One Good Scare Ought to Do It! (3 Oct. 2008)

Isabella gets the hiccups, so the boys go to extreme lengths to scare them out of her. Meanwhile, Candace encounters Jeremy's younger sister.

Writers:

Jon Colton Barry, Bobby Gaylor (story),

Stars:

Vincent Martella, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ashley Tisdale

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Vincent Martella	...	Phineas (voice)
Thomas Brodie-Sangster	...	Ferb (voice) (as Thomas Sangster)
Ashley Tisdale	...	Candace (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Perry the Platypus (voice)
Bobby Gaylor	...	Buford (voice)
Tyler Alexander Mann	...	Karl
Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh	...	Major Monogram (voice)
Cymphonique Miller	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Mitchel Musso	...	Jeremy (voice)
Maulik Pancholy	...	Baljeet (voice)
Dan Povenmire	...	Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (voice)
Caroline Rhea	...	Mom (voice)
Alyson Stoner	...	Isabella (voice)
Kari Wahlgren	...	Little Suzy
Ariel Winter	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Storyline

Isabella gets the hiccups, so the boys go to extreme lengths to scare them out of her. Meanwhile, Candace encounters Jeremy's younger sister.

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family

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Details

Release Date:

3 October 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Television Animation

Did You Know?

Quotes

Candace: [to Mom, gesturing to the where the haunted house was] See, absolute terror! These little creeps have destroyed our backyard and leaving this ugly mess in it's place.

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Connections

References Frankenstein (1931)

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Soundtracks

"Perry the Platypus"
Written by Dan Povenmire and Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh
Performed by Randy Crenshaw, Danny Jacob and Laura Dickinson

User Reviews

The Pathos of Isabella Garcia-Shapiro

***SPOILER ALERT***

Part of the problem with a TV show that's supposed to take place during summer vacation, and yet runs during other times of the year, is that it uses the opportunity to make non-summer themed episodes. In the case of Phineas and Ferb, there were actually two Halloween-themed episodes, which would make you wonder why they'd have this in the summer. The first of these two episodes was the half-hour "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!"

Isabella has a severe case of the hiccups, and Phineas and Ferb think they can scare them out of her, by getting all their friends to make a haunted house ride filled with everything that scares each kid. The question is, will they scare Isabella. While not all hiccups are psychosomatic, we find that hers are. We also find out about some of the things that scare Baljeet and Buford, the first of which is more absurd than the second. Meanwhile, Perry has to stop Dr. Doofenshmirtz's latest evil plot, which involves retrieving goods of a mentor of his and hatching a plot to set fire to the sun, something even he knows is idiotic and pointless. So rather than doing something as ridiculous as setting fire to the sun, he opts to take his mentor's stuff and blow up his lair.

I put a spoiler tag on this commentary, but I really wish I didn't have to. Because our hero ends up succeeding in a way that he wasn't planning. Let's just say that it involves the battle between Perry & Dr. Doofenshmirtz and a near-death experience for Phineas, and not divulge too much beyond that point, other than the fact that it clearly indicates that the thought of Phineas either dying or not being part of her life is what scares her the most. And this is an indication of the quality of the writing of this show, which is a lot better than you might expect from Disney.