P.O.W.C.A.
The O.W.C.A. Files!
About this Episode
Hey, hey, hey. It's the KS Queen here, and you're
listening to the Geekcast Radio Network. I know
what you mean, Ferb. It does seem like more than
104 days. Hello and welcome to episode 107 of
Pauka, brought to you by the Geekcast Radio Network.
107, a new record, record, record. That's an
old TMNT joke. I am one of your hosts, TFJ and
Mike. Joining me, as always, is Peekon something
Michael. I don't know. Something like that, but
he's here. I'm here. Hey, how's it going? Hey,
how's it going? It's gone. Sometimes I wish it
would stop, but it's gone. Uh, today is the 107th
day of summer. This means it is the final day
of summer for now. So this ends our nine and
a half year journey. Wow. Yeah. Only 16, the
whatever the hell year this is 2025. I don't
remember what day it is, what year. Uh, and of
course. Today is the day we find out all about
the Alka files. So Michael, are you ready to
jump on a roller coaster ride? That is the podcast
organization, medical acronym. Yes. Yes, I am.
The Alka files. Oh boy. Oh boy. Yeah. Extra long.
Two episodes. Actually four episodes. If you
count all four parts. Alka files. Technically,
it's five acts, but no no sex. There's a log
that sex shit the heck But on Disney Channel
that it is split up in the in the two part not
Disney Channel Disney Channel doesn't exist though
It does but this on Disney Plus it's split up
into two to 25 26 minute episodes. So essentially
two half hour. It's an hour long folks Without
commercials, it's probably Forty something minutes.
Yeah, sure it goes on for quite a while Yeah,
but it didn't feel like it. I mean it didn't
feel like the two Didn't like it did it not?
Did you not feel every agonizing moment? No,
no, not really. Yes, I did The only the only
time I felt agonizing is anytime the bugs were
on screen get rid of I don't care I don't care
how awesome I don't care how awesome JK Simmons
is I love JK Simmons I don't care how awesome
he is get rid of those damn bugs JK Simmons is
amazing uh I want to say that was Josh Gad oh
god you can get rid of him too yeah it was it
was like oh look I've been impaled like over
over Yes Wendell yeah Wendell is Josh Gad and
then yeah the who where Napoleon is. Floyd is
Floyd is so you can keep two out of the three
but really like overall the concept of the bugs
like the whole idea of them you can throw the
idea out. But as far as the characters, you can
keep Steven Rudez Floyd. You can keep J .K. Simmons
as Napoleon. Josh Gad and his Wendell can just
jump into the Grand Canyon never to be seen again.
I literally just blocked Josh Gad on every social
media platform I have because I can't stand that
guy. I hate him. Is this his voice? Is it just
everything that comes out of that guy's mouth
is so annoying to me It all sounds like small
snowman guy. Yeah, no, it's not It's not even
about that Yeah, no, not even about that. It's
just everything he says, you know, it's weird.
He he was in a series about his girlfriend being
a werewolf and No, no, it was actually Really
entertaining. I enjoyed it. And, and after a
while, I actually forgot it was Josh Gad. I was
like, Holy cow. He doesn't sound like that all
the time. I mean, it's like, it's like, uh, it's
what Pee Wee Herman is like at the end of the
Pee Wee Herman movie. He's like, It doesn't sound
like Pee Wee Herman all the time. What? What?
And the funny thing is you say paging Dr. Herman.
All I can think of is paging Dr. Howard, Dr.
Fine, Dr. Howard. Page doctors anymore. That's
sort of a thing that went away a long time ago.
Yeah. You kids today, you Gen Z people wouldn't
understand that. Oh yeah. They just say some
page doctors. But yeah, they don't page anybody
anymore. No, there's no paging system. There's
there's no beepers There's no beepers here elementary
school still have them by the way, you know,
really? Yeah, they they do that all the time
that you like over the intercom. It'll pop in
Come down to the office. I think what where did
that come from? What is that? Yeah, but your
kids are in high is high school almost college
now How do you know about what elementary schools
are you going to these days? My wife is a principal.
Oh, that's that's right. She's a principal. That's
right. In fact, in a couple of weeks here, I'm
going to be the Easter bunny at her elementary
school, which is not nearly as much fun as you'd
imagine. To throw that out there. Being Santa
is cool, but not so much. All I can think of
is you're the. You're the Easter rabbit that
loaned Bugs Bunny his eggs. Oh, that stupid rabbit
forgot Easter. You're the brown rabbit from Easter
Yakes, the old Looney Tunes short where you loan
Bugs Bunny your eggs and that stupid rabbit,
he forgot an egg and it blows up in the bunny's
face and Bugs at the end of it is like, remember
doc, keep smiling. Oh God Anyway Alka files.
Yes. I'll go something about aqua files. Yeah,
so I mean I How should I put this? I believe
that the Insects right they were in a show earlier
as part of like a sea story for whatever reason
and They like them so much. They wanted to try
to spin them off into their own Thing so instead
of being their own thing because I don't think
the three of them could hold off a show on their
own No, they end up doing extensive cameos in
this Show our long special Yeah, but my I'm going
to take this a step further and say this entire
thing is a spin -off because they said, you know
We love Perry so much. We think we're gonna spin
him off into his own show Yeah and. You know
we're gonna we have to we have to give him supporting
characters and we're gonna throw you from there
because yeah he's not a lot of course yeah sure
sure yes. I don't think i like finneas and for
without finneas and for balance isn't it yeah
it's kinda like if you watch an entire okay so
right now as of this recording. We have tales
of the Jedi we have tales of the Sith They just
announced tales of the underworld for Star Wars
animation you get Cad Bane and Ventress yep,
okay, that's fine. You can focus on those kid
like Cad bay massage ventress you can have those
be the focus of tales of the underworld but you
still have the other star wars characters you
know same thing with the comics with what but
my point is like you don't just have darth vader
doing darth vader stuff without any other character
showing up like i was surprised i the end of
this i was like what the hell are they doing
there i didn't think this was their universe
anymore literally i was i was shocked Like they
just showed up. I was like But here's the difference
so you can have cad Bain carry six episodes of
a spinoff series, right? Because he's a really
interesting character and he Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, and but here you have I mean, you know,
Phineas and Ferb has an a story and a B story
The story is the boys the B story is the animal
do you have Perry right in the a story they talk
Ferb says one line per episode, but they talk.
And in the B story, Doof does most of the talking,
you know, and occasionally you've got a norm
thrown in there, but it's okay if Perry doesn't
utter a word except for that chittering noise.
Here you have an A story where it's all animals
and they don't talk. And there's there's Maggie.
The McCodd kind of talks. That was that was the
best part, actually. But that's like the exception
to the rule. It's like, well, that was the best
part was when Maggie started talking. But that's.
It's not an A story. No, it's not. It's not a
story. And then the B story is the bugs, which,
you know, my eyeballs, they talk, but they're
annoying as hell. Yeah. I mean, but this and
the funny thing is Some of the best scenes for
these bugs getting smashed by a fan. And I was
like, oh, you know, the bad drops out of it.
They splatter everywhere or they're in a peanut
and the peanut flies into the fan and explodes
and there's peanut butter everywhere. And it's
like, and he goes, and it's a good thing we didn't.
We jumped out of there just before that peanut
hit the fan. I mean, that I thought I laughed.
I thought they died. Yeah, I laughed at the things
that happened to them, but when they were on
screen having most of the vocal time during the
scenes that the bugs had, I'm like, shoot. Like
Daffy, it's like the old Bugs and Daffy rabbit,
rabbit, duck, rabbit, duck. Shoot me now. Wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait till you get home. No,
don't wait till you get home. Shoot me now. Shoot
me now. I just don't. Like do and the animals
i kinda get yeah you're right most the animals
don't talk with the exception of maggie macaw
which is fine harry the hyena i can kinda give
a little bit of very very small half of a fraction
of a micro second of a pass because he's kinda
just doing stuff and then just laughing about
it but he still gets the job personality is conveyed.
Not me. I didn't get any personality out of Harry
the hyena I mean occasionally he was like, you
know, like you said he laughed and kind of like
made his made his opinion known but There was
no progression there. Yeah, the cat that I mean
at the very end I don't understand. I don't I'm
like what really? Hey, is that is that character
progression? Question mark is that I don't think
it is it's kind of a weird how the turns table
at the end And yes, I suddenly the cats hyper
focused and a ninja. So yeah, huh? I can I can
kind of get that I I like it I kind of wish we
saw this type of enthusiasm from this character
for the last hour Um, I kind of wish Michelle
Pfeiffer would show up in a voiced Karen, cause
that would have made it at least a little sexy,
but it is what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Meow. So it's
been, uh, roughly this November. Yeah. This November
will be four years since, uh, since my late wife,
Karen died. And most of the time I don't get
triggered when I see characters named Karen or
whatever that, that kind of thing. And this one
is just like, really you guys re and I get it.
They produce this. They made this way before.
Yeah. Several years. January 15th of 2016, a
year, almost a year and seven months before I
even met Karen, which is fine, but it's one of
those things where I. Actively never saw this
when it originally debuted in 2016. I had never
seen this ever. This is the first time I'd ever
watched this. And cause I just figured, Oh, like
again, like we said, Oh, how do, cause we, we,
we do a lot of background stuff and sometimes
we, we pull that into the podcast and sometimes
we were real that which I'm doing now. Like we
were trying to decide, do we want to do Alka
files and then last day of summer? Or do we want
to, and I'm like, well, Alka files is kind of
like this separate. It's this separate tacked
on. And I don't mean tacked on in a bad way,
but it's this tacked on episode showing you that
doof is now good, which do went good in the last
day of summer. So this technically. Follows that
the the console me being the continuity not that
I am Yeah, I wanted to keep the continuity of
it. But at the same time it's like this isn't
even a Phineas and Ferb show I think no, it's
not this is more like pilot. Yeah another show
Yeah, it's a bad door. Yeah, that didn't make
it. Yeah, it's just it just it just didn't have
legs It's a you know, I mean I had I had some
laugh out loud moments. Yeah, I really did but
I didn't I enjoy it like I enjoyed Phineas Affirm.
I don't think that non -talking animals that
don't emote, that have little to no character
development, does not make a TV show, let alone
an entire half an hour. Also, you need... If
Doofus is going to be the bad guy, you need to
introduce new bad guys. So it's like, were they
just going to bring out a bad guy of the week?
Which is the exact opposite of what you would
expect from a Phineas and Ferb show, because
Phineas and Ferb is all about repetition. It's
these weekly in jokes that you're used to. I
mean, granted, they probably could have had more
in jokes like, I don't know, the hyena laughs
and rolls his eyes. Mark that down. That happened
this week again. But, you know, it's like, where's
your yes, yes, I am. Where's your hey, where's
Perry? Where's your, you know, these these, you
know, in jokes that happen every week. Where's
the repetition? And you don't get that when you,
you know, and honestly, I wouldn't want to see
Dr. Parenthesis every week because that would.
No, it's just, again, just not a good character.
He's OK. So. He was a good character that reveal
at the end was like that yeah yeah yeah that
that's my point anyway i really i was like what
the hell yeah yeah that's what okay so. Doctor
parent thesis doctor parentheses. Yeah that's
right doctor parentheses which is funny because
care my care and yeah my care and love using
parentheses for everything. Uh, but it's one
of those things where, okay, I get it. You want
a big name for your new villain to, to do like,
you've got Dr. Doofenshmirtz on the good side.
Like we already said, you know, you want to get
a big, like, who was the, was it John, was it
John O 'Hurley who played another, whoever played
another, like, If you get the bradley baker to
do a different like obviously the bradley baker
is the what is the chirping of perry is the voice
of perry but i'm saying like you get somebody
like like let's say jk simmons wasn't the stupid
bug let's say jk simmons was an evil version
of jay john and jameson or something like oh
my god is a bad guy would have been amazing.
Have you ever seen it? Hold on. Wait a minute.
What? Hold the phone. What? Yes, I'm holding
my phone. It's all Ruben's, Swiss parenthesis.
That's, I'm getting to that. Yes, I'm getting
to that. I'm hearing I'm quoting Pee Wee Herman,
didn't I? Pee Wee Herman was in the show. Yeah,
I'm getting to that. Oh, yes, I'm getting to
that. So that's funny. Yeah, that's the thing.
So I didn't. That's the greatest thing about
paul rubens unless you're unless you are paying
attention to the main stay character that he
created and that he was that he was known for
most of his career and most of our lifetimes.
He flies under the radar. You don't know i didn't
recognize i was like oh parent thesis parentheses
whatever i'm like oh this is a very cool voice
very cool. Villain character up until that ending
reveal which we will talk about in a moment but
like i was like oh cool and i like. Dan and swampy
i don't. folks, you'll have to forgive me. This
is episode 107 of the podcast. I'll have to go
back to the other 106 episodes and re -listen
to everything to see if Dan and Swampy have done
this. But I don't think Dan and Swampy have done
the thing where they take an arrow, giant letters
and say, you know, point at the character. Hey
kids, look, Mark Hamill, applause. Like they
don't do that. You know what I mean? Like they
don't do that. So like, but like. Even my ear
trained to no voice, but that's the thing. The
voice that I know coming from Paul Rubens is
Pee -wee. It's not his normal voice. It's a voice
that he put on for that character of Pee -wee
Herman. He had range. Yeah, no, absolutely. He
was a community genius. Absolutely. He was. He
was an amazing person. Unfortunately, we lost
him two years ago in 2023. So the reveal comes
to be that like the whole point of this parent
thesis wanting to take over Alka and Get his
revenge against Francis monogre. Oh my god I
swear if he said his name one more time. I was
gonna just He was a bug the whole he was a tick
He was a he was a flea the whole time and I'm
like he knew all everybody in his class and yeah,
yeah and And yet Francis and yet monogram didn't
remember him at all. And I'm sitting here thinking,
okay, this is going to be some sort of childhood
bully. This is going to be some sort of, like,
I wasn't expecting a flee. I wasn't expecting
another bug. I was, I was expecting like yet
another bug, you know, and it's funny that the
bugs didn't like defeat it out. I know, but the
bugs would have like, Like became agents by defeating
the bug villain. Yeah that that would have been
that would have tied a story with the story together
and made sense right yeah yeah it would have
been unfortunately that's not what happened.
The story of the story didn't tie together at
all no they they veered are they career off a
cliff. But the a story went one side of the Grand
Canyon the B story went spiraling down the other
side Never to meet in the middle again. Oh, they
kind of met in the middle in the form of the
fan No, when that when that fan I landed on it.
Yeah, he's like Mike. It's like bug nemesis.
It's just fan I Did I laugh so hard with that
fan hit him that was I mean it was it was a funny
joke Yeah, I mean, I didn't hate it. It wasn't
a complete waste of time, but it just wasn't
great. It's yeah. And again, like we've said,
this was it didn't have legs. Well, yeah, I'll
go back to that. It didn't have legs. It could
not have carried itself. No. And I'm kind of
glad it didn't. I'm kind of glad that it is its
own thing that I don't know and I'm going to
ask and I'm going to give out our Keycast Radio
email address in a moment. I don't know how many
Phineas and Ferb fans now in 2025 or even in
the last five years since 2020, 2019, whatever.
How many people actually talked about the Alka
files? Everybody's always talking about, like
we've talked about Act Your Age, Last Day of
Summer, Swinter, Meatless in Seattle, name any
other episode from the, the, the, the show. I
never hear anyone talking about the Alka files.
Like literally I thought this was two 11 minute
cartoons that were nothing. I did not realize
this was an almost an hour long special that
was like we've said. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and
as an hour long backdoor pilot special, it's
not bad, but as we've already said, this was
never gonna. This was, cause again, like you
said, Phineas and Ferb, it's a A story B story
sometimes C story but basically A and B. Phineas
Ferb and their friends along with Candice and
Jeremy and everybody else on the A side, Harry,
Doof, Monogram, Carl, everybody else with Love
Muffin on the B story side. And there are plenty
of times in the last nine and a half years where
we found episodes that we reviewed that the story,
the AMB story didn't dovetail together and mingle
together. That's fine. You don't have to have
them dovetail together every time. We kind of
get disappointed when they don't, but it's one
of those things where at least it's a whole like,
like I said, I was not expecting to see. I figured,
okay, this is the Alka files. They're just doing
The doof and the alka they're not doing that.
We're not gonna see the Flynn Fletcher family
at all And in the end, I'm like, oh really? It
was like a little yeah a little I get the end
where there's like a little stinger I was like
really but the end is is a kind of a reminder
that they blew up their house Yeah, they blew
up their house and there's this constant You
know, a refrain of, oh, Alka's got cash now.
You know, we have an obstacle course. We have
a replica of the city. We've rebuilt the entire
Flynn Fletcher home in a weekend, complete with
a new pine tree. Are these new plates? I mean,
they look the same, but it feels as though they
were replaced by exact copies. Yes, and the tree
in our backyard is now a pine. And it's like,
I really, I really hope Carl's actually getting
paid. They didn't even mention that. Normally
that's it, Carl, the unpaid intern. We're not
paying you, Carl. We're not paying you, Carl.
Yeah. It's, it's like the bad guys from the beginning,
the bit players, you know, they, they didn't
get over time, but, uh, you think that they'd
at least pay Carl. Yeah, you'd think. And I feel
like Carl was more of the boss than Monogram
was this time. Major Monogram was the overall
boss, but like every time something blew up,
Carl was like, don't worry, it's in the budget.
And I'm like, really? Yeah, it's almost like
Carl. Yeah, Carl was like their manager, their
direct supervisor. Yeah, kind of like that. Yeah.
So I'm like, am I missing an animal? There was
the there was the hyena, there was the cat, there
was the bird. Yeah. That was it, right? Yeah,
yeah, that's it. OK. Because it's like, I feel
like I feel like there was like a character that
was so unmemorable that maybe I just didn't remember
them. Yeah. Harry the Hanging, Macaw, Karen the
cat. Oh, and do do for technically one of them.
But he was just the one that talked. OK, good.
So, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it just. You can't
forget the Ocelot. The Ocelot. He was legally
an Ocelot. He'd been raised by Ocelots. Uh -huh.
Yeah, I don't know. I wanted to like it. Like
I said, I had moments where I laughed really
hard. I was like, oh, that's really funny. But
I don't think it was worth an hour. No. They
honestly could have pulled the bugs out. You
know, again, love JK Simmons. I don't know who
Floyd was. Floyd was Steven Root from Office
Space. Oh, you're kidding. Okay. Yeah, no, I
know. Floyd was Milton. Yes, Milton. He took
my stapler. Yep. I believe you have my stapler.
Yeah, but Josh Gad, I mean. No, just no, don't
stop. He's got an annoying voice, but I, you
know. If you if you discount that, then yeah,
it was. You could have known all the scenes,
but you could have about the B story. If you
had stripped out the B story, you would just
have, you know, the animals that don't talk and
have no character and and occasionally. Doofenshmirtz
being doofenshmirtz. Yeah. And then. Would it
have been better half an hour of just that without.
Without uh, you know, I don't know maybe Still
I still don't think it would be something I want
to watch on a weekly basis All is I gotta say
is for this specific episode Thank God there's
more. There's more. Huh? Do you act like there's
more than with one? No, I'm gonna there were
two but yeah Well, okay. Well, I'm counting it
as one because yeah It's not just get okay so
just like st like like star wars. Just cuz disney
channel splits it up doesn't mean that i didn't
know that disney just that disney disney plus
that's a disney plus thing that's i don't know
why they did i don't like that they do that i
wish they wouldn't have done that originally
it was a full hour yeah i'm sure. Probably most
lit it up though they put little bumpers yeah
so then. Yeah. And that's fine. Sure. Yeah, sure.
Uh, I'm kind of glad this entire episode, there
is absolutely no mention and she's not in the
episode whatsoever. Vanessa's not here because
this is a bad episode. Yeah. No, no, no. Like
we, we, we love Vanessa, obviously, but like,
Putting her in here. Yeah would just take her
coolness down a Thousand points because this
episode was not cool or would it have raised
the coolness of the episode? Only if you took
the bugs out and that's an acceptable trade for
me you put Vanessa in here you remove the bugs
Okay, that would make this episode good. All
right, so so here's here's a thought. Here's
a thought right you have aca Right. And is run
by Monogram and Carl. But who else might be involved?
You know, oh, Vanessa. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, at
the time, Vanessa was dating Johnny. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. So Monty. Yeah, Monty. Right. Minor minor
minor Monte my minor monogram. Yeah, my major
monogram minor monogram minor minor So she's
dating minor now instead of having bugs if the
B story was Vanessa and minor monogram Mm -hmm
doing their own investigation which eventually
tied into the main investigation. Yep Yeah, you
see Yeah, I see it. Yeah. But again, I really
think that this was supposed to have been like,
oh, yeah, we want to spin off for the bugs is
what they were. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, oh,
wait a minute, we also kind of want to spin off
for Perry. Yeah. But yeah. And but neither one
of them really worked out either one of them
separately worked out together. Arguably, they
work out. No, not at all. But what if, you know,
we have more, not just more talking characters,
but characters that you like? Yeah, like honestly,
if you would have thrown, what's the name? I'd
have the same problem with Seth Green as I do
with Josh Kat. It's like, ah, that voice. No,
no. OK, OK, no, OK, no. OK, OK, you put. You
put Seth Green and Josh Gad on a scale of what
I would rather prefer to deal with. I will take
Seth Green. I like Seth. You can deal with a
lot of Seth Green. Yeah, I can deal with a lot.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, not sorry. I don't like
the guy. I don't like his acting. I don't like,
I don't like his voice. I don't like the way,
like, and I looked at his, at least his limited
filmography. Look, look, I'm sure there are plenty
of people that are not going to listen to this
podcast because my voice sucks. I get it. Don't
get me wrong, but it's like the, there are probably
95 % of the people that are here to hear you,
not me, but, uh, wow. Really? I'm just saying
all three of them. Hi mom. Well technically that
would be for your mother, your wife, your son,
your other son. Oh, they don't listen to this.
Holy cow. Long after I'm dead, people will be
like, I really want to know who my father was.
I should go back and listen to his podcast. It's
like, oh my God, and I wish I hadn't. Oh my god,
how can we, how can we use artificial intelligence
to reconstitute our father to make sure we finish?
Rolled with rescue bots. That's right. Roll the
rescue bots back after 20 years. Now with AI.
Now with AI. We have an AI recreation of five
-year -old Aidan saying, helicopter -tastic!
Yeah, kid, that's adorable. You just keep saying
things. Oh my gosh, that's funny. Yeah, it's
very funny. Oh my, you know what we ought to
do? We ought to feed the entire four year run
of Phineas and Ferb into an AI engine and see
what kind of episode it comes up with. You ever
see those memes where it's like, we took 10 years
of this show, we stuck it into an AI engine and
here's the script for the first AI generated.
And usually they're, they're horribly off base,
but they're hilarious. Yeah. Generative AI. I
think we need to do some more teaching to the
artificial intelligence sometimes because it
ain't so intelligent all of the time these days.
You can't, I mean, so far from what I've seen,
you can't make AI funny. No. You can tell it,
you know, this, this is from a comedic standpoint,
but what more often than not it's funny because
it's just like ridiculous you know it's like
wait a minute what just happened yeah you know
what what yeah it's not funny because they meant
to be funny it's funny because they they screwed
up in some way it's funny because you have to
make it funny i don't know you know it's generally
when you have comedy writers they are funny people
It's not just an AI is trying to, you know, make
something sound funny. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
All right. Uh, the ALCA files zero to five with
half points. What are you going to give it? I'm
more interested to see what you're going to give
it. Cause after that last episode that you, you,
uh, you know, gave it the hatchet job, I was
like really surprised, but, uh, It did not like
that last one at all and this one has you have
even less to like about it so yeah this is not
leading for the three because you know i was
entertained i did laugh i i would want to see
another one i'm glad that it's a pilot that didn't
get picked up. But i am. You know i didn't hate
it. Yeah. I don't hate, so I don't hate this
episode. Yeah. I just think that this is the
only time I will ever have watched this. Like,
yeah, no, not at all. If I were to write fan
fiction about it, would I include minor monogram
and Vanessa? Yes. Yes, I would. Well, yeah. Would
I watch last script, Dan, my spec script. Yeah,
I think he has enough scripts right now. Would
I watch last day of summer again? Yes. My only,
even though I gave that a low score at the time,
my only real complaint about that is I wanted
more from it other than just it being a time
rom pop. Yeah. Where that's really at the end
of the day. That's my only complaint about that
episode. That's the only reason why I gave it
such a low score. And I'm going to give this
probably the exact same score, 2 .5 below average.
And the only reason why is because, no, the negatives
outweigh the positives. Not awful. but there's
just too much meh to recommend. Maybe a redeeming
quality or two, but overall it leaves you wanting
more. Now this technically didn't leave me wanting
more cause I will never watch this episode again,
but like, but like our, our ratings, our ratings
passed 2 .5. I don't think it does. I don't normally
deserve like 2 .0 is bad. Missed potential poor
execution. No or lack of focus plagues this one
it fails. In a bunch of areas but not in this
particular a spectacularly bad way i don't think
that's what this is it doesn't wear this fails
is like we've already said. They tried to do
a backdoor pilot for perry and the alka animals
and like you said already without humans in the
show besides do and again let's former span it's
hard to say that you know. What? That you can't
have a show without humans in it. Oh, but there's
a, okay. No. Yeah. But huge difference between
talking, talking, sentient robots and animals
that don't talk like, yeah. Okay. Well, it's
like, you can't have, you can't have an entire
movie with Bay era, uh, bumblebee because they
don't talk. None of them talk. You know, they
have to talk, they have to moat. They have to
have some type of character arc, even if it's
only minor growth over the course of an episode.
It's got to be something there. Yeah. And you
said what 3 .0? Yeah, you know, I'm going to
tour three. I said I didn't hate it. I don't
wish I hadn't watched it. It didn't cause me
brain damage. It just. You know, I didn't feel
stupider after watching it. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Again,
I think this is one of those, like somebody added
way too many commas. I love to podcast and this
is why I love to podcast insert word, comma,
word, comma, word, comma, word, comma, word,
comma, all these words that I'm mentioning in
between these commas are all the words that the
adjectives that you would explain to people why
you like these word commas of why you love to
podcast. Okay. All right. So a little too much
info dump there. Yeah and your concept so i can
kind of understand why. Yes i understand organic
right yeah no and again putting like this i okay
this i can understand. Yeah and i would fully
have gotten behind outside of the bugs cuz the
bugs suck. Literally i would have understood
this if this was at the end of season three.
If this is in the middle of season two if they
had started this earlier not. After actor age
not after quote unquote the last day of summer.
For folks that don't know on geekhasteryear .com
slash geek meter geek iPhone meter 3 .0. It's
really hard to read out URLs. Yes it is. Especially
at whatever the hell time it is, 10, 11, midnight,
1 a .m., 2 a .m., 1 o 'clock, 2 o 'clock, 3 o
'clock rock. Ask Grandpa's birthday. Sorry. That's
right. Get off my lawn. Get off my lawn. 3 .0,
which is Michael's rating average. Meh, it's
not bad, but it's not amazing either. Nothing
really stands out and it's forgettable. There
are moments in this that do stand out and they
are good. Like anytime Doof and Perry or like
that, let's go to the, we haven't talked about
these yet. Let's go to the songs really quick.
The song. There's that forgettable part yeah
well yeah but like like the theme song the alka
files that opening intro i like that i thought
that was great i thought that was nice and was
punched up it was cool it was fun it was whatever.
I had to fast forward it on the second episode
well yes obviously it's like okay i heard this
once yeah exactly. Yeah, not the best. Uh, just
get a fast forward. And that's, and that's another
thing. And this is something for like a streaming
episode discussion of Geekcast Rio or something.
Some of these streaming services where they place
their skip this or skip that. It's weird. Disney
channel. I keep calling it Disney channel. Disney
plus. So yeah, Disney plus sometimes still the
Disney channel. Yeah. Yeah. Disney Plus sometimes
does not do skip intro but what they will do
is they will at the very end always oh would
you like to go to the next episode or they will
automatically count you down in four three two
one you're into the next episode immediately
right now like you can back out of that though
yeah i i yeah i know you can but my point is
is that The beginning part whether you want to
skip it or not. You need to have more than like
a half of a second to choose That's my point.
So yeah. Yeah. I see where you're going. Yeah
So the alka files theme song as a theme song
for this I absolutely love it as a theme song
if the alka files was going to be its own series
After the first two episodes look, let's say
this got a 13 episode run because that's usually
13 13 26 for full season whatever let's say this
got a 13 episode run to test I Would watch that
theme song exactly twice and then I would skip
it every time after that. It's a good theme song
I like it I might want to catch it on YouTube
every now and then would you watch the whole
episode or would you watch two of them? Maybe
and then skip the rest of them Well, yeah, that's
what I'm saying. I would watch the whole I would
watch it from beginning to end the whole episode
including the theme song for the first two episodes
But after that I just want the episode I've heard
the theme song I don't and that's the interesting
thing about television today as much as I love
how cool All of the old TV themes are I have
all of those running in my head. I don't need
to watch them If I like if I just want to get
to an episode of Knight Rider or if I just want
to get to an episode of air wolf or a team or
Insert whatever show that's not actually on Disney
Channel, but well, but my point, okay Kim possible
Kim possible Absolutely was Uh, you know, but,
but I'm saying like any TV show nowadays, you
can skip the theme if you've already heard it
a million times. Whereas back in the day, obviously,
unless you recorded the show and went to bed
and didn't watch it until the next day, you couldn't
actually skip it. You had to watch it. Beautiful
lunchtime. I don't even remember this song. And
I just watched this episode today. Uh, they like
doesn't ring a bell. No, they left me standing
outside. What the hell? Oh No, that was sad.
So yeah, yeah that the whole song over the coffee
the coffee and they left him Yeah, they made
him go to the they made him go to the coffee
house and and honestly I When I see fit when
I see Perry, I don't usually think of him as
being a jerk, you know But here he was a jerk
and he's like you get to go over there and sit
with your five dollar scone and drink your damn
coffee. And I was like, I don't think he deserved
that. I mean, if anything, aside from blowing
up his house, he had done the most on the entire
team because, you know, you got a hyena that
basically just laughs and you got a cat that
doesn't do anything except knock things off tables.
And then you got Maggie, who can actually talk,
but still doesn't do anything. Yeah. And it's
like he's actually doing something. And Perry's
like, okay, out of this whole plan, you're the
guy that has to sit out. And I'm like, why? And
then they have this really sad song about him
having to sit out. And I, I was like, huh. And
then, and then do actually comes in and saves
the day and then proceeds to screw everything
up. So it was a, yeah. I don't know. Beautiful
lunchtime is the villain song at the layer. Sit.
Yeah. He sang. Yes. They let Pee Wee Herman sing.
That's cool. What about Friend Like Mine? What
was that? Uh, Friend Like Mine is... Let's see...
That's Carl and Monogram with the giant pink
panda suit. Ugh. They sang during that? Yeah,
you might have Sugar, you might have Spice, but
ain't nobody got a Friend Like Mine. Ugh. Whoo
boy, that was the song. Okay. I did like bits
of all of us sort of because I mean that was
that was True to form doof. Yeah, you know, he
he practically had the dancing girls behind him.
Yeah, except there were animals, but yeah They
were animals, but you know now see another thing
you could replace the bugs with the dancing girls
The dancing girls have more intelligence than
the bugs. Oh my god Can you imagine an entire
B story just of the dancing girls solving crimes?
Hell yes, when they're not she spies Is that
a movie, or is that a - You don't remember She
Spies, really? Oh, no, I have no idea what you're
talking about. I'm like, is that like something
that happened in the show that I don't remember?
No, no, it was his own sh - oh my god, hold on,
give me - I don't - Keep talking. Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna look it up, keep talking. So, to his
spouse a little bit here, you often have Doofenshmirtz
do full stage shows where he's got a stage -
Like, you know, and there's lights and there's
dancing girls and occasionally dancing guys.
He's got backup dancers and he's always telling
these girls, OK, girls, take five. You know,
but those girls, if they were like a B side where
they were solving crimes. Yeah, I mean, honestly.
Oh, man, can you imagine fireside girls grown
up and solving crimes? Yes. Holy cow. So she
had. Yeah, exactly. So She Spies is essentially
2002's version of Charlie's Angels. Three female
convicted felons who were incarcerated for electronic
crimes. Dee Dee, Cassie, and Shane are paroled
from prison in exchange for work as secret operatives
for the U .S. government under Consent. So essentially
it's a modern day for 2002 standards of That's
what I said. Modern day, 2002 standards of Charlie's
angels. And it starred Natasha Henstridge species,
Kristen Miller and Natasha Williams, along with
Carl's, Jaycott, Carlos, Jaycott and Cameron
Daddy. Oh, that's interesting. So like you and
three other people saw it. I'm confused. I've
never heard of this. There's only two seasons.
It was only 40 episodes. It aired on NBC syndicated
July 20th, 2002 to May 17th, 2004. There were
plenty of people that saw this. Please tell me
folks. Feedback at geocastradio .com. We need
Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore and that girl from
what about Mary? Cameron Diaz. Technically that
girl from the mask that girl from the mask. Where
is she? What are they doing? I think they're
too old to do Charlie's Angels again, but They
may be too old, but I'm sure Hollywood will that
would she spiced it What they'll end up doing
is they'll end up having them come back and say,
we need younger agents and then have Sydney Sweeney
come in or something. Or the girls that we're
in. Oh, what was that? What was that? Madame
Spider? Madame Web? No, no. No, don't install.
It's not their fault. That movie sucked. Out
of there. It's not their fault. They didn't write
the script. They could pull off an action show
together. Yeah, they might not have written the
script, but she's still a bad actress. To be
honest, I didn't watch it. I have no interest
in watching it. I heard there was like like 30
seconds of Spider -Women in it in the very end
of the movie. And I was like, huh, this is not
a Spider -Man movie. I don't know. Yeah, I met
there wasn't even like an after credit scene
You know and credits of spider -man and there's
somewhere like like at least venom had a little
spider -man kind of a cameo at the end Yeah,
so Madame Webb as a character not the movie and
not the character from the movie. But Madame
Webb as a character was Where I know her from
is she was an animated character. Obviously she's
in the comics but She got animated for the first
time in the 1994 Spider -Man the animated series.
Okay. And the cool thing about Madam Web in that
1994 animated series by John Semper Jr. and other
people at Fox Kids and Fox animation at the time,
she was voiced by none other than the late great
Joan Lee. Oh. Wife of Stan Lee. I was waiting
for you to enlighten me. When that show had its
finale, and the finale for that show was Spider
Wars. No, Secret Wars. Finale for that show was
Secret Wars. Really? Yes. Finale for Spider -Man.
The animated series 1994 with secret wars. Okay.
They go to all these other worlds and we have
all these various spider man. Technically that
was the first show to ever do a spider verse
into the spider verse. Yeah. Yeah. So they do
all this stuff and our spider man, the regular
Peter Parker voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes
that we knew in that cartoon show ends up going
to basically a similar version of New York. Where
he runs into the guy who just basically. Is you
know acts like spider basically spider man the
actor. No shut up. No captain kirk was not spider
man. I know he turned off the dark something
like that yeah something like that i know so.
In that, at the end of that, before he gets sent
back, he's on the rooftop and he goes to New
York because he goes to the, he goes to the marble
publishing offices. That's the, that's what he's
there for. He wants to find the guy who created
him. And of course the guy who created him, one
of the guys who created him is Stan Lee and they
have a conversation. Yeah, that's the thing to
do. Yeah. Yep. You got a Stanley cameo. And at
the end of it, we have this amazing mystical
voice. And I'm not going to do it justice because
I am not female whatsoever. But Spider -Man,
Spider -Man time to go find Mary Jane Watson.
And here's who is that exotic looking lady? Oh,
her. She's my ride. And like, I'll just see if
I can find the video on Facebook for you specifically,
but on John Semper Jr.'s Facebook, he has video
of Stan and Joan Lee in the recording booth.
Oh, my God. It's so... We always talk about it.
We've talked about this for years, folks, on
the Geocacher Network, about being flies on a
wall in some of these voice sessions of Transformers,
G .I. Joe, whatever it is that we love. Oh man,
and having video, yeah, what we can now, but
it's one of those things where having the video
evidence or having the video to actually be able
to see that moment from 31 years ago or 30 years
ago, because I, whenever that originally aired,
but yeah, no, absolutely. So cool. So that's,
I don't even know where. Any of that came up,
but oh cuz you'd mentioned Madame Webb and or
my thing is with met like When I saw that movie
trailer, I'm like Why are they doing why are
they doing this? There is only one Madame when
she was and trampling all over Joan Lisa Yeah,
yeah, stop that. Don't do that. Like do something
other than do something better Be better anyway
You're definitely not the same guy I've been
writing about all these years. Well, Stan, we
all have to grow up sometime, I suppose. Even
us, characters of fiction. Spider -Man! It's
time to go. Who is that exotic lady? Oh, her?
She's my ride. It's been great meeting you. Take
care of yourself. You too, Spider -Man! Farewell
and good luck! Wow. I wonder how I'm supposed
to get down from here. I suppose I could wait
for the Fantastic Four to drop by and give me
a lift. That Stan Lee, he's quite a guy. I think
he's truly special. Well, Madame Webber? Where
to now? Face front, true believer. We are going
to find the real Mary Jane Watson. What? It has
been a long, hard journey. And I think you are
finally entitled to some happiness. Amen to that,
dear lady. Amen to that. Phineas and Ferb, two
and a half for me, three for you, for the Alka
-philes. Anything else you want to say before
I send it to a quick ad break? But, oh, I thought
you were going to say quick exit. I'm like, yeah,
let's head for the exits. I got my legs pointed
toward the back door already. Now we got to pay
the bills around here first. All right, let's
take care of that. You have actual ads. Are you
being? Yeah, I put the money for this. Oh, my
God. What? I put the podcast. No. Dude, you never
listen to our podcast, do you? I don't know.
Not in years. I used to listen to our stuff.
I know. Like on my way back home from work. And
after a while, I just because it sucked. It was
terrible. My voice grates on me. I don't like
hearing myself talk. I don't want it. Do not
want. For the whole of my almost 17 year podcasting
career here. Yeah. I've looked at podcasting
as a television show without ads for the majority
of the content. So you start the show, you start,
you listen to any podcast today that is not GCRN.
It'll start with a two or three, 15 or 30 second
ads. It'll go into the podcast. You'll get maybe
five minutes, maybe six minutes. If you're lucky
of the actual podcast, it'll go to an ad. You'll
get another, maybe 20 minutes of the podcast.
They'll go to another ad and these are all auto
generated. They don't do any manual in the middle
there. No, I don't. I spent years when we were
on Spreaker, I spent years manually inserting
the ads so it wouldn't interrupt. Like if you
and I are talking about certain things about
the show and we're trying to make a point. I'm
not gonna stop checks well i would want to be
cut the middle of that you don't have to be dead
yeah i'm sure with the middle of my goth chick
lost that's just that would be rude what it's
kinda like so you know yet. You have a point
you have a sentence you have a beginning middle
and end of a sentence and like i really like
this because of this this and this period. Okay,
before your response, if you had a response to
whatever that might have been that I said, I
would put the ad there. It has to come at the
end of a conversation. So that's why I built
in the ad break at the very end of the overall
conversation after we've rated the thing, after
we've gotten all our discussion points out. So
that way to just tell the audience, hey, here's
some other podcasts that we like. Here's some
other podcasts that we help promote. Go check
their shows out, we'll come back to close the
show right after this. And I've done that for
years, and I've always done that, and I will
always do that, so... That's a good practice.
I'll take it. I will accept it. Oh, why you guys
do that! I'll just be back over... Alright, well
I guess I'll just be over here if you need me.
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On the Simplistic Reviews podcast, we talk movies.
We talk TV. We talk... Hello, Julie, what the
heck are you doing? Trying to make our spots
sound more exciting by adding explosions. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure you're gonna get the point across
with sound effects, not the real thing. I'm sure
your insurance company will cover that. No, they
won't. No, they probably won't. Wow, what a mess!
But don't worry Perry the Platypus, Alka's got
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on the podcast organization without a cool acronym.
This is episode 107. And before we get the heck
out of here, folks, June 5th, 2025 on Disney
Channel and then June 6th on Disney Plus. So,
yay, we don't have to wait a year. Yay. So what
they're doing is they are airing season five.
40 episodes from what I remember. They're airing
it on Disney Channel First and then Disney Plus
the next day. This is awesome. We have a number
of episodes. We have air dates up to June 26th.
So we got Summer Blockbuster, Cloudy with a Chance
of Mom, Appetite for Adventure. And license to
bust. Those are June 5th and June 12th episodes.
Dry another day. Notice I said dry, not drive.
Yeah. Oh, ha ha ha. Not drive. Yeah. You're going
to say die. I'm like, you can't say die. It's
a children's show. Deconstructing Doof. Very
interesting on that one. We're going to be interesting
to see about that. Hopefully we'll figure out
why he's returned to evil. It's a backstory involved.
Hopefully. And then Tropy McTropeface. Oh God.
My head hurts. And then something in your fantasy
realm. At least the other episode on June 26th
of 2025. Bilbo Blast. Kind of like Baja Blast.
Mountain Dew style. okay something about Bilbo
yeah like sorry South Park already did that yeah
very true other episodes I just don't know when
they're gonna air yet so I'm not gonna well we'll
discuss those once season five starts so I don't
want to which I think we already revealed most
of them in one of the other episodes but I think
you rattled off all the titles I think we did
at one point or another so I don't need to rattle
them off all of them off again, but basically
June 5th to June 26th. So far are the air dates
for the new season of Phineas and Ferb. So you'll
get it on Disney plus June 6th, 13th, 20th and
27th. So the summer belongs to us. It's exciting.
I mean, who would have thought 10 years later,
they're going to have new episodes. They're going
to be like. Maggie Simpson is perpetually 10
years old. Ever. I mean, I get it. I get it.
They're introducing the show to a new audience.
So I understand it, but I don't know. I was going
to say, is it a new audience? But yeah, there's
still a still pointing this toward kids, but
I think there's a lot of. There's a lot of us
young adults that are getting a lot of us back
Yeah, fondly and say oh, I wonder what what they're
gonna do with this now because and I don't know
if I sent this to you or not I think I did it's
probably gone by now because it was probably
a story instead of a real but Vincent Martella
on voice of Phineas on Instagram did a real or
a story or something where he's like, oh Phineas
and Ferb season five. I would, I would voice
Phineas for nine more seasons, 10 more seats.
Like he basically, like you always said, I'd
like a job, please. I'd like a job, please. Yes.
But I mean, yeah, but I mean, he has the job.
I get what he was going for where he was like,
Ooh, we have season five coming. Let's have season
six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. You know,
conceivably, they could do this for another three
seasons because they had four seasons the first
time. And I'm sure there's a lot of gas, a lot
of gas in the tank, on the Dan and Swampy side.
I think that they could rattle out probably another
two seasons easily and maybe squeeze out a third
as long as we didn't end up with another Alka
-Files pilot. Yeah, I could see this going on
for another three or four seasons because again,
it's it's a new it's a new show, technically
the old show, but a new show. Yeah. And and and
honestly, a lot of these in jokes, private jokes,
little kids that are going to watch it today
have never heard these. Nope. We're all we're
all going to be expecting the yes. Yes, I am.
And the what you do in and where's Perry? Oh,
there you are, Perry. But. You know, the kids
that are going to be watching it today, they're
not going to, they're not going to know what
hit them. And assuming it resonates with kids
today, like it did kids from 10, 15 years ago,
you could drag this out. I don't want to say
drag it out because that's negative, but you
could, you could do this for another two, three
seasons. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But again, actor
once job. Make that legacy last there's no shortage
of actors going you know what I would like to
do I would love to come back and play this character
is like yeah, I know you would because you want
that job if my Lively hood it revolved around
jumping from show to show every six to twelve
months I would constantly be asking for that
next show you know I get it I'm not disparaging
actors for saying oh, I'd like that job, but
again actor once job. Yeah, I know you do. Yeah,
I know you would love that, but that, you know,
wishful thinking. Mm hmm. It's like, be really
awesome at your job. Maybe somebody like that
next season. Wow. Well, you know, I mean, honestly,
do you think do you think the success of Phineas
and Fer revolves around Vincent Martella? Could
they find somebody who sounds similar to Vincent
Martella and have him do the job? I mean Not
to disperse not to disperse. No, I don't know.
I would notice a difference You would notice
a difference the people that have watched the
show since 2007 The longtime fans would notice
the difference if it wasn't him. Look at Rick
and Morty They completely replace the the main
guy I could tell The guys that are doing the
voice are damn near dead on. I wouldn't, I wouldn't
have been able to tell you if, if I hadn't known
about the entire debacle that went on with the,
uh, with the actor before. I've never seen the
show. So, Oh my gosh. I almost made another,
uh, Rick and Morty reference where it's like,
it's like, Oh, we're going to have, we're going
to have 10 more years of, of, of Phineas and
Ferb, a hundred more years of Phineas and Ferb,
a hundred more, a thousand more years of Phineas
and Ferb, you know, but, uh, which is. Rick and
Morty season one, but yeah It isn't for forever
forever and ever and ever just you and me forever
kid and You know if it good like so we got the
40 episodes for season 5 and if they do a season
6 or 7 Hey, that's awesome. Even if they don't
that's unlikely. Okay, but I'm I understand it's
unlikely, but I'm saying if they did a season
six or seven, that's great. Even if they don't,
you still have five. Look at any animated series
that has more than, honestly, sometimes more
than one season. But let's just say, let's just
go with Phineas and Ferb. Five seasons over X
number of episodes. This show is outside of a
handful of episodes. eminently rewatchable oh
yeah like the legacy that they have like the
show they created the legacy eight billion hours
of something I don't use. Yeah, they actually
said it. They put it in the in the tweet. I want
to say the one you sent me, it was something
like X amount of episodes, eight billion hours
watched. And now they're coming back. And I was
like, you know, I believe it because you can
watch this over, even if you've already seen
it. You can go back and watch it again and still
enjoy it. There's I mean, yeah. I get it. Yo,
there was a point being made and I trampled all
over it. I'm sorry. No, no, no, it's good. Uh,
point is, is that, uh, 26, 39 math is bad. Uh,
but the point is, is that the show, whether it
gets beyond season five, whether it gets another
Candice against the universe or whatever, whether
it gets another movie, the show as it is today.
Minus a hand like literally we could do an episode
of the top 10 Phineas and Ferb episodes. We will
never watch again. And we might actually do that
episode, but it's one of those things. No, but
I'm saying like, not, not trying to be negative,
but like seriously, like as, as, as a helpful
guide to people, I think that episode would be
kind of cool to say, Hey, this is our personal
opinion. These are the episodes we think that
people should avoid. In general kind of thing
like like out there files. You can watch it.
We're not saying that you Shouldn't watch it.
What we're saying is that it is not needed. I'm
not sure about the files that make the list be
honest There's been plenty of plenty of episodes
where I'm like, I don't think I'd watch this
ever again. Well, it's just not a good news You
didn't hear what I said. Did you I did sort of
you weren't listening were you? I might've been
reading something. I don't know. I said we should
do an episode called the top 10 Phineas and Ferb
episodes. You do not need to watch. Oh, you don't
need to watch them because they're bad. You just
don't need to watch them because they don't contribute
to the ongoing storyline. Yes. Arguably. Yes,
I Think that includes most of them. What is the
honor later? It's the same story told over and
over again That's the first part of the fun.
It's all the repetition we talk right, but no
I know that but like Yeah, okay, so it is because
they're bad at least they're bad in our personal
opinion. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it is You don't
need to watch them because they're bad. Don't
watch them Just yeah, exactly. You can watch
them if you like, but we're telling you please
don't watch them. I'm trying to remember like
it's off top my head. What are those? But I can't
I can't that's what that's why we're doing this
episode. I don't want to do that. Yeah, that's
disparaging. It's just going to bring me down,
man. No, no, no. It's harsh. My vibe. Come on.
It's not going to be disparaging. It's not going
to be like. We've already in the last nine and
a half years. We've already pointed out all of
the negatives It's just gonna be a list man.
It's just gonna be a list. That's all it's gonna
be I'm not going back and watching all the episodes.
You know what? No, I can remember which ones
I didn't like Well, that's why you go back and
listen. Wait, what? Oh my gosh, you know So speaking
of reading things, it's funny because I was trying
to get the well, I was trying to get the overall.
I can't read. That's just mean trying to get
the overall numbers of the episodes for for the
final count to this point. Yes, I believe it's
171 episodes, supposedly. Well, that says only
20, so. 40 plus 20, 151. I could be wrong, but
I'm in the seasons section on the Phineas and
Ferb Wikipedia. And it does actually list a season
six. And I was like, wait, what? I get it. They,
oh, I see what they're doing. I see what they're
doing. I see what they did. So wishful. No, no,
no, no, no. I see. I see what they're doing.
So what they did was when the announcement happened
for when Dan and swampy announced season five,
Phineas and Ferb 40 new episodes. Yeah. What
the Phineas and Ferb Wiki did was they split
up season five and made it season five and season
six, 20 and 20. So 40 episodes, which are supposed
to be season five, the Wikipedia articles for
the Phineas and Ferb Wiki. Split it up into two
seasons. Oh She's weird. Who knows? I don't know.
Nobody knows. I don't know Nobody knows But he
knows not even gonna pretend that I understand
what's going on at this point. Nope Okay, why
would we understand anything anymore? That's
right. It's late. We're tired. Yep. Summer's
almost over Summer is over man. Summer is over
and hasn't even started yet But our summer has
come to a close folks. This is it episode 107
is the final episode of Phineas and Ferb the
podcast organization Oh, don't get too excited.
I thought you wanted to do a review. Don't you
want every top ten? Top ten. Yeah. No. Yeah.
No. No. Yes one more episode at least There are
more episodes. Okay, fine. Yes, there are. Okay.
That's just what you told me. I don't know. I
don't know what you want to do. Yes, there are
going to be countdown episodes. Yes, we are going
to cover Candice Against the Universe and that
is the actual next episode of the podcast. I
forgot about that one. Yes. Candice Against the
Universe is a movie. Candice Against the Universe
is across the second dimension. Candice Against
the Universe, even though it aired on Disney
Channel and it is on Disney Plus, it's a movie.
It's a movie length movie. It's not two 11 minute
cartoons. So for me, when I say episode 107 is
the last our summer has ended, meaning that the
show. The four seasons as of now. The show of
Phineas and Ferb is currently ended on hiatus.
Whatever you want to say until season five hits
in June. So we are on hiatus break. However,
yes, you are correct that there will still be
two or three more episodes of. Pauka before we
get to season five in June. But my point in saying
that this episode 107 was the final day of summer
for us was more so, Hey, we're at the end of
season four. We completed the show. Ah, okay.
So yeah, that's the point. But yeah, Candace
against the universe. It spells Katu. What the
hell people at you cat cat cat do no cat to cat
to its it's hard against the cat to cat to cat
to All right any final thoughts from you sir
before I run through the closing No, you know
folks usually when I ask him that he has like
a paragraph and a half of stuff, but Okay, sure
fine. I mean, I don't think there's anything
here that that we didn't already know. It's been
a long time. So, yeah, I mean, I feel like it
really I don't even know. Oh, yeah, you can probably
go back and cut a good 20 minutes of this and
sort it all. Well, I mean, that's what the outtakes
are for. But yeah, no crap. Go out there. How
did how did bugs in it? I mean, it'd be better.
Yeah, exactly. No bugs, folks. No bugs. How did
my phone falling on my mouse open my radio on
settings? Oh, wow. Well. That was weird. It's
serendipitous. Yeah. Don't even get me started
with serendipitous. Yeah. Good movie movies turning
25 years old next year. Oh, my gosh. Thinking,
speaking of things that are 25 years old, we
even mentioned Jane Casmeric. I just saw it.
She was. Yeah, she was the mom and Malcolm in
the middle. And she was also the voice of Maggie.
Yes, she was the voice of Maggie. That is so
surprising. Wow. You know, I mean, honestly,
for such a good cast, this was just so incredible.
Yeah, unfortunately. Such a good cast, though.
Really, Paul Rubin's, J .K. Simmons, Jane Castmerrick,
Bradley Baker, who is, you know, legendary in
his own right. Yeah. Chitters he actually got
to do a range of chitters here. He had a disappointed
chitter He had a he had a sad chitter. I mean
there was he really got to stretch himself here
as a platypus Talk you're counting all the chitters
cheese all the chitters. There's different. She
had a range of chitters I mean nor actually every
other episode of Phineas and Ferb I honestly
think the chitter was just like something he
recorded 20 years ago, and they just kept using
it over and over and over again. It's the same
problem over and over and over again. They had
to give him credit for it because he does like
background voices or something. But, you know,
he's still just that chitter. But yeah, different
chitters this time. Chitter. Wow. You just made
me feel old. 20 years. Yeah. These episodes are
20 years old. Oh, yeah. Oh, at least 15. No,
it's close. Well, we're two years away from 20.
Yeah, we're two years away from 20, so. Yeah,
we are two years away from 20, so we're 18 years
into Phineas and Ferb. Oh, my gosh. Oh, we're
getting too old for this shit, folks. Sure indeed.
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on Candice against the universe. Oh boy. Hey,
I've never seen it. Really? Yeah. I didn't watch
it. This came out, I want to say well after the
series ended. And for me, it was like, Oh look,
they're doing more Phineas and Ferb stuff. And
I didn't watch it. I think my kids were older
at that point. I watched it and I had a hard
time at the time. I'm going to give it a say
that I'm going to know at the time. At the time
it was hard to watch. At the time it was hard
to watch. I don't know why it was hard to watch
at the time. Maybe because in my personal opinion,
I don't think Candice can carry a whole ass movie.
I mean, she doesn't just carry it, but you know
what I mean? Yeah, it's not just there's a piece
somewhere, right? Yeah, but just There's a huge
difference in having Candice be the focus of
a Whole -ass movie and having Candice be the
focus of an a story in an 11 minute episode Well,
it's kind of like this meeting could have been
an email kind of thing Even if you look at Phineas
and Ferb across the second dimension, it's She
still has a whole a whole B story to herself
Yeah You know and that she carries a half of
the movie easily. I mean, it's technically two
Candice's And possibly even a more interesting
candice than the one we get in the regular series
that's that's that's why it was good. I'm not
gonna say marriage actually tisdale until absolutely
necessary. August twenty eight twenty twenty
is when against the universe released. Really
though that was only five years ago yeah. All
right. So you're saying you're wrapping up. I'm
sorry. Yeah, no, it's fine I just I wanted to
make sure I get the date right because honestly,
I thought it was older than what it actually
is No, and that's at least five years after the
series ended. So well, yeah Yeah, it's weird
that they would come back after five years and
it's almost like they're trying to They were
at the time throwing out another pilot. Oh, maybe
this will stick You know what? You really, you
really think about it? Oh no. Oh no. We have
to, we have to make sure that we refile this
copyright for hot rod or else he's going to have
to become Rodimus or hotshot or something else.
Yeah. Auto bot Rodimus. Yeah, I don't know about
Rodimus. Rodimus Minor, Rodimus Major, whatever.
Well, that that's an interesting point. It's
like I don't I don't know how that would work
with. Yeah, I'm not sure what the expiration
date for copyright is, but maybe they said, oh,
you know, if we don't use these copyrights, we're
going to lose them. We're going to have to throw
it out there. It's not like Winnie the Pooh,
you know, losing or falling into public use.
Yeah. Public domain. Public domain. Yeah, it's
like falling into the public domain. Yeah, they're
getting ready to make a second one of those blood
and honey part two. Oh, Jesus. I'm kind of excited
on on another sad animation note. Yeah. Mickey
Mouse. In their infinite wisdom, Warner Brothers.
Yes, has removed all of the classic Looney Tunes
from Max. and And a lot of good animation strip
for Mac sadly. Yeah, and They are also going
to be supposedly tearing down the old Looney
Tunes building on the lot and I'm sitting here
thinking you Gen Z motherfuckers belongs in a
museum That's right. It is a museum I'm sure
there's murals in there. Well, I felt the same
way when they tore down the Nickelodeon building.
Yeah, see, that's not... That place was iconic.
Mm -hmm. But, you know, in that area, that particular
part of California, real estate is scarce. I'm
sorry. If it's the Warner Brothers lot. Yeah.
Which it is. Yeah, what are like and those cartoons
those shorts those characters? launched your
studio without those characters from the 20s
30s 40s 50s you wouldn't be Warner Brothers of
2025 Arguably But it's not the same anymore.
I mean animation studios are essentially server
farms at this point And you don't need a warehouse
full of people drawing it, drawing tables, you
know, filling in in betweens, you know, in order
to make a movie or an animated feature. I understand
that you can use the building for something else.
Like you can still keep the exterior of what
the building represents and use the inside of
it for something else. That's fun. Nobody needs
to see the inside of the old termite terrace.
Like as long as the outside remains. The nostalgia
of where it came from and what it represents
because who amongst any of us you myself anyone
listening to this podcast that doesn't live in
Hollywood, California or isn't a movie star or
The Burbank. I mean, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Have
you even seen this building? I mean if it got
torn down, would you know? I saw pictures But
that's my point. I've seen pictures and I was
like, I've never been there. I mean, I'm not
sure what the history is. Well, I don't know
what's off the top of my head, but I've seen
documentaries of the history of termite terrorists
and things like that and everything else. And
it's like, oh, that's where Chuck Jones and...
Frizz Freeling and techs Avery and all the all
the Michael Maltese and all the original animators
that actually wore before they were all server
farms before they were all automated like that's
where that what that's where creativity came
from. And now in this Gen Z world, creativity,
oh, creativity, we don't want that. Just have
AI do it. Fuck off. I'm not sure if that's a
valid point. I don't think that's true personally.
But from a preservation standpoint, yeah, if
there's something historical in that building
that should be preserved, then maybe preserve
it. Maybe make it a museum. But if it's just
a bunch of offices that Chuck Jones sat in 50
years ago than 70 years ago, jeez, then I don't
know if if that's worth preserving. Because that's
not that's not indicative of his creativity,
you know, but I would rather see like a museum
exhibit of all the things that Chuck Jones did
rather than know that somewhere in the world
and office he sat in 70 years ago still exists.
Well, that's my point though the outside Exists
the building as long as the building is still
there do whatever you want to with the inside
your idea of doing it as a animation history
historian Museum like I think would work Museum
exhibits where it's like, holy cow. This is you
know everything Tom and Jerry all the way through
the Grinch of Soul Christmas and you see the
original art and you see the storyboards and
you see You know, just the amazing creativity
that went into it. I don't necessarily need to
know that his office is still exists, you know,
because I've seen, I've seen the output from
that office and it's, it's 10 times more amazing
than four walls that he may have. But occupied
once. But like, Oh, okay. So let's just say you
and your wife and your boys go out to Burbank
or wherever the bill, let's say you got to California
on this, like you, you want to do this animation.
Historian tour whatever let's say the old termite
terrace building the old limited building let's
say they turn into a museum. You're going to
hear them tell you tales of what was created
in those offices so you need that office building.
Still standing. And put a museum in it end of
story. That's an option i'm not saying i require
that's an option. I mean, if that, like I said,
real estate in there is probably is really tight,
you know, and. You know, they don't always have
the luxury of, I mean, even if you look at like
Disneyland, you know, it's it's like, oh, we
have this whole section of park that's going
to be demolished so that we can put in. Marvel.
A marvel ride or guardians of the galaxy or something.
And it's like, oh, I'm really sad that they're
going to have to tear down Mr. Toad's wild ride
that I've never actually been on. But you know,
hey, something cool is going to go there. And
again, it's like, well, you know, Chuck Jones's
old office from 70 years ago might have to go
in order to produce something that's that's going
to be meaningful for the next 70 years. But.
The problem is yeah, we live in a world where
everything is Instant instant instant there is
no Meaningful for the next 70 years in Hollywood
anymore. I'm not sure that's true I mean really
well ten years ago you would have said the same
thing and yet here we have Phineas and Ferb Okay,
yes, it is an exception, but like what's the
next Phineas and Ferb, you know? Yeah, and will
that come out of that new building? Maybe I guess
we don't know again. I guess the world will never
know I'll know in ten years I'll tell you all
about it in ten years. That's right. When we're
old and we talk like this. Oh, I'm already Me
too. Well, I'll be watching the next big thing
with my kids as kids, you know, probably on whatever
Disney channel in 10 years. There you go. All
right, folks. This has been episode 107 of the
podcast organization without a cool acronym.
For now, I am TF2 on Mike with Michael Wilson.
Thank you for listening. Until next time. Aging
Dr. Olaf. Dr. Olaf, you're wanted at the front
desk. Dr. Olaf, please step off a fucking cliff.
He's been impaled. It's not nice. He's been impaled.
Good. Just here, let me hold this magnifying
glass up to the sun and have it direct hot death
rays onto this snowman. No, I don't want to build
a snowman. I want to destroy a snowman. But I
digress! Okay. Yes. We have that. What the hell
is that? I don't know what the hell is that.
No, I was just looking over here. Oh, it's an
Overlord. Okay. It's an Overlord? No, Overlord.
I had a huge Transformers box over here and I
was like, that one's really big. What is in that
box? I couldn't see the label and I came around
the side and it said it's Overlord. Overlord.
Sorry. Got two of them. One of them is on my
shelf and one of them is in a box. And it was
just in this huge pile. I sent you the picture
of that huge pile of transformers. Yes, you did.
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