Phineas and Ferb

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Phineas and Ferb
Genre	Animated television series
Creator(s)	Dan Povenmire Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
Developer(s)	Dan Povenmire Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
Starring	Randolph Sharif Lockett as Ferb Ashley Tisdale as Candace Mitchel Musso as Jeremy Vincent Martella as Phineas Dee Bradley Baker as platypus Caroline Rhea as Mom Alyson Stoner as Isabella Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Monogram Olivia Olson as Vanessa
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Natasha Kopp
Executive producer(s)	Dan Povenmire Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
Running time	22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Disney Channel
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Phineas and Ferb is a new Disney Channel animated comedy which will air in January 1 2008. It is about two step-brothers during summer vacation who start every day with nothing to do, sitting in the back yard with their pet platypus Perry.

[edit] Plot

Phineas and Ferb decide to build or create things such as building the world's greatest and biggest rollercoaster in their own backyard, creating a gigantic surfing beach in their backyard, building the most fantastic treehouse in the universe (which morphs into a giant ten-story robot), or becoming a rock band that becomes famous in one day!

Meanwhile, their older sister Candace is obsessed with "busting" the boys and getting them in trouble by showing their Mom the incredible adventure the boys are up to; but whenever Mom comes home to check, everything somehow goes back to normal.

The two stepbrothers also have a seemingly imbecilic pet platypus named Perry, who leads a secret double-life as a powerful but completely mute Master Spy. Perry's adventures are always unknown to the boys, but usually causes the boys' massive project-for-the-day to be obliterated by the time Mom gets home, when everything returns to normal.

At the end of most episodes, their older sister Candace is left in disbelief when the evidence she needs to get the boys into trouble disappears.

[edit] Production

The show is what is known in the animation industry as a "premise" or "outline" show, in that the storyline of each episode is created by writers and animation artists working together on a storyboard (a series of drawings) instead of working from a written script. Although a script is obviously necessary, in this process the script is the storyboard, usually includes a minimum of written dialogue, and is arguably a more visual approach to producing animated comedy for kids. The last "premise show" to be produced by Disney Television was Nightmare Ned, a short-lived series on the air in 1996. Walt Disney himself was a proponent of working out plots of films in storyboard form. Another proponent of the technique is John Lasseter of Pixar.

The series creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh have been writer-directors on many innovative animated series (Rocko's Modern Life, Family Guy etc.) Povenmire and Marsh conceived and developed the concept, stories, and music for the series, assisted by Story Editor/Composer Martin Olson, a comedy writer known for his unique work on numerous other "unscripted" animated series. (Povenmire, Marsh and Olson also worked together on the animated series Rocko's Modern Life.) Sharif Lockett won the portraying role while auditioning for "Macbeth" at Clement C. Jenkins High School.