Llama Incident

It started out simple enough.

The **Llama Incident** is an adventure that Milo and Melissa experienced before meeting Zack. It is referred to in "The Undergrounders", "Rooting for the Enemy", "The Note", "Murphy's Lard", "We're Going to the Zoo", "Battle of the Bands" and is the subject of the episode "The Llama Incident". Part of it briefly appears in "Missing Milo".

## Background

In the year 2000 Edwin Garner, a man from Boston, inherited the herd of llamas from his uncle's llama farm. He then bought a 99-seat theater called Equity Waiver and produced plays with the llamas as the cast of actors. Fifteen years later, he had a whole line of theaters with his llamas as the actors.

## Synopsis

While Milo and Melissa were watching a production of *Llamalet*, the llama playing Laertes wandered of-stage and pulled a rope with his mouth allowing the sandbag counterweights to fall and startle the llamas on stage. In the resulting llama stampede, Milo's backpack gets caught around the neck of a llama. The two chase the llamas out of the theater and into the street.

The stampede runs through a series of locations as follows: A production of *Swan Llama* where more llamas to join the stampede; A 2016 graduation ceremony, where one llama ate a girl's diploma; and a salon where they all got their fur styled and hooves painted.

They finally end up on a cargo ship. Milo and Melissa nearly miss the boat but manage to board via the ship's anchor chain. The chase continues on the boat until it arrives at a conveniently elevated iceberg that allows the llamas to debark. Milo finds his backpack at the feet of a polar bear and gets out a tee-shirt cannon filled with knock-out gas projectiles to render the polar bear unconscious. Using the bear like a puppet, they frighten the llamas the other way. Then they used a llama-pulled dog sled, an airplane, and public buses to get back to Danville.

When they get back to town, Milo decides to get the llamas to their respective theaters by luring them with a serving-sized bag of pistachios from his backpack. Then a woodpecker makes a Lard World sign fall onto Cavendish and Dakota's barrel of pistachio gelatin, with the contents of the barrel falling on Melissa, resulting in the llamas chasing her.

She ran right into a Geckos vs. Tigers football game with the llamas hot on her tail. Milo runs in paying admission for the two. The llamas chase Melissa around the stadium for hours. After a member of the Geckos' band obtains a giant spool of wire (which was supposed to be a drum for Mabel), one of the llamas rolls it down the stairs, off the bleachers, across the field, up the stairs on the other and over the back of those bleachers and into a truck parked below. The truck pulls away with the spool pulling the trailing wire straight and high above the field.

Milo took two seatbelts out of his backpack, using one to strap himself to a llama while riding it to get high enough to tie the other to the wire. Melissa grabbed the suspended belt and the wire swung her up causing the gelatin to remain on the field and her to land standing on the wire like a tightrope. The llamas stopped and began to eat the gelatin. Milo then told Diogee (in Spanish) to lead the llamas under Melissa so that she could jump onto them and land softly. When she did, she commented how soft they were.

## Post-Llama incident

Milo and Melissa mention it to Zack in multiple episodes.

In the episode of the same name, Milo and Melissa tell Zack the story while they are hanging from a tree branch on a cliff near the end of the woodpecker incident.

While trying to lose the Pistachions, Milo tells Cavendish and Dakota to go the day of the incident across the stampede's trail to the football stadium.

## Appearances

* "The Undergrounders" (mentioned only)
* "Rooting for the Enemy" (mentioned indirectly)
* "The Note" (mentioned only)
* "Murphy's Lard" (mentioned indirectly)
* "We're Going to the Zoo" (mentioned only)
* "The Llama Incident" (First appearance)
* "Missing Milo"

## Trivia

* The llama incident has been referred to 13 times before the episode.
* In the montage of llama incident references, 2 scenes were reminiscent of past scenes (the fish hatchery in Worked Day and the drop zone in Sunny Side Up) but the llama incident wasn’t actually mentioned in these episodes.