Phineas and Ferb Wiki:Newsletter submissions/Turn around and take a trip

Hello once again all you Phinatics out there! Bpendragon here again with another review. This issue I will be reviewing the Season 3 episodes "Mommy Can You Hear Me?" and "Road Trip."

"Mommy Can You Hear Me?" is a nice episode, which is one of the more Candace-centric episodes, which seem to be occurring more in Season 3, however this one pulls it off quite nicely. Candace has messed up her leg and is bed-ridden, unable to even pick up tickets to a Tiny Cowboy concert. she is aggravated even more as the entertainment and view screens that the boys have made for her show that they are building their big project, a Stratospheric Ionizer, a device that can make messages appear in space. Candace, driven to frustration, sends out a helicopter with a doll repeating "Turn around!' strapped to it. as she pilots it out the door it falls onto the Stratospheric Ionizer, which is set up to display a birthday message for a Russian scientist searching for wormholes. The message serves as a warning to avoid an asteroid, sending the space station into a wormhole, and ending the episode with a wonderfully done homage to "2001: A Space Odyssey" Doofenshmirtz's battle with Perry takes out the Stratospheric Ionizer by blasting the falling asteroid with boiling hot chicken soup, gathered so Doof could act revenge on a local Deli.

"Road Trip" is almost the polar opposite of this. The family has been on vacation in an RV and the boys realize that they haven't eaten at a greasy spoon diner, and remedy this by building the "No Stop Truck Stop" on the roof of the RV, which is somehow able to support full 18-wheelers. To complete the reversal, Doofensmirtz is traveling back to Danville after picking up a shipment of "boom juice" which is used to make all the self destructs on his Inators work. Having switched roles in food and science the boys Shanghai Candace into working at the Diner, and Doofenshmirtz uses a hook to attach to the Flynn-Fletcher RV, essentially hitching a free ride. Much hilarity ensues, culminating with Doof losing his boom juice and being covered in flaming cactus, Phineas and Ferb having another wonderful day, and the Farmer's wife getting the "No Stop Truck Stop" after the boys left it on an overpass.

Scores: MCYHM? 8.5/10 (B) Road Trip 8/10 (B-)

Final thoughts: Not my favorite episodes but right on par with where Phineas and Ferb usually are. Both are worth a second look to see what little allusions (especially MCYHM?) you missed. However, these would not go to wasting too much of my time.