Trucker Ted: "...and then my truck starts sliding on the spilt molasses, next thing you know I look down the street and I see HIS elephant truck coming right at me, and we collided. What are the odds of two trucks carrying circus elephants crashing into each other?"
Policeman: "Yeah, what are the odds? I smell a Murphy...."
Policeman: *points at Martin hiding behind a newspaper* "MURPHY!"
Martin, sobbing: "I just wanted a latte, I'm sorry!"
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I have been thinking about this scene for AGES it's so fucking funny to me
"Interrupting Dwampyverse guys while they read a book on the couch"
So I did these sketches a while ago, I actually started it before Hamster and Gretel started airing, so I waited a little while till HnG aired so I could add some characters from it.
I drew all this for practice...
this is going to have a lot of tags lol
The little bit of Martin & Sara we get in Safety First is criminally underrated. Out of Milo's immediate family I think those two are the ones who we see paired up least often (in fact aside from Sara mentioning her dad getting her into Dr. Zone I don't think we see anything else of their individual dynamic). I mean it kind of makes sense. Milo's our main protagonists so we see him with everyone. Martin and Brigette are married so even if we don't see them often we kind of get a handle on their dynamic. Sara and Brigette are the Murphy's Lawless Murphy's so understand loving the boys but also appreciating their absence together makes them a natural recurring duo.
But like. It's peak Murphy.
Sara initially looking unimpressed while everyone else is impressed, but smiling when she notices things happening. While Martin just blinks continuing to look bored.
But then when everyone else is running and screaming and Martin and Sara are not even bothering to get up and run away. Like they know what life threatening looks like and this isn't it to them. Sara just turning towards her dad. Martin just exasperatedly looking away
Father and daughter right here. They're even sitting the same way.
Like, Milo's sheer frustration and annoyance with Elliot's story is great too, of course. But I literally love every little bit of younger kids (especially the Murphy's) we get.
Also the sort of parallels of Martin being related to his initial trauma, turning into Milo being the cause of him unpacking it. Martin being related to his initial trauma and Elliot taking it out on Milo. Also the contrast between how chill Sara and Martin were about the initial incident that Elliot technically caused. And how unchill Elliot is about the incident that Milo (sorta kinda) caused.
Side note: Elliot is older than Sara. He really looked young for his age or Sara looked old for it. (Though I think we all know at this point a precise timeline for the Dwampyverse is literally impossible with how self-contradictory it is).
Also: I wonder what Milo and Brigette were doing? Mother-son time with baby Milo while Martin takes Sara out for some quality time?
AND isn't that the french woman from Summer Belongs to you recolored?