Milo and Elliot get accidentally handcuffed together; Dr. Doofenshmirtz helps Zack and Melissa with their home-made movie.
Tropes:
- Epiphany Therapy: Subverted; Milo hopes that uncovering a repressed memory would make Elliot less obsessed with safety, but Elliot brags that it just makes him even more safety-obsessed.
- Freudian Excuse: Elliot's misadventure with Milo causes him to remember the day he became obsessed with safety. As a kid, he spilled a bag of marshmallows during a trip to the circus and set off a chain of Disaster Dominoes (though given that Martin and Sara Murphy can be seen in the audience, it wasn't entirely Elliot's fault).
- How We Got Here: The episode starts with Milo and Elliot already handcuffed, running from animals and wearing clown make-up and then it goes back to when the whole mess started.
- Knuckle Tattoos: When Doofenshmirtz arrives at the shooting, he has the letters "I-N-A-T-O-R" drawn on his Four-Fingered Hands.
- Painful Rhyme: Elliot says that "buffalo" brought up painful memories because it rhymes with "marshmallow", but Milo doesn't agree that the words really rhyme.
- Trauma Button: The word "buffalo" causes Elliot to experience haunting visions.
