If you were into watching The Disney Channel in 2008 (or spent a lot of time with someone who did), you’re most likely familiar with the animated series Phineas and Ferb. The show went off the air in 2015. We found out today, however, that the show is getting a revival.
According to Variety, Disney Branded Television has made a deal with show creator Dan Povenmire to create forty new episodes of the series, which will be split into two seasons.
“Dan is renowned for his ability to create universally beloved stories and characters with both heart and humor,” President of Disney Branded Television, Ayo Davis, said during the Television Critics Association winter press tour (via Variety). “We couldn’t be happier to continue our collaboration with him and bring back the iconic Phineas and Ferb in a big way.”
The series follows two kids—Phineas Flynn and his stepbrother Ferb Fletcher—who come up with elaborate projects during summer vacation, much to the chagrin of their older sister, Candace. Each episode also has a B-plot with the boys’ pet platypus, Perry, who is a secret agent for the O.W.C.A. (a.k.a. the Organization Without a Cool Acronym). While its target audience is ostensibly children, it is also a series that appears to older folks as well, with some saying it might be one of the best science fiction shows out there.
“It has been the greatest pleasure of my career to see how an entire generation of kids and parents have embraced the characters and the humor of Phineas and Ferb,” Povenmire added during the TCA panel. “I’m eagerly looking forward to diving back into the show for them and for a whole new generation.”
No news yet on when the show will premiere or even which Disney platform it will run on.
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people often think i'm doing it for the bit but unfortunately i Am the type of guy who just says shit like "pray tell" and "indeed" and "naught but the human heart can hope to capture the moon's beauty" (that was actually about my shitty phone camera) and nobody really knows what to do when they hear those words come out of my mouth. myself included.
Mashups that should be illegal
I like to imagine that, while most people in the wizardung world have like no muscle anywhere (apart from aurors and other people with physical jobs), muggleborns are easy to spot because they are ripped, mainly because they still do a lot of things the muggle way
Creative & DIY
superheroes are so weak. “keeping my identity a secret is so hard :/” to YOU. my parents dont even know what type of music i like.
Hi! Kinda a random question but are there any songs that you associate with miraculous ladybug? ♡
yes!
adrinette: you make me feel by EASHA
ladynoir: strangers by Sigrid
marichat: talk too much by COIN
ladrien: whatever you want by Kaptan
prpr but ✨angsty✨: the last thing by Sawyer
this ones like the whole square having dramatic feels, envision it as an animatic in your head: the last of the real ones by Fall Out Boy
adrien being sappy to marinette in reference to their umbrella moment: paris in the rain by Lauv
ladybug and chat noir coming back to kick hms butt in s5: better than i was by goldspace
adrien in his sad kid feels: apollo by Last Dinosaurs
marinette when shes feeling insecure: invisible girl by Morgan Reese
Sometimes, it really fucking sucks to have such an important ethnicity.
Don’t get me wrong - I’m proud about it most of the time, and I will openly talk about my heritage. I’m half Chinese, my last name is Chinese and quite common, my dad looks Chinese and my Gon Gon (my grandfather, mandarin) and my Por Por (grandmother, mandarin) Both looked Chinese.
As I said, I’m usually very proud of my roots. It makes me feel cultured like im apart of some bigger picture, but sometimes, it’s a strain.
This year especially, my family got discriminated. And I don’t even speak a word of Chinese apart from greetings, obviously what you calll you’re grandparents and a couple of other terms and phrases. I myself don’t look very Chinese - my mum is white - and the only way you might tell is colouring a slightly tilted eyes and last name.
Around the start of covid, when fucking trump started calling it the China virus’s and all other ridiculous names, as well as the world collectively discriminating any asians, my family started to take the blows.
My father went to church and one of the women handing out communion refused him, my brother who works at a Woolworths (supermarket) was getting side eye from people, my mum was also getting side eye from some of her coworkers, and I lost some friends and got played a bit friend wise.
This isn’t me complaining about what happens with asians either - it happens with so many ethnicities.
If your Asian, you’re bad news.
If your from South America, your an immigrant.
If your African descent, your a gang member.
If your Russian, your a spy.
If your Indian, your just someone who can be pushed around as your taxi-driver, or food delivery person, etc.
If your from the Middle East, your a terrorist.
Each of these are either based off one occurrence, or one persons carless whisper, or stereotypes that have been around for too long and are too old.
It’s so utterly wrong to call someone’s out because of how they look. I always think; ‘where would each of our lives be if we just looked at each other and thought: you’re my equal. I accept you as my brother or sister or family, and I will do anything to help you in life.’
This goes for so many; the LGBTIQA+ community, females, even males. For some really annoying reason, people think it’s a necessary thing to judge others for how they look or who they truly are.
I’m not even 18 yet, and I’ve been bought up in a world of hate. If all you do is just give, and give, and give continuous hate, then all that means is more hate will be born in every generation, progressively growing more toxic.
We saw so many movements this year for race. Black people in America paved the way for themselves, telling everyone, spreading the message. “we are not our ancestors. We are not your slaves. We are not your target practice. You have time to change who you are - you can see us as equals, or you can not and just make everything worse.”
Now, just imagine a world that is equal. You can love whoever, you can be free about your heritage, you can be one gender, or another or no gender and absolutely no one pressure you on those choices, nor judges them.
If you see a peaceful world, then realise how much we can do if we just accept people.
(The title is a joke. But yes, this will be a long post about cups.)
I often talk about how food is the language of love... in which case, tea and coffee and hot cocoa - and maybe some biscuits and chocolates to go with that - must be the soft melodic notes that go with all that poetry 😊
The Forger Family Teacups are used throughout the series - much more so in the anime than in the manga - as a symbol of the Forgers' domestic bliss. It is warmth, it keeps them going (although Twilight really needs to cut down on the caffeine), it is a shared moment of rest and love at the end of a long day. It is family.
It also sets up a nice contrast to Twilight and Yor's life from before. In the first episode, we see him holding a paper cup filled with some dark brew as he leaves one place to head to another - such is the life of a spy. The cup, like all his lives and identities before, is disposable.
And even when Twilight does get a proper mug at the first Forger residence later... it is a plain white cup, and it sits alone on the coffee table. It does not scream domesticity. More like 'another day at the office'. Which it is, for him.
Then, there's Yor. We are introduced to her in the series as she is making coffee - it seems to be one of her jobs at city hall. But the white serveware and fancy contraptions make coffee for other people. The setting, the sterile color palette, the way Yor's detached reflection shows up on the pot of coffee... this is not home.
We see the Forger Family Teacups finally in Episode 3, when Yor moves into 128 Park Avenue and becomes Anya's mama. All three mugs hold slightly different things - Anya's cocoa, Yor's coffee with milk, and Loid's black coffee - but they are all sitting together, with a plate of food made lovingly by Twilight between them. The three of them may not think of themselves as a unit yet, but the tea cups and cookies don't like - this is the start of the Forger Family.
Notably, we return to a scene like this at the end of the episode. Just as Twilight laments that the operation is hopeless, in walks Yor with their family mugs, full of sweetness and comfort, quite literally. (Yes, this shot has to be deliberate.)
We get to admire the scene of domesticity - Yor smiles watching Anya enjoying her cup of hot cocoa. And Twilight gets to admire it too... and that's when the now-familiar 'teacups' music with the soft piano playing comes in. Because yes - they looked like a wonderful family to the old lady they helped earlier in the day... but they look even more like a wonderful family at home, basking in each other's warmth, sharing tea and cocoa.
We continue to see the Forger Family Teacups through the series, usually when the anime wants to highlight the theme of familial love.
In Episode 4, Yor brings out the tea tray as Twilight worries he's doomed Operation Strix. (Yor providing comfort to her husband - often with tea and coffee - when his brain goes brrrrr is a recurring thing in this series, by the way.) And we see the cups and saucers together... closer than where they were in Episode 3.
In Episode 7, Yor and Twilight talk about parenting and their partnership over their Forger Family Teacups as they wait for Anya to stop sulking over being made to study.
Notably, we get the 'teacups' music theme again, but also, Twilight has an emotional epiphany over his cup of coffee. Being Loid Forger, one cup in a set, has led him to the realization that he owes it to his daughter to be an ideal father. Him, not being Anya's real father? Well, the cup says otherwise. And he knows it too.
The last time we see the teacups prominently in the manga (again, they appear in nearly every episode, just look for them) is in Episode 8 and 9, with Yuri's visit and its aftermath.
Here, the Forger Family Teacups (TM) signify who is family, who is not. As I've pointed out before, Loid is seen wiping clean the good china for guests before Yuri's arrival in the manga and in the anime. It is, as you can see, not the same shape or pattern as the everyday mugs Yor, Anya and Loid use.
Except - and I only just noticed this - Yor actually took out a Forger Family cup first. Look at it. Shape and pattern match. Which makes sense! Yuri's family to Yor Briar, even if he's a weird little dude. But as a Forger... that's different. And Twilight's really not going to let Yuri be part of the Forgers, just yet. He does not get a Family Teacup. This is an anime-only detail. They just hate Yuri that much more. 😂
And just in case we've not entirely got it, the anime also gives us this shot - Yor, Anya and Loid's cups sitting side by side as they have a very serious discussion about how to come up with a coherent lie to sell to Yuri. It is a family discussion. About someone who is not family.
At the end of Episode 9, after the excitement that was Twilight planting a listening device on his wife, him realizing his wife is actually loyal and great, him hating himself for doing all of this, him telling her he's sick of pretending, and her declaring she's thankful she married him - phew, a lot happened in that episode! - husband and wife return home, cake in hand to celebrate their fake anniversary. Whatever crisis Twilight and Yor had imagined that could wreck their marriage and their family - well, those doubts are dead and buried, for now anyway.
The Forger Family Teacups ends the episode. Unlike in prior episodes, they have done away with the formality of saucers. Unlike in prior episodes, they are now sitting right next to each other. They are full, they are warm, they are bitter, they are sweet, they give Twilight stomach aches... They are Forger. 😊
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PS. The second cour's ED 'Color' understands guests at the Forger residence are only allowed to use guest cups, not the Forger set. They get it. *nods approvingly*
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PPS. Yuri eventually gets his Forger Family Teacup in the manga. Because even Twilight begrudgingly admits that the weird little dude is family. The fact that Yuri annoys Twilight but he can't do anything about it because his wife loves her brother, and Loid loves his wife is... Very Family.
PPPS. When Becky comes round to visit, Yor goes all out and uses a super special fancy tea set for the whole family, because Becky is super special and fancy 🙂 This is very cute, especially when you realize...
PPPPS. Yor very pointedly gave Nightfall a guest mug, even as the whole family used their Forger Family Teacups. As we saw with how Yor treated Becky, she could have actually done otherwise. But no, even before she knew how she felt, Yor decided to get territorial via tea cups and show Fiona that the Forgers are A Family, and she's not welcome, thank you very much.