Flop Starz

In the episode, Phineas and Ferb become one-hit wonders in a morning, much to the disappointment of their sister Candace, who is trying out for the talent show The Next American Pop Teen Idol Star!

"Flop Starz" carried several references to the music industry (the title is a spoof of the phrase "pop stars"), as well as to the talent show American Idol.

While the boys work on becoming one-hit wonders by writing a "meaningless" song, Candace tries on outfits for the audition - including her mother's Lindana outfit- all rejected by her best friend Stacy.

At the audition, she is set to perform with the new band "PFT", which she discovers is "Phineas and the Ferb-Tones" (PFT for short), consisting of Phineas (main vocals and guitarist), Ferb (drummer and keyboardist), and their friends, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro and Fireside Girls, Adyson Sweetwater, Gretchen and Milly (as back-up singers "the Ferbettes"), whose song "Gitchee Gitchee Goo" has topped the charts, making them one-hit wonders.

After Perry removes his "disguise" the entire building transforms into a giant robot (thanks to Doofenshmirtz buying up huge numbers of construction toys).

Meanwhile, trying to show their mom the band's poster on a building outside, Candace hurries their mother from a store whilst inadvertently carrying a jacket she has not paid for.

At the record company, Phineas, inspired by his mother's story, throws a diva tantrum and leaves, unaware that the CEO Ben Baxter plans to use a videotape of the band's performance to carry on its legacy.

Back at the mall, Candace, having failed to bust her brothers, is downtrodden until Jeremy tells her the boys' fun shouldn't ruin her good time and that she should sing anyway.

Series co-creators, Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh, wrote the story for "Flop Starz;"[2] Sherm Cohen and Antoine Guilbaud, meanwhile, constructed the storyboards.

Instead of premiering it with the pilot episode, "Rollercoaster", they chose "Flop Starz" and aired it on the same day in every country in which the Disney Channel was broadcast;[7] over one hundred and fifty territories.

[8] This caused for the episode to air almost six months later than originally planned as different countries adapted the script and hired voice actors to rerecord lines in the selected languages.

[7] Despite the delay, the episode officially aired on 1 February 2008, starting off the month-long marathon Disney titled "Phineas and Ferb-uary.

[24] The extended version of "Gitchee Gitchee Goo" also appears in the Musical Cliptastic Countdown episode, having been voted as the most requested song of the show's first season; after the hypnotic single My Name Is Doof is performed, and the audience members had been hypnotized by Doofenshmirtz, Perry the Platypus, having been told by Major Monogram that they needed something even more catchy to counteract it, pulls down a curtain, therefore revealing the extended version and breaking the spell.