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Milo Murphy’s Law is a show I wish got more love than it deserved. I went in for the same reason I’m sure others did, the novelty of “Weird Al” Yanovic voicing the character, but that only goes so far. I had heard of Phineas And Ferb, the previous and highly popular show by the same creators, Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, but I never really got into it. The adventures of Milo and his friends however I could very much get into.

The show follows Milo Murphy, the ancestor of the first victim of Murphy’s Law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong and usually spectacularly. While the curse seems to only affect the men (Milo and his dad are hit with it while Milo’s sister doesn’t and his mom only married into the family, plus we see one of his cousins denying he deals with it) the curse is rather hilarious to watch in action. Additionally, Milo ends up crossing paths with a pair of time travelers (voiced by the creators), secrets are learned about his friends, and running gags play the long game. The “llama incident” gets brought up numerous times in season one before being revealed halfway through and the yacht the school bought plays a part in season 2…by of course being destroyed.

Why didn’t the show do better. I thought the jokes hit well, the lore was silly but easy to follow, rare for anything involving time travel, the songs were good whether done by the usual team or Yanovic himself, and even when you know the characters would be fine the interest comes into HOW they deal with Murphy’s Law. There’s a video YouTube keeps wanting me to watch about “Why Milo Murphy’s Law Couldn’t Find An Audience” and partway through I decided this would be a good topic.

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