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Another wonderful show of just how great and professional Disney+ is and how much they care about their intellectual properties!!! :D

I mean... This summary is literally just. Wrong. Yeah, they stop a hijacked train. But Perry and Lyla are NOT former partners! They met once for like, 5 minutes, several months ago when Perry happened to cross the border into Canada. I actually WOULD dig an episode where it turns out that Perry used to have a partner and has to team up with them again, but that is NOT what this episode is! He's just working with a Canadian who happens to have a similar job to him in this episode. It's a teamwork where Perry doesn't really want it episode. So nice job Disney+!

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I'm just wondering what the general consensus on this is, if there is one.

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I keep seeing parallels between Perry the Platypus and Mike Yates..... And it makes me want to put Perry into the torment nexus that is Yates' life lol

>.> <.<

Should I put Perry into the torment nexus...?

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I'm absolutely losing my mind right now!!!! Just... FUCK! Is Perry the Platypus literally just Mike Yates boiled down into a platypus!???????

Doing espionage work lower than his paygrade because their organization doesn't have enough agents/money to send anyone else? Always getting captured, tied, and beaten up by the baddie? Always somehow able to get out of the traps and predicament he's in and live to fight another day? Can absolutely kick ass if he needs to? Sassy? Sometimes doesn't take his job as seriously as he should? Speculated to be gay af? An absolute lad!??? Fuck do I feel like I'm being called out for my taste in favorite characters again......... >.>

But yeah... Obviously, they aren't 1 to 1, but I keep thinking of and finding parallels between these two blorbos of mine and just..... FUCK!!!

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Now that my brain has made a connection between OWCA and UNIT..... I... I think that I could write an entire backstory fic for Major Monogram and how OWCA works and why it is the way it is and just like... Huh. I don't know how to feel about that......

Is that a story idea people would be interested in seeing explored...?

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I... Is OWCA (Phineas and Ferb) supposed to be like... Kid's show animal UNIT (Doctor Who).....???? This... This explains a lot actually... If I just imagine that OWCA was founded and its highearchy operates in a very similar capacity to UNIT, suddenly everything about it makes sense! I understand how and why all of it works!!!

Swampy! Are you a Third Doctor era fan? I'm smelling it on you, Jeff!

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So I just watched Troy Story (the Phineas and Ferb episode) for the first time and just... Buford decided that he wanted to play Achilles... And did... Did Buford decide just to claim Ferb to be his Patroclus!??????? Buford! That isn't even subtle!!! Either that or maybe Buford snagged Ferb to be his Odysseus... But like... It tracks WAAAAAAAY more for Buford to have grabbed Ferb to be his Patroclus!!!

Another win for Buford/Ferb shippers I suppose!

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..................... Has anyone ever tried to do Phineas and Ferb Kingdom Hearts before...? Because honestly, I think that would be fun!!!

Honestly, Kingdom Hearts with many/any/most of the animated Disney TV shows could/would be a lot of fun, but my brain is on Phineas and Ferb right now, dammit, and I want to see it!!!!!

Just saying...... Perry occupies the same "pure of heart, swole as fuck" quadrant that Sora occupies!!! Perry would make a SCARY Nobody if his heart got yoinked! And right now, I just want to see Perry's heart get yoinked!

So yeah... Phineas and Ferb and Kingdom Hearts crossover anyone...?

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So... GREAT and TERRIBLE idea! What if Doofenshmirtz ends up inventing time travel specifically because of his return to evil and it actually, genuinely messing up his relationship to Perry the Platypus in the long-term.

Like... The idea of Heinz inventing time travel because he's like... Destined to is pretty lame for him imo. So here's the two biggest reasons in my mind for why he would actually decide to invent time travel within canon! A) A deeply silly, stupid reason. (Aka Rule of Funny, which typically rules over Phineas and Ferb.) Or B) He actually genuinely fucked something up real bad- Something that took him YEARS to realize that he fucked up and that can't be easialy fixed or resolved with a simple converstation.

The first one is entirely possible and is very likely what the show will actually eventually go for. But the latter... Oooooh, is it juicy and RIFE with angst potential!!! But additionally, if the time travel in Milo Murphy's Law established anything, it's that NOTHING about the future is set in stone! The time agency that Dakota and Cavendish worked for specifically exists to purposefully try to change things in the past to effect the future- to fix the past to make a better future (or present from their perspective). And that MO would actually track decently well if that's what their founder (whomst we know is Dr. D) invented time travel for! But what could Doof fuck up SO badly that would necessitate the invention of time travel to repair? Well... What about a relationship that he irrepairably messed up and couldn't fix no matter how much he tried? What if he messed up his relationship with Perry so badly that the only way he could fix it was through time travel?

As I pointed out in my previous post, Perry has many reasons to be legitimately mad at Heinz for returning to evil! And if Perry is genuinely hurt and upset over Doof's return to evil, it tracks that over time, Perry may decide to push himself further and further away from Doofenshmirtz. Make new friends. Prioritize other responsibilities in his life. Perry wants to support Heinz' turn to good! But it would be self-destructive of Perry to try to help a person to be good who only wants to do evil. That would not be a healthy relationship for Perry to continue to have! So Doof decides to be evil, and while it may still be Perry's job to stop him, Perry lets the two of them drift apart. If Heinz wants to continue hurting himself and others by being evil, Perry will let him. But he won't just stand by and watch it happen- Not to a dear and important friend of his at least. This is a choice that Doofenshmirtz made himself! Perry can't change that for him. But Perry can choose to stop being friends with him.

By returning to evil, Heinz has betrayed Perry's trust and faith in him. Doofenshmirtz proved that Perry was wrong and that he shouldn't have tried to help Heinz be better. And Perry can't associate himself with someone who will return to evil at a whim and who has no interest in trying to be better. So Perry lets it be, and lets Doofenshmirtz go. But by the time Doof comes to his senses and realizes how badly he hurt Perry and that he can't fix this with a mere apology, something like a decade has passed. And Doofenshmirtz regrets all of it. He regrets ever having dabbled in evil again. And the only way he can fix it is to go back and undo all of that mistrust and pain he caused Perry. So he invents time travel to go back in time and fix all of the mistakes he made. To do good instead of evil! And in the process, without ever meaning to, ends up inventing the future that Dakota and Cavendish come from. All to apologize to a friend that he so badly hurt and to make up for all the wrongs that he did as he tried to figure that out.

Like... I genuinely think that it would be a sweet narrative to happen, and that it would be oddly thematically resonant with "Last Day of Summer" and everything that was going on in Milo Murphy's Law. You know... Not to mention the ANGSSSST!!!!!!!

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I’d be pissed too if I spent thousands of dollars on my best friend turning good just for him to go back to being evil!! 😭 (this is coming from a queer platonic perryshmirtz fan as well)

I mean, entirely fair! Though I have doubts that either of us will ever have to confront such a situation. :p

Also, for the record, I don't really ship Perryshmirtz. If I must perceive their relationship as one beyond familial or friendly dimensions, I'd rather it be queerplatonic, but I don't really ship it these days. I used to ship it back when I was in middle school, but I'm now literally twice the age I was back then.

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So I keep seeing people (mainly Perryshmirtz shippers) saying that given the development and growth of Perry and Doofenshmirtz's relationship, that in this new season of the show, Perry is being too rough and mean to Heinz and that Perry is acting too impersonal towards him. I haven't seen all of the episodes available of the new season yet, so maybe he ends up crossing a line, but personally I think that it is entirely in character and justified for Perry to be acting less personable and more aggressive towards Doofenshmirtz in this new season. If Perry is indeed acting more violently than might be strictly warranted towards Heinz in this new season, have you considered that it might be because Perry is rightfully mad at him for returning to evil?

For people who have only watched Phineas and Ferb, Doof returning to evil and Perry returning to stop him might seem like a perfectly normal, natural thing. But the thing is, it's not like nothing has been happening in between seasons. Dan Povenmire has already said that Milo Murphy's Law happened in between these two summers, and Doofenshmirtz was very much present for the events of that series! (To a sometimes intrusive degree, in my opinion.) And Milo Murphy's Law perfectly lays out reasons for why Perry would get legitimately angry at and disappointed in Heinz for returning to evil!

Because in between seasons, Perry has been actively supporting Heinz' turn to good! First by being Heinz' mentor as an animal agent at OWCA. And second, by unflinchingly supporting Doofenshmirtz future endeavors in inventing time travel!

Perry is Heinz's first and firmest believer in his capacity to do good!!! Perry just spent a lion's share of the past year taking time out of his day to check in on Heinz both on and off the clock to make sure that he was doing alright and staying on the path of good- Investing his own time, safety, and even money to make sure that Doof was doing okay! Have you ever wondered what Perry does with his OWCA paycheck? In Milo Murphy's Law, we see that he literally uses it to invest in Doofenshmirtz' future!!!!! No one believes in Heinz's capacity to do good more than Perry!!!

And what does Doofenshmirtz do after Perry has done SO much for him...? Literally the next summer, Heinz returns to evil as if nothing happened! Like, we know that he doesn't have the same kind of malicious intent that he had the summer before, and he isn't truly evil. (See the shopping cart scene.) But just because Heinz has the capacity to do good doesn't mean that he's stopped having the capacity to do great evil still!!! Doof returns to evil, and the first thing he does is literally vaporize a member of Perry's family (albeit accidently), and then deliberately uses said human being that he vaporized to create a Tri-State Area conquering storm!!!!! An action that could have easily killed or harmed people, ESPECIALLY Linda, who I must remind you IS A MEMBER OF PERRY'S FAMILY!

Perry wants Heinz to be and do good things! Perry wants to be on Doofenshmirtz's side! Perry has been nothing but patient, helpful, and supportive for Heinz through all of this! So Doof returning to evil HAS to sting for Perry! Hell, since we know that Perry has invested actual money in Doofenshmirtz's turn to good, is Perry now financially complicit in Heinz' evil actions!??? Did Perry's own money end up going into the machine that literally vaporized Linda!??????

Like... If we were to take doing evil as a metaphor for other self-sabotauging and self-destructive actions, this would be like Perry being the most kind, helpful friend in supporting Heinz through his like... I dunno... Deeply harmful drug problem, only for Heinz to decide to start doing a summer of cocaine after 9 months of being sober, and the first thing he does as part of this summer of cocaine is to punch Perry's sister in the face.

Like, yeah! When no one thought that Heinz could change or be better, Perry stood by and did everything that he could to help Heinz! (You know. Within reason and wouldn't come at the cost of himself.) And then Heinz just went back to do the very thing that Perry was helping him to not do! Heinz betrayed Perry's trust in him. So like... Yeah! After everything, Perry has a bit of a right to be mad at Heinz! And if this is what Heinz wants to do, for Perry's own sake, he had better put down some boundaries! If Heinz wants to be evil again, that's fine, but Perry won't be playing nice with him anymore! If he does something evil, no leniency, Perry will have to firmly put those actions down because that's his job. If Heinz is evil, they can't be friends. If Heinz wants to be nemeses with Perry again, then Perry will play the part. After everything that Perry did for Heinz, this is entirely fair and warranted! Because unlike a certain other doomed Dwampyverse pairing, Perry isn't a pushover and wouldn't take this kind of treatment laying down!

So Perry being less personable and more violent towards Doof after his return to evil? Understandable! Fair! Warranted! Good! It's what they both deserve!

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Hmmmmmmmmm... I guess that Doofenshmirtz is supposed to invent time travel in ~2027 according to Milo Murphy's Law...? So two more years before Heinz invents time travel...? Fair enough. :p

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So I was watching Fungus Among Us today with my sister, and they STRONGLY imply that Milo Murphy's Law takes place in 2015... So does that mean that Phineas and Ferb now definitively takes place in 2015-2016...???

Also, I don't know who specifically between Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh was hyperfixating on Doctor Who at the time, but it DEFINITELY shows. "Missing pilot episode" indeed... I see your nerdiness, people who worked on Milo Murphy's Law! And the nerdier I get, the easier it is for me to see!

Also also, Milo Murphy's Law somehow managing to make an episode that can fit into Among Us memes back in 2017. Impressive. You guys keep hitting, not missing, don't you?

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I feel like Doofenshmirtz must've gotten his memories and mind brain-blasted a few times over the past year between seasons 4 and 5. Like... You don't know anything about Perry's life outside of you? My guy... According to the OWCA Files, you know where Perry lives!!!!! You were aware of the host family program in that episode/special, so I would think that what Perry does in his time off would be decently clear to you at this point... And if you REALLY wanted to know, you technically could just visit him at home...

But Doof knowing where Perry lives could be genuinely troublesome for Perry and OWCA in the long-run, so I think it would perhaps be for the best/entirely understandable if they just wiped that and a few other things from Heinz' brain over the course of the last year. :p

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I... Does anyone out there actually explore the Perryshmirtz relationship from Perry's perspective as an asexual being...? Because like... Doofenshmirtz having a blatant one-sided crush on Perry, while Perry keeps it strictly professional and is largely uninterested is far funnier than them actually being in a relationship, right? Like, Dwampyverse already has a few "can you believe this human person is dating a xyz!??" jokes in it, but "Doofenshmirtz is an absolute freak who is in love with a platypus who is a) Not interested and b) Is WAAAAAY out of his league" is a different kind of and is a MUCH funnier joke, right!???? And rule of funny is law in a show like Phineas and Ferb!

Just saying... Can't Perryshmirtz shippers and asexuals who are absolutely STARVED for representation live in harmony...? Please? Please let us aces have Perry... We don't ask for much, but can't we have just our one special little platy-guy?

I promise that one-sided crushes and relationships are plenty rife for drama, sillies, and angst if you want it! And it's not like Phineas and Ferb is leaving you starving for silly yaoi shipping dynamics! (And trust us. Us aces are STARVED for ace representation of any kind!)

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So..... I wonder... Would Pinky technically outrank Perry at OWCA...? Because in terms of commissioned military officer rankings, Major isn't actually that high. Meanwhile, Pinky operates under an Admiral! And Admirals are basically the Navy equivalent to Generals! They both lead whole armies and fleets of soldiers! Just saying. Wanda vastly outranks Francis! But Perry answers to Monogram while Pinky answers to Acronym...

Also I feel so proud of Carl for one day getting to match or outrank Major Monogram! ... What does confuse me, however, is that apparently Carl raised through Navy/Coast Guard ranks where Monogram could be in many of the branches, but he is certainly NOT in the Navy or Coast Guard, if his rank is to be believed... But yeah! In the US military, Commander (which Carl will apparently become) is exclusive to Navy and Coast Guard rankings. But the equivalent to a Major in the Navy is Lieutenant Commander. There aren't Majors in the Navy or Coast Guard. Shrugs. Odd, but weirder things can happen! :p

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So here's a somewhat fucked up thought.... What if Heinz Doofenshmirtz is unable to vote?

I mean, obviously his brother, Roger, is able to vote in the United States, and even got himself a mayoralship. But can Heinz vote...?

Because here's my logic. Can Perry the Platypus vote? If he can't, is it because he's an animal? Or is he just not legally old enough to vote, even though he's an adult platypus? Perry's like... 5-6 years old. Adult for a Platypus, but has to wait another like 12 or so years to be able to be a legally adult human and meet the minimum age requirement to vote. Obviously in our real life, animals can't vote. But clearly, Perry has the mental and physical capability to be able to vote. He is, in essence, just a small platypus-shaped man after all. It's kinda unfair for him and other animal agents who don't have even close to the lifespan of an average human to have to wait until they're 18 to vote. But if animals can vote, how do you decide on ages to be able to vote? All animals age differently, after all! Not to mention how the vast majority of animals in the PnF universe aren't sapient enough to vote regardless! So it's entirely possible that to avoid this issue, fully sapient animals are universally considered second-class citizens and are therefore unable to vote.

.......... But then Heinz is legally considered an ocelot...........

What rights does Heinz get to enjoy because of his legal status as an ocelot...? Or because he's legally considered an ocelot, are Heinz' rights restricted? Is Heinz a second-class citizen!??? Not because he's an immigrant or anything like that, but because he's legally considered to be a South American wildcat...!??!?!??