| “ | Perhaps the problem is not that the house is too small, but that we are too big. | ” |
— Ferb Fletcher | ||
When Phineas and Ferb play a game of indoor "hide and seek", the boys shrink down their friends including their extreme fan, Irving. Meanwhile, Dr. Doofenshmirtz attaches a nanobot to Perry in an attempt to discover where he lives.
Episode Summary[]
Linda tells Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Baljeet and Buford that she will be going over to Vivian's house for a while. Buford asks what sort of fun they could have while it's raining, and the gang seems stumped. Irving suggests Hide and Seek, which surprises everyone. Irving then proceeds to say that he is their biggest fan and shows off his photo album of their Big Ideas. Phineas agrees that this is a good idea, which excites Irving. Buford wonders if their house is too small for the game but Ferb corrects that the problem is not that the house is too small, but that they are too big. This gives Phineas the idea of using the shrinking technology from their submarine invention.
Meanwhile, in Perry's underground hideout, Major Monogram informs Perry about a series of disturbing messages Doofenshmirtz has left on his answering machine, asking for Perry to come over to stop him from being evil. Monogram tells Perry to stop him while other messages continue to play in the background.
Phineas and Ferb finish their Shrinking Machine and everyone touches the red ball on top of it. They all start to examine the world from their new size.
Perry barges in on Doofenshmirtz, whose evil deed for the day is throwing recyclables out in the regular garbage. He says he has seen the evil of his ways and starts to pat Perry on his back to shoo him home. In doing so, he plants a minibot on Perry's back, without him knowing about it.
As the kids prepare for their game, they feel a rumble and see Candace going down the stairs. Phineas declares her as 'it', and they all scatter and hide. Candace, meanwhile, is talking to Stacy on the phone and doesn't notice the gang since she wasn't aware that they had shrunk themselves to play hide and seek. She does, however, spot the shrinking machine and rushes to take it to Linda across the street. She picks up an umbrella, which Baljeet is hiding on, and flings him up onto the light fixture. Phineas tries to think of a way to get the shrinker back, and Irving is disappointed when he learns that his heroes are just improvising the whole time. Baljeet feels the chill of the air conditioner blowing down on him.
Perry returns home and goes to sleep on his pet bed. The minibot comes alive and Dr. Doofenshmirtz steers it in the hopes of finding Perry's address somewhere.
As Candace crosses the street, the sky stops raining. She knocks on the Garcia-Shapiro front door, but accidentally activates the shrinking machine on herself. Vivian answers the door immediately afterwards, seeing only the device and takes it inside. Candace then faces the horrors of the front lawn, under the assumption that this is what she gets for being ahead of her brothers.
The bot spots the children, but Doofenshmirtz thinks the signals got crossed since they look regular sized. He loses control of the robot, and it chases after the kids. They use a sewing basket to tie threads over it and pull it down onto the ground. Ferb reprograms the remains of the bot to be a mini-fly, and Irving takes the opportunity to get a photo of himself with the gang. They go to rescue Baljeet, who survived the cold by hiding in a dead fly's corpse.
Candace is saved from Pinky by Isabella and helped on board the mechanical fly. They soar over to the machine and return to their normal sizes. Candace then runs off to show Linda the invention.
Doofenshmirtz regains video feed, and Perry spies the camera watching him. He crushes it, which prompts Doofenshmirtz to activate the self-destruct button on his bot. It destroys the shrinker with it, somehow leaving the table and the rest of the kitchen unharmed. Candace swears it was there upon not seeing it, but Linda and Vivian don't believe her, thinking it's teenage hormones.
The episode ends with Doofenshmirtz saying that he got no comeuppance, though he feels empty a while later.
Transcript[]
Read the transcript of Hide and Seek.
Songs[]
Gallery[]
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| View the image gallery for "Hide and Seek". |
Running Gags[]
The "Too Young" Line[]
None.
Ferb's Line[]
What'cha doin'?[]
None.
Perry's entrance to his lair[]
None.
I know what we're gonna do today[]
Hey, where's Perry?[]
Irving: Hey, can I say the Perry thing?
Phineas: What? Irving: You know, when you say, "Where's Perry?" Phineas: ...Okay... Irving: Where's Perry? Wait! Wait! I can do better! Where's Perry? Where is Perry? Wherefore art thou Perry? I wonder where that Perry went. Ooh! Where is that platypus? Where the P-man at? |
Oh, there you are, Perry[]
None.
Evil Jingle[]
Doofenshmirtz Evil Inco — (It was cut when Perry breaks in the door.)
Memorable Quotes[]
Buford: What kind of fun can we have when it's rainin'?
Isabella: We could talk about our feelings. (pause) Buford: OK, I'll rephrase it. What kind of fun can we have when it's rainin'? Baljeet: I would not mind talking about my feelings. (Buford punches Baljeet) Buford: How do you feel now? Baljeet: In pain? Buford: There. We're done. |
Baljeet: Pfft, what a nerd. said of Irving's obsession |
Baljeet: Hey, somebody take a picture of me next to this dust bunny! |
Doofenshmirtz: From now on, I'll be green! I'll be all the shades of green. They'll... they will call me el verde and tell my tale in Greenland. |
Irving: Hey, I don't have to digitally insert myself! Buford: Go tell it to your blog. |
Baljeet: Earthquake!
Phineas: It's Candace! Hey everyone, Candace is it! Everybody hide! |
Doofenshmirtz: It will be so delicious to know where Perry lives! I can ring his doorbell, and run away! |
Buford: C'mon, fan boy, do you want to live forever? Irving: Is that an option? |
Phineas (to Candace): How you doing, short stuff? |
Candace: Who smells like fly guts? Baljeet: I had to survive, Okay?! |
Major Monogram: Good morning Agent P. We've received some disturbing calls from Doofenshmirtz.
(Recording of Doofenshmirtz's call)
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Doofenshmirtz: Well, that's done. And no comeuppance! (beat) Why do I feel so empty? |
Background Information[]
- A line from "When You're Small" talks about a Great Orange Whale. In Swiss Family Phineas, Phineas asks Ferb if he's spotted the Great White Whale. Both lines also draw from the theme of the book "Moby Dick".
Production Information[]
- to be added
International Premieres[]
- November 28, 2009 (Disney Channel Spain)
- January 22, 2010 (Seven Network Australia)
- January 24, 2010 (Disney Channel Australia and New Zealand)
- May 5, 2010 (Disney Channel UK & Ireland)
Errors[]
- During the entire episode, but most obviously during the song sequence, the kids constantly change size. Sometimes they are a little smaller than a mouse, sometimes they are the size of a fly and sometimes they are microscopic.
- At the end of the song, When You're Small, Phineas, Ferb and their friends are in a bowl of warm water relaxing, but their swimming suits never shrunk with them.
- The phrase "Wherefore art thou Perry?" technically means "Why are you Perry?" The correct phrase is "Whither art thou, Perry?"
What happened to Ferb's arms?
- After Ferb says that were too big to play Hide and Seek, The outline on Ferb's arms are green.
- When Vivian saw the shrinking device and brought it inside, she should've just brought it to Linda so she can see it.
- When Irving was excited and says the phrase "Where's Perry?", Buford's shorts turn black.
- When Irving responses to Isabella, "Yeah, but guys, we're still small," His head is over his shirt collar. In the next shot it's behind again.
- When Irving was trying to say "Where's Perry?", Isabella's skin color was darker.
- When we first meet Irving his eyebrows are thin, but in the rest of the episode, they are thick.
- When Irving introduces himself to Phineas and Ferb, Baljeet's eyes become blank white sockets for a single frame.
- After Doofenshmirtz presses the self-destruct button, there is not a single mark on the counter.
- When Candace goes to get her Mom to see the shrinker, she could’ve just bring the invention to her.
- When Baljeet lands on top of the sealing lamp and is just about able to stop himself from falling after Candace opens the umbrella catapulting him onto it unintentionally since she was unaware that he was on it before Phineas and Isabella call his name, Candace disappears, but after he pulls himself back on the lamp before responding "I'm okay!", Candace reappears before closing the door to leave to Isabella's house with the shrinking machine.
Continuity[]
- Irving's scrapbook on Phineas and Ferb's adventures contains pictures from "Rollercoaster", "Greece Lightning", and "Chez Platypus".
- Phineas mentions the shrinking technology they used for their submarine adventure. ("Journey to the Center of Candace")
- A snippet of this episode is seen in the "Phinabella" montage in "Last Day of Summer".
Allusions[]
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - When Candace was in the grass, she experiences similar hardships and attacks that the children faced in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Later, they fly on a bee, like in the movie.
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift's eighteenth century story of an ordinary man visiting an island of tiny inhabitants is the inspiration for most tiny people stories. Lemuel Gulliver is captured by threads in the same way as the kids restrain Doofenshmirtz's spider camera.
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Baljeet survives frigid conditions by cutting open a fly and stashing away inside of it, the way that Luke Skywalker did in the film inside a dead tauntaun on Hoth. Also, the kids conquer Doofeshmirtz's robot by harpooning string around it, the same way Imperial AT-AT Walkers were destroyed by the rebel forces.
- Romeo and Juliet - The line "Wherefore art thou, Perry?" is an allusion to the famous Romeo and Juliet balcony scene.
- Moby Dick - During the song "When You're Small" one line says that when you're small "your goldfish is a great orange whale." The "Great White Whale" was the name used for the whale in Moby Dick. Also, while this line is sung, Ferb is shown dressed as Captain Ahab.
- Pirates of the Caribbean - The music that plays while the gang are tying down the robot bug is reminiscent of the main theme from the movie ("He's a Pirate").
- Indiana Jones - Phineas saves Isabella swinging on a "whip", with similar music.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - The glowing red eye in a black orb resembles HAL from the sci-fi thriller.
- Starship Troopers - Buford utters to the "fanboy" (Irving) as they prepare to battle the robot bug, "Come on, fanboy! You wanna live forever?" an almost direct quote of a battle cry from the leader(s) of The Roughnecks. This in turn, is a reference to Daniel Daly's battle cry, which originally came from Frederick the Great.
- Community - Irving describes himself as have been always there but never noticed for being a background type, the same happens with Buddy Austin (Jack Black) in Community who has, in theory, been in the same class as the main characters since episode one but didn't appear until episode 15, and explains that he has never been noticed for been a "background type", then its shown flashbacks from previous episodes prooving that he "has always been" in the show. This episode and the Phineas and Ferb one are both from 2009 so it may be only a coincidence.
Trivia[]
- This is Irving's first appearance.
- This is the first episode where Dr. Doofenshmirtz is not really defeated.
- They have a larger TV than in other episodes, such as "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" and "The Doof Side of the Moon".
- This is the first time that Phineas saves Isabella.
- A clip from the movie that Phineas and Ferb watched in "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" was shown in this episode, during the song "When You're Small".
- When Perry returns home, his theme song plays the same way it did in "Put That Putter Away". In this episode, however, it is a semitone higher.
- When Perry comes home, his food dish is silver, rather than orange as in "Oh, There You Are, Perry".
- This is the third time Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella are seen in their swimsuits: the first being in "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror", the second is in "The Lake Nose Monster" for Phineas and Ferb, although Isabella's second time is in "Ready for the Bettys".
- 2nd time Phineas and Ferb shrink ("Journey to the Center of Candace") and the 2nd time Candace changes her size. ("Attack of the 50 Foot Sister", 3rd if you count her as Control Freak growing to 50 feet tall in "Out of Toon"), except in that one, Candace used the Growth elixir on herself so that she can become tall enough to be a Flawless Girl but backfires when it made her 50 feet tall and before trying to bust Phineas and Ferb later on for it even though she was the one who used it on herself, and in this one, she shrunk herself by accident.
- Another one of the rare occurrences in which Dr. Doofenshmirtz refers to his nemesis as "Perry" instead of "Perry the Platypus".
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
- Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
- Mitchel Musso as Jeremy ♦
- Richard O'Brien as Dad ♦
- Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet
- Bobby Gaylor as Buford
- Tyler Mann as Carl ♦
- Jack McBrayer as Irving
- Tiya Sircar as Mishti ♦
- Additional Voices: Dee Bradley Baker, Eileen Galindo, Olivia Olson, Meera Syal
- ♦ designates a character that did not appear in this episode
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