Line #25 Recap/MiloMurphysLawS1E23MissingMilo


1	When Cavendish and Dakota stop Milo from destroying a pistachio plant, they change the future. Pistachio plants become sapient and take over the planet, so Cavendish, Dakota and Milo must race through time to save the future.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Dakota tousles Milo's hair after Milo manages to hotwire the transport they're using.
5	* AntiClimax: PlayedForLaughs. After spending a few episodes believing Milo is an agent sent to counter their efforts, Cavendish takes Dakota's advice and simply ''asks'' if that's the case. After learning that Milo had no intention of messing with their missions and it's just Murphy's Law at work, his animosity toward Milo simply ends, and the two intend to go their separate ways, until Milo gets dragged along.
6	* BadFuture: After Cavendish and Dakota save the mutated pistachio plant, the future is changed to having been taken over by sapient pistachio plants, led by the one they saved.
7	* CassandraTruth: The events of the episode are so hard to believe that when Cavendish and Dakota report it to Mr. Block, he thinks they invented everything to try to get out of the pistachio assignment.
8	* ChekhovsGun:
9	** Milo uses the llama incident to distract the Pistachions.
10	** Dakota grabbed a bag of clocks to use as a weapon but managed to get away instead. Later, when a Pistachion latches onto the time limo, he uses it to bash it off, which also puts all the clocks in the timestream.
11	** Milo laments not having the three gardening scissors he usually keeps inside his backpack. During the climax, Zack, Melissa and Sara get them and [[SubvertedTrope they break when they try to use them]]. Such an unlikely event taking place [[DoubleSubverted clues them to Milo's return]].
12	* ChekhovsGunman: [[RunningGag Because Milo didn't tell Diogee to go home]], Diogee returns at the fight in the schoolyard to kill the mutated pistachio plant right as King Pistachion has Milo in his clutches.
13	* CompanionCube: Scott the Undergrounder apparently keeps a milk carton with a face carved into it, whom he calls "Mildred", as companionship.
14	* ContinuitySnarl: The episode flashes back to "The Substitute" to explain how the Pistachio Plant survived Cavendish and Dakota's original failure, however Dakota's line when the sentient blob grabs his foot; "Arg, it's got me!" is replaced with the line "The sentient Blob's got my foot!", presumably to explain things to casual viewers who haven't seen the prior episode.
15	* CuttingTheKnot: Dakota does this by just asking Milo about all the weird occurances that happen when their paths cross.
16	* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: King Pistachion's minions are also his children.
17	* FloatingClocks: {{Lampshaded}} ''and'' {{Justified}}. The timestream has lots of clocks, which Dakota says was probably someone's idea of a joke. Later on, he ends up causing those clocks to be there in the first place.
18	* FullNameUltimatum: Sara delivers one to Diogee Ex Machina Murphy.
19	* GoneHorriblyRight: Dakota and Cavendish finally manage to succeed at one of their missions, and pistachios survive into the future… only they become sapient and take over said future.
20	* InternalReveal: Milo and co. learn about the time travelers (and their mission to save the pistachios) and Cavendish & Dakota learn Milo isn't an enemy agent and their mission failures are a result of Murphy's Law.
21	* MeaningfulName:
22	** TimeTravel will be invented by someone named Professor Time. It's theorized that he changed his name for branding purposes.
23	** One of the places Milo's friends look for him is Bull's China Chop.
24	* OverlyLongGag:
25	** Cavendish and Dakota arguing about how Dakota originally acquired the peach if his past self retrieved it from his current self.
26	** Brick and Savannah using their car key to hear where their car is… and hear it from two separate locations, seeing the front part of their car in shambles and the back part of their car thrown against the school wall. Brick keeps pressing the unlock button despite the duo already knowing now that their car is wrecked, prompting Savannah to snark that keeping it up will definitely fix the car in no time.
27	* PoorCommunicationKills: Averted. Before harming Milo for supposedly sabotaging their efforts deliberately, Dakota suggests to Cavendish that they just ask him if this is actually what he's doing, since Milo has proven to be a NiceGuy that has no motive against them that they know of. Milo explains Murphy's Law, and in addition, Cavendish and Dakota explain to Milo of who they are and what their mission is. Both sides take these reveals pretty well.
28	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Mr. Block doesn't remember the BadFuture due to the way it fixed itself, but all the main characters do, as does Sara.
29	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Eliot takes one look at the time portal and runs for it.
30	* SequelEpisode: The mutated plant from [[Recap/MiloMurphysLawS1E15TheSubstitute "The Substitute"]] grows to become this episode's main villain.
31	* SequelHook: Milo still has to go back to 1965 at some point per StableTimeLoop so he can give his letter to Doctor Zone. And unbeknownst to everyone, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the Pistachion that was knocked off the limo]] [[TheEndOrIsIt survived the erasure thanks to being trapped in the timestream when it happened and has emerged in 1955…]]
32	* SpannerInTheWorks: Diogee of all beings is the one that King Pistachion misses, allowing him to pee on the king's sapling form and stop him.
33	* StableTimeLoop:
34	** At one point, Cavendish is hit by a peach, which warns him, Dakota, and Milo that there are Pistachions coming their way, and he gives it to Dakota. Later, after traveling back ten minutes to figure out what happened, Cavendish realizes he needs to warn himself about incoming Pistachions, and Dakota gives him the peach. Played For Laughs when Cavendish then realizes that it doesn't make sense for the peach to be there, seemingly to only exist for said loop to be in place.
35	** When Milo learns how his sister and his friends knew where and when to be for the climax, he tells them he still didn't leave the message. He decides to send the very same message instead of bothering to write it in the first place because it seems to work with peaches.
36	* StalkerShrine: Melissa has a room filled with pictures and past belongings of Milo. It was originally meant to help her find a counter for Murphy's Law, but she kept it even after realizing Milo wouldn't have wanted that.
37	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After Cavendish spent the last few episodes suspecting Milo to be sabotaging their mission, before trying to bring any harm to the boy, Dakota just points out they just could ask him if he's doing it on purpose or not. Milo explains it's Murphy's Law and the duo accept the explanation without raising any animosity that could have occurred if they decided to go with PoorCommunicationKills instead.
38	* TemptingFate: Brick says that there's no force on Earth that would get him and Savannah to lend Cavendish and Dakota their time-limo… then Milo bikes up and they fall off of a cliff into the sea.
39	* TheEndOrIsIt: The ending, with the note Milo left for his friends in the past not yet left there, and a surviving Pistachion in 1955…
40	* VictoryDance: Cavendish and Dakota do one after they succeed in saving the pistachio plant.
41	* WalkThisWay: When Scott tells Melissa and Zack to "Run this way!", Zack starts imitating his run until Melissa yells out what he just meant for them to follow him.
42	* WeaksauceWeakness: King Pistachion's species of pistachio plant is extremely vulnerable to uric acid, a key component of dog pee.
43	* WeWillMeetAgain: As he fades from existence, King Pistachion swears to Milo that the latter hasn't seen the last of him.
44	* WhenTreesAttack: The mutant pistachio plant eventually becomes sapient, uproots itself and, naming itself King Pistachion, spawns an army to take over the world.
45	* WriteBackToTheFuture: Milo somehow manages to appear in the lost Dr. Zone episode. While investigating how it happened, Sara, Zack and Melissa find out Milo left a message from TheFifties to Orton Mahlson.

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