I’ve Figured Out When 'Phineas And Ferb' Comes Back!
AKA EXCLUSIVE: DISNEY CHANNEL HAS SET A PREMIERE DATE FOR 'PHINEAS AND FERB' REVIVAL
Ferb, I know what the trades don’t today. Dan Povenmire is the co-creator of the hit Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. He is definitely the bigger of the two on social media with a huge following on Instagram and TikTok that blew up over the pandemic. And he managed to say something about the future of his animated series in a way that likely doesn’t violate an NDA.
On Sunday morning, he posted a video to the platforms, praising the Easter eggs and cryptograms artists like Taylor Swift and Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch put in their works. He claims he doesn’t have time to put that in his works, which set off alarm bells because he’s had plenty of Easter eggs across the shows he’s worked on let alone created. He’d love to do that. And it turns out he had. For the last 37 videos. With the current being likely the 38th. I didn’t see what in the current video, but I saw comments that said “67”. The previous two videos had 68 and 69 adorned somewhere in their videos, clearly more apparent than the newest. The last 37 days means 37 days ago, on February 21, there was a 104 somewhere. And if you know anything about Phineas and Ferb, there’s 104 days of summer vacation til school comes along just to end it. That’s at least how the theme song goes. 67 days from now, on June 5, 2025, Phineas and Ferb should be making its triumphant return on Disney Channel. Why a Thursday? I’d have to believe next-day arrival on Disney+, either the first episode or the first batch. There’s really no other new information to glean otherwise. At least this Easter egg countdown will be a happier celebration than How I Met Your Mother’s in season 6’s “Bad News”.
'Phineas And Ferb' Sets Summer As When It Re-Begins On Disney Channel, Disney+
There’s 104 days of summer vacation, but will 104 days take us to the long-awaited return of Disney Channel’s Phineas and Ferb? In order to know, the premiere would have to be in May, and then May would have to be considered summer. On Thursday, series creators Dan Povenmire and
Phineas and Ferb’s two-season continuation order was first announced in January 2023, fulfilling a promise by higher-ups meant for their follow-up show Milo Murphy’s Law based on high Disney+ performance, while Povenmire was already on his third overall but first solo DTVA series Hamster & Gretel. The summer premiere was revealed at SCAD TVfest’s “Disney Branded Television: Storytelling from Preschool to Families” panel, where Povenmire and co-creating partner Jeff “Swampy” Marsh said “Since Phineas and Ferb is essentially a celebration of summer vacation, summer is the perfect time to debut the new season. We have had such a great time diving back into this world and the entire cast and crew have really brought their A-game. We cannot wait to see fans’ reactions to what is shaping up to be our favorite season yet.”
Phineas and Ferb debuted to the world with “Rollercoaster” on Disney Channel’s highest-rated night ever in August 2007, with another “preview” episode or two on the path to its official February 2008 premiere, with a new single 11-minute episode nightly for most of that month. It is easily the company’s biggest animated series in terms of merchandise, becoming the #1 animated TV series of 2009 among tweens 9-14. The series’ ratings grew to #1 among both kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 in 2011. The first TV movie Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension premiered as the eighth-highest rated Disney Channel Original Movie ever. The numerous specials throughout its run included the series finale “The Last Day of Summer” in June 2015, and a “The OWCA Files” backdoor pilot aired that fall, with the original run ultimately being four seasons and about 130 episodes. As previously detailed, there were various fashions by which the show never truly went away, with the latest being its presence on Chibiverse, which features characters from as far back as near the furthest reaches of Disney Television Animation history coming together. Dr. Doofenshmirtz, who is voiced by Povenmire, took over the Phineas and Ferb theme song just two weeks after the summer window was revealed.
There is a portion of the audience that has seen some of the first new season, with Povenmire and Marsh shared season 5’s opening song “Summer Is Starting Right Now”, which happens on the last day of school at both D23 in August and New York Comic-Con in October. There, much of the remaining incumbent cast, Vincent Martella as Phineas Flynn, David Errigo Jr. as Ferb (for his first official series episodes), Caroline Rhea as Linda Flynn-Fletcher, Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn, Dee Bradley Baker as Perry the Platypus and Alyson Stoner as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro were all confirmed to return. Richard O’Brien as Lawrence Fletcher, Kelly Hu as Stacy, Bobby Gaylor as Buford and Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet are also expected to return.
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