The season 3 episode "The Mom Attractor / Cranius Maximus" premiered one week before Mother's Day, on May 4, 2012. Much of the potential audience instead decided to go watch The Avengers on its opening day, which holds the No. 2 single day ticket sales of all time (unadjusted for inflation) at over $80 million. As a result, Phineas and Ferb could only attract 2.244 million viewers, a 24 percent decrease from the previous week.