History Trivia / PhineasAndFerb

** That chattering sound Perry makes? Platypi really ''do'' make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsd7ZfdZcNU those noises]] in real life (though of course not with their teeth, which they don't have). Interviews have indicated that neither the show's creators nor [[Creator/DeeBradleyBaker Perry's voice actor]] were aware of this during production.

** [[https://soundcloud.com/jon-colton-barry/where-the-heck-were-we-demo-1 "Where the Heck Were We?"]], written for "Rollercoaster: The Musical" to be sung by Lawrence, Baljeet, Buford, and Irving, discussing their AbsenteeActor status in the premiere episode.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Polish dub: Creator/BeataWyrabkiewicz (Vanessa) and Creator/AnnaApostolakisGluzinska (Baljeet/Charlene) have also worked together on ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' as Chase and Marshall, and ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' as Tootie/Trixie and Wanda.

* RealLifeRelative: Starting in Season 3, Ginger has been voiced by Michaela Zee, the daughter of Ming-Na Wen, who voices Dr. Hirano.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Polish dub: Creator/BeataWyrabkiewicz (Vanessa) and Creator/AnnaApostolakisGluzinska (Baljeet/Charlene) have also worked together on ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' as Chase and Marshall, respectively.

** Phineas and Ferb was first pitched around 1996 to Creator/FoxKids and Creator/CartoonNetwork and pitched to {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} (when Dan Povernmire was working on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' at the time) in 2002, but lack of faith in the project and [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife additional commitments]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons from the]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy show's creators]] (hoping to get their big break that way), delayed the show for more than 10 years, then pitched to Creator/DisneyChannel in 2005 and finally premiering in 2007.

* ImageSource:
** AccidentalDanceCraze ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbCometKermillian Comet Kermillian]]")
** TheBadGuyWins.WesternAnimation ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbsQuantumBoogaloo Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo]]")
** BullyAndWimpPairing (top half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbBullyBromanceBreakup Bully Bromance Breakup]]"; bottom half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLotsaLatkes Lotsa Latkes]]")
** BullyTurnedBuddy (top half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRagingBully Raging Bully]]"; bottom half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbGreatBallsOfWater Great Balls of Water]]")
** CartoonishSupervillainy (top: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbItsAboutTime It's About Time!]]"; middle half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbChezPlatypus Chez Platypus]]"; bottom half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheSecretOfSuccess The Secret of Success]]")
** CharacterBlog (''Doofenshmirtz's Daily Dirt'')
** ChildhoodFriendRomance
** ChorusGirls ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRollercoasterTheMusical Rollercoaster: The Musical!]]")
** ClothingSwitch (top half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNightOfTheLivingPharmacists Night of the Living Pharmacists]]"; bottom half: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbHailDoofania Hail Doofania!]]")
** CoveredInMud ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRunCandaceRun Run, Candace, Run]]")
** EmbarrassingInitials ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNerdyDancin Nerdy Dancin']]")
** EvilInc ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheFastAndThePhineas The Fast and the Phineas]]")
** ExplodingCalendar (intro)
** FandomRivalry ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNerdsOfAFeather Nerds of a Feather]]")
** FerrisWheelDateMoment ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbBowlRAmaDrama Bowl-R-Ama Drama]]")
** HauteCuisineIsWeird ("Chez Platypus")
** HoldUpYourScore ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLawnGnomeBeachPartyOfTerror Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror!]]")
** HypnoticHead ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbsMusicalCliptasticCountdown Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown]]")
** ImpossiblyCompactFolding ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSummerBelongsToYou Summer Belongs to You!]]")
** InventingTheWheel ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTriStoneArea Tri-Stone Area]]")
** [[IThoughtItMeant.GToI I Thought It Meant.G to I]] (edited screencap)
** JarOfJellybeansContest ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbWeCallItMaze We Call It Maze]]")
** LiveOnStage ("The Best LIVE Tour Ever!")
** MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheMagnificentFew The Magnificent Few]]")
** MobileSuitHuman ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbInvasionOfTheFerbSnatchers Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers]]")
** MustacheVandalism (intro)
** OffToSeeTheWizard (top-right: "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbWizardOfOdd Wizard of Odd]]")
** OldFaithful ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbCandaceLosesHerHead Candace Loses Her Head]]")
** OneSteveLimit ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheLizardWhisperer The Lizard Whisperer]]")
** OverTheTopRollercoaster ("Rollercoaster: The Musical")
** ParentalObliviousness ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbMommyCanYouHearMe Mommy Can You Hear Me?]]")
** PepTalkSong ("Night of the Living Pharmacists")
** PirateEpisode ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBalladOfBadbeard The Ballad of Badbeard]]")
** ProportionalArticleImportance ("WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbChristmasVacation")
** PunBasedCreature (bottom-left, "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo")
** RoundaboutShot ("Summer Belongs to You")
** ScoutOut ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbIsabellaAndTheTempleOfSap Isabella and the Temple of Sap]]")
** SelfDestructMechanism ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbOhThereYouArePerry Oh, There You Are, Perry]]")
** ShackleSeatTrap ("It's About Time!")
** SuckECheeses ("Raging Bully")
** TheUnfavourite ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbThaddeusAndThor Thaddeus and Thor]]")
** UnderTheMistletoe ("WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbChristmasVacation")
** UnholyMatrimony ("Chez Platypus")
** WaterGunsAndBalloons ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbDayOfTheLivingGelatin Day of the Living Gelatin]]")
** WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet ("[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTipOfTheDay Tip of the Day]]")
** WriteBackToTheFuture ("It's About Time!")

* QuoteSource:
** TheFifties
** ActionGirl
** AdvancedTech2000
** AnimalEspionage
** AutobotsRockOut
** BarbaricBully
** BrokenEcho
** ButWaitTheresMore
** ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes
** CommercialBreakCliffhanger
** ConversationalTroping
** CrowdSurfing
** EmpathicEnvironment
** EvilDiva
** FlappingCheeks
** FrenemyTropes
** GorgeousGarmentGeneration
** HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood
** IsThisThingStillOn
** WebOriginal/LOLCats
** {{Manchild}}
** MotiveDecay
** TheMusical
** MusicalEpisode
** OvenLogic
** PersonalMook
** PhonyDegree
** PlutoIsExpendable
** PokeThePoodle
** ScoldingTheFourthWallBreaker
** SeaAping
** SilentSnarker
** SquirrelsInMyPants
** StandInPortrait

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The theme song's lyrics were the same but it was originally going to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiOdw6WZt0 sung in the style of upbeat, chorus-led Disney songs of the past.]] But it was changed to pop rock since the creators decided that modern audiences wouldn't get it.
** Jeremy was originally going to be an [[TheGhost unseen character]], with Candace and others only referring to him in conversation. Likewise, Stacy was going to be just someone Candace spoke to on the phone.
** Planty the Potted Plant was going to get more screentime, but most of his scenes ended up being cut for time.
** Carl was a completely accidental character: one of the writers just started having Major Monogram make aside comments to the guy operating the camera. The other writers loved it and began including Carl in the show proper.
** There was supposed to be a theatrical film of the series, but it fell through and the series was giving the usual MadeForTV one. It's unknown if ''Across the 2nd Dimension'' was to be that movie.
** The bugs from "Doof 101" and ''The O.W.C.A. Files'' can be seen among the early character designs, but it wasn't until "Doof 101" that they found a use for them.
** [[https://phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/File:BpeVacSCYAEepuE.jpg See here]] for an early version of the main cast. Dr. Doofenshmirtz was originally blonde and called Mittelshirtz, Candace wore green, Linda was blonde as well (and Candace too at some other stage), Buford looked completely different, and Isabella and Baljeet are completely absent with Irving taking their place.
** Dan and Jeff wanted considered making Perry a capybara, before deciding on a platypus.
** The original plot to "Tip of the Day" was very different. It would've been an elaborate 22 minute-long episode about a secret society that keeps the word "aglet" from becoming common knowledge to prevent the end of civilization itself. Dan and Swampy both flatly rejected this idea, and it was redone as a much shorter and simpler story.
** Dan Povenmire had pitched a spinoff for the Fireside Girls, which was even reported in [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/media/22ferb.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=media&adxnnlx=1284631244-aPPdJCcr2PJQI2xpVUcQhA this article]] from 2010, at the height of the show's popularity. Further details were revealed by Dan in [[https://youtu.be/hYBDdLG_OA8?t=3626 a 2020 interview]]: Much like the Fireside Girls episodes seen in the series, the idea was that each episode would somehow connect to a ''Phineas and Ferb'' episode in some form. It never happened because the higher ups at Disney at that time feared it would lose its boy audience (''Phineas and Ferb'' tested gender neutral with audiences.)
** Swampy Marsh's twitter confirms the spin-off episode "The OWCA Files" was a pilot for another spin-off series. They never heard back from Disney if the show was going to be picked up, so they moved on.
** Buford's IWantSong in "Wizard of Odd" had a full version planned out, but it was shortened to a gag in the final version to save time.
** The 2-parter "Where’s Perry?" was originally called “World Without A Platypus”, and both parts originally served as the Season 3 finale and the Season 4 premiere.
** In an earlier version of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbMissionMarvel'', ComicBook/IronMan would have gained the ability to wield ComicBook/{{Thor}}'s hammer after the powers get swapped. However, according to Swampy Marsh, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6amy43Zj8 this was shut down by Marvel]]. According to Marsh, the conversation Thor and Iron Man have in the final version is based on their writers' conversation with the Marvel representatives about what can and cannot be done with the hammer.
** The ending of "Night of the Living Pharmacists" went through a few versions. In the storyboards done by Aliki Theofilopoulos Grafft, [[http://alikigreeky.tumblr.com/post/99352871809/for-you-phinbellas-this-was-my-scene Phineas would kiss Isabella]] after her confession, but this was deemed too much. At another point, the same scene would have had more dialogue implying he might reciprocate, but like in the final version, he's cut off before any clear answer can be given. Also, before settling on "Lots of Me" for TheTag, one version would have had Phineas [[https://phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/Gallery:Night_of_the_Living_Pharmacists acknowledge Isabella earning her Emotional Bravery Patch and hug her]] after they turn back into themselves, and another would have explained [[https://twitter.com/zombietardis/status/520008973001297920 how the rest of the world was cured]].

** TheBadGuyWins.WesternAnimation ("[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbsQuantumBoogaloo Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo]]")

** BullyTurnedBuddy (top half: "[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRagingBully Raging Bully]]"; bottom half: "[Recap/PhineasAndFerbGreatBallsOfWater Great Balls of Water]]")

** AccidentalDanceCraze ("Comet Kermillian")
** TheBadGuyWins.WesternAnimation ("Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo")
** BullyAndWimpPairing (top half: "Bully Bromance Breakup"; bottom half: "Lotsa Latkes")
** BullyTurnedBuddy (top half: "Raging Bully"; bottom half: "Great Balls of Water")

** ChorusGirls ("Rollercoaster: The Musical!")
** ClothingSwitch (top half: "Night of the Living Pharmacists"; bottom half: "Hail Doofania!")
** CoveredInMud ("Run, Candace, Run")
** EmbarrassingInitials ("Nerdy Dancin'")
** EvilInc ("The Fast and the Phineas")

** FandomRivalry ("Nerds of a Feather")
** FerrisWheelDateMoment ("Bowl-R-Ama Drama")

** HoldUpYourScore ("Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror!")
** HypnoticHead ("Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown")
** ImpossiblyCompactFolding ("Summer Belongs to You!")
** InventingTheWheel ("Tri-Stone Area")

** JarOfJellybeansContest ("We Call It Maze")

** MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter ("The Magnificent Few")
** MobileSuitHuman ("Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers")

** OffToSeeTheWizard (top-right: "Wizard of Odd")
** OldFaithful ("Candace Loses Her Head")
** OneSteveLimit ("The Lizard Whisperer")

** ParentalObliviousness ("Mommy Can You Hear Me?")

** PirateEpisode ("The Ballad of Badbeard")

** ScoutOut ("Isabella and the Temple of Sap")
** SelfDestructMechanism ("Oh, There You Are, Perry")

** TheUnfavourite ("Thaddeus and Thor")

** WaterGunsAndBalloons ("Day of the Living Gelatin")
** WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet ("Tip of the Day")

** Dan Povenmire had pitched a spinoff for the Fireside, which was even reported in [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/media/22ferb.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=media&adxnnlx=1284631244-aPPdJCcr2PJQI2xpVUcQhA this article]] from 2010, at the height of the show's popularity. Further details were revealed by Dan in [[https://youtu.be/hYBDdLG_OA8?t=3626 a 2020 interview]]: Much like the Fireside episodes seen in the series, the idea was that each episode would somehow connect to a ''Phineas and Ferb'' episode in some form. It never happened because the higher ups at Disney at that time feared it would lose its boy audience ("Phineas and Ferb" tested gender neutral with audiences.)

** Phineas and Ferb was first pitched around 1996 to Creator/FoxKids and Creator/CartoonNetwork and pitched to {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} (when Dan Povernmire was working on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' at the time) in 2002, but lack of faith in the project and [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife additional commitments]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons from the]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy show's creators]] (hoping to get their big break that way), delayed the show for more than 10 years, then pitched to Creator/DisneyChannel in 2006 and finally premiering in 2007.

** EyelashFluttering ("Rollercoaster: The Musical")

** In the French dub, Baljeet is voiced by Nathalie Bienaimé.
* CutSong:

* FanNickname: "Dorito and Golf Club" for the title characters, based on their respective head shapes.
** Some also call Ferb "Pipe", since his head was directly compared to a pipe in the show itself.
** More recently, Candace got the nickname of "Air Pod".

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The ''Doofenshmirtz's Daily Dirt'' webseries commented on current events and pop culture, such as the haul video trend, [[Music/{{PSY}} "Gangnam Style"]], and ''Series/GossipGirl'', that were relevant back when it was active (2013), but are now dated.
** The show as a whole is a period piece. The theme song is by pop punk band Music/BowlingForSoup, the characters use flip phones (at least before Season 4) and the fashions are very 2000s-ish.

** The original plot to "Tip of the Day" was very different. It would've been an elaborate 22 minute-long episode about a secret society that keeps the word "aglet" from becoming common knowledge to prevent the end of civilisation itself. Dan and Swampy both flatly rejected this idea, and it was redone as a much shorter and simpler story.

* WordOfGay: On [=TikTok=], Dan Povenmire [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210424193726/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ezw1Z_cXMAIEjb3.jpg has confirmed]] that Perry the Platypus is {{asexual}}.

** According to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/media/22ferb.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=media&adxnnlx=1284631244-aPPdJCcr2PJQI2xpVUcQhA this article]] made back in 2011 at the height of the show's popularity, there were plans for a spin-off series involving The Fireside Girls; but it never got made. Dan Povenmire revealed in [[https://youtu.be/hYBDdLG_OA8?t=3626 an interview]] that it wasn't picked up due to the higher ups at Disney at that time fearing that it would lose it's boy audience ("Phineas and Ferb" tested gender neutral with audiences.)

** In an earlier version of "WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbMissionMarvel", ComicBook/IronMan would have gained the ability to wield ComicBook/{{Thor}}'s hammer after the powers get swapped. However, according to Swampy Marsh, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ6amy43Zj8 this was shut down by Marvel]]. According to Marsh, the conversation Thor and Iron Man have in the final version is based on their writers' conversation with the Marvel representatives about what can and cannot be done with the hammer.

* TheDanza :

* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** Alyson Stoner, who plays Isabella, who has a crush on Phineas, is LGBT.[[labelnote:Note]]However, she heavily implies that she is bi or pansexual.[[/labelnote]]
** Same goes for Baljeet, whose voice actor, Maulik Pancholy, came out as gay some time before the end of the show's run.

* MemeAcknowledgement: Creator/VincentMartella is [[https://twitter.com/negrospice/status/1277469684934139904?s=20 quite aware of the memes]] about Phineas and the show, including Phineas being a MemeticPsychopath and the fetish fanart of Phineas being pregnant.

* PlayingGertrude: The main group of kids have ages 15 or under, according to the creators (with Candace being 15). ''None'' of their voice actors have ages falling into that range, with one of them, Maulik Pancholy, voice of Baljeet, being in his late thirties (Pancholy was born in 1974). Incredibly, he's not even the oldest - the winner of that particular honor is Kelly Hu, who was 39 when she '''began''' voicing Stacy (Hu was born in 1968)!
** Jeremy and Vanessa were roughly the same age as their voice actors, Mitchel Musso and Olivia Olsen, respectively, during the casting. Even so, however, both Musso (b. 1991) and Olsen (b. 1992) are actually ''younger'' than Thomas Sangster (b. 1990), the voice of Ferb, a preteen.

** Caroline Rhea, [[https://twitter.com/CarolineRhea/status/609396885384785922 Linda's voice actress]] has stated that she personally felt Linda [[KnewItAllAlong knew Phineas and Ferb were building stuff the whole time]].

** In a change introduced in the Milo Murphy's Law episode "The Phineas and Ferb Effect", Ferb will again be voiced by David Errigo Jr. in ''Candace Against the Universe''.

** In the Russian dub, the titular duo in seasons 2, 3 and onwards have the same voice actor.