It's About Time! (Phineas and Ferb)
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| Phineas and Ferb episode | |
Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz on the Dr. Feelbetter show. Several critics noted the somewhat homosexual subtext in their relationship portrayed in the episode.
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 21 |
| Directed by | Dan Povenmire |
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Dan Povenmire (story) Jon Colton Barry (storyboards) Mike Roth (storyboards) Kent Osborne (storyboards) Aliki Theofilopoulos Grafft (storyboards) |
| Featured music | When We Didn't Get Along My Nemesis |
| Original air date | March 1, 2008 |
"It's About Time!" is the twenty-first broadcast episode of the animated television series Phineas and Ferb's first season. It originally aired on Disney Channel on March 1, 2008. The episode concerns stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb fixing a time machine on display in a museum and using it to travel back to prehistoric times. Meanwhile, Perry the Platypus deals with being replaced with a panda bear as the nemesis of the mad scientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
"It's About Time!" was written and directed by series co-creators Dan Povenmire, and storyboards were constructed by multiple artists in the show's production staff. The writers purposely left the time machine available to the boys at the end of the episode in order to reuse it later in the series, which they did in the season 2 episode "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo." Critical reception was generally positive, and multiple reviewers applauded Perry and Doofenshmirtz's relationship in the episode, which they noted was portrayed with possible homosexual subtext.
Stepbrothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher attend a museum, where they discover a broken time machine built in the 1880s on display. Endeavoring to travel through time themselves, they begin fixing it to work properly. This catches the attention of their sister, Candace, who desires to inform their mother of their activities to get in trouble. When she finally gets their mother Linda to follow her and view the machine, Linda becomes distracted while Candace continues to walk to the boys, just as their time machine activates. The three are sent back to the Late Cretaceous Period (erroneously stated to be in 300 million B.C.), where a Tyrannosaurus rex immediately destroys the time machine. Now stranded, the three are forced to flee from the T. rex and are eventually saved by a herd of Alamosaurus lounging in a large pond.
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