What do we do during lunch break?
Well, actually there’s an interesting story about this. Since we moved to our new office, we got our own meeting/entertainment/lunch/game/rest room. Thus, a new habit was born just because of that — having lunch while watching TV cartoon.
I can’t really recall when this habit eventually starts, but after couple of days watching reality shows, then sitcoms, then another reality shows, Discovery channel, we’re seeing Disney Channel. I guess being animators, nothing can really beat cartoon animation. Now, lunch break means triple back-to-back episodes of Phineas and Ferb on Disney Channel.
Odd enough, though Phineas and Ferb only runs for 4 seasons until now (it looks like around 206 episodes), I think we almost never bumped into seeing the same episode twice. If I’m doing the math properly, 206 episodes means that we have around 70 days without seeing the same episode twice, that’s around 3 months or so. Great job Disney …
Anyway, if you don’t know Phineas and Ferb, it’s a animated cartoon-musical-comedy with pop culture and running gags on every episode, with the same plot running over and over, with some very creative variation of the story. Usually the story begin with Phineas and Ferb embark on some cool tech project, then their sister Candace getting annoyed. As a side story, their pet platypus, which is also a secret agent, scrambles through a hidden passage somewhere to fight Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, or Dr. Doof, as he refers to himself. The two plots always intersect at the end to erase all traces of the boys’ project just before Candace show it to their mother. At the beginning, this leave Candace very frustrated, then after a while it seems that Candace starts to accept fate and not getting too frustrated (afterall, it’s been 200 episodes, it doesn’t make any sense for her to keep frustrated).
Here’s what our lunch room looks like.
