Milo Murphy's Law[1] (previously titled Mikey Murphy's Law) is an American animated television series from the creators of Phineas and Ferb, Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, it premiered on October[2][3]3, 2016 on Disney XD. The series revolves around the title character, Milo Murphy, who is the descendant of the Murphy from Murphy's law, which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Cast
- "Weird Al" Yankovic as Milo Murphy
- Christian Slater as Elliot Decker
- Vanessa L. Williams as Eileen Underwood
- Sarah Chalke as Mrs. Murawski
- Jemaine Clement as Dr. Zone
- Mackenzie Phillips as Principal Midler
- Chrissie Fit as Amanda Lopez
- Vincent Martella as Bradley Nicholson
- Diedrich Bader as Martin Murphy
- Pamela Adlon as Brigette Murphy
- Kate Micucci as Sara Murphy
- Dee Bradley Baker as Diogee
- Greg Cipes as Mort Schaeffer
- Michael Culross, Jr. as Kyle Drako
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Coach Nolan Mitchell
- Sabrina Carpenter as Melissa Chase
- Mekai Curtis as Zack Underwood
- Dan Povenmire as Vinnie Dakota
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Balthazar Cavendish
Crossover?
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Dan and Swampy stated that Milo (then referred to as "Mikey") lives about two neighborhoods away from Danville, so they might do a crossover a few years down the line.
The show has already indicated that it may exist nearby where Phineas and Ferb are, like with the middle school Milo and his friends attend being named Jefferson County Middle School after Jefferson County.
Allusions
Milo Murphy's Law includes allusions to Phineas and Ferb:
- In "The Undergrounders", Bradley (who is voiced by Vincent Martella) mentions that he is having his best day ever, an allusion to what Phineas (also voiced by Martella) says and a part of the extended Phineas and Ferb theme song.
- In "Rooting for the Enemy", Melissa reacts to an announcement with Major Monogram's catchphrase, "Great googly-moogly!"
- In the same episode, a background character says, "It's like Football X-7," referencing the football game played in "My Fair Goalie".
- In "The Doctor Zone Files" several of the fans in line outside the theater also appeared in the same costume as Finkies or Speckies in "Nerds of a Feather".
- The armored kid with a staff was also at Vanessa's party in "Druselsteinoween".
- In "Smooth Opera-tor" the woman sitting behind and to the left of Melissa, was at the New Year party in "Happy New Year!" and was one of the people Dr. Doofenshmirtz said, "That's what you think" to.
- In "Worked Day", Cavendish has a Danville map when he and Dakota try and make sure a shipment truck full of pistachios make it to the pistachio warehouse.
- In "Murphy's Lard", it is revealed that the Rollercoaster ended up in Melissa's backyard, traumatizing her for life.
- In the same episode, before the episode cuts to credits a girl in the background with brown hair and glasses can be seen.
- In "The Substitute", Klimpaloon, the magical old-timey bathing suit that lives in the Himalayas, appears in a zoetrope.
- In "We're Going to the Zoo", it is revealed that Milo has Perry the Platypus pajamas. At that point, Perry's two-note musical cue from the show is heard.
- In the same episode, Milo, Zack and Sarah find themselves at the Danville Ski Slope.
- When Cavendish was listing who could undermine their plan, Vinnie mentions "a potted plant," referring to Planty the Potted Plant.
- Also at the end of the same episode, Dakota ends up with squirrels in his pants, and S.I.M.P. (Squirrels In My Pants) is heard in the background.
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