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Phineas & Ferb: Doof 101/Father's Day
Reviewed: 10/03/2017
Father Doof's Day 101 Is In Session!
Well; here are the final two shorts from the Star Wars DVD set (#4-21a and #4-21b on the animation paper) and these are a real doozy: Dr. Doofenshmirtz is sentenced to community service for being evil and much to his daughter Vanessa’s chagrin, he’s assigned to teach science at her high school. Meanwhile, a trio of bugs embark on a journey to become the first insects to communicate with humans. Then from there, it's a father's day special this fall as with Perry’s help, a distraught Doof tracks down the precious lawn gnome that was repossessed many years ago from his father in an effort to heal old wounds. Meanwhile, Phineas and Ferb build an antique biplane to fulfill their dad’s dream for Father’s Day. Lovely; we get to mess with Doofen being a teacher combined with lawn gnomes! So; let's rant on shall we...?!
Doof 101 is written and storyboarded by Kim Roberson, Zac Moncrief and Dan Povenmire, the story is done by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and directed by Robert F. Hughes. It's No Picnic is written and storyboarded by Edward Rivera and Patrick O'Connor, story by Scott Peterson and directed by Sue Perrotto. Edward Rivera's resume: Who's That Girl and Santabear's High Flying Adventure in 1987 as his debut. The House of Mouse is his DTVA debut and has worked on The Proud Family, Star Vs The Forces Of Evil, Pickle & Peanut and Milo Murphy's Law. Bunnicula is his most recent credit. He has 4 Art Department credits, 16 Animation Department credits and 2 Writing credit to his resume. Animation is done by Wang Films.
Doof 101: We begin this one at Danville High School with lots of guitar riffs and the American flag as we head to the science lab. There is a blond haired teenager in a purple dress, and white shoes with a notepad and pencil asking Vanessa how her summer is; while a purple haired punk teenager with a red skirt, black shirt and black boots with scorpion earrings is sitting on the desk. The punk rocker teenager is Lacie who appeared in Brain Drain, but didn't speak in that episode. She does here though and Lacie is voiced by Benita Scheckel and according to IMDB: Benita Scheckel was raised in Alhambra, CA. She got her start working in improvisation at the Ice House in Pasadena. She toured with acclaimed Gilbert and Sullivan company, Opera a la Carte and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Benita appeared as the voice of Becky in Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation for Disney Channel, Gretchen Albright in ABC's Miracles and she was a guest star on NBC's Close to Home. When she is not working Benita enjoys spending as much time as possible with her husband, daughters and dog Wolfgang Scheckel. Benita's resume: Miracles as her debut in 2003 as Gretchen Albright, Close to Home as a woman, Phineas & Ferb as Lacie in her DTVA debut and only appearance and Ty The Pie Guy as Mrs. Salmon in 2015 as her most recent credit. That's it! The other person is named Becky and she is voiced by Danica McKellar and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): At age seven, McKellar enrolled in weekend acting classes for children at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles.[12] In her teens, she landed a prominent role in The Wonder Years, an American television comedy-drama that ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1993. She played Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage) on the show. Her first kiss was with Fred Savage in an episode of The Wonder Years.[13]
She later said, "My first kiss was a pretty nerve-wracking experience! But we never kissed off screen, and pretty quickly our feelings turned into brother/sister, and stayed that way."[14] Late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon has said that the character of Winnie Cooper "is the coolest girl in any TV show ever."[15] McKellar has said that she found it difficult to move from being a child actress to an adult actress."[14] Since leaving The Wonder Years, McKellar has had several guest roles in television series (including one with former co-star Fred Savage on Working), and has written and directed two short films. She appeared in two Lifetime TV movies in the Moment of Truth series, playing Kristin Guthrie in 1994's Cradle of Conspiracy and Annie Mills Carman in 1996's Justice for Annie. She briefly returned to regular television with a recurring role in the 2002–03 season of The West Wing, portraying Elsie Snuffin, the stepsister and assistant of Deputy White House Communications Director Will Bailey. In 1989, she appeared playing the cello at the beginning of the Debbie Gibson music video No More Rhyme. McKellar appeared in lingerie in the July 2005 edition of Stuff magazine[16] after readers voted her the 1990s star they would most like to see in lingerie. McKellar explained that she agreed to the shoot in part to obtain "grittier roles".[14] In 2006, McKellar starred in a Lifetime movie and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries.[17][18] On the August 1, 2007, edition of the Don and Mike Show, a WJFK-FM radio program out of Washington, D.C., McKellar announced plans that the producers of How I Met Your Mother were planning to bring her back for a recurring role (she guest-starred on the show in late 2005 in "The Pineapple Incident" and again in early 2007 in "Third Wheel"). She also made an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory, in the episode "The Psychic Vortex".[19]
In 2008, she starred in Heatstroke, a Sci-Fi Channel original movie about searching for alien life on Earth and in 2009 she was one of the stars commenting on the occurrences of the new millennium in VH1's I Love the New Millennium and was the math correspondent for Brink, a program by the Science Channel about technology. In 2013, she played Ellen Plainview in Lifetime's reimagining of the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man. McKellar has also found work as a voice actress. She is the voice of Miss Martian in Young Justice. She has also provided the voices for two characters in three video games: Jubilee in X-Men Legends (2004), and Invisible Woman in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009).[citation needed] In 2012, she starred in the Lifetime movie, Love at the Christmas Table with Dustin Milligan. In 2013, she starred in the Syfy movie Tasmanian Devils with Apolo Ohno. On March 4, 2014, she was announced to be joining season 18 of Dancing with the Stars. She paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy.[20] McKellar and Chmerkovskiy were eliminated on Week 8, finishing in 6th place. She had a guest appearance in the Impractical Jokers season four episode six titled "The Blunder Years" In 2015, she starred in the Netflix original series Project Mc2 as The Quail. She has starred in several Hallmark Channel movies, including Crown for Christmas, My Christmas Dream, and Campfire Kiss. She began her career with The Twilight Zone in 1985 as Nola (10 years old). Phineas & Ferb is her DTVA debut and has appeared on Milo Murphy's Law as Veronica. Young Justice as Miss Martian is her most recent credit. She has 88 Acting credits, 6 Writing credits (Math Bites, Inspector Mom, Broken, Speechless...), 6 Producer credits (Campfire Kiss), 3 Soundtrack credits, 2 Director credits, 1 Misc credit, 1 Thanks credit, 63 Self credits and 2 Archive Footage credits to her resume.
Vanessa claims that her visits with her mother were great; but Doofen was merely okay, and she sounded like they sucked the blue out of the paintings in museums. Lacie is shocked and appalled by this attempt to go from blue to beige due to Doofen being evil. In comes Johnny (also from Brain Drain) sighing and not caring. Apparently; Johnny and Vanessa broke up as Johnny goes into melodramatic with a dissecting tray as a spiked haired dude with black/red striped shirt tells him to let it go. Vanessa wants normalcy and she's getting none as a balding principal in a grey suit comes in proclaiming that there has been some staff changes. It's Prinicpal Lang; voiced Gary Cole, the same guy who voiced James Possible in Kim Possible. Everyone sits down and there is a new science teacher as Doctor Doofenshmirtz comes in and waves hello. Complete with lime green shirt and purple tie as Vanessa is shocked and appalled by this. HA! TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM ensues as we HIT THE EVIL MONTAGE~! HAHA! So the guise of this is that Doofenshmirtz was in fact arrested for his crime of being evil (which means: "Charged with an actual crime that he actually got caught on.") and the judge let him choose between prison and community service, which involves being a high school teacher. I honestly don't know who would get the worst of this deal Doofen ultimately made here. Peace symbols and throwing the -inator into the dumpster while wiping his hands clean of this whole thing is just silly at this point. It's Doof 101 BABEE, yeah, yeah, yeah! Vanessa bails because Doofen is vandalizing his own science books; because it's EVIL SCIENCE~! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...And now Doofen is singing and dancing to his own song after jackhammering the point home. Okay; the prison got the best end of the deal and Vanessa's relationship with Doofen is squarely in the hate part of the "love-hate" relationship now. Doofen busts through calenders, basically to remind the deaf, blind and dumb portions of the kids audience that this episode goes against the premise, even thought it really doesn't.
The song ends with Doofen introducing Doof 101...AGAIN; and Lang proclaims that this is on a trial basis; but Doofen cuts him off because the trial is over and he chose community service; rendering the song completely pointless filler. He's ready to brainwash...ERRRR...I mean, indocinerate....ERRR...I mean, impart his knowledge on the sponge-like minds (Cue sheep sounding laugh here.) that involves no evil science at all. Just regular science, yessire. Pay no attention to the former Nazi-equse doctor wearing the white lab coat and purple tie. He even crossed out the word in his old textbooks as he waves hello to Vanessa, who looks appalled and takes a header on the table. Yip; hate part now. Doof proclaims that he can take it from here as Lang proclaims that he has his eye on him...and he falls backwards into the science lab closet. Of course! Lang gets up and keeps eye contact on the way out of the room as Doofen claims that they know each other and that's another story for another time. Drat! Doofen tries to write his name on the chalkboard, but Vanessa cuts him off and drags him out of the room. Vanessa demands answers to this outrage as Doofen is giddy over this daughter/father time. Ummm; doesn't he realize that this is a serious conflict of interest he is performing? In comes Johnny, much to the whining of Vanessa as Doofenshmirtz shows off his sexist side. Becky is already pointing out the obvious conflict of interest and Vanessa blows it off because Doofen's probation can go to hell basically. Lacie enters and is more confused than anyone about this. I don't blame her; I'm confused as to the point of this. Doofen tells everyone to get back in class as we head to the Principal's Office with Lang at his desk brooding. A large red haired woman with a purple shirt and grey coat asks why he's brooding and Lang is offended by this, asking if it's the eyebrows..and then admits that he's brooding. By the way; the woman with the notepad is Mrs. Pierpoint and is voiced by Jennifer Gray and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Grey's commercial debut was at the age of 19, in an ad for Dr Pepper before making her film debut in Reckless (1984), in a small role.
She appeared in a small role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984). That year she starred in the war film Red Dawn. She then appeared in the 1985 John Badham project American Flyers. In 1986 she played the role of jealous sister Jeanie Bueller in the John Hughes comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, opposite Matthew Broderick. The film was commercially successful[13][14][15] and received a positive critical reception.[16] The following year, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, whom she had played opposite in Red Dawn, to play Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing. The story is a coming of age drama that documents a teenage girl's rebellion against her father by starting a relationship with a dance instructor during the family's summer vacation. The low-budget film was a surprise hit, the first film to sell one million copies on video,[17] and is considered a classic.[18] The film also defined Grey's career, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the role.[19] Grey's sole Broadway theatre credit is her 1993 appearance in The Twilight of the Golds. In the early 1990s, Grey underwent two rhinoplasty procedures—the second of which was necessary to correct problems stemming from the first—that resulted in a nose that caused even close friends to fail to recognize her, and the major change in her appearance negatively affected her career. Of the experience she said, "I went in the operating room a celebrity—and came out anonymous. It was like being in a witness protection program or being invisible."[20][21] She briefly considered changing her name in order to start her career anew, but ultimately decided against this.[22] From March 1999 until January 2000, Grey starred as herself in the short-lived ABC sitcom It's Like, You Know..., which satirized her much-publicized nose job as a running gag.[23]
Grey appeared with Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, and Kathy Bates in the CBS television movie The West Side Waltz, adapted by Ernest Thompson from his play. She appeared in one episode of Friends as Mindy, a high school friend of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel. She had a small role in the 2000 film Bounce with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. In 2007, Grey portrayed Daphne on the HBO series John from Cincinnati. In 2010, she played Abbey, the mother of a sick child in the season seven House episode "Unplanned Parenthood".[24] Grey was a contestant on season eleven of Dancing With the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Derek Hough.[25] She came out very strong at first, frequently topping the leaderboard. However, injuries, stress, and exhaustion took their toll on Grey, and for a couple of weeks she fell behind. In week seven, however, she improved, tying with previous frontrunner Brandy Norwood. On November 23, 2010, Grey and her partner Hough won the competition. In September 2011 Grey appeared in the Lifetime movie Bling Ring as Iris Garvey, the mother of Zack Garvey.[26] On November 5 and 6, 2011, Grey stood in for head judge Len Goodman on the BBC One TV show Strictly Come Dancing.[27] Grey voiced Mrs. Kurokawa in the English dub version of Hayao Miyazaki's most recent film, The Wind Rises.[28] She began her career with Reckless as Cathy Bennario before becoming Toni in Red Dawn and Leslie in American Flyers in 1984. Phineas & Ferb is her DTVA debut and only appearance. Duck, Duck, Goose as Edna is her most recent credit. She has 41 Acting credits, 1 Soundtrack credit, 33 Self credits and 9 Archive Footage credits to her resume. So the story of this is: Professor Lang is jealous of Doofenshmirtz for marrying Charlene in community college which he was in love with. Yes folks; in the mind of Charlene, Lang is far more toxic to deal with than Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Ponder that one for a moment, and despair!
Pierpoint points out the obvious to us and Lang blows her off; because he cannot believe she perferred Doofensmirtz over Lang. Pierpoint wants him to give up this personal grudge, because Charlene divorced Doofen anyway; but Lang no sells because EYEBROWS~! Yip; this relationship was in fact toxic and it make Doofenshmirtz look like the ethical one. OUCH! Cut back to the science lab with everyone at their desks as Doofen is at his desk as we begin talking about gentics, the building blocks of life. Doofen plucks a black hair from Johnny and he screams; and then Doofen blows him off as a baby since he has lots of hair...for the next ten years. So Doofen puts the hair under a microscope. I should note that there is a double potato battery and a giant dead frog on the desk as the microscope is connected to a projector which shows the DNA on the screen on the chalkboard. Doofen puts on the most absurd gloves and tweezers in history and he's literally changing the DNA strands on the hair, claiming that this will change him into a gorilla or a lizard. Doofen proclaims that there is a whole new world around us that is too small for us to me as we zoom into the ground on the left side of the desk to see a purple fly and a yellow ladybug. The purple fly is addressed as Napoleon by the yellow bug who is Wndell and Wendell is voiced by Josh Gad and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Gad portrayed news director Ryan Church on the Fox sitcom Back to You, which lasted one season from 2007 to 2008. Gad appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show on May 5, 2009, and became a regular correspondent on June 2, 2009.[10] His signature segments include "The War on Christmas", in which he played an oversexed Benjamin Franklin, and "Chubby Chasers", in which he reported on Michelle Obama's efforts to curb childhood obesity.[11] In 2008, he played a supporting role in the film 21, and a leading role in The Rocker. In 2010, he had a role in Love & Other Drugs, and a guest role on the Bored to Death episode "Make it Quick, Fitzgerald!".
He was cast in the American version of the British sitcom No Heroics.[12] In the pilot, Gad played 'Horse Force', a former classmate from Superhero College, who can summon horses and works at a bar where the group hangs out. The show was not picked up.[13] Gad originated the role of Elder Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon. His last performance was June 6, 2012. The show opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 24, 2011.[14] Gad was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, along with his co-star Andrew Rannells.[15] Both lost to Norbert Leo Butz in Catch Me If You Can.[16] In 2011, Gad had a cameo appearance in ABC's hit show, Modern Family, in Season 3's Thanksgiving episode. In 2011, Gad voiced "Mondo" in the MTV animated series Good Vibes. He also made an appearance as Bump in the 2011 comedy road trip film Mardi Gras: Spring Break.[17] In 2012, he voiced the molehog Louis in Ice Age: Continental Drift. He also played 'Bear Claw' on an episode of New Girl. In 2012, he starred in the independent romantic comedy She Wants Me. In 2013, he appeared as Skip Gilchrist in NBC's 1600 Penn, of which he is also a co-creator and executive producer.[18] Also in 2013, he played Andrew (Headphones) in the film The Internship and starred as Steve Wozniak in the film Jobs. The same year, he voiced 'Olaf' in Frozen, re-collaborating with co-songwriter Robert Lopez from The Book of Mormon. In 2014, Gad co-starred in Zach Braff's film Wish I Was Here, playing the main character's brother.[19] On August 5, 2013, it was announced that Gad will play Sam Kinison in a biopic.[20] He wrote an article entitled "Technology pundit (for a day)", which appeared in USA Today on August 12, 2013.[21]
In December 2013, it was announced Gad will star and co-write the film version of Gilligan's Island.[22] In April 2014, it was announced that Gad and Ryan Dixon will be developing a live-action family adventure-comedy for Disney.[23] In 2014, he had a guest voice role on Phineas and Ferb. In 2015, Gad starred alongside Kevin Hart and Kaley Cuoco in The Wedding Ringer, co-starred with Billy Crystal on the FX comedy series The Comedians, which premiered on April 9,[24] and starred alongside Adam Sandler and Peter Dinklage in Pixels, about video game players who are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who have attacked the earth.[25] In September 2016, it was announced the Gad will co-write and star in the Amazon limited-series adaptation of the non-fiction book Toy Wars, by G. Wayne Miller, which follows the real-life battle between American toy giants Hasbro, the company behind GI Joe, Transformer and My Little Pony toys, and Barbie-maker Mattel in the 1980s and 1990s.[26] In A Dog's Purpose, released in 2017, he provided the voice for Bailey.[27] The movie was billed as "a celebration of the special connection between humans and their dogs".[28] Gad also played LeFou in the 2017 live-action film remake of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, co-starring with Emma Watson.[29] As of July 2017, Gad has two film projects in different states of production. He has completed filming for Reginald Hudlin's biographical drama Marshall alongside Chadwick Boseman and Beauty and the Beast co-star Dan Stevens and is set to play Hector MacQueen in a 2017 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, and Daisy Ridley.
He began his career on Mary & Jane in 2002 as Angel. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and appeared on Sofia The First as Olaf, the snowman from Frozen. Yeah. He has 59 Acting credits, 6 Writing credits (Triplets (his most recent credit), Gigi: Almost American, 1600 Penn, Rent Control, The Lost Nomads: Get Lost!), 5 Producer credits (The Comedians), 7 Soundtrack credits, 1 Misc credit, 75 Self credits and 5 Archive Footage credits to his resume. Napoleon has a lot of rope as he tells Wendell that they are climbing up to talk to humans basically. Wendell likes it and then asks why; and Napoleon claims that the humans are an alien race, so they don't believe in evolution nor creationism nor intellegent design. Also; there is this jaboroni bug named Floyd who will go where no bug has gone before. Except in Antz which is basically the same storyline. Floyd is an ugly green maggot who ran into a spider web. Stephen Root voiced Floyd and Napoleon is voiced by JK Simmons, who we last saw in Toy To The World. So after some thrilling assurance that Floyd has his wings. I'm certain that the contact with giants has nothing to do with the New York Giants, because COPYRIGHT~! So he brings out the paper clip hook rope and declares that they must scale the Cliffs Of Mahogany. Yes; this desk is titled. I AM WATCHING IMPACT~! Wendell wants to throw the paperclip because he's the muscles, Napoleon is the brains (and is twice the height as the real Napoleon, har har.) and Floyd is the ballast. Wendell hooks the rope onto a beakor and the beakor drops off the desk and traps the bugs; causing Napoleon to tell Floyd to die basically. Domino effect ensues on the books as the alarm clock potato battery wires somehow fly into the air and they connect the alarm clock to the giant dead frog. Frog kicks petri dish on reaction from the microscope and it smacks right into Johnny's face. Now THAT IS SCIENCE BABEE~! Doofen grabs the dish and hopes nothing will happen...Uh-oh! Johnny now has a lizard tail. See what happens when you screw with someone else's DNA, Doofen?! Johnny also has a gorilla arm as Doofen wants everyone to pay attention. Of course!
So basically; Johnny turns into a non-setinent version of a deranged Wuzzle as he runs out of the room, Doofen calls him a whiner. So we see Johnny running in the hallway and the security camera catches it. We cut to a dark lit computer room with Karl and Major Monogram. Monogram cannot believe that it has come down to this as we cut to the backyard of the Phineas' residence underneath the tree with Perry sleeping. We hear beeping and chittering ensuing as he finally wakes up. Perry checks his watch as it's Major Monogram on the watch as he informs Perry that the OWCA work release program doesn't need the scandal of Doof's class being out of control. Perry agrees to it and opens the tree door; flying out of the tree on his white rocket car. PERRY~! Cut back to Johnny running in the hallways as the background is singing the entire thing, for no reason. Jump cut to inside the class room with Becky pointing out the obvious to us as she returns with Doofen proclaiming that he has the hair with his DNA on it; and he can fix an antidote for Johnny as the door swings wide open and it's Agent P as Gideon proclaims that he has shape shifted again. I believe this is Ropey-Face, in which Doofen blows off later, I do believe. Ropey-Face is voiced by Lucas Grabeel and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): In 2004, he starred in his first film role as Ethan Dolloway in the third installment of the Halloweentown series Halloweentown High. He subsequently reprised this role in the series' fourth installment Return to Halloweentown. Grabeel has made television guest appearances in TV series such as Boston Legal, 'Til Death, and Veronica Mars. On Smallville, he portrayed a young Lex Luthor. In 2006, he was cast in the role of Ryan Evans, the fraternal twin brother of Sharpay Evans (played by Ashley Tisdale), in the Emmy Award-winning made-for-television Disney movie High School Musical. He reprised his role in the television sequels High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
In 2007, he joined co-stars Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman on the 51-date High School Musical: The Concert. In early 2009, Billboard believed that Grabeel and Tisdale's track "I Want It All" should be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category however, the song did not make the final shortlist.[4] During his time in High School Musical, Grabeel (along with his co-stars) had a total of six tracks chart in the Billboard Hot 100.[5][6][7][8] Furthermore, he was the first artist to debut in the Billboard Hot 100 with two simultaneous new entries in one week.[9] While with Disney Channel, Grabeel also participated in the first ever Disney Channel Games and co-captained the green team along with Ashley Tisdale, Mitchel Musso, Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment and Kyle Massey. A year later, he returned to repeat his captaincy of the green team with Dylan Sprouse, Miley Cyrus, Monique Coleman and Brandon Baker. Other film projects Grabeel was involved with include the animated film, At Jesus' Side, where he voiced a dog named Jericho.[10] He also filmed the independent film, Alice Upside Down,[11] as the character of Lester McKinley, based on the "Alice book series" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Aside his involvement in the High School Musical soundtracks, Grabeel has recorded a song called "You Know I Will" for the soundtrack of The Fox and the Hound 2 and also recorded his own version of the Michael Bolton track "Go the Distance", from Disney's Hercules, for DisneyMania 5. In 2007, Grabeel co-wrote and recorded a song called "You Got It"[12] which was released in the iTunes Store on August 19, 2007[13] while its accompanying music video was released on his official website. Grabeel also recorded another original song called "Trash Talkin'" which was released November 15, 2008 on YouTube.[14]
In 2008, he also appeared in the movie Milk, a biopic about the slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Grabeel played a friend and supporter of Milk, photographer Danny Nicoletta. He also appeared in the 2008 Walt Disney Pictures film College Road Trip as Scooter, which features other Disney stars Raven-Symoné, Brenda Song and Margo Harshman. He also stars in the independent movie Lock and Roll Forever alongside Ore Ska Band.[15] Grabeel also guest starred in an episode of The Cleveland Show. Early in 2009, Grabeel was voted Most Likely to Do Big Things in 2009 by MTV and had an exclusive interview with them. He mentions the release of another music video for his track Get Your Ass On.[16] He also mentioned his latest movie project, The Legend of the Dancing Ninja, where he played the lead Tokyo Jones alongside David Hasselhoff.[17] In May 2009 he portrayed the role on stage of Matt in the Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones musical, The Fantasticks with Eric McCormack and Harry Groener at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.[18] Grabeel also sings in the iTunes show I Kissed a Vampire, in which, he stars. In early 2009, he appeared at the Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.), an AIDS charity event, in Beverly Hills performing George and Ira Gershwin's "I Can't Be Bothered Now".[19][20] He also recorded and released a new track titled '135n8' in early 2014 with the music video being uploaded to his YouTube account. In 2011 he appeared in the 10th season of Smallville as Alexander Luthor / Connor Kent, a hybrid clone with Lex Luthor and Clark Kent's DNA. In 2007, he filmed the movie, The Adventures of Food Boy with Brittany Curran, as the lead, Ezra Chase. Since the summer of 2011, Grabeel has been starring in the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth, in which he plays the brother of one of the two girls that were mistakenly switched at birth in the hospital.[21]
In March 2012, I Kissed A Vampire was released in the US, where Lucas stars alongside Drew Seeley and Adrian Slade.[22] In January 2014 he provided his first-ever voice over role for an animated series, Deputy Peck on Sheriff Callie's Wild West. He has also played the character of Gustav in Dragons: Defenders of Berk. In 2007, Grabeel founded a production company called 14341 Productions. His role within involves overseeing many projects from writing, directing and executive producing. The company have produced projects such as the short films The Real Son, Smoke Break; the music videos for "Get Your Ass On" and "You Got It". They also produced a TV pilot called Regarding Beauregard which was Grabeel's directorial debut. They are currently working on a short film, The Adventures of Chuckle Boy, and have just released a short film The Dragon.[23] Their work debuted at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.[24] He began his career as Ethan The Warlock in Halloweentown High in 2004. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and has also appeared on Elena on Avalor as Jiku. Pinky Malinky (as the titular character's name) is his most recent credit. He has 51 Acting credits, 13 Soundtrack credits, 8 Producer credits, 2 Director credits, 2 Writing credits, 45 Self credits and 4 Archive Footage credits to his resume. Doofenshmirz introduces Perry to the students as the assistant teacher and Doofensmirtz tells everyone to split up as Gideon Ropey-Face, Muscles and two other help Doofen with the antidote; while the rest go after Johnny. Gideon is offended and Doofen tells him to own it. HA! Muscles is voiced by Marcus Paulik and I have nothing on him. I wonder if it's Marcus T. Paulk? If so; then according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): An American actor, rapper and dancer best known for his role as Myles Mitchell in the UPN sitcom Moesha, which aired from 1996 through 2001.
Being a proponent of good causes and a frequent participant in fund raisers, Paulk was the 1997 national spokesperson for the "Kids Are Paramount" campaign, which seeks to empower children with courage and confidence to overcome obstacles. He also appeared with Bow Wow in the 2005 film Roll Bounce, Another Cinderella Story as Dustin, and with Antonio Banderas in the 2006 film Take the Lead. Paulk is currently working on a studio album. Further details for this project are TBA.[citation needed] Paulk has also made appearances in Season 4 of The Bad Girls Club. In 2012, Marcus starred in the George Lucas film Red Tails. Paulk also starred in the 2015 feature film Sister Code with Amber Rose. He began his career on Grace Under Fire as Food Group, Bread in 1993. Fillmore! is his DTVA debut as Sonny Lombard and appeared on The Proud Family as Myron Lewinski. The Babysitter his is most recent credit. He has 41 Acting credits, 1 Sountrack credit, 1 Producer credit, 1 Set Decorator credit (The Call), and 9 Self credits to his resume. So we chase Johnny down the hallways some more and we run into the gymnasum as Johnny hides underneath the bleachers. Laci, Vanessa, Perry, Spike-Collar and Ordinary Teenager surround him. Johnny is scared because he thinks Vanessa hates him; and Vanessa insists that she doesn't hate him and just wants the relationship to be plutonic. Johnny sees Perry and panics. He runs out and grabs Vanessa on the way out of the gym into the hallway as the net gun Perry fires hits the tail; but does nothing otherwise. Johnny runs out of school with Vanessa as the students follow them along with Agent P. Cut back to the desk with Wendell, Floyd and Napoleon sitting on top of the trash can. They have backpack and journals as Napoleon claims that they have been bivouacked on a trash can, halfway up the cliffs. It's a landing according to the bugs of course. Bivouack is an encampment without cover by the way.
They exchange notes on how to approach the "aliens" and Floyd can think of nothing but fart jokes. At least Napoleon doesn't want to lead with that, so he's embarrassed. So basically they talk about communication in the vast universe as one of the students (with sandals) opens the trash can as the bugs go flying and bonces into the hook of the projection screen, fly up, roll up and fly into the giant mobile of the universe and bonk off of that. They smack down on the floor and Floyd proclaims that he has been bivouacked...AGAIN! Which is camp talk for "killed" basically. So then Doofen is telling Becky (wearing goggles) to put the eyedropper of red liquid into the container and everything depends on getting the mixture precise. She pours the red liquid into the container; it turns red and Doofen stirs it. He then drinks it as we discover that it's really a recipe for Shirley Temple and that Muscles is actually making the antidote. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Muscles is in a radition suit with tongs putting in what appears to be a nuclear rod into a test tube and it doesn't explode! YEESSSSSSSSSSS! Doofen comes in with the injection needle and fills it up after the liquid is poured into a perti-dish. Muscles is awesome actually! Doofen calls for whiny boy and notices out of the window of Johnny climbing the walls of a tall building with Vanessa. Of course; it has to end with a King Kong sequence. Oh; I should have known when he changed into a half gorilla and kidnapped Vanessa that this was the payoff! Doofen asks if anyone is ready for a field trip as we give chase to Johnny climbing up the building as he yells "Sanctuary"! Vanessa calls him a drama queen and the reason why they broke up. Ummm; yeah. Perry bails stage right as Doofen wants something to shoot the antidote with and Becky brings out a crossbow and everyone is stunned by this. Becky is like "what's wrong with you guys; you never watched Buffy: The Vampire Slayer before?" In comes Perry with his white rocket car as Doofen jumps in and loves the cup holders. The students are impressed with this assistant teacher as Perry drives up towards the bell tower portion of the building.
Okay; here's what happens: Johnny snaps a rope off a bell and pushes the bell out of the tower while Doofen cuts this absurd promo and Perry gets belled and rung. He cannot see, you see. Jump cut to the Principal's office as Lang is feeding a tank of fish as he checks his watch and it's not 1 PM as he bails. So we head to the playground of John P. Tristate Elementary School, Sally (voiced by the same person who voices Lacie) watches as Phineas & Ferb are working on their latest project: making new improvements to the school's playground during recess. Phineas and Ferb then briefly spot Doofenshmirtz flying the hovercraft around the bell tower to get a clear shot at Johnny. This makes Phineas eager about going to high school. Yeah; all that just to make sure the stars of the show get thirty seconds of time in. Jump cut back to Doofen trying to get the bell off of Perry's head. Vanessa screams for Doofen to stop acting like a stupid idiot as Doofen tries to get the clear shot (and the pen is now empty for no reason); but the bell gets thrown off by Perry and it bonks into Doofen. Doofen tips and free falls and lands on the ground in the bell. Doofen slides around as the bell falls to the right as Doofen shoots the injection needle into the air as it misses on the top. However; the needle comes down and Vanessa grabs it. Vanessa shoves the needle into Johnny's arm, he screams and lets go of Vanessa. Vanessa free falls and Perry rushes in with the car to make the save. Johnny returns to normal and he free falls. Vanessa makes a leap of faith and uses her feet on the net to make the dramatic save on Johnny and they are upside down as the students pop for that one. Everyone helps Johnny and Vanessa come to the ground as Johnny is happy for her saving his life; but Vanessa bails and blows him off because they aren't dating again. Context everyone, use it. Perry bails stage left with the rocket car as Doofen and the class returns to the school. Lang notices the bell on the ground and basically says "What the bell?"; because you still cannot say hell in DTVA, but God is perfectly fine. Lang follows them; so he's the adult Candace as we cut to the bugs making it on top of the desk.
So Napoleon goes over the top as Floyd and Wendell bring out the banner and it says "Weclom Ginats!" because a bug can't spell worse than the THUGS from Somky Mountain Wrestling. Wendell claims that it was spelt phonetically. So yeah; these bugs cannot even spell phoentically without screwing it up; so Napoleon tells him to sod off basically. Napoleon wants to make a good first impression and Doofen helps by slamming the book right onto the bugs and that is that. Doofen completes his DNA in action as Lang comes in and AHA! You suck dick, Lang, which spells with Wang! Who says I don't have a dirty mind? Bell rings and class is dismissed as everyone but Vanessa leaves. Vanessa goes over to Doofen as Doofen promises to not do this every day, even with 261 days of summer vacation, which he sings as the theme song of the show. Of course! Doofen and Vanessa leave as Nepoleon crawls from underneath the carnage as his exoskeleton is fractured and Wendell has been killed again to end the episode at 11:20 approx. This was certainly an interesting diversion from the normal formula; even though it's the same formula only with Lang playing Candace and Doofen playing Phineas. Oh well; it was fun, so *** 3/4 (75%).
Father's Day: We begin in the morning at Phineas' house. Well; more earlier than usual as we head into the kitchen with Phineas and Ferb making breakfast. Phineas is making orange juice with a squeezing tool; while Ferb is making pancakes which the pans have a button to spring load the pancakes onto a plate on a conveniently placed cart. We make eggs, complete with a chicken in a nest in the cupboard who appears to be...Ummm...I'm not going there, but it lays an egg and goes down the chute for Ferb to grab. Toast gets a tennis racket treatment while we make coffee in a Rube-Goldbergish device that is so crazy that Candace will be in bust mode when this is over. It's even more so with Phineas wearing safety goggles during this. Oh and Ferb personally hand places the blueberries inside the pancake and covers the trays with dome lids ending with Phineas carting them out of the kitchen. So Ferb leaves and uses the remote; which hides the evidence and we head inside Lawerence's room with Lawerence in his green robe on the computer watching what appears to be TaleSpin. It's really him and Grandpa Reggie playing a 1920's WW1 flight simulator and they do some pilot to navigator stuff. I then realize that this is in fact a TaleSpin tribute because Lawerence addresses Reggie as Poppa Bear, which is the nickname Kit often gave Baloo in that show. So it's Father's Day and they are simulating the real thing, which is not quite the real thing, but that cannot be helped due to the wonders of modern technology. Phineas & Ferb overhear this and Phineas gets inspired as they bring in Lawerence's surprise breakfast. Speaking of continuity errors; when the dome is lifted from the cart; the plate shows toast shaped like Phineas & Ferb, using orange wedges, eggs, lettuce, wheat and bacon. At least two ingredients were not used during the breakfast sequence. Lawerence thanks Phineas & Ferb for the continuity error as Candace is now spying on them from the hallway. Candace comes in and acts all annoying as Linda comes in and acts all normal. Linda leaves to let the males have their fun and asks Candace to leave with her. Candace complies and Reggie asks where Perry is.
Perry opens a board in the wooden fence and goes through and gets onto a slide with a roof on top of it. It rises into the sky and flies like a helicopter complete with arm with a monitor showing Major Monogram's mug. Apparently; it's called the SFU 2000 and he tells him not to let his duties slide. Karl then shows off the out of nowhere yellow tie with pink splashes on it, which makes Monogram into a much bigger tool than he already is. Monogram blows him off and tells Perry to stop Doofen from gumming up the entire Tri-State Area~! Perry salutes him, the monitor goes inside the slide as Perry jumps up and slides off the slide, parachuting directly into Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated. Perry crashes through building and lands on floor. Literally one second later; his hands and feet are tied with bubble gum. Doofen is happy, makes jokes and introduces laser gun #25433: The Gum Under Shoe-inator~! Doofen claims that he stole all the wadded up chewing gum on the sidewalks of Danville and fed it into his machine. It blows a bubble, it explodes and makes a mess of everything. Doofen blows this all off as being not his day, because it's Father's Day. Har har. So we hit the flashback as we head to Drusselstein at Doofen's residence as a bunch of gnomes are repossessed by the repo man with a horse and cart. Of course; this is I believe the third time this story has been told, and I believe I mentioned it in my previous rants; so I won't mention it again. The guise of this is that Doofen believes that this is where the relationship went awry. No crap, Sherlock Doof~! Meanwhile; Doofen relates memorizing a serial number DAEHM23 and Perry somehow gets on the computer and is typing tied up to a website that tracks lawn gnomes. Basically; the gnome is in Drusselstein still, Doofen is happy, walks into another giant bubble, more explosions, don't care. I don't like lawn gnome plot devices, they aren't funny anymore to me. Let's move on to Ferb painting the image of the Fletcher Family Flying Cirus logo and images of Reggie and Lawerence's heads in pilot's gear on the side of a yellow/orange bi-plane (with British Flag trim) that is an exact version of the old biplane Reggie flew.
Oh; did I mention that Phineas & Ferb are test flying the pilot for real?! Oh come on, Kit! You already flew the most difficult plane in existence in Thembria! These two still cannot compete with that, because no one can. Oh wait; Ferb installed jet plane engines on it and we punch it as they break the speed of sound! Oh come on, Baloo! You flew the engine WITHOUT a plane! These two still cannot compete with that, because no one can. Jump cut to the roof opening at Doofenshmirtz's Evil Incorporated as we bring out the cannon, ala Secret Of Mana. Doofen lights a match on the cannon, with Perry in the baby carrier on his chest and they enter the cannon. We shoot the cannon that Doofen got from a going out of business sale, as Vanessa comes in with a basket of goodies and she's left hanging. Back to the hate part of the love/hate relation for this relationship. Doofen talks about the inflight meal and such being not available due to the cannon only taking them so far. So we get a sequence of cannon shooting at various locations, but one of them misses by about a hundred feet, causing Doofen and Perry to hit the water. Doofen is not amused and swims towards the cannon complaining. So Phineas and Ferb land their plane in the backyard and bail to get Lawerence and we return with the no peeking Lawerence giggling, because we cannot do the blindfold spot. Lawerence opens his eyes and he's giddy about this as Phineas tells him about a special feature hidden in the plane which Ferb has closed since the jet engines are gone. Suddenly; out pops Reggie, because you see; they used the jet engines so they could fly to Great Britain to fly Reggie over to Danville. So; the engines were not pointless after all. Lawerence and Reggie hug each other and my heart melted as they get into the bi-plane and offer a ride to Phineas & Ferb because they are part of the tradition. Okay, they have adult supervision, so it's fine. So Phineas & Ferb get into the third slot behind the adults which opens up and we take off and fly as we sing the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM for a while. One man runs on a dusty road and loses all his clothes, except for his underwear, socks and shoes.
This is a fine little song with lots of stunt piloting, straight out of a TaleSpin episode as the plad vest flies away and Reggie ad-libs, like Jim Cummings did with Don Karnage in TaleSpin. There is smoke sign making spots, barnstorming spots, Phineas, Reggie and Ferb do dancing on the top of the plane. Sadly; no peeling onions while crying occurs, which would have directly referenced The Time Bandit. Lots of ripping up tents while singing about Immelmann, English Bunt, as they reference a Russian circus stunt and manage to have an elephant come along with the ride. That was also great as we get more smoke signing and stunt moves. Elephant is on beach ball lands in the elephant haul in a zoo as pink flamingoes get buzzed and fly in the backseat as we end with them as apparently; Ferb showed Reggie how to use the jet engines as they are on flying away from Doofen in the air and he lands right in the middle of Drusselstein's public square and in a shock of all shocks; the place is not so dreadful as Doofen has been building up to it. It looks like your typical stereotypical old country village in ancient Germany. Of course; Doofen and Perry kill a cat literally on screen and that is cold. Oh wait; Doofen walks away and the cat meows "I'm fine". No; you are not fine. You got crushed by Doofenshmirtz. So we head outside the Ye Olde Pawn Shoppe which is having a sale. So Doofen opens the door and notices a lawn gnome sitting on a bench. The fact that it was standing on a bench should have been a clue that the guy was in fact a real gnome, but Doofen is an idiot and grabs it. The gnome protests and Doofen puts it down and apologizes for the misunderstanding. The gnome forgives him because he makes weird fashion choices. Oh really? I have seen Lacie and some of Vanessa's classmates in the previous short with far more weird fashion design choices than you. So yeah; the gnome owns the store as Doofen asks for the serial number and the gnome finds the lawn gnome, just like that. Doofen loves it like family and everyone is confused as Doofen blows it off and they head to Doofen's residence, which is a castle like lighthouse.
Doofen opens the door; walks in and of course, trips on the rug and smacks the floor, shattering the lawn gnome right in front of his father. Awkward attempt to not dress up Heinz as a lawn gnome ensues as Dad stutters like an idiot, before showing off a giant gnome with a double door opening in the belly from Doofen's brother, Roger. You know, the mayor who has the big bucks. Oh; and it doubles as a coffee maker. Dad has his cup of coffee and appears to be fine with Doofen's gift. Doofen is awkward; which is normal with him around, sometimes it's actually an improvement. Doofen finally leaves and sulks on the sidewalk with Perry as Dad is not impressed; but notices the serial number on the lawn gnome pieces. Doofen stands up and proclaims that it could have gone better; but Perry is still a relationship that worked out, so again; it's all a work. So Doofen and Perry head to the cannon BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (Sunset) at the docks, they get into cannon and they get shot out of it. Jump cut to the male Fletchers landing the bi-plane in the backyard as Lawerence, Phineas and Ferb get out and praise each other for the best Father's Day ever. Lawerence and Phineas give Reggie the plane, since they cannot fit it in the garage anyway; and Reggie is fine with it as he flies the bi-plane away and out of sight. In comes Candace and Linda with a blue box present as Lawerence basically tells the truth and Linda calls it the wonders of the internet. Lawerence is confused; but Linda gives Lawerence his present. Lawerence opens it to reveal a scale model of the bi-plane he just flew earlier and we share a family hug and that ends the episode at 10:20 approx. A really fun episode, which sadly isn't as great as TaleSpin can be, but I liked it, so that's what counts. Still; I guess I'm just getting tired of the repetition at this point. *** (60%). We then end with Doofen coming back and noticing the basket Vanessa had on the wooden table. Doofen goes over to the basket and reads the card; as the basket contains switches and self-destruct buttons. Sadly, no Nintendo Switches though since it's 2013. Doofen pushes the button, it explodes and we have ash and soot everywhere. Then we see Doofen's dad in Drusselstein putting down a lawn gnome which has been super glued on the ground; remembering to repair it with more glue when a piece falls off. He yells "Don't move" in German and that ends it. Okay; that was cute.
THE REVIEW LINE
Wow; Father's Day was one of the shortest reviews of an eleven minute episode I have ever done. I mean; the entire TaleSpin-ish theme was really well done and the Doofen/Perry segments were fine; but it's gotten to the point where I have stopped feeling and caring about it since the plot is basically the same like in every episode. The content is what is keeping this alive and even that is going to run out sooner rather than later. Doof 101 was a twist to the formula with Doofen playing Phineas, Perry playing Ferb and Lang playing Candace and Johnny being a Wuzzle was hilarious to see, along with the usual Doofen antics, but it's still basically the same type of plot; only the characters playing it are different. Vanessa was great as always and Doofen being a science teacher is funny. Again; I like these episodes, but the bloom is off the rose at this point and only the hardest of the hardcore are watching this show at this point. Overall; a middling set of shorts that end the final two eleven minute episodes of the DVD set. So...
Thumbs in the middle for both shorts and I'll see you all next time.