Tri-State Gazette, Issue 9

TTrrriiii---StateState GGaaazettezette IssuIssuee The OOfffffficialicial Phineas and Ferb Wiki NewsleNewsletttterter December 16, 9 2009 News and information from the world of Phineas and FerFerbb http://PhineasAndFerb.wikia.cohttp://PhineasAndFerb.wikia.comm Current forum discussions Crat Corner by Topher208 • What would you give Santa? • Phineas and ferb contest From a Certain Point of View • Who is Ferb’s Real Mom and Phineas’ Real With the premiere of “Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!”, Dad? we have been getting a lot of new editors around here. I’d • Changing “Too Young” to The “Yes” Line like to take a minute to remind everyone about our Point of • YouTube links to episodes on this Wiki and View policy. We have two types of articles on this wiki, YouTube videos in-universe and real world. Episodes and songs fit somewhere • Diary allergies in-between. • Canonically Accurate - What’s What? In-universe articles are written as if we live in the world of • Featured Picture of the Month • Phineas and Ferb. This includes characters, organizations, Featured article nominations events, and anything else that we see on the series. The main • Featured Song of the Month part of any of these articles should never contain things like, • Monthly Quote nominations “in the episode,” or “the next scene.” We write these articles • “Did you know...?” nominations as if the events on the series are real and we’re journalists or • Discovering Perry’s secret historians in their world. You should cite your sources at the • Suggestion for new episode category end of sentences or paragraphs in parentheses. Any behind- • Categories for individual characters the-scenes information regarding the subject can only go • Jeremy and Candace in the future? under the heading Background Information and in very • Why don’t we vote for the fan art? limited amounts in the infobox. • Season 2 soundtrack concepts and ideas Real World articles are written from our own perspective, where Phineas and Ferb is a series, and we can refer to episodes, actors, etc. These real world articles are marked with a globe icon in the upper right corner. These may be written like standard Wikipedia articles where we can freely refer to things on the show as being part of a television series. Bonus Issue Episodes are marked as real world articles, but the initial short summary and main episode summary should be written If all goes well, there will be a from an in-universe point of view. This means you should bonus issue of the Tr i - S ta t e never write things like, “the scene opens,” or “we cut to.” Everything else on episode pages are in the real world point Gazette published right around of view. Christmas. Songs are written from the in-universe point of view if they exist in the world of Phineas and Ferb. Songs like Gitchee Gitchee Goo and Come Home, Perry are examples of in-universe songs. Other songs should try to maintain the in-universe point of view, but can contain references to real world items. Examples include Quirky Worky Song and Perry the Platypus (song). The full policy can be found in our Manual of Style. Ho-ho-ho; the Christmas special we’ve all been waiting for finally arrives by SuperFlash101 We’ve all been waiting for the exciting new Christmas special, “Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!”, and it’s finally come. Just last week, it aired on Disney XD and Disney Channel, and, for the first time ever, on ABC Family in a couple of days (at least at the time I’m writing this). So did it live up to the hype? Was it the Christmas classic we were waiting for? Let's find out. I, honestly, was mixed about it, but still felt it was pretty awesome. Let’s start Phineas tries to do the “It Was All with some of the pros. The visuals, for one, were just phenomenal. The bright a Dream” bit with failing results. I colors and vibrant character designs were at their peak. The animation with all loved the new winter clothing design the snow, with all the action scenes, were amazing. The design for the the artists did for the characters. character’s winter clothing was top-knotch. All the layout artists, character animators, character designers, and of course colorists, were experiencing the highest moment of their career on the show. Plus, there was the stellar voice performance and amazing songs. Each actor and actress served up deliciously rich perform- ances for their characters and really treated them with great care despite it being a special. My favorite song, of course, was Doofenshmirtz’s I Really Don’t Hate Christmas; his songs are always the best ones of the episode, and, while I wasn’t very interested in the other songs very much, I did feel that they were greatly delivered and really felt like a Christmas tune. But that brings me to what mixed me: the writing. If this was a normal episode, I would have been rather bored and feel that the episode was lacking. But it wasn’t a normal episode; it was a Christmas special. Therefore, it had some warm, sticky-sweet writing signature of Christmas specials. The kind of “this time of year is the greatest” thing that we see a lot, but we’ve grown to love and actually expect. I was at times slipping from the fact that it wasn’t a normal episode, but really, I truly began to understanding it was a special and looked at it from a different There’s a sticky, warm feeling to point of view: this is a Christmas special, and is therefore written like a Christ- the episode, stereotypical of mas special, but what helps it stand out is the whole satirical theme of it, Christmas specials, but there is an making fun of the cuddly, friendly idea it is. Doofenshmirtz’s entire subplot is underlying satirical plot that helps it a huge parody of how penetrating carolers are and how annoying it can get stand out. when people are trying to stuff down cheer down your throat when you’re perfectly jolly and comfortable in your current state of Christmas enjoyment. I was really cracking up at Monogram’s disbelief in the fact that Carl did not give the CD to Perry and was in fact not his Secret Santa. Their dynamic is, simply put, delicious, rich, and hilarious. The energy Jeff “Swampy” Marsh and Tyler Alexander Mann put into their characters is actually almost non-existing; but you see, that’s what makes it so funny! It’s the whole simplistic, dry voice performance they give that makes their characters so relatable and funny! And as they develop them, it just gets more and more masterfully funny. And it’s this development that helps this special so strongly, too. Isabella is confirmed to be Jewish, something we fans have just guessed at. And this even helps it become a diverse Christmas special instead of the usual “Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, no others” thing that’s become too common lately. Buford also serves as a majorly developed character in this. He plans on redeeming himself just before Christmas in order to be on the good list. And the great part about that is he does. It’s like he’s Scrooge at the end of A Christmas Carol, redeeming himself before Christmas and becoming better for it. I doubt it’ll will actually change him forever, but there’s something almost Buford represents the Scrooge like a Biblical parallel to it — if this wasn’t a Disney cartoon, that is. of this festive tale in the way he redeems himself by doing a greater So all and all, I truly enjoyed this special. It was visually stunning and was task. It’s almost a biblical parallel, if voiced and sung brilliantly, and while the writing was explicitly sweet and sticky, this wasn’t a Disney cartoon. it was good in that and made fun of itself in the process. It was a great, fun special filled with laughs and smiles, and for that, I give it a jolly old overall A. Agree with this review? Disagree? Can’t really decide? Let us know on our talk page. TriTri---StateState Gazette, Issue #9 2 December 16, 2009 Doofenshmirtz Activity Task Force report by RRabbit42 Delta Alpha Tango Foxtrot to Major Monogram. Yo! Major! Are you there? Ben, you remember what happened the last time you got "creative" with your reporting? I hope he does. Oh! Major Monogram! Sorry about that, sir. Just trying to liven things up a bit. What do you have to report? We’ve been watching delivery trucks pulling up to Doofenshmirtz’s hanger at the Danville airport almost non-stop this morning. Most of them seem to be from office supply stores. We were able to get a peek at the boxes being delivered. They appear to be copiers and a whole mess of toner cartridges. What does he need that many ink cartridges for? Toner cartridges, sir. I don’t know. Jerry, what was the count again? I lost track, Ben. There's gotta be about three thousand of ’em. You boys are right. That is a whole mess of ink cartridges. Toner cartridges, sir. But that’s not all. There were two other strange deliveries. One was for some paint, and the other was for a couple of tanning beds. Hmmm. Ink cartridges, copiers, paint and tanning beds. What pernicious plan could Doofenshmirtz be concocting this time? I don’t know, Major.

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