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** "[[Indiana Jones|Well, Ferb, you sure know how to show a girl a good time.]]" (That one [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|is kinda iffy as far as 'accidental' is concerned]].)
** "Oh ''yeah'', Jeremy, nobody makes a corndog like ''you''."
** "Here comes the BIIIIG FINISH!", followed shortly by "Ohhh that feels ''good''!"
** In "Candace Gets Busted", [[Less Disturbing in Context|the entire neighborhood has an intimate get together in Doof's pants]].
** One fan decided to look a little too far into the scene in "De Plane! De Plane!" when Candace and Jeremy crash into each other in the dried up pool. The results were, reportedly, scarring, though the video has since been taken down.
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* [[Base Breaker]]: Irving's either [[Ensemble Darkhorse|hilarious]] or just plain [[The Scrappy|annoying]], depending on who you ask. The fact that he only occasionally appears at all helps to keep the fandom from fighting, though.
** Candace. She has enough fans to be popular, but also many people who see her as [[The Scrappy]].
** Isabella. Basically, if one does not ship Phinebella, nor find her attractive (Yes, [[Perverse Sexual Lust|there are people who do]]), then odds are they will consider her a [[Purity Sue]].
* [[Bellisario's Maxim]]: The writers have ''repeatedly'' been asked the "What happened to Phineas and Candace's biological father/Ferb's biological mother" question, and their response is ''always'' this. This doesn't stop the fans, though.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Ferb's crush on Vanessa is seen as this to Phineas and Isabella.
* [[Better on DVD]]: Though plenty of entertainment can still be drawn regardless of what order you watch the episodes, watching multiple episodes in a row, especially the earlier ones first, will allow you to understand more of the jokes made in the show, since a huge chunk of it's later humor is based on [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] and [[Subverted Trope|subverting]] the [[Running Gags]] and making [[Brick Joke
* [[Better Than It Sounds]]
* [[
** Of course, considering that ''every freaking song on this show'' is a nuclear-powered [[Ear Worm]], this is definitely an example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
** The fact that it doesn't make sense for a song to be there makes it even funnier when there is, anyway. Mexican Jewish Cultural Festival, anyone?
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** In-universe, Perry & Doof's interference with the main plot comes out of nowhere from the kids' point of view, but they rarely question it and almost never bring it up after the fact.
{{quote|'''Phineas:''' I don't know what causes it but it sure helps with clean-up.}}
** "Phineas' Birthday Clip-o-rama" actually shows ''a montage of [[
*** Speaking of which, "Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama" is littered with clips of events that never actually occur in the series, such as Perry entering his lair as a giant and getting trapped in a metal shell shaped exactly like himself, pose and all, Doofenshmirtz's Blow-Itself-Up-Inator and Inside-Out-Inator, Candace calling for Mom while she and everything around her looks like an abstract painting, a project of Phineas and Ferb's that involves a device apparently being powered by chickens, and, of course, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Evil Lawrence and Evil Linda]].
* [[Canon Fodder]]: Oh boy, "Who is Phineas and Candace's biological father, who is Ferb's biological mother, what happened to them and where are they now?" If there was an earthquake for every fic written related to this, the world would be over in minutes.
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* [[Crack Pairing]]: So many of them get thought up on the Phineas and Ferb Wiki. The constant preferences of nonsensical pairings like Baljeet/Linda and Katie/Doof drives people mad.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Phineas and Ferb's schemes, Candace in full flight.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: For an animated program on Disney Channel, this happens with startling regularity— mostly in [[Harmless Villain]] Doofenshmirtz's [[Imagine Spot
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Too many to list, [[Phineas and Ferb/Awesome Music|yet we still did it]].
* [[Deconstruction]]: "The Curse of Candace" ''really'' messed with the idea that being a vampire is cool. Especially the song.
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* [[Fandom Nod]]: In "What a Croc" the fan ship of Ferb/Gretchen got a brief nod after three nearly three seasons of extremely minimal interaction between the two characters. Although the nod itself was very brief, featuring both sharing a jetski after showing Phineas and Isabella quite happily doing the same.
* [[Fan Dumb]]: "The Chronicles of Meap" ended with a joke teaser trailer for "Meapless in Seattle"; this was a part of the shtick that the episode was an episode of ''The Chronicles of Meap'' entitled "More Than Meaps the Eye", and satirized action/thriller trailers. Some fans saw this and thought it was a real trailer, and demanded it to be made, causing the once [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] to stop being a joke and start being more like [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when the creators yielded and made it. Opinions vary, though, on how much some fans not getting that it was a joke ''really'' affected the episode actually being made.
** And now that the episode is out, we see that this is spoofed hilariously in the opening.
{{quote|'''Narrator''': A long time ago in a studio in Burbank, California. A ragtag group of animators made a fake trailer for a Meap sequel they never intended to make. Unfortunately, everyone wanted to see that episode so the animators were forced to write it and incorporate all these seemingly unrelated scenes. I guess the joke was on them. }}
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: Ferb and Gretchen has become popular with those who have a hard time overlooking the age gap between Ferb and Vanessa (but have an easy time overlooking the fact that [[Ships That Pass in the Night|Ferb and Gretchen have hardly interacted at all in the show itself]]).
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* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: [[Jerry Lewis]]' popularity in France is referenced twice in "Run Away Runway". Also, ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' will be shown in theaters in The Netherlands and Belgium.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: Somewhat expected, considering a lot of the show's humor and wit come from lampooning, subverting and [[Lampshading]] the conventions and practices that would take a few episodes to establish.
** Although, in terms of quality though people could spot differences from other shows at the time beforehand, it was ''Phineas and Ferb Get Busted'' that arguably showed us just what this show was ''truly'' capable of.
* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: Baljeet's "Fail Wail" in The Baljeatles. Seriously, the sound makes you think of some kind of animal, likely a cat, in very severe pain. Even ''Phineas'' couldn't stand it.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: If you remember a certain [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] from ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', the [[What the Heck Is An Aglet?|aglet]] craze in "Tip of the Day" becomes a million and six times funnier.
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** Perry while in pet mode can also count, ''especially'' when he's sleeping.
*** And when he's [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|a baby]].
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:
** Parallel Doofenshmirtz from [[The Movie]] crosses this when he tries to kill Perry, Phineas, Ferb, Candace ''and'' normal Doofenshmirtz via a lava-filled death trap. Though he was kind of already halfway there since he {{spoiler|brainwashed the Perry of his dimension into being his cyborg slave and his dictatorship of the Tri-State area forced the Parallel Phineas and Ferb to live a sheltered, reclusive life without fun or summer and Parallel Candace to esentially lose her childhood.}}
** Doofensmirtz's parents cross it in his backstories
**While the series never rules out the possibility of redemption for Doofenshmirtz (and he’ll never be pure evil), he did do something terrible when he decided that he was going to destroy anyone who can’t make up their mind. Perry decided to have him be arrested after that.
* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: "Hey Ferb, I know what we're going to do today."
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* [[Never Live It Down]]: Fans seem pointedly fixated on the one time Phineas has ever yelled at anybody (Candace in "Summer Belongs to You"). Case in point, look how frequently it comes up on these pages.
** Based on this wiki, fans seem to have latched on to Charlene's one-time statement of "No one's evil," taking it absolutely literally as evidence that she's hopelessly naive, rather than accepting it as a simple sweeping generalization meant to dissuade that silly notion of Vanessa's that [[Cassandra Truth|her father's evil]].
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:
** The "Smile Away" reformatory school from "Phineas And Ferb Get Busted!".
** [[Mind Screw|"Monster from the Id"]]. [[Fridge Horror|If Baljeet didn't unplug the machine in time...]] And for more [[Fridge Horror]], by the end of the episode, {{spoiler|Buford is still stuck in Candace's subconscious, ''flirting'' with her id. Seems wacky enough, but the viewer realizes that Candace isn't hooked up to the machine anymore. He could be trapped in a [[Mind Screw]] world '''forever'''.}}
** '''Escape From Phineas Tower'''.
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** "Aren't you a little old to be watching ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]?''" [[Ironic Echo|Yes, yes I am.]]
** To put this in perspective: ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091221 of all places] used an obscure [[Shout-Out]] to the show.
** Also notable to be one of the few [[Disney Channel]] shows that ''[[Cracked.com]]'' likes, according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203125717/http://www.cracked.com/funny-2632-phineas-ferb/ its topic page] about the series.
** The fact that it is a Disney channel show that has had 2AM reruns says something about how many adults watch it.
** Hell, even ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' referenced it in Episode 53. Says something if Seto Kaiba can instantly recognize a P&F reference.
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* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: This was how a lot of fans reacted to the news that the [[The Movie|2013 film]] was going to have [[Roger Rabbit Effect]] in it. And the film's ''plot'' hadn't even been released at that point.
* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: Smile Away Reformatory School from "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted"
* [[The Scrappy]]: Irving, but more recent appearances [[Rescued
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Some fans of the show think that the quality has been going downhill during Season 3, though some believe [[Growing the Beard|otherwise]].
** More accurately, the episodes from the middle of the third season just haven't been as good as episodes from the second season and the first half of the third. That said, the show is still quite good - as far as [[Seasonal Rot]] goes, P&F manages to get off pretty easy, what with the show still being of a pretty good quality, even if it'll never be as good as it was from ''Dude We're Getting the Band Back Together'' up until the [[Big Damn Movie]]. (Which it might)
* [[Ship Mates]]: A good portion of [[Toy Ship|Phineas/Isabella]] shippers will just pair off the rest of the boys/girls in the group. The most common ones are [[The Lancer|Ferb/Gretchen]], Baljeet/Ginger, Buford/Adyson, Django/Milly, and Irving/Katie. Notice how they don't take Ferb's [[Precocious Crush]] on Vanessa into account.
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* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Usually when a Photoshopped object or background appears. Sometimes played as [[Stylistic Suck]], other times not.
* [[Squick]]: Baljeet hiding inside the corpse of a fly in "Hide and Seek".
** Candace saying "Barf-a-roni with cheese!"
** ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'' fans could find Doofenshmirtz and Baljeet's parody characters in [[The Wizard of Oz|"The Wizard of Odd"]] particularly [[Squick
** Probably played for laughs, but the skin on Ferb's face slipping off like a hood as he rides a spaceship (followed by him pulling it back onto his skull without any ill effects).
** Isabella may be cute, but some people find her obsessive stalking crush on Phineas very creepy.
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** '''Meap's Planet'''. According to him, cuteness is valued above all other things on that place.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: See [[Phineas and Ferb/Tear Jerker|here]].
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]: Django. A sort of [[Sixth Ranger]] to the main group, he even got a full episode focused on him (Oil On Candace) in the first season. Nowadays, he's been overshadowed by Irving and really only appears in cameos.
** It doesn't help that was kinda bland. Or at least, he didn't have a single defining trait like most of the main cast do.
*** Well, he was good at art.
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** [[Ho Yay|Baljeet and Buford]] deserve a mention.
** It should be noted, though, that P&F is only a partial example, as all the characters are canonically "Under 15".
* [[Ugly Cute]]: Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He's a hunchback with crooked teeth, a long nose and crazy hair and has even admitted on screen that he's ugly, but he's still completely adorable.
** Also, Doof's giant pet cockroach from Canderemy. ''Awwwwww.....''
** Even Buford could count as well.
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** ''[http://images.wikia.com/phineasandferb/images/4/4b/Ferb_Live_Cast.jpg The Best Live Tour Ever!]''.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Suzy's [[Precocious Crush|feelings]] [[Yandere|for]] Jeremy, while [[Played for Laughs]], would be indicative of [[Brother-Sister Incest|something very serious]] in real life.
** In ''We Call It Maze'', the girls seem to have consistently gotten the physical challenges while the boys got the mental ones.
*** Of course, in this case the boys's group contained Phineas, Ferb, and Baljeet. Not so much a case of boys being smarter than girls as ''these'' particular boys being smarter than pretty much ''everyone''.
** "Summer Belongs to You" sends the message that it's a good idea to jump a bike over a construction site (if it's to win a bet). The show is full of far-fetched dangerous hijinks, but this is one that impressionable young viewers would be able to imitate.
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** Phineas's [[Oblivious to Love]] has always been a bit face-palm inducing, but it officially drops to idiot levels in "Summer Belongs to You".
** Doofenshmirtz...[[Ditzy Genius|ugh, where do we even begin]]...
* [[The Woobie]]: The main example is Doof. As a child, he had to throw his surprise birthday party. [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|His father named the dog "Only Son".]] When he was born, neither of his parents bothered to be there.
** Candace. One must feel sorry for how hard she has to try to bust her brothers, even if her determination can be irritating to some. Also in "Candace Gets Busted
** An odd one, but Buford in "Voyage To The Bottom Of Buford". In his song, he was shown to be so lonely he was playing ping-pong with his goldfish!
** Phineas' [[Oblivious to Love|obliviousness to love]] can put Isabella into this territory, especially during her song "City Of Love" in "Summer Belongs To You." {{spoiler|She gets over it, and also gets back at him by kissing him right before he was about to voluntarily get all of his memories of the previous day wiped out.}}
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