🎵 DOOFENSHMIRTZ SUBCONSCIOUS ANALYSIS! 🎵
Today we wonder into Doofenshmirtz subconscious!
Actually, what struck me about this episode (aside from the fact that his subconscious features, for some reason, GIANT FLOATING BABY HEADS) is the contents shown in his subconscious:
• His traumas (lawn gnomes all over the place, since during his childhood he was forced by his parents to dress as one, and Balooney, which I guess is there because he betrayed him for Meep’s nemesis in season 2 if I recall)
• His fears (monsters and giant eyes??). What’s most important is also that his subconscious shows Perry’s grave with the fedora on it (left of the 1st screenshot). If Perry’s grave is there, it means that Perry’s death is something Heinz is afraid of! Heinz defines this place…
DISTORTED AND UGLY! So why Perry’s grave would be in such a place? Associated with something “distorted” and ugly?
Here Doofenshmirtz meets his “inner-self“, which proclaims that he’s been building the inators while Heinz was asleep. This inner self could symbolize the “Super-Ego”, the ones who tells him how he should act, what expectations he should meet. He scolds Doofenshmirtz for not understanding that the three inators he built were to be used together and not separated.
His “Super-Ego” tells him to be Evil, maybe because he thinks that this is how things should be, yet the Heinz in the middle, stuck between the Id (subconscious) and the SuperEgo, is what Freud have called the Ego.
Heinz’s Ego isn’t only in his lab coat but wears Perry’s fedora and has a beaver tail.
Maybe Heinz deeply knows that he can’t truly be evil, because that would mean he’d lose Perry.
Also, Perry is already part of him.
He already came to the realization that Perry is part of his family in a previous episode, he mentioned in the episode after that in his house the only guest he ever has is Perry. Perry helped him grow, that’s why his Ego is shown like that.
Probably, Heinz removed the way the inator worked because he didn’t want to lose Perry. He often sabotages his own plans by putting self-destruction buttons (that he’s shown buying in a store on sale, while Phineas and Ferb were searching for a Reverse Switch) or by making easily escapable traps. When he’s hit by the ray for telling the truth he built to sabotage his brother, he says: “Secretly, I’m very lonely!”.
He can’t take over the TriStateArea because then he’d return lonely! He would never have Perry by his side again. As he told to Buford: “You’re gonna be at the top of the heap! It’s lonely at the top”.
But, again, these are speculations!
Maybe I’m reading too much into this show!
Buuuut… the creators quoted Freud in another episode when Phineas and Ferb entered Candace’s subconscious (3-37, Monsters from the Id) and I can’t imagine that this is just a pure coincidence!
There are way too many details scattered over the series!
Anyway, this was meant to be a SHOOOORTER post but, well! If you read till here, let me know your theories!