Phineas and Ferb, a distillation of Childhood Imagination.

SO!

In the age of, "every single old-school thing must be brought back for at least one more season." Disney has finally decided to bring back into action, a fifth season of Phineas and Ferb.

The show has a simple concept and a simple formula, two extremely intelligent step brothers, Phineas and Ferb, are living in a place called Danville and have their... as the title sequence that they apparently themselves made says... hundred and four days of summer vacation....

Which... I mean how is it that in a show where two kids make an entire elevator to the moon using stuff from the mall, the most unrealistic thing is this?

But regardless, it's not even a Hundred and Four Days, each episode is a brand new day, and there are 189 episodes, leaving out the Finale which actually takes place a lot later when Phineas and Ferb are all Grown up and everything and Isabella and Phineas finally confess their feelings for each other after Ferb and Vanessa have already been dating for a while apparently.... I mean they are just going off to college, so there almost certainly must have been a time in between that Vanessa was of age and Ferb wasn't.... hmm...

Anyways...

The formula is simple, it's a new day in summer, Linda Flynn and Lawrence Fletcher are going off to do their daily errands or something and Phineas and Ferb are left alone with their elder Sister Candace, who has a thing for a guy called Jeremy, and a best friend called Stacy...

This is important cause Candace always tries to "Bust" her brothers for apparently doing "dangerous" stuff, by exposing their everyday Shenanigans to their Parents, mostly her mom.

But every single day, their pet Perry, who is actually a secret agent working for the Organization Without a Cool Acronym, or the O.W.C.A. has a subplot where he tries to foil an evil doer called Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz of the Doofenshmirtz evil inc.

I mean he is so evil he even has his own evil Jingle, the bastard.

And this attempt to foil this evil plot leads to every single Phineas and Ferb project being wiped from existence before Mom or Dad can arrive.

Now, there are a lot of ways you can analyze this Series, about how ol' Doof isn't actually an evil dude, How the O.W.C.A. is actually using Doof for his intellect that he doesn't actually know how to use, or how Doof is actually the best father ever.

A lot of analyses are Doof related it turns out...

But why did this show capture the imagination and attention of so many of us back when, so much so that they are bringing a new Fifth season when it actually already has an ending and therefore Kind of doesn't make sense...

Well for one simple reason, as kids, we have all had these grandiose plans about how we would break the Stars from the skies and keep them for ourselves, or go to the moon etc. etc.

But the thing is, for whatever reason, reality never caught up to our imagination...

Cruel...

And so we all became Jaded adults and Adolescents just like Candace, telling off the newer Generation for doing "dangerous" things.

And believe it or not, ol' Doof is actually a part of this metaphor, because if you really think about it, then he is basically an overgrown kid who wants justice for his terrible past and is trying to right it retroactively as an adult, except his way of "righting" this apparent wrong is by doing "Evil"

And that is why for an overgrown baby like him we have the most unbelievable nemesis, Perry the Platypus, who generally isn't supposed to do much, but actually does a lot, which is something only a child's imagination could believe.

And in a strange way, we have the imagination of one without a proper Childhood, "protecting" the imagination of two kids who are getting the Childhood that he didn't have, even though he is doing this unknowingly...

I told you he was actually good.

O.W.C.A. then is essentially a daycare for people like Doofenshmirtz, preventing them from causing any harm to themselves or to others while still getting some semblance of a childhood.

I mean it's only fitting because Major Monogram is also a sort of overgrown child... I mean have you seen how he behaves in private?

Obviously I will remind you these are metaphors...

And there are many other ways you can look at this, and one might ask, why would Phineas and Ferb need protecting?

Well we did see two instances where their mom actually learnt of their shenanigans and both weren't great, in one they got sent to a military boot camp but that turned out to be a bad dream, and in the other where an Candace travels through time to bust her brothers in the past and we end up in a super evil timeline where Doof rules and everyone is named Joe and must wear a labcoat for some reason, because that is exactly the kind of childish bullshit he would pull.

So in a way Phineas and Ferb's "good" imagination is also preventing Doof's "Bad" Imagination from overrunning the world...

But then... can you blame Doof, I mean the guy's backstory is so sad, both his parents missed his birth... how is that possible... because of course it is...

Oh and also they were Vikings so his fit Brother Roger who is also the Mayor of Danville in present day got all the praise for being fit and "ready to fight" while Doof got all the shit, while having to wear girl's clothing to school because his parents wanted one and they are poor so the sewn clothing can't now be thrown away.

And I would like to end this blog post by saying that I will unfortunately not be analyzing every single episode of the new season of Phineas and Ferb like I usually do for other Shows, because it really isn't that kind of show, some shows are just meant to be enjoyed and not micro-analyzed, the only reasonable analysis can be of certain special episodes like the one with MEEP or the crossover ones with Star Wars and Marvel or as an overarching plot analysis over possibly multiple seasons.

I will instead take this time to focus on posting something on my Youtube Chanel, which is suddenly Verging on being dead once again... so byeee.....

For now... I guess... Only...

Okay really bye... I gotta go...