To celebrate, we’ve concocted the Ultimate Quiz-Inator. D23 challenged show creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh to test their knowledge of Phineas and Ferb trivia
“you guys probably know more about the show than we do. Which is a sad state of affairs.
I cannot describe the sound I made other than a cross between a laugh and that weird sound “busting” Candace made in “Split-Personality” (you all know the sound, and if you don’t, you’re lucky)
it’s kind of weird how you can hear a phineas and ferb song after years of not hearing it and know exactly what the lyrics are, like… like you don’t think you remember the lyrics but they are actually with you Forever
me: aha i know this! wow, such a throwback song! i’ll be lucky if i can even remember a word-
OWCA approached Heinz to write a theme song for their best agent, before he became evil. And, OWCA being OWCA, they insisted on calling him “Agent P”. I have Opinions on how OWCA treats their agents but never mind that.
Heinz being Heinz, he was like “but what’s his name?”, so they told him, and he worked that into the theme song instead. That’s why you get the Monogram going
“but you can call him Agent P” bits in the short version, because that’s the name OWCA uses for him.
Skip ahead to when Heinz is evil, gets assigned a nemesis, said nemesis is introduced to him (via both email and business card) as “Agent P”, and internally he’s like “didn’t I write a theme song for an Agent P this one time? his name must be Perry!” and he starts calling Perry “Perry the Platypus” because it’s only fair right?
And Perry’s just like “oh well, it’s not hurting anyone, why go through the effort to get him to stop?” and so it becomes a Thing. He’s forever “Perry the Platypus” to Heinz. It becomes familiar after a while, and then eventually he gets new business cards (with fancy robot legs) that declare him Fearless and these have “Perry the Platypus” emblazoned upon them.
Two living rays of sunshine dressed as vampires! 🎃
seasons 1-3 Phineas: Huh? Did you say something Isabella?
season 4 Phineas: Isabella! ISABELLA! I’ll never forgive myself if anything happens to you! *takes dramatically in his arms* Be the Helen to my Paris!