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* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Kevin's mom wears one in each of the first two films.
** [[Not
* [[Big Applesauce]]: The second film.
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Harry and Marv.
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**** "You got hit with a book?"
* [[Booby Trap]]: One of the big draws of the movie is watching Kevin (or Alex) set up some fiendishly ingenious traps for the bad guys. A lot of these traps would likely kill if these were anything other than comedy movies.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: One of Kevin'd methods of dispatching the Wet Bandits involved him shooting Marv in the forehead with a B.B. gun when he poked his head through the doggie door. Surprisingly, the best it did was leave a stinging sensation on his forehead rather than killing him.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: Channels like ABC Family and CN seem to love editing out certain parts of the final act of the second film like Kevin hitting Marv three times with bricks for example which was scaled back to one brick being used instead.
** Not to mention the aforementioned [[Angrish]] Harry mutters whenever Kevin injures him.
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* [[Informed Attribute]]: Fuller is apparently a bedwetter.
* [[Informed Judaism]]: "Happy Hannukah, Marv."<ref>Note, Marv said this to himself.</ref>
** Marv also makes a reference to the [
* [[Insult Backfire]]: In the second movie.
{{quote| '''Kate:''' What kind of idiots do you have working here?<br />
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** [[Joe Pesci]] as well.
** The hotel concierge in the second movie - no surprise, since he is played by [[Tim Curry]].
* [[Last
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Harry and Marv.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Kevin is usually accompanied by an instrumental version of "Someone in My Memory". Harry and Marv have their respective leitmotif too which we could call him "Harry and Marv Theme".
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** Kevin and his family do not understand how to tip people.
*** Actually, in one scene where the bellboy reveals he still has "some tip left over" (a stick of gum), Kevin flashes a wad of cash and grins, implying that he probably does know how to tip and is just screwing with the bellboy.
* [[Same Story, Different Names]]: The original was so popular that beyond the sequels, John Hughes wrote other family comedies for various studios - ''[[Beethoven (Film)|Beethoven]]'' (1992, though under a pseudonym), ''[[Dennis the Menace US (Comic Strip)|Dennis the Menace US]]'' (1993), ''Baby's Day Out'' (1994), the live-action ''[[
* [[Sanctuary of Solitude]]: Kevin is lonely on Christmas night for the first one, so he goes to the church to hear the choir sing.
* [[The Scream]]: Parodied once per movie.
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* [[The Scrooge]]: Kevin's Uncle Frank.
{{quote| '''Kevin:''' Oh, wouldn't want to spoil your fun, Mr. Cheapskate!}}
* [[Shout
** In the second film, the hotel concierge breaks into a [[Slasher Smile]] that matches [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animation)|the Grinch's]]. Kevin also watches that movie in both films.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: "Angels with Filthy Souls" (made specifically for the movie). It's actually a parody of a real '30s gangster flick, ''Angels with Dirty Faces''. At least the title is. The fake movie scenes don't parody any scene from ''[[Angels With Dirty Faces]]''.
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** ''Every'' crook in a ''Home Alone'' film counts, really.
* [[Sure Let's Go With That]]: An interesting variation in the first movie, where Kevin tells a man dressed in a Santa suit "I'm old enough to know you're not the real Santa Claus, but I also know that you work for him." The Santa actor just goes with it.
* [[Take That]]: [[Kevin Smith]], who loves [[Shout
** Which has become a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] with Hughes' early death.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: This movie would last 15-20 minutes if filmed today; ''cell phones''. Both the DVD commentary and [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1832002 CollegeHumor] pointed this out. Instead, the setup would have to involve [[Can You Hear Me Now]].
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