![]() ![]() much to the annoyance of older sister Candace, a love-struck teen who, like the neighbor in the old Bewitched TV series, has made it her mission to somehow convince their parents that the boys have been doing some mighty weird things. So this creative duo invents things on a BIG scale to amuse themselves. Phineas and Ferb are just your average high-energy, highly imaginative boys who believe that every one of their 104 days of summer vacation should be an adventure. So from a parent’s perspective, it’s a fairly innocuous show and, let’s be fair, at least it celebrates inventiveness. On the plus side, the humor doesn’t come from disrespectful kids, and the children depicted actually like each other, even if they drive each other crazy from time to time. But I wouldn’t rate this particular release one of the best, nor do all of the episodes have to do with “Animal Agents.” In order for all of the stuff that they do to work, their world needs to be grounded in reality.Like Kim Possible, this animated Disney Channel show is aimed at elementary school children ages 6-10 but has a Fairly Oddparents and Pinky and the Brain style that might appeal to older siblings and a throwback vibe to the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons that makes it more tolerable for adults than most kid fare. 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. We also created characters that would be very recognizable even from a distance. Matt Groening once said that when you are designing characters, they should be recognizable in silhouette."Īs for the show's unique color palette, co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh explained, "The idea at the end of the day was candy. "We tried to create characters that kids would easily be able to draw themselves. "All the main characters are based on geometric shapes. Phineas is a triangle, Ferb is a rectangle, Candace and Isabella are half circles," Povenmire told Variety 411. That's a specific choice, based on a style philosophy that co-creator Dan Povenmire says he learned from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons (where he once worked). So if you blend those two TV shows together, presto, you get the plot for most episodes of Phineas and Ferb. ![]() "Big Bird had this big, furry, mastodon-type character that only he would see," Povenmire added, referring to Snuffleupagus, "and then he would, like, go to try to find other people to get them to bring them back and show them the Snuffleupagus," who would then disappear, because he was initially an imaginary friend. "But they did it as a an anthology, where they'd check in on one story and come back."Īnd here's where Sesame Street comes in. "The reason we wanted to several stories at once is Rocky & Bullwinkle," Povenmire told Slate. Well, Phineas and Ferb creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh took inspiration from two classic yet wildly different children's shows: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Sesame Street. How so? Well, almost every episode includes a Phineas and Ferb project, a subplot with Candace trying in vain to get someone to believe her reporting of her brothers' exploits, and a Perry the Platypus adventure - a lot to pack into just 11 minutes. When the series premiered in late 2007, nearly 16 years had passed since Povenmire made his first drawing in that restaurant. Then, one day in the 2000s, Disney called Povenmire to tell him that they'd changed their mind and would like to make Phineas and Ferb into a show. ![]() Years passed, and Marsh moved to England, and Povenmire took a job on Family Guy. We'd get real close, they'd say no, so we'd put it back on the shelf for a couple of years," Povenmire told Animation World Network. Povenmire and Marsh then tried to sell it to various TV outlets. And lo, Phineas was born, and when Povenmire showed the character to his Rocko's Modern Life writing partner, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, the pair excitedly developed an entire fictional universe that would become the pitch for Phineas and Ferb. One night in the mid-'90s, artist-turned-writer Dan Povenmire drew a triangle-headed kid with huge eyes on some butcher paper acting as a tablecloth at a restaurant in Pasadena, California.
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