I love how, in the absence of Perry The Platypus, Heinz Doofenshmirtz immediately goes to antagonize the most competent child with a hat on in his vicinity.
The semantics of the opening line of Phineas and Ferb (“There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation/and school comes along just to end it”) suggest that the purpose of the public school is to end summer vacation. The following verses describe a long string of quality independent educational endeavors, which are abandoned later in favor of the less-stimulating structured public school; as such, the central theme of the show serves as a metaphor for Foucault’s famous schools-as-prisons paradigm. in this paper i will
Phineas, Ferb and Candace finding out about Perry’s secret a few years down the road and Monogram just lets them be, because he’s getting tired of erasing this family’s memories.
Perry shows the kids his lair and leaves them for a minute while he finishes up some paperwork with Monogram regarding the whole situation.
Candace finds a CD with his theme song, which she thinks is incredibly dorky. Phineas and Ferb are delighted and they stick it in Perry’s computer. Candace hears the opening beats and her eyes go wide.
“Oh my gosh, that slaps.”
When Perry returns he can hear the music blaring from the other end of the corridor. He enters his lair to see the siblings singing his theme at the top of their lungs and dancing enthusiastically to the rhythm.
With a wide grin, and overwhelming love in his heart, Perry joins them.