Phineas and Ferb decide to spice up the parade for Tri-State Area Unification Day, but Buford's family's grudge against it prompts him to try and take them off course. Meanwhile, Candace spends a girl's day out with Mom in an attempt to get her mind off the boys, and Doofenshmirtz tries to create traffic jams with his Duplic-8-inator.
Tropes:
- Aborted Arc: Phineas and Ferb begin the episode about to literally surf the Internet, but when Baljeet arrives dressed as a vegetable samosa, they put on a parade instead.
- Balloonacy: When the Duplic-8-inator zaps the small balloons hanging over the floats, cloning them as a result, it somehow causes all the floats to lift off the ground and float away.
- A Bloody Mess: At the end of episode, Buford does something to Baljeet off-screen, and red liquid splatters all over Phineas, Ferb and Isabella who are nearby. Turns out Buford just stomped all over a box of jelly donuts Baljeet was carrying.
- Brick Joke: Mom's warning about the "pharaoh's curse".
- Brief Accent Imitation: Buford hires a new nerd to replace Baljeet, and Buford asks him to imitate an Indian accent. The nerd refuses, but compensates by doing an English accent, then Italian, then German. Buford actually finds the first two pretty funny but takes offense to the last accent imitation note and fires him afterward.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: During their time out, Candace swore to her mother to not think about the boys once, or she'll suffer the "Pharaoh's Curse". At first when Candace sees the boys in the parade, she ignores at first, but when she sees the parade again her obsession begins to surface and tries to get around the curse by getting Linda to see it herself but to no avail. Eventually, Candace cannot take it anymore and forces Linda to see the boys, only to realize the floats are gone as usual, and a guy dressed as a Pharaoh "curses" her prompting Linda to say, "I tried to warn you, honey."
- Crazy-Prepared: Every time Buford tries to sabotage the parade, Phineas and Ferb always have a trick up their sleeves to counteract him; for instance, when Buford blocks the road by opening a water hydrant, Ferb digs a hole underground so that the parade marchers can continue through.
- Dresses the Same: Buford gets angry when he finds out that Baljeet wears the same vegetable samosa costume as him. He gets even angrier when he finds out that the costume is for the Tri-State Area Unification Day parade.
- How the Character Stole Christmas: Buford wants to stop the parade because he's a descendant of Otto H. Adjacent, who owned the Adjancent Area before it was joined with the Bi-State Area to become the Tri-State Area. But after being lifted into the air, he gets a Grinch-like epiphany that it's not an Adjacent Area or a Bi-State Area, it's all one big Tri-State Area "right over there"!
- I Warned You: Linda says this to Candace after the pharaoh man "curses" her.
- Impact Silhouette: Played with Doofenshmirtz's "Indoors-inator" trap, which entraps Perry between two halves of a door with a Perry-shaped hole on it; he says he got the idea from the similar Perry-shaped holes left in his wall, bathroom door, and fridge.Doofenshmirtz: Man, you were hungry that day.
- Impersonating an Officer: Buford attempts to dress as a traffic cop to stop the parade.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The name of the founder of the Tri-State Area has not been the same throughout the series. Is it "John P. Tristate"? "John P. Trystate"? Or "John P. Tri-State"?
- Loophole Abuse: Candace makes a promise with Linda to not obsess over busting her brothers once on their day out, otherwise she'll suffer the "Pharaoh's curse". When she sees the boys' parade outside a restaurant window directly behind Linda, she tries to get around the obsession by trying to get Linda to turn around and see the parade herself.
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: "A platypus balloon?" (The balloon catches a giant fedora from a billboard.) "A Perry'' the Platypus balloon?!"
- Meaningful Name: The Duplic-8-inator makes clones of anything eight times.
- Namesake Gag: The Tri-State Area is named after its founder, John P. Trystate, who combined the former Bi-State Area with the nearby Adjacent Area (right over there). Meanwhile, the former Adjacent Area was named after its founder, Otto H. Adjacent.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: This episode not only takes place on Tri-State Area Unification Day. According to Major Monogram, in a note he is given, it is also Passive-Aggressive Relationship Day.Major Monogram: Oh, was that today?
Carl: That's okay, you probably weren't gonna get me anything, anyway.
Major Monogram: Well, I completely forgot.
Carl: No, no, you know, I didn't even want a present. - Tempting Fate: The farmer's wife returns yet again, berating the farmer for attempting to start a monkey basketball team with only one monkey, just before Doofenshmirtz's Duplic-8-inator duplicates the monkey eightfold.Farmer's wife: Oh great, now three of them are going to have to sit on the bench.
- Thicker Than Water:Buford: The blood of Otto H. Adjacent runs through these veins, and blood is thicker than water!
Baljeet: Well, mango chutney is thicker than blood.
Buford: You're dead to me!
