If I had a nickel for every time Dan made a blind guess about platypus and managed to get it correct without realizing i would have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
It's not that you've guessed right, Dan. It's that Perry has been so famous and successful that all the real platypuses feel pressured to be more like him. It's gotten so bad that they're genetic altering themselves to be teal
Dan is such a source of happiness. The show was a major inspiration when I was a kid. I had very dejected parents, and I ended up getting raised more by TV than anything else. The show fuelled my creativity, and inspired me to do whatever I set my mind to. I do custom wood carvings now, and I know had it not been for shows like Phineas and Ferb, I never would have pursued something where everything I do is about creation. It’s really great as an adult now to see Dan making content I can still relate to and enjoy. I’m sure it’s also bizarre for him that most us kids who grew up watching his show are now in our early to mid 20’s.
This 'Too Many OC Coincidences' happens to me a lot too when it comes to chose a name for my OCs. There were some instances when I would just chose the name for them which sounded great for their character. After that, I am deep into writing the characters' stories and their development as characters, everything is good and fleshed out. But then one day I decided to look up to their name's meaning (for contexts, most of the time I am done with character designing and when I want to give a name to them I usually look up for their meanings first) and boom what a coincidence, their names I accidentally had chosen for them because they just sounded right, described their personality so perfectly.
I literally just did that with two characters I created for a story!!! It was so weird. I made the characters a decent while ago, and have constantly fleshed them out. Names are something I struggle with a lot, but the names I choose for these two I decided on relatively quickly. And their meanings fit with either their names, or actions in my story. It was kinda freaky, but epic.
I named a daughter of zeus in the story I wrote with my friends “Randi” because I had recently read a book with a girl named Randy in it and I thought it was cool, looked it up years later and google said it meant “beautiful goddess” (I’m quite certain it doesn’t really but I was shook)
That happened to me too! Way more then I liked. For example I just came up with a new character to be my oc’s best friend/soon to be adoptive sister just a couple of days ago and even though their names are different when I looked them up later I found that they have the same meanings! So I said, there it is that’s how they become friends! Cause my character like me likes reading about meanings behind names and used that as a conversation starter.
@Jadasa Tara @Lisfa Ensa 📽 If I had a nickel for every bot that responded to this comment, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I literally just dropped my phone in shock when he showed that platypus under the blacklight and it was the same color. Like... WOW! Centuries upon millennia of discoveries and academic disciplines and a good chunk scientific community just got 1-uped by an animator looking to add style to his creation. I've been having a depressing week so far but this was the feel good story I desperately needed right now. Thanks :)
Something similar happened in the creation of the Jurassic Park, before the movie, most discovered Raptors were about the size of chickens, but the director of the movie wanted a larger raptor for technological and theatrical purposes. It was only in the middle of production that the Utah Raptor was discovered and validated the size of the raptors in the movies
I like thinking of Dan and Doof having a bit of a Norman Osborn and Green Goblin situation, but of course, Doof isn’t some malevolent psychopath. Just a silly and harmless villain that’s more oriented toward pranking Dan than killing his employees.
Doof: When I was a kid, my favorite color was ultraviolet. My teachers laughed and told me that it wasn't a real color. So that's why when I was a teenager I made one of my first inators, the ULTRAVIOLETLIGHT-INATOR!!! When I turned it on, all the town had an ultraviolet light, although I couldn't tell the difference so I ended being disappointed. But even though the inator was turned off, the light kept extending, until it covered the whole world and then kept extending through space. Then it wasn't until I met YOU, Perry the Platypus, that I discovered that the ultraviolet light indeed changed the color of all the platypuses in the world, proving that I was right about ultraviolet being a color. IN YOUR FACE TEACHERS!! So Perry, I just wanted to say... Thank you :') Perry: Grrrrrrr
Just gotta say this... I never watched Phineas and Ferb as a kid, and then one day my dad found it on Disney+ and decided to check it out. So we watched it and we LOVED it. I'll go downstairs sometimes and just find my dad watching it for no particular reason. I love watching it with him because it ALWAYS makes him crack up and my dad's laugh is one of my favorite sounds in the world. Thanks for the amazing show, Dan, and for all the awesome memories. You are a genius.
If Dan had a nickel for everything he predicted about platypi, without knowing about them fully, he would have 3 nickels. Which isnt s lot, but holy cow its weird it happened three times
"If I had a nickel for every time I made stuff up for a fictional platypus which ended up being accurate in real life, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice." -Dan Povenmire
If they ever find like a new species of platypus (living or extinct) they should totally name it after Dan, because this honestly shouldn't have happened twice.
If Dan had a nickle for everytime he was accidentally right about the features of platypodes, he'd have two whole nickles; which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
New head cannon: One of the boys earliest excitements was making Perry look blue. Even though we see him in a pet shop, it could just be that the boys didn’t remember the events correctly
Well, brown is just dark orange, in the same way that navy is dark blue. So, I do believe that platypuses do in fact have orange beaks... it's just that most people don't realize that brown is a shade of orange.
To paraphrase a certain inventor, Mister Povenmire: "If I had a nickel for everytime Dan Povenmire just made something up about a platypus and turned out to be spot on, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."
Maybe Dan should have been a Platypus scientist I'm just waiting now for the scientific headline "what Platypus does in it's free time may surprise you🎩"
Haha Dan, you're so funny! The truman show, haha that's your best joke yet. _Target is getting suspicious, initiate code teal. I repeat, initiate code teal._
Lmao I was looking for this 😂this man’s energy is inspiring thank you you got a subscriber. I like to create characters too and just imagining a discovery that lines up with a design is so amazing Dan. I just realized my fingernails are that color hehe. 😂 it’s a pretty color.
Low key watching your little clips like this made me miss the old days of watching Phineas and Ferb that was one of the main reasons I re activated my Disney+ subscription just so I could watch your series again thanks for a beautiful show
This Dan is what we like to call a “Simpsons Moment,” when you write something thinking it would be cool then it actually happens! Though any true fan follows this modified quote “We don’t talk about Perry’s fur color!” On a side note, if you’re looking for something fun to do, you could do a Perry-ized version of We Don’t Talk About Bruno in Doof’s voice!
News headline: As if the platypus couldn't get any weirder the platypus: *Oh, but I can* Another thing, when they become an adult, they lose their teeth. So this means Perry is still young. Dan probably didn't know that either and but makes sense that Perry is in his prime and still kickin
Another fun fact about platypuses is that not only they´re one of the only egg laying mammals (I say one because echidnas exist too) but they´re also one of the only venomous ones as males have a spur in their hind leg which they use for fighting and while the venom itself wont kill a human its so unspeakably painful that it WILL make you wanna kill yourself according to those who have been stung. So, if Perry ever ultimately grew tired of Doof´s shenanigans he could just give him a little pinch with his foot and then watch him writhe in agony for hours but luckily we all know Perry would never go that far, especially with Doof. P.S. while this bit of platypus trivia is obviously never used in Phineas and Ferb there was a platypus character named Parker in the Penguins of Madagascar show who did had a venomous spur though the venom is just portrayed as an enemy neutralizer rather than a highly mortal experience.
also, platypodes(yes that is the proper plural) don't have stomachs...somehow. and the potency of platypus venom is enough to shut you down for months and cancels out morphine
@@sweeneytodd1414 well like Dan himself said in the video, boys dont have triangles for heads either so i dont think we should take all this hella seriously.
Maybe you were not just "decades ahead of the scientific community " but subconsciously you are a scientist, not like Doofenshmirtz (lol), but one who knew about this subject all along. Maybe that's not the case but that is awesome!
You are a legend in more ways than I thought possible, 20 years ahead of scientists and the amazing voice of one of the funniest if not THE funniest well written cartoon character of all time right up there with Squidward and Roger from American Dad
I think Dee is just that good at interpreting animals. Even if you didn't know platypusnoises, you'd guess it'd be somewhere in the turtle-crocodile-beaver family of vocalizations.. But that is pretty eerie that it turned out to be TEAL under UV. I think most of us when we heard that imagined bright neon green and said "okay haha yeah he did make him green.. kind of.. not really that shade."
Gotta love how we have glow in the dark, venomous, egg laying beaver-ducks that chirp. Like someone just stitched together something from a box of spare parts.
It's like how Bruce Wayne's been batman so long that the gravely voice now comes naturally to him and he has to concentrate to maintain his voice as Bruce Wayne. It's kinda the same for this guy. He's played dr. Doofenshmirtz for so long he almost keeps slipping into the voice.
Got it, tue only reason nobody recognizes Perry without the hat is because he secretly wears a stealth suit that activates when he puts away his hat. It just so happens the suit radiates a lot of uv light.
Considering Dee Bradley Baker is the Go-To Actor for Animal and Creature sound effects, he probably knew what a platypus sounded like when he auditioned for the part of Perry.
Also, that hue of green is so incredibly iconic that every single person I know literally just calls it "perry color" or "perry green". You sir have inadvertently named an entire color by being such a creative genius.
