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"That's the Spirit" is the first Halloween episode of the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. It premiered on October 7, 2011.

Synopsis

That's the Spirit 1

While trick-or-treating with Candace, Phineas and Ferb meet up with their friends. While walking, they come across a house that they have never seen before. As they approach it, they meet a boy hiding in a bush named Russell. Russell says that hiding in the leaves makes him feel warm and secure, relatively speaking. Baljeet asks why he does not go inside his house and Russell confirms that it's haunted. Phineas decides that they should help Russell by busting the ghosts, and Russell reluctantly follows.

Perry enters his Halloween-decorated lair through a jack-o-lantern, where Carl greets him, dressed as Major Monogram. Major Monogram, dressed as Carl, gives him his mission by telling him of some strange sightings: the Danville golf course has been chewed down to bare dirt, strange howls at the moon have been heard, cow-related graffiti at every leather shop in the Tri-State Area, and a crop circle shaped like a cow.

Phineas, Ferb and the gang enter the house with Russell, and to Phineas's surprise, his EMF meter picks up a 78. Suddenly, the jack-o-lantern in front of him grows into a scary humanoid with a pumpkin head, and asks the children if they aren't a little young to be hunting ghosts. They reply with a terrified "Yes, yes we are!" before running off, the monster at their heels.

Were-cow

Perry enters Doofenshmirtz's apartment to find that he has chained himself up. Doofenshmirtz explains that a few days ago, he declared war on grass, so he got himself a cow, the natural predator of grass. However, the cow was too slow, so Doofenshmirtz invented the Mind-Transfer-Inator to motivate the cow to work faster. Instead, Doofenshmirtz developed gaps in his memory, a strange craving to lick salt, found himself watching the nightly farm report as well as the pasture channel way more than usual, and because of this, he suspects that he is no longer human, which is why he needs to tie himself up. All of a sudden, he begins to transform into a were-cow, and breaks the restrains. The Doofenshmirtz were-cow runs off into the streets with Perry pursuing it with a lasso.

Group scared

Back in the haunted house, Candace desperately tries to open the locked door. Russell comments that sometimes the floor gives out, which is exactly what happens. The children fall into the ghost-infested graveyard basement, where the monster continues to chase them into a red lake, and Baljeet comments that the liquid is the wrong color and viscosity for water. Zombies rise from the "water", and the terrified children continue to run.

After watching a news report on the were-cow, the locals form an angry mob, while Perry finds Doofenshmirtz in his human form in the middle of a crop circle. Doofenshmirtz tries to go with Perry, but is transformed again as the clouds part from the full moon. The angry mob finds them, and they pursue the were-cow into the streets, trampling Perry in the process. The mob becomes covered in flour after chasing the were-cow through a cooking class.

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The jack-o-lantern monster has the children cornered in the basement. Ferb throws a skull at it, knocking its head off. As sparks fly from its neck, the children realize that it was a robot. They then learn that it was Russell, along with his parents Waylen and Mona, who had been tricking them with their animatronic haunted house. The EMF meters had been picking up on hidden frequency emitters. Impressed, Phineas asks for one more trick. Just then, the were-cow busts through the wall with the angry mob close behind it, trampling Candace. The children applaud, mistaking the flour-covered mob for ghosts, much to the confusion of Russell and his parents.

As the children go their separate ways for the night, Phineas is surprised to see that the haunted house is gone, only to see Waylen deflating it for the season. Phineas says that this is about the time in cliche Halloween stories when someone really turns into a ghost. Phineas and Ferb stop and stare suspiciously at Russell and his parents for a few seconds, until Russell tells them that it's not going to happen. Phineas then says goodbye and that they will see them next year.

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Songs

  • "Were-Cow"

Cast

Voice actor Character
Vincent Martella Phineas Flynn
Ashley Tisdale Candace Flynn
Thomas Sangster Ferb Fletcher
Kelly Hu Stacy
Dan Povenmire Dr. Doofenshmirtz
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh Major Monogram
Dee Bradley Baker Perry the Platypus
Alyson Stoner Isabella Garcia-Shapiro
Maulik Pancholy Baljeet Tjinder
Tyler Alexander Mann Carl
Bobby Gaylor Buford Van Stomm
Michael Douglas Waylon
Dylan Douglas Russell
April Winchell Mona
Bridgette Oshinomi
Tom Kenny Jack-O-Lantern

External links

The Walt Disney Company
Animated productions
Movies and specials Disney's Halloween TreatHalloween Hall o' FameA Disney HalloweenThe Nightmare Before ChristmasBoo to You Too!Mickey's House of VillainsPooh's Heffalump Halloween MovieToy Story of Terror!
Shorts and episodes Trick or Treat • "Hallow-Weenies" • "Eye of the Beholder" • "The Boy Who Cried Ghost" • "Doug's Bloody Buddy" • "Night of the Living Dougs" • "A 'Tween Halloween" • "Donald's Halloween Scare" • "Costume Pity Party" • "The Tale of the Telltale Taffy" • "Terrifying Tales of Recess" • "October 31st" • "Haunted House on Horror Hill!" • "A Hero for Halloween" • "Spooky" • "Halloween With Hades" • "House Ghosts" • "A Recess Halloween" • "Halloween Bash" • "Mickey's Treat" • "Mickey's Monster Musical" • "Halloween Spirits" • "The Yzma That Stole Kuzcoween" • "Halloween Haul" • "That's the Spirit" • "Kick or Treat" • "Summerween" • "Druselsteinoween" • "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror" • "Hungry Larry" • "The Scariest Story Ever" • "Milo Murphy's Halloween Scream-a-Torium" • "The Haunted Hot Rod" / "Pete's Ghostly Gala" • "Goof Mansion" / "A Doozy Night of Mystery" • "Blood Moon" • "A Nutty Halloween!" • "Pluto's Howl-o-Ween" • "The Trickening!" • "The Spooky Spook House!" • "Mickey's Tale of Two Witches" • "Mickey and Friends: Trick or Treats" • "Hot Diggity Halloween Tour" • "Mickey's Halloween Routine" • "Halloween Train Ride" • "Trick or Treat Story" • "Batteries Included" • "Fifty-Foot Pluto!" • "Ghosts of Haunted Gulch" • "The Curious Case of the Kooky Scientist"
Live-action productions
Movies Hocus PocusHalloweentownHalloweentown II: Kalabar's RevengeHalloweentown HighSpooky Buddies
Episodes "Little Boy Boo" • "Halloween Bear" • "Boo" • "Night of The Day of the Dead" • "Don't Have A Cow" • "A Very Scary Story" • "Halloween" (Phil of the Future) • "The Ghost of Suite 613" • "Torn Between Two Hannahs" • "Halloween" (Wizards of Waverly Place) • "A So Random! Halloween Special" • "mutANT farm" • "Boo Gi Nights" • "Costumes & Courage" • "Howloween" • "MutANT farm 2" • "Ghost Bummers" • "MutANT farm 3.0" • "Fright Night" • "Kang-a-Rooney" • "Haunt It Up" • "Howloween 2: The Final Reckoning" • "Health-o-ween" • "The Runaway Bride of Frankenstein" • "Girl Meets World of Terror" • "Helgaween-A-Rooney" • "Horror Stories & Halloween Scares" • "Next of Pumpkin" • "The Ghostest With the Mostest" • "Girl Meets World of Terror 2" • "Bite Club" • "All Howls Eve" • "Cyd & Shelby's Haunted Escape" • "Scary Spirits & Spooky Stories" • "Haunt-A-Rooney" • "Night of the Were-Diesel" • "Scare-A-Rooney" • "Virtual Insanity" • "The Baxtercism of Levi Grayson" • "Switch-or-Treat" • "Just Roll With It: You Decide LIVE!" • "Creepin' It Real"
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