Link to the n*de dudes
I watched a few episodes of the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb when it first aired in 2007-2009, but was turned off by Mechanics Today vibe and the incessant heteronormativity.
The premise: 10-year old stepbrothers Phineas and Ferb (Vince Martella, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, top photo) spend their summer vacation creating technological marvels like time machines and space ships, thereby impressing their male friends and girlfriends (each has a heterosexual crush). Their older sister Candace tries to tattle (either she's worried about their safety or she's just evil), but by the time Mom gets there, the elaborate devices have reverted into harmless toys; Mom therefore suspects that her daughter is suffering from a psychosis.
Candace has a heterosexual crush, too: Jeremy, played by Disney teen Mitchel Musso, who has mental health issues.
Meanwhile, their pet platypus, Perry (Dee Bradley Baker), has adventures as a super-spy. Under the orders of Major Francis Monogram and his dimwitted assistant, he thwarts the plans of the evil Dr. Doofenschmirtz. Most involve wacky evil-scientist inventions, making Doof and Perry sort of mirror images of Phineas and Ferb.
In four seasons, there were no gay characters, although TV Tropes notes some Ho-Yah (queer codes used as jokes) shipping Doof/Perry and the bully Buford and his victim Baljeet.
In June 2025, ten years after the last Phineas and Ferb, a new season dropped. In the interim gay characters appeared on Craig of the Creek, Duck Tales, Big City Greens, The Hollow, The Bravest Knight, Jellystone, Kippa and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, Kid Cosmic, The Ghost and Molly McGee, and many others. Surely Phineas and Ferb can have a gay friend without traumatizing kids for life.
Especially since voice actors Vincent Martella (Phineas) and Maulik Pacholy (Baljeet) are gay.
I reviewed two 2025 episodes:
"Sleepover": The main five kids and Candace and her friends are having two separate sleepovers in the same house on the same night.
The kids' sleepover activities: a scary movie in a geodesic dome with a popcorn floor.
Candace wants to bust her brothers, but her friends sing about the things they could do instead: play truth or dare, wear monster masks, and so on.
More after the break
When Baljeet falls asleep, Buford goes to Candace's room to find some makeup to prank him with, but ends up playing Truth or Dare with the girls. Except every dare is no problem: dunk your head in the otilet, eat some of Perry's food, let us give you a makeover.
Meanwhile, Doof invites Perry in for a sleepover. His newest evil scheme: neighbor Tyler keeps spoiling the ending of tv shows that he hasn't seen yet. Tonight is the series finale of the popular tv show Acquaintances, so Doof is going to watch it early and spoil the ending to the whole Tri-State area. He uses a special zapper to stay awake,but falls asleep anyway.
Gay content: None.
New Year's Eve: The kids are all having a sleepover at one of the parents' house. They intend to stay up all night, but Buford complains that Sanjeet is already asleep, and getting saliva on his shoulder. Well, don't stand so close to him. Vanessa notes that at the stroke of midnight, you're supposed to kiss "someone special." Hey, Baljeet has a girlfriend. Heterosexual identity established at Minute 1.
Phineas and Ferb build a giant disco ball with a ballroom inside, and send it up into space. At midnight, it will drop, with them inside. The plan goes off with no problems. No one kisses anyone.
Meanwhile, Candace is invited to an adult party with her parents. She and her friend note that they're grown up now, so they won't go crazy over boys anymore -- they'll go crazy over men. He New Year's Resolution is to not try to bust the boys anymore, but when she hears about the giant disco ball, she tries to restrain herself, but can't make it. She puts a live feed of the ball on screen at the adult party, but no one believes that it's a giant ball with children inside.
You can see two guys talking to each other in the background. That's all the gay hints you get: when everyone dances and kisses, it's boy-girl couples all the way down.
Meanwhile, Doof invents a ray that will change your resolution to "Make Doofenschmirtz my leader." At midnight he'll unleash it onto the adult party, and they'll be his minions (so he'll have thirty minions? What's he going to do, take over a neighborhood?).
His arch-nemesis Perry bursts in, but Doof traps him in a giant bottle of champaigne, then rushes off to the party. Perry follows. They fight, but when Perry realizes what the ray will do, he sits down and gestures "Go ahead." At the stroke of midnight, everyone resolves to make him their new leader. But when he says "Come, my minions -- we take over City Hall," they refuse. Doof didn't realize that no one ever keeps a New Year's Resolution.
Gay Content: Doof and Perry dance at the party. Ho-Yay. Nothing has changed since 2007, except we've all gotten older.
Time for the kids to sing:
I'm glad when I think about starting all over again
There was a moment, but this is another,
So I'm not going to cry when we say goodbye to the year that is quickly receding
We're not gonna look back, 'cause we're on the right track, and we all know that time is fleeting.
This is getting to me. F*k the Sadness. Let's get some Adam Devine up in here.
Bonus: There's a Mitchel Musso n*de shot online, but you wouldn't like it -- he's in the midst of intimacy with a lady. And you've already seen Vince Martella. So how about Malcolm McDowell, who voices the guys' grandfather?
"Craig of the Creek": Silver Fist gets a sidekick, and the gay kid gets a boyfriend
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