History PhineasAndFerb / TropesAToC

* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: InUniverse, the title characters spend most episodes building professional-quality creations within the span of a day. Among other creations, these include a hit song (stated to take most of the morning), a movie (where highly technical post-production only takes minutes) and amusement rides with parts being supplied in the time it takes to go grocery shopping).

** In "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", the reform school's sergeant is voiced by Clancy Brown, who many will recognize from his iconic portrayal of the brutal prison guard captain in Film/TheShawshankRedemption.

* AcceptableTargets: InUniverse.
** "The Scotsman in me tells me to hold on to the bitter end! But then again I'm half Irish."
--->'''Candace:''' I'm really scared; what if it isn't even edible?\\
'''Stacy:''' Well, it ''is'' English food.
** From "Boyfriend From 27,000 B.C.":
--->'''Phineas''': Think of all the practical applications a caveman can have in the modern world! ({{Beat}}) Actually, you know, besides politics, I can't think of anything.
** In "I Scream, You Scream", when Dr. Doofenshmirtz talks about destroying the things that make his skin crawl:
--->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Nature! ''[Destroys a forest]''. Beauty! ''[Destroys a street parade]''.\\
'''Crowd:''' Aww!\\
'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Morning talk show hosts! ''[Vaporizes a talk show host]''.\\
'''Crowd:''' Yay!

** [[spoiler:The episode where Candace finally busts her brothers and then breaks them out of boot camp is touching but just a dream.]]

** A particularly ridiculous instance was lampshaded in "S'Winter", when Candace was riding on a snowboard with the boys. They went through a snowman, and of course Candace ended up as a comical snowman lookalike... except that she was ''behind'' the boys. They glance down at themselves and Phineas asks, "How did that miss us?" They go through a tree, same thing. Phineas comments, "That's just weird."

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Besides the AnachronismStew mentioned above, "It's About Time!" features a ''Tyrannosaurus'' with three fingers instead of two, sauropods up to their shoulders in water (although they are probably just lounging rather than being aquatic), a PteroSoarer, and several dinosaurs that don't resemble any real-life ones.

** Sherman of Love Händel did before the band broke up as part of the band's GlamRock look. He understandably refuses to wear the same clothes after obtaining a beer belly.

* BareYourMidriff:
** Candace in "Comet Kermillian", "One Good Scare Ought to Do It" and "Nerdy Dancing", Stacy, Adyson, and Isabella during the "Disco Miniature Golfing Queen" number in "Put that Putter Away!". Also one of the background dancers during "Squirrels In My Pants".
** Sherman of Love Händel did before the band broke up, and understandably refuses to after obtaining a beer belly.
** Linda during her teenage years and while preforming as Lindana.
%% ** All the female backup dancers/singers in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPvhtk-12XE Rubber Bands, Rubber Balls]]".
** A lot of women around the Tri-State area tend to show off their belly buttons (even mothers with kids).

** Ferb's PrecociousCrush on Vanessa Doofenshmirtz is a callback to the actors' previous roles in the movie ''Film/LoveActually,'' where Thomas Sangster's character had a similar crush on Olivia Olson's character. For good measure, there's even at least one moment on the show where [[https://i.pinimg.com/474x/2d/69/c8/2d69c87bd6f7125ded42bde614dd2149--love-actually-kid-that-is-awesome.jpg Vanessa kisses Ferb in the same way that Olson's character does to Sangster's character in that movie, too]].

** It seems that in the second season a lot of the characters have undergone a fair personality development, but it's "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSummerBelongsToYou Summer Belongs to You]]" that really skyrockets with deepening the characters' individualities. Phineas showing that he's not completely resourceful, getting frantic once he's realized his perplexity and showing anger and impatience for once, Candace gaining belief in herself and things seemingly impossible, Vanessa accepting her father's quirks and peculiarity, Jeremy earning the ability to tell Candace about her annoying obsessive behaviour ([[spoiler:which further led them to become an OfficialCouple]]), Isabella crossing the edge of her endurance to Phineas's ignorance towards her and [[TheChick revealing to be the only one able to encourage him into not giving up]]. Even Buford gets some screen time showing that he is fluent in French and can quote Voltaire from heart. Only Baljeet remained unaltered by the episode.

** In "Backyard Aquarium", Phineas screams one when Goldie gets eaten by an orca, only to come out of its blowhole unharmed

** Phineas lets one out in "Backyard Aquarium" when an orca eats Goldie only to spray her out of its blowhole unharmed.

** Phineas lets one loose when his and Ferb's video game final boss comes after Isabella.

** Candace lets out another at the end of "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers" after once again failing to bust her brothers.

* ARareSentence: 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":
-->"Nothing says 'mother's love' like a gigantic robotic platypus butt."\\
"Why am I wearing a turtle on my head?"\\
"I wanna float around! ...like ''men''."\\
"Am I sweating milk?!"\\
"Gotta go, Stacy. Good luck with that llama legislation!"\\
"Run for your lives! It's Gnome-a-geddon!"\\
"Stickiness is the most underrated of all the -nesses".\\
"[[NoodleIncident I knew I should have gotten the down payment on the elephant.]]"\\
"It looks a little like a rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig."\\
"Oh no, you did ''not'' just tell me to hench."\\
"What, you think we should have ''more'' Bulgarian folk-related elements?"\\
"I'll be in the dairy section if you want to come yell at some cheese."\\
"Dad, you might want to wipe the Queen off your face."\\
"I too feel a certain element of kebab-ism."\\
"Definitely the giant floating baby head."\\
"I am to metaphor-cheese as metaphor-cheese is to transitive-verb crackers."\\
"I just discovered why cows and frogs don't date."\\
"Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Taffeta... make a note of that."\\
"I'm calling Mom... and I am ''not'' using the banana this time!"

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Candace shows multiple signs of having Schizophrenia and/or OCD, but it has never been officially confirmed.
** Baljeet. Extremely dependent on routines and clear direction, socially introverted, observant but somewhat oblivious and emotionally stunted, able to focus for long periods on repetitive behaviors, and child-prodigy level intelligent.
** Both the titular characters too. Especially in "Bully Bromance Breakup", where they start suffering nervous compulsions when unable to create complex devices when they want to.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Peter the Panda is about the same size as Perry, much smaller than a real giant panda.

** Milder examples include Candace and Buford being turned into [[BalefulPolymorph human-fly hybrids]] (on different occasions), Candace-{{Expy}} Constance mutating into a monster, the skin on Ferb's face slipping off his skull, and Ferb's grandfather getting his feet removed and reattached backwards. [[SnapBack Not all of these are reversed by the end of their respective episode.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Some of Doofenshmirtz's inators and Phineas and Ferb's inventions are known to inflict this on people (either accidentally or otherwise), with [[ButtMonkey Doofenshmirtz and Candace]] being common victims.

* CompanyCrossReferences: One episode is titled "Troy Story", a reference to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.

* CluckingFunny: In "What a Croc".
--> Doofenshirtz: "The Chickeninator replaces everything with the nearest chicken- 'cause chickens make everything funny!"

->"Mom! Phineas and Ferb are splitting their Wiki/TVTropes page!"

* AffablyEvil: Dr. Doof. There are several instances where he doesn't even bother to take over the Tri-State Area and instead has Perry team up with Doof to help with some of his problems. Taken UpToEleven in "Skiddley Whiffers" where his whole scheme isn't really an evil scheme at all, but a plan to overprotect his daughter while she's camping in the woods. He even apologizes to Perry for not having a scheme and begs him for help in this effort. Lampshaded by Vanessa, as she tells him all of his plots are either revenge schemes at his brother or stabs at Saturday-morning villain plots.

** The basis for one of the show's notable catchphrases. When Phineas is asked about his recent project, no one worries about it because he acts as though there's [[UpToEleven nothing wrong with building a rollercoaster through the downtown area of the city, etc]]. Though, it's often noted that the boys typically go through the proper channels needed to make their projects technically legal (except for the fort in "Thaddeus and Thor", which is why they immediately took it down after showing it off).

** Candace can't either. Every time she does something on her own, Linda catches her. UpToEleven in "Candace Gets Busted", where it seems like the random circumstances that help her brothers stay out of trouble actually make sure she gets caught.

** Taken UpToEleven in the episode "Run Away Runway", where fashions change on an hourly basis and Vague Magazine prints three issues in one day.

** The final music number in Rollercoaster: The Musical! took this UpToEleven. Just watch it.

* BlindingBangs: Crash from The Betty's has very long hair that cover her whole face, except her mouth.