Jaret Reddick remembers the first time he met Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh. He had flown to L.A. because Povenmire and Marsh were hoping Reddick, the lead singer of the pop-punk band Bowling for Soup, would sing the theme song for their new animated series, “Phineas and Ferb.”

The meeting went well and Reddick not only got to sing the show’s theme song, “ Today’s Gonna Be a Great Day ,” but he was also cast as the voice of Danny, the lead singer of the show’s fictional band Love Händel.

“I walked out of there going, ‘Man I love those guys. I really hope this show does well for them,’” Reddick recalls.

And done well it has. Since its premiere in 2007, “Phineas and Ferb” has become the most successful animated series for children and tweens in Disney Television Animation histor

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