History Film / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

* TheJimmyHartVersion: The instrumental theme of the first movie includes an obvious pastiche of [[StandardSnippet "Powerhouse B"]].

* GiantFood: To the shrunken kids, an Oatmeal Cream Pie is "as big as a house", and Cheerios could be used as life preservers.

* GiantFood

* EfficientDisplacement: Adam in the second movie.

* PutOnABus: Amy in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''

* DisneyDeath: Painfully averted with [[spoiler: Anty's death.]]

-->'''Wayne:''' Wait a second... Nick doesn't play baseball. ''[looks up at his attic/lab broken window]''

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Anty getting [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice practically impaled]] through the torso by the the scorpion]].

Stay at home inventor Wayne Szalinski invented a {{shrink ray}}. Which doesn't work. Due to a stray baseball it becomes fully functional and promptly shrinks his daughter, son and the neighbor's two sons. Wayne was absent, and is unaware of that his machine worked. After the idea of his machine is dismissed at a conference, Wayne breaks it in frustration, sweeps the broken glass up as well as the children, and then deposits them on the curb for trash collection. They cut their way out with a shard of glass, and begin an adventure across the unkempt lawn to get back home and unshrunk. They face many environmental hazards such as a bee, a scorpion, sprinkler system, automated lawn mower, and a {{cat|sAreMean}}, all of which are now infinitely more dangerous as the kids must learn to band together in order to survive... yes, we assure you this is a comedy.

* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly in the first movie, Ron is often quite cynical. Amy has her moments, too.

* DistractedByTheSexy: When helping his father pack the camper van, Russ spots Amy dancing in her kitchen. He's mesmerised.

* VerbalTic: The male cop in the first film, all he says is "mm-hmm".

* ShoutOut: In the sequel, when Wayne and Diane are looking for the boxed-up shrink ray in the warehouse, there is a very clear shot of him standing in front of a crate labeled [[IndianaJones "ARK OF THE COVENANT"]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Doctor Hendrickson ordered the use of a high-powered sniper rifle to tranquilize ''an innocent baby.'' Fifty-foot tall, yes, but he was STILL firing a '''high-powered rifle''' into ''an innocent baby.''

* CuteShotaroBoy: Nick in the first movie. In the second he's more of a {{Keet}}.

* ArtifactTitle: In ''[[RecycledTheSeries Honey, I Shrunk The Kids: The TV Show]]'' the shrinking machine was rarely ever used, aside from a 3 storylines and a few cameo uses.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adam and Mitch look at a magazine that Adam thinks would get him in trouble with his dad and that the parents can't see from their angle on the floor. [[spoiler: Wayne crawls up on the magazine after the boys leave and discovers its a regular issue of ''Sports Illustrated.'' Wayne seems nearly as upset as he would have been if it really had turned out to be a Playboy.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Doctor Hendrickson ordered the use of a high-powered sniper rifle to tranquilize ''an innocent baby.'' Fifty-foot tall, yes, but he was STILL firing a high-powered rifle into ''an innocent baby.''

-->'''Russ Sr.''' Eighty bucks, Mae! Non-refundable! Those kids are ''grounded''!

* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Anty.]]

* HappyEnding: It's a Disney movie.

* {{Jerkass}}: Ron, initially (he [[CharacterDevelopment isn't such a jerk]] by the end of the movie, though).

* KidsWildernessEpic

* LampshadeHanging: The throwaway demonstration of Szalinski Labs' working prototype ''dog translator'' in the third film. Wayne says it "[[{{Understatement}} could be promising]]", poking fun at the series' habit of acknowledging world-changing inventions with pleasant surprise.

* RuleOfFunny: Lots of this.

* TransformationRay

** And, of course, the opposite holds true, meaning that Diane could have ''picked Adam up'' in the second movie, whether she was blown up or not.

* [[{{ptitleoa48fdbm}} It's a Small World After All]]: (And we're not even going for IncrediblyLamePun here!) Russ Jr. and Nick get caught on a bumble bee and flown all over the yard, inexplicably being dropped off not far from Amy and Ron.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Adam and Mitch look at a ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine in ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''.