Phineas & Ferb: Why Perry Is A Platypus
One of the highlights of Phineas and Ferb is the Flynn-Fletcher family pet, Perry, but why is he a platypus? The show definitely falls on the quirkier side, with its oddball humor being both a hit with kids and older audiences. Phineas and Ferb follows the titular brothers on summer vacation from school as they do something wacky every day to make the most of it — to the chagrin of their sister, Candace, who can never catch the boys in the act and tell their mom on them. Before getting its own Disney+ original movie, the show was essentially split into two different stories, with one half of each episode following Phineas and Ferb, and the other half following their pet platypus, Perry, in his double life as a secret agent.
In Phineas and Ferb, Perry the Platypus is both the unassuming pet of the Flynn-Fletcher family and the top agent for the O.W.C.A. (Organization Without A Cool Acronym). Agent P, as he's referred to in the organization, is the arch-nemesis of the evil Doctor Doofenshmirtz, who is instated to continuously foil the latter's plans to conquer the tri-state area. The idea of the family pet also being a secret agent is crazy enough as a concept, and the role could be executed well by any average pet species, so that begs the question: why is Perry a platypus?
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Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh, the creators of Phineas and Ferb (who also both previously worked on Rocko's Modern Life), have stated that they made Perry a platypus simply because they could easily make up things about the species. The creators cleverly reasoned that the majority of the audience would have little to no knowledge on the species of the platypus, as opposed to
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