A Real Boy

If only I were a real boy.

When Dr. Doofenshmirtz thinks Vanessa overhears him say he would rather have a son to do his evil bidding, he feels terrible so he intends to zap her with the "Forget-about-it-Inator." Meanwhile, Norm shares his feelings of wanting to be a real boy with Dr. Doofenshmirtz and decides to play up the "son" role. Back at the Flynn-Fletcher household, Candace has Stacy hypnotize her into ignoring the need to bust her brothers so that she can spend the entire afternoon relaxing with Jeremy, but unfortunately the hypnosis trigger words end up playing right into her date with Jeremy.

Episode Summary
Norm wakes up, while playing Sunshine, Happiness and Gum in the radio, and accidentally punches a hole in the wall when he stretches, so, he push his bed to another place and put a picture of Heinz Doofenshmirtz in the wall. After walking by a full wall with that, he paints his regular clothes on the bathroom and replaces his "sleppy" head to a "happy" head. He goes on the living room to make eggs, but Doofenshmirtz doesn't like it since he always cook it with the shells on it. Doofenshmirtz gets a video chat with Rodney as he shows his super zappinizer that he build with the help of his son, Orville Roddenstein, that his glad to have a son instead of a daughter that goes shopping. Doofenshmirtz complains him about what he said that daughter are useless and should have a son that would make his life easier and unknown to him that Vanessa Doofenshmirtz was standing next to him and heard everything. As Doofenshmirtz saw her, Vanessa quickly left him and he tries to apologize she, in addition that Norm tries to cheer him up by telling that he likes a father to him but Doofenshmirtz cut him off of the comment.

The scene has cutted up to Phineas and Ferb, where Isabella comes by and ask what Phineas is doing that he tells about a toy that has a spring suction cup that pops in the air, and that he and Ferb build a big one for them to ride in it. As Candace watches them in a window, Phineas and Ferb along with their friends ride of the spring suction cup, and wonders when its gonna pop and wonders where is Perry, as the ride suddenly pop in the air.

Songs

 * Sunshine, Happiness and Gum
 * A Real Boy (song)

End Credits
Second verse of A Real Boy (song)

The "Too Young" Line
None.

Ferb's Line
None

Perry's entrance to his lair
Unknown, but he entered while Major Monogram and Carl are discussing about the cafeteria food.

Evil Jingle
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!

Background Information

 * http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/phineas-and-ferb-phineas-and-ferb-interrupted-a-real-boy/EP009488470214
 * http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?t=283288
 * Another time Linda sees what the boys had done, but something erases it out of her memory.
 * This is the first episode, where Candace busts her brothers more than once. (Because her mother forgot it several times.)
 * Perry breaks the fourth wall by looking directly in the camera when Dr. Doofenshmirtz says that he is not in a sitcom.
 * Phineas and Ferb's invention doesn't disappear in this episode.
 * The trigger-word "Leaping Lizards" to let Candace get back to normal wasn't said again in the episode, so thus far, she should be freed from her obsession of busting her brothers.
 * This may be the possible reason why Candace lost her obsession of busting her brothers during her adulthood.
 * This episode appeared On Demand in the morning of July 15, 2011.
 * Doofenshmirtz has come to think of Perry the Platypus as family.
 * This is the first episode to focus on Norm.
 * While people believe that Buford is not inside the spring device however if the viewer looks closely during the scene when they are launched into the air the first time, specifically when the camera angle shifts to above the device, Buford can be spotted laying down in the back

Continuity

 * Candace mentions Phineas and Ferb traveling inside her using a submarine ("Journey to the Center of Candace").
 * After Doofenshmirtz tells Norm that he isn't his father, Norm says "Bu-bu-bu-bu-but..." like Candace did during the song There is No Candy in Me ("Picture This").
 * During the song, A Real Boy, Norm says that he runs on squirrel-power ("Phineas and Ferb-Busters!").
 * This is the third time that someone says "I am not your father". The first was Major Monogram's "daddy" ("Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face!") and the second time was Mitch ("The Chronicles of Meap").
 * This is the second episode to begin at Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated ("Hail Doofania!").

Errors

 * While Norm was changing his C-D the picture of Doofenshmirtz his eyebrows was transparent
 * When Norm paints his clothes on, the only color paint he has is gray, even though his clothes are also red and white.
 * When Norm puts on his other head, first his freckles are more dark, but then they get normal on the same scene.
 * When Heinz learns about Vanessa's headphones, Vanessa's hair goes down to her shoulders instead of mid-back.
 * When Heinz talks to Perry he's missing some of his hair.
 * When Norm wakes up and moves his bed a little to the right, he puts a picture of Doofenshmirtz on his wall. The picture looked evil but after he put it there, Doofenshmirtz's picture looks like he is smiling.
 * Major Monogram says they aren't allowed to leave O.W.C.A. for lunch, but in Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?, he says they eat lunch at Slushy Burger every day. Although since his exact words were "going off the lot, this could imply that there is a Slushy Burger within the O.W.C.A. compound.
 * The headphones Vanessa wears are black, but when she gives it to Norm they are white.
 * When Candace runs from Jeremy she has nothing on her wrists, but when she enters the backyard she has a bracelet it the shape of an eye on.

Allusions

 * The Adventures of Pinocchio - Becoming a real boy is a theme popularized through the story of Pinocchio, specifically the Disney movie.
 * Futurama - A robot that turns in human is a topic seen in a "Futurama" episode.
 * Three's Company-- Doofenshmirtz rambles about this situation being like a sitcom in which a misheard remark causes hilarious misunderstandings and situations. This was a stock plot of Three's Company, the eighties sitcom starring John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt.
 * Boys 2 Men - There is a another poster beside Candace's James Brade poster with a band called Mimez 2 Men.
 * Skype - The video chat format Heinz was using to talk to Rodney is very similar to Skype's video chat format.

Cast

 * Vincent Martella as Phineas
 * Ashley Tisdale as Candace
 * Thomas Sangster as Ferb
 * Caroline Rhea as Mom
 * Mitchel Musso as Jeremy
 * Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
 * Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
 * John Viener as Norm
 * Alyson Stoner as Isabella
 * Olivia Olson as Vanessa