true. |
| 589 | %%* TiedUpOnThePhone: In the episode "De Plane! De Plane!", Doofenshmirtz manages to trap Perry the Platypus in a phone cord for a while. |
| 590 | * TimeSkip: The episode "Act Your Age" takes place ten years in the future. |
| 591 | * TimeZonesDoNotExist: Averted in the special "Summer Belongs to You", where the kids travel at the speed of Earth's rotation to have a super-fun, twenty-four hour day by taking advantage of the time zones to always be in daylight all day. |
| 592 | %%* ToiletHumor: Not ''nearly'' as much as you'd expect from a kid's cartoon, but yes, Doofenshmirtz, Buford, and Baljeet being the main dealers of it. |
| 593 | * ToiletTeleportation: Perry the Platypus used a secret toilet entrance to get to mission control HQ. Subverted in the closing credits gag on "The Lake Nose Monster (parts 1 and 2)": Doofenshmirtz tries to escape the same way Perry the Platypus did. He vanishes behind a door. The viewer hears a toilet flush sound and sees water coming from under the door. Doof moans "Oh, oh, oh, that didn't work at all. Now I ''really'' need to do the laundry." |
| 594 | %%* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: One of Doofenshmirtz's flashbacks in Season 2 actually explains why he concentrates on just the Tri-State Area. Why everyone else does is probably RuleOfFunny. |
| 595 | %%* TongueOnTheFlagpole: Happens to Doofenshmirtz in "Out to Launch". |
| 596 | * TooDumbToLive: Dr. Doofenshmirtz's [[DitzyGenius utter lack of common sense]] has, on more than one occasion, put himself into a situation where he would have been seriously injured or killed if he didn't possess JokerImmunity in a world with ToonPhysics. |
| 597 | %%** Buford gets this way every now and again. |
| 598 | * TooFastToStop: The titular characters invent supersonic shoes and Candace decides to use a pair of those to be able to be in two places at practically the same time. Unfortunately, hers are "unstable prototypes" and she crashed on the memorial her boyfriend's family erected to a LongLostRelative. ''Twice''. [[spoiler:Fortunately, she accidentally found the relative on the way to the second crash and the Johnsons were too happy to be upset]]. |
| 599 | %%* TookALevelInJerkass: Doofenshmirtz creates a rude-inator, which hits the boys AI trap tower. Phineas even comments that the tower is a lot meaner/ruder than it should be. |
| 600 | %%* TookALevelInKindness: Buford. |
| 601 | %%* ToonPhysics: Par for the course in western animation, but like everything else in the show it gets a LampshadeHanging now and then. |
| 602 | %%--> '''Baljeet''': ''(in response to Buford weighing down a floating bounce house simply by climbing out of it and hanging onto an attached rope)'' How is that possible? He weighs no more down there than he did up here! |
| 603 | * TooUpsetToCreate: |
| 604 | ** In "Phineas And Ferb Get Busted", the boys are sent to a reformatory school after their mother catches their latest project. The program was designed ''specifically'' to stomp out creative, individualistic spirit in kids, led by a cruel DrillSergeantNasty. By the end of it, Phineas and Ferb are shells of their former selves, and can't create anything. Luckily, it was AllJustADream. |
| 605 | ** In the "Summer Belongs To You" special, in which Phineas and Ferb travel around the entire world to have the longest possible day of summer, they end up stranded on an island. Phineas is so upset that he might fail that he starts snapping at everyone around him and his usual ability to thin up insane solutions on the fly won't work. Isabella has to snap him out of it as he gets more and more desperate. |
| 606 | -->'''Phineas''': Look, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants a sponge and a starfish]]! There's gotta be something we can make out of this! *throws them away* [[TakeThat Ah, no, that's ridiculous!]] |
| 607 | %%* TheToothHurts: In "Bubble Boys", during Dr. Doofenshmirtz's attempt at country-western singing: |
| 608 | %%-->'''Audience Member:''' This stinks so bad I wanna break somethin'!\ |
| 609 | %%''(He grinds his teeth together and they shatter with the sound of glass breaking.)''\ |
| 610 | %%'''Audience Member:''' ... Yeah, that really wasn't worth it. |
| 611 | %%* ToothStrip: The characters are mostly drawn this way. Though sometimes this is subverted with some of Candace's more extreme facial expressions [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130913204737/phineasandferb/images/9/91/Candace_screaming_with_her_hair_sticking_up_2.jpg as seen here]]. |
| 612 | %%* ToothyBird: Perry |
| 613 | %%** "The Tri-Stone Area" has toothy vultures. |
| 614 | %%** Birds, turtles, and other toothless animals in the show frequently do this. |
| 615 | %%* TorchesAndPitchforks: |
| 616 | %%** The Angry Mob in "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein". |
| 617 | %%** And in "That's the Spirit." |
| 618 | %%-->'''Woman with pitchfork:''' You brought a ''torch'' on our date?\ |
| 619 | %%'''Man with torch:''' Hello! Pitchfork! |
| 620 | %%* TrademarkFavoriteFood: |
| 621 | %%** Ferb loves himself a good submarine sandwich. And apparently haggis, as well. |
| 622 | %%** Doof's love of almond brittle has come up quite a few times. |
| 623 | %%** Several other(often one-shot) characters as well. The defrosted Neanderthal Kronk and the platypus from "Misperceived Monotreme" are both crazy for sandwiches, Candace and Pinky narrow it down a bit to grilled cheese sandwiches, Steve the Chameleon loves mushrooms, and Dennis(or Mr. Cutie Patootie) was undone by his obsession with carrots. |
| 624 | * ToyDisguise: |
| 625 | ** In one episode Perry, after defeating Doofenshmirtz, landed in front of Phineas and Ferb in his agent persona, luckily the boys' project was making a lot of Perry the Platypus toys, so they simply thought he was a bad prototype. |
| 626 | ** "The Chronicles of Meap": Candace mistakes Meap for a Bangeroo doll the boys made themselves, and takes him for a toy convention. |
| 627 | %%* TrailersAlwaysLie: Invoked and Parodied in "Meapless in Seattle". |
| 628 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: |
| 629 | ** The promo for "Candace Gets Busted" basically said it all - it ended up as a small get together, but then escalated into an insane party, and shows Linda grounding Candace. Then it gives a clip of the song "Candace Party" from said episode. Averted in Latin America where the episode is renamed "Candace's Party". |
| 630 | ** "Where's Perry? Part 2" has fallen victim to this as well. Basically, the promo shows [[spoiler: Perry in Africa, when we were supposed to be left on a cliffhanger on what happened to him in Part 1.]] |
| 631 | ** During some reruns of "Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly Osbourne", Disney Channel played a commercial revealing the #1 song on the countdown, spoiling the episode for those who hadn't seen it. (In case you're wondering, [[spoiler: the winning song was ''Everything's Better with Perry'']].) |
| 632 | ** Several trailers for "Summer Belongs To You" feature scenes from the final act, without the Sun Beater, as well as the closing concert. |
| 633 | ** Ditto for the GrandFinale, which showcases scenes from the final song that shows flashbacks from nearly every episode. Another trailer for the GrandFinale focused on the fact that Phineas and Ferb were erased from everybody's memory, which doesn't happen until halfway through the episode. |
| 634 | * TranslationYes: In Meap's native language, the word "meap" alone can summarize phrases that are much longer in English, such as "Red alert! Red alert! Mitch has the cutonium, and he's on his way there. You must rally the troops, and head him off at the evil fortress. This is war!" |
| 635 | %%* TranslatorMicrobes: The Universal Moustache Translator in "The Chronicles of Meap". |
| 636 | %%* TreeBuchet: in "Rollercoaster". There's also an [[WeaponisedLandmark Eiffel Tower-buchet, and a Statue of Liberty-buchet]]. |
| 637 | %%* TreehouseOfFun: The boys once rebuilt their and Candace's treehouses, with an additional feature to transform into battling robots. |
| 638 | %%* {{Troperiffic}}: Considering the creators... |
| 639 | %%** "Oh, this is like one of those sitcoms where somebody [[PoorCommunicationKills says something that's misconstrued]] and [[NosyNeighbor the snoopy next door neighbor]] gets [[SatchelSwitcheroo the wrong package]] delivered after [[ObnoxiousInLaws his in-laws]] come to visit and somebody has [[TwoTimerDate two dates on the same night]] and they have to [[ThisIsMySide paint a white line down the middle of the room]]. But [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall this isn't a sitcom]], Perry the Platypus. [[ThisIsReality This is real life.]]" [Cue both Perry and Doof [[AsideGlance looking straight at the audience]].] |
| 640 | %%** Any time this happens, there's a 99% guarantee it will be [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. |
| 641 | %%* TropeyComeHome: "Come Home Perry". |
| 642 | * TheTroublemaker: |
| 643 | ** While the titular characters are always happy to do something to help their friends (which usually results in them creating an enormous project that defies a few laws of science), any problems they face in an episode will usually be caused by either [[TheBully Buford]] touching something he shouldn't or Candace trying to interfere. [[AllLovingHero The boys always forgive them]]. |
| 644 | ** From Candace's perspective, it is Phineas and Ferb who are the Troublemakers, constantly doing things that could be disorderly at best, and outright dangerous at worst. It isn't that Candace hates or even dislikes her brothers; she simply feels that they're doing things they ought not to do, and thus she tries to have them busted for it, even if for her, FailureIsTheOnlyOption. |
| 645 | %%* TrueCompanions: |
| 646 | %%** Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, and, on occasions where she joins them, Candace. In addition, they often consider Perry their TeamPet that needs to be protected, but, if anything, he tends to protect ''them'' when necessary and without their realizing. |
| 647 | %%** The Fireside Girls form their own group of TrueCompanions. |
| 648 | * TruthInTelevision: This gem from "Flop Starz": |
| 649 | -->'''Ben Baxter:''' By the way, aren't you a little young to be pop stars?\ |
| 650 | ''({{Beat}})''\ |
| 651 | '''Phineas:''' ...No.\ |
| 652 | '''Ben Baxter:''' Well, okay then! |
| 653 | %%* TruthSerums: Dr. Doofenshmirtz plans to force the people to tell the truth with his tell-the-truth-inator. |
| 654 | * {{Tuckerization}}: |
| 655 | ** In "Dude We're Getting the Band Back Together", the band members are named after series creators Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, and Bobby Gaylor. |
| 656 | ** Ferb is named after a friend of the creators, who is also quite talented in building things, but is "anything but silent". |
| 657 | ** Isabella is named after Dan Povenmire's daughter, with the one-time character Melissa being named after his other daughter. |
| 658 | ** Linda and her sister Tiana are named for Dan's sisters. |
| 659 | ** Django Brown is named for Swampy's son. |
| 660 | %%* TuxedoAndMartini: Agent Double 0-0, minus the martini. Agent P has also been seen in a tuxedo a few times. |
| 661 | %%* TheTelevisionTalksBack: |
| 662 | %%** Happened with Candace in "Flop Starz" |
| 663 | %%** Also ''apparently'' happened between Lawerence and Major Monogram in "Comet Kermillian", though it's a rare [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. |
| 664 | * TheTwelveSpoofsOfChristmas: A version of this is performed on the ''Holiday Favorites'' album, with each of the main characters singing about the gifts Santa should give them. It Starts with Phineas' "a jet-powered rocket ski", Candace's "two busted brothers", Isabella's "a sash full of patches", and so forth. During the song, Candace's line grows in increasingly frustrated with each passing day, before shouting "Ah, forget it!" on the final line. Also, Doofenshmirtz's fifth day wish begins with "The entire Tri-State Area", but gets progressively more humble as the song goes on, and uses the traditional "five golden rings" on the ninth, before settling on almond brittle at the very end. A shortened version of this song aired on TV with Doofenshmirtz telling to skip to the twelfth day after the third day was sung. |
| 665 | %%* TwitchyEye: |
| 666 | %%** Has happened to Candace on more than one occasion. |
| 667 | %%** Also happened to Linda in "Split Personality" when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Candace's romantic half won't stop talking about Jeremy.]] |
| 668 | %%* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler:The fusion between Phineas and Ferb at the end of the episode "Canderemy".]] |
| 669 | %%* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella form a core trio in the early episodes before Buford and Baljeet became regulars. Even in later episodes, the three of them were often seen together when the others were absent. |
| 670 | %%* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Most of the episodes have the Phineas and Ferb/Candace plotline and the Perry/Doof subplot. |
| 671 | * TwoTeacherSchool: Jeremy is the only Mr. Slushy Burger/Dog employee we ever see, aside from the manager and a defected employee. |
| 672 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Isabella, whose last name is Garcia-Shapiro, implying that she's Hispanic and Jewish. Her mother confirms the Hispanic half (she also says "oy"), and the Jewish half is also confirmed with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8dyO4aYRg Mexican-Jewish Cultural Festival.]] |
| 673 | [[/folder]] |
| 674 | |
| 675 | [[folder:U]] |
| 676 | %%* UglyGuyHotWife: Well, ''ex''-wife in the case of Dr. Doofenshmirtz, but she's still hot. |
| 677 | %%* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Vanessa clearly takes after her mother. |
| 678 | * UnCancelled: |
| 679 | ** Phineas and Ferb was scheduled to end production after the TV movie and third season but the TV movie reeled in so many numbers that Disney brought the show back for another season. |
| 680 | ** Five years after the official SeriesFinale, it was announced that the series would once again be revived with a fifth season to be released in 2024. |
| 681 | * UnconventionalFoodUsage: |
| 682 | ** The boys are occasionally knows to use food for purposes other than eating. They use jello to make a giant trampoline, a snow cone machine to create a frozen mountain, and licorice to recreate the Gordian knot, though the purpose for the last one was so it would be easy to escape if the knot experiment went sideways. |
| 683 | ** Perry and Doofenschmirtz have utilized hotdogs and bratwurst as melee weapons, and during a Halloween special, the scientist gained control over cheese and crackers, which he used to attack Perry. |
| 684 | * UnderStrangeManagement: The title characters, who are [[PhraseCatcher "a little big young to be" doing whatever they're doing on any given day]] have run several businesses and organizations over their many adventures, from a diner to a ski resort to a cartoon studio. Because Phineas and Ferb are hypercompetent geniuses, these businesses are always successful initially. However, due to the nature of the show, they always vanish before the episode is over. |
| 685 | %%* UnderTheMistletoe: |
| 686 | %%** Baljeet with Wendy Stinglehopper in the ChristmasSpecial. |
| 687 | %%** Also, Candace and Jeremy in a music video. |
| 688 | %%** Perry carefully avoids this in the second ChristmasSpecial when he arrives to foil Doofenshmirtz. |
| 689 | * UnderwaterFartGag: Implied when Buford is sitting in a jacuzzi in "Spa Day" which is bubbling, despite his claim that it's not on. |
| 690 | * UnderwearFlag: Buford does this to Baljeet in one episode when the group was camping in the woods. Phineas was also pretty sure that there was no flagpole, so Buford said he would be willing to settle for just stealing Baljeet's underpants. It's also implied Buford stole them off his body. |
| 691 | * UnexpectedKindness: In one episode, the boys' sister Candace babysits Suzy, the little sister of her LoveInterest Jeremy. Suzy generally terrorizes Candace, who is frankly afraid of the child, so it comes as a complete shock when the little girl cheerfully gives her a chain of paper dolls. Suzy then explains that she only harasses Candace as part of her efforts to control the big brother she adores. "Since he's not here, I'm off the clock." |
| 692 | %%* TheUnfavorite: Dr. Doofenshmirtz. So much that before his brother was born, his father [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood named their dog "Only Son"]]. |
| 693 | * UnfulfilledPurposeMisery: |
| 694 | ** The boys' purpose in life is to be creative and inventive. When they're taken to Smile Away Reformatory School and forced to be conformative, they struggle with repressing their imagination, and once they're broken they're miserable shells of themselves. Thank goodness it was AllJustADream. |
| 695 | ** When Baljeet forced the two of them to help him climb a mountain in "Bully Bromance Breakup" without creating any special gadgets for the task, Phineas seems like he's having a panic attack by the time they reach the top, unable to move on his own and [[TalkativeLoon desperately rattling off ideas for inventions that they could have used.]] Even Ferb, normally TheStoic, says he was about ready to scream. |
| 696 | ** Perry's purpose is to battle and defeat Dr. Doofenshmirtz. When Dr. Doofenshmirtz temporarily gets a new rival in Peter the Panda, Perry's absolutely crushed, and seemingly abandons his role as an [=OWCA=] agent until the issue is resolved. |
| 697 | * UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" has Candace succeeding at busting her brothers, and they get sent to a military school where they are broken down and stripped of their identities and creativity. Such scenes included being forced to watch propaganda films ''[[Film/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]]''-style, working on a chain gang and ''faux-waterboarding''. [[spoiler:It was AllJustADream in the end, but ''dude''.]] |
| 698 | * UnintelligibleAccent: When the main cast visits London, there are two jokes of this nature about Cockney accents. In one, Candace attempts to gather information about her brothers' activities from someone with a Cockney accent, but needs to use a "Cockney to English dictionary" to translate. In the other, Candace is on the phone with her mother while going through a water slide and her garbled voice from the slide's movement gets mistaken for a thick Cockney accent. |
| 699 | * UnintentionallyKarmic: Phineas and Ferb never mean to make Candance look bad in front of their mom with their schemes. In fact, it actually never seems to hit them that she is trying to get them in trouble just to assert herself as their boss or out of jealousy, and they always encourage her to join their wacky hijinks. Nevertheless, them setting up their big plans always drives her to try to tattle to Mom, only for the invention to vanish at the last moment and make Candance look crazy when Mom finally shows up and nothing is there. |
| 700 | ** Perry and Dr. Doof can be seen as this to Candance as well, as it is usually their battles that set off events that prevent Mom from seeing what the boys have done. |
| 701 | %%* UniversalAdaptorCast: Notably in the Time Shift episodes and "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein". |
| 702 | * UnnecessarilyCruelRejection: Discussed. When discussing how badly her asking out Jeremy could turn out to Stacy, Candace thinks that Jeremy could laugh in her face, with everybody else present also laughing at her, and [[{{Exaggerated}} the world exploding]]. An unamused Stacy says that's clearly just a worst-case scenario. |
| 703 | %%* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Candace sometimes does these while running to get Linda. |
| 704 | %%* TheUnreveal: |
| 705 | %%** In "Vanessassary Roughness" we learn that "Ferb" is short for... |
| 706 | %%** Taken up to eleven in "Summer Belongs to You" when it turns out ''Candace'' doesn't even know. |
| 707 | %%** Also, in "The Great Indoors", why Jeremy likes Candace. |
| 708 | %%** All the flashbacks in "Doof Dynasty". |
| 709 | %%** Isabella starts flashing back to how the Fireside Girls failed their first attempt at earning their beekeeping patches in "Bee Story", but is stopped by Gretchen. |
| 710 | %%** Anything to do with "The Academy". |
| 711 | %%** The full appearance of the chupacabra in "La Candace-Cabra". |
| 712 | %%** Whatever Phineas had planned for the grand finale of Isabella's birthday party. |
| 713 | %%** The boys' project in "Blackout!" |
| 714 | %%** Doofenshmirtz's masterpiece painting in "Magic Carpet Ride". |
| 715 | %%** Who won Phineas and Ferb's quiz show in "Let's Take a Quiz." Not to mention what the objective was in the first place. |
| 716 | * UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: Isabella to Phineas, whose crush on him has as of yet not wavered in the slightest. (Well, it did once in "The Beak", [[StatusQuoIsGod but it was back to normal by the end]].) In "Act Your Age" she has allegedly put it behind her at the start of high school, but the thought of leaving him behind on the way to college makes her realize she never stopped loving him. |
| 717 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Some of the delivery guys parody this with the "Aren't you a little young..." gag, but the citizens of Danville don't seem particularly surprised when, say, a rollercoaster spanning the entire city shows up out of the blue. In particular (though it's completely understandable, being a secret agent ''platypus'' and all) Perry's deadpan reaction to seeing the boys [[AndZoidberg (and Lawrence)]] fly by on [[ItMakesSenseInContext their living room floor]] (in itself, a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}})'' was marvelous. |
| 718 | %%** Just about every citizen of Danville, major or minor, lives this trope in spades, to the point where it would take something as dangerous as an enormous swarm of armed robots attacking everybody in order to faze them. (And even ''then'' some of them didn't mind. "It's okay, it's a rental!") |
| 719 | %%* UrineTrouble: Suzy's poodle to Candace. |
| 720 | [[/folder]] |
| 721 | |
| 722 | [[folder:V]] |
| 723 | * VagueAge: All of the main characters (minus Candace) are described by WordOfGod as "under 15". |
| 724 | * VandalismBackfire: In "Magic Carpet Ride", Heinz Doofenshmirtz explains that when he was young he painted what he considered his masterpiece, and then showed it to his brother Roger, who promptly ruined it (accidentally) by spilling his lunch on it. Now Roger is about to unveil a painting at the City Hall, which Heinz pretends to ruin. Turns out the painting is the one that Heinz made years ago, and that Roger had spend the last 20 years restoring it. Of course, by this moment is too late for Doofenshmirtz to stop his evil plan, and the painting once again gets ruined. |
| 725 | * VerbalBackpedaling: |
| 726 | ** In the clip show, when Dr. Doofenshmirtz realizes his spiel about his MIND-CONTROL-INATOR was caught on-camera, he quickly says, "I meant, 'Mimes control my gator!'" Cut to [[VisualPun two mimes and an alligator]]. |
| 727 | ** He later does the same thing when he's caught saying he will "Enslave the Tristate Area!" and switches it to "Engrave my pie-plate carrier." He then holds up a silver tray he got from his divorce. |
| 728 | * VerbalTic: |
| 729 | ** Captain Bob Webber, the lifeguard. He has a habit of saying "*snaps fingers* Okay!" and he doesn't even seem to realize it. *Snaps* Ok! |
| 730 | --->'''Candace:''' ''(snap)'' Okay!\ |
| 731 | '''Webber:''' I don't get it. |
| 732 | %%** Khaka Peü Peü also has one, thank you very much! |
| 733 | %%** Perry's chittering counts. |
| 734 | %%* VerySpecialEpisode: |
| 735 | %%** Parodied in "Tip of the Day". |
| 736 | %%** Played straight in "Mind Share", which gives the message of not trusting everything you see on the Internet. |
| 737 | %%* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: |
| 738 | %%** Candace and Jeremy, though they met at a later age (11) than most examples. |
| 739 | %%** Implied with Isabella and either Phineas or Ferb in "Quantum Boogaloo" with Povenmire saying that its with Phineas. Eventually confirmed in "Act Your Age". |
| 740 | %%** Ferb and Vanessa are a case, where they started late enough (She's 16 and he's... less than fifteen) that he always had a crush, but Vanessa just thinks of him as a friend in the show. |
| 741 | * VictoryIsBoring: |
| 742 | %%** Candace goes through this when she realizes she misses her brothers in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" |
| 743 | %%** Plus "The Greatest Lazy Day Ever", where the boys decide to do nothing all day, and Candace can't stand it. |
| 744 | ** In "S'Winter", when Doofenshirmtz traps Perry in quick-hardening chocolate, he complains that he's not responding to his gloating, or trying to stop him. He even extends the countdown before firing his laser to give him more time. |
| 745 | --->"What, you're just going to stand there like a dead fish? I'm giving you a chance to do something here! Honestly, this used to be more fun." |
| 746 | %%* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The DrillSergeantNasty from "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted". |
| 747 | %%* VillainEpisode: "Hail Doofania!" was inverted from the [[StealthPun norm]] in just about every way the creators could come up with. |
| 748 | %%* VillainExclusivityClause: The show might very well be based around spoofing this trope with Dr. Doofenschmirtz's schemes. Candance on the other hand might fit the role too as antagonistic in almost all episodes. |
| 749 | %%* VillainSong: |
| 750 | %%** Doofenshirmtz has quite a few including "Impress My Professor", "My Goody-Two-Shoes Brother" and "Evil Love. |
| 751 | %%** Professor Poofenplotz has a short one. |
| 752 | %%--->'''Poofenplotz:''' It's important to look your very best when you're doing your very worst / And by that I mean evil. |
| 753 | %%** Carl gets one in "Where's Perry?" after he's turned evil. |
| 754 | %%** Norm has "Weaponry" in "Norm Unleashed". |
| 755 | %%* VillainsOutShopping: |
| 756 | %%** Literally in "Unfair Science Fair Redux." |
| 757 | %%** Also in "Vanessassary Roughness". |
| 758 | %%** Besides the literal examples, he does ''many'' other un-evil-relevant things in his spare time. He even lampshades this in "The Ballad of Badbeard": |
| 759 | %%--->"Look, Perry the Platypus, just because ''I'm'' evil doesn't mean everything I ''do'' is evil!" |
| 760 | %%* VillainousRescue: While usually it's Perry who has to save Doofenshmirtz from some dangerous situation, Doofenshmirtz occasionally gets to do this. "Road to Danville" is probably the most prominent example. |
| 761 | * VirtualAssistantBlunder: In "Candace Disconnected," Phineas and Ferb build Candace an advanced cell phone with a voice-activated transportation app - all she has to do is say "Go to [location]" and the phone will automatically send her to that location. This backfires when she's chatting on the phone with Stacy about an Easter Island documentary and says, "Why would you ever want to ''go to Easter Island''?" The app picks up the last four words as a command and transports Candace to Easter Island. |
| 762 | %%* VisibleInvisibility: Steve the Chameleon, who seems only to appear in one episode - as far as we can tell. |
| 763 | * VisitByDivorcedDad: Inverted with Doofenshmirtz, since his daughter comes to live with ''him'' on some weekends; most of the time she's with his ex-wife, but she keeps regular contact. |
| 764 | * VisualPun: |
| 765 | ** Candace admires the way the boys have fitted out her old tree house with all mod cons, and says "And look at all the bells and whistles!", passing by a wall with bells and whistles mounted on it. |
| 766 | ** In "Summer Belongs to You!" and "Ladies and Gentlemen: Meet Max Modem!", Phineas and Doofenshmirtz, respectively, deliver speeches about their intentions on boxes marked 'soap'. |
| 767 | ** In "De Plane! De Plane!": |
| 768 | --->'''Phineas:''' Pilot's instruments? *looks at the cockpit controls* Check. Co-pilot's instruments?\ |
| 769 | '''Ferb:''' *in front of several musical instruments* Check. |
| 770 | ** "Voyage to the Bottom of Buford" shows Buford's origins as a bully. The first guy he beats up finishes the fight pinned to a literal clothesline. |
| 771 | %%* VitriolicBestBuds: Buford and Baljeet, hands down. They even have an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6cB-W1OCxw&feature=related entire song about it]]. |
| 772 | * VocalDissonance: Meap, when using any of his universal translator mustaches to speak English, has an unexpectedly deep voice. |
| 773 | %%** This has also been done as a gag with Candace, Isabella, and Gretchen. In Candace's case her allergy to wild parsnip alters her voice, but the other two appear to be able to do it intentionally. |
| 774 | * VocalEvolution: |
| 775 | %%** Phineas. Just listen to how he sounds in the pilot and the title sequence, and compare it to the rest of the series. |
| 776 | ** Isabella and Baljeet noticeably get higher-pitched voices as the series progressed. |
| 777 | %%** Jenny, on the other hand, seems to be suffering vocal decay; in some of more recent appearances, she sounds like she has a cold. Finally averted in "The Inator Method". |
| 778 | %%** Irving's voice also seems to have gone slightly lower in "Not Phineas and Ferb". |
| 779 | ** Django, after spending much time as a silent cameo, has a deeper voice in "The Inator Method" due to changing voice actors. Just compare this to his last speaking role from "Oil on Candace". |
| 780 | * VoicesAreMental: When Candance and Perry switch bodies in "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" Cadance can still talk in her usual voice, despite the fact the only vocalization she should be able to make is Perry's little growl. Perry, meanwhile, remains mute (though this might be selective) and can still make his platypus noise, even though humans have a completely different set of vocal chords. When Candace speaks from Perry's body it sounds perfectly normal to her mom. |
| 781 | %%* VomitDiscretionShot: Happens to Candace in "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" when she finds out she's been eating [[IAteWhat worms and insect larvae]]. |
| 782 | * VoodooShark: |
| 783 | ** In "Buford Confidential", we are given the reason why Buford knows how to speak French: He learned it because he was once in love with a French girl. He then says it was pretty easy, because he knew Latin beforehand. |
| 784 | ** In "A Real Boy", Stacey gives an out-of-nowhere lecture on hypnosis pioneer James Braid. When Candace asks how she knows that, Stacey points to the James Braid poster on Candace's wall. |
| 785 | --->'''Candace:''' ...Why would I have bought that? |
| 786 | [[/folder]] |
| 787 | |
| 788 | [[folder:W]] |
| 789 | %%* WalkIntoCameraObstruction: "Summer Belongs to You" with Candace during her verse in the ending song "Summer Belongs to You" where she is running off the stage. |
| 790 | %%* WatchOutForThatTree: In "Run, Candace, Run". |
| 791 | * WatchingTheSunset: Isabella commented that she would love to watch the sunset with Phineas, who is too busy trying to rebuild a plane. When he gives up and decides to watch the sunset instead, Isabella denies him, refusing to let him give up. |
| 792 | %%* WaveOfBabies: |
| 793 | %%** Doofenshmirtz ''attempted'' to do this in "The Baljeatles", but he failed before acquiring even one baby. |
| 794 | %%** The end of "Agent Doof", where everybody around Candace [[spoiler: gets turned into babies]]. She just sighs and [[NoFourthWall says she hopes this wears off before the next episode.]] |
| 795 | %%* WaxOnWaxOff: |
| 796 | %%** Monogram tries to convince Carl that washing his car has this benefit, but Carl doesn't buy it. |
| 797 | %%** When Perry is helping Doofenshmirtz get over his evil scientist's block in "Fly on the Wall". |
| 798 | %%** Also referenced in the "Way of the Platypus" training montage, in "Doof Dynasty". |
| 799 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Sergei the Snail is invulnerable to regular methods of trapping agents due to its small size and adhesive slime, but, being a snail, can be captured by a ring of salt. |
| 800 | %%* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Ferb rocks out in style in his Union Jack t-shirt in "The Baljeatles". And on his skateboard. |
| 801 | * WeatherControlMachine: The Gloominator [[AdvancedTech2000 3000]]...[[ThingOMatic inator]]. |
| 802 | * WebVideo: Doof has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrotE9xNwxc "Doofenshmirtz's Daily Dirt"]] on his Platform/YouTube channel Doof Daily, where he shares his rant of the day (actually week, but then it wouldn't be as alliterative). |
| 803 | %%* WeCanRuleTogether: Doofenshmirtz tries to zap Perry with his Turn-Everything-Evil-Inator. Later he tries the same thing with Major Monogram in "Where's Perry" and again with Perry and Ferb in the Star Wars special. Ferb then turns around and makes the same offer to Phineas. |
| 804 | %%* WeDoTheImpossible: Exactly what the two title characters do every day. |
| 805 | * {{Wedgie}}: Buford regularly gives them to Baljeet (though Baljeet manages to get one on Buford on one occasion). |
| 806 | * WeInterruptThisProgram: Invoked by Doofenshmirtz with his Preempt-inator in "The Secret of Success". Then the preempted program ''is preempted again'' by an actual breaking news. |
| 807 | -->'''Newscaster:''' We preempt this current preemption to bring you another preemption. |
| 808 | * WeirdnessCensor: |
| 809 | ** To be put simply, 99% of the population of Danville would require an ''extreme'' amount of weirdness to be confused/shocked by something, the only exception being Linda and Candace (Though that's usually only if said weirdness is made by Phineas and Ferb) |
| 810 | ** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Phineas in "Gi-Ants". |
| 811 | ---> "You know what I like about our friends? We say things like, 'We're gonna douse you in ant pheromones.' And they're just like, 'Okay, whatever'. They're so cool." |
| 812 | %%* WeirdnessMagnet: |
| 813 | %%** Candace, to an insane and [[ButtMonkey unfortunate]] degree. |
| 814 | %%** Inverted by Linda, who's what yo might call a weirdness repellent. She is possibly the only person in the '''world''' who doesn't know about Phineas and Ferb's inventions and adventures. |
| 815 | * WeWantOurJerkBack: Even ridiculously-tolerant Phineas is annoyed by Buford being a total crybaby in "Voyage to the Bottom of Buford". |
| 816 | * WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Said almost word-for-word by Stacy in "Moon Farm", before they cook a dish of lamb cobbler [[OvenLogic for fifteen minutes at 9000 degrees.]] Subverted in the sense that [[spoiler:nothing actually ''does'' go wrong, at least on Candace and Stacy's end. DoubleSubverted when Doofenshmirtz's De-Moisturizer-inator hits it, and then [[ZigzaggedTrope Triple Subverted]] when Phineas swaps the shriveled mutton with Moon Ice Cream.]] |
| 817 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Parodied in "She's The Mayor", where the crowd believes that [[SeeminglyProfoundFool everything Candace says is some kind of metaphor]], even her "busting" obsession. Of course, this was {{lampshaded}} at the end.[[invoked]] |
| 818 | -->'''Old Coot:''' New Law! If you find any gold it's mine!\ |
| 819 | '''Crowd:''' Yay for finding gold being a metaphor for... uh, I think were supposed to take it literally. |
| 820 | ** Parodied again in "Brain Drain", in which Dr. Doofenshmirtz at one point gets glued to a turntable and starts an epic freestyle rap about how Perry is controlling his movements using the doctor's own mind control helmet. Of couse, his audience, being a group of teenagers, interpret "there's a platypus controlling me" to mean that there's some kind of authority figure keeping him down. |
| 821 | -->'''Teens:''' We all got a platypus controlling us!\ |
| 822 | '''Doofenshmirtz:''' No, just me. I'd stop if I was able. I'm not speaking metaphorically, the platypus controlling me is underneath the table. |
| 823 | * WhatDoesThisButtonDo: [[NotSoAboveItAll Perry]] of all people does this in "Elementary My Dear Stacy" while riding in Agent Double-00's car. It was the eject button. |
| 824 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 825 | ** Some of the destruction wreaked by the boys' and Doof's inventions is never repaired by the end of the episode. One of Doofenshmirtz's rayguns destroyed a dam, releasing all the water behind it. The "Candroid" from the end of another episode was never seen again. And the Ferbot in the garbage truck... |
| 826 | ** Mom's modified car in "The Fast and the Phineas" goes through a car wash, which takes off all the modifications and leaves it sparkling clean (to Mom's absolute delight), but the engine (inside the car) was also modified, and that was not removed by episode's end. |
| 827 | ** In "Bubble Boys" although Candace fails to show Mom the kids floating in the big bubble as it popped, it is never explained what happened to their bubble machine which still stood. |
| 828 | ** In "Run, Candace, Run", Candace has three things to do at the same time: She has to read to kids at the library, attend Jeremy's family picnic, and do... something involving being half of a horse with Stacy. She spends the episode running back and forth between the library and Jeremy’s picnic, but never meets up with Stacy. |
| 829 | ** We never find out if Perry and Doofenshmirtz get out of the collapsing temple in "The Temple of Juatchadoon". |
| 830 | ** In "Attack of the 50 Foot Sister", after the fun house mirrors scene, Stacy just disappears for the rest of the episode. |
| 831 | ** In "Perry the Actorpus", after Phineas and Ferb are shown spending the rest of the day with Perry, they are not seen again for the rest of the episode. Same happens in "The Mom Attractor" when said invention becomes self-aware from Doof's Baby Cry-inator, and in "Run, Candace, Run" when the boys are testing the speed of light. |
| 832 | %%* WhatIf: "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted" |
| 833 | * WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet: The subject of "Tip of the Day", culminating in an in-show ''awareness concert''. The episode ends with everyone getting hit with an Erase-What-Was-On-My-Mind-Inator and in-universe, aglets go back to being just as forgotten as they've always been (except Candace, who was unaffected due to not believing in it in the first place). However, in RealLife, [[UnconventionalLearningExperience an entire generation of kids now have a catchy song about the shoelace tips.]] |
| 834 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 835 | %%** When Perry ate all of Doofenshmirtz's cheese, sending him back onto the path of evil. |
| 836 | %%** Several in ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' when the boys find out that Perry is a secret agent. |
| 837 | ** In "Where's Perry Part I", Major Monogram gets it from no one other than Doof, regarding his (unpaid) treatment of Carl: "Are you sure you are not evil?". |
| 838 | ** In "Lights, Candace, Action", Doofenshmirtz expresses his annoyance at Perry for knocking down and destroying his doors when he doesn't even keep them unlocked. Doofenshmirtz then forces him to pay for the damage. |
| 839 | %%** Doofenshmirtz gives one to Monogram again in "Save Summer" after [[spoiler: the latter is fired and goes into a HeroicBSOD, leaving the OWCA without adequate leadership]]. |
| 840 | * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Doofenshmirtz's answer to every problem is to build a gigantic, gun-like -inator whose only function is to remedy that problem. And even ''that'' solution is usually not the reasonable one. |
| 841 | * WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: |
| 842 | ** Candace signed an agreement not to try to bust her brothers more than once per day. Her mother considered adding a new clause when Candace took advantage of the fact Midnight marks the beginning of a new day. |
| 843 | ** In the New Years episode, Candace relapses and realizes she can try to bust Phineas and Ferb until Midnight, when the New Year officially begins. |
| 844 | * WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The Website/TVTropes entry is referenced in "Primal Perry" when Baljeet is inside a machine built by our heroes to test something or other. When the machine starts spinning Buford asks "Is science happening yet"? |
| 845 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: |
| 846 | ** Danville is... in the Tri-State Area, obviously. Although the Tri-State Area seems to consist of the greater Danville area and... literally nothing else. |
| 847 | ** Within driving distance of Mount Rushmore, referenced on maps to be simultaneously near San Francisco and somewhere on the east coast, and a supersonic paper airplane's flight away from New York. |
| 848 | ** "Just Desserts" may have finally narrowed it down with the song line of 'There's Escanaba, I can see Montreal'. For those who aren't good with geography, that means their house (and the overall Tri-State Area) are somewhere in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, US. |
| 849 | ** In ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension Across the 2nd Dimension]]'', 2nd Dimension Doofenschmirtz, unable to read his watch “with those little hash marks,” declares that his victory occurred “between 3:30 and 4, Eastern Standard Time,” which is, coincidentally [[spoiler: when [[ChekhovsGun Major Monogram told Perry not to use the hologram on his watch, as he would be showering then]]]]. Since [[spoiler: Perry]] was then able to successfully [[InvokedTrope invoke]] [[spoiler: [[NakedPeopleAreFunny Naked People Are Funny]]]] in order to escape, the show’s main dimension is definitely set somewhere in the Eastern Time Zone. |
| 850 | ** The show's wiki has a comprehensive list of all the locations and geographic points of interest in Danville. [[https://phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/Danville_Locations:_Geographical_Points_of_Interest Have fun]]. |
| 851 | %%** "Summer Belongs to You" is an updated and modified version of ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays,'' with a wager to travel around the world, numerous unexpected setbacks, and finally coming down to the last tick of the clock. |
| 852 | * WhiteAndGreyMorality: On the "white" side, Phineas and Ferb are short on flaws, as are many of their friends. On the "gray" side, While Candace is often the antagonist, she's neither evil nor truly spiteful -- only impulsive and a bit high-strung, and has shown on occasion that she genuinely cares for her brothers. Buford is a card-carrying bully, but is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is clearly friends with his "victims". Even the BigBad Doofenshmirtz is quite AffablyEvil, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loves his daughter dearly]], and is an absurdly FriendlyEnemy to Perry. His attempts to take over the ENTIRE! TRI-STATE! AREA! come across as more pretending to be evil to get attention than the evil acts of a power-mad lunatic. Suzy Johnson appeared to be a straight {{Jerkass}} in her first appearance, but later episodes revealed that she's a sweet girl whenever Jeremy's not around. The only really unpleasant recurring characters are Doofenshmirtz's parents in his tales of his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood (if you consider his stories to be reliable). |
| 853 | %%* WholePlotReference: "[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Wizard of Odd]]" has Candace taking on the Dorothy role. |
| 854 | %%** "Excaliferb!" is mostly a parody of ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', with Karl reading the story to a sick Monogram. It does have some ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' references thrown in, though. |
| 855 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Ferb actually is short (or a nickname) for [[spoiler:Ferbs]]. Dan Povenmire confirmed that [[spoiler:Vanessa calling him this when she picks him up in "Act Your Age"]] was his full name. |
| 856 | * WhoWritesThisCrap: "Phineas And Ferb's Cliptastic Countdown": Major Monogram asks who is writing their lines. Carl responds "Agent M, sir". Cue a monkey with a fedora on a typewriter. Dr. Doofenshmirtz then rants about how none of the kids watching the show are going to know what a typewriter is. |
| 857 | %%* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: |
| 858 | %%** Grandpa Fletcher demonstrates his 'trick knee' with painful consequences. |
| 859 | %%** Candace [[https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/phineasandferb/images/5/58/They%27re_brobots%21.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120212032103 prominently displays these]] in "I, Brobot". |
| 860 | %%* AWildRapperAppears: "Spa Day" and "Tatooine". |
| 861 | %%* WildTeenParty: The result of Candace's party-- er, intimate get-together in "Candace Gets Busted". |
| 862 | * WilliamTelling: "Picture This" has Buford daring the boys to shoot an apple off his head. In typical Phineas and Ferb fashion, they do -- but not as expected. |
| 863 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" raises the question of whether Isabella will marry Phineas [[spoiler:or Ferb.]] |
| 864 | %%* WithFriendsLikeThese: Buford and Baljeet. |
| 865 | %%* WombLevel: "Journey to the Center of Candace". |
| 866 | %%* TheWonka: Phineas dressed the part in "Toy to the World". Then again he is the unofficial leader of the group. |
| 867 | * WistfulSmile: Doctor Doofenshmirtz often has bittersweet smiles while he reminiscing about his daughter Vanessa's childhood. He often expresses pride in her and her accomplishments, while trying to recapture the simplicity of her childhood. |
| 868 | * WordSaladLyrics: |
| 869 | ** The boys make a song with meaningless lyrics in the episode "Flop Starz": |
| 870 | --->''Chicka chicka choo-wop''\ |
| 871 | ''Gitchee gitchee goo means I love you'' |
| 872 | ** Quite a few songs in the series end up like this. A delicious example is "Dance, Baby" from "Candace Disconnected". The moment the song is sung is [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment random and silly]], and the lyrics top it off: |
| 873 | --->''Dance, baby, dance, baby, shake your hips\ |
| 874 | Go down to the pier and get some fish and chips\ |
| 875 | Groove, baby, groove, baby, motivate your limbs\ |
| 876 | Never eat a cactus if you're out of practice'' |
| 877 | * WorldOfSnark: While it's definitely one of the most idealistic shows on television, a lot of the humor tend to be very dry-witted and nonchalant. |
| 878 | * WorthIt: |
| 879 | ** In "She's the Mayor," Doofenshmirtz notes that his latest inator (intended to make a golf game with his brother go by faster) could potentially destroy the universe before adding "But, sheesh, ''golf''? Totally worth it." |
| 880 | ** In "Split Personality", Doof invents the Look-Away-Inator so nobody will judge him if he chickens out on the high dive. He notes that it'll be a problem for brain surgeons or people driving, but insists it's a small price to pay. |
| 881 | ** In the DistantFinale episode "Act Your Age" [[spoiler:Isabella says that her first kiss from Phineas was worth the wait.]] |
| 882 | %%* WouldntHitAGirl: Dr. Doofenshmirtz refuses to fight [[FreakyFridayFlip Perry in Candace's body]] because of this. |
| 883 | %%* WriteBackToTheFuture: "It's About Time!" |
| 884 | %%* WritingLines: During SensitivityTraining, Major Monogram was forced to write "Animals are people too". |
| 885 | %%* WronglyAccused: Perry's subplot in "Cheer Up, Candace". He also gets this in the ShowWithinAShow subplot of "Nerds of a Feather"--specifically, he's been accused of ''the assassination of Abraham Lincoln''. |
| 886 | * WunzaPlot: A fugitive semi-aquatic special forces amateur stage magician framed for a crime he didn't commit- the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln - joins forces with a rogue trillionaire inventor extreme fighting champion from the future. Together with the aid of R.I.C.K., their super crime-fighting high-tech talking rickshaw, they'll bring hope, justice, and varying degrees of aquaticness to a tri-state area in peril. Together, they are...Doof 'n' Puss. |
| 887 | [[/folder]] |
| 888 | |
| 889 | [[folder:X, Y, Z]] |
| 890 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: The guys who sing the "SquirrelsInMyPants" song are named 2 [=GuyZ=] N the Parque on the soundtrack album (yes, they were in the park and there's two of them). May have been a ShoutOut to *NSYNC. |
| 891 | %%* {{Yandere}}: Suzy Johnson. |
| 892 | * YankTheDogsChain: |
| 893 | ** In "Chez Platypus", Doofenshmirtz's girlfriend ultimately gets zapped by his anti-love laser. Especially cruel in that this happens at the very end of the episode, right after the Love Song Of Awesome. |
| 894 | ** Irving gets one in "Not Phineas and Ferb". He manages to trick his haughty older brother Albert into believing Baljeet and Buford are Phineas and Ferb despite {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s. When he tries to prove that he was able to fool Albert, though, he's foiled by the fact that the holographic Eiffel Tower they had been using as a fake project has since been replaced by the ''real'' Eiffel Tower, making Irving look like the stupid one. This leads to Albert giving him a wedgie and dragging him home. |
| 895 | %%** And Candace, of course, gets one pretty much any time it seems like she'll bust her brothers. And, to a lesser extent, Vanessa busting her father. |
| 896 | ** Candace gets a particularly bad one in "Invasion Of The Ferb-Snatchers": Phineas and Ferb are fixing an alien's spacecraft and open an ostentatious launch platform in the backyard. Candace sees this and gets her mother, who even mentions that she can see it...[[spoiler:but she's actually a MobileSuitHuman for the tiny alien.]] |
| 897 | ** Worst one for Candace yet: in "A Real Boy", Candace SUCCEEDS... then Linda gets zapped by Doof's "Forget-inator" while the boys' device is in the air, then when the boys land, Linda sees again, then is zapped while they're out of sight ''again'' ...this repeats a few more times until Candace's post-hypnotic suggestion to forget about busting her brothers kicks in again leaving Linda to wander off right after a final zapping. |
| 898 | ** "Candace Gets Busted", where ''she's'' the one who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gets busted]]. Doof's inator temporarily removes all evidence of the (unintentional) party that'd occurred, only to return it just moments afterward. |
| 899 | ** It even happened to a one-shot character: Professor Ross Eforp in "My Fair Goalie". He came up with the idea of Football X-7, but he was forced into hiding because Britain's anti-palindrome atmosphere at the time, with his name being discovered to be a palindrome. He nearly comes out of hiding when his creation was realized, but was forced back when he found out people ''still'' rallied against palindromes. |
| 900 | ** Anytime when it looks like Isabella is going to a romantic moment with just Phineas, something happens to ruin that moment. Notable examples include "Summer Belongs to You" and "Canderemy". [[spoiler: She finally gets a moment in "Happy Birthday Isabella".]] |
| 901 | ** In "Love at First Byte", Norm becomes attracted to a {{Fembot}} and even manages to impress her. However, it's later revealed that said fembot belongs to [[SitcomArchnemesis Rodney]], and the dislike between him and Doof promptly turns the budding romance into a StarCrossedLovers situation. |
| 902 | ** Candace gets another bad one in "Tri-State Treasure: Boot of Secrets. After ''several'' [[ChainOfDeals trades from one dealer to another]] to get the antique baby rattle to obtain a rare Ducky Momo collectible she can't afford, Candace is ready for the final trade to get her dream souvenir... but then the baby rattle is hit by Doofenshmirtz's De-Age-inator, undoing all the patina and returning it to pristine condition. Because it's not an antique anymore, the dealer denies the trade, causing Candace to scream, "[[BigWhy WHYYYYYYYYY!!!]]" |
| 903 | * YeOldeButcheredEnglish: In "The Belly of the Beast": |
| 904 | -->'''Lawrence:''' Let's Check-eth it out!\ |
| 905 | '''Linda:''' Check-eth it out? Really?\ |
| 906 | '''Lawrence:''' I stand by my Old English. |
| 907 | * YouAreGrounded: |
| 908 | ** Played straight with Candace in "The Secret of Success"; when she attempts to show Linda the ATV, she mentions she was driving it which causes Linda to assume she drove a car without adult supervision, resulting in her being punished. |
| 909 | ** Implied at the end of "Candace Gets Busted" when Candace ends up busted for the intimate get-together and she tells Phineas and Ferb that she will see them in a week. |
| 910 | %%** Sometimes Stacy is grounded off-screeen to explain why she's absent. |
| 911 | * YouAreTheNewTrend: In ''Run Away Runway'', Phineas and Ferb become designers, with their Summer All The Time collection. The collection consists of the clothes that Phineas and Ferb wear in almost every episode - so Phineas and Ferb are the newest fashion. Later on, when Doofenshmirtz creates his clone army, as they enter the Googolplex Mall, everyone thinks that the outfit he's wearing has become the newest fashion - so Doofenshmirtz becomes the newest fashion. |
| 912 | %%* YouAreTooLate: Parodied by Doofenshmirtz, of course ("Gaming The System"): |
| 913 | %%-->'''Doof:''' Ah, Perry The Platypus, you are too late! ...Oh, wait. Is it [[PunchClockVillain eleven o'clock yet]]? [checks watch] ''Now'' you are too late! |
| 914 | * YouCanSeeThatRight: In one episode, Linda is the one who sees the extravagant thing of the week Phineas and Ferb are doing and, not sure if what she's seeing is real or not, phones Candace for confirmation. When Candace shows up, she's hit by Doofenshmirtz's Fog-Eye-Inator and states she's seeing ''nothing'', making Linda sure it's not real. |
| 915 | * YouDidntAsk: In the episode where the family is stranded on a deserted island, the boys build a massive, intricate treehouse for 'shelter.' When Candace points out that they could have built a way ''off'' the island in the time it took to make the treehouse, Phineas answers that that's not what they were asked to do. |
| 916 | * YouFool: At the end of "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers", Candace [[OnceAnEpisode once again]] fails to bust Phineas and Ferb, and she laments her apparent hubris in believing she could succeed in doing so. |
| 917 | -->'''Candace:''' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption I was a fool!]] [[SkywardScream A foooooool!...]] |
| 918 | %%* YouGoGirl: The episode "Got Game?", [[spoiler: though it would have been a tie if the boy's team hadn't cheated, accidentally allowing the girls to win.]] |
| 919 | %%* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Candace is the MASTER of this trope. |
| 920 | %%* YourHeadAsplode: Isabella in "Summer Belongs to You", in her daydream. |
| 921 | * YouMustBeThisTallToRide: L.O.V.E.-M.U.F.F.I.N. once held a contest to pick a leader, and this was a rule for the entrants. Sorry, [[TheNapoleon Doctor]] [[MeaningfulName Diminutive]], they can do that 'cause [[CardCarryingVillain they're evil]]. |
| 922 | %%* YoungerThanTheyLook: Mishti looks freakishly mature for her age. |
| 923 | * YourTomcatIsPregnant: Oddly subverted in "Perry Lays an Egg". Perry never actually laid an egg, but Phineas didn't seem to find it odd that his male platypus had seemingly laid one. |
| 924 | -->"Congratulations, old '''boy''', you're gonna be a -- [[{{Catchphrase}} hey, where's Perry?]]" |
| 925 | %%* ZanyScheme: |
| 926 | %%** Dr. Doofenshmirtz is ''all'' about these. |
| 927 | %%** Candace on occasion, too. |
| 928 | * ZergRush: Baljeet and his copies in "Primal Perry" intend to do this to Buford, but the machine that allows the copies to exist is destroyed before Buford is seriously hurt. |
| 929 | * ZombieApocalypse: Basically the premise of the special "Night of the Living Pharmacists", when Doofenshmirtz turns Roger into a mindless clone of himself. Due to the excess energy from his -inator, the transformation starts to spread. Eventually, everybody in Danville has become a Doof zombie. |
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