Yeah I did notice all the Home Alone resemblances and you also have to remember that Bink DELIBERATELY set Eddie's groin on fire so it doesn't matter if everything else was accidental, he's every bit as wicked and depraved as Kevin McCallister and the animals in 101 Dalmations.
There's also a lot of resemblance to Home Alone in "Dennis the Menace" with all the tricks Dennis plays on Mr. Wilson and, at the end of the movie, on Switchblade Sam:
*Shooting an aspirin down his throat
*Making him eat paint
*Shooting a golf ball at his butt with a vacuum cleaner
*Rigging the doorbell with a thumbtack and dumping water and flour on him
*Knocking out his two front dentures and replacing them with gum drops on the day his picture is taken
*Spilling bathwater on the floor so that he slips and falls
*Putting mouth wash in his nasal spray and toilet cleanser in his mouth wash
*Dumping moth balls on the floor so he slips and falls and letting a a boat fall and land stem-first on his groin and pour a bunch of garden lanterns on him
*Setting his forehead on fire with a flaming marshmellow
As for Switchblade Sam:
*He shoots a marble onto his forehead
*Sets his pants on fire with a flaming marshmellow
*Knocks him out with a plank of wood
*Just as he comes to, he knocks him out again with a cigarette lighter
*Accidentally sets him on fire by dragging the blanket over the campfire
*When he sets up a rope pulley thingamajig to rescue Sam from the water he jumped into to quench the flames, the train comes and pulls him up to the roof of the underpass and squeezes him until the rope snaps and causes him to fall back into the water and the knife he inadvertently imbedded into the underpass roof slips out and falls into his buttcrack.
And at the end he also press a button on a printing machine that pulls this woman by her tie facefirst onto the machine and prints out images of her ugly face.
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pops_mcfly
16 years ago
It also helps that the type of humor you are talking about is not actually limited to Home Alone and in fact actors have been doing it since before films were invented. It's called slapstick--a humor which consist almost entirely of physical humor.....although idiots like Roger Ebert and his fellow movie critics trashed the Home Alone movies (as well as Baby's Day Out)yet purposely went out of their way and refuse to acknowledge the fact that this "violent" type of humor has been around since before movies began....they just don't want people to know this because those movies were ones they enjoyed and they cannot afford to have people realize that the same type of movies that they trash for being "too violent" are films that they also support and rave about simply because those ones they enjoy(and are about four million times more violent in fact)and are mostly ones they saw when they were kids....
And they cannot have people questioning as to why they trash movies without any good reasons.
Slobberknocker!
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