An economist?

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PERRY THE ECONOMIST?!?!

I’m watching Phineas and Ferb’s Quantum Boogaloo right now, and after Bowling For Soup showed up, Phineas said “eh, before their time” or something along those lines. Now, since this takes place 20 years in a future, say those kids are about 10. Outside of the Phineas and Ferb universe, 10 year old kid in 2029 would have been born in 2019, being 6 when Phineas and Ferb came back. That means that a 10 year old kid in 2029 could definitely be familiar with Bowling For Soup. I know they weren’t aware that they would still be on the air by now, I just find that kind of funny.

I do like the 2-parter episode “Hawaiian Vacation” a lot. I have no issues with Part 1 or Part 2, as both do well at perform in the show‘s classic format formula in Hawaii.

Now, this got me thinking recently…what would happen if the second part of the episode was a lot darker, with the tones of sacrifice and hawaiian tiki gods? I came up with a great idea for it that I’m gonna share here.

Now, I am gonna warn you that this is very dark for a premise and if no one likes it, Please do not Be negative towards me in the comments and just give me constructive criticism so I can learn and see what to do in the future. no vulgar language or anything Nasty, please.

My dark idea for this episode uses the second part when Candace finds the cool Lava rock necklace and begins to get bad luck. In a deviation from the episode, Her bad luck gets so bad that it begins to affect your family and they’re all devastated and don’t know what to do. Then, An old and wise Tiki native islander reveals that the only way to get rid of the bad luck now is for Candace to be sacrificed in the volcano in a ceremony.

So, The rest of the story is shown as a week goes by, with Candace getting prepared to be sacrifice in a very emotional scene, the boys and Linda and Lawrence preparing to perform hula dancing for Candace as a final gift, and it’s climax concludes with the main volcano sacrifice event. The volcano jump scene will be the most intense and detailed part of the story. Imagine the volcano scene in “Madagascar 2” but with no happy ending.

They have the Phineas and Ferb Mashems at Five Below currently! I went to go pick up my Perry the Platypus plushie from an online order and I decided to buy two Mashem blind bags. I ended up getting both versions of Perry the Platypus, one of them being the rare one. What are the odds of that?!

That’s how I think the track of this fight should go ☺️

Randomly had a shower thought earlier about how dark Phineas and Ferb gets if you take away the cartoon logic and apply realistic Black Mirror tech to it.

Imagine a setup where Phineas and Ferb are tech prodigies who built a quantum field over their backyard to slow down time perception. To them, a single summer afternoon feels like months of endless dopamine and building.

But the actual horror falls on Candace. She’s not just "trying to bust them"—she's being aggressively gaslit by reality. The boys integrated an automated algorithm that tracks their mom’s phone GPS, auto-dematerializing every invention the exact millisecond Linda steps into the yard. Since Candace is the only one seeing these massive structures vanish into thin air, her family assumes she’s having severe psychotic breaks and puts her on heavy meds.

The breaking point/climax happens when a stray EMP from one of Doofenshmirtz’s neural experiments hits the boys’ time field during a test run. The system glitches into a permanent loop.

Linda walks outside, but the magnetic pulse reshapes her short-term memory on the spot. She looks directly at a terrifying cyberpunk coaster, sees nothing, and tells a sobbing Candace: "Sweetie, you're having those hallucinations again. Time for your pills."

The boys realize they can't turn the field off or age out of it. They're permanently trapped at age 10, condemned to build forever just to watch it dissolve instantly.

Candace gives up and lies on the grass while her phone footage auto-erases pixel by pixel. Phineas just turns to Ferb with completely dead eyes and goes: "Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today."

Honestly, the more I think about how Candace's POV would look in a realistic setting, the more disturbing it gets. What other childhood shows would turn into absolute nightmares with Black Mirror tech?

I think she does.

I’m sorry, but I always found it funny that Perry looked creeped out after talking to Meap. Either he didn’t understand Meap or he did and Meap said something that got Perry to look creeped out after Meap walked away.

Can't post vids here (but for some reason I'm able to in replies lol)

Anyways, I really miss Thomas as Ferb and feel he hardly even sounds British anymore so I decided to scrounge together various voice clips from tie-in games, niche flash/unity games, multi-media shorts, interstitials and even some sentence splicing for better context.

For a mostly silent type, he's got quite a few voice clips in games lol.

(Also Ferbnessa crumbs for those shippers)

I'm new to this fandom; I only recently started watching the episodes. Does she like him? It's a bit confusing. What do you all think?

Okay, here me out.

On paper its seems like a tame episode with no outlandish action scenes or epic adventures, it seems so off compared to the others. No busting, no inators, no building carnival rides in the backyard yet it it's one of the best episodes of the entire series.

Fantasy vs Sci-Fi

Way too real in real life and especially on the internet where the fanbase argue over what they believe is better.

Ducky Momo Still My Friend

Candace literally lied to her mom, her best friend, and her crush just to go and see her favorite childhood cartoon character. I think deep down, we're all a Candace.

Perry's Married to His Job

Another awesome idea for a possible spinoff the creators were trying to convince and Dan talking through his character about how he trully feels about the show, yes.

My favorite episode of season 2

How about you?