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"The Little Engine That Couldn't" is the 21st episode in the first season of Milo Murphy's Law.
Milo and Melissa join her dad to take a decommissioned fire engine to a fire engine museum. As chaos ensues with Murphy's Law. Cavendish and Dakota chase the fire truck down when their pistachios are ruined again, with Cavendish's mind solely targeted to Milo.
Plot[]
Milo and Melissa visit Mr. Chase at the Fire House as he is cleaning up an old fire engine that's to be delivered to a nearby museum. As usual Mr. Chase is apprehensive about Milo's presence, but is impressed when he learns about Milo's considerable knowledge, and agrees to let the pair ride with him. Meanwhile, Balthazar Cavendish and Vinnie Dakota have received another pistachio-guarding assignment, only to find that their newly assigned vehicle is a tandem bicycle, which Cavendish sees as yet another instance of their superiors demeaning them. The fire engine goes out of control as Mr. Chase is driving it to the museum, and smashes Cavendish and Dakota's new bike; spotting Milo, the pair chase after him with Cavendish determined to find out the truth about Milo.
Milo puts his best efforts into keeping the engine from crashing or causing any severe destruction, though they do end up dragging an old trolley car that's been converted into a diner. Cavendish and Dakota board it and confront Milo, but since he is not a time-traveling agent he has no idea what they're talking about; he then acts to rescue several cats, one of whom bears more than a passing resemblance to Cavendish. The pair ends up being thrown off the engine after the trolley car becomes detached, and the engine finally comes to a stop in front of the firefighting museum tangled with a Tyrannosaurus Rex display from the Natural History Museum that arouses popular interest. Mr. Chase then admits that he and Milo have more in common than he had first thought, as Milo's efforts to contend with Murphy's Law are not unlike his own career as a firefighter.
Transcript[]
For a full transcript of "The Little Engine That Couldn't", click here.
Gallery[]
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Notes[]
International Airings[]
- July 21, 2017 (Southeast Asia)
- August 31, 2017 (Disney Channel Israel)
- January 20, 2018 (Hungary)[2]
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a pun on the old children's book The Little Engine That Could.
- This is the first episode that does not feature Zack at all, making Milo the only character to have appeared in every episode.
- Milo has an interest in antique fire engines ever since he learned that his grandfather was saved by one after somehow accidentally eating too many balloons.
- Elliot Decker's scream is heard in this episode and is credited, but he never actually appears.
- Some Phineas and Ferb extras can be seen when the firetruck crashes through the museum. Most notably the woman who shouts "My watermelon" in Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across The Second Dimension.
- The dinosaur is the same dinosaur that was frozen in the Phineas and Ferb episode "It's About Time!".
- The cat that resembles Cavendish got a big liking from fans, who dubbed him "Catvendish", "Balth Jr." and even "Balto"
Errors[]
- The stripes on the American Flag outside the fire department are arranged in reverse. (They're supposed to go red white red, not white red white.
- When Milo rings the bell just before asking to drive, his hand clips in front of the rope instead of around it after pulling it down.
- Right before the fire engine starts to knock down the strip mall signs, as it's turning the corner, Balthazar's body disappears.
- The three people standing in the breezeway between the Natural History Museum and the fire Engine Museum suddenly disappear.
- In the courtyard between the two museums, in the foreground, a man's yellow shirt and blue pants change to brown and tan.
- The four people in the foreground of the museum courtyard change dramatically in relative size to one another and to the grid etched in the concrete.
Allusions[]
- The American Fotoplayer - Milo calls someone on the phone, who is then shown playing a musical instrument, and is used as backgorund music during the firetruck scenes. The instrument seen can be a reference to the American Fotoplayer, which was an instrument played during silent movies around the 1910s and 1920s. Joe Rinaudo is a popular Fotoplayer player, and has been seen in Huell Howser's California's Gold.
- WWII Arial Combat - One of the falling cats is seen standing erect and saluting. There are several reports of downed pilots doing this after they bailed out of their plane, particularly in the earlier part of the war.
Characters[]
- Al Yankovic as Milo Murphy
- Sabrina Carpenter as Melissa Chase, Little Girl
- Adrian Pasdar as Mr. Chase
- Dan Povenmire as Vinnie Dakota, Newspaper Dad
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Balthazar Cavendish, Gus, Bystander 3, Bystander 5, Bystander 6
- Dee Bradley Baker as Diogee, Bystander 1, Bystander 2, Bystander 4, Bystander 7, Bystander 8, Bystander 9
- Christian Slater as Elliot Decker (heard)
References[]
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