#DR PHINEASTEIN

[lyllaotterofhalfworld]

I don't believe I ever posted this one and this was done some time around October (I'm going through my stuff and couldn't find it anywhere) x'D

[cantdanceflynn]

OH MY GOD I DID EVERY PROMPT I DID 45 DRAWINGS(ALL BUT ONE OF WHICH WAS COLORED(AND THAT ONE WAS A BONUS!!!!!!!!!) AND ALMOST ALL OF WHICH WERE SHADED!!!!!!!!!!!!) OF THIS AU IN THIS MONTH IM NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BURNT OUT OR ANYTHING IM JUST.

IM GONNA WALLOW IN PRIDE FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS OVER THIS I THINK

[forgottenpnffacts]

The Steam Noir coffeehouse has a picture of Castle Phineastein (Dr. Phineastein’s Drusselstein home) inside it.

[watchathon]

Phineas and Ferb, S1E22: The Monster of Phineas-N-Ferbenstein/Oil on Candace

Hello, and welcome to the Watchathon, a blog where I watch an episode of TV every weekday, with a blog post where I write down my thoughts afterwards.

And now, here’s my thoughts on Season 1, Episode 22 of Phineas and Ferb: The Monster of Phineas-N-Ferbenstein/Oil on Candace

The Monster of Phineas-N-Ferbenstein

The second Halloween episode, and this time, it’s a parody of Frankenstein (told to the Flynn-Fletcher kids by Grandpa Reginald Fletcher) and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (told to Perry the Platypus by Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.)

On the Frankenstein side of things, we’ve got Dr. Phineastein and his assistant Ferbgor (Ferb's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great uncle) creating a giant green platypus monster to enter in the Best Monster Contest. Once the governess Constance sees their monster, she tries to expose them to an angry mob.

Meanwhile, Dr. Jekyll Doofenshmirtz (Heinz Doofenshmirtz’s great, great grandfather) is trying to purposefully get the angry mob after him by showing them his latest invention, a machine which brews potions that can turn a man into a horrifying monster. Or a fairy princess. He ruins his chances with the angry mob once he mistakenly drinks the fairy princess potion, but after the mob has left, he drinks the monster potion and leaves to go on a rampage around town.

These are stories which have been parodied countless times prior, but I would say the thing that makes this version stand out is how the stories are altered to fit within a version of the Phineas and Ferb formula.

Between Constance attempting to bust Phineastein and Ferbgor, and the semi-rivalry which forms between the platypus monster and Jekyll Doofenshmirtz, it’s fun to see these common elements of Phineas and Ferb take on a Universal Horror twist.

Oil on Candace

Ah, the only major role of Django Brown. And, seeing it again, I can kinda see why he didn’t get any others.

Django is kind of a flat character, not having as much to his personality as Phineas and Ferb’s other friends do. Even after watching this episode where Phineas and Ferb’s project of the day is helping Django create a giant painting, I don’t really know that I can describe Django’s character aside from “likes art.”

And when you compare that to characters like Isabella or Buford, it’s not hard to see why Django didn’t really have a place in the main cast of Phineas and Ferb.

[quetanto]

A lone Flynn calling any Fletchers out there, I think I need a hand with something.

Notice how Heinz, in a couple of places, mentions “good evil and bad evil”? And, well, he’s right. Sort of. Which gave me a thought: what if Drusselsteinian German did have different words for the two?

Now, there are different words for “evil” in Standard German. There’s Böse, which apparently means “wickedness” but also “anger”, and comes from the same root as English “boast”. And then there’s Übel, which originally meant “sickness” it seems. But...this is Drusselstein. Doing evil seems to be a practiced profession over there, given the number of Doofenshmirtzes across history who’ve given in. (And don’t forget Dr. Phineastein!) And Drusselstein deserves fancier words than that for such integral concepts. (Plus, look at the monstrosity they turned out for “luck”–Glück versus Stinkelkrampen, anyone?)

So...kick it up a notch?

I give you Herschensuchenheit and Leuteblindheit! There’s “good evil”, the seeking of control over the world. Shaping things to your whim, knowing the intricate mechanisms of the world, charging ahead and seizing the day that you can better choke it into submission. And then there’s “bad evil”, where you simply don’t care about how others will be affected–they aren’t worthy of consideration beyond what you need at the moment.

Having both? That’s pure evil. But just being leuteblind makes you a jerk. Or a politician. (I’m watching you, Roger.) And just being herschensuchend makes you, well, a mad scientist. Not “bad evil”.

So, my question is: what the hell do I use this for?

You’ve got the Herschensuchenheit, Heinz, but try as you might you ain’t got that Leuteblindheit. Leave that to your stunt double.

(Also apologies if my German derivational morphology is off, I’m still in the beginner stages of learning the language.)

[pnfoutofcontext]

Dr. Phineastein: It's really big. Phineas: How big, Grandpa? Grandpa Reg: Bigger than a refrigerator but smaller than a really big refrigerator.

[joemerl]

How would you have written the "Klimpaloon Ultimatum" episode differently?

I only watched this episode once, four years ago, so I had to go and look up the plot description to remember what happened. Forgive me if I get anything wrong. 

Honestly, my main thought is…don’t make it? Klimpaloon is a fine one-off joke, but giving him a whole episode just detracts from his inherent randomness. If you do expand on him, it needs to be something equally fun. Maybe this episode would have worked better if it was played more for laughs---I mean, an evil corporate executive is trying to suck out a magical talking bathing suit’s life force and we’re supposed to react with genuine horror. How about instead we get some jokes about how utterly nonsensical this is? 

…You know, I’m suddenly remembering a very old fanfic idea where Dr. Phineastein was the one who created Klimpaloon. Let’s go with that—instead of an episode about Looten Plunder's latest evil scheme, we get a fun story where Phineastein and Ferbgor go on vacation to Nepal to find the Abominable Snowman or something. Early on we get a joke that Ferbgor packed his bathing suit despite the frigid weather, and it seems like a one-off gag. Phineastein also brought some of his monster-related chemicals, of course. Anyway, we get a whole big adventure of them trying and failing to find a yeti, during which Ferbgor loses his suitcase and Phineastein loses his chemicals in a big chase scene that’s probably related to the Doof/Perry B-plot. Eventually they leave and are like, “well, guess there are no strange creatures here after all.” But then we end on a yeti picking through the suitcase and accidentally spilling some of the chemicals on Ferbgor’s clothes, and Klimpaloon jumps up and runs away. We hide the fact that it was an origin story, which means that he’s still a random gag, and it even fits with the show’s usual style of somehow making old jokes funnier by retelling them in slightly different ways. 

It’s stupid, but it’s the kind of fun stupidity that I expect from Phineas and Ferb.

[cricketskip]

<p>Dr Phineastein! </p> <p>More human anatomy pratice WHOOP</p> <p>(Also I know the hands don’t look good don’t remind me)

[lyllaotterofhalfworld]

It's October 1st! You know what that means? I finally get to post some Halloween works that I done WEEKS ago but dated it for today and tomorrow :D

[lyllaotterofhalfworld]

Dr. Phineastein's assistant: Ferbgor

Again done along with the other one ;w;

[forgottenpnffacts]

Do we know what country Dr. Phineastein and Ferbgor lived in? I faintly remember it being Drusselstein, but that might have been a different episode.

You got it right! In “The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein,” Doof is telling the story of his great-great grandfather, Jekyll Doofenshmirtz. Since the plot of Grandpa Reg’s story with Dr. Phineastein and Ferbgor intertwines with Doof’s, that means they were also in Drusselstein!