Norm shares his feelings of wanting to be a "real" boy and spends time with Doofenshmirtz, calling him his dad, whose Forget-about-it-Inator causes him to deem him his son. Meanwhile, Candace has Stacy hypnotize her so she doesn't have to think of her brothers during her date with Jeremy, but the hypnosis trigger words end up playing right into their date.

!! Tropes:
* AccidentalInnuendo: The song "Real Boy" features female background singers who have a rather suggestive vibe to their style of singing
* AsideGlance: While Doofenshmirtz reassures Perry that real life isn't a sitcom, he and Perry look directly at the camera.
* BaitAndSwitch:
** While on a date to the park with Candace, Jeremy sees a ''literal'' "leaping lizard", and though he rattles off some treacherously-close synonyms, the phrase is actually said by Balthazar.
--->'''Jeremy''': Looks like it's just you and me, little... galavanting gecko.
** Also, at the end, when Doof appears to reconcile with Norm, he tells him that even though he never had a son, he finds someone to be family.
--->'''Doofenshmirtz''': And that someone is Perry the Platypus! See ya around, junkpile!
* BriefAccentImitation: When Doof unveils his "Forget-About-It-inator", he says "Forget about it" a lot, because he likes saying it, before adopting a stereotypical "Noo Yawk" accent and saying "Fuggedabowdit!"
-->'''Doofenshmirtz''': (to Norm) How 'bout a handshake? (pulls hand away) Fuggedabowdit!
* CatchphraseInterruptus:
** Phineas is about to say, "Hey, where's—", but the suction cup spring ride begins to bounce before he can finish it.
** When Candace is brought out of her trance, she says she still wants her brothers to go "down, down...", but then Stacy says "Holy guacamole!" and she forgets about busting her brothers.
* ContinuityNod: When Candace mocks Phineas and herself using literal hand puppets:
-->'''Candace''': (as Phineas) "Oh, hi, I'm Phineas. Ferb and I are building something really bustworthy!" (as herself, with her hair on her left hand) "Yeah, like what? Like [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbJourneyToTheCenterOfCandace a submarine that will go into my esophagus]]?"
* ADayInTheLimelight: For Norm.
* GratuitousRap: Norm's song appears to be a wistful ballad, but then it suddenly transforms into a full-blown hip-hop number.
* HypnoPendulum: Stacy uses a pocket watch to hypnotize Candace.
* HypnoFool: Naturally hilarity ensuses when Candace seeks to use hypnotism to manage her bust/date life balance. There's also a subtle implication that Candace only even knows about hypnotism from a poster she doesn't remember buying, because she was hypnotized into buying it.
* HypnotizeTheCaptive: Candace voluntarily lets Stacy brainwash her into letting go of her need to snitch on her siblings.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Forget-about-it-Inator erases the minds of its victims, causing them to forget what happened at the moment.
* LimitedWardrobe: Norm wakes up changing his head from a "tired" one to a "happy" one, despite all of his head looking identical no matter what emotion it is trying to express.
* NoodleIncident: Doof built his Forget-About-It-inator during the 170th anniversary of the Alamo (which would have been 2006), but he forgot to use it. This is an obvious parody of the battle cry, "Remember the Alamo!"
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Doofenshmirtz believes that his daughter Vanessa overheard him say that he wants a son rather than a daughter when he was being sarcastic while talking to a fellow mad scientist on videochat. It later turns out to be an aversion because she didn't hear anything at all due to wearing headphones.
* OverlyLongGag: Linda getting hit repeatedly by the Forget-about-it-Inator.
* RapidFireBut: After Doof gets his memory back, Norm does this, [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrowing]] the one done by Candace at the end of "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPictureThis Picture This!]]".
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Gumshine and Bubble Sun" starts off as a happy song, but then suddenly ends with the lyrics "If you can feel it, go ahead and scream / If you're worried about the sound, you can always scream into a pillow".
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Stacy seems to inexplicably know the etymological history of the word "hypnotism", including the year it was coined (1843), the Greek god it was coined for (Hypnos) and by whom (James Braid, who, apparently, also invented the combover). When Candace asks how she knows this, Stacy says it's all written on Candace's poster, which she doesn't remember getting.
* ThisIsReality: Doof compares his situation to a sitcom, but then says, "This isn't a sitcom, Perry the Platypus, this is real life!"... just before both Perry and Doof [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall look at the camera.]]
* TriggerPhrase: Stacy gives two of them to Candace when hypnotizing her; "Holy guacamole!" allows Candace to forget about her brothers and think of Jeremy only, while "Leaping lizards!" causes Candace to go back to "busting mode".
* YankTheDogsChain: Candace gets Mom to see the boys' Big Idea, but Linda is repeatedly hit with the Forget-about-it-inator, erasing her memory of ever seeing it. Then Linda says the trigger phrase "Holy guacamole!", causing Candace to lose her desire to bust her brothers just as Linda gets her memory erased again.
-->'''Linda''': [[BorrowedCatchphrase Oh,]] ''[[BorrowedCatchphrase there]]'' [[BorrowedCatchphrase you are, Perry!]]