Phineas and Ferb Wiki:Newsletter submissions/The Numbers Game Looks Back: Early Evening Reading

''This page contains an article submission for an upcoming newsletter. Do not continue reading any further, as it will detract from your enjoyment when the newsletter is published. It is recommended that you visit the main page instead of continuing any further.''

<X-- start of newsletter article
 * Type your article in between the lines with these asterisks

October's easily the scariest month of the year. It's a month where nothing is safe, not even a four run lead in the 8th inning. (And that was technically still in September yet!) Fortunately, here at The Numbers Game, the newsletter column that breaks down the numbers of our favorite show, we fear nothing. As the full numbers of the latest Phineas and Ferb hour-long special are not yet available, this issue we look back at one of the show's prior Halloween exploits.

"That's the Spirit / The Curse of Candace" hit the new airwaves on Friday, October 7, 2011 with two airings on its premiere night. Viewers preferred the later evening showing, with 3.366 million lonely viewers watching their brightly-lit TVs. This marked a 19 percent decrease from "Bullseye!" the prior week. This ranked 6th among cable programming behind a pair of Game Fives in the National League Division Series (including the Brewers' extra-inning walkoff win over Arizona) and the three other new shows in Disney's lineup (Wizards of Waverly Place, A.N.T. Farm and Jessie). While this was not good enough for the Cable Top 25, falling about 230,000 viewers short, a Sunday morning rerun (of an unknown episode) did manage to check in at No. 21.

The 2011 Halloween episode didn't really make a huge dent among the younger age group. Kids 6-11 was the only demographic where the new episode reached the Top 10, checking in at No. 8 despite an 11 percent drop from the previous week. The week saw Jessie top the charts among Kids 2-11 and Kids 6-11, while Shake It Up took the honors among Tweens 9-14. Among Adults 18-49, Phineas and Ferb checked in with a 0.5 rating, dropping two tenths from "Bullseye!".

There may not be any new episodes coming up, but there is one that's new to The Numbers Game. "Night of the Living Pharmacists" aired last weekend on Disney Channel, and The Numbers Game will have a full breakdown of its numbers in the next issue. Until then, leave your comments down below, at least one of my favorite teams is doing something right, and remember...that the numbers never lie.

end of newsletter article -->
 * end