Recap / Phineas And Ferb Moon Farm

Phineas, Ferb and the neighborhood kids milk some cows on the moon to see if the low-gravitational pull will make the best tasting ice cream ever. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz invents a Moisture Suck-inator to turn his neighbor's plants brown, and Candace tries to cook some lamb cobbler for Jeremy.

Tropes:

• Achievements in Ignorance: Despite clearly having no idea what they’re doing, Candace and Stacy somehow manage to cook up a passable lamb cobbler. They didn't even use any actual lamb, as Stacy points out afterward.
• All for Nothing: Doofenshmirtz's entire plan for that day revolved around trying to outdo his neighbor's garden. All he did was get himself covered in green paint and discover after failing to dehydrate his neighbor's plants that they were actually plastic. As was his neighbor.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: When Doof wonders why his inator didn't work on his neighbor's garden, a dehydrated Perry aims it at Doof, who is complaining, "I'm not gonna let that guy make me look like a nincom—", and when he turns around and sees the inator aimed at him...
  Doofenshmirtz: Oh, poop.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: During the titular song, the singer on the soundtrack blames Baljeet for not bringing marshmallows, prompting Baljeet to argue with him. Phineas eventually tells them to cut it out, saying "We have a limited time here; can we please stop arguing with the soundtrack?"
  Baljeet: He started it!
• Casting Gag: The song is sung by Dan Povenmire and Olivia Olson using affected Jamaican accents, since they also voice Doof and Vanessa.
• Continuity Nod: When Phineas tells Candace that the kids are going to the moon, she asks, "Why are you going to the moon? Kind of a step backward, considering you've already been to Mars".
• Continuity Snarl: In all other episodes after "The Doof Side of the Moon", the World's Tallest Building the gang made from that episode is still there. Here, it is nowhere to be seen.
• Fun with Acronyms: For easier access to Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc., an OWCA operative installed a "Central Access Threshold" or C.A.T. door. When he gets to the door, it turns out to be a regular old cat door.
  Carl: So I'm an "operative" now?
  Major Monogram: We're still not paying you, Carl!
• Help, I'm Stuck!: OWCA has installed a C.A.T. door (see Fun with Acronyms), which Perry uses to get into Doof's apartment. After his fight with his plastic-obsessive neighbor, Doof forgot his keys and uses the C.A.T. door to get back in but gets stuck. He asks Perry for help, but instead, Perry just leaves him there and puts a "Do Not Disturb" sign on his rear end.
  Doofenshmirtz: Wait, what's that? That better not be a "Do not disturb" sign. CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS!!
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Baljeet starts arguing with the unseen singer of "Lunar Taste Sensation" when he insults him. Baljeet dismissively calls the singer "Disembodied Reggae Space Voice", which he takes offense to and insists that he has a name... which he begrudgingly admits actually is Disembodied Reggae Space Voice.
  Disembodied Reggae Space Voice: "...but that's just a coincidence, you didn't know that!"
• Insane Troll Logic: Stacy questions the recipe that's being relayed to them by Irving, pointing out that "self-righteous flowers" doesn't make much sense. Candace suggests roses seem pretty stuck up, so Stacy cheerily agrees to go get some.
• Literal-Minded: When Doofenshmirtz takes his plant to a flower shop to see why it was dying, the florist tells him that he doesn't have "a green thumb". Taking this literally, he covers himself with green paint, making his entire body green (except, of course, his thumbs). Then, when he is explaining his next plan, the Moisture Suck-inator, to Perry the Platypus, he suddenly realizes that "green thumb" is a metaphor.
  Doofenshmirtz: And I wasted all that money on green paint.
• Medium Blending: The finished version of the lamb cobbler is a photorealistic version of a lamb cobbler, as it would appear in real life.
• Mondegreen Gag: Thanks to a garbled transmission, the lamb cobbler's ingredients relayed by Irving include "four eggs bleeded", a "big bow" and "one pound of lamp", which Stacy points out isn't even food.
• Oven Logic: Stacy tries to use this to cook the lamb cobbler, cooking it for five minutes at 9000 degrees instead of an hour at 350 degrees. Somehow it works, even though the girls didn't even get the right ingredients.
• Pet the Dog: After Doof’s Moisture Suck-inator ruins the Lamb she made for Jeremy, the boys quietly switch it for some of the ice cream they made.
• Running Gag: Candace referring to each food made for Jeremy by repeating the food and adding "...for two" after it.
• Shout-Out:
  • Phineas and Buford have a conversation parodying one from Caddyshack.
    Phineas: Remember, everyone, the moon's gravity is 83.3% less than Earth's.
    Buford: So what?
    Phineas: So what? So let's bounce! Wheeeeee!
  • During the song, Isabella sees multicolored psychedelic patterns of light, akin to the "Stargate" sequence in the finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • Doof's irate neighbor calls hims "Rocket man" since he appears on his balcony via jetpack.
• Take That!: When the lamb cobbler is finished:
  Candace: I don't know Stacy, I got a bad feeling about this. What am I going to do if it isn't even edible?
  Stacy: Well technically, it is English food.
• Tempting Fate: Candace vows the boys will be busted once Mom sees the rocket; right after she says this, one of the cows accidentally hits the launch button, sending the rocket back to the moon.
• Toasted Buns: Doofenshmirtz tries to use his jetpack to go to his neighbors patio but just ends up making his pants go up in smoke. He has to change them before getting his jetpack working.
• The Voiceless: Despite having her name in the credits, Isabella doesn't speak throughout the whole episode.
• Wannabe Line: At the start of the episode, Candace has been camping out all night waiting for her brothers to do something bustable. But she also somehow had people waiting in line behind her assuming she was waiting for concert tickets.
  Candace: This is my backyard!
  Random Guy: There's always some kind of concert going on back here, I just thou—
  Candace: Get out of my yard!
  Random Guy: Not a morning person.

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We left de marshmallows at home, I blame Baljeet!
Baljeet: Hey, I thought we discussed this earlier!
Disembodied Reggae Space Voice: It's in de lyrics, mon!