Forum:What year is it?

Many of the other websites dedicated to Phineas and Ferb use exact dates and assume that the series takes place in 2008, but there is some evidence to the contrary.

Buddy TV, for example, lists Candace's birthday as July 11, 1993. We know that Candace was born on July 11 because there is a calendar in "Candace Loses Her Head", her birthday episode. It shows the current July 11 on a Friday which would make it 2008, 2003, or 1997. Due to the prevalence of cell phones, we can rule out 1997, leaving 2008 or 2003 as the two choices. Seems pretty cut and dry right? It's 2008, end of story. Not quite.

In "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together!", we get another calendar shown to us. It gives us the day of Lawrence Fletcher and Linda Flynn's wedding anniversary, June 15th. This calendar is actually quite problematic. The June shown would have to be 2004 or 1999. However, the May in that calendar is not the May that would correspond to the June of that year. Actually, May is drawn exactly the same as June and only has 30 days in it. If you were to add a 31st day to May, it could be 2007 or 2001. None of these correspond to the 2008 calendar we were shown in "Candace Loses Her Head".

Just like many other parts of the show, this is probably meant to be left vague, but interesting to break down anyways. —Topher 06:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)