While attending Lard World, which is an amusement park that is lard-based, Melissa revealed her fear of roller coasters and both Milo and Zack decide to help their friend to overcome her fears. “Murphy’s Lard” premiered on this day, 7 Years Ago.
Six students from Jefferson County Middleschool board the Greased Thunder rollercoaster at Lard World theme park. Their cart derails, killing all six of them. 20 years later, the souls of Amanda Lopez, Bradley Nicholson, Melissa Chase, Milo Murphy and Lydia appear in an abandoned warehouse in Lard World- alongside John Doe, who also died in the accident but lost his head and was never identified. Dakota, a mechanical fortune teller, can bring one child back to life- and the children must decide who it will be.
Ocean -> Amanda Lopez: The Most Successful Girl in Town
Mischa -> Bradley Nicholson: The Grumpiest Boy in Town
Ricky -> Milo Murphy: The Unluckiest Boy in Town
Noel -> Melissa Chase: The Most Ambitious Girl in Town
Constance -> Lydia: The Nicest Girl in Town
Jane Doe -> John Doe (Zack Underwood): The Most Forgettable Boy in Town
funny how I got bored and started looking thru Milo Murphy's law bc I'm working on a silly little crossover at the same time you start rambling on about it ....Annabeth Chase is Melissa's 2nd cousin bc why not LIKE HOW MANY CHASES DO WE KNOW IN MEDIA???? CMON IT MAKES SENSE
im literally SO IN LOVE with milo murphy's law you don't even understand . i'm rewatching it with my friend, who's making his friend watch it for the first time . and like . oh m y god. you forget how perfect of a show it is . Murphy's Lard was so good. even if the lard grossed me the hell out
I dont know what fandom Annabeth Chase is from but Chase is a sick last name . and Melissa seems like the type to have a shit ton of cousins that wreak havoc
For a long time that's what I thought the episode was called. I had watched some Phineas Flynn's Law videos before I really knew what Milo Murphy's Law even was, and that's how I thought he was pronouncing it.
I shouldn't need to state why this episode is so good -- you all know that already. I will, however, explain why this episode DOESN'T sit in the top two. I will preface this by saying that I was splitting hairs at the top of the list, because I needed to rank the top five somehow.
The first reason, and this is the reason I give every time, is because I rank episodes based on personal preference, not on how "big" or how "plot relevant" they may be. And while yes, big plot relevant episodes do get a longer time slot and therefore have more fleshed out stories, they are not always my favorite. But that said, the "big" episodes usually DO rank fairly high on my list.
The second reason is that this episode kind of felt disconnected from most of the show, except for Missing Milo and The Phineas and Ferb Effect. Missing Milo at least felt like a natural progression of the Milo - Cavendish - Dakota arc, whereas this one felt like they were writing a "Part 3 of 5" episode. (I say part 3 of 5 because each of the other two were full hours while this one was only a half hour.)
Not to say that this was a bad episode; far from it! I loved that they brought back the Lumbermax, Lard World, the Pistachions, Dr. Zone, Cavendish and Dakota, Joni, and even Zack and Melissa's gambling habit, while also setting up other storylines like the whole PnF arc (Speaking of which, I would argue that you could remove Phineas and Ferb from the equation entirely and not lose much, or even make the show better. I'll go into detail on that later.) and even Zack's feet dexterity.
Fungus Among Us DID have that special brand of Milo Murphy's Law charm. It wasn't present throughout; I will admit that parts of the episode just felt forced. By comparison, The PnF Effect felt forced throughout, and Missing Milo felt genuine throughout.
As season finales go, this was better than Star vs or Total Drama, but not on par with Amphibia or Gravity Falls. (But to be fair, that's not saying much.)
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden, Kenneth Branagh, James D'Arcy, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Jochum ten Haaf. Screenplay: Christopher Nolan. Cinematography: Hoyte Van Hoytema. Production design: Nathan Crowley. Film editing: Lee Smith. Music: Hans Zimmer.
If a movie's story and performances are secondary to its spectacle, is it really a good movie? I'm sure Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk was something to see in an IMAX theater, but truth to tell, I'm just as happy to have watched it in HD on my 32-inch Samsung. I don't mind losing the giddy spectacle of riding the waves or flying in pursuit of German fighter planes, so long as there's real artistry in the storytelling, the acting, and the production. I've liked Nolan's work with some reservations since I first encountered it in Memento (2000). I admired his ability to revivify the Batman story, but found the films in his trilogy a little wearying. I was kind of bowled over by the audacity of the concepts and their execution in Inception (2010), but Interstellar (2014) made me fear the worst: that he was so infatuated with cutting-edge film technology and with far-out science fiction speculations that he might never come back down to Earth.* So Dunkirk was a relief to me: This is traditional war-movie filmmaking with a splendid contemporary spin, mostly in the way the story is told through cuts back and forth in time. This so-called "non-linear" narrative technique bothered some traditionalists, but I found it both illuminated the characters and suggested some of the tension and chaos of the actual Dunkirk evacuation. Best of all, Nolan forgoes CGI for the most part, using actual ships and planes or convincing models of them, giving the action a much-needed solidity. He also doesn't yield to the temptation to lard his film with star cameos, letting mostly unknown young actors carry the burden of the story. The stars who do appear -- Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy -- behave themselves, blending into the cast nicely. Hardy, for example, is capable of scene-stealing physicality, but he spends most of the film acting with only his eyes, the rest of his face covered by his pilot's breathing apparatus. (When he was liberated from that restriction at the end, I almost feared for the Germans who captured him.) Every genre movie has its clichés, of course, but a good writer and director -- Nolan is both -- knows how to work them, how to avoid stumbling over them and instead give them just enough weight to satisfy our expectations, as he does in the scene in which the returning soldiers, fearful that they'll be cursed and spat upon for losing the battle, are greeted at the train station with people cheering and handing them bottles of beer. He also handles the celebrated speech by Winston Churchill with finesse, never introducing Churchill as an on-screen character and having the speech itself read by the rescued men, as it should be. It's as stirring a moment as one could wish.
*Unfortunately, Tenet (2020) raised those fears again.
While attending Lard World, which is an amusement park that is lard-based, Melissa revealed her fear of roller coasters and both Milo and Zack decide to help their friend to overcome her fears. “Murphy’s Lard” premiered on this day, 6 Years Ago.