"Fly On the Wall" is the first half of the 1st episode of the 4th season of the American television series Phineas and Ferb. It originally aired on Disney Channel in the United States on January 11, 2013.
Synopsis[]
Buford removes a part from a tire swing the boys are building and it accidentally shoots a ray that turns Candace into a fly. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz is suffering from evil scientist's block.
Plot[]
While Candace tries to get Stacy's help to figure out what to wear for her surprise date with Jeremy, Phineas and Ferb are trying to figure out what they're going to do after their daily project's parts didn't arrive. Buford and Isabella suggest to modify some of their old inventions, but Baljeet refutes them. Phineas decides to build something new and simple, in the spirit of summer. While the kids all try to remember how they know the song "Summer (Where Do We Begin?)", Buford inspires Phineas to build a tire swing.
Perry enters his lair and is told by Major Monogram that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is "at the shark"; Carl quickly corrects this to "at the park." Monogram sends Perry to deal with the problem, as it is much less heebie-jeebie than he thought.
hile the kids are building their Giant Tire Swing, Phineas walks away to confirm calculations with Baljeet. Buford fiddles with the controls so as to look busy, and removes a doohickey, causing the controls to emit a glowing ray. He quickly replaces the doohickey and asks Phineas what removing that piece would do; Phineas figures out it would cause the controls to fire a beam turning a person into a fly, pointing out that taking out a different part could turn the controls into a Sorbet Machine.
Meanwhile, Candace realizes that Stacy's suggestion of a hair bow doesn't look good on her, and goes to remove it, but realizes that she's been turned into a fly. She tries to get Linda's attention, but her mother just shoos her away, thinking she's just a fly. Candace persistently follows Linda and accidentally gets into the car with her, hitting the back windshield as the car pulls away.
At Danville Park, Perry comes across Doofenshmirtz having a picnic while taking some time out from his busy Tri-State Area domination schedule. Doofenshmirtz invites Perry to join him, but the cloth gives way and traps Perry in a hole. Doofenshmirtz then reveals his latest -inator: the Feed-the-Pigeons-inator. Perry is unimpressed, but Doofenshmirtz tries to rationalize it by pointing out that feeding the pigeons is prohibited in the park, and is therefore illegal. He then sighs and tells Perry that he's suffering from evil scientist's block, having hit a dry spell during a summer that feels like it's been going on for four years. He asks for Perry's help, and the platypus immediately hops out of the trap and walks away with Doofenshmirtz.
After finishing the tire swing, the kids all test it out. After the initial test with the kids inside the tire, Phineas pushes a button that dangles each of them in individual tires, hanging from the one large tire. Everyone enjoys it.
Perry puts Doofenshmirtz through a series of exercises and paintings in order to help him break out of his block, culminating in a successful -inator.
Candace is still trying to get Linda's attention in the car, so Linda rolls down the window, causing Candace to fly out of the car. She then flies throughout Danville, eventually ending up in Jeremy's room. Listening in on his phone conversation with Coltrane, she hears him say that he's taking her to the rodeo. Candace is thrilled because she now knows what to wear, but has to leave after Jeremy tries to swat her. She immediately is forced to flee again, this time from some of the Fireside Girls trying to trap her in a jar, and succeeds, coming across another fly with a human head in the process.
he tire swing ride has ended, and Isabella proclaims it "the most fun ever." They prepare to set up for another ride when Baljeet notices "a fly with orange hair." Phineas looks and realizes that it is Candace, and that Buford had removed the doohickey. Buford messes with the machine again and changes Candace into an alligator, a squirrel, a bigfoot, a praying mantis (who all have orange hair), a wheel of red cheese and a traffic cone, before she is changed back to normal. She threatens to bust them, but thanks them as well. Buford then notices a "FLY" button on the controls and pushes it, causing the tire swing to fly into the air and its supporting pole to end up in outer space. Isabella is disappointed that the fun is over, but Phineas turns the machine into a sorbet maker and offers sorbet to his friends.
Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz is thrilled that he has created his best -inator ever, and gloats to Perry that since it has no self-destruct feature, there is nothing stopping him from taking over the Tri-State Area. However, before he can finish gloating, the giant tire crushes his -inator.
While the kids are eating sorbet, Jeremy arrives in a suit, looking for Candace. She emerges dressed as a cowboy, having planned for the rodeo, but they are instead going to a restaurant pronounced "Ro-DAY-o." Candace laments that it must not be "dress like a cowboy and get your dinner free night," and the waiter confirms: those are Tuesdays.
Cast[]
- Vincent Martella as Phineas
- Ashley Tisdale as Candace
- Thomas Sangster as Ferb
- Alyson Stoner as Isabella
- Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet
- Bobby Gaylor as Buford
- Caroline Rhea as Mom
- Mitchel Musso as Jeremy
- Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Monogram
- Tyler Mann as Carl
- Dee Bradley Baker as Perry
- Martin Olson as Human Head Fly
- Diamond White as Holly
- Michaela Zee as Ginger
- Ariel Winter as Gretchen
Songs[]
Goofs[]
- Bobbi's legs are missing and the bathroom is on the right position.
- In the song, a scene pops up of a calendar on June. It folds back a month, but it shows a July calendar. It should have shown May.
- When Isabella, Baljeet and Buford start singing, for a second, one of Isabella's eyes are the same color as Baljeet's eyes.
- After "Summer (Where Do We Begin)" one of Phineas' shoes turns green.
- Isabella, Baljeet, and Buford were all absent when "Summer (Where Do We Begin?)" in Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, so they either shouldn't have had it in their memories (even if the Amnesia-inator didn't take out all of the memory from the movie), or they'd come up with the song outside of their idea, but Phineas would have remembered this. However, this could be explained if the song already existed prior to the movie.
- With the above, when Phineas says "Yes, we all know the song", Perry's eyes are suddenly open as if in shock that they'd remember his secret.
- Both Buford and Isabella mention projects neither of them were involved in. Buford mentions the Rollercoaster, but only Phineas and Ferb did that, although Isabella was a rider, and Isabella mentions the Portal to Mars, but only Phineas, Ferb and Baljeet built that. However, Buford could be mentioning the Rollercoaster in "Rollercoaster: The Musical!" and Phineas, Ferb and Baljeet had mentioned the Portal to Mars to Isabella at the end of "Unfair Science Fair".
- The world map in Jeremy’s room shows several inaccuracies:
- The Korean, Liaodong, Shandong, Malay, and Baja California Peninsulas, along with the islands of Hokkaidō, Nova Zemlya, Svalbard, Nova Scotia, and Timor are missing from the map.
- Iceland, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Madagascar are missing from the map.
- The Mediterranean, Caspian, and Baltic Seas are depicted as landmasses linked to surrounding mainlands.
- As a result, the three continents—Europe, Asia, and Africa—appear to be inexplicably connected.
- Antarctica should've been shown as a landmass throughout the southern edge of the map. However, it is only shown below South America.
- The eastern part of South America is overextended and there is also an unknown extension of landmasses in southern Africa.
- There is also an unknown landmass located in northern Canada, instead of a collection of islands.
- The eastern tip of Russia is not shown on the other side of the map, unlike most projections.
- Only the northern edge of Australia is shown, while the rest of the continent is cropped and missing.
- Flies live more than seven days.
- Perry is clean when he does a thumbs up to show that he approves of Doofenshmirtz’s painting. However, when the camera zooms out, both he and his hat are covered in paint. The grass is also dirty, even though it was clean when Doofenshmirtz finished the painting.
- When Doofenshmirtz's painting is first shown, the face and the splotches of paint around it are blue, but the next time it's shown, the face and some of the paint turn red.
Trivia[]
- The kids unintentionally reference the events from "Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension" when Buford, Baljeet, and Isabella start singing Summer (Where Do We Begin?). Phineas then says "We all know this song... I just don't know how...", confirming that they didn't have their memory of the events of that day back. Oddly enough, they sing a verse that was cut from the movie.
- Doofenshmirtz breaks the fourth wall in this episode, by saying that he feels as if he and Perry had been battling each other for four years, a nod to the fact that this was the first episode produced for Season 4, as well as the length of the series' run.
- This episode reveals that Bobbi Fabulous wears a wig.
- It is revealed that Dr. Doofenshmirtz has an uncle named Boris.
- The house that appears at the beginning of the song belongs to Buford.
- Isabella suggests building a portal to Venus. Interestingly, after the portal to Mars broke, Phineas, Ferb and Baljeet briefly reconfigured it to go to Venus.
- Candace gets turned into a fly much like what happens in The Fly. The line "Help me" from the 1958 film adaptation is also used.
- The next-to-last object Candace is transformed into resembles an opened Babybel Cheese.
- Doofenshmirtz's painting is inspired by the 1964 The Son of Man self-portrait by René Magritte, depicting the artist with an apple obscuring his head.
- Dr. Doofenshmirtz talks about getting his "Groove" back and getting his life in back in order which was a common phrase refering to this movie.
- This is the second episode to feature a character being turned into a fly. In "Picture This", Buford accidentally got mixed up with a fly in Phineas and Ferb's machine.
- This episode is the seventh time Candace spends most of the episode after being changed by an invention in the series. ("Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?", "Attack of the 50 Foot Sister", "Split Personality", "Canderemy", "Excaliferb", "Doofapus")
- Candace is seen as a praying mantis ("Candace Loses Her Head") and the Giant Floating Baby Head at one point.
- Second time Isabella sings a part of a song she did not originally sing. The first was "Pinhead Pierre Theme" in "Magic Carpet Ride".
- Third time the long run of the show is referenced. Dr. Doofenshmirtz says it feels like the summer's been going on "for, like, four years." ("The Curse of Candace", "Cranius Maximus")
- This is the 22nd episode which Perry doesn't battle Doofenshmirtz. ("Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face!", "Traffic Cam Caper", "Put That Putter Away", "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein", "Oil on Candace", "Unfair Science Fair Redux (Another Story)", "Tip of the Day", "Thaddeus and Thor", "Oh, There You Are, Perry", "Undercover Carl", "I Was a Middle Aged Robot", "Nerds of a Feather", "Split Personality", "Run, Candace, Run", "Candace Disconnected", "Skiddley Whiffers", "Bullseye!", "The Doonkelberry Imperative", "Meapless in Seattle", "Agent Doof" "Norm Unleashed")
- Second time someone says "Go back two". ("Perry the Actorpus")
- The fly with a human head that Candace meets is a caricature of writer Martin Olson, who also provides his voice.
- If Dr. Doofenshmirtz wanted a good idea for something evil, but made a Bad Idea-inator for it instead of a Good Idea-inator because something with "good" in it seemed counterproductive to him, then he should have made an Evil Idea-inator since that would be much more effective in giving him a good idea for an evil plot than something that gave him a bad idea for an evil plot, since feeding the pigeons turned out to be a bad idea for an evil plot.
International premieres[]
- March 2, 2013 (Disney XD Canada)
- April 5, 2013 (Disney Channel Israel)
- April 12, 2013 (Disney Channel Scandinavia)
- April 17, 2013 (Disney XD UK)
- April 18, 2013 (Disney XD Poland)
- April 28, 2013 (Disney XD Spain)
- May 4, 2013 (Disney Channel Portugal)
- May 22, 2013 (Disney Channel Brazil and Latin America)
- May 25, 2013 (Disney Channel Bulgaria, Czech, Greece, Hungary, Middle East, Poland, South Africa, Romana)
- June 3, 2013 (Disney Channel Asia)
- June 16, 2013 (Disney XD Latin America)
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