Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Phineas and Ferb

So, I'm digging this writing I've got the kids doing as part of home schooling.  This week the I came up this journal prompt based off the kid cartoon show Phineas and Ferb: "If you were Dr. Doofenshmirtz, what would be your plan to take over the TRI-state area?" In every episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz (pictured below) tries to take over the tri-state area but Perry the Platypus (pictured above) stops him. Here's the kids' responses. If you've seen this show you may get some of the terms the kids used. I love how the each kid brings a part of who they are into their response.

Moses: If I was the doof, I would first get rid of that terrible platypus. He always finds a way to outsmart me before i’m able to destroy the tri state area. I would make a sock anator. I would pick one of my stinkiest  socks, and take out the fumes. The smell of my socks don’t bother me. It’s my superpower, I can smell stinky socks without passing out or dying. So now that perry the platypus has arrived i can wait to shoot my ray into the air. I would battle perry the platypus with a taser. Tasers are silent and deadly, Perry swings is webbed feet at my head viciously. I duck just in time so I don’t get clocked. I tase perry, he is one the ground having a spaz attack. It is time to release the fatal disease. As perry is getting up I shoot the odor across the tri state area. As I hear the gagging of people and the cries of children I know it is done. The whole town is turning green besides my flat. I put a force field around my building so that the only clean place in the whole town is mine. As the people on the street come to my flat, I tell them I turn it back if they give me five pounds of  gummy bears each. Everyone said I was crazy, I said that the smell will stay forever. At the end of the world people said darn you Mozini.

Miriam: If I was Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, my plan to take over the TRI state area would go to the Wonderful land of Oz and ask Princess Ozma for the Golden Cap of the Winged Monkeys. Although I am pretty sure that the winged monkeys are free again because Dorothy wished that they would be free or something like that. Anyway I would come back to the TRI state area and ask the monkeys to take it over for me. In this way I will not have to do much and it will be easy, quick, and very silent. After the winged monkeys helped me I would grant them three wishes (like the genie in Aladdin) or a part of the land for their help. Next I would go to a pizza shop (like Mountain Mikes) and eat an all meat pizza topped with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese. After that I would go to the roller skating rink  (Roller King) and roller skate with the people and they would not even know that I was the one who took over the area. Finally I would go back to my house or laboratory and sleep....a lot, because the day was long and I need my sleep.

--- note: Miriam has been reading the Wizard of Oz Series.


Chesna: If I was Dr. Doofenshmirtz, I would take over the TRI-state area by making a poster that would brainwash people. It would be called the posterbrainwashinator. I would use my posterinator, which is my other invention that hangs up posters overnight, to hang up the posters all around the TRI-state area. When people looked at them, they would be hit with the realization of how awesome I am. Then they would accept me as their leader and I would become the ruler of the TRI-state area. It would be so awesome! They would do whatever I wanted them to do. They would also regard me as The Most Awesome, Spectacular, Doctor Doofenschmurtz. But I would get bored with this puny TRI-state area, I would need to move on to somewhere bigger. The entire North America! After a while though, that would start to get boring too. So I would use my handy dandy posterbrainwashinator to take over the world! Everyone would know my name as The Most Awesome, Spectacular Doctor Doofenschmurtz, and I will rule victoriously! Although along the way somewhere in my most brilliant plan, that dumb Perry the Platypus will show up and destroy my wonderful machine and ruin my amazing plan. Curse that Perry the Platypus!

Nathan: My plan to take over the TRI-state area is- actually if I told you I would have to erase that from your mind with my Amnesianator, and I can never remember where I put that thing, so it’s useless. So instead, I’ll tell you my backup plan.  But first comes the backstory. When I was a small boy, I bought an ice cream and it fell off the cone. What? Not all backstories are long and intricate. So, here’s what I’m going to do, if my first plan doesn’t work. I will make everyone’s ice cream fall of the cone with my new Falling-Ice-Creaminator. Then everyone will be sad, you know, because no one likes ice cream that is on pavement. No, Norm, I’m not talking about you. Then I will use my Super-Growthinator to make the ice cream exponentially grow until the whole TRI-state area is flooded. Then I’ll walk right into- acutally I’d have to take a boat, you know, because it’s flooded. Anyway, I’ll boat right to the town hall and declare that I have the solution to the problem and reverse the process. Then everyone will have to love me and make me mayor, throwing my brother, Roger, out of office.



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