Phineas and Ferb heading to world of Star Wars

If the Phineas and Ferb crossover with the Avengers isn’t enough to make your geek head explode, now there’s this: A one-hour ode to Star Wars in which Phineas and Ferb live next door to Luke Skywalker on Tatooine.

The special episode, which will air next year, was announced this week at Comic-Con by Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, creators and executive producers of Phineas and Ferb.

“May the ‘Ferb’ be with you and with all of us who for decades have dreamt of a chance to work with the great characters and stories of Star Wars,” Povenmire said.

Here’s how Disney describes the plot:

The event episode’s story begins a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away – in summer. Phineas and Ferb are living happily on Tatooine, just one moisture farm over from Luke Skywalker. They love simply hanging out and creating new adventures under the twin suns but find themselves thrust into a global rebellion when the plans for blowing up the Death Star accidentally fall into their hands. 

Now that fate has suddenly pulled them into the fight for freedom, they must go in search of a pilot who can take them to the rebels so they can hand over the plans. Complicating matters, Candace has a Stormtrooper-like intent on “busting rebels” and chases Phineas and Ferb across the galaxy in hopes of retrieving the Death Star plans. 

Meanwhile, back on the Death Star, Darth Enshmirtz, a low level Darth, has created a Force-powered “Sith-inator” that he plans to use against the Rebel Alliance. Agent P, working undercover for the Rebellion, is dispatched to stop him, but quickly gets trapped in carbonite. Then, things take a startling turn when Ferb is accidentally hit by the full blast of Dr. Darth Enschmirtz’s “inator” and becomes….an evil Sith.

This won’t be the first homage to Star Wars on TV. Family Guy famously retold the original Star Wars saga in an hour-long broadcast episode followed by two direct-to-video sequels. Other shows that have had entire episodes revolving around Star Wars include The Simpsons, Robot Chicken and Pinky and the Brain.