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There's a hundred and [[Christmas Episode|five]] eps of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' before they play the season ender. And the weekly-ish problem for all of the fanbase is finding [[Fridge Logic]] to enter.<br />Like maybe...
Note that examples related to [[The Movie]] should go to [[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across
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* Why is it that their parents always give in to Candace's begging to be in charge? I love Candace (as a character), but it seems weird that they wouldn't have learned from past events that whenever they put her in charge, she freaks out. She also threw that party... err [[Insistent Terminology|intimate get-together]]. Why don't they just get a baby sitter?
** The only episode I can think of where she's specifically put in charge is Summer Belongs to You, and my guess is that it's only because both parents were going to be gone for a couple days. Even in the first episode, Linda says that no one has to be in charge, and finally relented by saying she was in charge if a satellite crashed into the house. Candace just likes to think she's in charge most of the time.
** Maybe they figured that Candice being In Charge basically meant they'd have one person ready to call the authorities in case of any real troubles. They just didn't have the same ideas of what was a crisis as Candice did.
* How come Swampy (of Love Händel) never lost his librarian look, even after the band got back together?
** In their introductory episode he didn't fit into his old costume anymore. As for since then, well I guess we can blame him not getting another one on [[Limited Wardrobe]].
* Why doesn't Candace just buy a camera? I mean, yeah, we all know it'll get damaged by the end of the episode, or the film will suffer the same problems as [[Married...
** She tried taking pictures once. The film got wet the SECOND before she got back to her house!
*** Her phone has a camera on it, and she never thinks of using it.
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*** Dan Povenmire's explanation (as of [[Comic Con]] 2011) is that they made some investments with the money they charged for riding the rollercoaster. Really good investments, apparently.
* Does Danville only have one television station? Even ''with'' cable? (see "The Fast and the Phineas").
** Actually, no, in ''Perry Lays An Egg'', Candace is shown watching the show's equivalent to Animal Planet because she was to lazy to change the channel.
** Not to mention the [[Discovery Channel|UNcovery Channel]] from "What Do It Do?".
* Isn't Phineas a bit young to be ordering crazy scheme kits from Acme Same-Day Delivery?
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** Perhaps for the same reasons she didn't notice the ''big freakin' flame'' in the tree (in "Rollercoaster) or the ''huge gaping hole'' in it from the explosion the next day?
*** All that explosion did was pop open one of the secret exits Perry uses for his hovercraft (as seen in "Traffic Cam Caper"). It must have closed up again by itself soon after.
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'''Linda:''' All right, I don't see a huge gaping hole in our tree. }}
* How can Phineas and Ferb be such geniuses and still not realize that Perry shouldn't be able to lay eggs because he's male? Ferb being the big animal expert of the two should especially know this.
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*** Perhaps when the switch occurred, when Candace was in Perry's body, they... switched genders? Somehow? Thus making 'Perry' able to 'sweat milk'. But that explanation also means that [[Squick|'Candace' turned into a boy in the switch,]] meaning there wouldn't be the whole 'Perry the Teenage Girl' thing. Just considering is all.
*** I've always assumed that when Candace and Perry switched bodies they actually swapped some of their gender characteristics as well. For example, because Candace is a girl and is now in Perry's body Perry('s body) is now able to sweat milk. Likewise, Candace('s body) does not have breasts (however we can't tell because she was already flat-chested), and everything was switched back to normal when P&F got Candace's and Perry's brains in their correct places. In short, Perry is undoubtedly male, and Candace is undoubtedly female.
*** [[Freaky Thursday|They swapped hormones, perhaps?]] Your average teenage girl has a lot more body mass than a Perry-sized platypus. Assuming brain chemistry got transferred, it could work out
*** Plus if Perry were female, the [[Squick]] of its relationship with Dr. Doofus would be lesser... except for the bestiality angle, that is...
**** Just because you dislike slash doesn't mean a ''man/platypus'' pairing is inherently less squicky if said pairing is ''straight''. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Also, "Dr. Doofus" is Dr. Doofenschmirtz.]]
** [[Rule of Funny|...They are just kids.]]
*** Candace, however, isn't.
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*** Venom production rises during the breeding season, but that doesn't mean it's completely down for the rest of the year. The spurs of female platypuses usually drop off after a year or two, incidentally.
** Ferb also doesn't know that platypi aren't the only mammals that lay eggs, so he doesn't know ''everything'' about animals.
* After watching ''It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World'' again, I realized this - the boys' dad was ''in'' on this caper and actually took part in the monster truck show in his own backyard; Later on in another episode, a roller derby took place with the boys' grandmother (Phineas and Candace's grandma) being in on what was going on; They made a canyon in the backyard to help their grandfather (Ferb's to be specific) recapture his glory days. So why is it only Linda that Candace is so worried about telling? If their dad and grandparents are completely okay with the boys' projects, then why wouldn't their mother be? And even if she wasn't, wouldn't their dad speak up for them?
** The non-canon episode where they get busted does show that their dad would stand up for them, and even their mom accepts it after a while, provided it's realistic.
** Lawrence was working off the assumption that Linda knew about the kids' full size monster trucks, when she only knew about their faster than light remote-control/slot car versions, and she had given permission for their slot cars, so, he assumed it was okay that they had the full size one. He knows she holds the power in the relationship, being an ex-pop star and all that...
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** You have to remember though that both of those are dangerous (You could fall off a rollercoaster and you can get seriously injured from that town [all of the bites they got, and maybe even a rattle snake or two]) But if it's safe that won't seriously injure the boys she would be ok with it.
** If Candice proves the boys capable of one amazing feat (like building a whole western town in a day) it tends to show she wasn't imagining all the other times, including the rollercoaster. Candice gets a belated apology for "all those times" from her Mom in the future in 'Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo' when she demonstrates the reality of time travel.
*** Okay, so we've established that that Linda's husband and parents know about (some of) Phineas and Ferb's inventions, and don't disapprove of them. So how do these inventions never come up in conversation? Another [[Fridge Logic|question this raises]]: Since Candace knows that they know, why doesn't she try to get ''them'' to bust Phineas and Ferb, or to back her up when she tattles to her mother?
* What does Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. do exactly? And are there any employees besides Doofenshmirtz, sorta-Norm, and might-possibly-be-counted-as-an-intern Vanessa?
** Actually, the episode "At the Car Wash" showed some other people working in the building.
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*** And even that 'spiteful' act is very tame. They just outshine her, probably by accident seeing as they invite her to join immediately. They probably don't even know ''how'' to bug her on purpose.
** Its an example of both [[The Artifact]] and [[Characterization Marches On]] Tropes.
* Why are there so many people supporting [[May
** Well, technically she'd only be a pedophile until he hits his teens, which is in three to four years. After which it's just a straight [[May
*** Actually, Vanessa would already be an adult by the time Ferb's a teenager. She'd probably already be married by the time he turns 18.
**** Ferb is a pimp. He gets with everyone anyway. Johnny's just gonna have to get used to it, or else get in line.
** It's really more of a March/May romance (or would be, if it actually happened. Still weird until they both get older (though it has been noted Phineas and Ferb are, by [[Word of God]] post-[[
** There's also the fact that ''Ferb is a little boy''. Little boys have crushes on older girls. Vanessa is never shown to ''actually'' be interested in him. (And the creators sort of ''are'' forgetting Johnny-- when was the last time ''you'' saw him?)
** While the idea ''is'' kind of creepy, Ferb somehow manages to make it work. Blame it on [[Rule of Cool]].
** [[Ms. Fanservice|who wouldn't]] [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|develop a]] [[Even the Girls Want Her|crush on her?]]
** To answer this; # 1; Johnny's a [[Girl of the Week|Boy of the week]]. Fans are more likely to ship a recurring character with another recurring character than with one who showed up for one episode that one recurring character crushed on. # 2; It's not real, so it's okay to do [[May
** Guys, here's something that finally disproves all these notions: An upcoming episode called 'Brain Drain' had Vanessa reveal that ''Johnny is now her boyfriend''. Other than so, it also reveals two facts; One, Johnny looks like he'll become a recurring character, and Two, Ferbnessa shippers [[Internet Backdraft|will make the Internet explode into flames.]]
*** Vanessa broke up with Johnny in "Minor Monogram".
** [[Word of God]] confirms they will get together once they're older. YMMV on what that means, seeing as this is a show that doesn't shy away from the issue of divorce.
*** Actually, he Really said that he likes to think that they get together, he never said that would actually happen. Sorry, I'm a nitpicking fiend.
* How does Doofenshmirtz have custody of Vanessa when Charlene is clearly the more competent parent?
** They seem to have joint custody of her. She lives with her mother most of the time before going to her father's place. Oddly enough, Dr. D seems to be a fairly good, if incompetent, father to her so no one worries about her.
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** Yes. No, I'm not kidding, that's pretty much it.
** According to [[Word of God]], it's mostly because she knows she wouldn't be able to get away with the same stuff.
** It's not out of the realm of possibility that as a child, Candace would get in trouble for things that were a lot less dangerous than going into freakin' SPACE. Combine that starting point with being repeatedly made to look like a lunatic and you have a perfect recipe for obsession.
*** I think it's more that she ''thinks'' she wouldn't be able to get away with it. So yeah, she's basically just nuts.
**** Well, if "The Secret of Success" and the upcoming "Candace gets busted" mean anything, this might be justified.
** The first episode almost wrote this in stone.
*** I think it's become a quest to prove her point and show her mom that she isn't crazy. Plus, after all those failed attempts, wouldn't YOU be frustrated? She just got caught up in it and it's practically a habit.
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* If Candace is allergic to dairy, why is her favorite food grilled cheese sandwiches? Okay, maybe her favorite food is grilled ''non-dairy'' cheese sandwiches, but even if that is the case, she probably wouldn't/shouldn't eat grilled cheese sandwiches she found lying around because she wouldn't know if they were made with non-dairy cheese or not.
** Maybe she loves grilled cheese sandwiches so much that she'll eat them despite the unpleasant reaction she'll experience later.
** Some people are only mildly allergic to dairy.
** As cheeses are literally aged milk, the lactose eventually begins to decompose at the hands of the bacteria living in it. Most cheeses contain significantly less lactose than milk, and Candace's dairy allergy is most likely lactose intolerance...
** She was making up rhymes. She isn't going to change her name to Larry, either.
** After about two weeks, [[Good Eats|lactose man loses all of his power.]]
** She's talked about being allergic to dairy other times. In 'The Wizard of Odd', she dreams a 'non-dairy frozen treat sidewalk', implying that she has some aversion to dairy.
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** Remember when he got out of a trap by replacing himself with a fake dummy while in the trap? His escapes aren't supposed to make sense.
* In "Attack of the 50ft. Sister" everything in the universe grew to giant size, so when Candace went back in time to when the rollercoaster was built she should have been giant.
** Maybe the [[Puff of Logic|paradox-correcting]] [[Futurama|code]] in the time machine also keeps a person's atoms the same size as local atoms as well as adjusting their [[Doctor Who
** The show is not done in chronological order and it is very possible that "Attack of the 50ft. Sister" happened after "Quantum Boogaloo".
*** In which case, when Candace (and Phineas and Ferb and Isabella) traveled to the future, they should have been tiny. Unless the troper a couple paragraphs down is correct and the growth was either temporary or reversed in the meantime.
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** Rule of [[Irony]]. A place of perfect rhythm made him lose his.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: His subconscious decided that, since he could not match the perfect rhythm of the metronomes, he had somehow "lost" his sense of rhythm. In reality, the only difference was that ''his standards rose'', which led to a lack of confidence in his own abilities.
*** This is known as the [
** Um... it did.
*** No, really, it gave him perfect rhythm. Even just sitting there in the library stamping books he kept perfect time. He just didn't realize it, probably because whenever he tried to play the drums he couldn't do it, presumably because he was thinking too hard about it. He didn't realize he still had rhythm (which he clearly had the whole time, which is why the song is hilarious) until Phineas and Ferb got him to start playing the drums without him noticing. Yeah, basically he spent years convinced he'd lost exactly what he'd gained.
* At the end of Christmas Vacation, Jeremy gives Candace a pair of earrings. But those "earrings" look a lot like a single ring. It's like they originally planned to have them get engaged, but changed their minds at the last minute and didn't bother to reanimate the scene.
** That doesn't really seem to be the case. They do kind of look like a ring, but some earrings just do. I honestly doubt there was anything more to it.
** That was the idea, wasn't it? The audience is supposed to think at first that he's giving her a ring and jump to the obvious conclusion.
* Why do I hear so many phrases in Phineas' voice since I stared watching the show and reading the pages for it here? [[Futurama|Good news, everyone,]] I know what we're going to do today! [[Good News, Bad News|...It's not for everyone]]. (Even the phrases that ''[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|aren't]]'' his! ...stupid "Candace outburst voice".) It's like the ohrwurm nest of voice acting, when you factor in Perry the Platypus... [[Dissimile|and by that I mean]], Perry the Platypus's archnemesis! (Please forgive the format, it was originally written to conform to WMG markups.)
** heheh, I'm so glad someone marked the ''Futurama'' part. No joke, I read that in Prof. Farnsworth's voice, and it immediately switched to Phineas'. Without me trying.
** Whatcha doooooin?
** You think that's bad? This troper can't listen to a single ''song'' without it being Phineas and Ferb-itized in my head. [[Your Mileage May Vary|The mileage definitely varies]], but it sure is fun listening to rap songs and having parts of "Spa Day" in my brain instead.
*** Beats having something in the episode set off something from another fandom. Every time this troper hears the bom-bom-inator's [[Heartbeat Soundtrack]] in ''The Baljeatles'', he expects them to start singing ''Breaking Out'' or ''Keep Quiet'' by [[
*** Phineas and Ferb's song "Kick It up a Notch" features Slash from Guns 'n' Roses. Now I can't help but imagine P 'n' F singing G 'n' R songs. "With your bitch-slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothing done..."
* What happened with Candace's and Phineas' Dad and Ferb's Mom? I haven't seen a single mention of either of them. Many kids keep in touch with their parents even after one of them remarry, what happened with theirs?
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*** Several episodes have implied that Doof owns his whole building, and he also seems to have people who rent out the rest of the building. The alimony checks from his ex-wife are also shown to be rather large; his 'big alimony check' is big enough to allow him to buy a ten thousand dollar Perry-disguised-as-a-dog in the pet show episode.
*** In the movie, we see Heinz trying to persuade his elderly neighbour to buzz him into his apartment. Maybe he just owns a single floor of the building. Either that or as the above troper said, he rents it out.
* [[What Happened to
** It became Skynet.
* What happened to the Ferbot that got taken away and was never seen again?
** Off having adventures in New Orleans.
** About where everything else goes when thrown into the back of a garbage truck.
**** ...[[Toy Story (franchise)||Damn]] [[Fridge Horror|you.]]
* What was Norm ready and waiting to burst out of the screen if Doofenshmirtz was watching the film to find out what the Enemy of the Platypus actually was?
** He wasn't. He'd seen the film beforehand.
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** This troper took it to be something life 1in= 100ft, or some units that make it work better (this troper is also bad with distances). He knows from model railroading that the units on either side of the scale don't have to be the same. (HO scale is 1:87, 3.5mm to 1 foot)
*** This troper ''is'' good with distances (and math in general). 1 ft. is about 87 times longer than 3.5 mm, so the scale is correctly shown. 1 in = 1 ft wouldn't be 1:100 scale, it would be 1:1,200.
*** In architectural and engineering drafting/modeling that's not how scale factors are stated. It would be written as 1" = 100', or 1":100', and read as '1 to 100' so the show was correct with the inch/ft generally left to be assumed based on industry [in architecture, it is almost always assumed that it is an inch to feet conversion].
*** It looked like just one city, rather than the entire Tri-State Area. I think this is a case of the writers and animators not being on the same page.
* In the one where they all go up into space, Doofenschmirtz's evil plan is...to make shadow puppets on the moon. How is this evil ''at all'', let alone enough to warrant some sort of government-ish interference?
** It's not. But it's disruptive (or at least slightly suspicious), and Doofenshmirtz is doing it so <nowiki>[MajorMonogramVoice]</nowiki>''it must be stopped at all costs''[/voice]. Or at least figure out what he's doing. [voice]And ''then'' stop him. We're counting on you, Agent- I mean...[/voice] Ahem.
** They didn't know what he was doing. Perry was sent to figure that out. For all they knew, he could have been attempting to ''blow up'' the moon, which would fit with his past history. They send Perry to determine whether Doof's success would have any lasting effects, and allow him to use his discretion from there. Perry generally decides to foil Doofenshmirtz regardless of the threat posed.
** Doof wants to be foiled. "Thwart me, Perry the Platypus."
* The Wummer faction is simply absurd! Wummer is (in this context) summer in winter (or would be if I ever stooped to using such a silly term to describe seasonal portmanteau)!
** I'm sorry, you must be new here. May I direct you to the [[Rule of Fun]] page?
*** ...That doesn't stop Wummer from being summer in winter... * grouchy-pout face*
*** What I mean is that this page is for oversights, plot holes, or inconsistencies that are the fault of the writers. Anything that is nonsensical but is in the show anyway because something that makes more sense is less fun is [[Rule of Fun]] and falls under [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]]. It's not fair game for a headscratcher, because that would include the very premise of the show.
*** For the record, it's officially described as winter and summer ''combined'' and things to that effect. Either portmanteau is acceptable in this case, just like 2+ 3 is the same as 3+ 2.
*** Well it was just for one day.
** Who thinks it would be hilarious if, in the next [[Christmas Episode]], Doofenshmirtz tried to create Wummer (S'''umm'''er in '''W'''int'''er''') and Norm said, "Some People Call It S'Winter"?
* If Charlene believes that nobody is evil, what does she think [[Adolf Hitler]] was?
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*** That doesn't really count, since he was a vegetarian for medical reasons. And thanks to [[Animal Wrongs Group|PETA]] we know vegetarians can be evil.
** Hitler, like all major evildoers throughout history, thought he was doing the right thing. Like it or not, but that's what he thought. In a way, Doof is the complete opposite of Adolf Hitler: A man who ''wants'' to do evil things, but never really succeeds.
** [[Adolf Hitler]]? On a ''[[Phineas and Ferb]] page?'' [[
** Is noteworthy that, in ''Phineas and Ferb'', [[Rousseau Was Right]], so maybe Hitler never existed in that universe.
*** Or he was prevented from ever reaching his evil goals, thanks to Agent G(oldie), an O.W.C.A. operative working undercover.
** Charlene didn't say it expecting a bunch of [[Genre Savvy]] people in [[Real Life|a different universe]] to pick it apart and throw a bunch of anti-examples at her; she just wanted to tell her daughter that Heinz wasn't pure evil. If Hitler was mentioned to her, she might say 'okay, except for Hitler.'
** In other words, she was just making a sweeping generalization as a dismissal. You know, to prove a point? Like people often do in real life? I mean, how often have you heard "Oh, please, nobody can be that stupid!" or "I can't believe you hate/love [whatever]! ''Everyone'' loves/hates [whatever]!" or stuff like that?
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** It definitely wasn't made up on the spot (because {{spoiler|Candace didn't need to become a Fireside Girl}} in the first place). But, it was probably just made up by The Scout Leader in case of such a situation. In that case, she making it up for such a situation would be pretty damn smart, even if she didn't really need to enforce it in the first place.
* How ''did'' Doofenshmirtz create Doofelium if only about 118 elements exist in the known universe? Also, what is the reason for Pizzazium Infinianite existing?
** Again, [[Rule of Funny]]. [[Just Bugs Me]] is supposed to be for glaring plot holes or mistakes, not for nonsensical things purposely done for laughs. Those "elements" were just the writers having fun. It's even lampshaded when "pizzazzium infinianite" is shown in a Peroidic Table, and it's put way down on the edge of the table's border.
* In the "Musical Cliptastic Countdown", Phineas and Ferb openly acknowledge that Perry is guest-starring in a clip show. Wouldn't they wonder why their pet got a role on the show?
** Actually, possibly not; they would probably think it makes as much sense as any other explanation for where Perry goes every day.
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** I'll answer your question once I [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|repair this wall]].
* So does mom just not read the newspaper or watch the news on TV? I highly doubt that not even one of the amazing things Phineas and Ferb do would not make it in the news. Granted, [[Worst News Judgement Ever]] probably does not occur much in their world, but I imagine that someone would still devote a large article to two boys building a city-wide rollercoaster or creating the newest toy fad. Perhaps the local news team has the same amount of luck Candace does.
** No, no she doesn't. She didn't know about their seats on the city council, hasn't seen the Doofenshmirtz Wreaks Havoc articles, and didn't see PFT's magazine cover(s?) or the advertisment for the Phintastic, Ferbulous Car Wash. However, for things like the rollercoaster and the Mix-And-Mingle Machine it seems like it's just not newsworthy ([[Bad Future|except]] when it's [[Canon
* Linda clearly goes out often and interacts with many people over the course of the show, so how is it NO ONE talks to her about the boys' devices. Obviously she's never gonna believe Candace and she's not gonna listen to the words of a bunch of 10 year old, but their were plenty of adults who took part in the games/rides they created. Everything they do is big news, so how is this family not famous? Surely someone walked by the house and talked to Linda . It wouldn't matter if it was the 200th episode and the end of summer, I'd still be asking "What was with that giant rollercoaster your sons built anyway?" Better question, why doesn't Candace get all the grown ups to back her up, surely Linda isn't gonna think the entire city has a wild imagination.
** The projects are generally only up for a few hours in the afternoon, and then only used by kids, besides the rare instances where they do something different (like make a one-hit wonder, create a fashion line, etc.) I'm not surprised she hasn't heard of it, why would the kids that are involved tell her about it?
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** 1. Because it's funny. 2. Agent T didn't vanish. Carl said they "lost" him, implying he got eaten (Thanksgiving is in late November).
** Major Monogram himself remarks on this at one point when he encounters difficulty trying to communicate with several of the agents.
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** They're not all animals. Don't forget about Planty the Potted Plant.
* Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo has a lot of errors when examined. How did the Rollercoaster!Phineas know about the bonding tool? He wouldn't even know he'd need it for at least 20 more episodes.
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** The space rift managed to make an alien randomly exist. I'd rather take issue with that than the Old Coot winning an essay contest.
*** It didn't make the alien randomly exist. It exists in a universe independent of ours ("It's a Mud Mud Mud Mud World" et al). Doof's time rewinding device had the unwanted side effect of bridging the gap between universes. Once time started moving forward again at a point just prior to where the episode began, the new timeline quickly diverged from the old timeline due to free will or the butterfly effect or whatever. It seems to make perfect sense.
*** Fair Enough but how could The Old Coot send a good enough essay to win a contest? Did they REALLY think any essay wrote by him would have a crazy metaphor.
**** I wouldn't put anything past those people.
**** The part that bugs me is, during the speech, they call him "the old coot" instead of his name.
* In the sauna, what is up with Major Monogram's body?! When in uniform, he clearly has broad shoulders and thick arms. When in the sauna, he has the same body as Lawrence!
** Maybe the shoulders of his uniform are padded to make him look more manly or something?
*** If you look closely in other episodes, the sleeves of his uniform do appear to be very loose.
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** Again, comedy show running on [[Rule of Funny]]. When every other device shown in the TV show is impossible with real life physics all for the sake of gags, are you really so surprised they don't take biology seriously as well?
*** Yes. Yes, I am. The thing is, most breaks from reality are meant to be [[Refuge in Audacity]] ''ridiculous''. This one is not so, thus I am skeptical of whether it was an intentional mistake or a [[You Fail Biology Forever|scientific failure.]]
*** Listen to your own points. "Meant to be ''ridiculous.''" It '''was.''' Most of the humor regarding the inventions of this show are built exactly on how ridiculous they all are. It's ALL INTENTIONAL for the sake of [[Rule of Funny]] (which, contradictory to what you think, is NOT solely based on [[Refuge in Audacity]]--read the trope description). It can't be a scientific mistake when they are not trying to be accurately scientific in the first place. It has Doof turning into a single celled organism with ''eyes, a mouth, and functional human thought''. How can you note that and still be skeptical that they didn't give a fuck about being scientifically accurate for the sake of [[Rule of Funny]]?
**** What's funny about humans being closer to reptiles than platypodes are?
**** The absurdity is even lampshaded when Doofenshmirtz winds up with one big ear and says "I don't get this one."
** A few episodes later Doof mentions his de-evolution-ator again, and ''admits he doesn't even know what evolution is'', [[Did Not Do the Research|just that it has something to do with monkeys]]. Knowing him, he probably just made something that changes an organism's species and though evolution-ator sounded catchy.
* Suzy's [[Face Heel Turn]] in "Suddenly Suzy" never mad sense to me. It's said that she only acts evil while Jeremy is around but there's been plenty of times where she's acted evil and Jeremy is nowhere to bee seen.
** She doesn't necessarily do it only when he's there to see, but rather when she can make a power play out of it; when she does do things like the [[Squirrels in My Pants]] thing, it serves to cause Candace to act like, well, Candace and thus freak out and usually run off screaming.
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*** Which he had, of course. Usually, Doof's schemes involve the same pattern: 1. Invent Somethinginator. 2. Use it. 3. ??? 4. Rule the Tri-State Area. This time, he kidnapped Major Monogram, Agent P's boss, transported him halfway around the world in the luggage portion of a jet plane, and aimed to ruin his credibility and bring down the Organization. It's easy to see why Perry would deem that scheme more worthy of a proper arrest.
* In the title sequence... what happened to the fourth penguin? "MOM! Phineas and Ferb misplaced a penguin!"
** It went to the [[What Happened to
*** Mark my words, that [[Brick Joke|brick]] is going to crash into someone's head one day.
* Was the "Bouncin' Along" montage in "Summer Belongs to You" supposed to be in chronological order? Because if it was (and even if it wasn't), they were going all over the place, backtracking, and at least once went literally halfway around the world, about as far as the possibly could have (Western Europe to Australia).
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** ...Because she was sleeping?
*** But the invention still would have been there during the previous evening. What about then?
** She was trying to buy those tickets. Yes, that means that the one day she could have busted her brothers, [[Irony|she didn't]].
* A bit of nitpicking here, but in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted," upon being carried away by the O.W.C.A. agents, Phineas comments "Hey, I haven't even finished my cereal." The family was eating bacon and eggs.
** Answer: [[Fridge Brilliance|He hasn't even started eating his cereal yet either.]]
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*** You don't need a wizard if you set your watch to [[Cartoonland Time]].
* During the "Evil Boys" song, Candace mentions the backyard beach and the treehouse robots, despite her actually LIKING those things. Why would she point them out as examples of their "evil"?
** Because she failed to bust the boys; her fatal flaw is that she let's her self-imposed mission sully any fun she could or even does have, after all.
* Hey, where's Perry?
** [[Riddle for
*** [[A Worldwide Punomenon|He left Journey in 1998, citing health problems.]]
* In "Picture This" Candace took a photo of Mom's upper body without a blindfold on, but when she happens to put the photo in the Go Getter at the same time Mom is trying to break a piñata, Mom is still brought back to the backyard with the blindfold on and her body intact. This contradicts the earlier scene with Grandpa Fletcher.
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** In ''Oh, there you are, Perry'' Doof received a gift basket that explained that he was downgraded as a threat. Possibly the time he was assigned Perry to him he received a different gift basket that explained him that Perry the Platypus has been assigned to him.
*** But Major Monogram and Carl only ever refer to Perry as Agent P. Why would they refer to him as Perry The Platypus when it's in a gift basket?
**** Granted. But perhaps it was just because the letter was more formal and included the full name so that Doof can use [[Full
**** There are at least three different Agent P's, Perry, Peter, and Pinky, they probably address the agents by their initials one on one but use their full names when they need to be clear which agent they're talking about, wouldn't want a new villain preparing a trap for Peter the Panda when he was actually assigned to Paul the Porpoise after all.
** Doof probably has tried to spy on the Agency for counter-intelligence.
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* Something that really bugs me is that whole "platypi are the only mammals that lay eggs" thing. There are two actually. The other one is called an echidna. Why has no one noticed this yet? I mean, I know it's a relatively unknown animal but you'd think they'd do some research on something they make such a big deal of.
** As much as I love this show, the [[Did Not Do the Research|lack of fact-checking]] on the part of the writers and animators is really appalling. Alpine-dwelling dodo? ''T. rex'' with three fingers on each hand? Red blood corpuscles dividing? It's amazing that this stuff makes it into production without anybody along the way noticing and correcting them.
*** Why would it be amazing when it's ''not'' an [[Edutainment Show]] that frequently features blatantly (and lampshaded) scientifically impossible things? It does not need research, and it ignores facts in the service of [[Rule of Funny]]. The Alpine-dodo, for one, is precisely that. It's supposed to be absurd that it's an ''Alpine'' dodo, that's part of the joke. You might as well be complaining about why Bugs Bunny is not a scientifically realistic rabbit. Besides, [[Just Bugs Me]] is for logical issues with the ''plot'', not for complaining about how the creators aren't up to your standards.
** Make a big deal out of? Ferb said it once randomly at the end of "Rollercoaster" and it's never brought up again. How is that making a big deal out of it?
** Well I'm sure they brought it up more than that. They brought it up in the one about the platypus monster at least. But anyway that's not the point right now. Whether they make a big deal out of it or not they still should of made sure it was right before they said it.
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** Exactly; it wasn't Sal Tuscany that was rearranged, it was ''A'' Sal Tuscany. [[Did Not Do the Research|Doof actually says that.]]
** "Sal Tuscany" can be rearranged to spell "Santy Claus," though.
** He did mention an embarrassing leftover "Y".
* In Christmas Vacation, did the snowman Perry built actually crashed into vegetables like in the credits unharmed, leaving a carrot to Perry which is not his nose? Then how come when Major Monogram ate the carrot, Perry felt disgusted?
** I'm not completely sure, but if I remember correctly Perry didn't look disgusted. More like shocked or slightly horrified. Maybe he just really wanted a carrot and didn't like that Moonogram took his?
** I always took it as the time during the episode was on Christmas Eve, and the time in the credits was Christmas morning. Although it's been a while since I've seen that episode, I'm pretty sure Perry reacts differently to the second one.
** Perry was shocked because it WAS the snowman's nose Monogram was eating. The snowman got hit by a plow the first time around.
* So Carl built robotic replicas of the Flynn-Fletcher family. Creepy. But ''why'' did he build a replica of Perry if the robot was supposed to be operated by ''Agent P''?
** [[Captain Obvious|So it could be operated by another agent if Agent P was out of commission?]]
*** The problem is that ''most'' of the agents are the same size or bigger than Perry. If memory serves, the only ones that aren't are the koi fish and Agent S. Both of whom would have a hard time operating a robotic replica and flipping through at least three different reference books simultaneously, as they're all lacking in limbs. And before anybody says it, I know-- "He's a platypus, he doesn't do much."
*** This Troper remembers that there's also an agent mouse...
* I know this is Disney and all and that it probably wouldn't happen but...shouldn't Candace be locked away in an insane asylum by now or at the very least having many hours of the therapy? From Linda's POV, Candace has lost total contact with reality and is completely bonkers (not that she isn't already of course). Linda should be worried that her daughter will just snap completely and go on insane raging rampage of some sort.
** Same deal with Vanessa and her mother. Vanessa probably seems even less sane, since even Candace never made the claim that a harmless pet platypus is a secret agent.
** Linda bought books about dealing with crazy teenagers like Candace, so she must be at least aware of how to take care of Candace. I don't think Linda would consider Candace to be crazy enough to get sent to an asylum.
** Additionally, she seems to be chalking it up to teenage hormones (she doesn't take Candace's friends too seriously either).
*** I think the question that should be asked instead is, if Linda thinks Candace is fantasy-prone and unstable, why does she keep leaving her in charge when her and Lawrence are gone?
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* What are Pinky the Chihuahua and Peter the Panda's code names? Agent D, C, and P are already taken.
** They probably still call them Agent P. In the episode where Perry ends up in Pinky's lair, doesn't the woman call him Agent P before seeing it's Perry and not Pinky?
*** That's probably it-- Pinky and Peter are probably in different organizations. O.W.C.A isn't the only one that's been shown in an episode. (Granted, that was Inspector Initials' division, and dealt with humans, but that's not the point.) The duplicates probably don't matter-- none of the agents who report to Monogram have had the same letter as another... Ignoring Agent T, the turtle, but since, according to Carl, they 'lost' Agent T the turkey around Thanksgiving, it doesn't really violate the theory.
**** That would explain why Peter the Panda plays by different rules than Perry (e.g. foiling Doofenshmirtz during a musical number).
* In "Oil on Candace," Dr. Doofenshmirtz shows his former professor the drillinator, meltinator, deflatinator, and woodinator, and tells her none of them worked. But they all worked! They weren't used on their intended targets due to Perry's intervention, so the ''schemes'' failed, but the ''inventions'' worked. Why would he say they didn't?
** Maybe his schemes failing is what he meant by them not working. They didn't do what they were supposed to do so they didn't work in the way he was hoping.
* Did Phineas and Ferb ever do something that is strictly against the laws of psychics as the show sometimes jokes?
** They've made an anti-gravity machine in "Undercover Carl".
** I'd say the teleporters in "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" and "Picture This" probably violate the laws of physics. Especially the first one, which explicitly breaks matter down and recreates it from its constituent particles.
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*** We can add the football X-7 arena in "My Fair Goalie" to the list of projects that are bigger on the inside than the outside. The artificial environment in "The Great Indoors" also looks that way, but the impression of wide open spaces and long distances travelled could be an illusion (like on the holodeck in ''Star Trek'').
*** The haunted house didn't really look like it was bigger than it was on the outside, the control center was Ferb "maximizing space", and I always thought they sort of just moved people's houses for the beach. I don't think any of them would really count as breaking the laws of physics.
** Better question: Is this a serious question, or are you trolling?
** Let's see... they've repaired a time machine, used it at least twice, they built a skyscraper that reaches the moon, they've built an anti-gravity rug, they shrunk themselves and went into Candace, they built an elevator to the moon (mentioned but unseen), they unfroze a caveman alive, built a teleporter, a rainbow machine, a portal to Mars, an animal translator, a growth elixir, an interactive video game, a giant paper mache airplane, shrunk themselves on a rainy day, built x-ray specs, built another teleporter (for lost stuff), passed through everything, built an anti-gravity machine, made growth elixir, split Candace, built a molecular separator, super-fast shoes, a super computer, a super mobile phone with teleportation app, and a hair-growing machine. The other things they've done should be physically possible in some way. Note: this list should be expanded as time goes on.
*** If we're gonna get technical, antigravity isn't impossible. It's already been achieved on a small scale (and a larger scale if you believe some conspiracy theories). Passing through solid matter is also theoretically possible by circumventing the Coulomb force.
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** maybe I should have worded it "did they do anything that is impossible?" and I don't think something that is possible in theory like a time machine should be brought up as something impossible.
** So just impossible and possible in theory doesn't count? Hm, I don't think there was anything. Maybe going inside and bringing things out of video games?
*** Your own words just above: "They're amazing and scientific but I don't think they really break any laws." I brought up the roller-coaster example to give just one example where the laws of physics were broken. And when laws of physics, when brought up, refers to the ''known'' laws of physics. When you bring that up, that's the assumption people are going to make. Also, just because something is "theoretically possible" doesn't mean that it's presentation isn't still erroneous. Back when heavier than air flight was still theoretical, people came up with all sorts of plane designs that did not and could not work. So even if what the machines in the show do may be theoretically possible someday, how they're designed and their operating mechanism (when described) still break the laws of physics.
*** 1. The laws of physics in the Roller coaster episode were broken because having them blow up isn't very kid friendly. 2. He said that "theoretically possible" doesn't count. 3. The designs don't really have anything to do with it. It brings it back to it being a kids' show and the guys in charge not wanting to figure out how to build a time machine/animal translator/etc. just so it looks accurate.
* Why jump to the conclusion that the Martians don't know what music is? All Candace said was "Crank the tunes!" For all she knows, they probably just didn't understand what that meant.
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* How can Danville be at or near the shared border(s) of three states, but also border an ocean (vide "Atlantis," "That Sinking Feeling")? I don't see how those two qualities could coexist.
** [[Rule of Cool]]. Seriously there's no way to explain it other than for plot purposes. Also, did it ever say all those places were around Danville? Was there a map or did we get confirmation from Doof trying to take over the Tri-State Area again or something like that?
*** [http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c20/FloydPinkerton/Miscellaneous/Tristate.jpg The map]{{Dead link}} from "Just Passing Through." Now that I've dug that up, it actually provides a pretty good answer. I'm assuming those are the borders of the states joining there by the western edge. Danville is presumably on the large bay that makes up most of the border between the state on the north and the state on the southeast.
** And if you look closely, there's several groups of three states that could work, esp if you include major rivers.
* Why are there so many references to Phineas and Ferb travelling in time twice? {{spoiler|The timeline where they travel through time a second time in "Quantum Boogaloo" was ultimately replaced with one where future Isabella gave the boys a device from the future, mooting their need for the time machine.}} So from the point of view of the characters, they only travelled in time once.
** Well they traveled backward in time, then traveled forward (in different time machines), they may count that.
** Isabella showed up in a time machine with the tool that they needed, and they were smart enough to figure out that they were responsible for her being there in the first place, so they know that technically, they travelled in time twice.
* In the "Chronicles of Meap" character commentary, Doofenshmirtz decides that he doesn't like Ferb right off the bat. No accounting for taste, but fine. Later on-- after My Ride from Outer Space and Vanessa's appearance-- his major reason for not wanting Vanessa to have anything to do with him is that he's a "hoodlum" and that the modifications he made to Meap's cruiser weren't "Technically 'street legal". I can accept the [[Papa Wolf]] tendencies-- it's part of what makes Doof so endearing-- but why is he using ''that'' as his excuse? He's evil and he wants his daughter to be evil ''like him''. While the rest of us know that Ferb ''isn't'' evil, the argument doesn't seem to hold much water coming from a [[Mad Scientist]]. <ref> I suppose you could argue that there was the whole "I don't even put evil on my profile anymore because it attracts such weirdos" thing from Chez Platypus, but we're talking about someone whose most heinous act over the course of the series was, probably, helping to 'terrorize' the fantasy/sci-fi convention. In order to bring the two types of "nerds" together.</ref>
** I think it's supposed to be [[Hypocritical Humor]].
** Also, Doofenshmirtz didn't have anything to do with the monster at the convention. He was pitching an idea for a t.v. show at the time. The monster was Phineas and Ferb's.
*** That was the point-- the monster is the most [[Sarcasm Mode|'sinister']] thing that Ferb had taken part in. The
* Is it just me or has the Giant Floating Baby Head's design changed?
** Screenshot from its first appearance: [http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/File:Floating_baby_head.jpg\]{{Dead link}}
** Screenshot from its latest appearance to date: [http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/File:Kick_It_Up_a_Notch_-_Giant_Floating_Baby_Head_Dimension.jpg\]{{Dead link}}
* You know how Perry goes all [[Papa Wolf]] if Phineas and Ferb are in danger? Well, "Road Trip" has Perry battling a scheme of Doofenshmirtz' that very well could have killed the entire family...and he doesn't seem to take any more seriously then the usual assignment. Am I missing something?
** Well they can't add something to show how he's connecting the latest scheme to Phineas and Ferb every episode.
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** In fact, the second after Doof attaches his truck to the Flynn-Fletchers' truck Perry starts hitting Doof VERY hard. I mean, he is not usually ''that'' violent.
* What was with the ending to "Mommy Can You Hear Me?"?!
** It is a [[Shout
** Yeah, outside of the context of it being a parody it doesn't make any sense.
*** It doesn't have to, I've got a monster truck!
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** Apparently she thought to wear a ''bike helmet'' into the shower. Why not her contacts?
** ...I have never met anyone who removes their contacts just to shower.
** Actually, much like Linda, this troper is [[Blind Without
* Did Isabella ever get the rodeo clown patch? In Robot Rodeo she was playing the part of a bull rider and not a clown, which kind of negates the point of putting on the rodeo in the first place. She obviously didn't have the patch in the first place, since they specified that the troop was missing the rodeo clown patch as a whole, so yeah...
* Aside from the [[Status Quo Is God]] excuse, why, exactly, would Perry have to be relocated if Lawrence had become the leader of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N? It seems like that would warrant an agent being in the Flynn-Fletcher household around the clock. Sure, Perry's got Doof to consider, enemy-wise, but foiling his plots usually takes what, half of an afternoon? There's the 'You've grown too close to the boys' card, too, but with all of the [[Wild Mass Guessing|WMGs]] about Perry being there to monitor them/make sure they don't go from child prodigies to miniature evil scientists, that doesn't quite fit, either.
** It's because Perry usually attends L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N-related events, in which he would see Lawrence, and Lawrence sees Perry. Then Lawrence would somehow realize that his pet Perry the Platypus is Agent P and dispose him, because he'd be very smart, of course. Just look at Dr. Doofenshmirtz-2 in ''Across the 2nd Dimension''!
* In "Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Max Modem!" Linda casually mentions that she's been lip-synching to somebody else's singing for her whole singing career. She doesn't seem at all bothered by the fact that she's been misleading audiences. Does this seem wrong or out-of-character to anybody else?
** The audience had already knew?
** I always thought she recorded the song first, then only lip-synched for the live shows.
** [[Actor Allusion]]-Olivia Olson sings "I'm Lindana and I Wanna Have Fun".
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* In the episodes where Candace busts Phineas and Ferb, why does their mom always get furious?! If I saw my sons creating a rollercoaster, turning my car into a flying car and creating a mini-town out of antique tools, I would be ESTATIC knowing my sons were geniuses with such amazing talent and potential. In those scenarios, Linda complains how unsafe their projects are when they CLEARLY know what they're doing! I would tell them to make copies of their blueprints and to sell all the copies! I would reward them thousands of times if my sons could build this kind of crap! So why does Linda always react so negatively in these scenarios instead of positively like she should?!
** More like why wouldn't she? How would you feel if you found out all this stuff was going on in ''your own'' backyard and everyone ''but'' you knew about it? She probably felt like an idiot.
** She's also a mom. You know how much they worry about their children's wellbeing. She's just acting the way a [[Real Life]] mom would if she found out her kids have been using power tools and building precarious structures without adult supervision. Unfortunately she's not [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know her family lives in a universe where characters don't die or get grievously injured.
** She's always seemed more shocked than angry when it happens, and why shouldn't she be? I don't know if you've noticed, but Phineas and Ferb's projects aren't exactly the kind of thing normal children do. Sure, they ''tell'' her about them most of the time, but they're [[Refuge in Audacity|outlandish]] that they're easy to write off as childish imagination. Actually walking out and seeing your child on a gigantic structure, doing something impossible is probably enough to give any parent a heart attack. After the shock wore off, she'd probably be incredibly proud, but still worried about them pulling this kind of thing for fun.
* There are tons and tons of animal agents. They're apparently all assigned to a nemesis, most of whom are a larger threat than Dr Doofenshmirtz (since "Oh, There You Are, Perry" indicates he's on the fence between supervillain and minor threat). [[Fridge Logic|So how come we don't see any of this going on?]] Besides one episode with Poofenplotz and a couple episodes where Doofenshmirtz teams up with other low-level evil scientists, it really doesn't look like civilization is being constantly assailed by supervillains.
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