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While it may lack the grandeur and pageantry of football's 81st championship game, just held in New York's Entire Tri-State Area, one column can always be counted on to bring the substance. This is The Numbers Game, the newsletter column that breaks down the numbers of our favorite show.

"Return Policy" hit the new airwaves of Disney Channel on Friday, January 24. 2.229 million viewers were extremely extreme enough to handle it, a 27 percent increase over the previous episode. Oddly, this was not enough to move the household rating, which held steady at 1.3. For the week, it ranked 24th among all Disney Channel programming, trailing No. 1 Dog With a Blog which topped the chart at 2.895 million. This episode did a much better job of holding onto viewers from its lead-in, dropping only 2 percent from the preceding Wander Over Yonder.

Despite the solid viewership increase, Phineas and Ferb did not reach the Top 10 in any of its target age groups. They were led on the week by a Saturday morning airing of SpongeBob among Kids 2-11, and the aforementioned Dog With a Blog in the 6-11 set. The only age group data available this week is for Adults 18-49, where viewership among my brethren increased by 18 percent to a 0.33 rating.

It appears that Phineas and Ferb is celebrating the sixth anniversary of the original Ferb-ruary by taking the month off. For the next episode, we have to go to Platypus Day, Saturday, March 1 for "Live and Let Drive". Looks like The Numbers Game will have a chance to dip into the archives before then. Until we see you again, leave your comments down below, and remember...that the numbers never lie.

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