Toy to the World

Har D Har Toy Company's newest best-seller prompts to make a better toy. Dr. Doofenshmirtz tries to become rich by forcing people to use his tollbooths to get in and out of the Tri-State Area.

Episode Summary
Candace has just been hired at the Har D Har Toy Company store in the Googolplex Mall across from Mr. Slushy Dawg where Jeremy works. Just as she is calling Stacy on her cell phone, come over with their mom and check out the store. They see Candace wearing a Shimmy Jimmy hat, the featured toy in the toy store. Candace shows them one of the Shimmy Jimmy toys. Phineas thinks that it would get old real quick. Candace says sarcastically, "Like you could make a better toy," giving Phineas an idea of what they should do today.

Phineas states that they should create a toy so stupidly simple, so basically bland, so idiotically uncomplicated, that it could do almost anything. They see Perry and this gives them an idea.Ferb was moving stuff around. They create a Perry in-action figure and rush off to the Har D Har Toy Company to show them their new invention. When Ferb tells the boss that it can do nothing, but it can be absolutely anything, the boss says that he likes the idea. However, a man sitting right next to the boss says that it is stupid. The boss presses a button on his desk and the man is replaced by a very optimistic person who says that the idea is brilliant. The boss brings Phineas and Ferb to their factory.

Phineas says that the factory looks so boring, and they update it, giving the workers fancy clothes to wear and making the factory much more fun. In a few hours, Perry the in-action figure has gone worldwide. Since Candace works at the Har D Har Toy Store in the mall, she is forced to wear a platypus suit. She hopes that Jeremy won't see her in the ridiculous costume but he does and says she looks nice.

The boss shows Phineas and Ferb posters of Perry such as Perry the secret agent and other themes. Phineas says that he's just a platypus. Doofenshmirtz gets caught in one of the Perry boxes and gets shipped off in a boat to a foreign country to spread the word of the in-action figures. Phineas and Ferb see Perry doing his secret agent job but throw him in the trash, thinking that it is just another figure that the workers have designed. Perry then gets out and flys out in a helicopter. The boss asks Phineas and Ferb what toy they want to design next, but Phineas states that they're going home because their mom is making supper. After they left the employess decided to make a brick toy next, which soon hits the market and gets it's very own commerical which Phineas and Ferb see and think it's a very silly, and ridicolous toy idea.

Meanwhile, at Har D Har toy store, the uniforms were replaced with a brick rather than the Shimmy Jimmy costume and Candace, now dressed as a brick, feels rather embarassed and a little self-concsious thinking Jeremey may see her. Then Jeremey comes over, and talks to Candace about the ridicolous things they make you wear sometimes. And with this, Candace feels much better.

Songs
Shimmy Jimmy Quirky Worky Song Brick

Ferb's Lines
Provides sound effects during his demonstration of the Perry the Inaction Figure. (Thomas Sangster's voice is most recognizable when Ferb is doing the Tango demonstration.)

Whatcha doin'?
Not said.

Perry's entrance to his lair
Perry goes over a wall of fasteners in the hardware store and pulls on a bag in the display. The display turns around and Perry is in his lair with his fedora on.

Background Information

 * 15th episode produced. 16th episode aired, first broadcast on February 22, 2008.
 * J.K. Simmons, famous as "J. Jonah Jameson" from the Spider-Man trilogy and "Mac MacGruff" from Juno cameos as the head of the toy company.
 * Remodelling the factory and updating the employee uniforms is one of the few Big Ideas that is not destroyed by Dr. Doofenshmirtz at the end of the episode.
 * This is the only episode where Major Monogram calls Agent P "Perry".


 * Ferb and the secretary are seen wearing three different sets of clothes, while Phineas goes through four.


 * Their normal clothes.
 * The new elf-like employee uniform.
 * Clown outfit (secretary), Sherlock Holmes (Phineas), Dr. John Watson (Ferb)
 * Purple "Willy Wonka" suit (Phineas)


 * During the commercial for Perry the Inaction Figure, sixteen different backgrounds are shown, and the commercial makes note that the backgrounds are not included with the toy. The backgrounds are:
 * Purple, pink and green stars.
 * A western picture with a cowboy on a horse at the top of a mesa (possible reference to "The Magnificent Few").
 * A fashion show catwalk (possible reference to "Run Away Runway").
 * Ice fishing.
 * In a room with randomly-shaped rectangles in shades of purple.
 * Standing on the sand in the boys' backyard (from "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror").
 * A desert scene reminiscent of Arches National Park in Utah.
 * Inside someone's room (does not appear to be the boys' room).
 * The boys' backyard in front of their tree.
 * A field of flowers with a huge rainbow.
 * A jungle with a snake in a tree.
 * A ski resort (from "S'Winter").
 * A blue background with overlapping blue ovals and the ever-present triangles.
 * Mr. Slushy Burger stand in the Danville woods.
 * On the surface of the moon (with the ever-present triangles visible on the surface of the moon).
 * The United States flag.


 * Episode description from the original Phineas and Ferbruary 2008 press release:


 * In "Toy to the World," airing Friday, Ferb-ruary 22, Candace gets a job at the mall toy store which inspires Phineas and Ferb to design their own toy - a wooden version of Perry. When a toy company buys their idea, Phineas and Ferb have a great time turning the boring toy factory into a kid-friendly world of toys. The Perry toy becomes a huge hit and now Candace's job is a nightmare: she's forced to wear a Perry costume while the store is over-run with eager customers. Meanwhile Dr. Doofenshmirtz can't bear that Perry is everywhere.

Continuity

 * This episode became Toy to You and Me after Dr. Doofenshmirtz used his Change-inator-inator on it as part of the Spot the Diff marathon.
 * Gitchee, Gitchee, Goo can be heard in the background while were making the inaction figure in the hardware store at Googolplex Mall.
 * Candace and Stacy would later also dress as Sherlock Holmes and Watson in "Elementary, My Dear Stacy".

Allusions

 * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The purple suit that Phineas wears, the chocolate river and the Ba-dink-a-dinks are references to the book. The purple suit is a closer match to the suit worn by Gene Wilder in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", rather than the maroon suit worn by Johnny Depp in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".


 * Joy to the World: The episode title is a reference to the song.


 * The Ren & Stimpy Show: The advertising of a brick as a children's toy is similar to the popular toy "Log" from this show.


 * The Emperor's New Clothes: Ferb's comment about the CEO's lack of clothes.
 * Robots - The way the CEO eliminates the worker who thinks that Phineas and Ferb's idea won't work, is reminiscent of the part of the film Robots, where Ratchet uses a remote to get rid of a robot who thinks that Bigweld will show up at the Bigweld Ball.

Cast

 * Vincent Martella as Phineas
 * Ashley Tisdale as Candace
 * Thomas Sangster as Ferb
 * Caroline Rhea as Mom
 * Alyson Stoner as Isabella
 * Mitchel Musso as Jeremy
 * Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
 * Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
 * Richard O'Brien as Dad
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
 * Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet ♦
 * Bobby Gaylor as Buford ♦
 * J.K. Simmons as J.B.
 * Alec Holden as Django ♦
 * Additional voices: Dee Bradley Baker, Eileen Galindo, Bobby Gaylor, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Mitchel Musso, Richard O'Brien, Maulik Pancholy, Dan Povenmire, J.K. Simmons, Ariel Winter


 * ♦ designates a character that did not appear in this episode