My Two-Cents: Perry the Platypus & Superpowers

If I could have any superpower, no contingencies or special fonts, I know what I would select. I’m going to need to backtrack a bit before I can elaborate. 

One of my favorite bits of all time is in Phineas and Ferb. In every episode, a Platypus breaks into Dr. Doofinzhmurt's lab, and he remarks “Ahhh, a Platypus.” And then that Platypus stands up and puts on a fedora and Doofinzhmurts goes “Perry the Platypus.” If I could have any superpower, I would like to have Perry’s invisibility until I put on a fedora. 

Why is this better than reading minds, flying, or anything else you ask? How nice would it be to go somewhere unrecognized until you put on a fedora? At a bar and don’t want to reveal yourself to the audience just yet? Keep your fedora in your bag. Granted, I would probably have to invest in a large tote-bag-like purse that managed to look trendy without being tacky, but these are minute details I’ll ignore at the moment. When my social battery is running low and I don’t feel the need to chit-chat, I could sit in the back of my class, fedora in bag, unrecognized. Actually, the more I write about this the more I think I’d like to change my stance. I’d like to have the reverse Perry-Fedora power. I’d like to be able to put on a fedora and become unrecognizable. I guess my Reverse-Perry-Fedora-Power is more of an offshoot of the invisibility cloak, but it seems more fun to have my dream super power intertwined with a 1920s fashion statement. 

Back to my original tangent – Phineas and Ferb. I really think this show gets overlooked; it was ahead of its time. The Dr. Doofinshrumtz -Inator bit is also a cult class. I’m going to start calling my vodka-water-mio my Drunk-inator.