User blog comment:Mobo85/Hot off the Presses: "Disney's Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!"/@comment-3058095-20110512224736/@comment-406459-20110513113926

Although Dan and Swampy are no doubt incredibly talented and certainly do more on Phineas and Ferb than the average creators of a series do (writing, storyboarding, directing, songwriting, voice acting), giving the creator(s) of a television series sole credit for its authorship and/or success is akin to the "auteur theory" in cinema, which states that the director of a film is its sole "author," despite the large number of people who work on it. Although there are probably cases both in film and television where this is true, Phineas and Ferb is not one of those. Let us not forget there are many other writers, storyboard artists, songwriters, etc. who are also responsible for making the show what it is. For that matter, we must not also forget- and be thankful for- Disney's role in picking up the series and having the wisdom not to interfere too much in its creation with typical executive meddling- a decision perhaps best elaborated on in this Wired article. It takes more than one (or in this case, two) people to make a television series...or a stage show, for that matter. Or pretty much anything.