| “ | A while? You mean we're stranded? That means I won't get to Jeremy's party before the sun sets! We'll be stuck here forever eating rocks and bugs, then I'll have to marry a monkey and have monkey kids and name THEM Xavier and Amanda!!! | ” |
— Candace Flynn | ||
The family becomes marooned after a summer storm shipwrecks them on an island, and Phineas, Ferb and Isabella use the opportunity to build a tree house. Meanwhile, Candace tries to get them to build a boat so she can get back in time for Jeremy's party. After finding out what "big laundry" meant, Dr. Doofenshmirtz uses free monkey labor to boost a new laundromat business.
Episode Summary[]
Phineas, in a rain coat and hat, is shown steering a boat, he tells Isabella to raise the jib and asks Ferb if he has seen any sign of the great white whale, to which Candace tells them they better not be talking about her. The boat they are in is shown being pushed by a car and not even out to sea yet, which Linda questions them about and Lawrence corrects her saying it is not actually called a boat, but a sloop, and then he brings up other nautical terms. Candace alerts the family that she wants to hurry up with this boating because Jeremy is throwing a romantic summer soirée which she doesn't want to miss. Lawrence then assures her that it will only be a three hour tour and Linda says she could use the time to sunbathe. Lawrence notices Perry is missing and Phineas tells him he left Perry with Baljeet.
Baljeet stops Buford "motivating" Perry
Baljeet is shown staring intently a foot away from Perry and Buford walks up to him asking what he is doing. Baljeet informs Buford that he is watching Perry and that he promised to not take his eyes off of him all day, which Buford then finds boring and considers "motivating" Perry with a bat but Baljeet quickly stops him. Perry's communicator watch starts beeping and Buford and Baljeet look around to see what is making the noise causing Perry to swallow his watch to try to hide it, but it can still be heard from within Perry's stomach. Buford and Baljeet stare at Perry.
Phineas is doing his "king of the world bit" of which Isabella queries, and Ferb is swimming with dolphins. A buoy ahead with three flags is deciphered by Isabella as meaning crab season, hold the mustard, and storm warning. The weather whiplash distresses everyone on-board, but Lawrence assures them that he can head them back to shore, only for several waves to take over the direction the sloop goes, pulling it towards a whirlpool, with Lawrence determined to keep everything under control.
O.W.C.A headquarters
Major Monogram's voice can be heard coming from Perry's stomach with Perry giving a distressed expression because Buford and Baljeet are staring directly at Perry with the voice coming from him. Buford comments that he thinks the noise is coming from Perry's stomach, Baljeet replies that he must be hungry and runs off to grab something for him to eat and Buford puts Perry across his shoulder. With Buford's back turned Perry shoots out his tongue a couple feet with his watch attached so Major Monogram can see him. Major Monogram asks what Perry's situation is, and Perry grabs his watch and angles it so Monogram can see Buford hugging Perry.
Monogram comments how terrible the timing with this was because they had just sent all of their field agents to sensitivity training. Realizing they were out of options, Monogram sends Carl in an ice cream truck.
Lawrence and Linda comment how the storm is clearing up, and about how terribly their sloop fared in it but everyone seems fine, except they can't find Ferb. He walks over to Phineas and Isabella covering himself with a huge leaf to take his clothes, while Candace is seen pulling off a barrel and sea creatures from her head. Lawrence tells Candace to find some food and his sons to build a shelter because they may be there for a while, which causes Candace to realize that she might miss Jeremy's romantic summer soirée, momentarily freaking her out. Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella head out and find a suitable place to build a shelter, and get right on it once they do, while employing the help of the local wildlife.
Monogram, over a monitor in Carl's ice cream truck, reminds Carl that nothing distracts kids like ice cream and he needs to distract those kids guarding Perry so Perry can get away and get on to his mission.
Buford and Baljeet are sad because they could not find Perry's platypus food but then they hear the ice cream truck and race towards it, leaving Perry to put on his fedora but before he could go, Baljeet runs back to bring him along making Perry eat his fedora to hide it. Baljeet puts Perry onto the ground to order as Carl gets Buford's order wrong and a door opens on the truck which Perry jumps in after coughing up his hat. Amidst Buford's screams Carl peels out causing Buford to realize he didn't pay and Baljeet to realize he didn't order, and that Perry is missing now!
Baljeet thinks that he has lost Perry
Carl brings Perry up to speed and tells him that he lost some time but Carl brought along the escape cone. The ice cream atop the ice cream truck fires away as a rocket with Perry on board, it sprouts wings and its cherry on top slides to Perry revealing a screen with Monogram telling Perry that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is up to something and he wants Perry to put a stop to it. Following a tracking signal Perry flies the ice cream to the same island his owners have been marooned on. His ice cream melts and falls and he freaks out and grabs the cherry which turns into a parachute and he glides into a volcano where Doofenshmirtz is looking at his watch angrily because Perry is late. Doofenshmirtz notices Perry is there and tells him he had a trap waiting for him but there is no time now so he grabs him and puts him in front of a screen where he projects his plan. He comments on how "a few schemes ago" he couldn't figure out what "big laundry" meant, well it meant for him to offer a free laundromat to the entire population of the Tri-State Area to bring all the local laundromats out of business, freeing up prime real estate locations for his newest franchise, the "Doofenshmirtz Institute of Evilology". He built the laundromat in the volcano on this island because of all the free monkey labor, he had to build a monkey-enslavinator helmet to do it but he only had to build one "because, you know, monkey see monkey do." While being distracted by a monkey putting the red clothes in with the white wash, Perry knocks Doofenshmirtz over with the red clothes.
Buford and Baljeet are putting up "Lost Platypus" posters when Buford asks why doesn't Baljeet just buy a new platypus, which gives Baljeet an idea.
Candace looking for some food
Candace is walking around, when a monkey kisses her, signaling for the other primates to grab her and fling her up into Phineas and Ferb's forest shelter. Phineas gives her a tour of the place, but the irked teenager lashes out at them rather than appreciating the work, asking the reason for their focus on survival instead of leaving. She storms off and walks into the unfinished emergency exit, which is supposed to have a hot tub slide.
Doofenshmirtz and Perry are fighting and Doofenshmirtz throws his shoe but Perry dodges and the shoe knocks the monkey-enslavinator helmet off of the monkey and they all realize whats going on and get angry. As Candace is racing off to tell her parents about the shelter, Phineas asks her if she wants a banana smoothie, Candace yells at them that they will get busted this time, and Phineas assumes that means no to the smoothie.
Perry ziplining into a tuxedo
Perry is sliding down a line of clothes, as soon as he touches each outfit he is magically wearing them while the outfit before shreds behind him and jumps into Doofenshmirtz who gets knocked into his lifting machine which leads to a humongous washer, Perry gets a kick in and then jumps off leaving Doofenshmirtz to get washed and the monkeys use too much soap. As the monkeys start the washer Doofenshmirtz yells at them for using starch, the washer erupts in a wave of pink suds and Perry jumps onto an ironing board and uses it as a surfboard to surf the waves of pink suds erupting from the volcano. Seeing this, Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella think it is the volcano itself erupting and race away passing Candace and Phineas warns her about the "pink lava." Questioning pink lava, Candace turns around to see it and then runs. Lawrence is shown making the final pounds to their sloop when Candace, Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella race onto it bringing Lawrence and Linda with them and then waves of pink suds shoot their sloop homeward. Perry is shown water-skiing off of their boat.
Perry doesn't like his little friend
Buford and Baljeet are finishing making a fake Perry, but they are disappointed with the result. Candace gets out of the car, running to Jeremy's summer soirée. When Baljeet breaks down, Buford runs off leaving Baljeet on his own. Phineas returns home and is talking to Baljeet but Baljeet is trying to confess to losing Perry when Perry walks by and notices the Perry dummy. Phineas notices it too and figures Baljeet made Perry a friend and tells Baljeet how he knew he could count on him. Baljeet's eyes go wide as he faints in shock and Perry angrily chatters at the Perry dummy.
Transcript[]
Read the transcript of Swiss Family Phineas.
Songs[]
End Credits[]
A repeat song of Carl, the Intern
Gallery[]
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Running Gags[]
The "Too Young" Line[]
None.
Ferb's Line[]
What'cha doin'?[]
By Buford:
Buford: Hey, Baljeet. What'cha doin'? Baljeet: I'm watching Perry the Platypus, I promised not to take my eyes off him all day. |
By Isabella:
Hey, where's Perry?[]
Lawrence: Family Pet. Where's Perry? Phineas: Oh, Perry stayed home. Baljeet's watching him. |
Isabella : Hey, where's Ferb? |
Baljeet: I did not even get to...Wait...Where is Perry? |
Doofenshmirtz: Where is Perry the Platypus? He should've been here hours ago! |
Oh, there you are, Perry[]
Phineas: Oh, there you are, Perry! Aw, and look at that! (Perry approaches the fake platypus) Baljeet made Perry a little friend. Thanks, Baljeet. I knew we could count on you. |
Perry's entrance to his lair[]
Perry did not enter his lair, due to Buford and Baljeet paying too much attention to where Perry is. Instead, Major Monogram sends Carl in an ice-cream truck equipped with the 'escape cone', where he briefs Perry through a cherry.
Memorable Quotes[]
Phineas: Ahoy Ferb, any sign of the great white whale? Candace: You guys better not be talking about me! |
Lawrence: When we're at sea, there's no right or left, only port and starboard.
Isabella: So which side has the restroom? Lawrence: (laughing) It's not a restroom, it's— Phineas: It's called the poop deck. Lawrence: Well no, actually it's called the head. Phineas: Really? 'Cause poop deck makes much more sense. |
Lawrence: We may be here for a while.
Candace: A while?! You mean we're stranded!? That means we won't get to Jeremy's party before the sun sets! We'll be stuck here forever, eating rocks and bugs, then I'll have to marry a monkey and have monkey-kids and name them Xavier and Amanda! (She sobs) Lawrence: And we'll love them anyway. |
Major Monogram: You see, Carl, nothing distracts kids like ice cream. You need to get those 2 boys away from Agent P, so he can proceed to his mission. Carl: (whilst saluting) Aye-aye, sir! |
Buford: Gimme a double carmel fudge. (Agent P spits out his hat and goes up a chute on the ice cream truck) |
Candace: (imitating Lawrence) "Oh, Candace, go find us some food." (with normal voice) Yeah, like a quart of ice cream is gonna just drop out of the--(some strawberry ice cream falls on her head) |
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: That's right, run away Perry the Platy- (falls in washer) Oh dear! |
Candace: (dusts herself off and shouts in her brother's face) CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL FOR ONE DAY?!? |
Background Information[]
- Doofenshmirtz Institute of Evilology abbreviates to D.I.E. D.I.E. is also the pronunciation of the anagram D.E.I. (Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated).
- A wood carving of Ferb holding a pineapple can be seen in the main room of the treehouse.
- Dr. Doofenshmirtz says he finally figured out what "big laundry" meant, but in the credits of "The Lake Nose Monster" he said it was referring to laundry he needed to do.
- This is the second episode with Phineas' name in it ("The Fast and the Phineas").
- Ferb and Isabella were briefly wearing the same sailor uniforms that they wore when they were looking for Buford's pet goldfish Biff ("Voyage to the Bottom of Buford")
- Buford saying "He won't know the difference" in reference to a new platypus may be a spoof of the episode this one is paired with, "Oh, There You Are, Perry", where Phineas was able to tell the difference between Perry and all the platypuses in Danville even though the audience cannot tell the difference.
- When Candace claims that ice cream will fall out of the sky, and then it does, she seems to mimic the arguments of the farmer and his wife.
- When Candace comes up with a giant slingshot and Phineas plans on using it someday, it is a reference to "Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs To You!".
Production Information[]
- to be added
International Premieres[]
- August 13, 2009 (Disney Channel Latin America)
- June 1, 2011 (Disney XD Canada)
Errors[]
- When Isabella and Ferb are first seen, they are wearing sailor outfits. But when they are seen again and in the rest of the episode, they are in their normal clothes.
- Candace is seen wearing a watch at first, but afterwards, she is not wearing it anymore.
- Candace opens a door and then walks out of the tree house that Phineas and Ferb made to crash to the ground. Later on, Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella walk out of that same door, except this time a balcony is there. However, this may mean that they have already finished it and built a balcony on the door.
- When Perry is dumping Doofenshmirtz in the washing machine, his hat is missing, but when he is next to the monkeys that are dumping soap and clothes, his hat is back.
- It is not a good idea to raise the sail before and after you get in the water. The boat will start drifting away when you do that.
- When Doofenshmirtz falls into the giant washing machine, he is wearing a wedding dress that he fell into while riding the conveyor belt (and appears to be worn over his regular clothes), but after he falls into the washing machine he is seen in his underpants, a change that would have happened in less than a second. This, however, happens after several rapid costume changes by Perry and Doof so it could presumably be the case that all of the rest of his clothes fell off.
- Doofenshmirtz is talking with his mouth closed while inside the washing machine.
Candace has pink teeth
- After Candace says "Oh, Candace, go find us some food", Candace's lower teeth are the same color as her tongue.
- After Isabella says "Storm warning!", she, Phineas, Ferb, and Candace are absent during the shipwreck scene.
- When Ferb comes naked, he has a leaf, but after Lawrence says the boat is dangerous, the leaf isn't there. Also, when Phineas finds Ferb's clothes, you can see a little bit of Ferb's legs in them before Phineas picks it up.
- Pink lava is very rare and certainly cannot be cold or overflowing with bubbles.
- When the family comes home, Isabella is not in the car.
- When Baljeet sees the car pull up and the car door opens, leaving Candace to dash out, she, Phineas, and Ferb are clean, but when they approach Baljeet, they are dirty again.
- After the storm hits and the sloop is shipwrecked, Linda is shown to have lost her left shoe and sock in the accident. However, at the end when the family makes it back home and exits the car, Linda's shoe is back on her foot, and in the very next scene she seems to lose it again. This is probably due to the animators accidentally using a rig where Linda wasn't barefoot.
Continuity[]
- The Flynn-Fletcher family own a sloop christened the HMS Lindana as in Linda's song, I'm Lindana and I Wanna Have Fun! ("Flop Starz")
- Candace still intends to name her children Xavier and Amanda. ("The Best Lazy Day Ever")
- The activities in the full theme song still continue to try and be fulfilled, this time with giving a monkey a shower. When they give a monkey a shower, background music is played that matches its spot in the Phineas and Ferb Theme. Ferb even remarks by saying, "It had to be done."
- Dr. Doofenshmirtz finally discovered what "Big Laundry" actually meant. ("The Lake Nose Monster")
- One of the complaints Doofenshmirtz has for pelicans is "What are you, a bird or a garbage disposal?". In this episode, Phineas uses a pelican as a trash can. ("Mom's Birthday")
- Ferb uses a turtle shell as a safety helmet, like when Phineas, Ferb, and Candace used live turtles as the same. ("It's About Time!")
- The giant slingshot that Candace thinks up was used in "Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You!" to get them off the island.
Allusions[]
- The Swiss Family Robinson - The episode and its title are based on this classic novel.
- Gilligan's Island - The family goes on a three hour tour just like on Gilligan's Island. Candace's repetition of the phrase "a three-hour tour" mimics the theme song. This also foreshadows the shipwreck later in the episode.
- Moby Dick - Phineas asks Ferb if he has seen any sign of a "great white whale", which is referencing the novel Moby Dick.
- Titanic - Phineas can be seen doing a famous pose from the movie, Titanic, where Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) stands on the bow of the ship and shouts: "I'm the king of the world, woohoo!". While Phineas imitates the pose, the background music from that scene in the film briefly plays. Also once the ship is repaired, Dad says, "Women and children first", the same thing Captain Smith said in the movie and during the real disaster. ("Women and children first" is a tradition maritime emergencies.)
- Charles Ponzi - One of the three majors offered by the Doofenshmirtz Institute of Evilology is Ponzi schemes; one of the most infamous in recent history was perpetrated by Bernard Madoff. (The other two are mayhem and larceny.)
- The "warm and cozy family room" has a bird perched on a circular swing that looks like the perches from the Enchanted Tiki Room.
- Ronald McDonald Video Series - Lawrence said control in the whirlpool the same way the famous mascot said in one of the flims in his video series (the video when they went out to sea for treasure).
- Pinky and the Brain - These two also attempted to create a giant laundry operation on a tropical island, although in their case, the goal was to create a world-wide case of static cling.
- The Flintstones - When the gang was building the tree house they used a pelican's mouth as a trash can just like in The Flintstones.
- Ape Escape - Dr. Doofenshmirtz has captured monkeys that are controlled by mechanical helmets.
- Cast Away - The family wakeing up and finding themselves stranded on an island is similar to what Chuck Noland did.
- The Abominable Snow Rabbit - Buford's treatment of Perry, telling him he will "hug him and squeeze him and never let him go" is similar to how Hugo the Abominable Snowman treats Bugs and Daffy in this cartoon short. This is also the catchphrase of Elmyra Duff in the Warner Bros. cartoon Tiny Toon Adventures.
- Tarzan - The place where Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella build the dream house is very similar to the location of where Tarzan's parents built their shelter when they were shipwrecked.
Trivia[]
- Second time Ferb loses his clothes. First was in "Run Away Runway"
- Since this was paired with "Oh, There You Are, Perry," they were both about characters (Namely Phineas and Baljeet) worrying about Perry being lost.
- Second time Doofenshmirtz wears a dress. He did it for the first time in "Gaming the System".
- The clothes that Carl is taking from the laundry in his song are Monogram's common uniform and the Hawaiian shirt that he (Monogram) was wearing in "The Best Lazy Day Ever ".
- Second time when someone says "Where's Perry?" and does something with it ("Oh, There You Are, Perry")
- In addition to "Storm Warning," the Fireside Girls manual shows flag symbols for "High Sea," "Bermuda Triangle," "Pirates," "Calm Sea," "Bermuda Shorts," "Clear Sky," "Piranhas," and "New Wave."
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
- Clancy Brown as The Regurgitator ♦
- Additional Voices: Bobby Gaylor, Jared Kusnitz, Maulik Pancholy, Caroline Rhea
- ♦ designates a character that did not appear in this episode
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