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"Here it is, a Shrinking Machine. Now, everybody touch the top of the machine."
Phineas[src]

The Shrinking Machine is a shrinker built by Phineas and Ferb to increase their playing field for an indoor game of hide and seek.

History[]

Phineas, Ferb, and their friends are left inside the house during a rainy day. Bored, Buford wonders what they could do, with Isabella suggesting a vent talk. Suddenly, a voice proposes a game of hide and seek. Turning to the source, the boys find out about their biggest fan, Irving, who has a scrapbook containing a record of each one of their adventures. Concurring to his idea, the kids think of a way to increase their playing field, coming up with a new use for previous technology.

Having completed the device, the brothers present it to their friends, instructing everyone to touch the top. The shrunken gang starts to feel their surroundings by observing objects from their smaller scale, experiencing a myriad of possibilities throughout their exploration. Afterwards, the kids prepare to begin the round of hide and seek, impromptly nominating Candace as "it" to kick the game off. She notices the machine, and decides to bring it to her mother, catapulting Baljeet onto the ceiling lamp in the process of picking an umbrella.

Phineas sets out to recover the shrinker, reassuring Baljeet that they will rescue him as well. Meanwhile, curiosity gets the better of Candace, who ends up shrinking herself just before Vivian grabs the device, subsequently losing sight of the path in the bushes. Along their way, the kids face off against a mechanical bug, defeating it by using needle threads. While Candace runs from Pinky, the gang appropriates their recent foe for locomotion, quickly saving Baljeet and Candace so that they can all return to regular size. In the end, the self-destructing bot vaporizes the machine prior to Linda's view of it ("Hide and Seek").

Design[]

The Shrinking Machine is a white device with a truncated quadrilateral pyramid base, a rectangular top, four dark gray interconnecting cables, a light blue valve panel, a gray bell structure, a dark gray cylindrical part, a lime green marking, and a central blue cone piece with a red sphere on top.

Mechanics[]

The Shrinking Machine works on shrinking technology. Upon touching the red sphere, users can decrease their size to an insect-like scale; the reverse process occurs for already shrunken beings in contact with the machine, reverting them back to the macroscopic scale.

Background Information[]

  • When posed with the idea of hide and seek, Buford ponders about the possibility of playing it on a relatively small house. To that, Ferb responds by stating that the real problem is their size instead of the residence's.
  • According to Phineas, the Shrinking Machine utilizes the same technology as their submarine from another endeavor ("Journey to the Center of Candace").
  • The items tested out by the kids whilst in a smaller size are:
  • Coffee table
  • Pencil
  • Dust bunny
  • Camera
  • Cup
  • Sink
  • Button
  • Grate
  • Needle
  • Olive
  • Kitchen sponge
  • Comb
  • Television
  • Goldfish
  • Telephone
  • Paper airplane
  • Puddle
  • Crumb
  • Microorganisms
  • Soup plate
  • To Irving's surprise, the boys' rescue mission is completely improvised, as pointed out by them.
  • Once the mechanical bug spots the kids, the feed is shown to a doctor, who believes it to be a signal of a kids' television show. This is a self-reference to the series.
  • Ferb is the one who modifies the foe robot to grant it wings by rearranging some of its wires.
  • For survival, Baljeet has to use a fly's insides as a shelter, to everyone else's disgust.
  • The Shrinking Machine is seen in the montage of clips used by Buford in his video dedicated to Phineas ("Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!").

Appearances[]

Previous:
Tree Shelter
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Boat of Romance
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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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