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Recap / Milo Murphy's Law S1E28 "Some Like it Yacht"

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The school board has spent a good portion of funding on a yacht. To justify the budget, they have to take Milo's class on a field trip and write it off as an educational expense.

Tropes for this episode include:

  • Artistic License – Physics: Coach Mitchell Lampshades this when attempting to wrestle with Principal Milder, asking why he's unable to knock her over despite having twice her body weight. Milder replies that she's a middle school principal.
  • Clingy Aquatic Life: Mrs. Murawski gets a squid stuck to her face while trying to show marine life to the students.
  • Continuity Nod: Zack refers to his phobia of fish, with flying fish being added to the mix. He also recalls Scott the Undergrounder wanting Diogee to lead them. The yacht is the one briefly mentioned in "Athledecamathalon" as the reason to merge the two decathlons together.
  • Didn't Think This Through: As Bradley points out, the teachers didn't think of scheduling a field trip on the yacht with Milo. Things start going wrong almost immediately, though Milo manages to get them back to civilization.
  • Epic Fail:
    • When Milo explains that the S.S Murphy (a boat that belonged to one of his great-great-grandfathers) was lost, he means that the ship apparently just disappeared from the docks one day and not that his great-great-grandfather was Lost at Sea.
    • Mr. Drako attempts to send up a signal flare, only for it to ricochet and bounce back into the box of flares, causing an explosion which sets the wrecked S.S Murphy on fire.
    Milo: Okay, nobody tell Grandpa about this.
  • Going Native: Parodied when the teachers go feral at the thought of no civilization. The kids manage to talk sense into them before the tidal wave comes.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Bradley points out to the teachers that combining Milo with a luxury yacht is a bad idea.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: The school board spent the school's money on a luxury yacht, obviously for their own self-gratification. It gets damaged thanks to Murphy's law, though the boat wins a surfing contest by accident which is enough for repairs.
  • Let Us Never Speak of This Again: When the field trip runs aground and discovers the lost S.S Murphy, Milo comments that his grandpa will be happy they found it. When it catches on fire due to a signal flare accident, Milo asks they nobody tell his grandpa about it.
  • Loophole Abuse: Subverted. It's not that there's no rule saying a boat can't win a surfing contest. It's that the rule saying a boat can isn't brought up very often.
  • Love at First Sight: Parodied with Bradley and the self-serve ice cream machine. He breaks down when it gets destroyed.
  • Noodle Incident: The teacher's convention in Seattle.
  • Rake Take: One of the injuries suffered by the coach before the boat crashes.
  • Toilet Humour: The kids have to bring their own toilet paper to school because of the lack of funding.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one bats an eye at a squid on their science teacher's face or a flatfish eating up her arm.

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