Phineas and Ferb Wiki:Newsletter submissions/Football X-7: Not Just a Name, an Equation for Awesome

Phineas and Ferb have done it once again. In “My Fair Goalie” they have taken a normal sport, in this case soccer, and made it more awesome. I personally am a huge fan of soccer, and am writing this while celebrating the Seattle Sounders FC having just won their game two to one, and whose jerseys are similar to the Sniffleton Nostrils.

Ferb’s cousin’s, Beckham, Beckham, Pele, Beckham, Pele and Eliza (middle name Beckham) are in town because their team, The Sniffleton Nostrils are playing Danville. Some doubts are called to as to how much Ferb has “Gone Yank” so it’s decided that the matter shall be decided the old school ground way, with a game.

However, this isn’t just any game, this is “Football X-7” completely hypothetically theoretical. Designed in the 1950’s by a Theoretical Physicist the idea was to create a pitch that was completely self-enclosed and continuous, with goals floating in space. This pitch was to have a toroidal (donut) shape and had a gravity well that would allow players to walk on every surface.

Everything balances well. Though there are too many dramatic zooms for my taste. Though one of them was countered by a nice fourth wall break. Candace doesn’t overpower, as she has seemed to this season, but she contributes nicely, even aiding in breaking a curse that Ferb was under, one of the better really specific curses I have heard. The Perry and Doofenshmirtz bit could have done better with a bit more continuity to the scenes.

Score: 9/10, definitely worth a re-watch or two

Final Thoughts: Yes, we fans will do anything, as is parodied with the Nostrils’ fans, used perfectly to remove the X-7 stadium, because for once Doof didn’t do it directly.