Chez Platypus

Phineas and Ferb open Chez Platypus, which becomes the trendiest restaurant in town. Jeremy asks Candace out to on a date, while Doofenshmirtz goes on another date from his online dating service.

Episode Summary
Phineas wakes up to the sound of Ferb's stomach rumbling. Turns out the trendy restaurant that Lawrence and Linda took them to the night before wasn't very filling. Phineas wonders why trendy restaurants can't be fun to go to and have great food. This gives him a big idea.

Down the hall, Candace answers her cell phone. Stacy is calling to tell her that she heard through the grapevine that Jeremy is going to call her and ask her out for a special evening. After they joke back and forth about it, Candace's call waiting beeps. It's her mom. She's a bit disappointed, but Stacy reassures her that he'll call.

In the backyard, Phineas and Ferb have already started building their restaurant. Isabella, Baljeet, Buford, Gretchen, and a couple other Fireside Girls stop by to find out what they're doing. Phineas invites Isabella to serve as the hostess for their restaurant, the Fireside Girls to bus tables, Baljeet to be their soda jerk, and Buford invites himself to be the doorman/bouncer. He never leaves home without his velvet rope. Phineas reveals the name of the restaurant to be Chez Platypus when Isabella asks him. This causes him to wonder where Perry went.

Perry drops into his lair with Major Monogram trying to work out dinner reservations for him and his wife. If he doesn't find someplace to go, his wife will be very upset. Off-camera, Karl makes a cat sound indicating how ferocious his wife is and gets yelled at for it. Monogram sends Agent P off on his mission.

Back in her room, Candace's phone is ringing again. She can tell by the ring tone it's Jeremy. They keep trying to talk at the same time, but eventually Jeremy asks Candace out for their date. They are both very excited. Candace's excitement is squashed when she hears power tools from the backyard. Out her window, she warns the boys that their stuff better not mess with her stuff since she has very important stuff going on today. Phineas is unfazed and asks Ferb about their menu.

Downtown at Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated headquarters, Agent P gets his foot stuck in Dr. Doofenshmirtz's door. He reinforced the locks but not the doors themselves. He tries to pass this off as how he planned to trap Perry and tells the platypus his evil scheme of the day. He's tired of all the happy couples mocking him with their love, so he has built a De-lovenator satellite to eliminate the feeling of love throughout the entire Tri-State Area. Holding the remote, he notes that it would be very easy for him to press the button to activate the ray with Perry stuck in the door, but he has a date tonight and wants to stay optimistic.

Later that evening, Jeremy arrives at the Flynn-Fletcher House to pick up Candace for their date. He stops at the end of their driveway at the end of a long line of people. He is taking her to the trendiest new restaurant in town, Chez Platypus. Candace, rather than being upset, decides that she'll use her relationship to the boys to her advantage.

She cuts in line and tries to get Buford to let her in. Her name isn't on the list, and Buford tells her she should have made a reservation yesterday. She points out, quite correctly, that the restaurant didn't even exist yesterday. Just then Doofenshmirtz and his date arrive and the evil scientist slips Buford some money to let him inside despite not having a reservation. The bribe works and Buford lets the couple inside. Candace is outraged.

Inside, Isabella shows Doofenshmirtz and his date to their table. The couple are making small talk and Doofenshmirtz asks the woman about her online dating profile. She said she likes tall men, and Doofenshmirtz is tall, but not as tall as her last boyfriend. He is about to start the De-lovenator when she tells him she can't resist a man in a lab coat. She also tells him that even though she normally prefers blondes, she likes his wind-blown style. This saves the Tri-State Area once again.

Meanwhile, Phineas finds Perry and puts him in his place of honor: a pedestal at one end of the restaurant. Some time passes while the crew serves food to their customers. Candace and Jeremy are still waiting outside and several couples enter ahead of them. This annoys Candace, but she calms down when Jeremy tells her that he doesn't mind waiting because it's with her.

Heinz is getting along quite well with his date and asks her how she feels about evil. She thinks it's an odd question, but she shows off her tattoo of the word evil on her right arm. Heinz shows her his nearly identical tattoo on his left arm. She can't believe they have so much in common.

Outside, Candace can't take the waiting any longer. She calls her mom and tells her that she has to tell Phineas to tell Buford to let her inside. Linda and Lawrence are just finishing dinner and they're on their way home. Jeremy holds their place in line and Candace goes out front to wait for her parents to show up.

Perry has left his pedestal and made his way over to Heinz and tries to grab the remote for the De-lovenator from his lab coat pocket. The evil scientist tells him he's in love and he doesn't need it anymore. He just gives it to the secret agent. At another table, a rumor about a new trendy badger restaurant opening causes everyone to leave. The gang goes outside to watch everyone leave. A man shows up and offers to buy Chez Platypus from them, but Phineas just give it to him since dinner service is over. Around the corner of the house, Perry smashes the remote to the De-lovenator and the satellite falls from orbit.

Linda and Lawrence show up in the street out front and Candace tells them that the boys have a restaurant in the yard and they're not letting her in. She tells them to follow her and put a stop to it. As Candace runs into the backyard, the shell of the restaurant is being lifted out by helicopter. Jeremy takes this opportunity to ask Isabella if they have a table available. Isabella directs him over to one and he helps Candace into her seat. Phineas and Ferb bring the couple their meal, and Baljeet brings them drinks. Buford plays his violin for them.

When Linda and Lawrence get to the backyard, Linda asks Candace if she's sure she wants her to put a stop to this. Candace is very adamant that she not since Jeremy just told her that it was the most fun he's ever had in her backyard. She and Jeremy get back to their date.

Downtown near the harbor, Heinz is playing his date a song on his guitar. They sing "Evil Love" together since they are so much in love with each other and they have so much in common. Heinz tells the woman that he's never been so happy in his entire life. Just then, the satellite drops onto the dock where they are standing and it fires its ray at Doofenshmirtz's date. Unfortunately, now she feels nothing for him.

Songs

 * Evil Love
 * background scats

The "Too Young" Line
None

Ferb's Line
Ahh... The public is fickle.

Whatcha doin'?
When Phineas and Ferb ask Isabella to be hostess, she asks "Watcha eatin'?" Also when Phineas and Ferb are beginning to build the restaurant.

Perry's entrance to his lair
Enters off-screen and drops in through the tube in the ceiling.

Background Information

 * Premiered on Disney XD on April 4, 2009 at 8 a.m.
 * This is the first episode in which Phineas and Doofenshmirtz have been seen on-screen at once.
 * This is the third time Doofenshmirtz has dated a woman since his divorce. The other two were when he tried to erase the messages off one woman's machine in "I, Brobot" and the other was a blind date in "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face!".
 * Doofenshmirtz's date is voiced by Sheena Easton. She is not given a name in the dialogue of the episode, nor is she named in the credits. Easton is credited as one of the "Additional Voices."
 * Heinz Doofenshmirtz is the first character on the show to have a definite height. He tells his date he is 6'2" tall.
 * When the restaurant disappears, the tables are still there, making this one of the Big Ideas that Mom at least partially knows about. Others include her birthday party, Nosebud, and likely Aglet Aid. ("Mom's Birthday", "The Lake Nose Monster", "Tip of the Day")

Continuity

 * Doofenshmirtz is still using an online dating service. ("Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face!")
 * The giant baby head reappears entering the Chez Platypus. ("One Good Scare Ought to Do It!", et al.)
 * The man offering to buy Chez Platypus looks a lot like the host of The Next Super American Pop Teen Idol Star. They don't sound very similar, though. ("Flop Starz")

Allusions

 * The word Chez is often used in the names of restaurants, for example, Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.

Cast

 * Vincent Martella as Phineas Flynn
 * Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn
 * Thomas Sangster as Ferb Fletcher
 * Caroline Rhea as Linda Flynn
 * Mitchel Musso as Jeremy Johnson
 * Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
 * Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
 * Richard O'Brien as Lawrence Fletcher
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Perry the Platypus
 * Sheena Easton as Doofenshmirtz's date