Phineas And Ferb Cast and Crew Reveal What Fans Can Expect from The 2025 Revival – NYCC

The band is officially back, as Disney announced the revival of the beloved Phineas and Ferb series, and what better way to celebrate than with the cast and crew coming together for a NYCC panel in front of a packed audience. Moderated by Variety‘s Mike Schneider, favorite memories were shared from the series, it 15-year legacy was discussed, as well as new information about what fans can expect from the highly anticipated new season, debuting next year on Disney Channel and Disney+.

Disney announced the new season of Phineas and Ferb will follow the inventive stepbrothers as they tackle another 104 days of summer. Candace is more determined than ever to finally bust her little brothers while their pet platypus, Perry, continues to lead a double life as the suave Agent P, whose sole mission is to thwart Dr. Doofenshmirtz from taking over the Tri-State area.

“I remember when we pitched that show to the writers, they looked very confused, and I finally found two that would take it, and I said if we do this right for the first time in the history of the world there will be an entire generation of people that knows what an aglet is. Which means we’ve ruined that joke for an entire group of people. That’s right it used to be a joke that nobody knew. Just like saying that cellophane thing at the end of your shoelaces and now people know what it is,” said creator Jeff “Swampy” Marsh.

“104 Days of summer, so it is another summer, it’s the following summer. So, we’re going to make a bookshelf and we’re going to kill off a main character. We’re not allowed to tell you a lot about it but we’re having just the time of our lives doing it. I was a little worried when they wanted to do more because we did 222 episodes and seven hour-long specials and two movies. We’ve done a lot of stories, and I was afraid that the writers’ room was is going to be them pitching us ideas and me and swampy. ‘No, we did that second season, we did that third season. No, we did that first season.’ But that hasn’t been the case at all. It comes up occasionally that somebody will pitch a lair entrance or something that we’ve already done and sometimes we have to look at up on Wiki to see if we’ve done it before, but we have had just the best time doing this,” Marsh finished.

“Half the room is writers from the from the original run and half the room are young writers who grew up with the show including Olivia Olen who plays my daughter in the show, and she grew up with the show and now she’s a writer. She’s doing spectacular for me one of the most fun things about doing more of these is we have the freedom now to go to explore characters more fully that we didn’t get to the first time. It’s like, ‘Oh yeah, we can kind of just do a whole episode about different folks.’ It’s really kind of freeing it feels very new and fresh but still feels like the show because my goal is that if you were watching the last season and you started watching this season it wouldn’t even bump you at all. We just want to give you the show that you love and make more of it, but it feels somehow a little bit elevated because there’s so much energy in the room now,” said Dan Povenmire.

“It’s going to be really fun. There are stories we’ve been wanting to tell for a long time that we never got around to. There are things we were like, ‘Hey we’ve never done this kind of episode, that we had tried to do a couple times and we finally figured out a way to do it where they work within our universe. There’s a certain alien that is making a reappearance. We’re having a great time and there are songs we didn’t think that really worked well; we’ve written somewhere over 500 songs, the number is astronomical, we reconsidered.”

“TikTok has been great because there’s been so many songs from the show. There was a whole dance that people did to I Got Records on My Fingers and I Just Can’t Stop. If you type Busted from Phineas and Ferb into TikTok you’ll get literally hundreds of thousands of videos where people are doing that choreography I drew on Post-it notes in 2006. The Squirrels in My Pants was probably the biggest of those trends on TikTok. There was a month where every morning I would start scrolling through TikTok and the first thing that would come up was Jimmy Fallon and Reese Whitherspoon lip-syncing to Squirrels in My Pants, or Lizzo is lip-syncing to it on stage in front of a sold-out crowd. The songs we’re writing for the new season may be our favorites that we’ve written so far. We wrote what I feel like is a very quintessentially Phineas and Ferb song because it’s the first day of the next summer and in doing that we I didn’t have as much time in my schedule because I’m also doing Hamster & Gretel which you should watch. But I didn’t have time to sort of choreograph it out but I happened to know choreographers now through TikTok and I just called them up because they had expressed interest at one point in choreographing for animation and they did turned it around in like a day,” Povenmire finished.

Phineas and Ferb has since won five Emmys, and Disney Television Animation declared it was its most successful animated series ever in the Kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 demos. The show turned into a major global franchise for Disney, leading to a live touring show, junior novels, apparel, toys, video games, food, health, and beauty. All four original seasons and the films are currently streaming on Disney+.

To learn more about the revival, check out our full video from the panel below. Panel includes Creators: Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh. Cast: Vincent Martella (Phineas), Ashley Tisdale (Candace), Caroline Rhea (Linda), Dee Bradley Baker (Perry), and Alison Stoner (Isabella) David Errigo Jr. (Ferb)