| "Wow, I didn't expect them to be so scary. I mean, can you imagine the angry, twisted soul hidden under those bandages?" — Phineas[src] |
The mummy is a creature arising from conserved tissues of an ancient human. Phineas and Ferb seek one allegedly buried deep down a theater to obtain a cool confidant.
Biography[]
The boys come to an egyptian-styled cinema together with Lawrence and Candace to watch a vintage mummy film. Along the way to the seats, the father dishes out facts concerning the building's purported erection above a tomb display, piquing their interest. Surveying the movie's action, Phineas and Ferb query the parent on the specifics of wrapped monster hunting, which stimulates them to do a backstage digging of their own with the aim of locating a snazzy buddy, setting off as the adult falls asleep.
Stepping into the lobby, Phineas and Ferb question employees on the exhibition venue, ascertaining its place in the basement storage. Candace quietly spies on them from behind decorative items, contacting her father once the two enter the stairwell. Falling in dozing ears, she decides to trail the boys inside, accidentally detaching a gumball container and slipping in a wheeled bucket. Distinguishing the noise, the brothers creatively dodge the incoming ball, which tracks the girl into a supply room, where she gets cloaked in paper.
Phineas and Ferb access the appointed closet, approaching a coffin encasing a body. Imitating the flick, they chant an incantation to resurrect it, figuring out that it is actually an inflatable prop. Disappointed, the boys walk back towards the door, stumbling upon a seemingly bona fide creature, from whom they instinctively dash away in the displays. Bent on capturing it, the duo is entangled in a bizarre back-and-forth, eventually detaining it on a sarcophagus, with which they ride a leaking flow to the outside ("Are You My Mummy?").
Physical appearance[]
The mummy is dry-brown-skinned and has two yellow scleras, two red eyes, and a white bandage sheathing around his thin head, torso, waist, arms, and legs, all untidily covered in dust debris.
Personality[]
The mummy is aggressive and dim-witted. He is shown to scare whoever dares to awaken him from its slumber, albeit attacking in such a careless manner that the traps on his chamber can be mistakenly triggered.
Relationships[]
Phineas and Ferb[]
In their hypothetical scenario, Phineas and Ferb are rather close to the creature, casually sharing snacks, playing together, and overall enjoying a fun time in several different activities.
Explorers[]
Explorers pursue the monster as a valuable, treating him primarily as an objectified treasure to bring about from death and recover for potential status.
Background Information[]
- In the movie, an inscription of a duck, eye, and palm tree translates to the chant "Owah Tagu Siam", pronounced "oh, what a goose I am", the wording necessary to utter in order to revive the corpse. Phineas and Ferb replicate this scene after finding the exhibit, to dead silence.
- Ambushing one of the travelers in the film, the mummy beats him up with a rubber chicken in an act of obedience to his command, as dictated by the engraving.
- Lawrence responds to his sons' questioning by briefly discussing the creature inearthing and hidden dangers lying in the bowels of pyramids.
- While talking to the kids, the father puts his cell phone on vibrating mode to comply with the standard cinema rules, therefore he is solely able to feel Candace's call instead of hearing it.
- Imagining life with a mummy, the boys think of partaking in varied endeavors alongside it; in order, these are eating ice cream, laying down in the grass, knitting a long thread, swinging on a playground, synchronizedly diving into a pool, poking their friends, sneezing on a bandage, emceeing at school, playing checkers, running from a dog, fishing in the lake, and biking-boarding across the park.
- Passing through the stairs, Phineas and Ferb pick up pith helmets from a stash to complement their scavenging leitmotif, with the former asking for a patented pithy phrase of the latter. They later equip a flashlight and net, respectively.
- To avoid the sweets sphere, Ferb climbs on Phineas' back and does an acrobatic move on a pipe to land over the item. The two follow this up by performing a few stunts whilst rolling, until they hit a wall.
- Candace attempts a similar exploit to that of the boys to escape the ball, in addition to going inside the ventilation system and the elevator on the opposite side. Every effort in vain, she slides to the supplies shelf as the gums spread out, sticking into her and rolls of paper, thus giving the appearance of a mummy.
- The boys pull off a series of maneuvers to catch Candace; Phineas first holds her for Ferb to net, then they stick to the scraps in what leads to a doggy mount and a couple of intertwinings. She soon drops and gets up, being promptly ensnared.
- Sarcophagus swimming is considered by the brothers to be the second booby trap they experience after the gumball gamble, both alluding to scenes in the Indiana Jones installments Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Temple of Doom. The former winds up smashing the vessel and washing Candace up, undoing the monster setup.
- In the end, Lawrence misinterprets Phineas' cry for a mummy as meaning their mother, due to the word having the same spelling as the British term referring to a mom.
- Ferb's fact of the day is that real mummies had their cerebrums pulled out through their nasal cavities, a nod to the excerebration procedure.
- Brawling a mummy, done in this caper, corresponds to the lyric and clip in the theme song.
- The mummy appears dancing during the musical celebration of summer seizing ("Rollercoaster: The Musical!").
- The mummy is seen and mentioned in one of the scenes of the montage recounting the summer ("Last Day of Summer").
Appearances[]
- "Are You My Mummy?" (First appearance)
- "Rollercoaster: The Musical!" (Cameo)
- "Last Day of Summer" (Cameo) (Mentioned only)
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