Funny / Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe

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Seasons: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4
Movies: Across the 2nd Dimension | Candace Against the Universe
Other: Specials | Take Two

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Doof's initial suggestion to get his Chicken-Replace-inator to work.^note And yes, it has a Self Destruct Button.

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• The completely out-of-context fight between Doof and Perry at the beginning of the film is just ridiculous. For one thing, Doof is inside a robot shaped like Agent P, and his Scheme of the Day involves turning City Hall into lint so he can suck it up to create a literal "power vacuum".
• As always, the interaction between Buford and Baljeet.
  Baljeet: Was that lint? It smelled like lint.
  Buford: It tasted like lint.
  Baljeet: Why were you tasting it?
  Buford: You were smelling it.
  Baljeet: Not on purpose!
  • And also, when first seeing Norm, Baljeet offers Buford as sacrifice, the reverse of what happened in "The Phineas and Ferb Effect".
  • Buford wanting to start a gang when he gets to prison. When he asks for members, Baljeet excitedly offers his services, but Buford ignores him.
• Candace's constant obsession to bust her brothers has annoyed Linda to the point that she outright refuses to turn around and see the Big Idea until it's disappeared completely, instead deciding to rant on and on about her tattletale self. And she's doing this as the large metallic-now-lint clown is being sucked by Doof's Power-Vacuum-inator.
  Linda: Candace, while I treasure your imagination, every day you call and tell me Phineas and Ferb have built some big, unbelievable thing in the backyard, and every day I come home to find nothing there. Doesn't it exhaust you? It exhausts me.
• What is Candace most upset about when she gets abducted? That the spaceship is not a giant waffle maker.
• How did Doof know Vanessa got kidnapped by aliens? Because she posted about it on social media.
• The ship's computer mishearing Candace's "Stop! Stop! Stop!" as a command to play "Chop Chop Chop" by the Lumberzacks, giving us a hilarious Call-Forward to Milo Murphy's Law. Candace's unamused reaction really sells it. Even funnier considering implications even aliens know about the Lumberzacks.
• Candace getting distracted by a smoothie machine, multiple times, even as Vanessa tries to keep her on track. And after the above moment, the aliens arrive at the escape pods to see Candace on top of the smoothie machine, passively drinking a smoothie as she assumes the worst.
  Candace: Yup, the whole universe.
  The whole universe is against me!
• The "Meet Our Leader" song. Just when you think it's about to end, it turns into a Bait-and-Switch and keeps going. This repeats, and then they just end the song in the middle of a verse. It's as if the writers knew the gag would get old quick and didn't even want to finish the gag.
• Doof's Insistent Terminology of calling a spaceship an "inator" because of "branding".
• Phineas and Ferb pronouncing Vroblok.
  Phineas: Man, try saying that five times fast!
  Ferb: "Vroblok Vroblok Vroblok Vroblok Vroblok"
  Phineas: Huh, I guess it's not that hard.
  Both: (Repeat the word to each other)
• "Unsung Hero" is mostly a heartwarming song about Perry's heroics, but we also get these lines:
  • "This is the song of the unsung hero, but I guess technically he's now got a song, cause I'm singing it."
  • "Did I mention he's a platypus?"
• Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Baljeet and Dr. Doofenshmirtz hearing an ominous tone whenever they look at the alien fortress, but ONLY when they look directly at it. They even comment on it as they move their heads, and the music stops, only to go back and look directly at the fortress when the ominous music kicks up again. Buford is the only character that doesn't hear the music, much to his confusion. It becomes a Freeze-Frame Bonus Brick Joke when Doofenshmirtz discovers Vanessa is still on the planet because of her social media post...with one of the hashtags also indicating she heard the ominous tone looking at the fortress too.
• The Chicken-Replace-Inator returns from the series (Season 3, "What a Croc!"), with Doofenshmirtz bringing it along because he'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. As it happens, he does end up needing it to get rid of a dragon, but when he tries to use it to send himself, Perry and Vanessa back to Earth, it just causes them to switch places with the chicken he already transported from Earth. Doofenshmirtz's plan is to just kill it, pulling out an "Axe-Inator" complete with a self-destruct button in the back. Vanessa stops him from using it, however, and it takes them some time to notice that the Chicken-Replace-Inator has another setting for the furthest chicken, allowing them to get back to Earth.
• The Overly Long Gag in which the guards try to capture an escaped Coward.
• As the alien ship reaches warp speed, Baljeet notes that exceeding the speed of light will cause reality to break down and make the gang regress back to their basic forms...which here means storyboard art. It escalates further backward of the animation process to the point where we see Dan and Swampy, the show's creators, describing the scene that they're pitching. And then it goes back to the gang, who stand for a while, utterly confused by what just happened.
  Ferb: We should never speak of this again.
  Everyone else: Agreed.
  • Also, before they appear, we have this:
    Dan Povenmire: Buford says something funny here.
    Phineas: Whoa, temp dialogue!
• "Adulting" is a crowning song of funny. It's Doof trying (and failing) to convince Isabella that he should be leading over her.
  Doofenshmirtz: It's called adulting!
  Isabella: It's still not a verb.
  Doofenshmirtz: Come on, back me up, Ferb.
  Ferb: It's not a verb.
  Doofenshmirtz: Whatever.
• Immediately after the above-mentioned song, Doof naturally walks himself off a cliff and falls into a geyser at the bottom. Then he gets the group hopelessly lost in the jungle (and got hurt several more times since he is covered in Instant Bandages and his left leg got dislocated), with the kids clearly getting fed up with his "adulting".
  Doofenshmirtz: So we all agree that we've passed this spot somewhere between once and not more than, like, eleven times, right?
  Kids: Yes.
  • He does manage to lead them to the fortress... by literally stumbling into it.
• The farmer's wife is once again upset at him for another half-baked business opportunity.
  Farmer's Wife: I can't believe you built a dragon theme park without anything that even looks like a dragon! And why haven't you gotten rid of that silly chicken coop?
  (The chicken in the coop is replaced by the dragon-like creature from Feebla-Oot.)
  Farmer: My support group says you're keeping me down.
• The Cowards making a Long List of things they are afraid of. Already, the kids do not like where this is going and become bored out of their skulls. Doof, on the other hand, actually seems to be listening intently.
• Monogram calling Agent P at the worst possible moments. First, when he instructs him about several intergalactic protocols to follow (which Agent P does not listen to), and at the end when he's back in mindless pet mode.
• The fact that Tiffany Haddish was cast as "The Sound That Someone Makes When They Explode From The Waist Up", which happens to sound exactly like Candace's name. And every time it happens, it gets funnier and funnier!
  Ferb: Why does that sound like her name?
  Phineas: I dunno.
• The crowd reacting in horror and tears when the alien spaceship slowly destroys the statue of the Tri-State Area's founder and his beaver companion. They don't even realize that it's an alien spaceship until someone in the crowd realizes this.
  Roger: Not Beaver Pete! Not Beaver Pete!
  • It's also a shame that Heinz wasn't on Earth for this. He would've gotten a huge kick out of seeing his baby brother actually cry like a baby.
• Stacy is so surprised by the reveal that Jeremy is a LARPer that she can't stop talking about it, much to his embarrassment:
  Jeremy: [sigh] Please don't tell Candace.
  Stacy: (smugly) Well, let's get out of here, Lancelot!
  (Jeremy groans)
• Baljeet attempting to gloat at Super Super Big Doctor as the gang confront her on Earth.
  Super Super Big Doctor: What in the... How did you beat me here?
  Phineas: We snuck aboard your ship.
  Baljeet: (taking the microphone) Yeah, lady! Then we fell out of it by accident. But we saved ourselves so we could come here and stop you! Using a little trick we learned from Space Adventure episode 436B! Eat canceled TV show!
  (Beat, as Baljeet gives the microphone back)
  Buford: I bet that sounded better in your head.
  Baljeet: It did not.
• The first time Candace tries to use the Chicken-Replace Inator to send Mama back to Feebla-Oot, it fails because:
  Candace: Why is there a petting zoo downtown!?
  Baljeet: Yay! My petition worked!
• The end credits song, “Silhouettes,” which is a song about the end credits, describing the common tropes that appear in the credits, including the use of the titular silhouettes to recap the film and the obligatory Stinger. Speaking of…
• The mid credits scene where Lawrence sees the portal that Phineas and Ferb built at the beginning of the movie, goes through it and ends up in Doofenshmirtz's building which is still on fire and screams as he goes back through the portal, throwing his burning newspaper to the ground incinerating the portal to dust. Linda then comes back with pizza and asks what happened to him, to which he says...
  Lawrence: I have no idea.
• The concept behind "This Is Our Battle Song". Long story short, the kids, Doof and the Cowards' big plan to storm Super Super Big Doctor's fortress is to sing about how they're just the distraction and that they totally aren't telling them about the much larger force that's coming in from the other side. Said larger force also doesn't exist. Not only do Super Super Big Doctor and her guards completely buy this, but she actually has the gall to be mad that the kids lied to her in song.

Meta

• In the animatic for the deleted "Step Into the Great Unknown", after it takes a flip-wipe instead of a montage to build the portal, Buford says he misses the "skoodly-op" song, in reference to the absence of the "Quirky Worky Song".
• In an animatic for the original version of "Meet Our Leader", apparently Paloga Brite not only cleans the doors, but apparently tastes great on soap. And during the last few lines, the female alien is seen actually eating a bar of soap.

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