12 min / Season 1, Episode 18A / English
Inspired by a trip to the local museum, where they learn about Asparagus, the Greek hero who won every race with a golden chariot and petrified the Minotaur with the head of Medusa, the brothers Phineas and Ferb plan a chariot race for themselves and their friends that will run through their town. Three teams are assembled, with rocking horse-drawn chariots powered by lawnmower engines. One friend, Buford, proclaims, “There are no rules in a chariot race!”
Phineas and Ferb’s older sister Candace, in her typical fashion, tries to prevent the race from happening. Instead a helmet with snakes falls and lands on top of her head, making her look like Medusa, and in her confusion she ends up in a chariot too. Everyone attempts some underhanded tricks to get an edge in the race, but Candace ends up winning it.
In the meantime, the brothers’ pet platypus Perry is being chased by a robot named Norm. An ox-shaped helmet from a Paul Bunyan themed restaurant falls on the robot’s head, and everyone therefore believes he is the Minotaur. Back at the museum, Candace yells at this creature, thinking he is a human, but Perry switches him off. As Norm falls to the ground, everyone thinks Candace has turned him to stone. Even Candace herself comes to believe it when she encounters some stone statues, and the episode ends with Ferb still too scared to look at her.
The episode features the song “My Chariot”:
I’ve got a motorized nag
Takin’ me for a drag
Leave the others far behind
Baby I ain’t braggin’
My anachronistic wagon’s
Two millennia ahead of its time
Talking ’bout my chariot
No, it’s not street legal
But it gets me where I wanna go
Climb aboard my chariot
When they hear me come a-rumbilin’,
Then everybody wants to know
“Where’d you get that chariot?”
I don’t need no oracle
To tell me how good it feels
To throw a full-tilt Colosseum,
Killer toga party on wheels
Yeah yeah!
Yeah, talking ’bout my chariot
Got a hundred horsepower
And two big wheels of fun
Climb aboard my chariot
You can be my second
‘Cause I’m gladiator number one
Get a load of my chariot
Always going full-throttle
Ask anybody and they’ll say
If you see me a-comin’
Then you better get out of my way!
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Animated Antiquity 
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