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- 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.
- The time machine the kids use comes from the George Pal's 'The Time Machine' movie.
- The Paisley Sideburn Brothers are a possible combination of this and a Take That! to Disney's well known boy band.
- Aloyse Everheart Elizabeth Otto Wolfgang Hypatia Gunther Galen Gary Cooper von Roddenstein... Is he descended from a long line of British kveens?
- Danville was also the name of Rob Petrie's hometown in The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Season One
Rollercoaster
- A paraphrase of Winston Churchill:
Phineas: ...and boredom is something up with which I will not put.
- 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".
- There's a quote from "Under the Sea".
- Lindana is an apparent copy of Cyndi Lauper.
- 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.
- 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.
- The title is a reference to I, Robot.
- The song "Phindroids and Ferbots" seems to be inspired by a certain German band which also features robots in their songs.
- The Triforce can be spotted in Doof's lair
- Perry has to swim past a shark with a frickin' laser beam to get to his lair.
- The western-themed episode's title is also a possible reference to The Magnificent Seven.
- Baljeet's magic words to "heal" his thumb are "Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, come on thumb, it's healing time!".
- 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.
- The title, as well as the circus group Cirque du Lune note is a play on Cirque du Soleil.
- The titles "Are You My Mummy?" could possibly be a shout-out to the Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances"
- Title is a reference to a well-known slogan of a certain ice cream brand.
- 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.
- The title is a reference to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
- Title is a reference to Journey to the Center of the Earth.
- This being an episode with dinosaurs, there are several Jurassic Park references. For example, when the kids first encounter the Tyrannosaurus rex, Phineas promptly tells everyone to stand still so the dinosaur won't notice them. Later on, they all encounter a group of sauropods in a swamp as a theme vaguely reminiscent of the film's main title plays in the background. Lastly, a non-Jp reference happens at the end, when Candace is chased by the Rex in the museum, the Leitmotif of Grumpy the Tyrannosaurus from the original Land of the Lost is heard.
- When Perry is replaced by a panda named Peter the Panda, there's a song called "Missing My Nemesis" that sounds and has similar clips to "And She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2.
- Doofenshmirtz's song includes the line "Thank you, sir, I'll have another!"
- You can see the Muses on the vase Perry is hiding behind.
- Say the name of the episode. Then say it again. And again.
- The tattoos on the TV show lady's hands, and her monologue with them, is very reminiscent of a scene in The Night of the Hunter.
- The title is an allusion Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
- The title of the episode is a reference to A Hard Day's Night.
- 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.
- Isabella's "I'm going to take that ball and shoot it into that goal" speech is based on Billy Jack's famous Badass Boast, right down to her assuring him "and there's nothing you're gonna be able to do about it."
- The title maybe a reference to Karma Chameleon.
- The haunted house shows a reference to The Haunted Mansion and Disney's Silly Symphony "The Skeleton Dance".
- The end of the song shows the rollercoaster in a fashion very similar to the opening credits of Beetlejuice. The melody is also reminiscent of that show's theme song.
- Apart from the obvious parallels to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the monsters hiding in the cave looks like Ray Harryhausen's cyclops.
- The Pinhead Pierre song has a Biblical reference Played for Laughs. Read the story here, and watch the song here.
- If you listen closely to the "dance music" that plays twice in — once when Perry's defeating evil while dancing and then when the animation studio dances away— there are parts that sound an awful lot like "Under the Sea".
- When Perry and Doof first get hit, the song is from the climax of Leroy & Stitch.
- 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 The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack called "The Asteroid Field".
- Doof's robot is takes some cues from Gigantor.
- The brainwashing sequence might look eerily familiar to older fans.
- This was lampshaded:
Baljeet:The book was so much better.- Assuming it's not referencing the movie they're watching in context, this opens a bit of Fridge Horror since the book version is rather notorious for its ending in which Alex becoming more civil, pretty much ruining what the book stood for.
- And the Sergeant has stepped right out of Full Metal Jacket.
- The TV interviewer greatly resembles Geraldo Rivera.
- 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.
- When the boys are snapped out of their trance, light shines down on them on the cliffside.
Season Two
The Lake Nose Monster
- There's a boat named Nosebud and even has somebody drop a snowglobe towards the end of the episode.
- The title is a reference to Interview with the Vampire.
- Baljeet's holographic message to Phineas references Leia's message to Obi-Wan Kenobi:
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.
- The title is a reference to Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.
- Doofenshmirtz and Perry's fight is very reminiscent of the battle between Yoda and Dooku in Star Wars Episode 2. Doofenshmirtz even pantomimes an attempt to Force Pull a nearby wall fixture.
- A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example from the same fight. At one point, Perry nonchalantly switches his hot-dog from his right hand to his left.
- Title is a reference to Night of the Living Dead (1968).
- The title is a reference to the inaccurate but oft-quoted Sherlock Holmes catchphrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
- The title "Don't Even Blink" could possibly be shout-outs to the Doctor Who episode "Blink". Of course, minus the creepy parts.
- 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!)
- The episode is full of references to Finding Nemo, specifically baby sea turtles, krill, and speaking whale language.
- 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.
- There is a rather subtle Doctor Who gag in Out to Launch, involving Ferb's ability to "maximize inside space."
- Candace flies a bike with an alien in the basket to a space station that looks like the Sycorax asteroid.
- 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.
- Balloony (and his hairless 'head') may also 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.
- When the villain advances on Meap, Candace points a gun at him and yells, "Get away from him... Mitch!"
- This might be stretching it a little, but look closely at Mitch's fighter ship...
- And, of course...
Ferb: That's no cloud, that's a space station.
Phineas: I have a good feeling about this.
Mitch: And just so we're clear, I am NOT your father!
- There's a Pythonesque-style giant cartoon foot stomping down.
- The title is a reference to Tattoo's catchphrase from Fantasy Island.
- "Let's Take a Quiz!" is similar to "Wordwang", a quiz show on That Mitchelland Webb Look.
- Candace's hair is briefly turned into Princess Leia's iconic hairdo.
- Doofenshmirtz mentions a site with funny cat pictures, citing a picture with an Invisible Cheeseburger.
- 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.
- 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").
- Lawrence remarks to Candace "Don't worry, it's only a three hour tour."
- The title is a reference to Swiss Family Robinson.
- There's a Shout-Out to The Empire Strikes Back when Baljeet has to hide in the corpse of a fly to keep himself warm.
- When the music during the sewing supplies sword fight plays, is nearly lifted from Pirates of the Caribbean.
- The episode is one Affectionate Parody to both Titanic and The Love Boat. Also, we see Major Monogram and Carl playing a game not unlike Rock Band while waiting for Perry.
- When Candace is listing examples of nicknames boyfriends give their girlfriends, she caps it off with "Peg Leg Pete."
- 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.
- Not to mention how the band's name is The Baljeatles.
- Perry's (and Candace's) skidding Parallel Parking ...
- Perry's fight with his evil robot duplicates referenced the "Burly Brawl" sequence from The Matrix Reloaded.
- There's a montage that's also a tribute to several detective shows, including a riotous shout out to the CSI: Miami opening theme.
Manager: Aren't you a little young to be watching these old detective shows?
Phineas: Why yes. Yes we [puts on shades] ... ARE.
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!- The name is even a Shout-Out to Alfred Hitchcock.
- 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.
- Ferb's motion-capture suit looks like the TRON Guy.
- 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:
- Also lampshaded:
Doofenshmirtz: I saw this in a movie once. I don't know how it ended but it seemed pretty foolproof.
- Also lampshaded:
- The title is a reference to Dirty Dancing.
- 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.
- 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.
- The title is an allusion to the I Was a Teenage... series released in the 1950s.
- The title may be a reference to Suddenly Susan.
- 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.
- There's a shout out to the original Men in Black movie and to Disney Channel series Dave the Barbarian:
Linda: GASP!! Candace! You scared the bejabbers out of me!
- The title is a obvious shout out to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
- When Doofenshmirtz is going on about how great his other robot is, Norm says Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking."
- Also, Baljeet claims that the name of his board game is called "Spinning Tops Of Doom". Sound familiar?
- 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."
- One of the villains attending the convention seems Horribly familiar...
- There're campaign posters with Candace's face on them, posters which have a very familiar stylized look.
- The episodes featured many shout outs to Lilo & Stitch, including a cameo by the Fat Tourist and Candace wearing Lilo's signature outfit.
- Candace has to get rid of a cursed Tiki charm, similar to the plot of The Brady Bunch's Tiki curse problem when they were in Hawaii.
- Doofenshmirtz points out the crabs on the beach worshipping the Evolutionator, saying it was "Looking Kubricky".
- In Candace's dream, the zebra holds a poster, with a poster of her and the words "Yes We Can".
- The fandoms in the convention alludes to Star Trek, specifically the whole "even numbered movies are the only good ones" part. The Lord of the Rings is also shown.
- 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.
- Doofensmirtz pitching the idea for a TV show, only to rage quit after the producer asks for one small change, despite already approving of the show, has been done before in Family Guy. Almost word for word. To further elaborate, Jeff McGarland is voiced by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy.
- Buford references a "Hyborian Age", the place where Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories take place.
- The episode's name, as well as most of the plot, is a direct allusion to The Wizard of Oz.
- The maze features a button that looks like the Triforce.
- Ferb making the famous idol switch from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Max Modem's name is a direct allusion to MaMaMaMaMaMax Headroom. And his outfit looks like the one Riff Raff wore near the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, because Richard O'Brien is Lawrence's voice actor.
- Doof mentioned that "You are being invaded, from space! By invaders! From space!"
- Lindana sings that "I'm not Roxanne, I'm not Eileen, I'm not Sharona"
- A motivational speaker asks a girl if she knows what it takes to be president. She says "Yes. Yes. I. Can."
- 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.
- The video game Phineas, Ferb, Baljeet, Buford, and Isabella are playing greatly resembles M.U.G.E.N.
- There was a pile of these right in the first song including: Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma, Singin' in the Rain, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, The Music Man, Les Misérables, The King and I, and Chicago. All in less than about three minutes.
- "Permanecer sentados por favor" (Spanish for "Please remain in your seats") from the "Rollercoaster" song is a shout-out to the safety spiel 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.
- Doof sometimes likes to dub his voice over movies to make fun of them
- At one point during the chaos of Candace's "intimate get-together," she snatches a large glass egg from the hands of a random party-goer and puts it back safely on a shelf.
Season Three
The Great Indoors
- 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.
- The title song which is a style parody of the music from Run, Lola, Run, stops very abruptly with "Nothing can stop you, look out for that tree!"
- 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".
- Isabella recites a Fireside Girls version of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl".
- 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).
- During the song, streaks of light go past Isabella's helmet in the same way 2001: A Space Odyssey ended.
- 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 coincidentally, has a song called "Shangri-La").
- The song "Aerial Area Rug" is an obvious affectionate parody of the song "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
- Candace's hair is a clear shout out to The Bride of Frankenstein.
- 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
- The plot involves Norm wanting to becoming a real boy a la Pinocchio.
- The 2001: A Space Odyssey references are taken up to eleven:
- 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?"
- When Perry and Doofenshmirtz are fighting in the cab of Doofenzshmirtz'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.
- The title references the famous annual bike race, the Tour de France.
- The titular board game is an amalgam of various board games, most notably Monopoly.
- Candace's plot line, as well as the episode's title, is a reference to My Fair Lady.
- To drive this point home, Ferb's cousin (who isn't named after David Beckham), is named "Eliza".
- 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!"
- 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 Russell'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.
- 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".
- This is also coupled with an Actor Allusion, as the person who voices the Jacob Black Expy in the movie is Michael J. Fox, who is known for another adolescent-oriented film that involves lycanthropes.
- In that same episode, though, you can see posters for such fictional blockbusters as Leap and New Zealand.
- We get this gem from Lawrence (played by Richard O'Brien): "Well, this isn't much of a horror movie. Where are the rock 'n roll musical numbers?"
- The tower after being shot by the rude-inator starts acting like Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- 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".
- The most basic formula of Ferb Latin is identical to "pig latin".
- 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."
- 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.
- The giant robots are a shout out to Japan's love of giant mech series. This is lampshaded by Regent Monogram. It might be taken a step further, with Doof's dragon referencing Godzilla, or Kaiju in general, and the terracotta warrior referencing Super Sentai (five pilots controlling a single humanoid robot) or Ultraman (a humanoid robot who fights kaiju) but it's hard to say.
- The title and the mystical sword are references to the Arthurian legend Excalibur. T He quest is given to them by the Lady of the Puddle, who mentioned the Lady of the Lake (the one who gave Arthur Excalibur) is her mother. Cuts to the Lady of the Lake who is in the middle of giving King Arthur Excaliber.
- 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.
- The episode is loaded with nods to fantasy stories like The Lord of the Rings, The NeverEnding Story, and The Princess Bride.
- Malefishmirtz's name and outfit 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".
- The episode takes many homages from the Indiana Jones movies, including the title referencing the Temple of Doom movie, Isabella betraying Phineas and Ferb like how Elsa betrayed Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Doof lampshading when the temple is crumbling that his face will probably melt off.
- 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.
- Doofenshmirtz gets the turkey from the Turkey-inator stuck on his head, and also is a callback to a The One with All the Thanksgivings as well.
- The title may be a reference to The Remains of the Day.
- We get a song about Perry's hat as it floats on the wind. We briefly pass a man in a white suit whose sitting on a bench, waiting for the bus. I guess this show is like a box of chocolates; you never know what references you're going to get.
- After Perry eats Doofenshmirtz's cheese, his belly becomes cheese-shaped.
- 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 "Perrytronic" number is one big old nod to Gigantor and other old Humongous Mecha anime from The '60s.
- 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.
- For another absolutely epic Star Wars reference, we are given the opening credits.
- In another Star Wars reference, Mitch's pod walker looks similar to an AT-ST, and is taken out by wrapping its legs, like an AT-AT in the Battle of Hoth.
- 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.
- Paul the delivery guy shifts his truck to "turbo," causing it to jump down the street like KITT's turbo boosts in Knight Rider.
- Perry's transit to his lair is an obvious reference to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
- 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.
- The title is a reference to "Sleeping With the Enemy"
- Phineas and Ferb's film ends with a Tyrannosaurus rex roaring while a banner falls down in front of the screen.
- The title is a reference to the second National Treasure film.
- The entire plot is a send up of Indiana Jones tropes. Most notably, the picking the right boot scrapper is based off the "cup of Christ" scene from The Last Crusade.
- Some of Norm's weapons during his Villain Song sure do look a lot like another giant robot.
- Baljeet insists in being called "Doctor Ninja Baljeet".
- Cat Car is a reference to Knight Rider.
- When Buford is questioned regarding him teaching squirrels to dance, he responds that "He's like an onion."
Baljeet: Because you have layers?Buford: That too!
- The title, as well as the format of Doofenshmirtz's plot, refers to the old TV series This Is Your Life.
Season Four
For Your Ice Only
Happy New Year!
- About 40 seconds into the New Years song we cut to Phineas and Ferb doing the Gangnam Style dance.
- When Fly!Candace is caught in her mother's car, she smacks against the back window wailing "Help Meeee!"
- Doofenshmirtz's flashback to the Gimmelshtump car show depicts lots of strange vehicles moving from right to left in single file.
- Doofenshmirtz'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.
- Doofenshmirtz suggests going to Niagara Falls. The scene then cuts to Him, Perry, Monogram, Carl, Lyla, and Peter the Panda at the railing to the falls while orchestral music plays before they each leave, passing by eleven men as they go.
- This has a clever Army of Darkness reference.
- 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.
- 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!
- While Perry and Doof are preparing to confront Liam, the music imitates the Predator theme.
- 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, with his narration done in the stye of Alice's Restaurant ..
- 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.
- Isabella gives a Bluto-esque rousing speech. And Professor Poofenplotz channels Lady Galadriel.
- Title is a reference to a Jerry Lee Lewis song.
- Doofenshmirtz uses the password "reindeer flotilla" to get to the deed to the tri-state area.
- In the 'History of the Tri-State Area' song, the guide speaks of the Tri-State capital building being carried on the backs of giant sea-turtles, likely referencing Discworld.
- When Perry and Pinky catch up to Dr. Doof, Doof: " Perry the Platypus!?"And your little dog, too?!"
- After the kids finish climbing their climbing-wall and are surrounded by stars and "getting light-headed".
Buford: Oh I Get it. We are in space. AAAHAAAHAAAHAAA! I heard that.
- The title is a reference to Toy Story.
- Inside joke on Vanessa as a vampire queen for the Halloween party. Her voice actress, Olivia Olsen, plays Marceline the Vampire Queen on Adventure Time''.
- The "Vampire Queen and Scarlet Pimpernel" song is a play on the song Beauty and the Beast, including the line "tale as old as time".
- The third story about getting grape juice on a platypus resembles the plot from Gremlins.
- When the first evil platypus clone escapes from the tent:
- Monogram mentions that he and his friends have an event called "Horrific Movie Night", where they 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".
- The title is a reference to Tears for Fears.
- With a title that's a reference to Live and Let Die, it's no surprise that the first half of the story seems to be an exercise in "how many James Bond references can we squeeze in 5 minutes": Perry drives an Olson Martin 1963, accompanied by a Suspiciously Similar Substitute of the Dr. No opening theme; Doofenshmirtz plays cards in a casino and tells a player who walked away in disgust at losing to never say never; a casino official who looks suspisciously like Oddjob tells Doof that no pets are allowed (Doof was holding a white cat); Norm found metal teeth in the lair Doof is currently staying where there's also still standing a rocket; and Doofenshmirtz' new jingle is a straight-up Bond Theme (with strong influences of the Goldfinger theme).
- The episode was written by Damien Lindelof, a co-creator of Lost, and features Terry O'Quinn as the voice of Professor Mystery and a polar bear that turns out to be Lawrence from another dimension.
- When the giant mechanical ants are destroyed, they make the same screaming sound that the ants in Them! made when they were killed.
Specials
Spot the Diff
- Kim Possible makes a cameo appearance.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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!
- And yet again, while in Paris and trying to get Phineas's attention, Isabella says, "We'll always have giant plastic baguels".
- Still again, an origami unicorn is used as a throwaway gag.
- 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.
- "J-Pop (Welcome to Tokyo)" features references to Caramelldansen Vids and LeekSpin (specifically, the Miku Hatsune version of Ievan Polka).
- At one point, Major Monogram says "Cheese and crackers!", which may be a reference to Kim Possible.
- When Phineas is digging out the sand, he takes out a sponge and a starfish that was buried in the sand.
- Given a certain other role of Alyson Stoner's and said role's hobby, could we have Actor Allusion going on here?
- The whole plot is based primarily on Around the World in 80 Days, with everything depending on a wager to circumnavigate the world in a set amount of time and the race coming down the last possible minute.
- When Phineas is trying to explain the concept behind their trip and Buford doesn't get it:
Buford: "No, no; don't try to confuse me with your sorcerer's ways
- 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.
- Ferb refers to the S.H.E.D. (a shed that's bigger on the inside) as using "a little British Science Fiction technology."
- 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 The Incredible Hulk.
- As the heroes get their powers back and prepare for battle, the camera does the 360-degree turnaround shot from The Avengers, 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 just like in the X-Men movie.
- 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.
- "Oh, great. They have a cave troll."
- When the characters are in the UK◊ in Summer all over the World, they not only manage to reference The Beatles' Rooftop Concert, but the gang are also wearing outfits inspired by Doctor Who characters. Concept art◊ shows that the reference was going to be even more explicit.
- Plays off the title of George A. Romero's famous 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead for laughs.
- Even better, Romero voices the reporter on the street, Don Adaded (which sounds like 1978's Dawn of the Dead).
- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do their Shaun of the Dead characters Shaun and Ed in this episode.
- A callback to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in one scene where Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Isabella and Vanessa do the Janet-Dr. Scott-Janet-Brad-Rocky gag. Small wonder Richard O'Brien, who created the film (and stage show) is Lawrence's voice actor.
- A reference to Sir Francis Bacon when both Buford and Doof make comments to "shaking bacon". Bacon died studying how meat would be in a frozen state.
- Another callback to Die Hard when both Buford and Doof yell "Yippie-Ki-Yay!" to taunt the "mindless repulsive pharmacists". Each time, Doof says in a Take That! moment that it's a callback to something he didn't even hear.
- Buford makes a couple to Aliens, doing his best Corporal Hudson impression, such as "Game over, man! Game over!" And later, ranting about "They're gonna come in here, they're gonna come in here!"
- Isabella rattling the trap door to the Fireside Girl's cabin is a reference to the original The Evil Dead.
- Candace says that she's gotten all the Cardio she needs for a lifetime.
- Ferb quotes Egon Spengler when he says that he's "terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."
- The ending in which Danville is enclosed by a large wall that keeps the Doofenshmirtz zombies out is a clear reference to Attack on Titan.
- Alternately it might be a shout out to Land of the Dead, which is about a walled city to keep the zombies out.
- At one point Carl refers to Perry as the Omega Platypus, a reference to the 1971 film adaptation of I Am Legend, The Omega Man.
- When a random citizen says 'Are you insinuating that my clothes are alive' it may be a reference to Kill la Kill.
- C'mon! Isn't anybody going to point out the truckload of World War Z shout-outs?!!
- One of the sneak peeks released shows the gang and Candace in a washed-out and empty city with time-holes opening up. Dialogue indicates that they have to get back into the flow of time; this is reminiscent of the Stephen King novel The Langoliers.
- The effect of the Do-Over-Inator bears a striking resemblance to the 12th Doctor's new title sequence for Doctor Who.
- The holes in space/time that cause people to forget the people or things sucked through are similar to an overarching story arch for the Eleventh Doctor.
- One of the things to be sucked through the holes in time during the "Groundhog Day" Loop are the groundhogs.
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