Phineas and Ferb is a Disney Channel and Disney XD animated musical comedy television series produced by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Originally broadcast as a one-episode preview on August 17, 2007, and again on September 28, 2007, the series officially premiered on February 1, 2008, on Disney Channel.
Summer vacation follows Phineas Flynn and his stepbrother Ferb Fletcher, who are between the ages of eight and ten. Every day, the boys embark on some grand new project; these are typically impractical considering the protagonists' ages (and are often physically impossible), which irritates their controlling older sister Candace, who frequently tries to expose their shenanigans to her and Phineas' mother, Linda Flynn-Fletcher, and less frequently to Ferb's father, Lawrence Fletcher. The series follows a traditional plot structure, with running gags in every episode and a subplot almost always involving Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus Perry the Platypus working as a spy (dubbed "Agent P") for OWCA (the Organization Without a Cool Acronym) to foil Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a mad scientist motivated largely by a desire to prove his evilness (despite the fact that he is not At the end, the two plots collide, erasing all signs of the boys' project just as Candace is about to reveal it to their mother. Candace is often irritated as a result of this.