Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo
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"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the animated
television series Phineas and Ferb
, and the 72nd overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Disney XD in the United States on September 21, 2009. In the episode, Phineas
and his stepbrother Ferb
travel into the future and have their time machine stolen by their older sister Candace, now an adult, who travels back in time to get her brothers in trouble during one of their outlandish schemes. In doing so, however, she sets off a chain reaction leading to a dystopia
n future ruled by the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo," written by Scott Peterson and directed by Zac Moncrief
, was rated TV-G in the United States. The episode was conceived as a means of expanding the time machine plot that was introduced previously in the episode "It's About Time." Dan Povenmire
and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, co-founders of Phineas and Ferb, centralized plot elements to satire time travel
films, such as The Time Machine
(1960) and the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990). Multiple scenes in the episode were meant to be rather confusing and difficult to understand in order to interest viewers so they would watch the episode multiple times, trying to learn something new each time.
The episode received generally positive reviews from television critics. In its original broadcast, it ranked fourth in the key demographics Boys 6-14, Kids 6-11 and Boys 6-11, totaling 599,000 viewers, an 88 percent increase from that of the previous year's ratings in the timeslot. When it premiered on Disney Channel
, it was the thirteenth highest-ranked cable program for the entire week. It guest starred actors Jennifer Stone
, Moises Arias, Noah Munck
, and Jennifer Grey
, along with the band Bowling for Soup
, who appeared as themselves playing an extended version of the series' theme song, "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day," which was also included on the official Phineas and Ferb soundtrack
which was released on September 22, 2009.
and his stepbrother Ferb
learn from their friend Baljeet that a tool they need for their latest project has yet to be invented. They and their friend Isabella borrow the time machine on display at the local museum
to travel twenty years into the future. Once they arrive, Isabella stays behind with the time machine while the boys enter their sister Candace's backyard, where her sons Fred and Xavier are sitting under a tree doing nothing. The boys convince their future nephews to be active and in return are given the tool they need. As they leave, Candace spots them and it brings back upsetting memories of never being able to bust the boys. She takes her mother Linda to the museum where the boys leave, right before Linda can see them.
Professor Onassis, who invented the time machine in the 1800s, arrives in the original version of the machine soon after and future Candace steals it. She travels back to the day the boys built the rollercoaster in their backyard and succeeds in getting her mother to see them, finally fulfilling her dream of busting them. However, in doing so, she accidentally leads Perry, their pet who is secretly a suave secret agent, to be injured while stopping an evil magnet mechanism. As a result, Perry's nemesis, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, comes out unharmed from the effects of the now-destroyed machine. Over time, everything is altered in the world becomes childproof
for fear of a repeat of Phineas and Ferb's dangerous activities. Doofenshmirtz eventually gains the upper hand, effectively becoming emperor of the world. After arriving in the dystopia future Doofenshmirtz rules, Candace returns to the day of the rollercoaster to stop herself from interfering like before, stopping the dystopia from occurring.
The time machine gets destroyed so the two Candaces go to the backyard to convince the boys to fix the current time machine in the museum and take them back, creating a paradox
and as a result, the Candace from the bleak future(wearing a white lab coat as seen in the picture above) ceases to exist. The boys then fix the machine. Isabella says to Ferb that a rollercoaster ride and time travel was a bonus. The present Candace tags along with her future self, Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella as they travel to the future (while Candace "finally" busting them in the process, but the future Linda is not angry at the boys, saying she doesn't have juristriction to bust the boys anymore). As Candace and the boys talk to the future Linda, Isabella sparks an idea and travels back in time. During the credits, it reveals Isabella obtained the tool and gave it to the boys before they even time traveled in the first place, thus, canceling out all the events that happened earlier in the episode and also causing all the characters involved in the future to cease existence (also erasing the "busting" present Candace caused, thus possibly causing a time loop). A goof was said by Isabella in "Summer Belongs To You", about Phineas going through time twice. But because of what happened in the credits of Quantum Boogaloo, everyone shouldn't have known about their time-travel, even Isabella.
During this episode, it is revealed that Isabella marries either Phineas or Ferb, though none of the characters remember this.
. Phineas and Ferb
had previously produced an episode in season one's "It's About Time" which featured a time machine. Co-founder Dan Povenmire
stated that he enjoyed the outcome of said episode. The writers purposely left the time machine available for the boys' use at the end of the episode so that they could reuse it in a later episode. Eventually, they conceived a plot where "Phineas and Ferb go into the future and actually see Candace as an adult (which) drags up all kinds of memories of not being able to bust them."
The scenes in which Candace travels back to the Phineas and Ferb building a roller coaster are a taken from the pilot episode, "Rollercoaster." Including the scenes was "great fun" for Povenmire and fellow co-founder Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, who decided early on that using it would have "future Candace go back to the rollercoaster . Then whatever she did would effect the future, in this case give Doofenshmirtz the upper hand and effectively change history." The inclusion was inspired by the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
episode "Trials and Tribble-ations," in which the Deep Space 9 crew travel back in time to the Star Trek
episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." The novel approach was viewed by Marsh as "a great way to interweave a story."
The crew spent a long amount of time plotting out the episode in a room, using sticky notes
, in order to make sure it played out sensibly and was clearly understandable to viewers. The production staff based a lot of the usage of time travel in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" on those from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990) and H. G. Wells
' The Time Machine
(1960). The goal of the crew was to make sure everything stayed strong to a certain logical standpoint, which lead to several surreal conversations, including several paradoxes involving time travel. The crew members sought to venture into elements that seemed complicated, as their children viewers were deemed intelligent enough to understand such elements. The hopes of the production staff was make the episode one that they could watch multiple times and notice something new with each viewing.
Since Doofenshmirtz and Perry's actions tend to effect those of the boys, the choice to have future Candace's interference in the past greatly effect those of Doofenshmirtz and Perry's was considered the logical choice. Povenmire explained, "They effect each other in ways that we never fully understand, but if you throw off that little balance of power of their [respective] activities, all hell could break loose." The song Doofenshmirtz sings, entitled "It's Been a Charmed Life," was well-praised by the production crew, who felt that it was considerably well-handled. The song centralized the irony surrounding Doofenshmirtz having everything go well for him, a theme completely different from that which is generally touched upon in the series.
The scene where Candace mentions that her best friend Stacy Hirano had became the president of Uruguay
was originally written as a throwaway joke for the episode. During an e-mail exchange between the crew, some crew members were curious about the line and Povenmire came up with an entire back story, in which Stacy meets the prince of the country, moves there and, after changing several laws, becomes eligible for presidency. The staff enjoyed the idea and wrote it down as a possible plot for a future episode.
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" featured multiple guest appearances. Actress Jennifer Stone
guest starred as Amanda, Candace's future daughter. Stone researched actress Ashley Tisdale
's performance as Candace on YouTube
to better grasp the attention needed on the voice role. Meanwhile, Andrea Baker
who played Clover from Totally Spies was up to play Adult Candace and she also has the same voice as Clover. Stone recorded her lines a long time before the final animation came in and was feeling impatient about how the end results would come out. Moises Arias, who is, according to Stone, "like [her] little brother," voiced Candace's future son, Fred. Actress Jennifer Grey
also appeared as a librarian
. Grey's character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
was the inspiration for Candace and the actress had previously portrayed Doofenshmirtz's professor in "Oil on Candace."
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" originally broadcast on September 21, 2009, on Disney XD. Like all episodes of Phineas and Ferb, it carried a TV-G parental guidance rating. The song "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day" is available on the official Phineas and Ferb soundtrack
, which was released on September 22, 2009, a day after the episode's broadcast.
(1989), in which Biff Tannen
steals a time machine and causes a dark and chaotic future in the process. In the future, the American
pop-punk band Bowling for Soup
appears and performs an extended version of the series' theme song. The band members were designed to look twenty years older and having gained weight.
for the first time, it was watched by 2.7 million American households and 3.9 million individual viewers, placing it at number 13 in cable network ratings for the entire week.
The episode received generally positive reviews from television critics. Matt Blum of Wired
called it "probably the geekiest episode of the show so far". Blum praised the joke about Stacy becoming the president of Uruguay and called Doofenshmirtz's song "It's Been a Charmed Life" "heavy irony." Paige Wiser of the Chicago Sun-Times
considered the episode one of September 21's television highlights, writing that she "could not be more excited." News OK listed the episode on its "Top 55 TV Programs for Sept. 20-26, 2009",
Animated cartoon
An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...
television series Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb is an American animated television comedy series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher on summer vacation. Every day the boys embark on some grand new project, which...
, and the 72nd overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Disney XD in the United States on September 21, 2009. In the episode, Phineas
Phineas Flynn
Phineas Flynn is the main protagonist of the animated television series Phineas and Ferb. Voiced by Vincent Martella and created and designed by Dan Povenmire, Phineas first appeared along with the rest of the series' main characters in the pilot episode "Rollercoaster." Phineas, along with his...
and his stepbrother Ferb
Ferb Fletcher
Ferb Fletcher is the deuteragonist from the animated television series Phineas and Ferb. The character, voiced by British actor Thomas Sangster, was created by Phineas and Ferb co-founders Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and first appeared in the show's pilot episode, "Rollercoaster."Ferb and...
travel into the future and have their time machine stolen by their older sister Candace, now an adult, who travels back in time to get her brothers in trouble during one of their outlandish schemes. In doing so, however, she sets off a chain reaction leading to a dystopia
Dystopia
A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...
n future ruled by the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo," written by Scott Peterson and directed by Zac Moncrief
Zac Moncrief
Zachary Thomas Moncrief is a director of animated television programs, currently serving as a director for the Disney Channel cartoon Phineas and Ferb...
, was rated TV-G in the United States. The episode was conceived as a means of expanding the time machine plot that was introduced previously in the episode "It's About Time." Dan Povenmire
Dan Povenmire
Daniel Kingsley "Dan" Povenmire is an American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and actor associated with several animated television series, best known as the co-creator of the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb in which he also voices the show's villain, Heinz...
and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, co-founders of Phineas and Ferb, centralized plot elements to satire time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
films, such as The Time Machine
The Time Machine (1960 film)
The Time Machine is a 1960 American science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man in Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future...
(1960) and the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990). Multiple scenes in the episode were meant to be rather confusing and difficult to understand in order to interest viewers so they would watch the episode multiple times, trying to learn something new each time.
The episode received generally positive reviews from television critics. In its original broadcast, it ranked fourth in the key demographics Boys 6-14, Kids 6-11 and Boys 6-11, totaling 599,000 viewers, an 88 percent increase from that of the previous year's ratings in the timeslot. When it premiered on Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
, it was the thirteenth highest-ranked cable program for the entire week. It guest starred actors Jennifer Stone
Jennifer Stone
Jennifer Lindsay Stone is an American actress best known for playing Harper Finkle on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place and Harriet Welsh in the Disney Channel film Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars.-Life:...
, Moises Arias, Noah Munck
Noah Munck
Noah Bryant Munck is an American actor and comedian. His roles include Gibby Gibson in iCarly and Bobby Sinclair, the junior lawn-mowing entrepreneur in the TruGreen commercials.-Early life:...
, and Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Elise Grey is an American actress. Her first major roles came in the 1984 war film Red Dawn and the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In 1987 she starred as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the hit film Dirty Dancing for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. In the early 1990s, Grey...
, along with the band Bowling for Soup
Bowling for Soup
Bowling for Soup is an American pop-punk band which originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994...
, who appeared as themselves playing an extended version of the series' theme song, "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day," which was also included on the official Phineas and Ferb soundtrack
Phineas and Ferb (soundtrack)
-Charts:-Release dates:-Other Releases:Several other soundtracks for the series have been released.*Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation: A soundtrack for the Christmas special, only released digitally in December 2009....
which was released on September 22, 2009.
Plot summary
PhineasPhineas Flynn
Phineas Flynn is the main protagonist of the animated television series Phineas and Ferb. Voiced by Vincent Martella and created and designed by Dan Povenmire, Phineas first appeared along with the rest of the series' main characters in the pilot episode "Rollercoaster." Phineas, along with his...
and his stepbrother Ferb
Ferb Fletcher
Ferb Fletcher is the deuteragonist from the animated television series Phineas and Ferb. The character, voiced by British actor Thomas Sangster, was created by Phineas and Ferb co-founders Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and first appeared in the show's pilot episode, "Rollercoaster."Ferb and...
learn from their friend Baljeet that a tool they need for their latest project has yet to be invented. They and their friend Isabella borrow the time machine on display at the local museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
to travel twenty years into the future. Once they arrive, Isabella stays behind with the time machine while the boys enter their sister Candace's backyard, where her sons Fred and Xavier are sitting under a tree doing nothing. The boys convince their future nephews to be active and in return are given the tool they need. As they leave, Candace spots them and it brings back upsetting memories of never being able to bust the boys. She takes her mother Linda to the museum where the boys leave, right before Linda can see them.
Professor Onassis, who invented the time machine in the 1800s, arrives in the original version of the machine soon after and future Candace steals it. She travels back to the day the boys built the rollercoaster in their backyard and succeeds in getting her mother to see them, finally fulfilling her dream of busting them. However, in doing so, she accidentally leads Perry, their pet who is secretly a suave secret agent, to be injured while stopping an evil magnet mechanism. As a result, Perry's nemesis, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, comes out unharmed from the effects of the now-destroyed machine. Over time, everything is altered in the world becomes childproof
Childproof
Childproofing is the act of making an environment or object relatively safe for children. The act of childproofing reduces risks to a level considered acceptable by a society, an institution, or, for example, to specific parents. Childproofing may include restriction of children to safe areas or...
for fear of a repeat of Phineas and Ferb's dangerous activities. Doofenshmirtz eventually gains the upper hand, effectively becoming emperor of the world. After arriving in the dystopia future Doofenshmirtz rules, Candace returns to the day of the rollercoaster to stop herself from interfering like before, stopping the dystopia from occurring.
The time machine gets destroyed so the two Candaces go to the backyard to convince the boys to fix the current time machine in the museum and take them back, creating a paradox
Paradox
Similar to Circular reasoning, A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition...
and as a result, the Candace from the bleak future(wearing a white lab coat as seen in the picture above) ceases to exist. The boys then fix the machine. Isabella says to Ferb that a rollercoaster ride and time travel was a bonus. The present Candace tags along with her future self, Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella as they travel to the future (while Candace "finally" busting them in the process, but the future Linda is not angry at the boys, saying she doesn't have juristriction to bust the boys anymore). As Candace and the boys talk to the future Linda, Isabella sparks an idea and travels back in time. During the credits, it reveals Isabella obtained the tool and gave it to the boys before they even time traveled in the first place, thus, canceling out all the events that happened earlier in the episode and also causing all the characters involved in the future to cease existence (also erasing the "busting" present Candace caused, thus possibly causing a time loop). A goof was said by Isabella in "Summer Belongs To You", about Phineas going through time twice. But because of what happened in the credits of Quantum Boogaloo, everyone shouldn't have known about their time-travel, even Isabella.
During this episode, it is revealed that Isabella marries either Phineas or Ferb, though none of the characters remember this.
Production
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" was written by Scott Peterson and directed by Zac MoncriefZac Moncrief
Zachary Thomas Moncrief is a director of animated television programs, currently serving as a director for the Disney Channel cartoon Phineas and Ferb...
. Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb is an American animated television comedy series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher on summer vacation. Every day the boys embark on some grand new project, which...
had previously produced an episode in season one's "It's About Time" which featured a time machine. Co-founder Dan Povenmire
Dan Povenmire
Daniel Kingsley "Dan" Povenmire is an American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and actor associated with several animated television series, best known as the co-creator of the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb in which he also voices the show's villain, Heinz...
stated that he enjoyed the outcome of said episode. The writers purposely left the time machine available for the boys' use at the end of the episode so that they could reuse it in a later episode. Eventually, they conceived a plot where "Phineas and Ferb go into the future and actually see Candace as an adult (which) drags up all kinds of memories of not being able to bust them."
The scenes in which Candace travels back to the Phineas and Ferb building a roller coaster are a taken from the pilot episode, "Rollercoaster." Including the scenes was "great fun" for Povenmire and fellow co-founder Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, who decided early on that using it would have "future Candace go back to the rollercoaster . Then whatever she did would effect the future, in this case give Doofenshmirtz the upper hand and effectively change history." The inclusion was inspired by the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...
episode "Trials and Tribble-ations," in which the Deep Space 9 crew travel back in time to the Star Trek
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...
episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." The novel approach was viewed by Marsh as "a great way to interweave a story."
The crew spent a long amount of time plotting out the episode in a room, using sticky notes
Sticky Notes
Sticky Notes is an application included in Windows 7. It was originally present in Windows Vista as a gadget for the Windows Sidebar. The program allows users to take notes using Post-it note-like windows on their desktop....
, in order to make sure it played out sensibly and was clearly understandable to viewers. The production staff based a lot of the usage of time travel in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" on those from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-1990) and H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
' The Time Machine
The Time Machine (1960 film)
The Time Machine is a 1960 American science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man in Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future...
(1960). The goal of the crew was to make sure everything stayed strong to a certain logical standpoint, which lead to several surreal conversations, including several paradoxes involving time travel. The crew members sought to venture into elements that seemed complicated, as their children viewers were deemed intelligent enough to understand such elements. The hopes of the production staff was make the episode one that they could watch multiple times and notice something new with each viewing.
Since Doofenshmirtz and Perry's actions tend to effect those of the boys, the choice to have future Candace's interference in the past greatly effect those of Doofenshmirtz and Perry's was considered the logical choice. Povenmire explained, "They effect each other in ways that we never fully understand, but if you throw off that little balance of power of their [respective] activities, all hell could break loose." The song Doofenshmirtz sings, entitled "It's Been a Charmed Life," was well-praised by the production crew, who felt that it was considerably well-handled. The song centralized the irony surrounding Doofenshmirtz having everything go well for him, a theme completely different from that which is generally touched upon in the series.
The scene where Candace mentions that her best friend Stacy Hirano had became the president of Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
was originally written as a throwaway joke for the episode. During an e-mail exchange between the crew, some crew members were curious about the line and Povenmire came up with an entire back story, in which Stacy meets the prince of the country, moves there and, after changing several laws, becomes eligible for presidency. The staff enjoyed the idea and wrote it down as a possible plot for a future episode.
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" featured multiple guest appearances. Actress Jennifer Stone
Jennifer Stone
Jennifer Lindsay Stone is an American actress best known for playing Harper Finkle on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place and Harriet Welsh in the Disney Channel film Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars.-Life:...
guest starred as Amanda, Candace's future daughter. Stone researched actress Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series...
's performance as Candace on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
to better grasp the attention needed on the voice role. Meanwhile, Andrea Baker
Andrea Baker
Andrea Baker is an American actress, best known for voicing Clover in the American adaption of Totally Spies!.-Career:...
who played Clover from Totally Spies was up to play Adult Candace and she also has the same voice as Clover. Stone recorded her lines a long time before the final animation came in and was feeling impatient about how the end results would come out. Moises Arias, who is, according to Stone, "like [her] little brother," voiced Candace's future son, Fred. Actress Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Elise Grey is an American actress. Her first major roles came in the 1984 war film Red Dawn and the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In 1987 she starred as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the hit film Dirty Dancing for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. In the early 1990s, Grey...
also appeared as a librarian
Librarian
A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information services or materials for those with information needs...
. Grey's character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.The film follows high school senior Ferris Bueller , who decides to skip school and spend the day in downtown Chicago...
was the inspiration for Candace and the actress had previously portrayed Doofenshmirtz's professor in "Oil on Candace."
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" originally broadcast on September 21, 2009, on Disney XD. Like all episodes of Phineas and Ferb, it carried a TV-G parental guidance rating. The song "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day" is available on the official Phineas and Ferb soundtrack
Phineas and Ferb (soundtrack)
-Charts:-Release dates:-Other Releases:Several other soundtracks for the series have been released.*Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation: A soundtrack for the Christmas special, only released digitally in December 2009....
, which was released on September 22, 2009, a day after the episode's broadcast.
Cultural references
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" serves as a satire on time travel films, particularly the Back to the Future film series and H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. Candace stealing the time machine to change something in the past, thus creating a dystopian future, mirrors the scene in Back to the Future Part IIBack to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film and the second installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson and Lea Thompson...
(1989), in which Biff Tannen
Biff Tannen
Biff Howard Tannen is a character in the Back to the Future trilogy, serving as the primary antagonist of the first two films. He is played by Thomas F. Wilson in all three films as well as the ride, and Wilson voiced the character in the animated series....
steals a time machine and causes a dark and chaotic future in the process. In the future, the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
pop-punk band Bowling for Soup
Bowling for Soup
Bowling for Soup is an American pop-punk band which originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994...
appears and performs an extended version of the series' theme song. The band members were designed to look twenty years older and having gained weight.
Reception
"Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" ranked fourth in its timeslot, in the demographics Boys 6-14, Kids 6-11 and Boys 6-11. It averaged 599,000 total viewers, an 88 percent increase over the previous year's record for the timeslot. In Kids 6-14, it outranked previous year's records by 152 percent. In Boys 6-14, it claimed over a 121 percent increase, in Boys 6-11, it garnered an over 116 percent increase, and in Boys 9-14, an over 138 percent registered increase. When the episode aired on Disney ChannelDisney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
for the first time, it was watched by 2.7 million American households and 3.9 million individual viewers, placing it at number 13 in cable network ratings for the entire week.
The episode received generally positive reviews from television critics. Matt Blum of Wired
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
called it "probably the geekiest episode of the show so far". Blum praised the joke about Stacy becoming the president of Uruguay and called Doofenshmirtz's song "It's Been a Charmed Life" "heavy irony." Paige Wiser of the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
considered the episode one of September 21's television highlights, writing that she "could not be more excited." News OK listed the episode on its "Top 55 TV Programs for Sept. 20-26, 2009",
External links
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