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* DareToBeBadass: In the first episode, Zack (who's starting to get fed up with the danger) asks why Milo's okay with being a living Jinx.
-->'''Zack:''' How do you live like this?!\\
'''Milo:''' How do you live like ''that''?\\
'''Zack:''' What do you mean?\\
'''Milo:''' I mean, you wanna live like those other kids? They took a bus to school today. A ''bus''. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Does that seem like more fun to you?]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: "Island of Dakotas". It may be PlayedForLaughs, but [[spoiler:Cavendish's deaths make up the ''highest onscreen'' death count out of any episode. The nature of his death can get as [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath family-unfriendly]] as seeing him fall into lava and leaving behind his skeleton]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Disaster of my Dreams" follows Elliot.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Doctor Zone Files Files.
* DescriptionCut: In "Time Out" when Cavendish starts to believe that Milo is a counteragent sent to undermine his and Dakota's mission:
-->'''Cavendish:''' Just look at him over there, plotting our demise.\\
''(Cut to Milo enjoying some fast food with Zack and their respective dads.)''\\
'''Milo:''' I sure love cheese fries!\\
''(Cut back to Cavendish and Dakota.)''\\
'''Cavendish:''' Oh, this is ''not'' over, Milo Murphy. Not by a ''long shot.''\\
''(Cut back to Milo.)''\\
'''Milo:''' [[TriviallyObvious They're fries with cheese!]]
* DeusExMachina: In "Snow Way Out", Melissa has a wager with Bradley that Milo will make it before the first bell, with the loser shoveling the winner's sidewalk. At first, after Milo and Zack have a series of mishaps with a giant snowball, it looks like Bradley will win the bet... until Milo meets Balthazar and Vinnie, asking if they can take Milo and Zack 5 minutes back in time. Balthazar and Vinnie mention that they can't since they were banished, but there's nothing prohibiting Milo and Zack from time travel, with Milo and Zack going 5 minutes back in time and arriving just before the first bell.
* DisasterDominoes: Milo's luck is very notorious in causing these types of situations. Hell, when a show '''begins''' with a form of them...
* DisneyAcidSequence: Poor Mrs. Baxter experiences one after being sucked into a wormhole caused by mistaking Dakota and Cavendish's time device for a cell phone.
* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: In "Perchance to Sleepwalk", a bald eagle (usually diurnal) carries off Milo in the middle of the night.
* DoctorWhomage: Milo and Sara's [[ShowWithinAShow favorite show]] is ''The Doctor Zone Files''. The main character is a HumanAlien with a British accent, TimeTravel motif, and totally bananas fashion sense. ''He's got one foot in the future / And one foot in the past / He's got one hand in the present / [[VisualPun Or at least in a gift-shaped cast]].''
* {{Dogface}}: Milo briefly appears as one in "Milo's World", as shown through Diogee's eyes.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Not only does Weird Al voice Milo, he also sings the main theme, "It's My World (And We're All Living In It)".
* DontExplainTheJoke: In "The Note", Melissa tries to make the others laugh by asking whether Milo was carrying osmium (it's actually a stack of doctor's notes). No one gets the joke, so she had to explain that it's the heaviest chemical element.
** In "Smooth Opera-tor", when Cavendish doesn't react to Dakota's lobster bib joke, Dakota starts awkwardly explaining it, but Cavendish cuts him off.
* DoomMagnet: Milo being a living one is the premise of the show.
* DreamworksFace: Melissa is prone to this as she makes one in [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Milo_Murphy%27s_Law_poster.jpg the poster]] and makes one with Zack on [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Melissa_and_Zach.jpeg the official website]].
** Dr. Zone [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dr._Zone_Theme_Song.png makes this face]] in the opening credits of "The Dr. Zone Files".
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Milo has a Dr. Zone and Time Ape poster in his room before the characters debuted on the show.
** Dakota and Cavendish also appeared in some runs of "The Undergrounders" (they were digitally removed after the premier) and they also have a brief cameo in "The Doctor Zone Files," before they were named and officially introduced 3 episodes later.
* EasterEgg: In some runs we can see Dakota and Cavendish appearing as cameos.
* EggSitting: A variant for three in "Sunny Side Up"; Zack and Melissa have to partner with Milo on a project which requires them to build a container that will prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from a height. They break a ''lot'' of eggs in the planning stages.
** Notably, due to making the egg proof against, well, MurphysLaw, the final egg is practically invincible while in the container. It also was one Milo himself picked out from the entire supply.
* EnemiesEqualsGreatness: For the brief period that he believed Milo Murphy was intentionally trying to prevent him and Vinnie Dakota from fulfilling their assignment, Balthazar Cavendish was happy because he took it as a sign their assignment wasn't meaningless.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: One of these proves to be Victor Verliezer's undoing when he confronts his ex-partner Clyde in "A Clockwork Origin":
-->'''Victor Verliezer''': You want to talk genius? How about making people believe that they needed my vCo products? I mean, look at this vPhone 6, it's just smaller than the 5 and bigger than the 4. That is literally the only difference and it's flying off the shelves!
-->'''Zack''': People have different-sized pockets.
-->'''Victor''': People are sheep! People are stupid gullible puppets [[ManipulativeBastard that I can manipulate at my whim!]] Who's the genius now?
-->'''Melissa'': Actually, it's still Clyde, because he didn't just say a bunch of horrible things about the public while we were live streaming on our phones.
-->'''Victor''' [''replayed on the big-screen video display'']: People are sheep! People are stupid gullible puppets that I can manipulate at my whim!
** Everyone quickly sells their vCorp stock and he goes out of business soon afterwards.
* EpilepticTrees: Discussed in-universe as fan theories about "The Dr. Zone Files" emerge when Wally says pistachios being Dr. Zone's favorite nut is just a theory and when Melissa had a theory that Dr. Zone and Time Ape are brothers.
* ExpandedUniverse: Same art style as ''Phineas and Ferb'', as it's set in the same universe and a few neighborhoods away from Danville.
* {{Expy}}:
** Milo, personality-wise, is extremely similar to Phineas. Nothing fazes either of them, they tend to do the impossible daily, and one of the early jokes for both of them is having official documentation.
** Doctor Zone is an expy of the titular character of ''Series/DoctorWho'', with one alien race being mentioned, Trashcandroids, possibly being a mashup of Cybermen and Daleks from that show.
* ExtinctInTheFuture:
** While the series takes place in the present day, the time travelling syndicate that operates in the background reveals that pistachios are extinct by the year 2085. Dakota and Cavendish are tasked with trying to remedy this but given what happened when they succeeded, they end up believing that they're better off extinct.
** The fact that Cavendish doesn't know what a giraffe is and Dakota mentions that they rarely see animals anymore suggests that many wild animal species are extinct by their time.
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* FamousAncestor:
** Milo is the descendant of Edward A. Murphy Jr., the namesake of the original MurphysLaw.
** Jackie from "Wilder West" is the descendant of Calamity Jane.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Cavendish and Dakota are from the future, but their understanding of the past is ''very'' limited. For instance, Cavendish thought TheSeventies referred to the ''18''70s, and they're unfamiliar with Halloween because it doesn't exist in their time, and they need the holiday explained to them. Thankfully, they were able to save the holiday, which means it will continue exist in their future.
* FlintstoneTheming: In-universe example in "The Dr. Zone Files" where the characters abuse the word "time" a lot. Even Dr. Zone's sidekick is called Time Ape.
* FluffyTheTerrible: In "Wilder West," Milo is, naturally, assigned to a horse named "Psycho," who proceeds to buck him off repeatedly. It's quickly revealed that the horse is normally the gentlest of the horses and was given that name as a joke.
* {{Foil}}: Cavendish is one to Milo. They are both unlucky and tend to get into dangerous situations, but while Milo is CrazyPrepared, allowing him to come out none the worse for wear, Cavendish's lack of attention and smarts often results in self-made misery and [[spoiler:regular death]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's quite a bit, but some of the most notable examples include...
** In "The Llama Incident", a FreezeFrameBonus shows [[spoiler:a Pistachion]] in the football field, indicating that [[spoiler:the Pistachions wind up travelling back in time to the day the incident happened]].
** While on their mission at the beginning of "Missing Milo," Cavendish says to Dakota he refuses to be "the butt of some cosmic joke," before a Dr. Zone billboard (which they are unknowingly copying the photo on) collapses behind them. [[spoiler: It is revealed later in the episode that Cavendish and Dakota were actually the inspiration for Dr. Zone and Time Ape, respectively.]]
** A few episodes depict Dakota reaching for Cavendish and pulling him away from oncoming disaster. "The Island of Lost Dakotas" reveals that [[spoiler:he's been regularly traveling back in time to prevent his death]].
---> '''Dakota:''' If you're still alive, can we go home now?
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** In "Sunny Side Up", Melissa only reads out a small portion of her egg hazard list.
** ''The Dr. Zone Files'' has some silliness in the closing credits, but they go by ''way'' too fast to read normally.
** Dakota and Cavendish appear in almost every episode. If they don't have speaking lines, you can usually catch them briefly in the background.
** In "The Llama Incident", there is some {{Foreshadowing}} due to it being possible to note [[spoiler:a Pistachion]] in the football field, indicating that [[spoiler:the Pistachions wind up traveling back in time to the day the incident happened]].
** The sign in front of the school has a different message each time it appears.
** In "Love Toboggan", we briefly see the first 13 items on Milo's list of 62 ways things can go wrong with snow. A giant snowman is indeed #12.
* FrenchAccordion: In the episode "The Undergrounders", Zack is revealed to be claustro-avoidant, and as he, Milo, and Melissa are trapped in a runaway metro wagon, Zack needs to be distracted in order to calm down. Milo's second attempt is to hang up posters of Paris, don a beret and play music on an accordion, leaving Zack ''too'' distracted.
* FruitCart: Pistachio carts appear to be getting a raw deal to the point time travelers have to protect them.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In "Rooting For the Enemy", after Joni mentions she just got the cast off, she walks off a few steps before getting hit by a stray football, right during the middle of a conversation.
** Continuing Joni's [[ButtMonkey misery]], in "Spy Little Sister!", after she made small-talk with Milo, a [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous Amanda]] attacks when Milo returns to his seat.
** In "Abducting Murphy's Law" when [[spoiler:Doofenshmirtz rips the head off the Milo android]], a man who happened to be walking by quickly covers his son's eyes and they run away.
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* GlassSlipper: Milo's missing loafer in "School Dance."
* GoodScarsEvilScars: "Hey Milo, is that a new scar?" "Yeah. Thanks for noticing."
* GoofyPrintUnderwear:
** Zack seems to have heart-printed underwear in his hamper in "Sunny Side Up".
** The gecko mascot when he's out of his costume. Also from "Rooting for the Enemy", the quarterback somehow took the underwear from another player.
** Cavendish tells Doofenshmirtz that he's wearing underwear with his face on it. Doof declines the offer to see them.
* GotVolunteered: When hearing that the class would be breaking off into teams of 3 for their assignment in "Sunny Side Up", everyone in the class besides Milo, Zack and Melissa hide under their desks.
* GratuitousSpanish: As Amanda is a Latina, she is naturally able to speak Spanish, and quite evidently so in "Cake 'Splosion!"
* GroundhogDayLoop: In "Managing Murphy's Law", Dakota and Cavendish are tasked with retrieving a piece of alien rubbish located at the Slushy Dawg, assigned to meet Jeremy. Each time Cavendish and Dakota drive through, they pass the radioactive alien rubbish, which causes them to experience temporary amnesia as it warps them into a video game arcade, fills their van with fast food wrappers from 79 hot dogs they didn't recall ordering, warps them into a circus where they're leotard wearing trapeze artists, find themselves jousting on Segway scooters with foam pool noodle floats, turns them into rock-and-roll hippies with a vanful of guitars and amps, and Cavendish finally decides not to use the drive-thru to get the alien device, while Dakota plugs and stops the leak with fast food wrappers.
* GrumpyBear: Bradley, as a foil to Milo's optimism.
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* HalloweenEpisode: "Milo's Halloween Scream-a-Torium!" has Milo building a haunted house and trying to use it to scare Zack. Meanwhile, Cavendish and Dakota take advantage of the last Halloween ever to learn how it's supposed to work and have fun.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Melissa's father has this reaction to Milo before coming to understand his condition better in "The Little Engine That Couldn't."
-->'''Mr. Chase:''' Does this Murphy's Law thing have an off switch?
-->'''Milo:''' I haven't found one yet!
* HeadbuttOfLove: Between Milo and Brigette at the end of "Worked Day."
* HereditaryCurse: The entire "Murphy's Law" concept (only following the male heir to the Murphy name, causing mayhem and destruction around the target yet never actually killing them) has all the hallmarks of a family curse. Still, the way Milo views his life, if anything it'd be CursedWithAwesome.
* HeroicDog: Diogee, who is responsible for helping Milo out of his more dangerous scrapes.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In "The Note", during a scene that is a ShoutOut to a similar moment in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', Milo meets a DistaffCounterpart and a pair of {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s.
* HistoricalRapSheet: In a non-villainous example, the bad luck of the Murphy family has caused many infamous historical disasters.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Milo is separated from his backpack for most of "Missing Milo", preventing him from pulling out useful tools at a whim like he usually does. [[spoiler:When he finally gets it back at the episode climax, he and his friends use its contents to incapacitate almost all the pistachio people in short order, with only the BigBad taking slightly more effort to defeat.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: You could make a drinking game out of Doctor Zone's time puns.
* HypocriticalHumor: After the shareholders dump their vCorp stock:
-->'''Teenage girl''': How insulting! I'm selling my vCo stock immediately!
-->'''Teenage boy''': Yeah, I'm not a sheep. I'm gonna do exactly what she was doing.
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* DareToBeBadass: In the first episode, Zack (who's starting to get fed up with the danger) asks why Milo's okay with being a living Jinx.
-->'''Zack:''' How do you live like this?!\\
'''Milo:''' How do you live like ''that''?\\
'''Zack:''' What do you mean?\\
'''Milo:''' I mean, you wanna live like those other kids? They took a bus to school today. A ''bus''. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Does that seem like more fun to you?]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: "Island of Dakotas". It may be PlayedForLaughs, but [[spoiler:Cavendish's deaths make up the ''highest onscreen'' death count out of any episode. The nature of his death can get as [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath family-unfriendly]] as seeing him fall into lava and leaving behind his skeleton]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Disaster of my Dreams" follows Elliot.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Doctor Zone Files Files.
* DescriptionCut: In "Time Out" when Cavendish starts to believe that Milo is a counteragent sent to undermine his and Dakota's mission:
-->'''Cavendish:''' Just look at him over there, plotting our demise.\\
''(Cut to Milo enjoying some fast food with Zack and their respective dads.)''\\
'''Milo:''' I sure love cheese fries!\\
''(Cut back to Cavendish and Dakota.)''\\
'''Cavendish:''' Oh, this is ''not'' over, Milo Murphy. Not by a ''long shot.''\\
''(Cut back to Milo.)''\\
'''Milo:''' [[TriviallyObvious They're fries with cheese!]]
* DeusExMachina: In "Snow Way Out", Melissa has a wager with Bradley that Milo will make it before the first bell, with the loser shoveling the winner's sidewalk. At first, after Milo and Zack have a series of mishaps with a giant snowball, it looks like Bradley will win the bet... until Milo meets Balthazar and Vinnie, asking if they can take Milo and Zack 5 minutes back in time. Balthazar and Vinnie mention that they can't since they were banished, but there's nothing prohibiting Milo and Zack from time travel, with Milo and Zack going 5 minutes back in time and arriving just before the first bell.
* DisasterDominoes: Milo's luck is very notorious in causing these types of situations. Hell, when a show '''begins''' with a form of them...
* DisneyAcidSequence: Poor Mrs. Baxter experiences one after being sucked into a wormhole caused by mistaking Dakota and Cavendish's time device for a cell phone.
* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: In "Perchance to Sleepwalk", a bald eagle (usually diurnal) carries off Milo in the middle of the night.
* DoctorWhomage: Milo and Sara's [[ShowWithinAShow favorite show]] is ''The Doctor Zone Files''. The main character is a HumanAlien with a British accent, TimeTravel motif, and totally bananas fashion sense. ''He's got one foot in the future / And one foot in the past / He's got one hand in the present / [[VisualPun Or at least in a gift-shaped cast]].''
* {{Dogface}}: Milo briefly appears as one in "Milo's World", as shown through Diogee's eyes.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Not only does Weird Al voice Milo, he also sings the main theme, "It's My World (And We're All Living In It)".
* DontExplainTheJoke: In "The Note", Melissa tries to make the others laugh by asking whether Milo was carrying osmium (it's actually a stack of doctor's notes). No one gets the joke, so she had to explain that it's the heaviest chemical element.
** In "Smooth Opera-tor", when Cavendish doesn't react to Dakota's lobster bib joke, Dakota starts awkwardly explaining it, but Cavendish cuts him off.
* DoomMagnet: Milo being a living one is the premise of the show.
* DreamworksFace: Melissa is prone to this as she makes one in [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Milo_Murphy%27s_Law_poster.jpg the poster]] and makes one with Zack on [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Melissa_and_Zach.jpeg the official website]].
** Dr. Zone [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dr._Zone_Theme_Song.png makes this face]] in the opening credits of "The Dr. Zone Files".
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[[folder:E]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: Milo has a Dr. Zone and Time Ape poster in his room before the characters debuted on the show.
** Dakota and Cavendish also appeared in some runs of "The Undergrounders" (they were digitally removed after the premier) and they also have a brief cameo in "The Doctor Zone Files," before they were named and officially introduced 3 episodes later.
* EasterEgg: In some runs we can see Dakota and Cavendish appearing as cameos.
* EggSitting: A variant for three in "Sunny Side Up"; Zack and Melissa have to partner with Milo on a project which requires them to build a container that will prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from a height. They break a ''lot'' of eggs in the planning stages.
** Notably, due to making the egg proof against, well, MurphysLaw, the final egg is practically invincible while in the container. It also was one Milo himself picked out from the entire supply.
* EnemiesEqualsGreatness: For the brief period that he believed Milo Murphy was intentionally trying to prevent him and Vinnie Dakota from fulfilling their assignment, Balthazar Cavendish was happy because he took it as a sign their assignment wasn't meaningless.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: One of these proves to be Victor Verliezer's undoing when he confronts his ex-partner Clyde in "A Clockwork Origin":
-->'''Victor Verliezer''': You want to talk genius? How about making people believe that they needed my vCo products? I mean, look at this vPhone 6, it's just smaller than the 5 and bigger than the 4. That is literally the only difference and it's flying off the shelves!
-->'''Zack''': People have different-sized pockets.
-->'''Victor''': People are sheep! People are stupid gullible puppets [[ManipulativeBastard that I can manipulate at my whim!]] Who's the genius now?
-->'''Melissa'': Actually, it's still Clyde, because he didn't just say a bunch of horrible things about the public while we were live streaming on our phones.
-->'''Victor''' [''replayed on the big-screen video display'']: People are sheep! People are stupid gullible puppets that I can manipulate at my whim!
** Everyone quickly sells their vCorp stock and he goes out of business soon afterwards.
* EpilepticTrees: Discussed in-universe as fan theories about "The Dr. Zone Files" emerge when Wally says pistachios being Dr. Zone's favorite nut is just a theory and when Melissa had a theory that Dr. Zone and Time Ape are brothers.
* ExpandedUniverse: Same art style as ''Phineas and Ferb'', as it's set in the same universe and a few neighborhoods away from Danville.
* {{Expy}}:
** Milo, personality-wise, is extremely similar to Phineas. Nothing fazes either of them, they tend to do the impossible daily, and one of the early jokes for both of them is having official documentation.
** Doctor Zone is an expy of the titular character of ''Series/DoctorWho'', with one alien race being mentioned, Trashcandroids, possibly being a mashup of Cybermen and Daleks from that show.
* ExtinctInTheFuture:
** While the series takes place in the present day, the time travelling syndicate that operates in the background reveals that pistachios are extinct by the year 2085. Dakota and Cavendish are tasked with trying to remedy this but given what happened when they succeeded, they end up believing that they're better off extinct.
** The fact that Cavendish doesn't know what a giraffe is and Dakota mentions that they rarely see animals anymore suggests that many wild animal species are extinct by their time.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:F]]
* FamousAncestor:
** Milo is the descendant of Edward A. Murphy Jr., the namesake of the original MurphysLaw.
** Jackie from "Wilder West" is the descendant of Calamity Jane.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Cavendish and Dakota are from the future, but their understanding of the past is ''very'' limited. For instance, Cavendish thought TheSeventies referred to the ''18''70s, and they're unfamiliar with Halloween because it doesn't exist in their time, and they need the holiday explained to them. Thankfully, they were able to save the holiday, which means it will continue exist in their future.
* FlintstoneTheming: In-universe example in "The Dr. Zone Files" where the characters abuse the word "time" a lot. Even Dr. Zone's sidekick is called Time Ape.
* FluffyTheTerrible: In "Wilder West," Milo is, naturally, assigned to a horse named "Psycho," who proceeds to buck him off repeatedly. It's quickly revealed that the horse is normally the gentlest of the horses and was given that name as a joke.
* {{Foil}}: Cavendish is one to Milo. They are both unlucky and tend to get into dangerous situations, but while Milo is CrazyPrepared, allowing him to come out none the worse for wear, Cavendish's lack of attention and smarts often results in self-made misery and [[spoiler:regular death]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's quite a bit, but some of the most notable examples include...
** In "The Llama Incident", a FreezeFrameBonus shows [[spoiler:a Pistachion]] in the football field, indicating that [[spoiler:the Pistachions wind up travelling back in time to the day the incident happened]].
** While on their mission at the beginning of "Missing Milo," Cavendish says to Dakota he refuses to be "the butt of some cosmic joke," before a Dr. Zone billboard (which they are unknowingly copying the photo on) collapses behind them. [[spoiler: It is revealed later in the episode that Cavendish and Dakota were actually the inspiration for Dr. Zone and Time Ape, respectively.]]
** A few episodes depict Dakota reaching for Cavendish and pulling him away from oncoming disaster. "The Island of Lost Dakotas" reveals that [[spoiler:he's been regularly traveling back in time to prevent his death]].
---> '''Dakota:''' If you're still alive, can we go home now?
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** In "Sunny Side Up", Melissa only reads out a small portion of her egg hazard list.
** ''The Dr. Zone Files'' has some silliness in the closing credits, but they go by ''way'' too fast to read normally.
** Dakota and Cavendish appear in almost every episode. If they don't have speaking lines, you can usually catch them briefly in the background.
** In "The Llama Incident", there is some {{Foreshadowing}} due to it being possible to note [[spoiler:a Pistachion]] in the football field, indicating that [[spoiler:the Pistachions wind up traveling back in time to the day the incident happened]].
** The sign in front of the school has a different message each time it appears.
** In "Love Toboggan", we briefly see the first 13 items on Milo's list of 62 ways things can go wrong with snow. A giant snowman is indeed #12.
* FrenchAccordion: In the episode "The Undergrounders", Zack is revealed to be claustro-avoidant, and as he, Milo, and Melissa are trapped in a runaway metro wagon, Zack needs to be distracted in order to calm down. Milo's second attempt is to hang up posters of Paris, don a beret and play music on an accordion, leaving Zack ''too'' distracted.
* FruitCart: Pistachio carts appear to be getting a raw deal to the point time travelers have to protect them.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In "Rooting For the Enemy", after Joni mentions she just got the cast off, she walks off a few steps before getting hit by a stray football, right during the middle of a conversation.
** Continuing Joni's [[ButtMonkey misery]], in "Spy Little Sister!", after she made small-talk with Milo, a [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous Amanda]] attacks when Milo returns to his seat.
** In "Abducting Murphy's Law" when [[spoiler:Doofenshmirtz rips the head off the Milo android]], a man who happened to be walking by quickly covers his son's eyes and they run away.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:G]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* GlassSlipper: Milo's missing loafer in "School Dance."
* GoodScarsEvilScars: "Hey Milo, is that a new scar?" "Yeah. Thanks for noticing."
* GoofyPrintUnderwear:
** Zack seems to have heart-printed underwear in his hamper in "Sunny Side Up".
** The gecko mascot when he's out of his costume. Also from "Rooting for the Enemy", the quarterback somehow took the underwear from another player.
** Cavendish tells Doofenshmirtz that he's wearing underwear with his face on it. Doof declines the offer to see them.
* GotVolunteered: When hearing that the class would be breaking off into teams of 3 for their assignment in "Sunny Side Up", everyone in the class besides Milo, Zack and Melissa hide under their desks.
* GratuitousSpanish: As Amanda is a Latina, she is naturally able to speak Spanish, and quite evidently so in "Cake 'Splosion!"
* GroundhogDayLoop: In "Managing Murphy's Law", Dakota and Cavendish are tasked with retrieving a piece of alien rubbish located at the Slushy Dawg, assigned to meet Jeremy. Each time Cavendish and Dakota drive through, they pass the radioactive alien rubbish, which causes them to experience temporary amnesia as it warps them into a video game arcade, fills their van with fast food wrappers from 79 hot dogs they didn't recall ordering, warps them into a circus where they're leotard wearing trapeze artists, find themselves jousting on Segway scooters with foam pool noodle floats, turns them into rock-and-roll hippies with a vanful of guitars and amps, and Cavendish finally decides not to use the drive-thru to get the alien device, while Dakota plugs and stops the leak with fast food wrappers.
* GrumpyBear: Bradley, as a foil to Milo's optimism.
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* HalloweenEpisode: "Milo's Halloween Scream-a-Torium!" has Milo building a haunted house and trying to use it to scare Zack. Meanwhile, Cavendish and Dakota take advantage of the last Halloween ever to learn how it's supposed to work and have fun.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Melissa's father has this reaction to Milo before coming to understand his condition better in "The Little Engine That Couldn't."
-->'''Mr. Chase:''' Does this Murphy's Law thing have an off switch?
-->'''Milo:''' I haven't found one yet!
* HeadbuttOfLove: Between Milo and Brigette at the end of "Worked Day."
* HereditaryCurse: The entire "Murphy's Law" concept (only following the male heir to the Murphy name, causing mayhem and destruction around the target yet never actually killing them) has all the hallmarks of a family curse. Still, the way Milo views his life, if anything it'd be CursedWithAwesome.
* HeroicDog: Diogee, who is responsible for helping Milo out of his more dangerous scrapes.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In "The Note", during a scene that is a ShoutOut to a similar moment in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', Milo meets a DistaffCounterpart and a pair of {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s.
* HistoricalRapSheet: In a non-villainous example, the bad luck of the Murphy family has caused many infamous historical disasters.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Milo is separated from his backpack for most of "Missing Milo", preventing him from pulling out useful tools at a whim like he usually does. [[spoiler:When he finally gets it back at the episode climax, he and his friends use its contents to incapacitate almost all the pistachio people in short order, with only the BigBad taking slightly more effort to defeat.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: You could make a drinking game out of Doctor Zone's time puns.
* HypocriticalHumor: After the shareholders dump their vCorp stock:
-->'''Teenage girl''': How insulting! I'm selling my vCo stock immediately!
-->'''Teenage boy''': Yeah, I'm not a sheep. I'm gonna do exactly what she was doing.
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