History Film / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

-->'''Diane, Wayne and Clifford Sterling:''' ''UH-OH.''

--> '''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:''' (Quietly and dangerously) Doctor Hendrickson, that looked like some sort of '''rifle''' that you were shooting at my baby."

* FatBastard: Ricky in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. He doesn't look it, but when he's threatening Adam in the third film, his stomach precedes him by several inches. The actor wore a fat suit initially... then in reshoots gained 40 pounds for the role to make Ricky look fatter all over.

* RescueRomance: Russ Jr. and Amy suddenly get very friendly after he saves her life.

* WindowPain

* PetsHomageName: bumbling inventor Wayne has a dog named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Quark]].

* MisplacedWildlife: What in the world is a scorpion doing in the middle of an American suburb?!?

*** [[ItGetsWorse It doesn't end there!]] The next shot has him outside examining the trash bag and noticing the rip... causing him to realize that ''the kids are in the backyard''.

* BrickJoke: Right before the end credits, Nick gets what Russell meant when he said he learned CPR in French class.

* HotMom: Diane, especially in the series.

** It could have been a neighbor's "pet" that escaped.
** Or, conceivably, the story could be set in the Southwest somewhere.
*** The first movie is set in California, which is home to several species of wild scorpion. The "neighbor's pet" theory isn't all that far off, either, however.
*** Fresno, to be exact.

Stay at home inventor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) invented a {{shrink ray}}. Which doesn't work. '''Yet.''' 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. Meanwhile, Szalinski realizes the error of his ways, that the machine works and had accidentally shrunk the kids, and tries desperately to both fix the machine and find the kids in the grass in the yard.

* AnthropicPrinciple: Logic dictates that after the first film, Wayne Szalinski should be living in a billion-dollar science palace with at least two Nobel Prizes on his wall and his name in the books next to Einstein, Galileo, Newton and Tesla, but then of course we wouldn't be able to continue having nutty suburban adventures about a bumbling scientist and his size-changing mishaps. The family does have more money and a larger house in each sequel, though, and he's the President of Szalinski Labs by the third.

There are several follow-ups focusing on the further adventures of Wayne and his family. Currently, they don't have separate articles.

* ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show'' (1997-2000): More inventions, more problems for the Szalinskis in this three-season syndicated sitcom. TheOtherWiki's entry on it posits that this is either an AlternateContinuity from the films or set between the first two; it features no movie cast members.

* ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' (1994): A Ride/DisneyThemeParks ThreeDMovie ShortFilm. Wayne's being honored as Inventor of the Year, but some demos of his latest inventions go wild...[[NoFourthWall no one is safe, not even YOU]]! (At Walt Disney World in Florida, a new character from this film, Dr. Nigel Channing [played by Eric Idle], was subsequently incorporated into other attractions in its host pavillion at Epcot.)

* ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' (1994): A Ride/DisneyThemeParks ThreeDMovie ShortFilm. Wayne's being honored as Inventor of the Year, but some demos of his latest inventions go wild...[[NoFourthWall no one is safe, not even YOU]]!

* ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show'' (1997-2000): More inventions, more problems for the Szalinskis in this three-season syndicated sitcom. [[http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey,_I_Shrunk_the_Kids:_The_TV_Show This one is either]] an AlternateContinuity from the films or set between the first two, and features no movie cast members.

** ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'' (1992): In which we meet the newest Szalinski -- Adam, who becomes a very ''big'' baby indeed.
** ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' (1994): A Ride/DisneyThemeParks ThreeDMovie ShortFilm. Wayne's being honored as Inventor of the Year, but some demos of his latest inventions go wild...[[NoFourthWall no one is safe, not even YOU]]!
** ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show'' (1997-2000): More inventions, more problems for the Szalinskis in this three-season syndicated sitcom. [[http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey,_I_Shrunk_the_Kids:_The_TV_Show#History This one is either]] an AlternateContinuity from the films or set between the first two, and features no movie cast members.

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. Meanwhile, Szalinski realizes the error of his ways, that the machine works and had accidentally shrunk the kids, he tries desperately to fix the machine and find the kids in the grass in the yard.

Spawned a sequel, ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''; an [[DisneyThemeParks attraction]], ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience''; a direct-to-video movie, ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''; and a [[RecycledTheSeries TV series]], ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the TV Show''; in that order. Currently these do not have articles.

Spawned a sequel, ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''; an [[DisneyThemeParks attraction]], ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience''; a direct-to-video movie, ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''; and a [[RecycledTheSeries TV series]], ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the TV Show''; in that order.

* DeadpanSnarker: In the first movie, Ron is often quite cynical. Amy has her moments, too. In the second movie, Nick fills this trope on occasion.

** Dr. Hendrickson in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The instrumental theme of the first movie includes an obvious pastiche of [[StandardSnippet "Powerhouse B"]].