Remember the link we posted last June to a New York Times article proclaiming the Disney Channel’s Phineas and Ferb as the next SpongeBob. Well, Disney publicists aren’t giving up.

By some measures, “Phineas and Ferb” was the No. 1 television animated series among children 6 to 11 in 2009. ... By that measure, “Phineas and Ferb” is the new “SpongeBob.” ...

"Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension" will be the biggest show yet for the step-brothers who star in the Disney Channel hit. "It gets written much grander and bigger, more like a movie than ...

Phineas and Ferb is the hippest, nerdiest, unlikeliest hit on TV — and now Disney hopes it can be a SpongeBob-like cash cow. In addition to being Disney Channel’s first animated hit, it has ...

Povenmire worked on several animated series, including “Family Guy,” “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “The Simpsons,” before scoring a hit with “Phineas and Ferb.” ...

Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars, however, takes place wholly in the world of Star Wars (or, as the 1977 classic is now technically called, Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope).In true Rosencrantz and ...

Which animated series do you think the show's most akin to? "It definitely takes humour from shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons, and a little bit of SpongeBob Squarepants.That's where Dan ...

Dan Povenmire sketched out the two boys who would become Phineas and Ferb on a piece of butcher paper that covered his table in a South Pasadena restaurant one night. And when Povenmire was done ...

LOS ANGELES – Here’s a quiz for cartoon lovers: What do you get when you combine “The Simpsons” acerbic pop culture references, “Family Guy’s” irony and the broad slapstick humor of “SpongeBob ...

He honed his multiple talents – character design, animation, screenwriting, songwriting, direction and voice work – on a number of shows including “The Simpsons,” “SpongeBob SquarePants ...

Almost all of the original cast members returned for the “Phineas and Ferb” revival. The notable exception is Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who voiced Ferb for seasons 1-4.