The Secret of Success
"The Secret of Success"Season 2 Number 58 
Episode information
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Story by
Jennifer KeeneWritten and storyboards by
Kaz PrapuolenisDirected by
Original airdate
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Synopsis[]
Phineas andFerb are building an ATV powerful enough to handle extreme terrains and even buildings. Meanwhile,Candace andStacy go to a leadership seminar where Candace learns the steps needed to achieve her ultimate goal of busting her brothers. Dr. Doofenshmirtz is hosting the Telethon of Evil.
Plot[]
The All-Terrain-Vehicle!
Candace is bored in her room untilStacy calls her to help her come to a seminar that will bore her. Stacy convinces Candace by saying there might be cute boys. Candace reluctantly agrees, but tells Stacy that she owes her. In the living room, after watching a commercial for an all-terrain vehicle,Phineas decides that he andFerb can build a better model - one that can drive on literallyany type of surface, like across some cheese and up a mountainside - which they later do.Buford is particularly happy to get into this idea, afterIsabella explains some of the vehicle's features to him.
Perry enters the lair on a skateboard, andMonogram tells him thatDr. Doofenshmirtz has been stockpiling cameras and microphones.
Stacy and Candace attend a seminar hosted by Tedd Shaw, the topic at hand being "leaders of the future". She's surprised to seeBaljeet there, because the seminar is directed at high school students. Baljeet, however, is always open to studying anything and everything he can. Although Stacy ends up falling asleep during the seminar, Candace becomes inspired to use Shaw's techniques - B.L.A.R.F. and N.A.R.G. - to bust her brothers. The boys conveniently drive by, Candace hops inside their vehicle, and tells them to drive it home so she can show it tomom. Stacy, meanwhile, ends up spending time with a new boy named Chad.
Over at Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, Perry is captured and tied up, and Doofenshmirtz explains that his alimony checks aren't covering his evil plans like they used to, so he intends to hold aTelethon of Evil to raise the money to fund his various evil schemes. He gives Perry a telephone so that he can accept call-in donations, then uses his Pre-Empt-Inator to override all TV programming in the Tri-State Area with his telethon.Lawrence, sitting in a dentist chair, watches the program (which he believes to be a "brilliant work of satire") in confusion.
Candace talking toPhineas while remotely driving the all terrain vehicle.
While on the way home, Candace decides that Phineas drives too slow and takes the controller from him, activating the windshield wipers and the radio in the process, wherea familiar tune can be heard. A news anchor spots the vehicle go by and drives after them, noticing the danger of the situation because there isn't an adult driver in the car. Back with Doofenshmirtz, he manages to raise a paltry 23 dollars before his telethon gets preempted for a news flash concerning the car. Furious, he goes after the news van with his hover car, shooting at them with a laser so that he can regain control of the airwaves. Candace drives on, blissfully unaware of what's going on around her. The news helicopter zooms in on Doofenshmirtz, who says hi to his mother, but ends up crashing into his own building due to the distraction. The unmanned hover car flattens the news van, losing the footage and disappointing the crew.
The kids arrive home, seconds after Linda, and Candace tells them to stay put. The disbelieving and fed-up mother tells Candace she's grounded and to go to her room after learning that she drove a vehicle without an adult supervision, and she stomps up the stairs in frustration. In her room, she calls Stacy, to tell her about her (mild) success in busting her brothers, but as she's out with aboy, and tells the last one is "F.R.E.E.P.O." as she is dismissed. The kids, bored of waiting in the car, are shot up into the air after Ferb notes that they haven't yet tried the vehicle's "rocket mode", Candace tries to figure out what F.R.E.E.P.O. means until the kids leaves her in the dust.
Cast[]
- Vincent Martella asPhineas
- Ashley Tisdale asCandace
- Thomas Sangster asFerb
- Caroline Rhea asMom
- Richard O'Brien asDad
- Dan Povenmire asDr. Doofenshmirtz
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh asMajor Monogram
- Tyler Mann asCarl
- Dee Bradley Baker asPerry
- Maulik Pancholy asBaljeet
- Bobby Gaylor asBuford
- Alyson Stoner asIsabella
- Kelly Hu asStacy
- Jason Spisak as Tedd Shaw
- Romi Dames asBridgette Oshinomi
- Tom Kenny as TV Announcer
- Jameson Moss as Chad
Songs[]
Goofs[]
- During the song, Baljeet could be seen at the dance scene but he was supposed to be at the seminar.
- During the song, the singer mentions driving on a tightrope, yet the vehicle is not shown on a tightrope until towards the end of the song.
- During the song, Phineas and Ferb are dancing on top of the ATV, but this is impossible because the cliff is extremely bumpy and they would have fallen right off.
- Also during the song, when the singer says "through a cave," the headlights from the vehicle would have created cones of light through the cave.
- As Isabella shows the hydrolics of the ATV, the space between her arms are white.
- WhenDr. Doofenshmirtz is on the flying vehicle, he mentions Perry, onlive TV. This could uncover his secret agent identity to the citizens of Danville who are watching the news preemption. In fact,Lawrence was watching the Telethon of Evil at the dentist which he could still be watching, even though it was interrupted by a news break. This was straight after the Telethon of Evil was preemptied, so it means that Lawrence could have figured it out. However an explanation to this may be that this episode takes place before "I Was a Middle-Aged Robot" and Carl may have found a memory of this incident, and erased it to prevent Lawrence from finding the full truth out. Alternately, he could have been under the influence of nitrous-oxide, (which could also explain his declaration that it was his "new favorite show")."
- In the all-terrain vehicle, when Candace says she has got the hang of it, Ferb is gone.
- When Candace is talking to Stacy on the phone Stacy convinces Candace to go with her because there might be cute boys, but Candace is dating Jeremy and her checking out other boys might ruin their relationship.
- When the camera is showing the people walking into the seminar, it doesn't show Candace, Stacy, or Baljeet walking in.
- When the camera is showing the people walking into the seminar, it show little kids walking in too. Candace points out that only "high school kids" are allowed to attend.
- Bridgette points out that the ATV is filled with children, but Candace is a teenager.
Trivia[]
- As revealed in "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", 20 years later, after the leadership seminar,Stacy became the President ofUruguay. She probably got tips after Candace left.
- Candace's guesses as to what F.R.E.E.P.O. stands for includes "Frequent Rampages Encourages Enormous Perpendicular Octagons" and "Free Raccoons Enter Existential Plastic Origami".
- This title seems to be a reference to self-help books, with titles such as "The Secret of Success", and to a lesser extent, the 1987Michael J. Fox movieThe Secret of My Success.
- This is the first time Candace gets grounded.
- Bridgette Oshinomi's name is revealed in this episode.
- Phineas operates the vehicle by remote control, stating that he's doing it that way because he's too young to drive, just like he did in "The Fast and the Phineas", even though in that episode, Ferb was actually controlling it.
- When Candace says you are going too slow and puts music if you hear very closely you can hearI'm Lindana.
- The white SUV seen in "Finding Mary McGuffin" appears in a commercial and in the songAll Terrain Vehicle.
- Like in "Got Game?", "That Sinking Feeling", and "Robot Rodeo", Isabella's ears are shown for a moment.
- Ferb counting before Phineas knows what they're going to do and asking where Perry is another breaking of thefourth wall.
International premieres[]
- June 4, 2010 (Disney XD Germany)
- July 16, 2010 (Disney Channel Latin America)
- July 19, 2010 (Disney XD UK)
- July 31, 2010 (TVNZ 2)
- August 7, 2010 (Disney Channel Asia)
- October 14, 2010 (Disney XD Poland)
- October 31, 2010 (Disney XD France)
- November 20, 2010 (Disney XD Spain)
- December 29, 2010 (Disney Channel Spain)
- February 18,2011 (Disney Channel Scandinavia)
- March 5, 2011 (Disney Channel UK)
- May 15, 2011 (Disney XD Scandinavia)
References[]
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