Last Train to Bustville

It's so simple, I don't know how I didn't think of it before. I'll give up.

While visiting their grandparents, the kids decide to create and race a giant hot air balloon. Meanwhile, Candace is inspired by train engineer Glenda's can-do attitude and decides to "give up" on busting her brothers. On the other side of town, Dr. Doofenshmirtz finds a Dodo bird egg and is convinced that it is a fierce bird-monster that can help him take over the Tri-state area, but discovers the exact opposite when the egg hatches.

Songs

 * Give Up

End Credits
The dodo-bird is still chasing Doofenshmirtz in Phineas' hot air balloon with Doofenshmirtz in Ferb's. The Dodo bird jumps out and pops Ferb's hot air balloon, making Doofenshmirtz comment on how his vacation is not going well. As the hot air balloon explodes, Doofenshmirtz and the dodo-bird falls to the museum of biological oddities that the Farmer and Farmer's Wife bought. The wife is nagging (though it sounds more like a prepared question) about how the Farmer bought a museum of Biological Oddities but didn't have any biological oddities. Just then Doofenshmirtz falls through the roof, and both the farmer and the wife look at him confusingly. As Doofenshmirtz starts to get up, the Dodo bird lands on top of him. The Farmer's wife says "There it is", apparently having come to the self realization that whenever she says that question it magically appears.

Perry's entrance to his lair
Perry ducks into a henhouse. He picks up a chicken, pushes something in it's nest, and drops down a trapdoor holding an umbrella. The chicken falls down with him.

Evil Jingle
Doofenshmirtz's vacation condo!

Background Information

 * This episode was aired on Disney Junior on Demand at March 5, 2011.
 * This episode reveals that Wilkins brothers' mother is Glenda, thus making her full name: Glenda Wilkins.
 * Clyde Flynn won the famous balloon race in history.

Errors

 * In the "Give Up" song, in one scene, there was a mistake in layers and Candace appears as a ghost for a frame after she walked out of the screen. Also, when she does the "Give up" gesture to the diver, it looks like some of the frames were deleted.
 * The boxer black eye disappeared after the match scene.
 * In one scene Linda doesn't have her glasses.

Continuity

 * This is the third time that Camp Phineas and Ferb was seen ("Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face!", "The Ballad of Badbeard")
 * When Phineas and Ferb see a Dodo-Bird Phineas says "Check it out, A Dodo-bird! What's next on the list Ferb?," Ferb says "Frankenstein's Brain." ("Phineas and Ferb Theme")
 * The "Summer All The Time Collection" is shown again. ("Run Away Runway")
 * The Wilkin Brothers appear again ("Just Passing Through")
 * This is the fifth time Isabella has a part of the "Too Young" line. The others are "The Chronicles of Meap", "That Sinking Feeling", "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", and "Not Phineas and Ferb".
 * Phineas and Ferb's outfits from "De Plane! De Plane!" are seen again when they're in their hot air balloons.
 * Perry was riding with the Perry the Platypus balloon. ("Hip Hip Parade")
 * The ticks and tocks are heard again ("Unfair Science Fair Redux (Another Story)", "Don't Even Blink", "That Sinking Feeling").
 * The French artist from City of Love is seen again. ("Phineas and Ferb Summer Belongs to You!")

Allusions

 * The title parodies the 1966 Monkees single Last Train to Clarksville.
 * The Little Engine that Could - Candace saying "I knew we could, I knew we could, I knew we could!" after climbing the hill is a clear reference to this popular children's book.
 * Around the World in Eighty Days - In this classic book by Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg, in his determination to reach Europe from America on his travels around the world, burns all but the hull of the ship they are on when they run out of fuel, like Candace does with the train.
 * Green Acres - The conversation between Lawrence and Grandpa Clyde is reminiscent of those involving Hank Kimball, the count agent from this 1960s television show, who often began sentences and left the listener hanging, as Lawrence does talking about the saying in the antique business.

Cast

 * Vincent Martella as Phineas
 * Ashley Tisdale as Candace
 * Thomas Sangster as Ferb
 * Caroline Rhea as Mom
 * Mitchel Musso as Jeremy
 * Alyson Stoner as Isabella
 * Bobby Gaylor as Buford
 * Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet
 * Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
 * Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
 * Richard O'Brien as Dad
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
 * Joan Cusack as Glenda Wilkins