Count Bowsula

**Count Bowsula** is the first segment of the eighth episode of Season 1 in Super Phineas Bros., it premiered on February 26, 2011 alongside Pirates of Bowser.

## Plot synopsis

In a dark forest, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella are running frantically through pouring rain, in a mysterious place called Turtlevania. As she runs, Isabella complains that she is freezing and wonders whether she, Phineas, Ferb and Gretchen will find some shelter to sleep in. Hearing Isabella's worries, Phineas reassures her, saying a motel of some kind must be nearby.

In a nearby dark castle, Count Bowsula is glaring through a telescope at the approaching Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella. Turning away from his telescope, Count Bowsula, after cackling to himself, calls Kamigor into the room, telling him to prepare some rooms for the quickly approaching Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella. After giving Kamigor his orders, Count Bowsula turns to a nearby pole with a bizarre looking Swoop hanging on it; waking the Swoop, Count Bowsula orders it to go outside and lure Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella to his castle. Hearing Count Bowsula's command, the Swoop unfolds its wings and flies outside a nearby window (Count Bowsula moves the telescope aside before it flies out), into the stormy night.

Under a large tree near some rocks, Ferb is in the midst of trying to get Phineas to share some of his leftover spaghetti, which Phineas refuses to do; (for he had 3 orders of spaghetti as opposed to Ferb, who only had 1). It is only after some convincing by Ferb and Isabella that Phineas decides to share some of his spaghetti, which he hands to Ferb. Unfortunately, just as Phineas gives Ferb his spaghetti, the Swoop from earlier suddenly dives downward and grabs the box of spaghetti. As the Swoop begins trying to fly away, Phineas leaps through the air and grabs hold of the Swoop's legs.

As the Swoop begins to soar away with Phineas holding on to it, Gretchen grabs hold of Phineas, while Ferb and Isabella grab him (causing the weight of the latter to literally stretch Gretchen). Ferb, Isabella, Phineas and Gretchen's effort to pull the Swoop down is in vain though, as the creature simply shakes them loose and flies towards the castle of Count Bowsula, with the box of spaghetti being clutched in its talons.

Having followed the Swoop to the castle, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella reach the castle door, which is adorned with a demonic-looking door knocker; as Phineas prepares to ring the castle doorbell, Ferb begins to say how he is not going into the castle, which looks to be inhabited by vampires. Scoffing at Ferb's fear, Phineas goes on to ring the castle doorbell, which creates a loud ominous chime.

Seconds after the castle doorbell is rung, the castle door is opened by a robed Kamigor, who Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella do not recognize; asking Kamigor for shelter in the castle, Isabella gets the response from Kamigor that they are welcomed to stay in the castle. After stating this, Kamigor instructs Phineas, Gretchen, Isabella and an increasingly nervous Ferb to follow him.

As Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella travel down a hallway of the castle, Ferb notices that the odd paintings adorning the walls of the hallway have moving eyes; alerting Phineas and Isabella to this, Ferb is shocked to see the paintings have lost their moving eyes and now have blank, white ones. Phineas then scoffs at Ferb's beliefs as the gang trudges down the hallway shortly behind Mousigor.

Further down the hall, Kamigor stops at three doors, each one labeled with a number, going from one to two to three. Opening the door marked with a one, Kamigor instructs Isabella to enter the room and goes on to open the door marked with a two and informs the two "guys with hair lips" to enter it. After Phineas and Ferb enter the room, Kamigor opens the door marked with a three, which he reveals to be Gretchen's room; as Gretchen stands at the doorway and inspects his room, Kamigor, flustered, makes the mistake of calling Gretchen by her name, prompting Gretchen to become suspicious and attack Kamigor, tearing away the part of the robe covering his face. Shoved away by Kamigor, Gretchen recognizes Kamigor as Bowser's stooge and prepares to attack him again, only to see Kamigor leave the room, locking the door and trapping Gretchen inside of it.

In the room of Phineas and Ferb, Ferb is currently trying to convince Phineas that there are vampires in the castle. Phineas, unconvinced by Ferb's ramblings, complains of being hungry and suddenly removes a box of ravioli from his overalls, surprising Ferb. As he holds his box of ravioli, Phineas explains to Ferb that this is his spare ravioli. Directly after Phineas says this, a Swoop on a perch suddenly descends from a hole in the ceiling and using its fangs to puncture Phineas's spare ravioli box, drains all the tomato sauce [a kid-friendly gag for blood] from the box. As the Swoop leaves through the hole it came through, Phineas, now convinced that vampires are inhabiting the castle, quickly tries to help Ferb open the room door, only for Phineas and Ferb to find, to their horror, that the door is locked.

In his room, Gretchen is walking about, contemplating, when she stops and begins talking to a nearby gargoyle head sticking out of the wall, wishing it could talk. As Gretchen makes this wish, she is vaguely surprised when the gargoyle head *does* talk to her, telling her to go away; Gretchen, insulted by the gargoyle's remarks, lunges at it and knocks away the vase it was holding, which causes a portion of the wall to move, revealing a secret passage.

Entering this secret passage, Gretchen, after some walking, notices several spy holes in the wall and looks through two of them and sees Phineas and Ferb, pounding frantically on their room door. Calling out to Phineas and Ferb, startling them, Gretchen pushes the wall forward and reveals herself to Phineas, telling them she has found a way to escape the castle.

Following Gretchen into the secret passage, Phineas and Ferb, as well as Gretchen, stumble into a confused Isabella's room, telling her they all need to escape immediately. Before anyone can react though, the door of the room is suddenly inexplicably forced open, revealing Count Bowsula; as Count Bowsula announces that his dinner is served, Kamigor appears from inside the secret passage and begins to taunt Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella. Panicking, Gretchen slams the door of the secret passage closed on Kamigor's face and, after removing the lid of a clothes chute and jumping down it, instructs Phineas, Ferb and Isabella to follow.

Plummeting down the clothes shoot at high speeds, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella are eventually deposited in what appears to be the castle cellar. Getting off the ground, Ferb suddenly alerts Phineas and Gretchen to a bizarre noise, which is being emanated by several rapidly approaching scuttlebugs. Backed against a wall as these scuttlebugs approach, Isabella, seeing a nearby Piranha Plant in a pot sitting on a window's ledge, quickly grabs it; holding the Piranha Plant in front of herself, Isabella manages to goad it into blasting the scuttlebugs with its fireballs, causing them to scurry away.

With the scuttlebugs gone, Isabella puts the Piranha Plant in the pot down and pats it on the head (it even curls up and blushes from the affection of Isabella) as Phineas inspects a bottle on a nearby, wooden rack; as Phineas discerns that the bottle contains tomato sauce, Isabella alerts him, Ferb and Gretchen that something is happening outside, which prompts Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella to all look through a window. Outside, on a hill overshadowed by the moon, Count Bowsula has four Koopa Troopas stand at attendance and tells them to gaze at the full moon; as the Koopa Troopas stare at the full moon, they suddenly mutate into monstrous creatures Ferb exclaims are Wereturtles.

After the Wereturtles' transformation is complete, Count Bowsula orders them to capture Phineas, Ferb and Gretchen, but specifically tasks them not to hurt Isabella. As the Wereturtles begin to travel towards the castle, Gretchen gets the idea of covering the floor beneath a nearby door with tomato sauce and tells Phineas, Ferb and Isabella to help her do just that. After bounding through the corridors of the castle, the Wereturtles burst through the door of the room Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella are in, only to slip on the puddle of tomato sauce at the bottom of the stairs; sliding across the floor, the Wereturtles crash into a nearby rack of tomato sauce bottles, which falls over on them, pinning the Wereturtles to the floor.

With the Wereturtles incapacitated, Gretchen finds a trapdoor in the cellar floor, with a staircase in it; as Ferb voices his concerns about going down these ominous looking stairs, a Wereturtle gets to its feet and prepares to attack Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella. Before the Wereturtle can do anything though, Gretchen taunts it and throws a tomato sauce bottle at it, which lands in the Wereturtles throat, causing it to choke. With the Wereturtle distracted, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella flee through the trapdoor.

As Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella go down the stairs located under the trapdoor though, they clumsily trip and are sent tumbling down the stairs, crashing on to the floor below. Getting off the ground, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella see several Goombas nearby, who are crushing tomatoes on a conveyor belt and depositing the mush they create in a large vat of tomato juice. Seeing that the Goombas, who are apparently zombies, are distracted by their work, Isabella, Ferb, Gretchen and Phineas try to sneak by them; unfortunately, Phineas decides to taste some of the Goomba's tomato sauce and, after saying that it needs more garlic, accidently quickly alerts the Goombas to his, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella's presence.

Attempting to run from the zombified Goombas, who are throwing tomatoes at them, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella find the exit to the room blocked by Count Bowsula and his Wereturtles. As Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella stand horrified in place, Count Bowsula orders his abominable minions to take Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella to "Count Koopula's Torture Chamber, Wax Museum, and Dungeon of Horrors".

In the bowels of Count Bowsula's castle, Phineas, Ferb and Gretchen are all strapped to various torture devices; Gretchen is on a stretching rack, Ferb is strapped to the wall while being tickle tortured with a feather, and Phineas receives waterboarding. As Phineas, Ferb and Gretchen writhe in agony, the nearby Count Bowsula begins to taunt Isabella, saying that, soon, she will be a tomato sauce vampire like him. After making this threat to Isabella, Count Bowsula drags her away, up a flight of stairs despite her saying that she hates tomatoes.

As Count Bowsula and Isabella leave, Phineas, who is having an excessive amount of water poured on his face, begins complaining about his hatred of leaks and bemoaning his fate. As Phineas complains, Kamigor enters the room and begins to make jeers at Phineas; seeing Kamigor enter the room, Gretchen, who is being stretched on a rack, gets an idea and begins to beg Kamigor to stop his torture. Taunting Gretchen, Kamigor begins to spin the wheel of his rack, causing it to stretch Gretchen to extremes. Continuing his spinning of the rack wheel, the pawl of the ratchet mechanism breaks loose, causing the wheel to spin rapidly and violently fling Kamigor backwards and smashes into a wall, subsequently accidentally breaking it and freeing Gretchen.

Up in the chambers of Count Bowsula, Count Bowsula is preparing to transform Isabella into a tomato sauce vampire, while outside of Count Bowsula's room, Phineas and Gretchen begin to discuss how they can defeat Count Bowsula. At first, Gretchen suggest that a stake be shoved into Count Bowsula's chest, though Phineas misinterprets Gretchen and believes she means actual, edible steak. Gretchen eventually gets the idea to use garlic against Count Bowsula, after remembering that the tomato sauce the Goombas from earlier were making had no garlic in it. Thinking Gretchen's idea to be great, Phineas takes some garlic from his pockets and, after eating some himself, gives some to Ferb and Gretchen to eat.

After eating the garlic, Phineas, Ferb and Gretchen barge into Count Bowsula's chambers, where Count Bowsula himself is clutching Isabella in his claws, ready to transform her. As Phineas yells at Count Bowsula to unhand Isabella, Gretchen rushes forward and pulls the curtains from a nearby window, exposing the room to bright sunlight and causing Count Bowsula to stumble back to his coffin, being in incredible pain. As he tumbles forward, Count Bowsula finds Phineas in his way and begins to threaten him, only to be hit directly in the face by Phineas's breath, which reeks of garlic. Hit by Phineas's garlic breath, Count Bowsula begins to act crazily, stumbling into walls and the ceiling; as he tumbles around the room, Count Bowsula crashes into his coffin, smashing it. Realizing he has been beaten, Count Bowsula transforms into a large, bat-like version of himself and flies through a nearby window, vowing revenge on Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella.

As Count Bowsula leaves his castle, the castle itself begins to shake and crumble; as the castle collapses around them, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella flee from it and into the woods of Turtlevania as the fortress cripples to the ground.

After some traveling, Phineas, Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella reach the limits of Turtlevania, which Isabella is glad to be out of. As Isabella says this, Phineas, realizing it is lunch time, takes out a white box filled with cantellini and begins to stuff his face, much to Ferb, Gretchen and Isabella's amusement with Ferb declaring that Phineas is the pasta vampire.

## Characters

* Phineas Flynn
* Ferb Fletcher
* Isabella the Good Witch
* Gretchen the Patchkin
* Count Bowsula
* Kamigor
* Koopa Troopas
* Wereturtles
* Swoop
* Scuttlebugs
* Magic Piranha Plant
* Goomba zombies
* Talking gargoyle head