re: Let's Overanalyze "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2"

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That always bothered me. Were the pizzas 12 and change or was that the delivery fee? Were there taxes? If so that is pretty low.

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$12 for a one topping pizza is pretty standard these days, and its a 25 year old movie so inflation has played a role.

Also the driver thanked Kate for a good tip so he had no complaints.

Kevin only tipped the driver 12 cents. I think Kevin had no choice but to do the whole Angels with Filth Souls joke on the driver, so the driver didn't get mad for getting a 12 cent tip.

I dunno, I watched it the other day and, now that I am in my 30s and always tipping people for this or that, it does seem to me like he did the Angels With Filthy Souls bit to cover up for a lousy tip. When I was a kid that went completely over my head. Home Alone is so deep.

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the tar on the basement steps (Kevin isn't cleaning that up in one night)

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Unless they were screwed to the risers instead of nailed (an 8 year old isn't prying them loose if they're nailed), and he unscrewed them and then flipped them over and put the screws back in, there's no way they weren't still covered with tar. Have you ever messed with tar? Like fixing a roof or whatnot? It's terrible. Never comes off, doesn't wash out (that's the point of it). There's no "cleaning" those stairs.

IIRC, we figured out the pizza thing at some point in the thread. I believe the place they bought them from was like a pretty rural pizza joint, without much competition, to where they could overcharge for pies and it was within reason.

I don't remember the specifics, but it's in here somewhere I believe.

This thread.

This year for the thread, we really need to do a live watch together. Only thing I'm seeing for now is a 1:30 showing on Wednesday on HBO, which we clearly won't be able to do, but surely there will be a better one closer to the holidays.

I read the 1st 7 pages then skipped to the last. U Verse is showing it on HBO Friday 12/11 at 10am, 1pm, 6pm, and 9pm. There are more showings on Wednesday 12/16.

It's also available on demand.

I have 1 and 2 on Blu ray... will watch soon

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As high as $18, in an actual pizza place, yes. But $21 for a delivery pizza in the 'burbs? GTFO.

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A lot of actual (non-Dominos/PJ's) pizza places do deliver. I'm guessing Little Nero's was one.

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A lot of actual (non-Dominos/PJ's) pizza places do deliver. I'm guessing Little Nero's was one.

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Yeah, duh. And they're knock-off hole in the wall ma-and-pa type places that are typically cheaper than Dominos/Papa John's.

The type of places that would charge the equivalent of $21 for a single pizza are trendy, urban spots that are selling you on the ambiance of their fancy restaurant and/or rare ingredients and "gourmet" standards. You pay that much because it's supposedly "the best pizza ever omg". Those places don't deliver.

The McAlisters lived in the 'burbs. The delivery driver was a kid in a beat up Geo Metro or something along those lines. The pizza was in an average cardboard box. The place has a stereotypical off-brand pizza place name: "Little Neros". It's like a little family joint around the corner. The price is absurd and points to a rich screenwriter out of touch with average people's reality who just pulled a number out of his rear end.