Does the dog die?
190 supporters
Phineas and Ferb
TV Show • 2007 • Family
ReportEach day, two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation embark on some grand new project, which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust them. Meanwhile, their pet platypus plots against evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
This tv show contains 44 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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RowanOakley
A dog skeleton is shown on screen in one episode, and a joke is made about it being the protagonists' previous pet. It is never mentioned or shown again.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal abandoned?
51 supporters
Yes
0
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0
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doogy
Candace puts Perry outside when she runs into him at 3am
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Is an animal sad?
42 supporters
Yes
0
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doogy
Perry when he has to leave his host family or when he sympathizes with Doof
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Yes
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Yes
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Are there sudden loud noises?
17 supporters
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0
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0
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doogy
Not too sudden and they're usually for slapstick/comedic effect
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Yes
0
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
22 supporters
Yes
6
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2
SiRenfield
Neither of Doof’s parents showed up at his own birth and at one point abanonded him to be raised by ocelots
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
31 supporters
Yes
5
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DeenGray
Doofenshmirtz has abusive parents, though it is played for laughs. For starters, they didn't show up to his birth. His mother immediately regifted his toy teddy bear present to Roger, and his father had him act as a replacement lawn gnome when the Doofenshmirtzes had them repossessed for hours on end.
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Yes
2
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5
Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
52 supporters
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9
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
45 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
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SourpussMaggie
Should be noted that the slapstick violence Candace endures is most often her own fault, either in a “bad karma” sense or in a literal sense depending on the situation. It’s also very rarely inflicted by other people.
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Yes
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SiRenfield
Doofenshmritz is a pretty good father despite his own terrible upbringing
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Is someone gaslighted?
27 supporters
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13
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Anonymous
Candace's mom doesn't believe her when she talks about Phineas and Ferb's inventions and repeatedly insists that she's crazy. This is played for comedy.
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Yes
28
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1
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Anonymous
Heinz Doofenshmirz has many flashbacks about being emotionally abused as a child, but it's exaggerated and played for comedy.
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Addiction
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9
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TodoketeKasane
Not Drugs specifically, but the Blackbeard episode has a subplot of Candace running into some orange moss, which causes her to act as if she's on a psychedelic trip. ("Why do my nostrils whisper to meeee?")
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0
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8
Yes
0
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
68 supporters
Yes
0
No
4
1
SourpussMaggie
It's a cartoon.
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0
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12
Yes
2
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12
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TodoketeKasane
Perry (a platypus) comes damn close on occasions, but he always turns out fine.
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Are animals abused?
113 supporters
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2
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6
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Lynxwithaharpn
Perry/Agent P is often shown in danger, as well as the other animal agents, but he turns out fine in the end.
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TodoketeKasane
Not in the traditional sense. A minor character, Pinky the Chihuahua, is also an OWCA agent, and engages in hand-to-hand fisticuffs with Professor Poofenplotz the same way Perry does with Doofenshmirtz.
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Is there a dead animal?
63 supporters
Yes
4
No
5
3
Lynxwithaharpn
Animal skeletons, but nothing beyond that.
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Are rabbits harmed?
37 supporters
Yes
4
No
0
2
doogy
Dennis the Rabbit v. Perry the Platypus is a whole arc
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Yes
0
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14
Does a pet die?
85 supporters
Yes
3
No
1
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CassetteMeower
A skeleton of a dead dog is seen in a fossil exhibit, and there’s an implied joke that it was Phineas and Ferb’s dog who was rehomed to someone else’s house after getting sick, and who subsequently died. This dog’s death isn’t seen on screen, just a fossil.
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Yes
0
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9
Are there spiders?
26 supporters
Yes
15
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0
3
Anonymous
"Phineas and Ferb Save Summer" has a subplot where Candace gets over a fear of spiders.
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Are there snakes?
12 supporters
Yes
6
No
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Anonymous
Rubber snakes in the rollercoaster episodes.
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Are there bugs?
17 supporters
Yes
22
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0
3
RowanOakley
One episode revolves around ants, and another revolves around bees.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
17 supporters
Yes
0
No
3
1
doogy
There is a sequence with Candace and orange moss that resembles a psychedelic trip
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4
Yes
0
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
13 supporters
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6
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2
Mainly Baljeet, but others as well, are repeatedly beaten up by Buford. It’s usually played off as funny.
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Is someone restrained?
13 supporters
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8
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CassetteMeower
Perry (and other OWCA animal agents) are trapped in various traps while battling villains. These traps are usually pretty funny, such as Perry being trapped in a boot designed to look like Vanessa’s boots. Many are also simple cages. The animal agents always escape.
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9
Yes
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Yes
0
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
19 supporters
Yes
12
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3
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PerrybearWaks
In "The Lemonade Stand" Doofenshmirtz has an inator that causes papercuts, a lot is involved
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Yes
0
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Is someone crushed to death?
17 supporters
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3
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CassetteMeower
Doofenshmirtz has gotten crushed after inators explode on several occasions, but he’s always okay.
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Is someone burned alive?
24 supporters
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0
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8
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CassetteMeower
There have been many scenes where characters have caught on fire, but they’re always okay. It’s intended to be funny and is very cartoony.
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0
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6
Is there amputation?
14 supporters
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1
No
8
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ThatWGIgeek
It is briefly mentioned in one episode that both of Doofenshmirtz's arms are titanium, however, there is no gore or mention of the circumstances that caused Doofenshmirtz's arms to be titanium. It also never shows up again.
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Does a head get squashed?
35 supporters
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3
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8
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ProfessorProcyon
In the special "Summer Belongs to You", there is a brief imagine spot where Isabella's head explodes. It's not graphic at all, though.
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0
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6
Are any teeth damaged?
25 supporters
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6
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CassetteMeower
In the episode Bubble Boys Doofenshmirtz is a singer, and he sings so bad that someone in the audience says “this music is so bad I feel like I have to break something!” and he then puts a lot of pressure on his teeth making them all break, and he says “yeah that wasn’t worth it”. In other episodes Doofenshmirtz’ teeth get damaged from Inator explosions, but they’re seen fine in the next episode. Many young child characters are seen missing teeth, but this is since they’re children and children lose baby teeth naturally.
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Does someone break a bone?
15 supporters
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13
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0
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Anonymous
"Mommy Can You Hear Me" has Candace with a broken leg for the whole episode. "De Plane! De Plane!" also ends with Candace and Jeremy crashing into each other and the stinger shows them with casts on.
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Yes
0
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7
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
47 supporters
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0
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7
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CassetteMeower
Private parts are never seen.
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1
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6
Yes
0
No
6
Does someone fall down stairs?
4 supporters
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6
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0
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TodoketeKasane
The context is that Candace was transported into a video game, and a slip and fall ends up sending her (upright) down some stairs, only losing hp and not suffering any major damages from this.
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Does someone fall to their death?
8 supporters
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1
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9
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ProfessorProcyon
There's an episode where Doofenshmirtz falls from a high place, but immediately lands on a mattress. In the episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", the drill sergeant presumably falls to his death (but it should be noted that the entire episode was a dream). There are also various other falls from high places, but no known deaths.
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6
Yes
0
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3
Children
Does a kid die?
28 supporters
Yes
1
No
11
0
TodoketeKasane
One episode has Candace believing that Phineas and Ferb have died, but they come back perfectly fine while she's grieving. (They were transported into a video game, and they still had extra lives left
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Yes
0
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3
Disability
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0
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6
Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
0
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3
Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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8
No
0
3
LaynePinky
In the episode "Lost in Danville", Doof gets kidnapped after a scuffle in his house. Also, various other episodes have Doof holding a person hostage, usually comedically.
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Does a parent die?
8 supporters
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0
No
12
2
nh17
We don't know what happened to Phineas's dad or Ferb's mom. They are never mentioned
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
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1
No
5
1
nh17
It's not focused on, but Monogram mentions his wife several times, but also flirts with other women several times. We don't know if his wife knows or approves of this. "Meepless in Seattle" and "It's About Time" have a running subplot in which someone "cheats" on someone else, but it's not in a romantic sense.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
15 supporters
Yes
16
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2
6
ProfessorProcyon
In every episode, Phineas and Ferb's invention is somehow removed from their front lawn, usually by being destroyed in some way. It causes them little to no hard feelings.
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Fear
Yes
1
No
6
Yes
2
No
5
Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
Yes
14
No
0
3
Lynxwithaharpn
Mainly in the Halloween specials.
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Are there clowns?
9 supporters
Yes
19
No
0
3
Lynxwithaharpn
They're generally not threatening and are often just seen in the background.
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Yes
6
No
0
Is there a shower scene?
7 supporters
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3
No
12
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ProfessorProcyon
A monkey takes a shower in the theme song, but other than that, no.
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
12 supporters
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4
No
3
2
CassetteMeower
In many episodes Baljeet mentions getting scared and saying he’ll need fresh underwear. I don’t know of any specific episodes. No actual poop or pee is seen.
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Does someone vomit?
58 supporters
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6
No
6
1
Lomapa183
Candace in Perry's body does after eating Platypus food in the episode "Does this duckbill make me look fat?"
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Is someone eaten?
18 supporters
Yes
4
No
0
1
doogy
Phineas and Ferb end up in a tiny submarine inside Candace
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Does someone spit?
9 supporters
Yes
16
No
1
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CassetteMeower
Many episodes contain fart humor. In the episode Mandace, Candace is changed into a pizza delivery boy through an inator and decides to deliver pizza to her boyfriend Jeremy while she resembles the pizza delivery guy. To make him really think she’s a boy, she spits and then awkwardly says “Boys spit… haha..” And in another episode Perry spits into a spittoon to activate an entryway to the OWCA lab.
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0
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6
Is there farting?
4 supporters
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4
No
0
2
S4
E16
Candace farts at the very end of the episode but it isn’t made a big deal out of and the moment ends quickly.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
4 supporters
Yes
0
No
8
1
Jailyn
Why the fuck would you want that
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
Yes
2
No
8
0
SourpussMaggie
Police are never shown to achieve much in the way of protecting Danville from threats (supervillains, LOVEMUFFIN, Parallel Doof’s robots, a zombie apocalypse, etc). Parallel Dimension Doofenshmirtz’s robots serve as law enforcement and are considered an antagonistic force, with the rebellion against them being the protagonists.
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LGBTQ+
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3
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
5
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
15 supporters
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2
No
4
2
nh17
Something very similar is used in what turns out to be a dream. Phineas and Ferb are soaked with water every time they try to build something, and it's very dark
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Yes
2
No
7
Is there a mental institution scene?
16 supporters
Yes
16
No
4
2
DonovanGiombetti
There is an episode where the whole point is they go to a mental camp
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Is there a hospital scene?
7 supporters
Yes
8
No
5
4
RowanOakley
A major character wears a labcoat and is referred to (erroneously) as a pharmacist in one episode, but he is not a doctor and there are no hospital scenes.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
28 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
2
CassetteMeower
Doofenshmirtz is very clearly traumatized by his past and in every episode he talks about his “emotionally scarring backstory” which is what motivated his evil scheme in that episode.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
8
Is autism misrepresented?
20 supporters
Yes
0
No
3
0
Jailyn
Ferb is not misrepresented and is respectful fairly for his semi verbal communication.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
19 supporters
Yes
1
No
7
3
LVKendo
Doof has some issues and is “evil”, and fights with Perry, but isn’t necessarily “violent”. It all stems from childhood trauma though
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Yes
0
No
4
Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
50 supporters
Add comment
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0
No
4
Yes
1
No
4
Is there ABA therapy?
13 supporters
Yes
2
No
1
1
In an episode where Phineas and Ferb are finally busted, they're sent to a military camp. A scene show them getting repeatedly hosed until they no longer have creative urges. The scene portrays the action in a negative manner. It turns out to be not real.
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Yes
4
No
1
Is there body dysmorphia?
19 supporters
Yes
6
No
6
2
CassetteMeower
The moral at the end of that episode is how beauty standards are stupid and impossible to reach, so you should be happy the way you are and Candace accepts that she’s fine the way she is and is happy to just be Candace. Candace had become 50 something feet tall as a result of Phineas and Ferb’s growth elixir, and she realized that even after becoming tall enough to be a “Flawless Girl” she wasn’t really happy, and then decided to resume her true goal in busting her brothers.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Are there anxiety attacks?
19 supporters
Yes
13
No
1
4
Anonymous
Candace frequently goes into bouts of panic (for example she locks herself in "the panic room" in one episode) but they're typically played for laughs.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
14 supporters
Yes
12
No
1
0
nh17
There's a scene at the end of the Star Wars special that is incredibly claustrophobic, and a moderately claustrophobic scene in "Sci-fi Pie Fly"
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
24 supporters
Yes
1
No
12
4
ProfessorProcyon
No, though there is an episode where a character invents something that causes him to eat as much as he wants without gaining any weight.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
30 supporters
Yes
1
No
17
6
byakuyautistic
As an autistic person i think Ferb is implied to be autistic as well, and the other characters treat him very well and respect his traits.
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Yes
0
No
11
1
CassetteMeower
Nobody dies during the events of the series, aside from robots and some bugs.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
Yes
14
No
1
3
Anonymous
"Agent Doof" has characters turn into babies and they spend a lot of time crying.
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Is there shakey cam?
23 supporters
Yes
2
No
8
1
aglmry
minor shaking for a short-ish sequence of a cave collapsing in the episode ‘the ballad of badbeard’
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there flashing lights or images?
25 supporters
Yes
4
No
4
1
doogy
There are some in the rollercoaster sequence in One Good Scare Oughta Do You Some Good
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
9 supporters
Yes
4
No
0
0
doogy
Candance also often spies on her brothers in the backyard from the bedroom window or sends Stacy to look
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Is the fourth wall broken?
5 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
1
doogy
Just the occasional self-referential throwaway joke
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Pregnancy
Yes
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4
Is there childbirth?
13 supporters
Yes
2
No
8
5
punkrotte
no, but there is one episode where childbirth is mentioned. doof talks about how neither of his parents were present at his own birth and it shows him as a baby held by a nurse at the hospital
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Yes
0
No
8
Are there babies or unborn children?
10 supporters
Yes
9
No
0
1
doogy
There's also a very brief instance in the Little Brothers musical sequence where we see Candace holding baby Phineas, and in Dude We're Getting The Band Back Together Doof has pictures of baby Vanessa in his wallet
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Yes
0
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10
Does a pregnant person die?
9 supporters
Yes
0
No
10
0
CassetteMeower
Nobody dies in the series, but it’s worth mentioning that somehow Doofenshmirtz parents didn’t show up to his own birth (how…?)
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
28 supporters
Yes
10
No
1
3
Whiteout
In the Mount Rushmore episode (one of the earlier episodes) the mother walks up the mountain and says "I've lost half a dress size"
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Yes
5
No
9
5
RowanOakley
No, but one episode shows a male character being made to wear a dress, and it clearly distresses him and causes others to bully him. Another episode shows at least two male characters suddenly being in dresses, much to their surprise, but they don't seem bothered by it.
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Does the black guy die first?
14 supporters
Yes
0
No
13
3
RowanOakley
No characters die.
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Yes
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No
8
Yes
1
No
12
4
CassetteMeower
I don’t think Doofenshmirtz is supposed to be Christian, maybe he is but his religion isn’t explicitly stated, though he does celebrate Christmas. There was an entire episode starring a Mexican Jewish Cultural Festival, which clearly had a lot of research put into it to make both the Mexican and Jewish cultures accurately represented, and it had a lot of cute details. Many fans who are Mexican and/or Jewish really liked that episode, and there was an awesome song to go with it.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
20 supporters
Yes
13
No
0
6
byakuyautistic
A lot like, A LOT. Even an entire episode revolves about Doof making a inator that puts men into dresses and when he and Perry are hit by it it's meant to be comedic.
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Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
Yes
8
No
3
5
byakuyautistic
There are multiple anti-affeminacy jokes and a scene where a white boy makes fun of racialized accents, but the bully stops him because his best friend is a brown boy. I think you should mainly consider the first one before rewatching.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
12 supporters
Yes
4
No
2
5
DeenGray
Baljeet was not meant to be a misrepresentation, but he’s a pretty notorious example of the “Bollywood Nerd.”
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Does an LGBT person die?
24 supporters
Yes
0
No
15
8
ThatWGIgeek
Perry the Platypus is confirmed by the creators to be asexual, and while he does frequently end up in peril, he does not die.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
27 supporters
Yes
11
No
4
6
RowanOakley
Some of the humor revolves around Candace's obsession with her brothers' projects, and several tropes and stereotypes are used. She is explicitly called crazy at least once.
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0
No
10
Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
Yes
3
No
6
1
videnoir
S2
^ The bit in Nerds of a Feather is a throwaway gag and for all intents and purposes not actually aphobia. The joke revolves around Perry (or rather the fictional counterpart of him that Doofenshmirtz created to pitch a TV show as per his scheme of the day) and Doofenshmirtz is offended that the exec he's pitching it to "thinks he knows his characters better than him". Perry is asexual by word of the creator in TikTok comments, not within the show canon itself - therefore a casual watcher won't pick it up as aphobia. At most it reads as regular old amatonormativity.
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Race
Is there blackface?
17 supporters
Yes
1
No
2
0
zuurtje
S1
E12
season 1 episode 12 a white man disguised himself as a black woman to spy on someone
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
24 supporters
Yes
9
No
0
4
DeenGray
Ferb is around 10 and has a relationship with Vanessa, who’s 16
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
35 supporters
Yes
1
No
12
4
ProfessorProcyon
There's no outright sexual content (fairly obvious considering this is a children's show), but there's a fair bit of innuendo/adult jokes at times.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there bestiality?
46 supporters
Yes
2
No
6
4
nh17
No, but Dr. Doofenshmirtz treats his dynamic with Peter the Panda like a relationship
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
51 supporters
Add comment
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No
11
Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
12 supporters
Yes
1
No
4
0
CassetteMeower
Doofenshmirtz cries a lot, but Perry (or another friend of his) comforts him.
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Sickness
Yes
0
No
3
Social
Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
Yes
4
No
0
1
nh17
Someone is in "Phineas and Ferb Save Summer." He gets back on his feet by the next episode
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
2 supporters
Yes
0
No
16
11
Steven S.
Santa is explicitly real within the world of the show.
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Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
Yes
2
No
11
4
ProfessorProcyon
The ending of the series is happy, though it can be emotional to many.
2 comments | Add comment
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
9 supporters
Yes
14
No
2
3
LaynePinky
Cars may crash on screen or off screen, but everyone is always okay, as it is typically a joke.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Does a plane crash?
5 supporters
Yes
5
No
6
4
Anonymous
A plane falls into the water but dissolves due to being made of papier mache and everyone is safe.
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Is someone hit by a car?
11 supporters
Yes
8
No
2
1
CassetteMeower
Well, the Baljeet clone “dies” at the end of the episode when the machine that cloned him is destroyed, but the “death” just consists of the clones going poof and disappearing. But the clone didn’t die from being hit.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
Yes
0
No
7
3
ProfessorProcyon
Explosions are fairly frequent, but none of them are nuclear.
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Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
2
No
8
3
Anonymous
One episode simulates a blood splatter but it turns out to just be a bunch of jelly donuts being squashed.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
Yes
2
No
6
2
ProfessorProcyon
Gun-like weapons (such as space blasters) are sometimes used, but nobody is seriously hurt.
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