Ariel Winter
American actress (born 1998)
Ariel Winter Workman (born January 28, 1998) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Alex Dunphy in the ABC sitcom "Modern Family" (2009–2020), for which she and her several costars won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series four consecutive times from 2010 to 2013.
Early life.
Ariel Winter Workman was born on January 28, 1998, in Fairfax, Virginia. She is the daughter of Chrisoula ("née" Batistas) and Glenn Workman. Through her mother, she is of Greek descent, and through her father, of German descent. She is the younger sister of actors Shanelle Workman and Jimmy Workman.
Career.
Winter obtained her first entertainment industry job in a Cool Whip commercial advertisement in 2002 when she was four years old. She had her first television role in an episode of "Listen Up", and followed it with appearances in a variety of television shows such as "Freddie", "Monk", "Bones", and "ER".
She voiced the character of Gretchen in the animated Disney Channel series "Phineas and Ferb" before winning the regular role of Alex Dunphy in the ABC series "Modern Family", which premiered in 2009 and ended in 2020. She has continued to work in TV animation, including providing the voice of Marina on Disney Junior's "Jake and the Never Land Pirates". In 2012, Winter was cast as the voice of Sofia, the lead character in a then-new Disney animated franchise "Sofia the First". The series premiered in January 2013 on Disney Junior.
In 2014, she voiced Penny Peterson, Sherman's adversary-turned-friend in the DreamWorks Animation film "Mr. Peabody and Sherman". She also lent her voice to characters in two animated films - Disney's "Bambi II" and Blue Sky's "".
Winter has appeared in feature films, most notably in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", "Speed Racer", "Duress", and "Opposite Day". She also appeared on the Halloween-themed TV film "". For her leading role in the film "The Chaperone", she was nominated at the Young Artist Awards 2012 as "Best Actress in a Motion Picture".
Personal life.
In 2012, Winter's sister Shanelle Workman filed to become her guardian, alleging that their mother had been physically and emotionally abusive. In 2014, the court awarded guardianship to Shanelle Workman and permanently removed Winter from her mother's guardianship. Their mother later released a statement saying that "the family has moved beyond the conflict". In 2015, when she was 17 years old, Winter declared on Twitter that she was officially emancipated.
She is a purple belt in taekwondo.
In 2015, Winter underwent breast reduction surgery. In a 2016 interview with "ABC News Nightline", Winter explained the awkwardness of developing at 12 years old in the public eye, combined with the back pain that rendered her unable to stand up straight at times, was "really ostracizing and excruciatingly painful." Describing the improvement that the surgery had on her both physically and psychologically, she told "Glamour" magazine that it was "amazing to finally feel right. This is how I was supposed to be." At the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Winter gained media attention for wearing a Romona Kaveza gown that revealed her surgical scars. She was shocked after walking down the red carpet to see the photos the next day and "every headline be about my cleavage and -- not about my talent." Winter later tweeted: "Guys there is a reason I didn't make an effort to cover up my scars! They are part of me and I'm not ashamed of them at all."
Winter attended Campbell Hall School in Los Angeles, graduating in June 2016. She was accepted to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and scheduled to begin there in the fall quarter of 2016. However, she later confirmed that she planned to attend UCLA in fall 2017. On her decision to attend college, she explained, "You gotta have something else you can do. I've always been interested in law, so I think it'll definitely be something that I'll love to do and also go to school for." In 2018, Winter took an indefinite hiatus from UCLA to focus on her work.
Winter is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
She dated Canadian actor Levi Meaden for three years; they split in 2019. The couple lived together in Winter’s 3,200-square-foot home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Since 2020, she has been in a relationship with actor Luke Benward. In 2022, Winter moved from Southern California to Nashville, Tennessee.
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List of Phineas and Ferb guest stars
This is a list of guest stars who have appeared on the Disney animated musical comedy television series, "Phineas and Ferb". Per Academy of Television Arts & Sciences guidelines, individuals appearing in more than half of a given season's episodes will be considered "recurring" and will not be included on the list.
Season 3.
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Season 5.
Randomized
Films.
The following appeared as guest stars in ".
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Phineas and Ferb season 1
The first season of "Phineas and Ferb" aired on the Disney Channel from August 17, 2007, to February 18, 2009. The five main characters include stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, their older sister Candace Flynn, secret agent Perry the Platypus (who is also Phineas and Ferb's pet), and the evil scientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
Recurring characters include the across-the-street neighbor Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, the boys' mom Linda Flynn-Fletcher, the boys' dad Lawrence Fletcher, Perry's boss Major Monogram, Carl the Intern, Candace's crush Jeremy Johnson, Baljeet Tjinder, Buford Van Stomm, Candace's best friend Stacy Hirano, and many more.
Production.
Writing style.
The show uses four major writers to devise story ideas according to "strict guidelines", such as that the boys' schemes never appear to be "magical". Stories are reviewed at weekly sessions on Monday, then simultaneously scripted and storyboarded. A very rough design is built before the storyboard, featuring little more than suggested scenes and dialogue, is drafted; the writers then gather for a "play-by-play" walk-through of the storyboard in front of the whole crew, whose reactions to the jokes are assessed before rewrites are made. The writers also include running gags in every episode, which are generally lines spoken by characters. Almost every episode is set into two eleven-minute segments.
Cast.
Phineas and Ferb are voiced by Vincent Martella and Thomas Sangster, respectively. Sangster was one of many British actors cast; Marsh lived in the United Kingdom for seven years, and developed a fondness for its people. The rest of the cast includes Ashley Tisdale as their sister Candace, Dee Bradley Baker as the secret agent platypus Perry, Caroline Rhea as the mother Linda Flynn-Fletcher, Richard O'Brien as the father Lawrence Fletcher, Kelly Hu as Candace's best friend Stacy, and Alyson Stoner as Phineas and Ferb's next-door neighbor and best friend Isabella. Series creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh provide the voices of Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Major Monogram, respectively.
Episodes.
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Ratings.
The first episode, "Rollercoaster", garnered a total of 10.8 million viewers when aired as a preview on August 17, 2007. When "Phineas and Ferb" officially debuted in February the next year, it proved cable's number one watched animated series premiere by "tweens". Throughout the first quarter that followed, it peaked as the top-rated animated series for ages 6–10 and 9–14, also becoming number three animated series for all of cable television for viewers age 6–10. By the time the commissioning of the second season was announced in May 2008, the series had become a top-rated program in the 6–11 and 9–14 age groups.
Notes.
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Bence Penke
Bence Penke (born November 9, 1994) is a Hungarian voice actor from Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
Penke contributes to voicing characters that appears in movies, cartoons, anime, and live action shows. He is best known as the Hungarian voice of Phineas Flynn in the Hungarian version of Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. He also voices Konohamaru,a supporting character in the Animax Hungarian version of popular anime series Naruto. He also voice Konohamaru in the Jetix Hungarian version.
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Ferb Fletcher
Fictional character from Phineas and Ferb
Ferbs "Ferb" Fletcher is one of the two main protagonists in the animated television series "Phineas and Ferb". Voiced by British actor Thomas Sangster on "Phineas and Ferb"'s original run and American actor David Errigo Jr. since 2018, with a singing voice by series composer Danny Jacob, he was created by "Phineas and Ferb" co-founders Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. He first appeared in the show's pilot episode, "Rollercoaster". Ferb was born on February 29.
Ferb and his step-brother Phineas Flynn spend their days during summer vacation from school striving to have fun. They are featured in the majority of episodes as the A-Plot constructing large scale inventions or taking part in other outlandish activities. Ferb, an engineering genius, allows Phineas to do most of the talking for the pair and is "more of a man of action." When Ferb does speak, it is almost always a single sentence. In a conversation in the future time of "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", it is revealed that he was at Camp David.
Ferb was named after a set-builder named Frank Leasure, a construction foreman on several "Star Trek" properties and a friend of Povenmire and Marsh. His wife Melinda, an artist on "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill" nicknamed him "Ferb". In "Vanessassary Roughness" Ferb explains that his name is short for something, but he didn't get a chance to say it. On Twitter, Povenmire announced that Ferb was actually short for "Ferbs". He cares for Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (daughter of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz) and saves her in the same episode when she gets tangled up and a lawn mower almost gets her, but he is able to save her with a giant tool which appears to be an exaggerated version of a Swiss Army Knife. In "Summer Belongs To You" Vanessa asks Candace what Ferb is short for; Candace realizes she doesn't know herself what it is short for. In the fourth season episode "Act Your Age", he as a teenager appears to be in a relationship with Vanessa. Ferb's design is based on a rectangle and also shaped like an "F" and is inspired by the style of late animator Tex Avery. As a character, Ferb has been critically well-received and appears in several pieces of "Phineas and Ferb" merchandise, including toys, T-shirts, and video games.
Role in "Phineas and Ferb".
Ferb comes from a blended family, a premise the creators considered underused in children's programming and which reflected Marsh's own upbringing. Ferb's birth mother is never revealed, but the series shows that both Ferb and his father Lawrence hail from England. Lawrence married Ferb's step-mother Linda after meeting her at a 1990s concert by the fictional band Love Händel. Marsh considers explaining the family background "not important to the kids' lives. They are a great blended family and that's all we need to know." Ferb and his family live in the fictional town of Danville, in a large, suburban neighborhood. Throughout their summer vacation, Ferb and Phineas conceive outrageous schemes to defeat boredom while sitting lazily beneath a tree in their backyard. Phineas mainly conceives each project while Ferb spearheads its construction. Their activities are almost always beyond the capability of a typical child and have included toy design (in "Toy to the World"); treasure-hunting (in "The Ballad of Badbeard"); engineering (in "It's About Time!"); and restaurant management (in "Chez Platypus"). Ferb's step-sister, Candace, is always trying to get the two in trouble with their mother for their schemes, but is never able to. Ferb talks very rarely, usually having only one line per episode. He speaks with a British accent. There are a total of 11 episodes in which he had no lines and the longest he ever spoke was in "The Lizard Whisperer" when he gave a speech which totalled 129 words.
Character.
Creation and conception.
Ferb was created by "Phineas and Ferb" co-creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, who originally met as layout artists on the Fox Network animated series "The Simpsons." "Phineas and Ferb" was inspired by their boyhood memories of summer vacation; Povenmire and Marsh both felt the theme of school in television had fallen to redundancy and wanted to create a series that took place solely in the summertime.
Ferb's name was derived from that of a mutual friend of Povenmire and Marsh named Frank, who "owns more tools than anyone [they] know." Frank was a set-builder who had worked building and designing sets for shows such as "." Frank's wife disliked Frank's name and gave him the unusual nickname "Ferb".
Design and voice.
Ferb was given a simplistic structure so that young audiences would be able to draw him easily. As with the other characters of "Phineas and Ferb," Ferb's design is constructed of geometric shapes in homage to animator Tex Avery. Ferb's head is based on a rectangle with a wider top than bottom. A square is used for his nose, and an egg-shaped oval is used for his eyes. The eye furthest from the screen is always drawn larger than the other. Povenmire uses a nine-step process to draw Ferb, starting with his head and ending with touch ups.
Ferb was originally going to be voiced by actor Mitchel Musso. However, when "Phineas and Ferb" was picked up as a full series, Povenmire and Marsh chose to make Ferb British and cast Thomas Sangster as his voice. However, they enjoyed Musso to a level that they recast him as the voice of the character Jeremy Johnson; although Musso no longer voiced a title character, his new role allowed him more lines. Sangster himself is a British actor and was among several cast members hired that hailed from England. Marsh himself had lived in the country for seven years and developed a fondness for the culture and people.
Personality.
Ferb was devised as a character devoid of ill will. Marsh explained, "It was important to us that [Phineas and Ferb] never did anything with any animosity. They never tried to get their sister in trouble or outsmart their mother and get away with it." Instead, he and his brother create things for the sheer enjoyment of it or to help out others ("and for the ladies"); for example, Ferb and Phineas carve Candace's face into Mount Rushmore for her birthday, set up a roller derby for a rematch race with his Grandmother Betty Jo's old rival, create a haunted house for their friend Isabella to cure her hiccups and make a super-computer to find out what to do for their mom after being so kind to them.
Povenmire and Marsh intended for Ferb's creative drive to stem primarily from a desire to have fun, and in one episode, "Thaddeus and Thor", Phineas openly confirms this as his and his brother's only goal in their daily schemes – though Ferb adds that they also do it "for the ladies."
In the original pitch to overseas The Walt Disney Company executives, Povenmire and Marsh constructed storyboards and recorded them with dialogue and sound effects. As a prototype, Ferb did not speak at all. However, after considering comedy's "big duos" including Wallace and Gromit and Jay and Silent Bob, the creators chose to have Ferb speak at least once in most episodes (but in "Summer Belongs To You" he spoke nine times and in "The Lizard Whisperer" gives an entire short speech that lasts about 45 seconds), but to have him remain silent and allow Phineas to speak for him the majority of the time. Although Ferb's taciturnity is generally not commented on in the series, Phineas mentions it while he and his brother were in England on the episode "A Hard Day's Knight": "I'll be the top half since I tend to do more of the talking and you will be on the bottom part because of your long spindely legs". Despite being quiet, Ferb is a polyglot, being able to speak in human, animal, and alien tongues.
Ferb also seems to possess good insight, which is probably the main character trait, other than his silence, distinguishing his character from Phineas. Jean Yoo, an official press member for Disney Channel, notes that when Ferb does speak, "it always shows a greater understanding of the situation than his countenance would indicate." He usually says one or two sentences per episode, such as "They [platypuses] are the only mammals to lay eggs," "Sharks have to keep moving forward, or they'll drown," and shortly after, "Well, he [Buford] was all up in my face," or "Candace, we [Phineas and Ferb] are just kids." He also has a crush on Vanessa Doofenshmirtz.
Reception.
Critical reception for the character has been generally positive. Emily Ashby of "Common Sense Media" describes him as a "go-to engineering guru" and considers him and Phineas to be "partner[s] in crime." Susan Stewart, reviewing the show in "The New York Times", notes that Phineas and Ferb "work on a heroic scale and are apparently not limited by the laws of nature." Josh Jackson, editor of "Paste" magazine, listed Ferb's "dry wit" as the third of five reasons as to why the series is the "Best Kids Show on TV," writing that "Ferb gets about one line per episode, but it's always a doozy."
Ed Stetzer, Richie Stanley, and Jason Hayes, author's the book "Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches That Reach Them," wrote that Ferb and Phineas, along with the cast of "High School Musical," are examples of creating a "whole new culture" in households. Stetzer, Stanley, and Hayes continued to write that "[O]ur culture has connected with media that shows not only the Cinderella and Prince Charming life we all wish for, but also the life in which we all live with real trials, real joys, and real fears."
"Backyard Beach," a song Danny Jacob performs as Ferb in the episode "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror," became very popular among viewers and was voted as the second best song in the series by viewers in the special 2009 event, "Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown". The best, according to viewers, was "Gitchee Gitchee Goo" from "Flop Starz," which Jacob performs in as Ferb. Ferb is also credited as the singer in the music video version of "My Ride from Outer Space" from the episode "The Chronicles of Meap" (actually performed again by Danny Jacob).
In other media.
Besides the series "Phineas and Ferb," Ferb has been featured in several other pieces of merchandise from the series. To date, he has appeared in all "Phineas and Ferb" novelizations, published by Disney Press. Ferb appears in the Nintendo DS video game based on the series, simply titled "Phineas and Ferb." Dan Povenmire has said that he saw nothing of the game until its release date, on which he was given a copy for free. Phineas and Ferb made a cameo in the "MAD" sketch "The Straight A-Team" where they decided to beat the Straight A-Team. They appear again in the sketch "DolPhineas and Ferb Tale" where they are spoofed alongside the film "Dolphin Tale". Their design in "MAD" was unrealistic to their regular design.
Plush toys of the character, along with toys representing Phineas and Perry, have been manufactured. Ferb also appears on most of the "Phineas and Ferb" T-shirts. Ferb is set to appear in the forthcoming comic book series based on the series, though details are unconfirmed. Costumed versions of Ferb and Phineas have appeared in Disneyland, for the pre-taping of the annual Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade.
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Phineas and Ferb season 3
The third season of "Phineas and Ferb" first aired on Disney Channel on March 4, 2011, and on Disney XD on March 7, 2011. The five main characters include stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, the boys' older sister Candace Flynn, secret agent Perry the Platypus (who is also Phineas and Ferb's pet), and the evil scientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Midway through the season, the television film "" aired on August 5, 2011.
Recurring characters include across-the-street neighbor Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, the boys' mother and father Linda Flynn-Fletcher and Lawrence Fletcher, Major Monogram, Carl the Intern, Jeremy Johnson, Baljeet Tjinder, Buford Van Stomm, Stacy Hirano, and many more.
Production.
The season was announced by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh on June 9, 2009, and was confirmed two days later.
Episodes.
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Ratings.
All of the episodes have had positive reviews. The most viewed episode was "My Fair Goalie" with 4.7 million viewers, and the least watched episode was "Excaliferb" with 2.2 million viewers.
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Phineas and Ferb season 5
The fifth season revival of "Phineas and Ferb" is set to air on Disney Channel on June 5, 2025, with the Disney+ premiere being on June 6, 2025. Created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, the series stars Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher (Vincent Martella and David Errigo Jr.), two step-brothers on another summer vacation, while their older sister Candace (Ashley Tisdale) continues her attempts to bust them as the boys' pet Perry the Platypus (Dee Bradley Baker)—who lives a double life as a secret agent—thwarts the evil scientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Povenmire). Confirmed returning supporting cast includes Caroline Rhea as Linda Flynn-Fletcher, Alyson Stoner as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, and Marsh as Major Monogram.
Premise.
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Background.
"Phineas and Ferb" was renewed for a fourth season in August 2011. The-then series finale was announced in May 2015; the hour-long episode, "Last Day of Summer", aired on June 12, 2015. Povenmire and Marsh remained with the network and together created the series "Milo Murphy's Law" (2016–2019).
Production.
Writing.
Development on the fifth season of "Phineas and Ferb" began in May 2023, at which point Povenmire confirmed the then-ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. Povenmire and Marsh admitted their concerns that they would have trouble coming up with new ideas for the revival, but explained those concerns were alleviated due to their confidence in the writers' room, which contained both returning and new writers. They cited seven episodes in particular as standouts which they felt would appeal most to the returning audience.
Voice recording.
Voice recording began by September 2023, and was not affected by the then-ongoing 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Candace Flynn actress Ashley Tisdale was concurrently pregnant during voice recording and refused to record new screams, feeling it would "scare the baby"; she suggested the producers use any of her "17 years" worth of archive audio instead.
David Errigo Jr. voices Ferb Fletcher full-time from this season onward, replacing original actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and reprising his role from the "Milo Murphy's Law" episode "The Phineas and Ferb Effect", and the 2020 Disney+ film "".
Announcement and promotion.
On January 13, 2023, during the winter press tour for the Television Critics Association, Disney Branded Television announced that 40 new episodes of "Phineas and Ferb" were ordered, to be split across two seasons, with Povenmire returning as executive producer. The deal also included a second-season renewal for Povenmire's series "Hamster & Gretel". In March 2023, it was revealed that Marsh would also return as executive producer and voice director for the revival. In April 2023, a press release commemorating the 40th anniversary of Disney Channel confirmed that the revival will air on the network. The revival was originally scheduled to be released in 2024.
At Disney Television Animation's presentation during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2024, Povenmire and Marsh made an appearance to promote the series and give details on the production. They specified the revival was being treated as ""Phineas and Ferb" season 5", and that it would take place in the following year after the events of the first four seasons during a new summer vacation. The duo also previewed a musical animatic which introduces the first episode.
Premiere.
The fifth season of "Phineas and Ferb" has been given a premiere window on Disney Channel and Disney+ during summer 2025.
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Phineas Flynn
Fictional character from Phineas and Ferb
Phineas Flynn is a fictional character and one of the two title characters from the animated television series "Phineas and Ferb". He is voiced by Vincent Martella. Phineas, along with his quiet but intelligent stepbrother Ferb Fletcher, stars in the A-Plot of most episodes.
The series concerns Phineas and Ferb's attempts to avoid boredom by finding something new to do for each day of their summer vacation, often with many other neighborhood children. The activities they devise usually involve outlandish contraptions, including roller coasters, haunted houses, roller rinks, and a backyard beach etc. which Phineas and Ferb design and build cooperatively. Phineas's sister is Candace Flynn, who tries to reveal their outrageous creations to their mother, but to no avail.
Phineas comes from a blended family. The creators chose this arrangement because they considered it underused in children's programming as well as from creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh's past experiences in one. As a character, Phineas has received positive critical response, with one reviewer describing him and his stepbrother as a "comical pairing." Phineas appears in "Phineas and Ferb" merchandise, including plush toys, t-shirts, and a video game.
Role in "Phineas and Ferb".
Phineas comes from a blended family, a decision co-creator Marsh made to reflect his own experiences growing up. Phineas's birth father is never present or discussed in the series, something Marsh and Povenmire have stated that they fully intend to keep that way. It is established that his mother, Linda Flynn-Fletcher married Ferb's father, Lawrence Fletcher, after dating him for a while in the 1990s. They fell in love at a concert of the fictitious band "Love Händel" after they were put on the kiss cam.
Phineas is portrayed as an intelligent, creative, innovative, and good-natured child. As a means to defeat boredom, he and Ferb devise outrageous activities throughout their summer vacation, often participating in activities such as toy design (in "Toy to the World"); piracy (in "The Ballad of Badbeard"); time travel (in "It's About Time!"); restaurant management (in "Chez Platypus"); all usually inaccessible to children. Phineas lives in the fictional town of Danville (part of the Tri-State Area), in a large, suburban neighborhood; he comes up with most of his ideas while sitting with Ferb in their backyard.
Concept and creation.
Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had conceived the idea of the "Phineas and Ferb" series while working as layout artists on "The Simpsons." After planning the basics of the show, the two began laying out characters. Povenmire, eating dinner with his family at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California, drew a quick sketch of a "triangle kid." Povenmire named the triangle doodle "Phineas," saying he "look[ed] like [one]", and with reference to the character Phileas Fogg (often misreferenced as "Phineas Fogg") from "Around the World in 80 Days" (1873). Povenmire tore the paper out and called Marsh that night, telling him "Hey, I think we have our show."
After designing the show, the two had significant difficulties getting the series green lit. It was not picked up for fifteen years. In their final pitch to the Walt Disney Company, the creators designed a recorded storyboard, featuring a very rough outline of characters. The prototype Phineas was ruder to others than the version in the eventual show, where the creators decided to make him more good-natured. Citing comedy's "big duos" including Wallace and Gromit and Jay and Silent Bob, the creators chose to give Phineas most of the dialogue while Ferb remains almost silent.
Design.
All characters in "Phineas and Ferb" were drawn in a design borrowed from Tex Avery's style, with geometric shapes being included in their structure; Phineas in particular is that of a triangle. The triangle face has been stated in the series as being just his nose that covers the entire head. The goal while drawing characters was to make them simple enough to be drawn by child viewers and be recognized by silhouette. Phineas's eyes lie on the top of his head and are of oval shape. For his hair, three "tufts" are put in the back and front, while three freckles lie underneath. For the ear, a small 3 is used to represent the ear lobe. Povenmire uses thin, spindly arms for every character as a simple reason to add fun.
Voice.
Young actor Vincent Martella, previously known for The CW series "Everybody Hates Chris", was cast for the role of Phineas. Martella originally auditioned for the role five months before his initial pickup, but was left without feedback for the time. When Dan Povenmire was given a tape of Martella in "Everybody Hates Chris," he called him to do Phineas for the pilot. He designed a different voice than his own which he describes as "wacky [and] crazy." The creators were afraid of him losing it when his voice changed, though he was still able to retain it for the most part even afterward, though the tone is now slightly different from the original sound.
While in recording sessions, Martella has a large amount of enthusiasm and describes it as humorous to watch himself doing a take. In interviews Martella has said that he enjoys working on the series and voicing Phineas, and appreciates the opportunity to work alongside guest stars, especially Malcolm McDowell.
Martella once wrote as an article for "Popstar! Magazine" his thoughts on the role and of the show itself:
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Hallmarks.
"Phineas and Ferb" makes liberal use of running gags, and Phineas has several recurrent lines that are featured in most episodes. When he comes up with an idea of what adventure he and his brother are going to have that day, he says "Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!" During the course of an adventure, Phineas is generally asked by a disbelieving adult "Aren't you a little bit young to be..." doing whatever he's doing in that episode. For example, while constructing a shrine of his sister on the face of Mount Rushmore, a park ranger asks him "Aren't you boys a little young to be restoring a national monument?" Phineas generally answers "Yes, yes we are," though on a few occasions has responded "No" or "Well, I don't think so."
In every episode, Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus, Perry, disappears to carry out his job as a secret agent. The kids almost always notice this, asking "Hey, where's Perry?" Then, when Perry comes home, they say, "Oh, there you are, Perry." Discussing Perry, co-creator Povenmire cited the example of his own pet cat, Sprocket, which he claimed led a "secret life" with his neighbors in order to get extra food.
Characterization.
Personality and traits.
<templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />His [Phineas'] confidence makes people think, "He must be a prodigy." People rarely ask him if he's too young. He'd never lie to an adult or try to get away with anything. He's just motivated by fun. If he thought mom would actually dislike the things they're doing, he would probably stop, but since he's never gotten in trouble for it, he doesn't think of it as getting into trouble.
Phineas is portrayed as being a highly intelligent, imaginative, optimistic, and adventurous boy. The Disney Channel promos for "Phineas and Ferb" describe him as someone who "thinks big", refusing to let any day be ordinary. Povenmire also characterizes him as assertive, someone so secure in his abilities that others assume he is a prodigy. Povenmire and Marsh wanted the series to reflect their own childhood memories of going out during the summer and have fun, digging trenches and building tunnels, forts, and tree houses.
The creators wanted Phineas, like Ferb, to be a character who would never "[do] anything with any animosity," or to agitate his sister or outsmart his mother purposely. Instead, the character was supposed to be motivated only by enjoyment and free from mean spiritedness. He is very friendly, caring, well-mannered, and several of his plots involve helping someone out. He tries to please his sister Candace, carving her face into Mount Rushmore for her birthday in one episode and helping her retrieve a tape detailing his summer adventures even though she intended on using the footage as evidence to "bust" him and Ferb. Another episode has him throwing an extravaganza for his mother's birthday, and yet another has him (along with Ferb and Candace) recreating their parents' most romantic moment for their wedding anniversary. He has also been shown helping his grandparents, reenacting his step-grandfather Reginald's daredevil stunt from his youth and setting up a roller derby for a rematch race with his grandmother Betty Jo's old rival. In the episodes "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!" and "Hail Doofania!", Phineas goes to great lengths to help his friend Isabella. Other episodes, like "Unfair Science Fair," "Oil on Candace," "The Bully Code," and "Voyage To The Bottom of Buford," further explore Phineas's generosity toward all of his friends. He even has plans at the beginning of "The Bully Code" for a jellybean currency system for emerging nations.
Occasionally, Phineas's ideas, plots, and schemes have upset others, intentionally or otherwise. Most notably Candace is constantly frustrated in her efforts to "bust" her brothers throughout the series, and in rare cases, Phineas has unwittingly caused misfortune to others. For example, in the episode "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face," Phineas gives all the kids at camp a fright when he tricks them into thinking Bigfoot is attacking, though this is mostly getting into the spirit of spooky story telling.
Nonetheless, Povenmire and Marsh intended for Phineas and Ferb to be motivated only by fun. In one episode, "Thaddeus and Thor", Phineas says that fun is his only goal in his daily schemes – though Ferb adds that they also do it "for the ladies." Phineas also says that he wants his adventures to give him something interesting to say when he gets back to school, a setting the creators have confirmed they will never put him in.
Phineas is also very modest. He tends to put Ferb's name on inventions. However, he never seems angry or resentful of giving his stepbrother the credit.
Phineas appears to be addicted to inventing. In "Bully Bromance Break Up" he goes into withdrawal when the other kids insist on climbing a mountain without using any crazy gadgets.
In a few episodes, Phineas shows an angrier side of himself, first seen in the ' film, where Phineas gets angry at Perry after finding out his secret identity because Perry "never trusted him" by telling him the truth, but later realizes that Perry kept his identity hidden because if Phineas and his family found out, Perry would be forced to relocate to another family. Another episode, ', again demonstrates Phineas' angry side, when he got angry at Candace when she accidentally caused Baljeet to turn into a Hulk-type version of himself, but they later made amends at the end of the episode. Later, on "Phineas and Ferb Save Summer", when Candace tries to power-up the machine, Phineas starts raising his voice at her in order for her to stop, to which Buford breaks the fourth wall by saying: "Must be a special episode, he's yelling at his sister again!".
Reception.
Phineas has received mostly positive reviews. Emily Ashby of "Common Sense Media" describes Phineas as "boisterous," and he and Ferb as "partner[s] in crime." Susan Stewart, reviewing the show in "The New York Times", notes that Phineas and Ferb "work on a heroic scale and are apparently not limited by the laws of nature." Jean Yoo, an official press member for Disney Channel, describes him as "a precocious bundle of energy whose tolerance for sitting still is just a little thinner than his patience for the social echelon in which he finds himself." She as well notes that he is "endearing and smart."
"Variety" calls Phineas's adventures "spectacular." "Animation Insider" reporter Aaron Bynum described him as a "wiz kid idea machine." "The Seattle Times" wrote that both Phineas and Ferb were "young heroes." The song "Ain't Got Rhythm," which Vincent Martella performed in the voice of Phineas alongside Steve Zahn and Thomas Sangster in the episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together," was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008 for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics."
Legacy.
Besides the series "Phineas and Ferb," Phineas has been featured in several other pieces of merchandise from the series. To date, he has appeared in all "Phineas and Ferb" novelizations, published by Disney Press. Phineas appears in the Nintendo DS video game based on the series, simply titled "Phineas and Ferb." Dan Povenmire has said that he saw nothing of the game until its release, on which he was given a copy for free. "Paste" claimed that Phineas, alongside Ferb are 33rd best cartoon characters of all time.
Plush toys of the character, along with toys representing Ferb and Perry, have been manufactured. Phineas also appears on most of the "Phineas and Ferb" t-shirts. Phineas is set to appear in the forthcoming comic book series based on the series, though details are unconfirmed. Phineas and his brother Ferb have as well both been referenced in the book "Lost and Found: How Churches Are Connecting to Young Adults" as examples of how media and television characters can be influential in people's lives.
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Phineas and Ferb
American animated television series
Phineas and Ferb is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series originally aired on the networks for four seasons between 2007 and 2015 and is scheduled to return for two additional seasons beginning in 2025. The series follows stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher during summer vacation. Every day, the boys construct a grand project or embark on a spectacular adventure to make the most of their time on vacation. This annoys their controlling older sister, Candace, who frequently tries to expose their schemes to her and Phineas's mother. The series follows a standard plot system; running gags occur every episode.
Povenmire and Marsh conceived the characters while working together on animated programs "The Simpsons" and "Rocko's Modern Life" in the 1990s, and were inspired by the summers of their own childhoods. They developed the series together and pitched it to networks for 16 years before successfully selling it to The Walt Disney Company. "Phineas and Ferb" is produced by Disney Television Animation, and was originally broadcast as a one-episode preview on August 17, 2007, following the premiere of the made-for-television film "High School Musical 2". It again previewed on September 28, 2007, and officially premiered on Disney Channel on February 1, 2008. The series originally concluded on June 12, 2015, before two new seasons were ordered in January 2023, with the first season scheduled to premiere on Disney Channel and the streaming service Disney+ in summer 2025.
"Phineas and Ferb" is one of Disney Channel's most successful animated franchises. It received high viewership in the United States on cable television and influenced the development of merchandise, a live tour, spin-offs, and movies. A made-for-television film, ', aired in 2011, while a follow-up titled ' was released on Disney+ in 2020. Critics praised the writing and humor of the show, citing its appeal to a wide range of ages. Others criticized its lack of originality and formulaic approach. The series won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Writing in Animation and several Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
Premise.
The series follows the adventures of stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher. They live in the fictional city of Danville in an unspecified tri-state area, as they seek ways to occupy their time during their "104 days of summer vacation". Often these adventures involve elaborate, life-sized, and ostensibly dangerous construction projects, which are usually unrealistic in scale given the protagonists' ages (and sometimes physically impossible). Phineas's older sister Candace has two obsessions: unveiling Phineas and Ferb's schemes and ideas, and winning the attention of a boy named Jeremy.
The subplot almost always features Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus Perry, who works as a secret agent for an all-animal government organization named O.W.C.A. ("Organization Without a Cool Acronym"). His usual objective is to defeat the latest scheme of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a mad scientist driven largely by a need to assert his evilness, whose own ineptitude often defeats him. The two plots intersect at the end of each episode, erasing all traces of the boys' project just before a dismayed Candace can show it to their mother and destroying Doofenshmirtz's evil contraption; either occurrence usually indirectly leads to the other's in some way.
Episodes.
Most of the episodes premiered in pairs of two 11-minute stories, while others were released on their own. Disney Television Animation produced the episodes in two variants: they were primarily paired in 22-minute shows but also produced as individual episodes. Thus, a credits scene was made for each quarter-hour episode, while for the packaged variant, only the credits from the second "segment" would be used.
Nowadays, the series is aired in the 22-minute format, with the separate variants being occasionally shown as fillers. Digital and streaming releases, like on iTunes and Disney+, have the episodes in pairs.
Characters.
The series' main characters live in a blended family, a premise that the creators considered underused in children's programming and that reflected Marsh's own upbringing. Marsh considers explaining the family background "not important to the kids' lives. They are a great blended family and that's all we need to know." The choice of a platypus as the boys' pet was similarly inspired by media underuse, as well as the animal's striking appearance. Povenmire and Marsh wanted an uncommon species, an animal that kids could not "pick out at a pet store and beg [their parents] for." The platypus also gave them freedom to "make stuff up" since "no one knows very much about them", and allowed them to own that "mental real estate", so that if someone thinks of the word "platypus", they will associate it with Agent P, just as an ogre is now commonly associated with Shrek. Marsh called the characters "cool, edgy and clever without ... being mean-spirited." Animation director Rob Hughes is said to have noted that "in all the other shows every character is either stupid or a jerk, but there are no stupid characters or jerks in this one."
Development.
Early inspirations.
Dan Povenmire attributes the show's genesis to his childhood in Mobile, Alabama, where his mother told him to never waste a day of summer. To occupy himself, Povenmire undertook projects such as hole-digging and home movie-making. Povenmire recalled, "My mom let me drape black material all the way across one end of our living room to use as a space field. I would hang little models of spaceships for these little movies I made with a Super 8 camera." He was an artistic prodigy and displayed his very detailed drawings at art shows. Marsh was raised in a large, blended family. As with Povenmire, Marsh spent his summers exploring and taking part in various activities to have fun.
Conception.
While attending the University of Southern California, Povenmire started a daily comic strip called "Life Is a Fish", and received money from the sale of its related merchandise. He eventually dropped out and started drawing people on street corners to make a living, until he was finally called by Tommy Chong to work on a short bit of animation in the film "Far Out Man". Povenmire began to take up animation professionally, working on shows such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Marsh had become a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company until he "freaked out" and decided to quit. His friend helped him put together a portfolio and enter the animation business.
Povenmire and Marsh started working across from each other as layout artists on "The Simpsons". The two bonded over mutual tastes in humor and music, becoming fast friends. They continued their working relationship as a writing team on the Nickelodeon series "Rocko's Modern Life", where they conceived the idea for their own series. While eating dinner at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, Povenmire drew a quick sketch of a "triangle kid" on butcher paper. He tore it out and called Marsh that night to report, "Hey, I think we have our show." The triangle doodle sparked rapid development of characters and designs. Povenmire decided that his sketch "looked like a Phineas," and named Ferb after a friend who "owns more tools than anyone in the world." The creators based their character designs on angular shapes in homage to Tex Avery, an animator and director for MGM and Warner Bros., adding geometric shapes to the backgrounds for continuity.
Pitching and pickup.
The writing duo's early attempts to pitch the show failed and, though they remained committed to the concept, Povenmire and Marsh began to drift apart after their work on "Rocko's". Marsh moved to London and worked on shows including "Postman Pat" and "Bounty Hamster". Povenmire began working on the primetime Fox series "Family Guy" and the Nickelodeon series "SpongeBob SquarePants", always carrying a "Phineas and Ferb" portfolio for convenient pitching to networks such as Cartoon Network and Fox Kids. The networks passed on the show, believing the series' premise was too complex to succeed.
Povenmire persisted and again pitched the series to Nickelodeon, where it was considered by high-level executives but rejected once more as overly complicated. Then, after 16 years of trying, Povenmire landed a pitch with Disney. The network did not immediately accept the show but told Povenmire that it would keep the packet. Povenmire assumed that this had meant an end to negotiations, aware that the phrase usually "means they throw it in the trash later." Disney then surprised him by accepting. Said Povenmire, "Disney was the first to say, 'Let's see if you can do it in 11 minutes.' We did it in the pilot and they said, 'Let's see if you can do it for 26 episodes.'"
Povenmire was initially worried that his work on "Family Guy" (an adult show known for its lowbrow humor) would concern Disney, which markets its fare primarily to families. However, Disney Channel senior vice president of original series Adam Bonnett was a "Family Guy" fan who appreciated Povenmire's connection to the show and received his pitch well.
In 2006, after the Disney Channel had accepted the show, Povenmire and Marsh turned their attention to the company's overseas executives. Instead of penning a normal script, the two drew out storyboards and played them in a reel. Povenmire voiced over the reel with his dialogue and added sound effects. This novel approach secured the executives' support.
Production.
Writing style.
The show uses four main writers to devise story ideas according to "strict guidelines", such as that the boys' schemes never appear to be "magical". Stories are reviewed at weekly sessions on a Monday, then simultaneously scripted and storyboarded. A very rough design is built before the storyboard, featuring little more than suggested scenes and dialogue, is drafted; the writers then gather for a "play-by-play" walkthrough of the storyboard in front of the whole crew, whose reactions to the jokes are assessed before rewrites are made. The writers also include running gags in every episode, which are generally lines spoken by characters. Almost every episode is split into two 11-minute segments. Dan Povenmire admitted that the "a-plot" of each episode, the one following Phineas and Ferb's inventions, is not actually a plot, but instead the setting, with the actual plot being Candace, Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz's story, "The essence of story is that the characters are changed by what happens to them. Nothing ever changes the boys, they never learn anything, there's never any obstacles they have to overcome, everything just works out for them."
Much of the series' humor relies on running gags used in almost every episode, with slight variation.
Certain aspects of the show's humor are aimed at adults, including its frequent pop-culture references. Co-creator Dan Povenmire, who had previously worked on "Family Guy", sought to create a less raunchy show that would make similar use of comic timing, metahumor, humorous blank stares, wordplay and breaking the fourth wall. Povenmire describes the show as a combination of "Family Guy" and "SpongeBob SquarePants". Co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh has said that the show was not created exclusively for children; he simply did not exclude them as an audience.
Visual aspects and animation.
Rough Draft Studios in South Korea, Wang Film Productions in Taiwan, Morning Sun Animation and Synergy Animation in Shanghai and Hong Ying Animation and Hong Guang Animation in Suzhou animate the series in 2D Animation using the software package Toon Boom. Povenmire would undertake the bulk of production direction, along with Zac Moncrief and Robert F. Hughes. The series adopts artistic features from animator Tex Avery, such as geometric shapes integrated into characters, objects, and backgrounds. Povenmire says of this inclusion, "There's a little bit of Tex Avery in there-he had that very graphic style [in his later cartoons]." Triangles are featured as an easter egg in the background of every episode, sometimes in trees or buildings.
Bright colors are also a prominent element of the animation. Marsh elaborates, "The idea at the end of the day was candy. One of the things that I think works so well is that the characters are so bright and candy-colored and our backgrounds are a much more realistic depiction of the world: the soft green of the grass, the natural woods for the fence. In order for all the stuff that they do to work, their world needs to be grounded in reality." The designers sought to keep their characters visually simple so that kids "would easily be able to draw [them] themselves." Characters were also crafted to be recognizable from a distance, a technique that the creators say is based on Matt Groening's goal of making characters recognizable by silhouette.
Cast.
Phineas and Ferb are voiced by Vincent Martella and Thomas Sangster (seasons 1–4) and David Errigo Jr. (season 5–present), respectively. Sangster was one of many British actors cast, as Marsh lived in the United Kingdom for seven years and developed a fondness for the British. The rest of the cast includes Ashley Tisdale as their sister Candace; Bobby Gaylor as Buford van Stomm, who has a tendency to bully but is kept distracted by being included in the adventures; Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet Tjinder, a very intelligent boy who avoids being Buford's main victim by their participation in the adventures; Dee Bradley Baker as Perry the Platypus; Caroline Rhea as Linda Flynn-Fletcher, Phineas and Candace's mother and stepmother to Ferb; Richard O'Brien as Lawrence Fletcher, Ferb's father and Phineas and Candace's stepfather; Jack McBrayer as Irving, who admires Phineas and Ferb, and is the creator of the Phineas and Ferb fansite; Kelly Hu as Candace's best friend Stacy; Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz; Marsh as Major Monogram; Olivia Olson as Dr. Doofenshmirtz's daughter Vanessa; Tyler Mann as Carl, Major Monogram's goofy super genius intern; Alyson Stoner as neighbor Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, a sweet Mexican/Jewish girl with a crush on Phineas; Mitchel Musso as Jeremy, Candace's crush and later her boyfriend; and Madison Pettis as Adyson Sweetwater, a member of Isabella's Fireside Girls troop.
The show's casting organization is responsible for selecting most of the voice actors and actresses, choosing actors such as Martella and Musso for major roles based on perceived popularity with target demographics. Povenmire and Marsh select guest stars, casting people that they "really want to work with." They also solicit guest roles from actors whom they feel would lend an interesting presence to the show.
Guest stars have included pop-culture figures such as Damian Lewis, boxer Evander Holyfield, film stars Cloris Leachman and Ben Stiller, and pop singer Kelly Clarkson. Povenmire and Marsh have also solicited Tim Curry and Barry Bostwick, stars of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", to make guest appearances, while "Rocky Horror" creator Richard O'Brien voices Lawrence Fletcher. "Top Gear" stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May guest-starred in a race-car themed episode as commentators. Other guest stars include Tina Fey, Seth MacFarlane, David Mitchell, Jaret Reddick, Clay Aiken, Chaka Khan and Kevin Smith.
Music.
The series is known for its original songs that appear in almost every episode since the first season episode "Flop Starz". Disney's executives particularly enjoyed the episode's song "Gitchee, Gitchee Goo" and requested that a song appear in each subsequent episode. The music earned the series a total of four Emmy nominations: two Primetime Creative Arts nominations in 2008 (for the main title theme and for the song "I Ain't Got Rhythm" from the episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together") and two Daytime Creative Arts nominations in 2010 (for the song "Come Home Perry" from the episode "Oh, There You Are, Perry" and the original score by Danny Jacob).
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"Phineas and Ferb gave us a chance to write a song for every single episode, starting with the second episode, Flop Starz. [...] Every episode since then has a song in it. It's not always the characters singing onscreen – they don't break into song just to advance the plot. The music doesn't come out of nowhere, sometimes it's just a montage over action. We've done every genre known to man: ABBA, Broadway show tunes, 16th-century madrigals"
 —Dan Povenmire on the songs featured in every episode since "Flop Starz".
"Phineas and Ferb" follows structural conventions that Povenmire and Marsh developed while writing "Rocko's Modern Life", whereby each episode features "a song or a musical number, plus a big action/chase scene." Both creators had musical backgrounds, as Povenmire performed rock and roll in his college years and Marsh's grandfather was the bandleader Les Brown.
The series' songs span many genres, from 16th-century madrigals to Broadway show tunes. Each is written in an intensive session during episode production; a concept, score and lyrics are developed quickly. Together, Marsh and Povenmire could "write a song about almost anything" in an hour. After they finished their songs, Povenmire and Marsh sang them over the answering machine of series composer Danny Jacob on Friday nights. By the following Monday, the song would be fully produced.
The title sequence song "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day", performed by the American group Bowling for Soup, was nominated for an Emmy award in 2008. The creators originally wrote a slower number more in keeping with a "classic Disney song", but the network felt that changes were needed to especially appeal to children and commissioned the rock version that made the final cut.
A clip show titled "Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown" was broadcast as part of season two in October 2009. The show focuses on the series' music, featuring a viewer-voted list of its top ten songs. This clip show spawned a sequel, "Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly Osbourne", which aired on June 28, 2013. Osbourne hosted the special in live form, while Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Major Monogram appeared as animated.
Conclusion and revival.
The series was renewed for a fourth season in August 2011, which was originally planned to be the final season; the hour-long finale "Last Day of Summer" aired on June 12, 2015. Povenmire and Marsh remained with the network and together created a new series, "Milo Murphy's Law", which aired from 2016 to 2019. A revival of "Phineas and Ferb", spanning 40 episodes across two seasons, was announced by Disney Branded Television in January 2023; by May of that year, Povenmire confirmed that the first of these two seasons would be considered as the fifth of the series overall. The fifth season is set to premiere in summer 2025.
Reception.
Critical response.
The show has received generally positive reviews. "The New York Times" commented favorably, describing the show as ""Family Guy" with an espionage subplot and a big dose of magical realism." It considered the pop-culture references ubiquitous "but [placed] with such skill that it seems smart, not cheap." Whitney Matheson wrote in her "USA Today" blog "Pop Candy" that the series was an achievement in children's programming, applauding the writing and calling the show "an animated version of "Parker Lewis Can't Lose"." Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media praised the show's humor and plot, giving it four out of five stars. "The Seattle Times" wrote that the story of the show was "valiant" and that the main characters are "young heroes".
"Variety" noted the show's appeal to all ages with its "sense of wit and irreverence." Similar reviews have emphasized the series' popularity with adults; Rebecca Wright of "Elastic Pops" wrote, "As an adult, I really enjoyed watching this "Phineas and Ferb" DVD, and I think it is one that the whole family can enjoy." Wright also called the series' "irreverent style" reminiscent of "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle". "Wired"'s Matt Blum has stated in reviews of the series that he "can stand to watch just about anything with [his] kids, but [he] actually look[s] forward to watching "Phineas and Ferb" with them." Notable celebrities identified as fans of the series include Bob Eubanks, Anthony LaPaglia, Ben Stiller, Chaka Khan, Jeff Sullivan and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Among the negative reviews is one that charges the series with a lack of originality. Maxie Zeus of "Toon Zone" argues that the show is "derivative, but obviously so, and shorn of even the best features of what has been stolen." Zeus takes issue with the writing, feeling that certain jokes and conventions were "ripped-off" from other shows. Kevin McDonough of "Sun Coast Today" criticized the show for its plot complexity, constant action and "characters [that] can do just about anything." McDonough stated that "it's never clear whether P&F are intended to entertain children or are merely a reflection of grown-up animators engaged in a juvenile lark." Marylin Moss of "The Hollywood Reporter" described "Phineas and Ferb" as "Pretty mindless but kids of all ages might find a humorous moment in it." Moss called the plot lines redundant but praised the music styles and guest stars.
Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz gave a positive assessment in their 2016 book "TV (The Book)", stating that "In television, formula often seems to come from a lack of imagination. ... "Phineas and Ferb" though, managed at the same time to be wildly imaginative and slavishly formulaic, using its repetitive structure not as a crutch, but as a sturdy framework on which it could hang all kinds of fantastic new ideas." They further added that "the characters' awareness of that formula, and any deviations from it, quickly became one of the show's most fertile sources of humor."
Ratings.
The first episode, "Rollercoaster", garnered a total of 10.8 million viewers when aired as a preview on August 17, 2007, holding onto more than half of the record-setting audience of its lead-in, "High School Musical 2". When "Phineas and Ferb" officially debuted in February the next year, it proved to be cable's number-one watched animated series premiere by tweens. Throughout the quarter that followed, it peaked as the top-rated animated series for ages 6–10 and 9–14, also becoming the number-three animated series on cable television for viewers aged 6–10. By the time the second season was announced in May 2008, the series had become a top-rated program in the 6–11 and 9–14 age groups.
The Disney Channel airing of "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" was watched by 3.7 million viewers. The episodes "Perry Lays an Egg" and "Gaming the System" achieved the most views by ages 6–11 and 9–14 of any channel in that night's time slot. This achievement made the series the number-one animated telecast that week for its target demographics. On June 7, 2009, Disney announced that the show had become the number-one primetime animated show for the 6–10 and 9–14 groups.
The premiere of "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation" garnered 2.62 million viewers during its debut on Disney XD, the most watched telecast in the channel's history (including Toon Disney) and the number-three program of the night across all demographics. It received 5.2 million viewers for its debut on Disney Channel and was the highest-rated episode of the series to date and fifth-highest for the week.
The premiere of "" garnered 3.862 million viewers and was watched by 22% of children 2–11, 13% of teens, 5% of households and 3% of adults 18–49, also ranking as the number-one program for that night and as 25th for the week. On Disney XD, the episode ranked among the channel's top three telecasts of the year with 1.32 million viewers, including 365,000 among boys 6–11, with a 2.9 rating. The hour-long telecast on August 2, 2010, was the series' number-two telecast of all time on Disney XD in total viewers, behind only December 2009's "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation".
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Other media.
Films.
On March 3, 2010, a Disney press release announced a made-for-television film based on the series, entitled "", which aired on the Disney Channel on August 5, 2011. The film depicts Phineas and Ferb accidentally helping Dr. Doofenshmirtz with an invention that takes them to a parallel dimension, where Perry reveals his double life as a secret agent to them, and, to save their friends from a devious alternative Dr. Doofenshmirtz, they team up with their alternate-dimension selves to stop him.
In January 2011, Gary Marsh, the president of Disney Channels Worldwide announced that early development on a theatrical feature film adaptation of "Phineas and Ferb" had commenced. Sean Bailey, head of production at Walt Disney Pictures, led the development, which would combine live-action and animation. By July, Povenmire and Marsh were in the early stages of writing the film's script; Michael Arndt, the writer of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Toy Story 3", was hired to write a further draft of the screenplay. The film was to be produced by Mandeville Films, and was originally scheduled for release on July 26, 2013. In October 2012, Disney moved the release date to 2014, and in August 2013, the film was removed from its schedule.
On April 11, 2019, it was announced that a film, titled "", would be released on Disney+ within a year of its launch; it would eventually premiere on August 28, 2020. Most of the series' cast reprised their roles, with the exception of Thomas Sangster as Ferb, who was replaced by David Errigo Jr., who had previously voiced Ferb on "Milo Murphy's Law". According to writer Jim Bernstein, the film is unrelated to the previously shelved theatrical "Phineas and Ferb" film.
Crossovers and short series.
Disney produced "Take Two with Phineas and Ferb", a live-action talk show in which the two characters (as cartoons) interviewed celebrities, similarly to "Space Ghost Coast to Coast", which began aired from December 2010 to November 25, 2011 as a two-minute talk-show format featuring real-life celebrities. Several other local guests have appeared in countries outside the United States.
"", a crossover between "Phineas and Ferb" and Marvel Entertainment aired in the summer of 2013, as 22nd episode of the 4th season. It features Marvel Comics superheroes Iron Man, Spider-Man, the Hulk and Thor and the villains the Red Skull, Whiplash, Venom and M.O.D.O.K. It is the first major animated crossover between Marvel and Disney since the acquisition of Marvel Entertainment by Disney in 2009.
"", a crossover between "Phineas and Ferb" and "Star Wars" aired on July 26, 2014 as the 41st episode of the 4th season, taking place as a parodical sidebar to the events of "Episode IV – A New Hope" (1977).
Povenmire has stated that he would like to do a crossover with his and Marsh's follow-up show, "Milo Murphy's Law", which takes place in the same universe as "Phineas and Ferb". The crossover eventually took place in "Milo Murphy's Law"'s second season premiere, titled "The Phineas and Ferb Effect". The entire "Phineas and Ferb" cast reprised their roles for the episode, with the exception of Thomas Sangster, the original voice of Ferb, who was instead voiced by David Errigo, Jr. Before the crossover aired, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz cameoed at the end of