Phineas and Ferb create a wind amplification device for their giant kites, while Doofenshmirtz attempts to soak his childhood rival, Grulinda, with his Sog-inator. Meanwhile, Linda has professional landscape artists modify the backyard, and a misunderstanding leads Candace to believe her mom busted her boys straight-up.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Physics: How the wind amplifier for kite flying Phineas and Ferb designed works. It takes a small puff of air, supercools it, then superheats it with an air intake along the way that comes out strong enough to make giant kites fly. It also amplifies water somehow, making a rainstorm when some splashes into it.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: After Pierre "translates" what Florraine said in Dutch, Linda says it sounded like he asked where Perry is.
- Brick Joke: At the beginning of the episode, Phineas and Ferb are trying to figure out how they can both use the push broom at the same time. At the end of the episode, they are explaining their technique to the rest of the gang in the backyard.
- Continuity Nod:
- Isabella's kite is shaped like the pretty pony she rode in "The Magnificent Few".
- In Doof's flashback, Grulinda pours a bucket of water on young Heinz while working as a lawn gnome.Young Heinz: Stop pouring water on me!
Doof's Dad: Bewege sie Nicht!
- Expy: Pierre and Florraine are essentially landscape artist versions of Phineas and Ferb, with Pierre being the more talkative of the two, and Florraine being the quiet one, except when he does speak, it is in Dutch. They both even have the same first letters.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Grulinda called Doof "Soggy Bottom Heinz Doofenshmirtz".
- Evil Is Petty: Doof denies the pettiness of his evil scheme despite the trope.
- Girliness Upgrade: Grulinda in the present looks much more feminine than how she appeared in her childhood.
- Going Down with the Ship: Buford tricks Baljeet into making him the captain of his pirate ship float during the storm to invoke this trope.
- Gratuitous English: When Pierre admits to Florraine he has no idea what he is saying in Dutch, Florraine finally asks if he would rather speak in English.
- Hairstyle Inertia: Subverted. Doofenshmirtz's childhood bully, Grulinda, moved to Danville recently. He thinks it's a woman who looked very much like she did as a child. He is surprised when he sees her now.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Before crashing the garden party, Perry attempts to save Doof, but ends up grabbing his right shoe and sock.
- Loving Bully: Turns out Grulinda only kept picking on Doof by dumping buckets of water on him because she liked him.
- Mondegreen Gag: When Linda calls Candace to complain about what the landscape artists are doing to the backyard, Candace misinterprets the pronunciation "Du Bois" as "the boys", referring to Phineas and Ferb. This is what causes her to think her brothers are busted.
- Musicalis Interruptus: A variation, in that Candace begins singing "Straight-Up Bust" in the mall, and then it cuts to the next scene as if she was finished, but when it cuts back to the mall, it turns out she was still singing! Turns out, that song was long enough to cut away from!
- Never Trust a Title: The titular storm only takes up a minute of the episode, and most of the focus is on the Linda plot and the Doof plot.
- Overly Long Gag: When Candace believes her brothers got busted by Mom, she goes into her own musical number, "Straight-Up Bust". When we cut back to her a few scenes later, she is still singing.
- Red Herring: The woman that Doofenshmirtz assumes to be Grulinda at first is actually a random woman who looked like Grulinda in her youth. The real Grulinda then shows up, and is needlessly beautiful.
- Special Guest: Elizabeth Banks with an affected Drusselstinian accent plays Grulinda. Also, Leah Remini plays the woman that Doof mistakes for Grulinda. Also, Simon Pegg as landscape artist Pierre du Bois.
- Swapped Roles: Candace becomes the one who does not believe her mom, while Linda becomes the "but, but, but"-er. Candace thinks she's being mocked.
- True Art Is Incomprehensible: Pierre and Florraine's landscape artistry can be seen as this.
- The Unintelligible: Florraine only speaks Dutch, which Pierre pretends to understand, but does not really.
- Viva Las Vegas!: After Agent P leaves, Carl asks if he is gone, to which Monogram replies, "Yeah, c'mon, let's go to Vegas!"
