| “ | Let's have a medieval tournament, just like the knights in the days of yore! | ” |
— Phineas Flynn | ||
During their trip to England, Phineas and Ferb decide to hold a medieval tournament after hearing their grandfather's story about the Black Knight of Worcestershire. Candace also participates in the festivities only to impress a British boy. Agent P infiltrates EvilCon to see what Dr. Doofenshmirtz is up to.
Episode Summary[]
Phineas and Ferb prepare for the tournament.
The Flynn-Fletcher family has arrived in England, and drive up to the Fletcher cottage for their yearly visitation to Lawrence's parents. On the way, they pass by a few landmarks of England. Phineas says that either he has grown a lot, or England has gotten smaller. Right next door to the Fletcher cottage, there is a large castle structure belonging to the neighbors. But Grandpa Reg notes that it used to belong to the Black Knight. The boys inquire and hear about the famous Black Knight of Worcestershire, who went to chase a dragon with disastrous results, and said to still be in search of the dragon until this day. Phineas is instantly inspired. He and Ferb decide to host a medieval-style tournament, complete with jousting, armor, catapults and suckling pigs.
Having been left with her British grandparents, Candace is thoroughly bored. Until she notices Charles, the handsome son of the rich family next door. Charles decides to take part in the joust, and so Candace, who is still too taken by Charles, agrees to take part too. She allows herself to get locked in a tower as a damsel in distress, waiting to get rescued by Charles. She tries to talk to Charles from the top of the tower, but realizes that he can't hear her. While trying to leave the tower, Candace breaks off the door handle. She screams for help, but everybody thinks she is rehearsing for the tournament. She breaks down the door using a spear attached to the Black Knight armor, but ends up in the Black Knight armor after falling down a flight of stairs.
Meanwhile, the O.W.C.A. has kidnapped Dr. Lloyd Wexler, an evil scientist, so that Perry could dress as the scientist, infiltrate EvilCon and find out what Doofenshmirtz is up to. While there, Doofenshmirtz sees Perry in disguise, but thinks he is Dr. Wexler and leads him around the convention. While putting on armor for the joust, Charles remarks that Phineas and Ferb can fit into one armor, and so Ferb takes the bottom half of an armor while Phineas takes the top half. Charles walks away to get his own armor.
Candace, trapped in the Black Knight armor, cannot speak and has trouble moving. She stumbles to Phineas and Ferb just as Charles leaves, and Phineas and Ferb believe she is Charles and try to joust against her. Having no control, Candace is flung from the horse straight into the tower window, then falls down the staircase, only to wind up on the horse again. After this gets repeated a second time, the horse rides off through the town. Charles shows up, and Phineas wonders who they just jousted. Grandpa Fletcher says that could have been the ghost of the black knight. Candace, out of control, gets splashed by gravy through an overturned tanker, then gets chased by a pack of stray dogs, who were really after the smell of the gravy.
Doofenshmirtz insists that "Dr. Wexler" reads from his book, but since Perry can't talk, he hesitates. After a moment, Perry decides to pretend to read while playing the book-on-tape. The tape gets stuck, though, and Doof gets suspicious. Perry removes his disguise, and the two rush into giant robots nearby. Originally, Perry took the giant dragon robot while Doofenshmirtz was in the giant Queen Elizabeth I robot. Doofenshmirtz asks for a switch, but regrets when Perry easily manages a several smashes on the dragon robot. As they crash Evil-Con Doofenshmirtz tries to burn the Queen Elizabeth robot, but only manages to burn himself, commenting "That was a stupid design."
Phineas and Ferb try to joust against Charles, but accidentally put the armor on sideways. The three of them crash seconds after the joust begins and Grandpa Fletcher declares it a draw. Candace starts to ride back towards the fest. In the air, after being hit by multiple arms from the Queen Elizabeth robot, Dr. Doofenshmirtz starts randomly hitting buttons, defeats and ejects himself, while the robot crashes in the jousting lane. The robot explodes due to Doofenshmirtz accidentally hitting the self-destruct button before he ejected himself, knocking Candace free of her armor and landing in Charles' arms. Linda and Lawrence return home with an antique barometer and ask what they missed. Ferb replies, saying he heard there's a new version of "Jane Eyre" in the offing. Perry returns, leaving the Queen Elizabeth robot flying in the background.
Transcript[]
Read the transcript of A Hard Day's Knight.
Songs[]
- "Ballad of the Black Knight"
- "Sir Phineas and Ferb" (cut, instrumental)
- "Perry the Platypus" (during the end credits when broadcast by itself)
Gallery[]
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Running Gags[]
I know what we're gonna do today![]
Phineas: Hey, I know what we should do today! Grandpa Fletcher, let's have a medieval tournament just like the knights did in the days of yore. We can he jousting and catapults and not bathe. Grandpa Fletcher: Way ahead of you on the not bathing. |
The "Too Young" Line[]
None.
Ferb's Line[]
Ferb: I heard there's a new version of Jane Eyre in the offing. |
What'cha doin'?[]
None.
Hey, where's Perry?[]
Phineas: So, Ferb, you ready to chop some lumber? Hey, where's Perry? |
Oh, there you are, Perry[]
Candace: Hi, Charles.
Reg: Jolly good, old bean. Phineas: Ah! There you are, Perry. |
Perry's entrance to his lair[]
Perry is on an ordinary double-decker bus. He uses a jet pack to fly to a lamp post, in which he opens and squeezes his way down.
A platypus? PERRY THE PLATYPUS?![]
Doofenshmirtz: Dr. Wexler, you're a platypus! PERRY THE PLATYPUS?! |
Memorable Quotes[]
Lawrence: Oh, merry old England. How I love our yearly holiday to my parents' home. Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, oh, the White Cliffs of Dover, Stonehenge! Phineas: Either I've grown a lot in the past year, or England's getting smaller. (Shows aforementioned attractions all clumped together, not to scale) |
Reginald: Here, immortalized in bronze, is the Black Knight himself and his Hounds of Heck on their final charge to vanquish the dragon. (turns to another bronze statue, depicting a dragon roasting the Black Knight on a spit) And here... is the disastrous result. |
While dressed as a king's fool Phineas: What do I look like, a fool? |
(Charles is playing tennis with his butler)
Charles: En garde, Stubbings! Ha ha! Come on, man! Parry and riposte. (laughs) I've run you through, Stubbings. Stubbings: Yes, delightful, Master Charles. Clearly, you have mastered the rules of tennis. I believe it's (opens up a platter with a tennis ball) my serve. Oh dear. I have punned. Charles: (laughs) |
Candace: What do you think you are doing?! Phineas: I think I'm building a horse. |
Candace: (using a fake British accent) As the fair princess, I declare Sir Charles the winner of the-(stops and thinks using her normal voice) Wait a minute. Could this be one of those things that backfires horribly on me? (pause) Nah! |
Phineas: (inside a suit of armor realistically designed so that Phineas and Ferb do not fit correctly inside) There's something almost disturbing about this. |
Perry (disguised as Dr. Wexler): Upon an evil winter's heart, the heavy hand of regret infrequently alights. The malevolent path is one trod without the cumbersome shackles of sentimental introspec spec spec spec spec spec spec spec spec spec spec spec spec...(Perry whacks his CD player with his book) Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Hmm, that's funny. I don't remember you saying "spec" so many times. (Perry rips off his disguise.) Dr. Wexler, you're a platypus. (Perry, looking annoyed, puts his hat on. Doofenshmirtz gasps.) PERRY THE PLATYPUS!? I want to say I knew it was you, but I can't, because I didn't. |
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Ha ha ha, Perry the Platypus! Your giant robot dragon is no match for my giant robot... Queen Elizabeth I. Would you mind switching robots with me? Would you mind to terribly, please? |
While Dr. Doofenshmirtz is sitting in the pilot seat located in the mouth of a dragon Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Well, yours may have laser eyes, but mine breathes f-(yelling) OW! That was a stupid design. |
Television Announcer: This just in: A giant mechanical Queen Elizabeth I and a dragon are rampaging through the country, engaged in an apparent duel to the death. (pauses) And, in other news, a new version of Jane Eyre is in the offing. |
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: That Queen Elizabeth is a tough old bird! |
Background Information[]
None.
Production Information[]
International Premieres[]
- February 21, 2008 (Disney Channel Latin America and Brazil)
- July 11, 2008 (Disney Channel Germany)
- September 14, 2008 (Disney Channel Poland)
- January 18, 2009 (Disney Channel Spain)
Errors[]
- When Phineas and Ferb go to joust with Charles, they are in their suit of armor incorrectly, but when they crash, they are back into their normal positions.
- When the Evil Con booth man gives Perry, as Dr. Lloyd Wexler, his Evil Button, the button he hands Perry is off of his own shirt which reappears when he hands it to Perry.
- The control booth of the dragon robot had positioned in the mouth making the fire hit Dr. Doofenshmirtz, but the control booth of the Queen Elizabeth I robot had positioned behind the eyes, where lasers get shot.
- In this episode, the London Eye and Big Ben are among with Buckingham Palace and the White Cliffs of Dover, but in "Elementary My Dear Stacy" the London Eye and Big Ben are in their original places.
- When Doofenshmirtz and Perry are walking in the Evil-Con before Perry read the autobiography, there are people and stands in the scene, but when the Giant Robots' room gets zoomed out, the people and stands are gone.
- When Black Knight Candace gets launched from the catapult, her flight path over the view stand is already slightly down as she leaves the scene, yet she is on a decidedly upward path when she flies into the tower window.
- When Black Knight Candace leaves the tournament and the crowd cheers, there is a blonde woman with glasses and a pink turtle neck who wasn't there before, she is gone again the next time the view stand gets shown then reappears when the stand gets seen as the people are afraid they're about to get crushed by the falling dragon and among the people running away.
- Some fire from the Dragon-bot reaches to the Queen Elizabeth-bot, but it seems to have no burns on it, also, the Queen Elizabeth-bot launched a laser to the Dragon-bot. but in the next scene the burn is gone.
- When the Dragon-bot launches fire, in the close-ups of its mouth, his body is black, but in the zoom-out scenes, his body is purple.
Continuity[]
- This episode later continues with Stacy Hirano in "Elementary My Dear Stacy".
Allusions[]
- A Hard Day's Night - The title comes from this song by the Beatles, which served as the theme song of their 1964 feature film of the same name.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus - Deadpan television announcer.
- Sherlock Holmes ("The Hound of the Baskervilles") - The moment when the hounds follow the Knight is similar to the moment when the enormous dog follows Sir Hugo Baskerville.
- Evil-Con is a parody of Comic-Con.
- BBC - The VBBC channel name is a parody of the BBC, a major British TV and radio organization. (The original stands for British Broadcasting Corporation; presumably VBBC stands for Very British Broadcasting Corporation.)
- Sleeping Beauty - The dragon the knight fights has a similar look to Maleficent's dragon form.
Trivia[]
- This is one of few episodes which don't feature any of Phineas and Ferb's friends (Isabella, Baljeet and Buford).
- One of the "Hounds of Heck" looks like the Johnson family poodle.
- Perry's fake ID of Dr. Wexler says "Note: NOT A PLATYPUS".
- This is the only time Candace shows having romantic interest in a boy that isn't Jeremy, though Charles is very similar to Jeremy.
- Although Linda appears in this episode, she does not speak.
- The taxi Linda and Lawrence take is a LTI TX1.
- This is the first episode not to take place in Danville.
- This episode features the first appearance of Lawrence's parents.
- When Perry smacks the book against the CD player to stop it from skipping, he can be heard saying "-tion" right when he does it, meaning when it starts skipping on "spec", he is supposed to say "introspection".
Cast[]
- Main article: Credits
- Vincent Martella as Phineas
- Ashley Tisdale as Candace
- Thomas Sangster as Ferb
- Caroline Rhea as Mom
- Richard O'Brien as Dad
- Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
- Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
- Malcolm McDowell as Grandpa Fletcher
- Jane Carr as Grandma Fletcher
- Dominic Wood as Charles
- Tim Curry as Stubbings
- Additional Voices: Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Tim Curry, Dan Povenmire
References[]
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