Talk to the Snail

So I give props to Aliki last week in this post, and, the next thing I know, she’s buying me lunch at the Disney commissary and showing me around the Phineas and Ferb production offices. (It turns out her storyboard partner on the show when he’s not on vacation is Antoine Guilbaud, the guy who made “Herb” back in the old days of Oh Yeah! Cartoons.) We also ran into Ph & F’s creators, Dan Povenmire and Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh, above. You know, the commissary at Disney’s has bottles of about half a dozen different flavors of syrup you can squirt right into your soda at no extra charge. I went with the standard vanilla Coke. A good afternoon.

— Eric

So for the week of 6/30 to 7/6, the Disney Channel owned the top ten shows for kids between the ages of six and eleven, according to Nielsen. The two cartoon slots (Nos five and eight) were held by Phineas and Ferb. P&F made the charts earlier this year, but it’s been a loooooooong time since anyone saw a Disney cartoon hit the top ten before that. In fact, I have no idea when it happened last. My take is Phineas and Ferb is usually met with indifference within the animation community, lacking the ‘buzz’ of other, less successful shows. That doesn’t matter, though, as the show has unmistakably scored with its intended audience. It’s safe to say Phineas and Ferb is Disney’s most popular TV cartoon since… what? Congratulations to the cast and crew.

Among the more popular parts of Phineas and Ferb are the show’s musical numbers. Here’s a link to a shortened [Read more…]