History Film / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

* Nick Szalinski: [[TheSmartGuy The Other Smart Guy]]. Like father, like son. Allergic to nearly everything. Though as he ages into teendom he does pick up a hobby for music as well as science and as well as being more sarcastic and being a tiny bit more socially aware than his father.

* Nick Szalinski: [[TheSmartGuy The Other Smart Guy]]. Like father, like son. Allergic to nearly everything.

* LiterallyFallingThroughTheCracks: Downplayed; among the ''many'' challenges faced by Russ, Ron, Amy, and Nick after they shrink is the fact that the cracks between the attic floorboards are now so big to them that they have to leap over them (though they avoid actually falling in). In Lindsay Gutteridge's novel Cold War in a Country Garden, quarter inch tall Matthew slides off a blanket to the floor and falls in the dusty groove between two floorboards; his body probably only about one sixteenth of an inch wide.

* YourSizeMayVary: Nick mentions they're a quarter of an inch tall, but the bulk of the film treats them like they're less than half that size and barely visible to the naked eye. The film sticks to that scale pretty consistently, though, so maybe Nick's calculations were just off. If they are one quarter of an inch, Nick's a bit smaller, maybe one fifth of an inch (0.20"). The Matthew Dilke novels by Lindsay Gutteridge (including Cold War in a Country Garden have Dilke a quarter of an inch tall, or one 300th previous height. The short story The 6 mm Man by Ace Corona on the shrinkingman site has a similarly sized man.

* LiterallyFallingThroughTheCracks: Downplayed; among the ''many'' challenges faced by Russ, Ron, Amy, and Nick after they shrink is the fact that the cracks between the attic floorboards are now so big to them that they have to leap over them (though they avoid actually falling in).

* YourSizeMayVary: Nick mentions they're a quarter of an inch tall, but the bulk of the film treats them like they're less than half that size and barely visible to the naked eye. The film sticks to that scale pretty consistently, though, so maybe Nick's calculations were just off.

* AdultsAreUseless: Let alone, it's Wayne who made the plot of the kids getting shrunk. Wayne and Diane very much try hard to find the shrunken kids in their backyard with binoculars but have no luck. When the kids do make it back to the house, the parents don't keep their binoculars around during breakfast and nearly wind up [[spoiler: eating Nick until Quark intervenes]].

* AdultsAreUseless: Wayne and Diane very much do try hard to find the shrunken kids in their backyard with binoculars but have no luck. When the kids do make it back to the house, the parents don't keep their binoculars around during breakfast and nearly wind up [[spoiler: eating Nick until Quark intervenes]].

* ExactWords: When the cops arrive at the Szalinski house:

--> '''Wayne''': Oh, there must be some mistake. Our kids are in the backyard.
** Just before that, when Wayne shows her the shrunken couch, Diane excitedly asks if the kids know that the machine works. Wayne sheepishly replies that, yes, the kids definitely know.