#Voyage to the Bottom of Buford

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There are too many episodes to seed. Please help me out (15)

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Okay someone on a discord i;m one asked for a quick list of phineas and ferb episodes

Rollercoaster

Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror

Flop Starz

Raging Bully

The Magnificent Few

S'Winter

I Scream You Scream

It’s about time

Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together

Tree To Get Ready

Greece Lightning

The Ballad of Badbeard

Crack That Whip

Voyage To The Bottom Of Buford

Put That Putter Away

Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?

One Good Scare Ought to Do It

Hail Doofania!

Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!

Unfair Science Fair and Unfair Science Fair: Redux

Tip of the Day

Elementary My Dear Stacy

The Chronicles of Meap

Oh, There You Are, Perry

Hide and Seek

Vanessassary Roughness

No More Bunny Business

Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo

Isabella and the Temple of Sap

The Bully Code

Finding Mary McGuffin

Nerdy Dancin

What Do It Do?

Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!

I Was a Middle-Aged Robot

Undercover Carl

Hip Hip Parade

Phineas and Ferb-Busters!

Robot Rodeo

The Beak

She’s the mayor

Phineas and Ferb Summer Belongs to You!

Nerds of a Feather

Wizard of odd

Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Max Modem!

Rollercoaster: The Musical!

Make Play

Canderemy

Phineas and Ferb Interrupted

A Real Boy

Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension

Skiddley Whiffers

My Fair Goalie

Bullseye!

That's the Spirit

Escape From Phineas Tower

A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas

Monster from the Id

Bully Bromance Breakup

Meapless in Seattle

Buford Confidential

Agent Doof

Minor Monogram

Sipping With the Enemy

Where's Perry?

This Is Your Backstory

Happy New Year!

Sidetracked

Where’s pinky

Happy birthday isabella

Phineas and ferb mission marvel

Druselsteinoween

Phineas and Ferb Save Summer

The return of rogue rabbit

The Klimpaloon Ultimatum

Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars

The Inator Method

Night of the Living Pharmacists

Doof 101

Act your age

Last Day of Summer

Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe

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Buford has a fondness for fish (which stems from his love for his pet goldfish, Biff).

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104 Days of Phineas and Ferb GIFs: Day 15

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Phineas and Ferb, S1E19: Boyfriend from 27,000 BC/Voyage to the Bottom of Buford

Hello, and welcome to the Watchathon, a blog where I watch an episode of TV every weekday, with a blog post where I write down my thoughts afterwards.

And now, here’s my thoughts on Season 1, Episode 1 of Phineas and Ferb: Boyfriend from 27,000 BC/Voyage to the Bottom of Buford!

Boyfriend from 27,000 BC

Y’know, given the setup with Jeremy going to the costume party as a caveman, Phineas and Ferb thawing out Conk from the glacier, Conk loving sandwiches and Candace making a whole platter of them, I was afraid that the inevitable comedic misunderstanding would last for most of the episode and overstay its welcome. But it only ended up lasting a couple minutes (at most), which I am very glad about.

Dan Povenmire has said that this is his least favorite episode due to feeling flat, lacking in good jokes and lacking a song. I can see his point, but I think it had a few really funny jokes, even if not as many as other episodes do. And I can’t really think of a good place to put in a song, not without cutting out scenes important to the episode’s story.

Voyage to the Bottom of Buford

This is the first episode that really develops Buford’s character beyond just being the bully. It’s here that we see Buford show a more sensitive side, crying over losing his goldfish and offering hugs to Phineas and Ferb. 

Buford is a serious contender for my favorite character in Phineas and Ferb, and it’s because of moments like this where he shows his depth beyond just being a standard cartoon dumb muscle bully. Much as Buford puts on the facade of being a tough guy with “the IQ of gum” as the song He’s A Bully puts it, he actually does have a softer side to him and he’ll later be shown to be as much of an intellectual as Baljeet if not more, not to mention (starting with this episode) being a genuine friend to Phineas, Ferb and the others.

And it’s not that he’ll ever stop being the bully entirely, particularly towards Baljeet. But he does become nicer, and it all starts here, with Phineas, Ferb and friends helping Buford to find his precious goldfish pal.

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Fear™

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“I can't believe how fast we put this together.”

“Yes. Usually takes us at least a montage.”

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If you’ll let me be self indulgent for a minute: i like buford x phineas

Like im not obsessed but i think its cute and the idea that phineas has a crush on buford makes a weird amount of sense

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buford is so so dear to me

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Voyage to the Bottom of Buford vs. Atlantis

Voyage to the Bottom of Buford

Summary: After Buford loses his goldfish, Phineas and Ferb help him search for it. An accidental good deed causes Dr. Doofenshmirtz endless trouble.

Personal highlights: Biff the goldfish, Fish Out of Water song, Ferb can speak to dolphins

Atlantis

Summary: During a trip to the beach, Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, and Irving try to find the lost city of Atlantis in the bottom of the ocean. Candace and Linda enter a sandcastle building contest in which Jeremy is the judge. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz creates an army of plants.

Personal highlights: the evil plants

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Day Five, Part 4: IMO the Most Improved Character Development in AYA

As we begin today's part of the mini-series, you may be able to see from the image above who in my opinion has the most improved character development in "Act Your Age". Because of this, I need to give a short background into what my thoughts about Buford Van Stomm were in the majority of the series to better understand how they changed once I watched AYA…

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There are a few different parts that we could talk about with Buford's character in Phineas & Ferb, but to save time I'm only going to mention 2-3 really quickly to give you a general idea of my thoughts about him.

--- My primary thoughts about Buford doesn't have so much to do with his character personality, but rather a disdain that I have for the comedic bullying trope in general. P&F as a show isn't the first, nor will it be the last, to try to turn bullying into something more light hearted and/or comedic, but it just isn't for me. I felt too many times that there were moments of Buford bullying Baljeet that felt unnecessary, not very funny, and didn't add anything meaningful to the episode. While ultimately the Buford/Baljeet thread throughout the show did lead to some very positive and comedic moments, like in "Bully Bromance Breakup", I still don't think the positives and the comedy outweighs the possible negative connotation that is the very real problem of bullying/mocking of others in school systems around the world.

--- My secondary thoughts about Buford do go more into his character personality in the show, which did have a general rudeness/toughness about him that attributed to his bully persona. We also know from "Voyage to the Bottom of Buford" that he was likely bullied himself as a young child, and it took him nearly losing his fish friend Biff to a bully for him to "do what had to be done", and from then on out he himself became the bully. In addition, while this was left unmentioned in the show, there are those including myself who believe that Buford in general didn't have the best of family upbringings, which likely played a part in the toughness his character has.

However, for all the negatives, there are also several positive traits about Buford that would slip out from time to time, particularly as the series goes along. He was loyal and protective of his friends, to the point of even putting his body on the line as we saw in "Night of the Living Pharmacists". He understands the emotions of love, to the point of learning French for the sole purpose of being able to talk to a girl he fell in love with on a past trip to France (Buford Confidential). And despite the times where he would make fun of or doubt the ideas Phineas had, at the end of the day he was supportive and having fun with the rest of the gang, and helped reach the goals set (which is particularly present in "Summer Belongs to You!").

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Which brings us to Buford's character development in Act Your Age, and here is where I am so excited to mention some things today that really stand out to me about how him in the episode.

--- Right off the bat, his character design diffierence stands out. Gone is the stocky, overweight, skull-shirt wearing kid with the flat cut on his noggin, in comes a trimmed up, tall, well dressed young man with a cool wavy haircut (and does he have a ponytail?). If you were to tell me that he played sports in High School I would not be surprised. I know that some people don't like his character design in AYA because of how different it is, however when you combine his change in demeanor and attitude with how he looks, I am personally a big fan.

--- Speaking of his change in demeanor and attitude, that was the next biggest thing that stood out to me. AYA Buford is significantly calmer, more relaxed, and looks and sounds like someone who has found a purpose in life. The best example of this comes in his responses to Baljeet calling his future plans for film school "pretentious", to which Buford deadpans replies with a "Thank you".🤣🤣🤣

I personally find Buford's changes in AYA, both physically and in his personality, to be extremely cool to see, and taking it from an "overly-realistic" point of view, to be able to go through whatever struggles he had early on in his life, come through his bullying phase, and turn into a young man that looks to be in control of what he wants to do with his future, is in a way quite inspirational.

--- One other small point I want to want to mention here at the end of today's mini-series post, is that even though he originally didn't want to wear the Cupid costume that Baljeet produced from behind his back in the kitchen scene, at the end when Phineas and Isabella are united we see Buford having it on. It goes to show that even though he was likely quite embarrassed from when he wore it during his childhood, he in the end was willing to go through that embarrassment again if it meant helping two of his best friends finally get together. I personally think that was a really cool (although yes quite embarrassing and funny) thing to see.

While Buford's character in Act Your Age wasn't perfect (he inexplicably joined in with Baljeet to tell Phineas about Isabella's huge crush on him, please read my post from yesterday if you want to hear my full thoughts on that🙄), the positive changes in his life and in his character were things that I greatly appreciated, and turned him from a character I personally didn't care for much in the show, to be someone I could kind of relate to in a way, and was a major bright spot in AYA, without a doubt.

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Thank you so much for reading! Today was a lot of fun, and tomorrow we are gonna have another awesome subject to talk about, going through one of the greatest songs the makers of Phineas & Ferb ever created🧡💗, and that's saying A LOT considering the extensive list of awesome songs produced.

Until then, God Bless, and Carpe Diem!

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Phineas dislikes bullying on the basis that it’s annoying (but not as annoying as uncontrollable crying).

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Today in Disney Channel History...

Phineas and Ferb season 1, episode 19A “Boyfriend From 27,000 B.C.” and season 1, episode 19B “Voyage to the Bottom of Buford” premiered on Disney Channel (7 June, 2008)

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Phineas and ferb toddler headcanons

Phineas and ferb met when they were 3 but acually became brothers when they were 4

Phineas was probably really talkative and cheery around Ferb when they first met and ferb just sitts there silently listening like :/

Phineas was probably the one to introduce Ferb to Isabella, Baljeet and Buford

Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Baljeet and Buford all knew each other as toddlers (and phineas probably knew Buford and Isabella since they were babies)

Baljeet just moved to the US when they were all toddlers

Phineas, Ferb and the rest of the gang help teach Baljeet English

Baljeet drank juiceboxs a lot and kept on saying juicebox whenever they asked him something cause he doesn’t know much English (this one is kinda random and weird but I think it’s cute, ok?)

Isabella probably didn’t have a crush on Phineas back then but they were still really cute best friends

Buford didn’t bully Baljeet and had no interest in bullying him cause we learn in “Voyage to the Bottom of Buford” he didn’t become a bully till later on.

Everybody sometimes lose hope on Baljeet when they try to help him with his English, but Phineas, being his optimistic self, doesn’t lose hope

Isabella was probably born in Mexico or somewhere in South America and moved to Danville when she was an infant and she also knows Spanish

Isabella’s mom probably pinchs everybody’s cheeks and always invites everybody to eat cause she thinks they’re skinny XD

Ferb likes Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro’s food and he likes coming over to Isabella’s house just to eat her food

Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro likes Ferb cause he’s the biggest fan of her food lmao

Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro probably compares Isa to everybody else sorry Isa >:3

Buford probably had Biff since he was little (I know fish can’t live that long but Phineas and Ferb probably build some device to keep Biff alive ,idk really)

The five of them together are BIG trouble

At phineas’s or ferb’s birthday they all probably make a HUGE mess by throwing cake everywhere and stuff like that

And then at the end of the birthday parties Linda and Lawrence just stand there, speechless

There are probably a lot of pictures of them doing group hugs cause the parents think it’s the cutest thing in the world

Isabella was still sassy just like she was in CATU

Isabella and Bufords dynamics were still the same back then

Phineas was usually the one to break Buford’s and Isabella’s fights

Candace and Isabella are like sisters and Candace is always giving advice to her

Ferb likes Baljeet and they relate to each other cause they both just moved to Danville from different countries

Candace still wants to bust the boys cause even at that age they made unbelievable stuff

When Candace meets Ferb she is sorta just like “cool, whatever” but Phineas tries to get them closer together

Candace doesn’t like Perry when they first get him (She probably wanted a bunny or whatever) but sometimes they get along

Overall everybody is really cute and Baljeet likes juice

(This is sorta like a sequel to my post where I asked everyone to post their headcanons hehehehe)