Isabella Garcia-Shapiro

"What'cha doin'?"

Isabella's catchphrase.

Isabella Garcia-Shapiro is a Mexican-Jewish girl and one of the main characters of Phineas and Ferb. She lives in Danville USA, across the street from her two best friends, Phineas and Ferb on Maple Drive. She has a giant crush on Phineas, however she doesn't tell him, but is always eager to help out in their summer ideas when necessary. Although Phineas is shown to be unaware of her feelings, he cares deeply for her, and it can be assumed that he has the same feelings for her. She's the leader of Fireside Girls Troop 46231 and often volunteers to help in Big Ideas, usually with her troop being involved.

Appearance

Isabella has straight black long hair with thin blue highlights, curtain-like bangs and a round bottom, an oval-shaped head with a flat top, and navy blue eyes. Currently, she wears a white T-shirt underneath a pink jumper pleated-hem dress with a purple belt around it, medium-length white socks, and pink shoes with white laces. She wears a pink bow on her head. The bow is thought to be her trademark, and she has only been seen without it on a few occasions, but not without it on her head.

Her Fireside Girls uniform is the same format as her normal clothing, with the exception that her jumper dress is half orange and half brown with a red belt around it. She wears an orange beret with a red bow in the front. Underneath is a red bow. She wears a light yellow accomplishment sash with three shaped patches consisting of a teal diamond, a teal oval, and a brown triangle from top to bottom respectively. Her shoes are red with yellow laces.

Personality

Isabella is cheerful, fearless, quick-thinking, sweet, optimistic, and easy to get along with. She is always eager to help with Phineas and Ferb's Big Ideas. When she participates with Phineas and Ferb in their endeavors, it's either for the fun of it, accomplishment patches, or simply a way to be with Phineas.

Isabella is sympathetic and aids people who need help. This has been demonstrated when she showed concern for Candace, who was too nervous to call Jeremy and ask him out ("Out to Launch"), when she snapped Phineas and Ferb out of their hypnotic dullness ("Phineas and Ferb Interrupted"), and when she stopped telling Phineas her feelings about him to help Ms. Feyersied (Night of the Living Pharmacists).

Being a Fireside Girls Troop Leader, Isabella is a very capable leader. She is level-headed and responsible in the face of emergencies and dislikes being told what to do by anyone, except Phineas.

As nice as Isabella would seem, she can get angry. One way her temper has been flared is when someone else uses her catchphrase; in such a scenario, she expresses annoyance and often confronts the violator physically. However, she is fine whenever Phineas uses it.

Another is when she isn't a subject of attention. Isabella enjoys the attention, and she openly displays discontent when she feels she isn't receiving enough of it. She has shown this when Phineas expressed seeing Meap as cute but not her ("The Chronicles of Meap"), and when her Li'l Sparks men-tee, Melissa, showed Candace more attention and admiration than she did with her. ("We Call it Maze")

But aside from that, Isabella is sweet, brave and a great friend to everyone.

Trivia

• Isabella has a chihuahua named Pinky who is revealed to be a secret agent in the O.W.C.A. like Perry as seen in the episodes "Journey to the Center of Candace", "Comet Kermillian," "Interview With a Platypus", "Day of the Living Gelatin", "Hide and Seek", "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", "Where's Pinky?" and the movie Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension.
• Isabella's favourite Thomas & Friends characters as Thomas, Edward and Gordon.
• Isabella is a descendant of a girl that looks exactly like her from "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein" who was friends with Dr. Phineastein and Ferbgor.
• Her mother, Vivian Garcia-Shapiro calls her "Isa" for short in "Hide and Seek". This is a common shortening of her name in many Spanish-speaking countries.
• Her signature look and her Fireside Girl uniform switch on occasion as seen in the episodes "Flop Starz," "The Fast and the Phineas," "Candace Loses Her Head," "The Flying Fishmonger," "At the Car Wash," "Candace's Big Day,", "Robot Rodeo" and "Operation Crumb Cake".
• She is the leader of Fireside Girls Troop 46231. In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", she mistakenly calls it Troop 46321.
• "Robot Rodeo" reveals that when her hair frizzes when exposed to humidity.
• She seems to have an affinity for horses, especially fantasy colored ones or unicorns as shown in the episodes "The Magnificent Few", "Out of Toon", "Hail Doofania!", "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", "Ain't No Kiddie Ride", and "Imperfect Storm".
• "Jerk De Soleil", "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!", and "The Beak" shows that she reads the newspaper.
• Isabella is right-handed as she was writing using her right hand in The Beak and I Was a Middle Aged Robot.
• She is the second kid to kiss someone on screen. The first was Baljeet in "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!".
• "The Curse of Candace" reveals she has a Bamboo plant named Bambina.
• For Halloween in "That's the Spirit", Isabella dressed as a fairy princess using a costume she got from Googolplex Mall.
• Her prehistoric ancestor is a cave-girl named Isabelock. Like her, she uses the caveish phrase "Wakka Tukka" as her catchphrase, a stand-in for "Whatcha Doin'". ("Tri-Stone Area")
• Isabella dances around like a prima ballerina when she was jumping on the trampolines. ("Let's Bounce")
• "Bully Bromance Breakup", "Road to Danville", and "Bee Story" are three (and currently the only) episodes that Isabella appears but Candace does not.
• Isabella took down Mitch using only her extreme cuteness. ("Meapless in Seattle")
• Isabella can speak basic French. ("Buford Confidential")
• Isabella can be less than 12 because she said she couldn't wait until junior high. ("Cranius Maximus")
• She can whistle with 2 fingers ("S'Winter", "The Fast and the Phineas)"
• In the songs Gitchee Gitchee Goo and S'Winter, her singing voice is voiced by Laura Dickinson, like Stacy.
• During Season 1 and Season 2, Isabella was slightly taller than Phineas. However, Season 3 onwards, they now both share the same height (like in real life, girls grow earlier).
• Isabella is the last of Phineas and Ferb's friends to have a flashback showing her when she was younger. She was seen as a toddler and preschooler in "Act Your Age".
• She gets afraid if she can't earn a patch. ("Where's Perry?", "Bee Story")
• Isabella's favourite kind of cake is red velvet. ("Happy Birthday, Isabella") which is also Red Riding Hood's favourite.
• In most of the first season, Isabella's voice is somewhat low, but for the rest of the series, her voice is high-pitched. This is compared to Ferb, whose voice started out somewhat high then became deeper.
• Isabella has cried on two occasions. The first time was in "Summer Belongs to You!", because Phineas didn't return his feelings for her. The second time was in "Phineas' Birthday Clip-o-Rama!", when she was listening to Phineas' emotional, but really heart-warming speech about everyone he loves.
• In Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe, Isabella intimidated Doofenshmirtz (in what Phineas called an "ominous patch-related threat") by pointing to one of her patches and saying "Do you see this patch? Pray you never find out what it's for." This implies that she is capable of violent actions, or at least capable in self-defense.
• Isabella will star in The FT Squad's Adventures With Phineas and Ferb, where she's often accompanied by Kyle Larman when she says hello to Phineas and Ferb.
• Isabella will guest star in The FT Squad Rides on the Magic School Bus, The FT Squad Goes to Jurassic Park and The FT Squad Goes to Monsters Inc.
• Isabella acts like a sister to Kyle Larman and cares deeply for his welfare. Kyle knows about Isabella's crush on Phineas and does what he can to help Isabella get Phineas' attention. Kyle, more often than not, goes wherever Isabella goes, especially if she's going to see Phineas. Isabella doesn't mind Kyle at all and is always willing to help him when he needs it and won't hesitate to comfort him if he's sad or scared. Kyle has always seen Isabella like a sister figure and they love having fun together and helping Phineas with his ideas and activities.
• Isabella is the owner of Barney the Dinosaur, and helps hold the key to his world of imagination. She, along with Phineas and Ferb, will also become members of Barney's Backyard Gang, and Isabella will also join the Hey Girls.
• In Love Spray (LAoM:ToLaCN), she is akumatized into Love Spray by Hawk Moth after Pheneas had ignored her all day and completely payed no attention to her.

Gallery

Isabella in "Act Your Age"

Isabella and Phineas' kiss in "Act Your Age"

Isabella and Pinky

Isabella with Candace and Vanessa