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Ferb Fletcher
British-American

Ferbs "Ferb" Fletcher

animated television series Phineas and Ferb. He is voiced by British actor Thomas Sangster on the first four seasons of Phineas and Ferb and American actor David Errigo Jr. in future seasons as well as on Milo Murphy's Law and Candace Against the Universe. His singing voice is provided by series music composer Danny Jacob. Ferb was born on February 29.[2]

Ferb and his step-brother

A-Plots, constructing large scale inventions or taking part in other outlandish activities. Ferb, an engineering genius, allows Phineas to do most of the talking for the pair and is "more of a man of action."[3]
When Ferb does speak, it is almost always a single sentence.

Ferb was named after a

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (daughter of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz) and saves her in the same episode when she gets tangled up and a lawn mower almost gets her, but he is able to save her with a giant tool which appears to be an exaggerated version of a Swiss Army knife. In "Summer Belongs to You!
" Vanessa asks Candace what Ferb is short for; Candace realizes she doesn't know herself what it is short for.

In the fourth season episode "Act Your Age", he as a teenager appears to be in a relationship with Vanessa. Ferb's design is based on a

T-shirts, and video games
.

Role in Phineas and Ferb

Ferb comes from a

restaurant management (in "Chez Platypus").[14] Ferb's step-sister, Candace, is always trying to get the two in trouble with their mother for their schemes, but is never able to.[6]
Ferb talks very rarely, usually having only one line per episode. He speaks with a British accent. There are a total of 11 episodes in which he had no lines and the longest he ever spoke was in "The Lizard Whisperer" when he gave a speech which totalled 128 words.

Character

Creation and conception

Ferb was created by

Fox Network animated series The Simpsons.[15] Phineas and Ferb was inspired by their boyhood memories of summer vacation;[9] Povenmire and Marsh both felt the theme of school in television had fallen to redundancy and wanted to create a series that took place solely in the summertime.[10]

Ferb's name was derived from that of a mutual friend of Povenmire and Marsh named Frank, who "owns more tools than anyone [they] know."

set-builder who had worked building and designing sets for shows such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.[4][17] Frank's wife disliked Frank's name and gave him the unusual nickname "Ferb".[4]

Design and voice

"We knew
Thomas Sangster from Love Actually and Nanny McPhee
and he was able to express so much. But he did it in a studio in London and never met or saw anybody else working on the show. He'd seen one episode where somebody else was the voice that he had to portray and he just got it."
 —Jeff "Swampy" Marsh on casting Ferb.[18]

Ferb was given a simplistic structure so that young audiences would be able to draw him easily.[16] As with the other characters of Phineas and Ferb, Ferb's design is constructed of geometric shapes in homage to animator Tex Avery.[10] Ferb's head is based on a rectangle with a wider top than bottom. A square is used for his nose, and an egg-shaped oval is used for his eyes. The eye furthest from the screen is always drawn larger than the other. Povenmire uses a nine-step process to draw Ferb, starting with his head and ending with touch ups.[19][20]

Ferb was originally going to be voiced by actor

Thomas Sangster as his voice. However, they enjoyed Musso to a level that they recast him as the voice of the character Jeremy Johnson; although Musso no longer voices a title character, his new role allows him more lines.[21] Sangster himself is a British actor and was among several cast members hired that hailed from the United Kingdom. Marsh had lived in the country for seven years and developed a fondness for the culture and people.[18]

Personality

Ferb was devised as a character devoid of ill will. Marsh explained, "It was important to us that [Phineas and Ferb] never did anything with any animosity. They never tried to get their sister in trouble or outsmart their mother and get away with it."[22] Instead, he and his brother create things for the sheer enjoyment of it[22] or to help out others ("and for the ladies"); for example, Ferb and Phineas carve Candace's face into Mount Rushmore for her birthday,[23] set up a roller derby for a rematch race with his Grandmother Betty Jo's old rival,[24] create a haunted house for their friend Isabella to cure her hiccups and make a super-computer to find out what to do for their mom after being so kind to them.[25]

Povenmire and Marsh intended for Ferb's drive to create stem primarily from a desire to have fun,[10] and in one episode, "Thaddeus and Thor", Phineas openly confirms this as his and his brother's only goal in their daily schemes – though Ferb adds that they also do it "for the ladies."[26]

In the original pitch to overseas

polyglot
, being able to speak in human, animal, and alien tongues.

Ferb also seems to possess good insight, which is probably the main character trait, other than his silence, distinguishing his character from Phineas. Jean Yoo, an official press member for Disney Channel, notes that when Ferb does speak, "it always shows a greater understanding of the situation than his countenance would indicate."[6] He usually says one sentence per episode,[6] such as "Platypuses are the only mammals to lay eggs,"[3] "Well, he [Buford] was all up in my face,"[28] or "Candace, we [Phineas and Ferb] are just kids." He also has a crush on Vanessa Doofenshmirtz.[29]

Reception

Critical reception for the character has been generally positive. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media describes him as a "go-to engineering guru" and considers him and Phineas to be "partner[s] in crime."[30] Susan Stewart, reviewing the show in The New York Times, notes that Phineas and Ferb "work on a heroic scale and are apparently not limited by the laws of nature."[31] Josh Jackson, editor of Paste magazine, listed Ferb's "dry wit" as the third of five reasons as to why the series is the "Best Kids Show on TV," writing that "Ferb gets about one line per episode, but it's always a doozy."[32] Paste writers claimed that Ferb, alongside Phineas are 33rd best cartoon characters of all time.[33]

Ed Stetzer, Richie Stanley, and Jason Hayes, author's the book Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches That Reach Them, wrote that Ferb and Phineas, along with the cast of High School Musical, are examples of creating a "whole new culture" in households. Stetzer, Stanley, and Hayes continued to write that "[O]ur culture has connected with media that shows not only the Cinderella and Prince Charming life we all wish for, but also the life in which we all live with real trials, real joys, and real fears."[34]

"Backyard Beach," a song Danny Jacob performs as Ferb in the episode "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror," became very popular among viewers[35] and was voted as the second best song in the series by viewers in the special 2009 event, "Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown". The best, according to viewers, was "Gitchee Gitchee Goo" from "Flop Starz," which Jacob performs in as Ferb.[36]

In other media

Besides the series Phineas and Ferb, Ferb has also appeared in the Milo Murphy’s Law episode

Disney Press.[37][38][39][40] Ferb appears in the Nintendo DS video game based on the series, simply titled Phineas and Ferb.[41] Dan Povenmire has said that he saw nothing of the game until its release date, on which he was given a copy for free.[4]

Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade.[44][45]

References

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  2. ^ Povenmire, Dan [@DanPovenmire] (May 6, 2017). ".he wasn't born in the summer months so we didn't see it. His birthday is February 29th" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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  8. ^ Writer: Bobby Gaylor, Martin Olson; Director: Zac Moncrief. "Leave the Busting to Us!". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 26. Disney Channel.
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  11. ^ Writers: Martin Olson, Bobby Gaylor, Chong Lee, Mike Diederich; Director: Dan Povenmire, Zac Moncrief. "Toy to the World". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 16. Disney Channel.
  12. ^ Director: Dan Povenmire. "The Ballad of Badbeard". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 24. Disney Channel.
  13. ^ Writer and Director: Dan Povenmire. "It's About Time!". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 21. Disney Channel.
  14. ^ Writers: Antoine Guilbaud, Kim Roberson; Director: Zac Moncrief. "Chez Platypus". Phineas and Ferb. Season 2. Episode 9. Disney XD.
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  23. ^ Writers: Kyle Baker, Patrick Ventura; Director: Dan Povenmire. "Candace Loses Her Head". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 7. Disney Channel.
  24. ^ Writers: Tim Björklund, Kim Roberson. "Crack That Whip". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 27. Disney Channel.
  25. ^ Writers: Antoine Guilbaud, Chong Lee; Director: Zac Moncrief. "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!". Phineas and Ferb. Season 1. Episode 39. Disney Channel.
  26. ^ Writers: Antoine Guilbaud, Kim Roberson; Director: Zac Moncrief. "Thaddeus and Thor". Phineas and Ferb. Season 2. Episode 13. Disney XD.
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