Some reveals outline your childhood, after which there are TV sequence that come alongside solely as soon as in a lifetime that you’ll always remember. A type of for me was Phineas and Ferb, and now, as if my childhood goals got here to life, I had the possibility to speak to the sequence’ stars about what it’s been wish to voice these iconic characters for therefore lengthy. Wow, I’m actually feeling my age.
In honor of Phineas and Ferb releasing a brand new season as a part of the 2025 TV schedule, I had the possibility to speak to Vincent Martella (Phineas). As somebody who has been on the present for the reason that very starting, I used to be interested by what it was wish to primarily develop up with the characters, even when they stayed the identical age. Martella commented that he had been voicing this little one for practically ‘20 years,’ and that one thing like that is so ‘significant’ to him to return to after so lengthy:
I actually grew up making this present. I’ve performed Phineas for nearly 20 years, so it is a actually very long time to get to spend with a personality. And I really feel so fortunate as a result of I like this character and I like this present and I like the those that I work with. Once we first began coming again to do new seasons and new episodes of the present, it was very surreal – as a result of it is one thing that is meant a lot to me. And attending to see all the brand new adventures and the brand new innovations and the brand new music, all the nice work that our writers are doing, it is actually inspiring each time I stroll in it; it is actually significant.
Returning for brand new seasons is so wonderful. Quite a few nice TV reveals from the previous have had resurgences in reputation, just like the rewatchable Avatar: The Final Airbender, and a few have even earned new reveals, variations and extra. To me although, Phineas and Ferb has persistently stayed inside popular culture for therefore lengthy and has solely grown greater, which result in these new episodes.
In fact, Disney basically has additionally grown – or at the least the nostalgic half has. I requested Ashley Tisdale, who voices older sister Candace, the identical query about what it’s like rising up with this present and these characters.
The actress stated that it’s “wild,’” and seeing the characters so ingrained into popular culture – like Candace and her Excessive Faculty Musical film character, Sharpay – is “fascinating” and that they “picked the correct animation” for it to be so beloved all this time later:
It is actually cool, and it is so fascinating to me to see simply these characters I’ve performed, and the way a lot they’re nonetheless part of popular culture is actually wild to me. ‘Trigger it is like, you already know, I see clearly these memes and all the pieces on Sharpay, and she or he’s been actually on the market lately, and she or he’s introduced again so many occasions, after which additionally Candace, with just like the TikToks – there’s a lot Phineas and Ferb on TikTok, and it is fairly wonderful.
The HSM solid alum continued by commenting that the truth that there are youthful children on the market continually discovering the present regardless of how lengthy its run is so ‘cool’ to her in spite of everything this time:
After which to see youthful and youthful children get into these reveals, and you are like, ‘They’re seeing it for the primary time…’ it is fairly wild, and it is actually cool…I am so grateful to be part of it. I picked the correct animation, you already know, I picked the correct one….this one is like such a dream.
It’s truthfully surreal to me all these years later. I nonetheless keep in mind the day Phineas and Ferb premiered, and I used to be sitting on my sofa watching the present with my dad. Now right here I’m, years later, overlaying it and talking to the very stars I used to hearken to. It’s wild as properly – and wow, I’m feeling so outdated, however in a great way.
With the brand new episodes popping out, I feel it’s time for one more rewatch of Phineas and Ferb to get pleasure from all these loopy innovations as soon as extra, even when I’m feeling my age now. Should you’ve by no means seen the present, you may test it out with a Disney+ subscription.