User blog comment:Knarrow02/Do you think Phineas and Ferb deserve a 5th Season?/@comment-1518158-20150107210441

Of course it does, that's not even a question. The show's been consistently entertaining over its eight year run, captured the hearts of millions of viewers all over the world, and Perry and the bros have pretty much become modern Disney icons. I do think it's worth wondering if the show should have a fifth season though. There's always the chance that the writers will eventually run out of ideas; iirc, Dan & Swampy have even said that after they finish season 4 they'll go into hiatus because they need to think about what they'll do next, which makes me think that even they realize that. Coupled with the fact that Disney typically doesn't renew their shows for five seasons, and their hesitance to do so for P&F shows through how they've been dragging S4 out for three years, I do think that the franchise will have to undergo some sort of change after it airs its season finale.

My albeit-unlikely idea for what the show should do in the future is just do a special "fifth" season made up of hour-long eps. The crew has already said that they like doing those since it allows them to flesh out the characters more, and those types of eps are generally much more enjoyable than the typical 11-minutes ones, so I think it would be a good evolution for the series. Provided that such a season is just made up of a handful of episodes spread out across a year or two, it would be a great compromise between the crew not having to constantly work on the series for years on end and Disney not having to air eps every week or every other week when they can give that slot to a newer show and just treat P&F as a "special event" series almost fitting for its status. If that goes well, then that could just be how the series goes forward, with the crew reuniting every couple of years to bang out some specials, in essence making the franchise immortal in a way. That's just a dumb concept of mine though. :p