The first season of Phineas and Ferb began airing on Nickelodeon on April 15, 2000 with the episode "Rollercoaster" and concluded after 20 episodes on March 17, 2001 with "Journey to the Center of Candace".
Povenmire and Marsh initially conceived the show in 1991 and began to work on it shortly after the cancellation of Rocko's Modern Life in 1996.
Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released. All 20 episodes of the season, including extras such as the early pitch reel from 1997, were released on DVD on October 26, 2004.
Production[]
Development[]
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Animation[]
The animation was handled overseas at Wang Film Productions. Throughout the season's run, from 2000 to 2001, Phineas and Ferb was animated using cel animation. The show shifted to digital ink and paint animation during its second season in 2001. The season was storyboarded and by Sherm Cohen, Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Derek Drymon, Stephen Hillenburg, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender, Mark O'Hare, Aaron Springer, Vincent Waller, and Erik Wiese.
Reception[]
The first season of Phineas and Ferb received positive reviews from critics.
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Episodes[]
Main article: List of Phineas and Ferb (fanon version) episodes
| No. overall | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Rollercoaster" | Dan Povenmire | Swampy Marsh and Dan Povenmire | April 15, 2000 |
| Phineas and Ferb build a roller coaster for the neighborhood, much to their sister Candace's displeasure. Meanwhile, Perry, the boys' secret agent platypus, tries to stop his nemesis Dr. Doofenshmirtz from controlling the Earth's rotation with a magnet and a giant sheet of tin foil. | ||||
| 2 | "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror" | Donovan Cook | Dan Povenmire | June 9, 2000 |
| Phineas and Ferb build a backyard beach which Candace is determined to bust, but eventually begins to enjoy. Meanwhile, due to a weird back-story, Doofenshmirtz tries to steal all the lawn gnomes in the Tri-State Area. | ||||
| 3 | "Flop Starz" | Dan Povenmire | Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, and Sherm Cohen | July 15, 2000 |
| Phineas and Ferb's song "Gitchee, Gitchee, Goo" becomes a one-hit wonder and brings them worldwide fame, while Candace wins a chance to sing on stage with them during the auditions for a reality music competition. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz turns his building into a giant robot to wreak terror upon the Tri-State Area. | ||||
| 4 | "The Fast and the Phineas" | Zac Moncrief | Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, and Sherm Cohen | July 29, 2000 |
| The boys transform Mom's car into a remote-controlled race car and enter it into a race. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz uses his new invention, the Deflate-inator, which is curiously mounted to a blimp, to try to deflate everything in the Tri-State Area. | ||||
| 5 | "Lights, Candace, Action!" | Donovan Cook | Bobby Gaylor, Sherm Cohen, and Dan Povenmire | August 5, 2000 |
| Candace stars in the movie The Princess Sensibilities. However she finds out that new directors Phineas and Ferb have changed it to The Curse of the Princess Monster. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz creates an Age-Accelerator-inator to age cheese, but ends up trying to age Perry. | ||||
| 6 | "Raging Bully" | Gary Conrad | Martin Olson, Dan Povenmire, and Kent Osborne | August 12, 2000 |
| When Buford challenges Phineas to a thumb-wrestling competition, Phineas receives training by boxing champion Evander Holyfield. Doofenshmirtz creates a hypnotic device to control people's minds so they will be forced to celebrate his birthday and clean up afterward.
Guest star: Evander Holyfield as himself | ||||
| 7 | "Candace Loses Her Head" | Gary Conrad | Erik Wiese | August 19, 2000 |
| The boys plan to carve Candace's face into Mount Rushmore for her birthday. Perry tries to prevent Doofenshmirtz from boring a tunnel to the People's Republic of China from Mount Rushmore. | ||||
| 8 | "I, Brobot" | Zac Moncrief | Martin Olson and Kent Osborne | August 26, 2000 |
| The boys clone themselves as Phinedroids and Ferbots (robots) so they can get more projects completed. Doofenshmirtz tries using a giant magnet to erase messages he left on his girlfriend's answering machine. | ||||
| 9 | "Run Away Runway" | Donovan Cook | Sherm Cohen, Bobby Gaylor, and Martin Olson | September 16, 2000 |
| Candace tries to become a fashion model, while Phineas and Ferb create a fashion collection entitled "Summer All the Time". Doofenshmirtz designs a machine to create clones of himself so they can wait in line for him. | ||||
| 10 | "The Magnificent Few" | Gary Conrad | Erik Wiese, Sherm Cohen, and Martin Olson | September 23, 2000 |
| As a side-effect of Doofenshmirtz's plot to use termites to destroy all the wood in the area to help his new aluminum-siding business, Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella try to wrangle a herd of cattle from a ranch that were set free by the termites destroying their barn. | ||||
| 11 | "S'Winter" | Zac Moncrief | Martin Olson, Bobby Gaylor, and Sherm Cohen | September 30, 2000 |
| The boys use a snow-cone machine to create a Winter paradise during the middle of Summer in their backyard, Candace tries to pursue Jeremy (who she thinks dropped her for a Swedish exchange student), and Doofenshmirtz tries to melt chocolate with a machine made from laser pointers. | ||||
| 12 | "Jerk De Soleil" | Robert F. Hughes | Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Tim Hill, and Erik Wiese | October 7, 2000 |
| The boys create a circus for the neighborhood after their original circus plans are canceled, while Jeremy gives Candace wild parsnips without knowing that she is allergic to them. Doofenshmirtz creates a device to make people's voices higher so his own voice will seem lower but instead, it gets even higher. | ||||
| 13 | "Are You My Mummy?" | Dan Povenmire | Mike Roth, Kyle Baker, and Martin Olson | November 11, 2000 |
| The boys visit an Egyptian-themed movie theater and attempt to get a mummy of their own, but they end up capturing Candace, who is wrapped in toilet paper. Doofenshmirtz tries to raise the city's water level by destroying a beaver dam so his real estate will become beachfront property. | ||||
| 14 | "Ready for the Bettys" | Zac Moncrief | Bobby Gaylor, Martin Olson, and Kent Osborne | November 18, 2000 |
| Candace and her friend, Stacy travel on a tour bus with the Bettys, but later realize they're only being used as servants. Meanwhile, the boys accidentally discover Perry's lair and are sent onto a mission intended for him. | ||||
| 15 | "I Scream, You Scream" | Zac Moncrief | Sherm Cohen and Bobby Gaylor | November 25, 2000 |
| The boys try to make a giant ice-cream maker for Isabella after her tonsils are taken out. Doofenshmirtz tries to build a giant space laser, while, Vanessa, is staying with him for the weekend. Meanwhile, Candace, as usual, is trying to bust Phineas and Ferb, at the same time as Vanessa is trying to bust her dad, Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Ironically, Linda Flynn-Fletcher and Charlene Doofenshmirtz are attending a cooking class together. | ||||
| 16 | "Toy to the World" | Swampy Marsh | Bobby Gaylor, Martin Olson, and Dominic Orlando | December 6, 2000 |
| After Candace sarcastically suggests that they can make a better toy than the Har D Har Toy Company's "Shimmy Jimmy", Phineas and Ferb design an "inaction figure" based on their pet platypus. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz plots to build toll booths to enter and exit the Tri-State Area so he can become rich. | ||||
| 17 | "Get That Bigfoot Outa My Face!" | Dan Povenmire | Bobby Gaylor, Kent Osborne, and Dominic Orlando | January 12, 2001 |
| Candace and the boys visit their grandparents at a lake house and the children try to scare her with a fake Bigfoot, but then their grandma's twin scares them with a more lifelike Bigfoot. Perry is trapped in Doofenshmirtz's love triangle as he bursts in while on a date. | ||||
| 18 | "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World" | Zac Moncrief | Bobby Gaylor, Robert F. Hughes, and Martin Olson | January 19, 2001 |
| The boys invent a monster truck for Candace to practice driving, but soon her practice run turns into a massive racing rally. Doofenshmirtz tries to discover investors for his line of monster trucks that are actual monsters.
Guest star: Billy Ray Cyrus as Buck Buckerson. | ||||
| 19 | "Mom's Birthday" | Dan Povenmire | Robert F. Hughes, Martin Olson, and Kent Osborne | February 17, 2001 |
| Candace plans a special birthday party for Mom, and even a song, but Phineas and Ferb's plans keep upstaging her own. In the end, though, they let Candace give Mom the best gift of all. Doofenshmirtz creates a shrinking machine (without the usual inator suffix) that will make whatever he hates (pelicans, instruments that start with the letter 'B', blinking traffic arrows, etc.) shrink to the size of an atom. | ||||
| 20 | "Journey to the Center of Candace" | Dan Povenmire | Martin Olson, Kent Osborne, and Kim Roberson | March 17, 2001 |
| The boys build a shrinking submarine so they can go inside Isabella's pet chihuahua and retrieve a sash it ate, but they accidentally end up in Candace's stomach instead while she is on a date with Jeremy. Meanwhile, Perry tries to stop Doofenshmirtz's plans to destroy anyone who can't make up their mind with his newest invention, realizing that it may destroy Phineas and Ferb.
Note: This is the final episode of the series to use traditional cel animation; from the second season onwards, the series would use digital ink and paint. | ||||