History Film / HoneyIBlewUpTheKid

* CutTheLine: When Nick tries to call Mandy, he hears a click and line go dead. At first, he though Mandy hung up on him, but it turns out that Adam pulled out the phone cord.

'''Nick:''' ''That's what I mean.''

* ProperlyParanoid: After the first film, Wayne and Diane forbid their kids from telling anyone that they were accidentally shrunk, fearing they would be turned into lab rats if the authorities found out. Sure enough, when Adam's growth is exposed to the world, the first thing Wayne's boss wants to do is lock him up and study him.

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* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Giant Adam obeys Nick's calls to put his car down onto a motorized neon sign. After it nearly drops him to his death, he asks to be picked up.

''(GilliganCut back to the Szalinski house [[SomethingWeForgot where Mandy, the babysitter that Wayne had hired shows up]])''

* ChekhovsSkill: No matter what his parents try, Adam always finds a way to escape from his playpen. Not even Hendrikson could keep him contained in the back of truck for very long.

* CaliforniaDoubling: "Las Vegas" is clearly Reno, Nevada.

--.'''Wayne:''' Oh my God. Honey, I shrunk the kids!

* MomentKiller: Averted; when tiny Nick and Mandy are making out in a shrunken car, Nick sees his father's giant eyeball in the rearview mirror and shoos him away. Wayne tells Diane to give them a few minutes before re-enlarging them.

* AesopAmnesia: The events of the movie wouldn't have happened if Wayne had learned his lesson from the first film and kept his sons away from the growth ray Not to mention, the flaw in the machine is identical to the shrink ray's flaw in the first film (the laser beam is too powerful) yet no one in a lab full of scientists and engineers figures it out.

* AesopAmnesia: The events of the movie wouldn't have happened if Wayne had treated his growing machines as the incredibly dangerous pieces of technology they are. Not to mention, the flaw in the growth ray is identical to the shrink ray's flaw in the first film (the laser beam is too powerful) yet no one in a lab full of scientists and engineers figures it out.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: [[spoiler:Wayne accidentally shrinks Nick (again) and his girlfriend Mandy when he shrinks Diane and Adam back to normal size. But they don't mind getting some alone time]].

-->'''Wayne:''' I blew up the baby.

* IWantMyMommy: A particularly heart wrenching version after a Giant Adam is hurt by the static shock a tranquilizer dart that hit the Hard Rock Café guitar he was playing, the confused and frightened child begins to call out "Mama," through his tears, unaware that his mother now dwarfs him by a good fifty feet.

'''Diana''': What?\\

* EurekaMoment: The balloon hanging by Adam's crib gives Wayne the idea for why Sterling's version of his ray is blowing things up instead of... well, blowing things up.

* BerserkButton: Don't mention naps in front of little Adam.

* DemotedToExtra: Amy only appears briefly, and [[PutOnABus leaves for college]] before the end of the first act. Including the scene at all seemed to be mostly an excuse to get Diane out of the house again. To be fair, when the film was originally written as ''Big Baby'', the family it was supposed to center around did not have an eldest daughter, so the writers probably felt that trying to shoehorn Amy into the film would made it come off as disjointed and janky.

* OhCrap: This exchange happens right after Wayne and Clifford Sterling figure out that it's electromagnetic fluxes that are causing Adam's growth spurts:

-->'''Diane, Wayne and Clifford Sterling:''' (''in unison'') UH-OH.

--> '''Wayne''': '''[[SuddenlyShouting That's]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting my kid]]''''' '''[[SuddenlyShouting you're talking about!]]'''

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* CaliforniaDoubling: Las Vegas in the second movie [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial looks nothing like Reno at all]].

--> '''Diane:''' ([[TranquilFury Quietly and dangerously]]) "Doctor Hendrickson, that looked like some sort of '''rifle''' that you were shooting at my baby."
--> '''Dr. Hendrickson:''' "They were tranquilizer cartridges, they wouldn't have hurt him, I assure you."
--> '''Diane:''' (sarcastic laughing) "Tranquilizer cartridges..." ([[MegatonPunch KNOCKS OUT Hendrickson]])
--> '''Wayne:''' (to Adam) [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "Never cross mommy."]]

* MoodWhiplash: The crowds of Vegas are running for their lives as giant Adam playfully makes his "rampage." Then the military decides to shoot tranquilizer darts, shocking the Hard Rock Café guitar Adam had been trying to play, causing Adam to cry. The panicked crowd watch no longer in horror of Adam, but in concern and compassion, seeing him for what he is, an innocent little boy in a beyond belief situation, then turning to anger as they prepare to shoot him again.

* {{Retcon}}: Making objects big is apparently a stumbling block, even though not only did the shrink ray work in reverse just fine before in the first film, it even succeeded in making normal objects giant-sized in the epilogue. When Wayne steals his original shrink ray to make Diane giant, he still has to filter the laser through a Coke bottle.

* TimTaylorTechnology: Inverted in a similar case to the first film. Sterling's ray exposes the subject to too much energy too quickly, which Wayne solves by filtering it through a Coke bottle.

-->'''Wayne (in the first movie):''' I blew up the baby.

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