Recap / Phineas And Ferb Bee Story

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Isabella and the Fireside Girls are trying to earn their beekeeping patch. Unfortunately, the bees have gone missing. They decide to borrow some equipment from Phineas and Ferb to turn themselves into bees. Meanwhile, Pinky the Chihuahua is sent to stop Poofenplotz, who plans to consume massive quantities of royal jelly in the hopes of growing forty times larger, living forty times longer, and being crowned Queen of the World.

This episode runs at the same time as the previous episode, "Bee Day".

Tropes:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: "Ooh, how humiliating. Piloted off to the pokey by a pooch."
• Ambiguous Syntax:
  Phineas: Hey Isabella, we're having iced tea. You want some, honey?
  Isabella: What'd you say?
  Phineas: I said, "We're having iced tea. You want some honey?"
  Isabella: Um... Sure.
• Auto-Tune: Michaela Zee has a... questionable singing voice, so Ginger's voice in "Waggle Dance" is given this treatment.
• Bland-Name Product: A Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that Agent Pinky's makeup case trap is from "Balencichihuahua", a parody of Balenciaga.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Poofenplotz instructs Pinky the Chihuahua to "Pay attention as the camera slowly moves closer and we cross-dissolve to my thoughts."
• Brick Joke: Katie apparently loves the traditional "B♭ with an F♯ bass" that ends the Bee Day song.
• Call-Back:
  • Isabella is shown wearing the "A-Der!" accomplishment patch.
  • Isabella remembers Phineas's sorbet machine that could turn people into flies. She gets him to modify it to turn the Fireside Girls into bees.
  • During Isabella's Rousing Speech while the girls are stuck in the vacuum, she mentions the time that they helped Candace get 50 patches in one day (though Holly mentions that it was technically supposed to be 49).
• Chekhov's Classroom: A variation. In a clip from early in the episode (which also appears in "Bee Day"), Baljeet is telling Ginger about how bees communicate through a dance known as the Waggle Dance. Ginger is able to teach it to the Fireside Girls when they have to figure out how to get the bees back to the hive.
• Cloudcuckoolander: When Gretchen suggests thinking like a bee, Katie decides to buzz and flap her arms like a bee's wings.
• Comically Missing the Point: Holly's reaction to Adyson's suggestion to get stung by radioactive bees and gain bee themed super powers.
  Holly: Um, we don't have access to radioactive bees.
  Ginger: Yeah, that's what's wrong with that plan.
• A Day in the Limelight: As with the first pair of Synchronous Episodes, this is one for the Fireside Girls. The rest of the gang only shows up briefly near the beginning and the end.
• Distaff Counterpart: Carla, Admiral Acronym's assistant, is basically a female version of Carl. It's implied she and Carl are related, since Carla is said to come from "an entire family of unpaid interns".
• Face Ship: Poofenplotz's "Myself-icopter" is a helicopter designed to look like her face.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Poofenplotz's rejection letter from L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. is signed by Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
• Given Name Reveal: Poofenplotz's first name is revealed to be Esmeralda, as revealed when she reads her rejection letter from L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.
• Harmless Villain: Poofenplotz is so harmless that she's even rejected from L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N., in a letter signed by Doofenshmirtz himself.
• Hypocritical Humor: Doofenshmirtz has absolutely no reasons to dismissed Poofenplotz from joining L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N for being terrible at villainy when he himself can be very bad at it.
• I Am Not Weasel: Gretchen believes being sucked into a pharmacist's vacuum is the end.
• Insistent Terminology: It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it-moment, but this episode reveals that Poofenplotz makes "-ificators" instead of "-inators".
• Noodle Incident:
  • Isabella attempts to set up a flashback to the last time they tried to get their bee-keeping patch. It was apparently such a catastrophe that, as Gretchen reminds her, she decided to never flash back to it again.
  • When Poofenplotz finally reaches the royal jelly, she says, "Fortune is smiling down upon me like the creepy guy on the corner of Third and Main!"
• Once More, with Clarity: In "Bee Day," Ginger seemed interested in Baljeet's facts about bees, but then disappeared when he had his back turned. Here, we see that this is because Isabella turned her into a bee.
• Pheromones: The girls' bees have been drawn to Doofenshmirtz's place, as a result of his plan to douse himself in bee pheromones.
• Pun-Based Title: The title is a play on "B-story", which is what the Fireside Girls' plot was to the previous episode.
• Record Needle Scratch: When Isabella tries to flashback to the aforementioned Noodle Incident, and again when she starts to flash-forward to the worst possible outcome after realizing they lost track of the bees.
• Rousing Speech: Isabella delivers one when they get stuck inside Doofenshmirtz's vacuum and the other girls think about giving up.
• Shaking the Rump: "Waggle Dance", a whole song dedicated to bees' communication by dancing.
• Shout-Out:
  • Prof. Poofenplotz quotes Galadriel's "All shall love me and despair!" rant from The Fellowship of the Ring.
  • Isabella rallies the Fireside Girls with a parody of Bluto's Rousing Speech from Animal House.
• Shown Their Work: Bees actually do communicate the way described in the "Waggle Dance".
• Sure, Let's Go with That: When the Fireside Bees are finally free from the pharmacist's power vacuum, Isabella assumes it was Adyson who rescued them.
  Isabella: Great job, Adyson!
  Adyson: (confused) Uh, thanks?