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"Oh, hey Candace, glad you're still up, you'll get to see the cool planet coming directly at us. But don't worry, we're building a Giant Spring to bounce it back into space where it came from."
Phineas[src]

The Giant Spring is a spring built by Phineas and Ferb with their friends' assistance as a means of impeding a planetary clash catastrophe.

History[]

A green laser passes by the Flynn-Fletcher house at night, alarming a relaxing Candace, who tries to point out her siblings as its source. To her dismay, Phineas and Ferb are just messing with a telescope, prompting Linda to remind her of their bust limit agreement, given that an invention had been mentioned earlier. Suspecting further activity from the boys, the sister decides to stay up in order to keep an eye on them, while their friends commend the two for the space exploration sleepover idea.

Upon explaining the projection process, the boys are pressed by Buford to start looking into the galaxies. Clarifying the reason, he recounts his otherwordly meeting with an alien specimen. Not buying it, Baljeet ridicules the bully, even in the face of a photo proof. The kids soon begin controlling the probes, zooming in on the brothers' milkshake bar, and the planet of flamingo hybrids, the sight of which astounds them. Abruptly, the celestial image displays the body growing closer, indicating impending doom.

Baljeet works out the planet's path, figuring out that it will hit the surface by midnight. Intent on saving the world, the group considers possibilities of halting the collision, arriving at a rebounding solution thanks to a comment by Buford. Shortly prior to daybreak, the elastic mold is finished, in time for the expected event. Reaching the spring, the visitor is compressed, allowing the bully to greet his buddy. Afterwards, it bounces back into space with the loose recoiler, before Linda can see it ("When Worlds Collide").

Design[]

The Giant Spring is a huge coil spring formed by a gray spiral structure consisting of a five-screw cylindrical metal base linked to a segmented steel piece by three gray bars. Its shape is achieved by revolving the main body in ten loops, each bigger than the previous.

Mechanics[]

The Giant Spring is a compression spring functioning on stress mechanics. It is able to cushion the fall of significantly large masses, compacting itself in the process so as to exert a counter elastic force to the impacting entity, an action essentially simulating a ricochet.

Background Information[]

  • The blurring of the projector's imaging is the catalyst for the gang's notice of a strange phenomenon. At first, it is surmised as a planet enlargement; this is quickly understood as an approaching impact.
  • The boys believe that the government scientists are alerting the populace on the occurrence, though in actuality the specialists are freaking out, as depicted by the situation at the North America Planetary Defense Headquarters.
  • Learning of the midnight prediction, Buford initially becomes happy by the chance to see his exotic friend, but worries about the destruction after being knocked some sense into by Baljeet.
  • Phineas' first idea to prevent the calamity is to use electromagnets, which can only be applied by factoring the target's molecular density, therefore rendering them unfeasible.
  • Concerned about his buddy, Buford picks up a pail of water, and prepares a nest in his garage, so that he could take care of the creature until at least spring. This remark on the season ends up as the motivation for the kids' plan.
  • From the time shown on Candace's digital clock, it can be inferred that the spring's setup is concluded nine minutes before midnight.
  • When Candace is told of the contingency idea, she comments on its less scientific nature, indirectly comparing it to her siblings' normal antics.
  • As the planet moves towards the coil, Isabella attempts to hold Phineas' hand in a romantic gesture, only to grab Ferb's instead.
  • Linda states that a thirteenth amendment to the busting accord is probably due for inclusion, likely to avoid inconvenient nighttime situations such as that one.
  • While it is pushed back, the planet catches the World's Largest Ball of Twine, which unravels all the way to an attracting device, connecting it to the spring. The ball's string pulls the spring alongside the celestial body, thereby causing its disappearance.

Appearances[]

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Season 1
Coolest Coaster Ever | Backyard Beach | Phineas and the Ferb-Tones | 42
The Curse of the Princess Monster | Thumb Wrestling Arena | Remodelling Mount Rushmore | Brobots
Chamber of Invisibility | Microscopic Zoo | Robot Bean & Tea Leaf | Summer All The Time Collection
Cattle Drive | S'Winter | Big Top Cirque | Mummy | Secret Spy Adventure | Perry the Inaction Figure | Bigfoot
Candace Crusher | Shrinking Submarine | Time Machine | Tree House Robots | Grandpa's Dinghy | Chariot Race
Giant Ferris Wheel | Backyard Water Slide | Summer Roller Re-Match | Totally Sick Waterslide of Doom
Conk | Beach Submarine | Medieval Tournament | Escalator to the Moon | World's Largest Bowling Ball
F-Games | Kermillian's Comet | Miniature golf | Teleportation Device | Holy Mackerel | Mariachi tree
Haunted House | Platypus monster | Unpainted Desert | Phineas & Ferb Studios | Team Improbable
Rainbow-inator | Shooting Star Milkshake Bar | Flying Car of the Future, Today | Portal to Mars
Season 2
Nosebud | Animal Translator | Aglet Awareness | Growth elixir | Goldie's Aqueous Extravaganza
Gelatin monster | Big Ben Water Slide | Big and Obvious Ride | Chez Platypus | Platy-posterior | Jump N' Duck
Baseball Launcher | Cute-Tracker | Phineas and Ferb's backyard fort | Paper Pelican | Let's Take a Quiz
Phintastic Ferbulous Car Wash | Platy-Attracker 3000 | Tree Shelter | Shrinking Machine | Boat of Romance
The Baljeatles | X-Ray Glasses | Backyard Spa | Bubble Machine | Shlocko | Ha-Ha-Hut | Mix N' Mingler
Patch Chart | Contraption | Photo-transporter | Ferbalistic Groovatron 9000 | Phineas' Anti-Romance Rocket
Molecular Scrambler | Wedding of Bob and Tiana | Floating Pep Squad Mobile | Niagara Falls replica
Anti-Gravity Fun Launcher | Unification Day Parade | Kiddie Rides | Spinning Tops of Doom
Frozen Yogurt Machine | Robot Bull | Phineas and Ferb's Super Skate Course of Doom | The Beak
Pioneer Town | P&F Lemonade | Aqua Primates | Giant Jump-Roping Robot | Sun-Beater 3000
Holo-Projection Device | Spin Washing | Self-Balancing Monster Unicycle | Giant Maze
Max Modem and the Mainframes | All Terrain Vehicle | World's Tallest Building | Molecular Separator
Sick Day Video Game Backup System | Coolest Coaster Ever | Giant Jukebox
Season 3
Biosphere | Rover | Super Shoes | Balloon Race | Robotic Shark | Moon Farm | Super Computer | Funhouse
Best Phone Ever | Magic Carpet | Hair Style Machines | Bounce House | Worksite Slide | Spring Suction Cup
Stratospheric Ionizer | No Stop Truck Stop | Tour de Ferb | Giant Skiddley Whiffers | Football X-7
Giant Darts | The Tower | Spuds-a-lot | Ferb Latin | 12th Annual Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas
Giant Terracotta Warrior | Excaliferb | Mind Machine | Antius Maximus | Cheesetopia | Perrytronic 3000
Totally Tools Sponsor | Positive Reinforcement Machine | Anti-Gravity Maximus | Ninja Outfits
Warp Trebuchet | Giant Pillow Fight | One-Track Amusement Park | Super Sprinkler | Mom Attractor
Brain Booster | S'Fall | Flying Saucer | Jetpack Volleyball | Mind Flip | State-of-the-Matter Transfer Device
Nanobot Programmer | Highly Unconventional Vehicle | Giant Spring | Squirrel Camp | Blackout Invention
Season 4
Hockey Z-9 | New Year's Ball | Sorbet Machine | Giant Tire Swing | Dental Hygienosphere
Nedlington Nymph | Rutabaga Vehicles | Infinite Probability Generator | Mind Share device
Backyard Hodge Podge | Wading Pool | World's Largest Drop of Water | Dog Sensomatic Helmet
Gordian Knot replica | Rock Climbing Wall | Chupa-Copter | P.H.L.A.S.E.R.
Phineas and Ferb Ultimate Obstacle Course | Pyramid Sports | Bubble Washers | Foam Town
Scrapbook-aganza | Sky Tennis | Ultimate Batting Challenge | Ferb-o-graphic technology
Fletcher Family Flying Circus | Wind Amplification Device | Giant Fireside Girl Puppet | Picnicland
World's Largest Art Piece | Scent Diffuser | Galaxy 5000 | Rubberization Ray | Summer Sports
Dinner Date | Everything Ride | The Buford Van Stomm Time Catapult
Others
Platypult | Remote Control | Murphy's Law Suit | Giant Robotic Clown | Carbonator | Idea-Mashup Machine
Ninja Gloves | Anti-Gravity Ray | Digital Hacker | O.W.C.A. agent beacons
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