Each day, two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation embark on some grand new project, which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust them. Meanwhile, their pet platypus plots against evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
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A dog skeleton is shown on screen in one episode, and a joke is made about it being the protagonists' previous pet. It is never mentioned or shown again.
Doofenshmirtz has abusive parents, though it is played for laughs. For starters, they didn't show up to his birth. His mother immediately regifted his toy teddy bear present to Roger, and his father had him act as a replacement lawn gnome when the Doofenshmirtzes had them repossessed for hours on end.
Should be noted that the slapstick violence Candace endures is most often her own fault, either in a “bad karma” sense or in a literal sense depending on the situation. It’s also very rarely inflicted by other people.
Candace's mom doesn't believe her when she talks about Phineas and Ferb's inventions and repeatedly insists that she's crazy. This is played for comedy.
Not Drugs specifically, but the Blackbeard episode has a subplot of Candace running into some orange moss, which causes her to act as if she's on a psychedelic trip. ("Why do my nostrils whisper to meeee?")
Not in the traditional sense. A minor character, Pinky the Chihuahua, is also an OWCA agent, and engages in hand-to-hand fisticuffs with Professor Poofenplotz the same way Perry does with Doofenshmirtz.
A skeleton of a dead dog is seen in a fossil exhibit, and there’s an implied joke that it was Phineas and Ferb’s dog who was rehomed to someone else’s house after getting sick, and who subsequently died. This dog’s death isn’t seen on screen, just a fossil.
Perry (and other OWCA animal agents) are trapped in various traps while battling villains. These traps are usually pretty funny, such as Perry being trapped in a boot designed to look like Vanessa’s boots. Many are also simple cages. The animal agents always escape.
It is briefly mentioned in one episode that both of Doofenshmirtz's arms are titanium, however, there is no gore or mention of the circumstances that caused Doofenshmirtz's arms to be titanium. It also never shows up again.
"Mommy Can You Hear Me" has Candace with a broken leg for the whole episode. "De Plane! De Plane!" also ends with Candace and Jeremy crashing into each other and the stinger shows them with casts on.
In the episode Bubble Boys Doofenshmirtz is a singer, and he sings so bad that someone in the audience says “this music is so bad I feel like I have to break something!” and he then puts a lot of pressure on his teeth making them all break, and he says “yeah that wasn’t worth it”. In other episodes Doofenshmirtz’ teeth get damaged from Inator explosions, but they’re seen fine in the next episode. Many young child characters are seen missing teeth, but this is since they’re children and children lose baby teeth naturally.
There's an episode where Doofenshmirtz falls from a high place, but immediately lands on a mattress. In the episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", the drill sergeant presumably falls to his death (but it should be noted that the entire episode was a dream). There are also various other falls from high places, but no known deaths.
One episode has Candace believing that Phineas and Ferb have died, but they come back perfectly fine while she's grieving. (They were transported into a video game, and they still had extra lives left
In every episode, Phineas and Ferb's invention is somehow removed from their front lawn, usually by being destroyed in some way. It causes them little to no hard feelings.
In the episode "Lost in Danville", Doof gets kidnapped after a scuffle in his house. Also, various other episodes have Doof holding a person hostage, usually comedically.
It's not focused on, but Monogram mentions his wife several times, but also flirts with other women several times. We don't know if his wife knows or approves of this. "Meepless in Seattle" and "It's About Time" have a running subplot in which someone "cheats" on someone else, but it's not in a romantic sense.
Whenever a character vomits it’s not shown on screen. In another episode, the one where they’re searching for the pirate Bad Beard’s treasure, they’re on a boat and two girls are shown being seasick with their skin being green and they’re by the edge of the boat. They aren’t seen throwing up.
In many episodes Baljeet mentions getting scared and saying he’ll need fresh underwear. I don’t know of any specific episodes. No actual poop or pee is seen.
Many episodes contain fart humor. In the episode Mandace, Candace is changed into a pizza delivery boy through an inator and decides to deliver pizza to her boyfriend Jeremy while she resembles the pizza delivery guy. To make him really think she’s a boy, she spits and then awkwardly says “Boys spit… haha..” And in another episode Perry spits into a spittoon to activate an entryway to the OWCA lab.
Police are never shown to achieve much in the way of protecting Danville from threats (supervillains, LOVEMUFFIN, Parallel Doof’s robots, a zombie apocalypse, etc). Parallel Dimension Doofenshmirtz’s robots serve as law enforcement and are considered an antagonistic force, with the rebellion against them being the protagonists.
Something very similar is used in what turns out to be a dream. Phineas and Ferb are soaked with water every time they try to build something, and it's very dark
It wasn’t a mental camp, it was a “reformatory school” where a bad guy was trying to make Phineas and Ferb lose all of their creativity so they no longer made their “dangerous” inventions. This was in the episode Phineas and Ferb Get Busted. It turns out to be a dream in the end and Phineas and Ferb are both okay.
A major character wears a labcoat and is referred to (erroneously) as a pharmacist in one episode, but he is not a doctor and there are no hospital scenes.
Candace frequently goes into bouts of panic (for example she locks herself in "the panic room" in one episode) but they're typically played for laughs.
In an episode where Phineas and Ferb are finally busted, they're sent to a military camp. A scene show them getting repeatedly hosed until they no longer have creative urges. The scene portrays the action in a negative manner. It turns out to be not real.
The moral at the end of that episode is how beauty standards are stupid and impossible to reach, so you should be happy the way you are and Candace accepts that she’s fine the way she is and is happy to just be Candace. Candace had become 50 something feet tall as a result of Phineas and Ferb’s growth elixir, and she realized that even after becoming tall enough to be a “Flawless Girl” she wasn’t really happy, and then decided to resume her true goal in busting her brothers.
Doofenshmirtz is very clearly traumatized by his past and in every episode he talks about his “emotionally scarring backstory” which is what motivated his evil scheme in that episode.
There's also a very brief instance in the Little Brothers musical sequence where we see Candace holding baby Phineas, and in Dude We're Getting The Band Back Together Doof has pictures of baby Vanessa in his wallet
no, but there is one episode where childbirth is mentioned. doof talks about how neither of his parents were present at his own birth and it shows him as a baby held by a nurse at the hospital
Some of the humor revolves around Candace's obsession with her brothers' projects, and several tropes and stereotypes are used. She is explicitly called crazy at least once.
I don’t think Doofenshmirtz is supposed to be Christian, maybe he is but his religion isn’t explicitly stated, though he does celebrate Christmas. There was an entire episode starring a Mexican Jewish Cultural Festival, which clearly had a lot of research put into it to make both the Mexican and Jewish cultures accurately represented, and it had a lot of cute details. Many fans who are Mexican and/or Jewish really liked that episode, and there was an awesome song to go with it.
A lot like, A LOT. Even an entire episode revolves about Doof making a inator that puts men into dresses and when he and Perry are hit by it it's meant to be comedic.
No, but one episode shows a male character being made to wear a dress, and it clearly distresses him and causes others to bully him. Another episode shows at least two male characters suddenly being in dresses, much to their surprise, but they don't seem bothered by it.
^ The bit in Nerds of a Feather is a throwaway gag and for all intents and purposes not actually aphobia. The joke revolves around Perry (or rather the fictional counterpart of him that Doofenshmirtz created to pitch a TV show as per his scheme of the day) and Doofenshmirtz is offended that the exec he's pitching it to "thinks he knows his characters better than him". Perry is asexual by word of the creator in TikTok comments, not within the show canon itself - therefore a casual watcher won't pick it up as aphobia. At most it reads as regular old amatonormativity.
There are multiple anti-affeminacy jokes and a scene where a white boy makes fun of racialized accents, but the bully stops him because his best friend is a brown boy. I think you should mainly consider the first one before rewatching.
Not in depth, but Isabella Garcia-Shapiro is Jewish, with several episodes bringing this into focus (i.e, Isabella mentions in one of the Christmas specials that she doesn't celebrate Christmas, but rather Hanukkah)
Well, the Baljeet clone “dies” at the end of the episode when the machine that cloned him is destroyed, but the “death” just consists of the clones going poof and disappearing. But the clone didn’t die from being hit.