| “ | I wanna float around! Like men. | ” |
— Buford Van Stomm | ||
Phineas, Ferb, Buford, Baljeet, Isabella, and the Fireside Girls decide to build a device that blows a huge bubble to float around town. Meanwhile, Candace is practicing her driving with Linda in the car. Dr. Doofenshmirtz tries to take over the world through country and western music.
Episode Summary[]
Phineas, Ferb and the gang planning the day's Big Idea.
Phineas and Ferb are seen sitting under the tree in their backyard blowing bubbles. Baljeet shows up, in the bubble Ferb blew, talking about his schedule and how Phineas told him to "seize the day". Phineas invites him to blow bubbles with him and Ferb but Baljeet replies by saying he doesn't have enough time. Buford appears behind him saying that he wanted to be in a big bubble and float all around town.
Meanwhile, Candace is practicing her driving with Linda and Linda says Lawrence told her Candace can already parallel park.
Perry goes down in a lift to his lair and it is pitch black. Lights flash on and balloons fall from above with Major Monogram wishing Perry a "Happy Birthday", even though it isn't his birthday.
Candace drives to the park and sees Phineas and the group in the park. Isabella and the Fireside Girls appear behind Phineas asking what he was doing. Phineas explains they're going to make a huge bubble and float around town. Isabella collects some sap from a tree and the machine blows the bubble. Everyone is sucked inside and starts floating around Danville. Candace spots them floating and chases after them.
Candace trying to bust Phineas and Ferb while driving.
Perry appears at Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Evil Incorporated building and he hands Perry a card. It is a birthday card and traps Perry as soon as he opens it. Doofenshmirtz explains his plan, to mix country and western music together and shows Perry a cowboy's hat with a mechanism to make him sing better. He says his first gig is in an hour, grabs Perry and go to where he performs.
Doofenshmirtz starts to sing with the audience enjoying him, before Perry escapes by cutting the trap with his birthday card. He then uses a party toy to knock off Doofenshmirtz's hat which causes it to malfunction, and Doofenshmirtz starts singing with his normal voice. The crowd leaves, complaining, while Doofenshmirtz tries to use a jet-pack to cause him no more humiliation. Unfortunately, the jet-pack flies off with his clothes, leaving him in his underwear. His underwear has Perry's face on it with his fedora on it, which he says that he had it before he met Perry. He decides to walk home as he is.
Candace is still chasing the boys without much control over the car around the town. The bubble almost pops by coming close to sharp objects but the group manages to swerve the bubble. But the bubble descends into a claw-like statue with sharp points around and Baljeet starts hyperventilating. The bubble slowly ascends and Phineas tells everyone to start breathing heavily. When the bubble rises, Baljeet decides to relax as it still floats around the town.
The bubble floats above a bridge. Candace approaches the bridge but then Doofenshmirtz's jet pack clips onto the car and speeds along the road. The bridge starts to rise and the car is thrown up in the air. Candace tells Linda to look at the boys but Linda says she won't open her eyes until they are back on the ground again. Once they land on the opposite side of the bridge, Candace tries to stop the car and parallel parks right next to the park where they first started.
The bubble pops when it hits the tree in the park and everyone fall onto separate playground equipment. Candace tries to explain to her mom that the boys were floating in a bubble when Linda spots them in the park but gives up and slams her face on the car horn. Perry appears near the elephant kiddie ride which Ferb is riding.
Transcript[]
Read the transcript of Bubble Boys.
Songs[]
- "Fireside Girls Anthem" (Instrumental)
- "Yodel Odel Obey Me"
Gallery[]
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Running Gags[]
I know what we're gonna do today/The "Too Young" Line[]
Buford: Oh! Can I blow a super-huge one? So I can crawl inside it, and float around like a little woodland pixie! (pauses) Did I just say that out loud? Phineas: Yes, yes you did. But that actually sounds fun, minus the pixie part. Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today! There's no better way to see Danville than inside a huge bubble. Buford: I wanna float around! Realizing his mistake Like men. |
Ferb's Line[]
What'cha doin'?[]
Hey, where's Perry?[]
Phineas: Hey, where's Perry? Baljeet: Laughs Right on time! I had Perry's absence on my schedule. |
Oh, there you are, Perry[]
Phineas: Well, Ferb, I guess we should consider this day: Seized. Oh, there you are, Perry. |
Perry's entrance to his lair[]
He uses an elevator in the side of the house and finds Agent Pinky. They nod to each other before Pinky exits first.
Evil Jingle[]
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!
Memorable Quotes[]
Phineas: Look at what that bubble is doing to my face. (Laughs) You make me laugh out loud, bubble. |
Baljeet: You know how you told me to seize the day? Consider it seized. Phineas: That's not what I meant. |
Baljeet: I am going to miss my polka recital! Buford: I've heard it. It's a small loss. |
Phineas: We're at the mercy of the breeze. Baljeet: Sure, when you say it like that, it sounds relaxing. |
Gretchen: With our angle of descent, leaning will be ineffectual!
The group lets out a collective "What?" Gretchen: We're gonna crash! |
Phineas: Baljeet, you totally saved us. Baljeet: When in danger, I always hyperventilate. |
Baljeet: You know, this whole "relaxing" thing is... relaxing. |
Background Information[]
- This episode takes place at the same time as the following episode, "Isabella and the Temple of Sap". Before Candace hits the trashcans, Linda warns her that she is going to hit some trashcans again. In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" it is shown that Candace freed Agent Pinky who was trapped inside one.
- In the past, Doof had a rather decent singing voice, but in this episode, for the purpose of the plot, he has a terrible one.
Production Information[]
- This episode aired in the UK first before it aired in the US.
- In the Dutch version of the song Yodel Odel Obey Me, when Doofenshmirtz says "you'd even change your name to Amy", instead of saying "Amy", he says "Marie-Jose", probably to make it sound more Dutch.
- This is the first episode to use Adobe Flash animation. Said animation was used for the scenes of Doofenshmirtz singing "Yodel Odel Obey Me".
International Premieres[]
- October 3, 2009 (Disney XD UK)
Errors[]
- When Phineas commented Ferb about the bubble design, Buford's short is colored red like his shoes. Also when Isabella greets them "Whatcha doin'?", his shoes are colored green like his shorts.
- When Baljeet says, "Oh no, look out! Power lines!" Adyson, Gretchen, Milly, and Buford aren't there.
- When Baljeet begins hyperventilating in the bubble it shouldn't have increased the size of the bubble as there would not be any more air inside it. Also, even though it became larger it shouldn't have made the bubble fly upwards as the air breathed out by Baljeet and the others is actually heavier than the air outside the bubble because of its higher level of carbon dioxide. The bubble should actually have gone down faster.
- When Isabella gives Phineas the sap, she says "here". In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", she doesn't say it.
- When Phineas says "See you guys back in the field!" to the Fireside Girls, Isabella's expression seems to turn flat as the scene zooms out. This will be later explained in "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" where she is snapped out from her daydreaming.
- When Phineas blew a bubble at the beginning and it showed the reflection, his shirt was all white.
- Before Baljeet starts hyperventilating, Gretchen is behind him. When he starts hyperventilating, Milly is behind him instead and Gretchen is not there, and when the Fireside Girls and Buford say 'Yes, sir!' Gretchen appears right next to Isabella and no one is behind Baljeet.
- When the bubble pops, after the kids fall Milly's hair is black instead of brown.
- Some of the girls' sashes are at their right shoulder instead of their left before and after Baljeet starts hyperventilating.
- When everyone in the bubble bounces, Katie goes outside of the bubble.
- Before the bubble gets popped out and flies above Candace, there are no signs of Ginger, Holly, and Katie inside it.
- When the bubble went down the downdraft, Milly is not shown.
- When Candace drives Linda to the park and misses the boys, the bubble machine is there, but somehow both do not see it. However, it is possible that they do in fact see it, thinking it is something else.
Continuity[]
- Linda says Lawrence was right and Candace did have parallel parking down ("It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World").
Allusions[]
- Bubble boy is a term used to describe a person who must live in a sterile environment for medical reasons.
- Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain - Doof’s scheme in this segment is very similar to the plot of the Animaniacs segment “Bubba Bo Bob Brain”, in which Pinky and the Brain once tried to attach a hypnotic section to a country western song to enslave the world - with similar results.
- Home on the Range - Alameda Slim's hypnotic yodel sounds similar to Doofenshmirtz's one.
- The Blues Brothers - The theme of mixing "Country" and "Western" music styles may refer to the time Jake and Elwood Blues are to perform at Bob's Country Bunker. Elwood asks the barmaid the type of music played there: "Oh, we got both kinds: Country and Western." The scene of the Bluesmobile at the drawbridge is also recreated.
- The Wizard of Oz - When the bubble the kids are in floats it sounds like when Glinda's floats in The Wizard of Oz.
- Red Vs. Blue - When the guy breaks his teeth after hearing Doofenshmirtz sing, he says: "It wasn't worth it." In Red Vs. Blue, whenever red team makes a plan that fails but hurts Grif, Sarge says: "It was worth it." Also, both the man and Sarge have a southern accent.
- Indiana Jones - the scene in which Gretchen says "we're gonna crash" is from that movie.
- The Simpsons - Doofenshmirtz uses a voice-enhancing machine to sing better, which is the main plot of a Simpsons episode where Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Milhouse Van Houten as the Party Posse boy band use a machine with a similar purpose in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch".
Trivia[]
- First episode in which a Fireside Girl other than Isabella has extended dialogue.
- Baljeet mentions that Phineas told him to "seize the day", which is part of the lyrics in the extended version of the theme song, "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day."
- Phineas is the same height as Isabella in this episode.
- This is the third time that Candace has been shown driving ("It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World", "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!") She never drove again after this episode.
- The flowered mini-camper can be seen when Candace shows Linda the boys' device ("Isabella and the Temple of Sap").
- This is the second time that Pinky is shown as a secret agent ("Day of the Living Gelatin").
- Doofenshmirtz declined to go to Perry's surprise birthday because it was probably a trap ("Day of the Living Gelatin").
- This is the second time Doofenshmirtz uses music to enslave/hypnotize the Tri-State Area ("Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown").
- Doofenshmirtz sings in a different voice than his own, just like Ferb ("Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror", "De Plane! De Plane!", "Spa Day") and Candace ("Jerk De Soleil").
- The old drawbridge reappears ("Traffic Cam Caper").
- It is revealed that Doofenshmirtz has an underwear with perry face on it
Cast[]
- Main article: Credits
- Vincent Martella as Phineas
- Ashley Tisdale as Candace
- Thomas Sangster as Ferb
- Caroline Rhea as Mom
- Alyson Stoner as Isabella
- Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
- Jane Leeves as Admiral Acronym ♦
- Judd Nelson as The Guru ♦
- Amanda Plummer as Poofenplotz ♦
- Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
- Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet
- Bobby Gaylor as Buford
- Tyler Mann as Carl
- Additional Voices: Isabella Acres, Dee Bradley Baker, Tiffany Espensen, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Cymphonique Miller, Isabella Murad, Judd Nelson, Madison Pettis, Dan Povenmire, Caroline Rhea, Kari Wahlgren, Ariel Winter
- ♦ designates a character that did not appear in this episode
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