Play Phineas and Ferb Theme Song
The wind blows multiple calendar pages into the air, starting on June 3.
There's 104 days of Summer Vacation
Then School comes along just to end it
Phineas and Ferb sit under a tree in their backyard.
So the annual problem for our generation
Is finding a good way to spend it
Cue montage of the boys doing multiple activities.
Like maybe
First, the boys land on the moon. They jump out of the rocket and float forwards.
Second, Phineas climbs on top of Ferb. They try to fight a mummy.
Third, they climb up a certain French tower.
Building a rocket or fighting a mummy
Or climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Fourth, Ferb removed a tarp to show a weird unicorn-turtle hybrid. Phineas takes a picture of it.
Fifth, the boys force a monkey into the shower. Neither of them enjoy this one.
Discovering something that doesn't exist
Or giving a monkey a shower
Sixth, they surf on a large wave.
Seventh, they create tiny robots.
Eighth, they find Frankenstein's monster. The brain is missing from the head. It doesn't take them that long to find.
Ninth, they find a bird.
Tenth, they fly on a helicopter with a large paintbrush over the city. They covered the city in orange paint.
Eleventh, the boys work on a painting. The painting depicts a red-headed girl with a mustache.
Surfing tidal waves, creating nanobots, or locating Frankenstein's brain
Finding a dodo bird, painting a continent, or driving your sister insane
Turns out, this girl isn't actually a painting, but the boys' sister, Candace. She turns to Phineas angrily.
"Phineas!" she shouts.
The boys do multiple things, all the while their sister watches angrily.
Film a movie.
Build a giant robot dog.
Tamper with a car.
Ride a rollercoaster.
As you can see, there's a whole lot of stuff to do before School starts this fall
Candace talks to a friend on the phone. She doesn't notice the boys carrying a live elephant into the backyard until she hears Phineas call out, "Come on, Perry!" That gets her attention.
Later, she's seen playing "Whack-a-Pest". The pests that pop out are her brothers and their pet platypus.
So stick with us, 'cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it all
Afterwards, the boys dance around and play guitar as images of the infinite possibilities flash by.
So stick with us, 'cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it all
When the boys are done, they pose. Their sister comes in.
"Mom, Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!" she shouts.
The boys stare at her for a second. They then brush it off and resume their poses.
End Intro
104 Days of Summer Vacation
Day 26
At Last
Candace looked out the window. She felt relieved knowing the tower was still there.
"Oh, come on, Mom!" she said desperately. "We're coming down to the wire on this one!"
She heard the sound of a car door being slammed shut. She headed for the door. She then rechecked to see if the tower was still there. It was.
"Oh magical force who makes all things vanish before Mom sees them, knock it off!" she demanded.
Candace ran outside. She saw Linda holding a fishing pole with a live fish still caught in its hook.
"Thanks, Vivian," Linda said to the driver. "See you Tuesday for Totem Pole Carving."
"Mom, quick, look before it disappears!" Candace begged.
"Well, if it isn't the welcoming committee from…"
"No time for dry, witty remarks!" Candace grabbed Linda's hand and carried her to the backyard. "Move, move, move, move!"
Once they were in the backyard, Candace gestured to the tower. Linda didn't look, though.
"Don't you get tired of this?" she asked. "The same old routine every day? Doesn't it get… boring?"
Candace took a moment to process Linda's point.
"You're right," she admitted. "I guess it has gotten a little old. I just get so frustrated. I always come so close to busting Phineas and Ferb, but it ends the same way every single time. I say there's a massive thing Phineas and Ferb built right in front of me, but every time you look, you always say…"
"I… see it," Linda interrupted.
"There it is. 'I see it'... wait, come again?"
"I see it!"
"You mean, you see my point?"
"No! I see that!"
Candace looked and saw the tower was, in fact, still there. She couldn't believe it.
"You do?" she asked.
"How could I miss it?" Linda replied. "But I don't understand…"
Something flew right past Candace and Linda. It caused Linda's hat to fly off of her head and her fishing pole to fly out of her hand.
"Hi, Mom!" came Phineas' voice. "Check it out! The Flying Car of the Future, Today!"
The car landed on top of the tower.
"Is that my car?" Linda asked.
Candace could barely contain her excitement. "She sees the car, too!"
Candace could see Linda's eye twitching. She smiled, knowing what was coming.
"Phineas! Ferb!" Linda screamed. "Get down here this instant!"
"Okay, Mom," Phineas said.
The boys came down via a large elevator. He noticed that Perry was right there.
"Oh, there you are, Perry," he said before turning to Linda. "So, what do you think, Mom?"
"I think this is the most dangerous thing ever!" Linda shouted.
"Don't worry, we were safe. Ferb and I installed a new invisible helmet system." The boys took off their helmets, which looked exactly like their heads. "'When life's never dull, wear a hull for your skull.'"
"How dare you do this without permission?"
"Our building permits are in order." Ferb proved Phineas' point by showing a permit.
"I mean my permission."
"This morning, I asked you if we could modify our car to make it fly."
"I was talking about your toy car! How could you possibly think I meant my station wagon? You two are in so much trouble!"
"But we do this sort of thing every day."
"See, Mom?" Candace said. "I told you, but you never listen."
Candace could see Linda tearing up as she processed everything.
After a while, Linda spoke up. "Oh, Candace. All the times I called you delusional, and mocked you to my friends behind your back, all those journals I've filled with an eye towards stand-up comedy, but you were telling the truth. I'm so sorry. You're the best daughter a mother could dream of having."
Candace took pride in what she just heard. "Finally, you realize that."
That's when Lawrence came out.
"What's going on here?" he asked before he noticed the tower. "My word, that is impressive."
"Did you know about this?" Linda asked.
"Uh, no…?"
"What are you gonna do to them?" Candace asked. "No TV for a month? Or they have to serve me for a year? I know, take away their seats on the city council!"
"Wait, you have seats on the city council?" Linda asked.
"We rotate out with the border selectmen," Phineas replied.
"Well, some punishment may be in order, but there's no harm done really," Lawrence said.
"Hey, here's bolt number 473." Phineas picked up a tiny bolt. "Hope that doesn't mean anything."
Right after he said that, the tower tipped over… right onto the house. The flying car managed to land itself safely in the backyard.
"At least the self-parking works," Phineas remarked.
When he looked back, he saw that Linda and Lawrence were beyond angry at him and Ferb. Candace just giggled excitedly. The boys looked at each other, knowing they messed up.
Before they knew it, Phineas and Ferb were on a bus to a place called 'Smile Away Reform School'.
"I'm sorry, but this is for your own good," Linda said. "We need you both to understand that what you're doing is dangerous. I'd never live with myself if either of you got hurt."
"We were wearing helmets," Phineas retorted.
"Don't worry," the runner of the school assured. "Your boys will be in good hands. As you can see from our realistically illustrated brochure, the Smile Away Reformatory offers a serene, peaceful environment in which safety, discipline, and responsibility is strongly encouraged. Your boys will be whipped into shape in no time."
The sergeant got on the bus, and it drove away.
"Bye boys," Lawrence said. "See you at the end of summer."
"Yes, I actually busted Phineas and Ferb!" Candace cheered. "This is the happiest moment of my life! Woo-hoo! I'm finally free!"
Play "The Good Life"
Candace, Jeremy and Stacy were flying over a grassy field on a hang glider.
The sun is up, the sky is blue
I can do whatever I want to
After that, the trio went horseback riding.
'Cause there's nothing in my way
My new life starts today
Then, Jeremy and Stacy drove a boat while Candace waterskied. They launched her over a row of double-decker buses.
I used to fret and worry
So now I never felt so free
Candace beat Stacy at a game of air-hockey.
'Cause I'm living the good life
'Cause I'm living a good life
Candace and Jeremy went to a dance contest together. They danced better than everyone else.
Yeah, I'm living the good life
The life's for me
Yeah, I'm living the good life
The life's for me
Candace and Jeremy won first place.
End "The Good Life"
Candace set the trophy in front of the window in her room. She looked outside expecting Phineas and Ferb to be building their next contraption. They weren't. She almost felt sad knowing that.
She headed downstairs, where Stacy and Jenny were sitting on the couch.
Candace was about to join them, but she tripped over a toolbox, which was left on the floor.
"Ow!" she shouted.
"You okay?" Stacy asked.
"Yeah, I just tripped over Ferb's toolbox."
"Well, do you wanna go horseback riding?" Jenny asked.
"What's your hurry?" Candace asked. "Let's relax for a little while. You know, with Phineas and Ferb gone, I had a blast doing things I wanted to do, but it's strange. I kinda miss the little guys, like there was a whole other side to our relationship that I never noticed before."
Play "Little Brothers"
Candace remembered the day when Phineas was first born. She felt overwhelming joy seeing him for the first time.
Little brother
I remember when you first came home
A few years later, Linda married Lawrence, and Phineas and Candace met Ferb for the first time.
Then came another
Little brother of our own
One day, when Candace's toys were broken, the boys built her a new, highly advanced dollhouse.
Even when you break my toys
You will always be my little brothers
'Cause you're younger, we're related, and you're boys
Candace remembered previous days of the summer where she genuinely had fun.
The backyard beach where she became queen.
Seeing her head on Mount Rushmore as a birthday present.
Performing on stage as one-hit wonders.
Singing to Linda on her birthday.
And so forth.
Even when you're making too much noise
You will always be my little brothers
'Cause you're younger, we're related, and you're boys
Little brothers
Little brothers
Little brothers
End "Little Brothers"
Candace broke out of her daydream when she realized Stacy and Jenny were singing the song.
"Uh, Stace, Jen, you're kinda bumming me out with the song," she said.
"You know, you have everything you ever wanted," Stacy said.
"Yeah, call us when you get over it," Jenny added.
Stacy and Jenny left the house.
"Okay," Candace said. "Maybe a little TV will take my mind off things."
Candace turned on the TV.
"Today on 'The Morty Williams Show'," the announcer said. "'My Kid is Bad and I Want to Blame Others!' We'll go inside the nation's toughest reformatory school, where free-thinking children undergo complete personality reprogramming and have all the creativity and imagination sucked right out of them. They are forced to think inside the box."
The TV showed footage of kids being moved in and out of their rooms like they were in a prison. Candace recognized Phineas and Ferb in the crowd.
The screen focused on the boys as it showed them strapped to a machine that sucked the creativity out of them, and then they're put in tiny boxes.
"Wait a second, they don't belong there," Candace said before noticing the toolbox. She took out a wrench. "I know what I have to do."
"Hey, Candace." Candace turned around to see that the voice was from Jeremy. "Whatcha doin?"
"Jeremy, how did you get in here?"
"There's a huge gaping hole in the side of your house."
Candace noticed the hole Jeremy was referring to. "Yeah, Phineas and Ferb would've usually fixed that by now."
"Wanna go horseback riding?"
"Would you stop already with the horses? Jeremy, I know what I'm gonna do today! I'm gonna bust my brothers!"
"I thought you already did that."
"Out! Bust my brothers out!"
"Cool. I always liked your brothers. I want to come with you."
"You mean like a date?"
"Yeah, a weird, sort of prison-break date. Ha."
Before either of them knew it, Candace and Jeremy were flying to the reform school on the Flying Car of the Future, Today. Candace was the one driving, though she could barely control it.
"Okay, the Flying Car of the Future, Today is pulling a bit to the right," she said.
"Are you kidding me?" Jeremy asked. "This is the best day ever! WOO-HOO!"
Candace couldn't help but feel happy knowing Jeremy was having a good time.
She didn't notice that she was flying towards a high tree until she was too late. The tree sent them flying in another direction. They ended up teetering off the edge of a cliff.
"Maybe we should walk the rest of the way," Jeremy said.
They both walked down the forest. Candace somehow got herself covered in sticks and dirt, while Jeremy was completely clean.
"You okay, Candace?" Jeremy asked.
"No, I'm trudging," Candace replied. "I didn't know people actually trudged."
"On the bright side, we're here."
In front of them was the Smile Away Reformatory. It looked more like a penitentiary than a reform school. It didn't help that the area was surrounded with dark-gray clouds, while everywhere else was bright and sunny.
The two approached the front door and knocked.
The sergeant opened the door.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I'm here for my brothers, Phineas and Ferb," Candace replied.
"They don't graduate until the end of the summer. Get lost!"
The sergeant slammed the door.
"So much for the direct approach," Candace said. "Time to try it Phineas and Ferb style."
Candace and Jeremy hid in a wooden statue.
"Are you sure it's gonna work?" Jeremy asked.
"It's just like the Trojan Horse from the Iliad," Candace replied. "They'll accept it as a gift, and once they fall asleep, we'll jump out and rescue Phineas and Ferb."
"You two again?" came the sergeant's voice. "I said get lost!"
The statue was literally just a statue of Candace and Jeremy. In hindsight, that wasn't the best idea.
"We gotta think bigger," Candace said.
They tried making a large statue of the sergeant this time.
"Wow, what a thoughtful gift," the sergeant said. "Too bad I don't have room for you, handsome."
Candace and Jeremy jumped out of the mouth of the statue and landed in the school courtyard.
"We did it!" Jeremy cheered.
Right as he said that, the two fell through a trapdoor. They landed in a dumpster full of hair.
"Gross!" Candace whined. "I bet you regret coming with me."
"Actually, I don't," Jeremy admitted. "I'm having fun, well, crazy prison-break kinda fun."
"Eew, look at this." Candace noticed a wig in the dumpster and pulled it out. She then noticed a billboard for the Morty William Show. The wig matched Morty's hair perfectly. "Wait, I have a plan! It's foolproof!"
Candace put on the wig and used some of the hair to make a fake mustache. Jeremy put on a cap to disguise himself as a cameraman.
They knocked on the door once more. The sergeant answered.
"I'm Morty Williams here to do another segment," Candace said in the best masculine voice she could muster.
"Aren't you a little female to be Morty Williams?" the sergeant asked.
"Well, you know what they say. The camera adds… masculinity."
"Great, come on in, Morty."
"We're doing a follow-up on Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher."
"My biggest success stories, right this way." The sergeant led Candace and Jeremy inside. "Ah, Phineas and Ferb. So curious, self-reliant, fun-loving, imaginative, and creative. Fortunately, we got to them just in time. See for yourself. Flynn, Fletcher, fall in!"
Phineas and Ferb came out of two lockers.
"You see, here at the Smile Away Reformatory, our motto is, 'It's structure, order, and discipline today, so tomorrow it's smile away,'" the sergeant said. "Our methods have been proven one hundred percent effective since…"
While the sergeant was monologuing, Candace leaned towards Phineas and Ferb.
"Guys, it's Phineas," she whispered. "Now's our chance. Run!"
Candace and Jeremy tried to run. They turned around to see the boys weren't moving. The sergeant was glaring at them.
"Just testing," Candace lied. "Wow, you've done a great job of turning them into… that."
"Yes, yes we have," the sergeant replied.
"Uh, I think we should get some more footage of you. You've got… it, mister. Let's see, close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, then go, 'La la la la'. The lights are all wrong, go inside the janitor's closet."
Surprisingly, the sergeant did everything he was told. Candace slammed the door on him. She then turned to Phineas and Ferb.
"Come on, now we can escape," she said.
"Escaping is wrong, and wrongness is bad," Phineas said in a robotic voice.
"We don't have time for this. Grab them."
Candace and Jeremy grabbed Phineas and Ferb respectively, then they turned for the exit.
Once they left, they heard sirens going off.
"Attention all personnel," said the sergeant. "Two students have escaped with the help of Morty Williams, daytime talk show host!"
Candace and Jeremy ran past the trailer of the real Morty Williams.
Morty came out of the trailer.
"Yep, it's time to go back inside the Smile Away Reformatory School," he said to himself. "Those zombified brats are making me one rich…"
Before he could finish that statement, he was tackled by the school's guards.
Candace and Jeremy noticed the sergeant was ganging up on them with some guards and attack dogs.
"I gotta buy us some time," Candace said.
She noticed the cactus and got an idea.
She took off her wig and mustache, and put them on the cactus. She turned around to see that the guards fell for it easily. They tackled the cactus, pricking themselves in the process.
The group reached what was left of the Flying Car of the Future, Today.
"Guys, this is your department," Candace told the boys. "Fix the car, quick!"
"Age-inappropriate building is unsafe and irresponsible," Phineas said in his robotic voice.
"You don't have to build anything. Just fix it."
Candace got in the car and grabbed the toolbox. Once she got it, she slammed the door shut… a little too hard.
The car fell off the cliff.
Fortunately, another idea came to Candace's mind.
"A bridge," she said. "You can build a bridge across the ravine."
"Good boys do nothing but make their sisters happy," Phineas said.
"Then make me happy!" Candace gave Phineas and Ferb their helmets. "Put on your helmets, use your tools, and do what you do best!"
"Creative acts are imitatible and dangerous."
"Listen to me, guys. Forget everything they told you. Creativity isn't bad. It's the best thing about you." Tears formed as Candace said the next part. "You two can do anything, and that's why I'm secretly proud to be your older sister! What have I done?!"
She stopped crying when she felt Phineas grab the wrench. She opened her eyes to see Phineas smiling at her. He raised his wrench into the air.
"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!" he said in his normal voice.
"Yes, they're back!" Candace cheered.
"Too late!" came the sergeant. "They're mine!"
Candace got in front of the boys. "If you want them, you'll have to take me too!"
"Gladly." The sergeant grabbed Candace's arm.
That's when the ground started to shake. Two mechanical legs came out of the ground.
Perry the Platypus was fighting an evil pharmacist on a giant robotic spider. Perry quickly turned towards the kids and tipped his hat.
"Wait, Perry has a hat?" Candace reacted, as if there weren't stranger things right in front of her.
Perry pulled a lever. The robot came back down.
"Curse you, Perry the Platypus!" the pharmacist shouted.
One of the legs hit the sergeant, and sent him falling off the cliff.
"Do you think he'll be okay?" Candace asked.
When she turned back, Phineas and Ferb were juggling corn dogs.
"Corn dog, corn dog, yummy yummy yummy," Phineas sang.
"Okay, where did you…" Before Candace could finish, she noticed Linda and Lawrence appeared out of nowhere. "Mom, Dad, thank goodness! The strangest thing just happened!"
"Fear not," Linda said in a high voice. "Your parents are here now."
When Candace blinked, her parents turned into puppets controlled by a giant Baljeet.
"The real shock is you are just noticing this now," he said.
Candace blinked again. Baljeet turned into a puppet controlled by an even bigger talking zebra.
"I'm just as confused as you are, Kevin," he said.
"Candace, since I have no idea what'll happen next, I have to tell you something," Jeremy said as he got down on one knee. "I love you, Candace Flynn. Will you marry me?"
"Jeremy, I always dreamt…" Candace was about to say before she realized, "Wait a minute, I'm dreaming!"
"That would explain the talking zebra."
"Nah, I see him all the time. This is actually the freaky part. It's all been one big…"
"Dream!" Candace shouted as she bolted awake. "So none of that really happened. I never actually busted Phineas and Ferb."
She sighed in relief.
Candace heard a knock on the door. Phineas opened it.
"I heard screaming in here," he said. "Is something wrong?"
"No, I just had a bad dream," Candace assured. "Go back to sleep."
"Alright."
Phineas shut the door and went back to bed. Candace fell back asleep.
That morning, Candace was having breakfast with her family. She was telling everyone about her dream.
"And suddenly, Mom and Dad were controlled by a giant puppet master!" Candace shouted. "Then Jeremy comes over and says… certain things."
"Go grab my journal," Linda whispered to Lawrence. "This is comedy gold."
"Hey, Ferb, we should build a device that projects your dreams like a movie," Phineas said to Ferb. "I'd love to see what Perry dreams about."
The boys turned to Perry, who was asleep on his little bed.
He was wearing a dog cone on his head.
That's when Perry bolted awake as if he had his own nightmare.
"I almost forgot," Candace said. "Perry was in my dream, too. He was like a super secret agent or something."
"Perhaps that's why he disappears every day," Ferb suggested.
The family turned to Perry. He was just roaming around the house, without any destination in mind.
"Nah," the family said in unison.
A.N.
After three entire months, season 1 is finally over.
From the start, I knew the episode where Phineas and Ferb get busted would be the end of the first quarter of this story.
The events may be a dream, but this time, it does have a bigger impact on Candace because it isn't her dream inside of Perry's dream, but instead, a dream that they happen to share. Candace will spend the next few episodes questioning if busting her brothers is the right move, but given it's still pretty early in the story, she will get back in the habit. Old habits don't die easily as they say.
Since this was Candace's dream, I removed most of the scenes that she's not a part of so this chapter would specifically be from her perspective.
Another thing, Perry was shown to have a cone on his head at the very end. That should be a hint on what the next chapter is gonna be.
Anyway, I'm gonna take a break from this story. I have another project planned, and there are some other things outside of fanfiction that I need to focus on.
Thanks for reading.