“ | Without that signature page, you'll have a month of unexcused absences! | ” |
"The Note" is the sixth episode in the first season of Milo Murphy's Law. It first aired on October 17, 2016.[1]
Milo loses the signature page of his enormous doctor's note, which excuses all of his various absences from school. He, Melissa and Zack spend the entire morning chasing it down.
Plot[]
As Milo, Melissa, and Zack are on their way to school, Milo reveals that he is carrying a huge doctor's note that accounts for all his doctor-excused absences in the recent month. After a chance encounter with Elliot Decker, Milo accidentally loses the signature page with the doctor's single signature on it, without which all his absences will go unexcused and will force him to repeat the seventh grade. The trio set out to recover the signature page, unaware that they could easily obtain a new signature page from his doctor, who is currently playing golf at a nearby course with his friend. The trail leads them into a large office building, through a ticker-tape parade that's being monitored by a government agency, and finally into a large paper recycling plant.
After a long search that terminates in a near miss for Melissa, the trio recovers what they thought was Milo's note only to find that it's made out for one Lola Sunderguard. Lola herself then appears with her friends, with the group resembling Milo and his entourage down to a pet pig resembling Diogee. Milo's dog then proves to have found the cover page for the note, and the government agents temporarily disintegrate Elliot when he tries to impede the trio's progress once again. Meanwhile, Milo's doctor is shown to be conversing with a fellow golfer and admits to him - after denying it earlier - that he is a doctor.
Transcript[]
For a full transcript of "The Note", click here.
Song[]
Gallery[]
The image gallery for "The Note" may be viewed here. |
Notes[]
International Airings[]
- November 7, 2016 (Canada)
- January 16, 2017 (Spain)
- January 29, 2017 (Latin America)
- February 15, 2017 (Japan)[2]
- February 17, 2017 (Southeast Asia)
- April 19, 2017 (Portugal)
- May 20, 2017 (Hungary)[3]
- July 4, 2017 (Israel)
- February 25, 2019 (Ukraine)
Allusions[]
- Cast Away - Jim Hanks voices a character named Wilson. Ironically, Jim's older and more famous brother Tom's character made a friend out of a Wilson brand volleyball he named Wilson.
- Shaun of the Dead - The scene in which Milo and his friends meet Lola Sunderguard and her friends runs parallels with a scene from Shaun of the Dead where Shaun's group of survivors meet Yvonne and her group who, like Milo and Lola, we assume they've previous met without our knowledge.
Locations[]
- Danville
- Jefferson County Middle School
- Golf Course
- Business Building
- Ticker Tape Parade
- Recycling Plant
Trivia[]
- Milo's middle name is revealed to be "Danger" (pronounced "dahn-ziay", like the French word), his grandmother's maiden name
- It is revealed that Milo, Melissa, and Zack are in the seventh grade.
- This is the last episode Milo is 12 before turning 13 in the following episode.
- The episode states that a man named Frank Eugene Austin invented the ant farm, but the true inventor of the ant farm was Charles Janet.
- "Chop Away at my Heart" can be heard from Larry's headphones in Wilson's flashback.
- The writing on the doctor's note is "lorem ipsum", a common placeholder text used in graphic design work. That is derived from scrambled parts of De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil), a first-century BC Latin text created by the Roman philosopher Cicero.
- Milo and his friends must've gotten to school early otherwise, they’d all need excuse notes. (Milo for the obvious and Melissa and Zack for being late for school.)
Errors[]
- After the note detaches from the astronaut the hail of ticker tape, the astronaut's limo and all the onlookers are suddenly gone.
- In all three snapshots during the end credits both Milo's and Lola's notes are light pink instead of white - like pink slips.
Cast and Characters[]
- Al Yankovic as Milo Murphy, Brown Haired Office Worker (credited as additional voices)
- Sabrina Carpenter as Melissa Chase, Melissa Lookalike (credited as additional voices)
- Mekai Curtis as Zack Underwood
- Dee Bradley Baker as Diogee, Screaming Man (credited as additional voices), Pig (credited as additional voices)
- Christian Slater as Elliot Decker (First appearance)
- Jim Hanks as Wilson (First appearance)
- Wayne Brady as Eugene (First appearance)
- Jonathan Mangum as Fernando (First appearance)
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Wolinsky (First appearance)
- Dan Povenmire as Colonel Niblet (First appearance) (credited as additional voices), Stuffy Office Worker (credited as additional voices), Janitor (credited as additional voices)
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Lieutenant Tennant (First appearance) (credited as additional voices), Bodyguard (credited as additional voices), Zack Lookalike (credited as additional voices), Astronaut (credited as additional voices)
- Haley Tju as Lola Sunderguard (First appearance) (credited as additional voices)
- Sophie Winkleman as Grey Haired Female Office Worker (credited as additional voices)
- Sam Lavagnino as Strawberry Waffle Student (credited as additional voices)
- Larry (First appearance)
- Vinnie Dakota (Non-speaking cameo)
- Balthazar Cavendish (Non-speaking cameo)
References[]
Previous: "The Doctor Zone Files" |
Episodes | Next: "Party of Peril" |
Previous: "Rooting for the Enemy" (minor) |
Llama Incident Arc (minor episode) |
Next: "Murphy's Lard" (minor) |