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* Where was the Bureau when Candace's future self accidentally caused the BadFuture in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''? Did her actions cause them to never exist? Doofenschmirtz wouldn't want to correct that anomaly.

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* Where was the Bureau when Candace's future self accidentally caused the BadFuture in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''? Did her actions cause them to never exist? Doofenschmirtz Doofenshmirtz wouldn't want to correct that anomaly.

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* When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that someone like Eliot would work in Milo's town. Eliot is obsessed with safety. Any other person in his position would probably have transferred somewhere else a long time ago, but Eliot's obsessiveness means that he can't help but try and take on to the massive challenge to public safety that is Murphy's Law.

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* When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that someone like Eliot Elliot would work in Milo's town. Eliot Elliot is obsessed with safety. Any other person in his position would probably have transferred somewhere else a long time ago, but Eliot's Elliot's obsessiveness means that he can't help but try and take on to the massive challenge to public safety that is Murphy's Law.
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[[AC: First Impressions]]
* This episode, showcasing how Milo and Melissa became friends and how Dakota and Cavendish became partners, sends the message that a bad first impression isn't final, and that people can still become friends later down the line (essentially, don't judge a book by its cover). However, this episodes ''highlights a recurring theme'', as Milo also had bad first impressions with Zack, Amanda and Cavendish, who all have actually become close friends with him as the show progresses.
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* At first, one would find it odd that Amanda freaks out upon realizing she has to to team up with local disaster magnet Milo, despite her learning in "School Dance" that Milo can still fix things in spite of Murphy's Law. One would also find it weird that she would shush Milo when he dares to even speak of Murphy's Law, when in previous episodes, she was fine hearing the term. Then, you realize she has to team up with Milo ''on her absolute favorite TV show since she was a little child''. Being a perfectionist that has to compete in front of her idol, it makes sense she would be even more more anxious than before with Murphy's Law around. Even when she doesn't really care about winning, Amanda would probably at the very least want to bake something ''decent'' as the biggest fan of Cake 'Splosion and Basil Bravo, instead of Murphy's Law mucking up everything for her in spectacular ways.


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* Milo reveals to Melissa and Zack that he could never finish a board game. He even states that he could never finish a game of playing cards. ''However'', playing cards is a common activity for Milo and Melissa on their "Not-Football Fridays", as revealed in "Rooting for the Enemy", which implies that either he ''did'' finish a game of playing cards, ''or'' Melissa already knows that Milo never finished a game... despite the fact she ''didn't'' know in this episode.
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* Milo's dad is a power plant safety inspector. Ironic at first, but Brilliance sets in when you realize he has Murphy's Law too--any other job would be really hard for Martin to hold down with things constsntly going wrong around him. A constant stream of disasters anywhere else is pretty much instant termination, but for a safety inspector it's job security. After all, if anything that can go wrong, will, it pays to be the one identifying problems to fix.

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* Milo's dad is a power plant safety inspector. Ironic at first, but Brilliance sets in when you realize he has Murphy's Law too--any other job would be really hard for Martin to hold down with things constsntly constantly going wrong around him. A constant stream of disasters anywhere else is pretty much instant termination, but for a safety inspector it's job security. After all, if anything that can go wrong, will, it pays to be the one identifying problems to fix.
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* Milo's dad is a power plant safety inspector. Ironic at first, but Brilliance sets in when you realize he has Murphy's Law too--any other job would be really hard for Martin to hold down with things constsntly going wrong around him. A constant stream of disasters anywhere else is pretty much instant termination, but for a safety inspector it's job security. After all, if anything that can go wrong, will, it pays to be the one identifying problems to fix.
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** ...Dakota would be stranded in a time at least a century before he was even born, as a toddler with no memories or survival skills.
** ...the kids' parents, without the fixed time device, would have stayed toddlers. Their ''former spouses and children'' would have had to raise them, to say nothing of the .

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** ...**...Dakota would be stranded in a time at least a century before he was even born, as a toddler with no memories or survival skills.
** ...**...the kids' parents, without the fixed time device, would have stayed toddlers. Their ''former spouses and children'' would have had to raise them, to say nothing of the .
the important jobs they each left behind.

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** Also a stroke of good luck is how nothing bad happened to (the notoriously accident-prone) Cavendish while Dakota was a toddler--if something had happened to Cavendish [[spoiler: like it has "hundreds of times" in the past]]...
**...Dakota would be stranded in a time at least a century before he was even born, as a toddler with no memories or survival skills.
**...the kids' parents, without the fixed time device, would have stayed toddlers. Their ''former spouses and children'' would have had to raise them, to say nothing of the .
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Apparently, it was even worse


** ...Yeah, umm... about that... As revealed in the crossover, [[spoiler: Derek, the Pistachion that disguised himself as Dr. Zone, turned out to be ''terrible'' at managing the show, resulting into it being cancelled within two years, meaning that no one remembers it anymore, including Zack and Melissa, who were introduced to it in an earlier episode. Looking at Sara's T-shirt in both "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" and "Fungus Among Us", you'll notice that the Time Ape image is also missing, only reappearing when Derek has been defeated in 1955. This means that Derek could've never held the series going for fifty years and that Orton ''has'' to instead, meaning that this theory above is {{Jossed}}, and we're right back at FridgeLogic again (unless Orton decided to use Derek's rubber mask for the show).]]

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** ...Yeah, umm... about that... As revealed in the crossover, [[spoiler: Derek, the Pistachion that disguised himself as Dr. Zone, turned out to be ''terrible'' at managing the show, resulting into it being cancelled within after two years, episodes, meaning that no one remembers it anymore, including Zack and Melissa, who were introduced to it in an earlier episode. Looking at Sara's T-shirt in both "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" and "Fungus Among Us", you'll notice that the Time Ape image is also missing, only reappearing when Derek has been defeated in 1955. This means that Derek could've never held the series going for fifty years and that Orton ''has'' to instead, meaning that this theory above is {{Jossed}}, and we're right back at FridgeLogic again (unless Orton decided to use Derek's rubber mask for the show).]]
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** ...Yeah, umm... about that... As revealed in the crossover, [[spoiler: Derek, the Pistachion that disguised himself as Dr. Zone, turned out to be ''terrible'' at managing the show, resulting into it being cancelled within two years, meaning that no one remembers it anymore, including Zack and Melissa, who were introduced to it in an earlier episode. Looking at Sara's T-shirt in both "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" and "Fungus Among Us", you'll notice that the Time Ape image is also missing, only reappearing when Derek has been defeated in 1955. This means that Derek could've never held the series going for fifty years and that Orton ''has'' to instead, meaning that we're right back at FridgeLogic again (unless Orton decided to use Derek's rubber mask for the show).]]

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** ...Yeah, umm... about that... As revealed in the crossover, [[spoiler: Derek, the Pistachion that disguised himself as Dr. Zone, turned out to be ''terrible'' at managing the show, resulting into it being cancelled within two years, meaning that no one remembers it anymore, including Zack and Melissa, who were introduced to it in an earlier episode. Looking at Sara's T-shirt in both "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" and "Fungus Among Us", you'll notice that the Time Ape image is also missing, only reappearing when Derek has been defeated in 1955. This means that Derek could've never held the series going for fifty years and that Orton ''has'' to instead, meaning that this theory above is {{Jossed}}, and we're right back at FridgeLogic again (unless Orton decided to use Derek's rubber mask for the show).]]
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** ...Yeah, umm... about that... As revealed in the crossover, [[spoiler: Derek, the Pistachion that disguised himself as Dr. Zone, turned out to be ''terrible'' at managing the show, resulting into it being cancelled within two years, meaning that no one remembers it anymore, including Zack and Melissa, who were introduced to it in an earlier episode. Looking at Sara's T-shirt in both "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" and "Fungus Among Us", you'll notice that the Time Ape image is also missing, only reappearing when Derek has been defeated in 1955. This means that Derek could've never held the series going for fifty years and that Orton ''has'' to instead, meaning that we're right back at FridgeLogic again (unless Orton decided to use Derek's rubber mask for the show).]]
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* Milo's cousin Nate is in complete denial about suffering from Murphy's Law like the rest of the males in his family. Refusing to accept that he is affected by it means he wouldn't prepare for possible disasters like [[CrazyPrepared Milo]]. And as we've seen, even all of Milo's preparations don't prevent him from suffering serious injuries every so often. What kind of injuries will Nate suffer (or already ''has'' suffered), simply because he won't admit to having the family condition?
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* Milo asks why Melissa was making a science project on the first day of summer. [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbUnfairScienceFair There was a science fair in Danville during that summer]].
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* When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that someone like Eliot would work in Milo's town. Eliot is obsessed with safety. Any other person in his position would probably have transferred somewhere else a long time ago, but Eliot's obsessiveness means that he can't help but try and take on to the massive challenge to public safety that is Murphy's Law.
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*It's really lucky that the worst thing Little Dakota ate was birdseed, [[AdultFear he easily could've gotten into the toxic science chemicals.]]
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* The Bureau of Time Travel has the purpose of preventing disasters on the scale of WorldWarIII (and others), with the extinction of a plant being considered the lowest possible job. What would happen if they found out that a good portion of the disasters they were trying to prevent were probably at least partly the fault of the Murphy lineage? They could literally make Milo's whole line of descent ''never have existed''. And unlike the incident where PhineasAndFerb had major characters wiped from existence, there likely wouldn't be anyone in a position to prevent this. And even if they don't wipe out the family line, they're still probably going to make sure that Milo and Martin never interfere with events ever again; this spells some ''horrible'' thoughts.

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* The Bureau of Time Travel has the purpose of preventing disasters on the scale of WorldWarIII (and others), with the extinction of a plant being considered the lowest possible job. What would happen if they found out that a good portion of the disasters they were trying to prevent were probably at least partly the fault of the Murphy lineage? They could literally make Milo's whole line of descent ''never have existed''. And unlike the incident where PhineasAndFerb ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' had major characters wiped from existence, there likely wouldn't be anyone in a position to prevent this. And even if they don't wipe out the family line, they're still probably going to make sure that Milo and Martin never interfere with events ever again; this spells some ''horrible'' thoughts.

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* The entire premise of the show seems to be Dan and Swampy taking an old, cynical statement as literal truth. That being, "Murphy was an optimist."
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Educational skeletons are expensive, I doubt the school wouldn't have known they had a real one.


* A stray beam from an aging device hit a skeleton inside the science classroom, bringing him back to life with all flesh intact as a regular human. Was the school aware they had a real skeleton and not a model? Theoretically, they could reverse the effects and kill someone with the device. That deaging device needs to be locked up somewhere secure.

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* A stray beam from an aging device hit a skeleton inside the science classroom, bringing him back to life with all flesh intact as a regular human. Was the school aware they had a real skeleton and not a model? Theoretically, they could reverse the effects and kill someone with the device. That deaging device needs to be locked up somewhere secure.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNACwKkA-KY Toboggan of Love]] makes sense in two ways:
** The melody is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7GIPQoILwc actually from]] ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. Both are about finding love in unexpected places, whether it be on a boat or on a toboggan.
** Toboggan of Love is a parody of Boat of Romance. [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Milo]] was the one singing the song. Put these together and you get [[StealthPun an extremely clever and subtle case of]] ActorAllusion.

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* This line in light of "The Island of Lost Dakotas":
-->'''Dakota:''' If you're still alive, can we go home now?
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** Alternatively--if anything that can go wrong will go wrong, than anything that ''can't'' go wrong ''won't'' go wrong. Everything works out in the end because, at a certain point, it becomes impossible for things to get any worse.
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* In the Milo-less timeline, Sara is still wearing her Time Ape shirt, even though it's been firmly established that ''Doctor Zone'' exists because Milo traveled back in time with Dakota and Cavendish.

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* In the Milo-less timeline, Sara is still wearing her Time Ape shirt, even though it's been firmly established that ''Doctor Zone'' exists because Milo traveled back in time with Dakota (with Cavendish and Cavendish.
Dakota, who served as the models for Doctor Zone and Time Ape) and [[StableTimeLoop described the show as he knew it]] to Orton Mahlson.
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* In the Milo-less timeline, Sara is still wearing her Time Ape shirt, even though it's been firmly established that ''Doctor Zone'' exists because Milo traveled back in time with Dakota and Cavendish.
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* Milo's loafers. Wearing laceless shoes is the only way he can avoid tripping on his shoelaces.

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* Milo's loafers. Wearing laceless shoes is the only way he can avoid tripping on his shoelaces.
shoelaces. (This observation is later confirmed in "The Island of Lost Dakotas".)



* As at least one fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12396116/1/Wood-Burning]] has pointed out, Max's interactions with Zack come off as very {{Gaslighting}}. Who's to say that Max wasn't manipulating Zack the entire time they both were in the band and Max's hold over Zack is still strong enough, despite time and distance, that Zack's memories of what happened are completely wrong?

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* As at least one fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12396116/1/Wood-Burning]] net/s/12396116/1/Wood-Burning fanfic]] has pointed out, Max's interactions with Zack come off as very {{Gaslighting}}. Who's to say that Max wasn't manipulating Zack the entire time they both were in the band and Max's hold over Zack is still strong enough, despite time and distance, that Zack's memories of what happened are completely wrong?

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** Murphey's Lars inarguably shows this better, with another Milo free incident. [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb A rollercoaster]] falls on her science project on the first day of summer.

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** Murphey's Lars "Murphy's Lard" inarguably shows this better, with another Milo free incident. [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb A rollercoaster]] falls on her science project on the first day of summer.
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* Dakota is extremely casual about Cavendish nearly being hit by a car. In light of "The Island of Lost Dakotas", this is likely because (unknown to Cavendish) Dakota is accustomed to saving Cavendish's life at this point. It may even represent yet another instance where Dakota went back in time to avert Cavendish's death, simply not shown to the audience.
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* The same actor has been playing Doctor Zone for fifty years without visibly aging. This makes sense once you realize that while the original actor/creator of Doctor Zone was time-traveling with Milo, Vinnie, and Cavendish, he was replaced by a pistachion, made evident by the gift-box on his hand, which serves to hide his exposed pistachion limb. Fifty years is probably nothing for a plant-based organism.

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*A stray beam from an aging device hit a skeleton inside the science classroom, bringing him back to life with all flesh intact as a regular human. Was the school aware they had a real skeleton and not a model? Theoretically, they could reverse the effects and kill someone with the device. That deaging device needs to be locked up somewhere secure.
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* As at least one fanfic has pointed out, Max's interactions with Zack come off as very {{Gaslighting}}. Who's to say that Max wasn't manipulating Zack the entire time they both were in the band and Max's hold over Zack is still strong enough, despite time and distance, that Zack's memories of what happened are completely wrong?

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* As at least one fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12396116/1/Wood-Burning]] has pointed out, Max's interactions with Zack come off as very {{Gaslighting}}. Who's to say that Max wasn't manipulating Zack the entire time they both were in the band and Max's hold over Zack is still strong enough, despite time and distance, that Zack's memories of what happened are completely wrong?
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* Milo's loafers. Wearing laceless shoes is the only way he can avoid tripping on his shoelaces.

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