Isabella's clothing is a very interesting Shout Out. Her clothing is reminiscent of another animated love interest, Hey Arnold!'s Helga G. Pataki. In addition, both characters keep their emotions hidden from the main character.
Phineas: ...and boredom is something up with which I will not put.
Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror
The bird flying flying past the sun and then bursting into flames at the beginning might be a reference to the Family Guy episode "Brian, Portrait of a Dog".
The boys' race car from "The Fast and the Phineas" is numbered with 42.
Just as the Doofenshmirtz blimp crashes into the broadcasting tower at the racetrack, the announcer gets cut off as he starts saying (presumably) "Oh, the humanity!", à la the Hindenburg disaster.[1]
Lights, Candace, Action!Raging Bully
It's possible that the A plot's resolution was a shout out to Lilo & Stitch. To recap, Doof is holding an ice cream cone, Perry uses a whale whistle to summon a whale, which somehow leaps up into the air, over the two. The most notable thing that the whale hits is the top of the ice cream cone that Doofenshmirtz was holding, which falls through the air and, eventually, lands on Phineas's head. There's a recurring character in Lilo & Stitch who always loses his ice cream in a similar manner— once even having it knocked down by the tip of a spaceship's wing, which is the most like this scenario.
In fact, the title of the episode is a reference to the movie Raging Bull, which is about a boxer. The fact that the climactic battle is a thumb war that takes place in mini boxing ring is a testament to this.
Candace's song "E.V.I.L B.O.Y.S" - singing about her current predicament with a blues band - is VERY similar to what Chris Parker does in Adventures in Babysitting.
Are You My Mummy?
The titles "Are You My Mummy?" could possibly be a shout-out to the Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances"
Ready for the BettysI Scream, You ScreamToy to the World
During one of the board meetings, there's a blink (or... stop-listening) and you'll miss it reference to The Fast Show when one of the execs says "suit you, sir!"
The name is also a shout out to a famous Christmas carol.
Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face!It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud WorldMom's BirthdayJourney to the Center of CandaceIt's About Time!Dude, We're Getting the Band Back TogetherTree to Get Ready
Doof is trying to adopt a dog and Perry disguises himself as a dog to foil his plans. The pet shop owner tells him "I'm not even sure that's [Perry] a dog." It's entirely possible that this is a Shout Out to Lilo & Stitch, where the woman in charge of the kennel Lilo is trying to adopt a dog from says pretty much the same thing about Stitch.
When Perry and Doof first get hit, the song is from the climax of Leroy & Stitch.
Hail Doofania!Out to Launch
This episode's chock full of them. Most notably when Phineas quotes Luke Skywalker.
The music that plays during the trip through the asteroid field bears a striking resemblance to a song from the Star Wars soundtrack called "The Asteroid Field".
The song that plays when Candace and Jeremy try to fly the Flying Car of the Future (Today) to the reform school sounds a bit like the theme from Back to the Future.
Baljeet: Phineas and Ferb, days ago you helped me build a portal to Mars. Now I must ask for your help again. ... Help me, Phineas and Ferb. You're my only hope.
Backyard Aquarium
Doofenshmirtz and Perry's fight is very reminiscent of the battle between Yoda and Dooku in Star WarsEpisode 2. Doofenshmirtz even pantomimes an attempt to Force Pull a nearby wall fixture.
Day of the Living GelatinElementary My Dear StacyDon't Even Blink
The title "Don't Even Blink" could possibly be shout-outs to the Doctor Who episode "Blink". Of course, minus the creepy parts.
Chez Platypus
The heart-shaped moon in "Evil Love" could be a Kingdom Hearts shout out...or even an explanation. (Phineas and Ferb in ''Kingdom Hearts? Yes please!)
Perry Lays an Egg
The episode is full of references to Finding Nemo, specifically baby sea turtles, krill, and speaking whale language.
Gaming the System
When Doofenshmirtz traps Perry in the ball gown, the first few notes of the theme of Beauty and the Beast (notes of the line "Tale as old as time") plays.
The digitizing ray is an obvious reference to TRON, but it's probably just a coincidence that their last name is "Flynn". The game that Buford has is also similar to a Nintendo DSi. Additionally, one of the sounds in Jump & Duck is the sound that plays in Super Mario Bros. when the player gets a coin.
The Chronicles of Meap
There is a rather subtle Doctor Who gag in Out to Launch, involving Ferb's ability to "maximize inside space."
Doofenshmirtz's childhood friend Balloony also being called Colin, which was the name of the dog of a girl that Ford Prefect was implied to have liked and Ford later gave this name to a rather balloon-like security robot.
And here I thought Balloony (and his hairless 'head') may have been a shout out to another bald Colin...
Isabella tells Phineas, "I'm endangering the mission. I shouldn't have come", a quote from Luke Skywalker when the ship Han, Leia, Luke and the droids traveled to Endor.
The song in this episode is a pastiche of The B-52s.
The crowd recoiling in horror as the giant starnosed mole advances toward them is probably a shout out to Godzilla. The man who cries "Oh no, it's a hideous giant mole!" is the most obvious indication.
Oh, There You Are, Perry
Doofenshmirtz exclaims "We did it! We did it! Lo hicimos! We did it!" This bit is very similar to the "We Did It" song from Dora the Explorer (minus one "We did it").
Baljeet remarks that his life is a "Black cauldron of swirling failure,'' which is possibly a reference to one of Disney's most infamous failures.
Baljeet begins his song "Somebody Give Me a Grade" by shouting "I have got something to say!" Someone on the writing staff is clearly a Def Leppard fan.
Doofenshmirtz: (sticks his head out the window) Who's tap-tap-tapping? Is it that pesky raven again?
Also, when the boys try to teleport Buford and a housefly using their transporter machine, they accidentally briefly end up with a Buford-fly hybrid.
Nerdy Dancin'
Ferb's motion-capture suit looks like the TRONGuy.
It's possible that "the Ferbalistic Groovatron 9000" is a Shout Out to the Future trilogy of Ratchet & Clank, which features a recurring device/weapon called the Groovitron. Coincidentally, the "Otherdimensionator" comes close to sharing a name with Tools of Destruction's Dimensionator.
Perry is strapped down while a laser cuts upwards, a reference to James Bond:
When Irving's camera is stolen by an eel, Phineas suggests that he can take pictures in his mind and store them in his memory. Irving does this (or tries) by saying "Click!", like Cam Jansen of the titular children's detective book series.
Just Passing ThroughCandace's Big Day
When Ginger whip-cracking in the song "Wedding Adventures", she's wearing Indiana Jones's clothes.
There is another one in "Wedding Adventures" right before the whip-cracking scene. Milly is doing the idol scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I Was a Middle Aged RobotSuddenly SuzyUndercover Carl
The episode begins with Phineas saying "Ha ha, gravity." This is the exact same line that Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender makes in one episode. Just a few seconds later he says they're busy 'defying gravity', possibly a reference to the Wicked song.
Also, Baljeet claims that the name of his board game is called "Spinning Tops Of Doom". Sound familiar?
The Lizard Whisperer
During Ferb's speech alludes to the famous "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech. It's not just Winston Churchill, though — it starts like Aragorn's speech at the black gates and ends with "we band of brothers."
Robot Rodeo
One of the villains attending the convention seems Horribly familiar...
Unsure if this one is intentional or not, Buford's reaction to a holographic Phineas showing up is 'What trickery is this!?". Samurai Jack said the exact same line before he was flung into the future.
Wizard of Odd
The episode's mame is a direct allusion to The Wizardof Oz..
We Call it Maze
The maze features a button that looks like the Triforce.
A motivational speaker asks a girl if she knows what it takes to be president. She says "Yes. Yes. I. Can."
The Doof Side of the MoonSplit Personality
Candace is cloned and runs around trying to find her clone. At one point when told that her clone has gone off with her mother, she does, of all things, an imitation of Donald Sutherland's famous howl from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Another from this episode is the outfit Linda is trying on in the dressing room is clearly the outfit Jesus wore in the GodSpell movie.
Brain Drain
The video game Phineas, Ferb, Baljeet, Buford, and Isabella are playing greatly resembles M.U.G.E.N.
"Permanecer sentados por favor" (Spanish for "Please remain in your seats") from the "Rollercoaster" song is a shout-out to the safety speil at the end of the Matterhorn Bobsleds in Disneyland.
At the end of the episode, they mention the phrase "Carpe Diem", which means "Seize the Day". Then they go into the last song, "Carpe Diem", choreographed by Kenny Ortega, who was the director and choreographer for the musical film Newsies, which had a song called "Seize the Day". What's more is that the set for "Carpe Diem" is reminiscent of High School Musical, another Kenny Ortega musical film.
When Phineas and Ferb are showing off their biosphere to the Fireside girls, Phineas asks, "Can we cook, or can't we?", a Shout Out to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, were Dr. Carol Marcus asks "Can I cook or can't I?" when showing Kirk the Genesis Cave.
Isabella recites a Fireside Girls version of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl".
Candace's reaction to the train making it to the top of the mountain is to paraphrase The Little Engine That Could. ("I knew we could, I knew we could, I knew we could!")
Meanwhile, the episode's title references The Monkees song "Last Train to Clarksville".
Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!The Belly of the Beast
The episode eventually morphs into a Moby-Dick reference, guess which character channels Ahab and which two titular characters become the white whale. Also, the boat chasing the shark is named "Pea-quad" (the Pequod).
This episode also features a few references to Jaws, the most obvious one being when Phineas says, "we're going to need a bigger shark!" (Candace also uses the same line).
Moon FarmAsk a Foolish QuestionMisperceived Monotreme
Major Monogram has security footage of Dr. Doofenshmirtz singing a song about Shangri-La, which may be a reference to Xanadu (which featured a song of the same name sung by Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra—the latter of whom, likely coincedentally, has a song called "Shangri-La").
Candace DisconnectedMagic Carpet Ride
The song "Aerial Area Rug" is an obvious affectionate parody of the song "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
Jeremy's mother is reading the manual for the tranquilizer dart, which includes the sentence "there are many like it,but this one is yours." Her reading the manual in the first place may be a reference to Edmund reading the manual for a cannon in the final episode of Blackadder the Third.
Doofenshmirtz can be seen playing an piano organ, he then plays a couple of familiar notes and you could have sworn he could have said What is a Platypus?!Start at 3:38
Meatloaf SurprisePhineas and Ferb InterruptedA Real BoyMommy Can You Hear Me?
The transition from a bone tossed in the air to a space station.
The use of "The Blue Danube" as background music.
The wormhole sequence.
And of course the entire ending scene with the creepy Ferb fetus.
The episode's name is almost undoubtedly a shoutout to the Yentl song, "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
It could also be a reference to The Who song "Tommy, Can You Hear Me?"
Road Trip
When Perry and Doofensmirtz are fighting in the cab of Doofenzsmirtz's truck, the fight choreography is directly taken from Indy's fight with the driver of the German truck in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Tour de FerbSkiddley WhiffersMy Fair GoalieBullseye!
The preview for the episode features the return of"Doofenshmirtz is a Superstar", which includes Heinz running headfirst into a toilet. His cry of "It won't stop flushing!" might be a reference to the Super Toilet/"So much clogging!" gag from The Fairly OddParents.
There's also a literal shout out, right in line with the one from The Secret of Success. In the middle of the musical number, the L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N singers belt out "YES! WE! CAN!"
That's the Spirit
You can hear a voice say, "I'm incorporeal. Isn't that scary?" in the haunted house. He's speaking in an impression of Vincent Price's narration of the Thriller music video.
As is Russel's dad, Waylon's voice.
Baljeet's costume looks an awful lot like the creature that Daffy Duck is turned into in one of the No Fourth Wall episodes of Looney Tunes ("Duck Amuck"). In the preview Buford even calls his costume a daffodil, despite looking nothing like one. Could be coincidence. Probably isn't.
The Curse of Candace
It begins with one of the greatest parodies of Twilight to date.
JARED: "I expect this from your kind, Michael—football players, I mean—but Kristen, I mean, we were both—moody outcasts! We...we loved each other!"
Later, after the movie ends, when Stacey and Candace exit the cinema hall, there is a poster revealing that the movie is called "Early Evening".
Buford has a sock puppet, saying, "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" in exactly the same inflection as Proper Dave in "Forest of the Dead".
Ferb LatinTri-Stone Area
Many of the characters come off this way, being cavepeople, but Buford in particular looks like he walked right off the set of The Flintstones.
Easily missed among the cave talk, Doofendung refers to prehistoric Perry as "Bunka da bunkakwunk." In the TV special, The Cat in the Hat claims that he's "a bunka in a bunkakwunk, in Eskimo."
Doof Dynasty
The training montage song "Way of the Platypus" contains multiple nods to Mulan, and has this lyric:
There's also a brief nod to Wax On, Wax Off (which Buford, of course, fails to grasp), and the giant terracotta warrior's opening move against Doofus Khan is the Crane Stance, also from The Karate Kid.
Excaliferb
There is a swamp in The Neverending Story. In order to cross it, you must not think unhappy thoughts. "This swamp was made for me, Ferb!"
Among the ten thousand monsters gathered by Phineas and Ferb is a Gargoyle resembling a green Goliath.
Malefishmirtz's name is a nod to Maleficent from Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
Strangely enough, the "Epic Monster Battle" song sounds a lot like Christian musician Carmen's "The Champion".
Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of JuatchadoonMonster from the Id
The title is a nod to Forbidden Planet. The opening of the episode has the kids sharing their minds; besides the obvious Star Trek mindmeld shoutout, the set-up also calls to mind Inception's dreamsharing. Near the end of that adventure, while inside Candace's mind, all the kids have to give Baljeet a 'kick', by shocking him with grammatically incorrect contractions. It also appears that Buford remained behind with Candace's primal self, in her mind's limbo. The music during this segment also bears strong similarities to Hans Zimmer's score for Inception, particularly the use of electric guitar.
Gi-Ants
Doofenshmirtz gets the turkey from the Turkey-inator stuck on his head.
The entire episode is basically a Phineas-and-Ferbified version of the movie Memento, not so much in terms of the plot, but in the way the story is told: it starts at almost the end, and works its way scene-by-scene back to how it all began, slowly revealing more of the plot as it goes. This might just be seen as an unintentional coincidence, except that at the end, Perry who is revealed to have had his memory stolen by Doofenshmirtz, finally remembers his mission because he had written a message to himself on his body before his memory was erased.
The B-plot involves a mad scientist using an experiment designed to cause chaos by exposing people's little white lies, which sounds suspiciously like the "Fibber" episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, another Disney cartoon.
Bully Bromance BreakupQuietest Day EverThe Doonkelberry ImperativeMeapless in Seattle
For another absolutely epic Star Wars reference, we are given the opening credits.
Also, in a very generous piece of Parental Bonus, we get Candace referencing The Blair Witch Project when she leaves the last message to mom on her phone.
Delivery of Destiny
Paul the delivery guy shifts his truck to "turbo," causing it to jump down the street like KITT's turbo boosts in Knight Rider.
Buford ConfidentialThe Mom AttractorCranius Maximus
Doof references The Duck Song ("And the duck says 'got any grapes?'") while on a coffee break with Agent P and the other agents. Needless to say, the duck is not amused.
Minor MonogramWhat A Croc!Sleepwalk SurpriseSci-Fi Pie FlySipping with the EnemyTri-State Treasure: Boot of SecretsDoofapusNorm UnleashedFerb TV
Doofenschmirtz's musical number has him in a white tux accompanied by a jazz band dancing in a way remarkably similar to Cab Calloway. Heck, the song might even be considered a reference to 'The Old Man of The Mountain", famously used in a Betty Boop cartoon of the same name.
May or may not be intentional, but the situation Perry and Doofenshmirtz get into (being handcuffed to each other and chased by a hunter) is extremely similar to the plot of one Danny Phantom episode. The hunter even mentions hanging them in his trophy room!
Probably not a reference to Danny Phantom; that situation is common enough to have it's own trope name.
Mind Share
The episodes includes several references to The Shawshank Redemption, including the drainpipe escape and the prison including an inmate named Red who knows how to get things.
The basic plot is that the heroes are given the chance to vacation on an alien planet by swapping minds with its inhabitants, only to discover once the swap has taken place that they've been conned. This is very similar to the opening chapters of Robert Sheckley's 1966 novel Mindswap. In fact the phrase "mind swap" actually occurs in the episode.
DruselsteinoweenTerrifying Tri-State Trilogy of TerrorFace Your FearCheers for Fears
Monogram mentions that he and his friends have an event called "Horrific Movie Night", where watch and mock bad movies. Funny thing is that one of thr storyboard artists for the episode, John Mathot, has a similar thing called "Horrible Movie Night".
Major Monogram shouts "Great googly moogly!" Does that make him a Frank Zappa fan? (Who in turn took it from a doo-wop single, "Stranded In The Jungle" by The Vibrations.)
Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!
During the opening for "Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation", you can see the kids getting a yeti to decorate a Christmas tree, a likely reference to the ending of the classic Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Near the beginning, when Phineas is defending the existence of Santa, his evidence references in turn the Patterson Bigfoot footage, the Loch Ness "surgeon's photo", and the Shroud of Turin.
During the montage of everyone decorating the town, Ferb is seen imitating a certain web-slinger while stringing up lights.
During the credits, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene shows everyone recreating the dancing scene from the A Charlie Brown Christmas.
From Summer Belongs To You
Near the beginning, the music while Phineas, Ferb, and the gang are looking at the giant map is an exact quote of a song from Chicken Run.
When Phineas gives Candace a rousing speech in Paris in "Summer Belongs to You" he paraphrases one of the most famous lines in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann,
Phineas: ...Which means you believed in us. Ferb: And we believe in you. Phineas: And therefore, through the transitive property of belief, you do believe in yourself!
The jumping robot at the beginning gets all René Descartes when it says "I jump, therefore I am". Bonus points are gained for when Phineas meantioned earlier that the robot gained self awareness.
Doofensmirtz asks if the plane him and Major Monogram are on board has a life-boat on board, a stealth reference to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly OsbournePhineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel
When Dr. Doofenschmirtz meets the Red Skull, he asks him if his head bursts into flame or is he thinking of that other guy.
Spider-Man and Hulk both confuse Perry with Howard the Duck.
When Candace is expelled from S.H.E.D., Buford says you shouldn't get Phineas angry, "you wouldn't like him when he's angry," as she slowly walks away to a soundalike of the music from TheIncredibleHulk.
As the heroes get their powers back and prepare for battle, the camera does the 360-degree turnaround shot from TheAvengers, with Spider-Man and Perry the Platypus standing in for Hawkyeye and Captain America.
Hulkjeet saves Iron Man from a fall to his death in a moment reminiscent of that same film, after which Iron Man paraphrases one of his famous lines from the movie as, "We've got a Baljeet."
Stan Lee, granddaddy of the Marvel Universe and a frequent The Cameo in movies starring Marvel characters, voices an Ink-Suit Actor version of himself as a hot dog vendor.
The final shot, as the gang walks away from a trash can where Perry has discarded his superhero disguise, is a copy of a famous image from Amazing Spider-Man #50, in which the wallcrawler did the same thing.
