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

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So let’s crackpot on what Harry’s family life is like and what drove him to desperate measures going into the Saw house in order to feed his wife and kids, because he doesn’t have it in the sequel as far as I remember.

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He probably stole it from the Murphy home

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What happened here?

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What happened here?

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I criticized a thread on the PoliBoard.

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.how does a house of 20 people all oversleep? Alarm clocks or not?

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That's a really good point. Didn't they need to be out the door by 8? There were at least 2 kids under the age of 10. There's no way they slept past 8. Also, you know Uncle Frank is probably one of those guys that wakes up at 5:30 to drink coffee and start his day of bitching.

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Also, as unbelievable as it is that everyone overslept, it was a different time then when there were only maybe a few alarm clocks in the house. It's not like now where everyone has one in their pockets on their phones. So it is at least SORT OF understandable in a way.

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But twice (see HA2)?

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They all mooched so hard off the McCalisters that they even relied on them to wake everyone else up.

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That makes me think about the rich brother in France that paid for the whole damn trip. I'd probably not speak to the family for a while after wasting thousands of dollars to pay for a trip that they ruined due to their laziness and ineptitude.

I could understand Uncle Frank not waking up. He’s a stiff old fart that normally doesn’t sleep past sunrise on weekends, but he got into some decent wine (by his measure) and overindulged cause he wasn’t footing the $11/bottle bill. Probably got him some strange bed/away game puss that night too. Woke up about 430, naked and crusty with a headache, threw on some clothes, pissed, got a glass of water, and passed back out.

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I thought Peter McCalister was the rich brother who paid for everyone to go to Paris.

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No, one of the characters mentioned at one point that the brother in Paris bought them the trip.

Peter paid for the trip to Florida.

I've always hated how the family was still shitty to Kevin at the beginning of HA2.

He has the ultimate trump card. "Uh, you all left me at fricking home by myself last year and went to a foreign country while I saved our house from violent burglars."

couple of things and they've probably been discussed at this point....

1. What do you think the fight between old man marley and his son was?
2. Harry went full on WWF ref when Marv catches Kevin at the stairs and puts the tarantula on him. Dude has survived some horrible shite up to this point, but tripping over that wire rendered him unconscious for a few minutes?