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Canderemy

• The ending gives us this gem:
  Stacy: "By the way, the best part was when you used him as a table. BUSTED!"

Last Train to Bustville

• Candace dismantling almost the entire train to provide enough fuel for it to keep going up the mountain.

Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!

• Candace decides to for once really fight against her Cosmic Play Thing fate and performs quite the impressive stunts to preserve the DVD that contains all the proof she will ever need for all of P&F's projects. We even have a kid asking her for an autograph after all of that. Bonus points because of what happened next, but you should read the moment's heartwarming entry for further information.
• The epic Bait-and-Switch in the way Doofenshmirtz's machine comes into play with the A plot.

The Belly of the Beast

• Candace taking charge after the captain is "eaten" by the mechanical shark and actually succeeding in towing the shark to shore (granted, assisted by intense waves).
  Candace: I've got a date with destiny, and it ain't gonna end with a kiss!

Bad Hair Day

• Mrs. Johnson being a crack shot with the tranquilizer gun after just reading the instruction manual.
• A small one, but Doofenshmirtz predicting exactly how many seconds it would take for him to fall unconscious with perfect accuracy.
• Candace effortlessly scaling the museum is pretty impressive.

Meatloaf Surprise

• Perry setting up his trap escape even before it becomes obvious where Doofenshmirtz is going to aim with his -inator.

Phineas and Ferb Interrupted

• The boys get hit with a "dull-and-boring-inator" and become just that, and it's actually sort of depressing to watch (all Phineas wants to talk about is grass growing, the weather, and plain oatmeal...) Meanwhile, Perry the Platypus attempts to rewire the -inator to make it work in reverse. Then he starts shooting it off, and of course a casual viewer would expect it to eventually hit Phineas and Ferb and bring them back to normal. But Phineas and Ferb are far above a simple fix like that, and when Candace is in trouble, they snap out of it all by themselves and instantly create something to rescue her.
  Buford: I still think we should get a ladder.
  Phineas: (blank stare) No... that would be... boring. Wait a minute... I know what we should have done today!

Mommy Can You Hear Me?

• The epic piece of utter Mind Screw at the end. You might have to play it back. Several times. Parental Bonus at its absolute finest.

Skiddley Whiffers

• Doofenshmirtz dousing himself in honey to draw a swarm of angry bees away from Vanessa and her friends, all of whom were allergic to bees. And this after it had been established that a bee sting (followed by a string of other hilarious traumas) was the worst memory he had of camping.
  "YOU LEAVE MY BABY GIRL ALONE!"

My Fair Goalie

• Jeremy finally catching on and messing with Candace's head. He gets some grade-A snarking in before she decides 'To heck with it' and abandons her latest ploy to impress him. Yes, Jeremy just got one of these.
• Even if it missed, there's Ferb's impressive kick to his cousin's goal post. Also, even with his "curse" and all, he was still directly responsible for all but one of the other goals his team scored. The one exception was awesome as well, we have Ferb busting out some insane moves before passing the ball to Phineas, who uses the shape of his head to make the goal.
• Lawrence, of all people, revealing that all this time he had been letting Adrian win their various competitions on purpose to make him happy. And just as it looks as though he's actually about to lose their game of "Keepy-Uppy" legitimately when he slips and sends the ball flying straight up in the air, he just gets up, gives a short and extremely calm speech about how one shouldn't jump to conclusions so quickly, then intercepts the ball before it hits the ground and really gets into the game (which he quickly turns into his victory dance). At least we know where Ferb gets his modesty and Minor In Asskicking now.

Bullseye!

• Doof wins the Mechanical Mom competition in one shot. Specially because Rodney earlier helped establish that it was very easy to fail that competition.
  Doofenshmirtz: I am getting married again!
  • Made even more awesome when you remember his relationship with his real mom. It almost comes off as a symbolic The Dog Bites Back moment.
• Evil Lawrence, whose evil stare is so awesome we aren't even allowed to see it.

That's the Spirit

• At the episode's climax, a pumpkin-headed ghost is stalking toward the kids and everybody - Phineas and Ferb included - are clearly terrified of it. They go on to realize that 'hey, something doesn't match up here' and go from scared to determined (or possibly curious) within seconds of this realization. Just to drive the point home, Ferb picks up a nearby 'skull' and pitches it at the ghost, breaking it and revealing it to be a robot in one hit.
  Phineas: Wait a minute, if you're a ghost and you have a pumpkin on your head, what does that make you when you were alive?
  Ferb: The probability of a human-vegetable hybrid is exceedingly remote.
• One for the pumpkin head “ghost.” His initial appearance is so startling that when he asks “Aren’t you a little young to be hunting ghosts?” everyone (including Phineas) screams “Yes! Yes, we are!” and takes off.
• A minor one for Doofenshmirtz. While accidental and uncontrollable, he turned himself into a cow/human hybrid. He also has enough presence of mind to restrain himself and warn Perry before both transformations.

Escape from Phineas Tower

• Phineas and Ferb have a lot of these after the computer goes nuts courtesy of Doof's invention of the week, specially at the end, when they finally defeat it with a logic bomb of sorts. In three seasons, they've attained such a high level of awesome that they now have to build an AI more intelligent than them to trap them repeatedly and possibly kill them in order to alleviate their boredom. That is awesome.
• After the boys trick the tower into trapping the whole galaxy, Ferb gets the following understated Badass Boast:
  Phineas: Enough elbow room for you?
  Ferb: Well, for today...

A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas

• Perry makes putting up Christmas decorations look badass.

Tri-Stone Area

• One for the creators - even with every character speaking caveman gibberish, the Once an Episode moments and series in-jokes come through loud and clear. (It helped that pretty much everything was lampshaded to heck and back, often by the creators themselves.)
• Apply some Fridge Brilliance: if stone-age Phinabunk and Gerb were able to invent the wheel, doesn't that imply that someday, Phineas and Ferb are going to invent something that'll change the world just as much? These two boys are a walking technological singularity.
  • Well, they have been seen working on functional cold fusion...

Doof Dynasty

• Alternate Buford and Baljeet defeat dozens of castle guards in combat. Worthy of note is that Baljeet was fighting without a weapon.
• Alternate Phineas and Ferb dodging Doofus's booby traps. Unfortunately, both this and Buford and Baljeet's moment happened largely offscreen.
• During the training montage, Baljeet karate chops a wooden plank... and completely fails to damage it. However, he does succeed in completely disintegrating the cinder blocks supporting the plank.
• It's VERY subtle, but Candace follows the technology-using Phineas and Ferb up the Unclimbable Mountain of Unclimbable-ness completely unassisted. Twice, actually.
• The gang beating up Doofenshmirtz's dragon with a giant terracotta warrior and Perry coming out of his retirement for a Big Damn Heroes moment afterward.

Excaliferb

• The "Epic Monster Battle". The most METAL thing you will ever see on a Disney show aimed at kids.

Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon

• Perry's Big Entrance. Not to mention foiling Doofenshmirtz with his fez.
  Doofenshmirtz: Perry the Platypus, you totally one-upped my entrance!
• "Or we could hit it with a rock."

Gi-Ants

• Candace's demands accelerate the development of the ant society so quickly that they soon become fully sapient spacefarers.

The Remains of the Platypus

• How Perry snaps out of being turned into Doof's servant. He wrote a reminder to himself on his chest right before he was brainwashed that he would see when he looked in a mirror. It works.
  • Carl also deserves credit there for spilling juice on Perry's suit, causing him to go change and look in the mirror. It was unintentional, but Carl of all people got Perry out of that mess.

Perry The Actorpus

• Sergei the Snail. To elaborate, Sergei is so small that Doofenshmirtz needs a magnifying glass at first to see him properly, and needless to say moves along at a snail's pace, but on his entrance he breaks down the door and due to Doofenshmirtz's usual traps not fazing him in the slightest, he just keeps coming until Doof finally figures out his Weaksauce Weakness (salt). Then once he's freed, he shakes Doofenshmirtz around and flings him clear across the room like it's nothing.

Bully Bromance Breakup

• Baljeet does a number of outlandish and awesome stunts and bad-ass things when the gang is climbing up the mountain, including running across a rope bridge and using it as a way to swing across the river when it breaks beneath him. What makes it even more awesome is that Baljeet was doing it without using one of Phineas and Ferb's inventions.
• Another awesome Baljeet moment is him giving Buford a wedgie. Yeah, you read that right.
• Buford is apparently so intimidating that he can override law enforcement and bend the laws of physics.

Quietest Day Ever

• Perry's elaborate system of mirrors that he uses (twice!) to foil Doofenshmirtz.

Meapless in Seattle

• Perry and Peter working together to save Doofenshmirtz from Mitch.
• Balloony, upon remembering its past with Doofenshmirtz, defeats Mitch's entire robot army, but gets popped while doing so.
• Isabella out-cuting Mitch with just her regular looks alone (whereas Mitch had artificially enhanced his cuteness with a rare element), freeing the entire Meapian army (and Phineas) from his control.
• Candace throwing her cellphone towards the button that closes the ship's doors, preventing Mitch from escaping and giving up her chance to bust her brothers.
• Heck, the fact that the episode even exists is, in itself, a Crowning Moment of Awesome on the creator's part. For those of you who don't know how it came to be, just watch the opening credits.

Delivery of Destiny

• Paul the delivery guy saving Perry from Doofenshmirtz's trap, using Phineas and Ferb's invention of the day to reach the DEI building and helping to disable Doof's -inator for good measure.

The Mom Attractor

• The entire mother population of Danville gets one when Doof's robot baby starts crying like mad. Just watch.

Cranius Maximus

• Baljeet's logic defying plan and all events surrounding it. Yes, it's utterly mad, but somehow utterly awesome at the same time.
• The fact that Phineas and Ferb manage to outsmart Baljeet even when his intelligence has been boosted by the brain stimulating helmet.

Agent Doof

• It may not have been intentional, but baby Phineas and Ferb get a criminal arrested by taking apart his motorcycle.

Minor Monogram

• Monogram's son Monty (who actually ''does'' want to follow in his dad's footsteps) gets one by epically fighting and defeating Doofenshmirtz's student Rodrigo (who is far more evil than Doof) with acrobatics (and enamoring himself to Vanessa). And the combination of acrobatics with fighting evil has got to be a nod to Nightwing of DC.
  Monogram: That's my boy!
• Vanessa tearing apart the metal trap holding Perry with her bare hands.

Sleepwalk Surprise

• When Ferb is questioned on where he learned his volleyball serving skills:
  Ferb: At the Yorkshire Athletic School for In Your Face.

Sci-Fi Pie Fly

• It's pretty impressive that Candace not only takes a day off from busting Phineas and Ferb, she successfully resists her normally-irresistible urge to bust her brothers. Several times. Even when the flying saucer they built is still there at night, she does nothing about it and just goes back to bed. It's especially impressive considering all the episodes in the past where she's tried — and failed — to quit busting her brothers (like "Last Train to Bustville", "Hip Hip Parade", and "Perry the Actorpus").

Tri-State Treasure: Boot of Secrets

• Though it's actually part of a movie Phineas and Ferb made, there's the alien army, complete with cameos of several previously-appearing characters.
  • The movie in question was really well made as well, to the point where it could have easily tricked viewers into thinking it was a normal episode until the ending.

Doofapus

• Platypus!Doof and Perry battle each other. They are continuously even matched, making it quite nail biting. Also surprising, as one might not expect Doof turning himself into a platypus alone to help much considering his opponent is not only a platypus but also a well-trained secret agent, and yet it does somehow make him more proficient in battle.

Norm Unleashed

• Norm gets a big one when he has to take over for Doofenshmirtz and nearly beats Perry in the process, not to mention almost succeeding in conquering the Tri-State Area. Behold. There's also the fact that it's implied Norm is the one who retrofits himself with all that new weaponry.
  • The rematch where Perry returns the favor by using Phineas and Ferb's nanobots (which can transform into anything the user desires) deserves mention as well.

Where's Perry? (Part One)

• Doofenshmirtz's ploy at the beginning of the episode (tricking Perry into thinking he had blundered and destroyed his own inator of the day) is actually surprisingly effective, and may well have succeeded if not for his own really bad luck.
• Carl gets a song for the first time, and not only is it awesome, it's a Villain Song to boot.

Where's Perry? (Part Two)

• Carl is shown to be the most scarily competent villain in the series.
• The entire fight between Perry, the agents, Candace, and Monogram and the robots.
  • Major Monogram showing he's more than just the head of OWCA: by punching/kicking/ripping apart evil robots by himself and tossing parts of them to Doofenshmirtz for use in construction.
    Doofenshmirtz: I still need a few parts!
    Monogram: No problem. We're surrounded by parts.
  • Despite to be a normal human, Candace is enough skilled and strong to fight robots.
  • Robot Candace Taking the Bullet when a robot Phineas is about to blast the real Candace, and destroying the robot Phineas moments afterward.
    Robot Candace: You're busted.
  • Just before the fight, Perry and the newly-recruited African animal agents putting on their fedoras. Very badass.
• Phineas rescuing the others while dangling from a ledge, followed by Baljeet rescuing Buford with a nice Awesomeness by Analysis moment.
  • Followed by Phineas saving the gang from careening down a raging river with nothing but some quick thinking.
• Monogram revealing his private jet.
• Doofenshmirtz really shows his stuff with the "Turn Good"-inator, making this one out of parts pulled from the jet in flight and finishing by the time they reach Africa.
• Buford pulling up the rest of a gang onto a ledge all by himself.
• In it's own way, Candace becoming Queen of the Monkeys is pretty awesome. In brief time she learns to speak monkey language and live in the jungle like a Jungle Princess.

When Worlds Collide

• Upon realizing that Earth is in immediate danger of colliding with another planet, Phineas and Ferb casually construct a giant spring to deflect the incoming planet, saving both worlds.
• Doofenshmirtz and Perry fighting while Double Dutching.

This Is Your Backstory

• Phineas and Ferb's table tennis match. And it's not just an Overly Long Gag, they were actually building up enough energy in the ping-pong ball to create a quantum vortex.
• Near the end of the episode, Doofenshmirtz reveals to Perry that the reason the scheme of the day was a game show involving his emotionally-scarring backstories is that he's been collecting the memories of his over the course of the episode because, since great evil is dependent on such backstories, he's been storing the memories in a huge vat and will put them back in his head all at once to increase his evilness. Right as he's about to store the backstory that will fill the vat, Perry knocks the memory extraction helmet off of Doof's head - thus giving him a humiliating memory that will fill the vat. Doof, of course, acts upon this and taunts Perry for foolishly humiliating him, which left Perry extremely guilty for what he just done to Doof.
  Doofenshmirtz: Remember two seconds ago when you foiled my latest plan? I do!

Blackout

• This episode is one for the show's creators for conceiving and creating almost a whole episode with minimal visuals (just eyes shining in the dark) while still telling a perfectly coherent story and hitting most of the running gags.

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