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Vinnie Dakota is a recurring character in Milo Murphy's Law.

Vinnie is from the 1970s and, along with partner Balthazar Cavendish, is one-half of a pair of time-traveling agents who are given seemingly inconsequential missions involving the protection of pistachio nuts — apparently so that their boss in 2175 can have them. He and Cavendish served as the inspiration for the Dr. Zone television phenomenon.

History

Aside from the opening credits, he first appears in The Doctor Zone Files giving pistachios to Milo and Sara at the Doctor Zone Files movie premiere. He is also aware of his surroundings, as when Balthazar told him not to talk to the customers, only for Vinnie to remind that he was just talking to Balthazar instead of the customers; he even pointed out that he had nothing to do with their pistachio stand blowing sky high after Balthazar accuses him of sabotaging it, as Balthazar accidentally spilled some ingredients that jammed the broiler in the first place. They disappeared after the stand blew up.

He and Cavendish made a cameo in The Note and Party of Peril.

In Smooth Opera-tor, the duo made an attempt to protect the pistachios at the Opera house by tying up the guy who usually works the concessions stand and leaving him under the stage. He compared the ascot Cavendish was wearing to a lobster bib before Milo came to buy some pistachios. Then they tried to convince him to get a gummy bear instead but he wasn't interested. They were forced to comply but struggled to even dispense them. Vinnie managed to release it by accident with his foot and because of Murphy's Law, the other dispensers flooded the floor with pistachios ruining their mission.

In Worked Day, Dakota was shown being fascinated by a lava lamp in the window of a pawn shop. Throughout the episode, he constantly tries to get Cavendish to agree on where to go for lunch while trying to complete their mission of transporting a pistachio truck to its designated warehouse. Upon seeing Cavendish drive them to a steak sandwich restaurant, he pointed out they were on the wrong B Street. While passing the hospital, their truck was pulled in due to the magnetic pull which stopped the device causing it. Dakota then decided on having hospital food, annoying Cavendish.

The duo were briefly seen in The Wilder West, manning a pistachio cart in front of the outlet mall.

Dakota and Cavendish have a brief appearance in Family Vacation when Milo and the Brulee Family crashes into the building they are currently in. Cavendish blames the accident on Dakota, chalking it up to "that attitude".

In Murphy's Lard, the duo is seen zapping into existence right by a pistachio stand in Lard World and pretending to be pistachio stand inspectors sent from "corporate". They went on to question the teenager working at the pistachio stand, called Henry, about the stands capabilities to withstand a flaming pig attack. Cavendish spends the episode setting up a globe shaped defense mechanism around the stand while Dakota eats pistachios and practices different instruments, such as a harmonica, a theremid, and a clarinet. When they manage to successfully stop a flaming pig-shaped ride cart from crashing into the stand, Cavendish begins take down the safety precautions around the pistachios. Just as the duo is about to leave the flaming pig shaped cart is again flung towards the pistachio stand, this time crashing into it and destroying the pistachios within it; at Cavendish's request that Dakota "play him out" he takes up his clarinet and accompanies Henry on a banjo, playing while Cavendish walks away.

The duo is seen shortly in Secrets and Pies trying to stop pistachios from leaking out from a silo. When Veronica drives past them with Milo's pizza, the silo begins to leak even more and eventually bursts, causing a pistachio tsunami.

In The Substitute the pair are transporting a futuristic fertilizer to a pistachio sapling by Milo's school only for their Quantum Localizer to land them in a science class closet before running out of power. The fertilizer ends up mixing with another chemical to become a sentient blob, which grabs the pair and throws them out into the hallway.

In Time Out Dakota and Balthazar end up bothering Brick and Savannah, fellow time travel agents, where it is mentioned he and Balthazar are both dressed in clothes "From the '70s" — 1870s and 1970s, respectively. Dakota also claims that he joined the time travel agency to prevent the "Mississippi Purchase"; when Balthazar questions whether he means the Louisiana Purchase, Dakota responds "You're welcome!"

Dakota appears again in The Little Engine That Couldn't, where he and Balthazar are assigned to transport two boxes of pistachios using their new vehicle, a tandem bike. Balthazar looks on this as yet another case of being demeaned by his superiors, but is distracted when the bike and pistachios are crushed by a runaway antique fire engine carrying Milo Murphy. Determined to find out who Milo is working for — since he is unaware that Milo isn't working for anyone — he drags Dakota in pursuit of Milo. They briefly interact with Milo and witness him saving a number of cats sent flying by the engine, and Dakota catches one that resembles Balthazar. The cat also demonstrates the tendency to mock him, both before and after the pair are thrown from the engine into a nearby pond.

In Missing Milo, Milo gets swept up on their latest pistachio mission and helps to save the future. Specifically their headquarters' home time period of 2175. Also, Vinnie is the one who unleashed all the clocks seen in the Time Stream, foreshadowed early in the episode by discussion of not knowing why here were there but it was thought someone did it as a joke. Which he gleefully later proclaimed, "I was the joker." The three met up with Milo's sister and friends and they defeated the Pistachions.

In Star Struck, Tobias Trollhammer sees him and Balthazar on a runaway pistachio cart and thinks he is seeing a two-headed monster.

In Perchance to Sleepwalk, he and Cavendish realize that they are the only time travelers aware of the Pistachion timeline and decide that they must not save pistachios from extinction if they are to prevent it from occurring again. To that end, Dakota suggests a "ditch day" in which they ignore their assigned mission to protect wild pistachio plants from red-beaked crows. However, they end up inadvertently luring the crows from their flight to the pistachios when they stop for dinner, and in using food to lure them to the pistachio plants leave them too stuffed to destroy the nuts, forcing Dakota and Cavendish to do so themselves.

In Backward to School Night, he accidentally turns himself into a toddler with a futuristic device he stole from Brick and Savannah. The device also ends up turning Martin Murphy, Mr. Chase, Eileen Underwood, and Ms. Murawski into toddlers, but they are all eventually returned to normal after Cavendish repairs the device.

In World Without Milo, he and Cavendish introduce themselves to Elliot Decker and admit that the alternate timeline in which Milo doesn't exist is a result of them traveling back in time. He's also ignorant as to how it is that talking squirrels exist in this reality, and vaguely supposes that Elliot's lead-lined stop sign might have enabled him to retain his memories of the original time stream. Later, when Elliot awakens in another alternate reality that has multiple Milos, Dakota appears with Cavendish to assure him that they'll fix it.

In The Race, he and Cavendish are seen in their car from Backward To School Night as Milo runs past during the titular race. Due to Murphy's law, the time-traveling duo are sent back in time to the era of Sheriff Murphy-the 1870's. As they soon discover, the entire town is completely populated by stranded time-travellers who just stopped trying to return to their own time (and Sheriff Murphy). While he and Cavendish can agree, yes, saying 'reckon' is far too much fun, they refuse to give up and doom the future to a pistachio-themed demise. Dakota realizes they can jury-rig a way to start their own time machine using parts from those from the stranded time-travelers, then that they can just start their own by picking up enough speed. They finally manage to start the engine as they plummet off a cliff, and they arrive back in the modern day. They appear in mid-air, without steering, so they crash into the finish line for the footrace before Milo can cross it, dragging it behind them as they careen wildly out of view and the episode.

In The Island of Lost Dakotas, it is revealed that Cavendish has perished on multiple occasions, forcing Dakota to travel back in time to prevent his death. As a result of this, dozens of alternate timeline Dakotas have been created who are forced to live on an island to avoid interfering with history and keep Cavendish oblivious to their sacrifice.

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Personality

Dakota is much more laid back than his partner, often enjoying simple pleasures while on missions or seeming to care more about incidental matters than their missions. He enjoys snacking and seems to be the opposite of Balthazar in many respects, often thinking that his partner is jumping to conclusions or taking things too seriously.

Despite being a time traveler, Dakota gets excited about things like seeing live animals at the zoo, and is willing to engage in off-the-wall behavior such as filling his pants with pistachios.

Also despite his goofy nature, he knows when to be serious. Such as when Milo accidently came with him and Balthazar to 2175, he was very protective of Milo's well-being.

Physical Appearance

Vinnie has short curly brown hair and tinted glasses with an olive complexion. He wears golden glasses with tinted lenses. He wears a red and yellow track suit with red and white sneakers. His jacket is zipped up half way revealing a white t-shirt and a gold chain necklace.

Relationships

Balthazar Cavendish

Vinnie and his partner are polar opposites of each other. Their clashing personalities sometimes get in the way of missions. However, he shows to care more than anything about Balthazar's well-being, having to stop him from dying multiple times, and sending his past selves to an island, all agreed in keeping a secret from him.

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Episodes

Memorable Quotes

A soccer mom, a slight wind, a potted plant maybe.
And wouldn't throw one away? Oh quick, take cover.
We're going to the zoo, we're going to the zoo, we're going to the zoo and then we're going to see some animals.
You told me not to tell you.

Trivia

He is voiced by Dan Povenmire, one of the show's creators.^[1]
Vinnie is short for Vincent.
His mother's maiden name is Drowssap.
Vinnie can play the harmonica, the clarinet and the theremin.
He is scarcely referred to by his first name.
The fandom embraced the possibility of him being heterochromic, that being the reason he wears the golden glasses.

References

↑ http://www.tvinsider.com/article/70623/new-animated-comedy-from-phineas-and-ferb-duo-to-star-weird-al-yankovic/

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 In ''[[The Race]]'', he and Cavendish are seen in their car from Backward To School Night as Milo runs past during the titular race. Due to Murphy's law, the time-traveling duo are sent back in time to the era of Sheriff Murphy-the 1870's. As they soon discover, the entire town is completely populated by stranded time-travellers who just stopped trying to return to their own time (and Sheriff Murphy). While he and Cavendish can agree, yes, saying 'reckon' is far too much fun, they refuse to give up and doom the future to a pistachio-themed demise. Dakota realizes they can jury-rig a way to start their own time machine using parts from those from the stranded time-travelers, then that they can just start their own by picking up enough speed. They finally manage to start the engine as they plummet off a cliff, and they arrive back in the modern day. They appear in mid-air, without steering, so they crash into the finish line for the footrace before Milo can cross it, dragging it behind them as they careen wildly out of view and the episode.
-In ''[[The Island of Lost Dakotas]]'', he saves Cavendish's life, again, and and has his past self go to the island populated by dozens of himself.
+In ''[[The Island of Lost Dakotas]]'', it is revealed that Cavendish has perished on multiple occasions, forcing Dakota to travel back in time to prevent his death. As a result of this, dozens of alternate timeline Dakotas have been created who are forced to live on an island to avoid interfering with history and keep Cavendish oblivious to their sacrifice.
 In ''[[Fungus Among Us]]'',