User blog comment:Phin68/Who do you ship? Ferb Vanessa or Ferb Gretchen/@comment-419569-20090817180710

I'm not going to take Dan's statement at the Comic-Con as proof that Ferb and Vanessa WILL end up together (in the show); he merely said that he could easily see them end up together. To me, the age gap pretty much DOES matter; Vanessa would be done with college by the time Ferb is the age she is here.

Besides, maybe the reason Gretchen hasn't shown affection towards Ferb is 'cause she's shy; she certainly looks like the kind of girl who'd be shy about her feelings towards a guy. And besides that, Dan also said we'd learn more about the Fireside Girls in a future episode, so it wouldn't surprise me if they actually have Gretchen imply that she has a crush on Ferb. And after all, the Antoine/Bunnie coupling was featured in Robert Brown & Francis Tolbert's Sonic the Hedgehog fanfics before it became official in the comic book, so what's to stop the same from happening with Ferb/Gretchen?