Big Ideas

Every day during their summer vacation, Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher have big ideas and go through with them. Some of the plans are used as a way of helping someone in need, while others are just to help them have the best possible summer ever, as described in "Rollercoaster".

Background Information

 * The plans the boys come up with can be described as impossible because they are accomplished in a very short amount of time (less than a day) and involve technology that has yet to exist in the real world: teleportation, mind-switching, time traveling... They have been able to build a giant human-operated bowling ball in their sleep. Phineas and Ferb do not think of their plans as impossible, just fun and great. When Isabella asks Phineas if building a time machine is "kind of impossible", he replies, "That's a possibility". ("It's About Time!")


 * The phrase "Big Ideas" references the advertising campaign that Disney Channel ran prior to the launch of the series in February 2008. For Phineas, it was "he thinks big". For Ferb, it was "he thinks how".


 * Despite Phineas saying that he likes to "keep moving forward", he actully has repeated his big ideas. Examples are the waterslide in "Leave the Busting to Us!" and "Elementary, My Dear Stacy" and the time machine in "It's About Time!" and "Time Machine 2, Quantum Boogaloo" (though the time machine thing is curruntly unknown at the time.