Why the pencil?


At the end of the film, the kid frantically tries to balance a pencil on the outside of his bedroom door. What was the point of that?

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So the mom thinks he never left his room after he was put to bed, therefore having nothing to do with the events that took place.

There's a whole scene near the beginning where the mom explains the pencil to the babysitter.

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I must have missed that, thank you!

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