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Recap / Milo Murphy's Law S2E16 "Milo's Shadow"

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Dr. Doofenshmirtz decides to be more like Milo and decides to spend a day at his school with him and his friends.

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  • Bookend: The episode starts and ends with Milo, Melissa, Zack and Doof at the bus stop and a beat moment during their conversation.
  • Brick Joke:
    • Both times Milo, Doof, Zack and Melissa are at the bus stop, a tumbleweed rolls by to signify Quieter Than Silence.
    • The literal metaphor about "preaching to the choir" is reviewed when the meeting room schedule is shown to the viewers and "Alice's Choir" features on the schedule after the KOOKS.
  • Call-Back: Doof trying to save the school from the giant baseball is similar to Elliott's efforts to save it from the giant boulder back in "Disaster of My Dreams" except that Elliott did a better job.
  • Cassandra Truth: When Cavendish tells his tale to the KOOKS, they assume he's mocking them.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Coach Mitchell once fell asleep during the afternoon and woke up at night. He assumes aliens stole an hour from his life. One of the other members of KOOKS, Evan Chaffe, had a dream about being abducted by aliens and, once he woke up, he banged his head on a lamp and assumes the eventual mark is proof that his dream wasn't a dream.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Discussed. Milo says it'd help if Doof thought things through but Doof decides it's not going to happen.
  • Epic Fail: Instead of shrinking the baseball, Doof shrunk the school along with everyone and everything inside it other than the baseball.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Konsortium Of Otherwordly Knowledge Seekers.
  • He Knows Too Much: Real aliens try to eliminate Cavendish because of that but they're hit by Doof's Go-Home-Inator.
  • Insistent Terminology: Chaffe, who's described as an actual cook, says he's a sous-chef.
  • Lampshade Hanging:
    • Upon meeting the KOOKS, Cavendish points out "Consortium" starts with "C" instead of "K". One of them explains that people would think they're cooks while only one of them is a cook.
    • After more than one ceiling fan falls on Doof, he wonders how many of those can be placed on only one spot.
  • Literal Metaphor: When Evan Chaffe says Coach Mitchell is preaching to the choir, he means a literal choir who entered the room before their scheduled time.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: The members of KOOKS are right about aliens being real but their reasons to believe it are insane.
  • Tempting Fate: After Milo uses a raft to save himself and Doof from a falling ceiling fan, Doof says it's Murphy's Law instead of Heinz Law because otherwise the fan would've hit him. Cue another ceiling fan.

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