I…

I’m so happy for Dan

[video description]

[Dan Povenmire, creator of “Phineas and Ferb”, addresses the camera.]

Okay, so, around twenty years ago, I designed this character.

[displays a picture of Perry the Platypus, a platypus with teal fur and orange webbed feet wearing a fedora]
[“Perry the Platypus” theme music plays]

(as Dr Doofenshmirtz) Perry the Platypus!

And I colored him a teal green, because I just thought it looked cool. But since then, I’ve had to answer this question a lot:

“So why is he green?”
“I just thought it looked cool.”
“You know, platypuses aren’t green.”
“And kids’ heads aren’t triangles. What… what’s your point?”

But guess what just happened? This is a real thing that just happened.

[screencapture of Gizmodo article As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder]

They just discovered that platypuses have a special kind of bioluminescence and in ultraviolet light they glow green.

I called it! I called it!

(as Dr Doofenshmirtz) Ah, Perry the platypus, why are you green, again? Is it because Dan was decades ahead of the scientific community?

I’m very pleased with myself.

[end of video description]

A platypus?

PERRY THE PLATYPUS???

FYI

100 level course prof: Usually an adjunct. Very smol and new to teaching. Lives with dept head up their butt and double checking everything they do

500 level course prof: Is presumed to be competent and is left alone to become the true agent of chaos all teachers yearn to be

500 level also has tenure and can do whatever they want with little to no consequences

also
100 level course: 250 students, at 8:30 AM bc the department is required to schedule at least one class in that timeslot
500 level course: 5 students, a once-a-week four-hour-long shitshow in a coat closet that the prof is fond of

“a once-a-week four-hour-long shitshow in a coat closet that the prof is fond of “

FYI

100 level course prof: Usually an adjunct. Very smol and new to teaching. Lives with dept head up their butt and double checking everything they do

500 level course prof: Is presumed to be competent and is left alone to become the true agent of chaos all teachers yearn to be

500 level also has tenure and can do whatever they want with little to no consequences

also
100 level course: 250 students, at 8:30 AM bc the department is required to schedule at least one class in that timeslot
500 level course: 5 students, a once-a-week four-hour-long shitshow in a coat closet that the prof is fond of

“a once-a-week four-hour-long shitshow in a coat closet that the prof is fond of “