Reed Richards, leader of the Fantastic Four, has started a new initiative called the Future Foundation. In this new FF, Reed has recruited genius children to pool their minds and create projects that will make the world a better place.
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Which of course leads to an obvious question…
WHY HASN’T REED RICHARDS RECRUITED PHINEAS AND FERB?
Think about this. Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, over the course of a single summer, have created an arsenal of devices, inventions, and experiments that could change the course of human history:
- Rocketships that can reach other stars and return in a single day.
- Robots including (but not limited to) duplicates of themselves, mechanical bulls, a giant dog, and fighting treehouse-bots.
- Remote-controlled flying baseballs.
- A suit of superhero armor.
- A shrinking ray.
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Also, they're one-hit wonders.
An enormous mechanical shark.
- A portal to Mars.
- An all-terrain vehicle that can literally go on all terrains.
- Hologram projectors that create an environment indistinguishable from reality.
- Soap bubbles strong enough to carry several people miles through the air.
- The tallest building on the planet (it reached the moon).
- A flying carpet.
- A time machine. (Technically they didn’t invent the time machine, they just repaired one left behind by an earlier time-traveler. But let’s see you do that.)
- Sentient “Aqua Primates” (Sea Monkeys) grown to the size of an adult human.
- A cell phone with the ability to teleport a person via voice-command.
- Enormous bowling balls controlled from a interior cockpit stabilized by an internal gyroscope.
- The best-tasting ice cream in the world (made by milking cows on the moon).
Surely, Reed Richards could see the potential of these creations (especially that last one) in changing transportation, communication, entertainment, and all other areas of human endeavor. So why hasn’t he recruited them? My buddy Adam (of the Rebelcomix blog) suggests that it’s an issue of pride. Reed is a genius, but often lacks imagination. Having Phineas and Ferb around, Adam suggests, would embarass him. And I think he may have a point.
I imagine the interaction going something like this:
REED: Welcome to the Future Foundation, boys.PHINEAS: Thanks for having us, Dr. R.
REED: Let me introduce you to the rest of the team. This is my wife, Susan…
SUE: Let me get you some snacks.
REED: …our newest member, the amazing Spider-Man…
SPIDEY: You know, you remind me of myself at your age. If my head was pointier.
REED: …and of course, my oldest friend, Benjamin Grimm.
PHINEAS: Whoa, it’s the Thing!
BEN: Heya, shrimp.
PHINEAS: Mr. Grimm, is it true that you can never change back to your human form?
BEN: Yep. Stretcho’s been tryin’ to figure out a way to change my body back ever since we got turned… nothin’ works.
PHINEAS: Golly, Dr. R — why don’t you just clone him a new human body and transfer his consciousness into that one?
REED: Well, because… because…
(long pause)
BEN: Would… would that work?
REED: Why… I think it might.
BEN: You mean ta tell me you’ve spent nearly fifty years tryin’ to change this body back, when you coulda just grown me a new body at any time?
REED: Well–
BEN: You mean ta tell me it took these kids twelve seconds ta solve a problem you’ve been workin’ on since 1961?
REED: Ben, calm down–
BEN: CALM DOWN? CALM DOWN? I’ll show ya “CALM DOWN”!
(Ben smashes several walls storming his way out of the Baxter Building. Everybody watches him go.)
FERB: Would this be a bad time to bring up the Skrull detector we invented? Right. Later, then.
Not to be a jerk, but I think technically Phineas and Ferb bought the sea people and Dr Doofenschmirtz’ evolvinator make them into people. I think.
I honestly believe there should be a P&F crossover with Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius. Maybe even illustrated by the great Bill Watersson.
**made, not make
You forgot about the part where Candace, in one of her usual single minded attempts to bust her brothers, unwittingly teams up with the Impossible Man in a cross dimensional scavenger hunt!