Wizard of Odd

Wizard of Odd is the 34th episode of the second season of the animated series Phineas and Ferb and the 103rd episode overall. In this episode, Mom says that Phineas and Ferb have to clean the house and she asks Candace to help, but she refuses and instead reads the book Mom gives her, The Wizard of Oz. Phineas and Ferb spin the house and spray it with a hose, but they spin the house too fast and accidentally knock Candace out, sending her into a Wizard of Oz-esque dream world. She journeys to "Bustopolis" under the impression the world is a simulation created by her brothers, but soon discovers that evil forces are attempting to get the boots that have grown on her feet.

Plot

Candace is lying down on her bed, bored. Mom tells her to help Phineas and Ferb clean the house or to read the Wizard of Oz. The boys start washing and spinning the house while Candace is reading, and she eventually passes out. Perry is lying on Candace, who is greeted by "Patchkins" (Fireside Girls) who told her that she squashed Suzy and her boots. The Good Witch (Isabella) comes down and gives the boots to Candace, although Doofenwarlock (Doofenshmirtz) wants them. Candace wonders how to bust her brothers and the Good Witch tells her to use the yellow sidewalk.

On the route, Candace and Perry run into Baljeet, who is hanging as a "nerd crow". He explains in a song that he wants to be cool and Candace cuts him off and lets him go to Bustopolis. Phineas and Ferb interrupt by suggesting that Candace take their alternate route by riding unicorns through a "sugary wonderland" which Candace declines. Perry is trapped by Doofenwarlock, who has sent flying squirrels out to capture Candace. His spider monkey keeps Perry in his trap. Candace flirts with a tree (Jeremy) and lets him sing and come along, which upsets Baljeet. They are interrupted once again by Phineas and Ferb who invite them to skate across an ice cream path instead of walking through a dark forest. Candace declines, although the others want to go.

They enter the dark forest and Candace gets scared by an owl (Stacy). They run into an animal that is a mix of a lion, tiger, and bear (Buford). Candace asks about his wish, and even though he doesn't want anything, he goes with the group. Phineas and Ferb interrupt by inviting them to travel on a bouncy blue sidewalk, which Candace says no to. Shortly after, she is captured by Doofenwarlock's flying squirrels. Candace is brought to the spider web trap with Perry. Doofenwarlock wanted the red rubber boots, which have gotten tight on Candace. He is about to vaporize her and she apologizes to Perry for getting them in this. Perry easily gets out of his trap, and asks the fairy (Major Monogram) to save Candace.

The other people in the group pretending to be makeover people. As the vaporizer is going off, Perry and Candace are running as seen in an orb, which Buford destroys. When the guards are told to destroy the group, Candace takes defense and throws a bucket of water onto Doofenwarlock's clothes. When the guards are once again told to destroy the group, Candace says that's a bad idea. The said that they never got to get what they wanted. The group escapes as the guards are singing, and they used a grappling hook to get onto a blimp because the drawbridge was lifted. Candace denies her brothers, who were driving the blimp, that she had fun. A flying squirrel cuts the hook and the group falls into the "Sea of Razor Sharp Rock Spires", which is actually a sea of pillows.

The group is actually close to Bustopolis. Candace once again avoids Phineas and Ferb's idea by taking the Yellow Staircase, but the others took the elevator slide. At the top, the wizard (Linda Flynn-Fletcher) asks the boys to hand out the gifts. Baljeet gets "cool" sunglasses, Buford (who wanted nothing) gets a ham sandwich, and Jeremy learns that he was a boy all along who was merely wearing a tree costume that can be removed. Doofenwarlock gets the boots that Candace had on and sings a song about them, but gets hit by a house. Candace asks Mom as the wizard to bust the boys, but Mom says that what the boys were doing sounds like fun and Candace should have joined them. The dream ends, and Candace is back on her bed. Outside, Phineas, Ferb, Buford, Baljeet, Isabella, and Jeremy are in a giant unicycle. Jeremy and Candace agree that this is better with the sidewalk, and the unicycle goes.

Production

This episode was produced in 2009. In 2011, background painter Jill Daniels and background designer Brian Woods both won Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for their contributions to this episode.^[2] In Italy, this episode was titled "Divertiti Candace", Germany titled "Der Zauberer von Spotz", and Poland titled "Czarnoksiężnik" which all aired this episode before the United States. This episode has some of the most songs of any episode, and is the second where all are sung by a character onscreen following "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together".

Reception

Ratings

This episode had 3.1 million viewers, the most since "Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You!".^[3] In the United Kingdom it delivered 108,000 viewers when it premiered on Disney XD on October 21, 2010.^[4] The Disney Channel premiere on December 11, 2010 in the same country had 124,000 viewers.^[5]

Critical reception

Wired's GeekDad favorably reviewed the episode, praising the songs in the episode while also commenting that some of the episode's humor was aimed at adults rather than the younger viewers.^[6]

References

External links

• Wizard of Odd on the Phineas and Ferb wiki, an external wiki
• Wizard of Odd at the Internet Movie Database