History Film / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

* ContrivedCoincidence: Ron's stray baseball not only smashes through the Szalinski's attic window (which he wasn't even aiming at) at just the right angle to hit the shrink ray's controls and set it to auto-fire, but also land inside the machine in exactly the right place to dampen the laser enough to make it function correctly.

* KidsWildernessEpic: The first movie spends a lot of time in the backyard, playing it up for all its hazards.

* MoodWhiplash: A romantic scene between Russ Jr. and Amy in the first movie suddenly turns into a moment of sheer terror when [[spoiler:the scorpion]] turns up...

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anytime Wayne gets angry. The most noteworthy instance comes when he takes his anger out on the shrink ray in the first film after it had just ''successfully'' shrunken the kids.

* ProductPlacement: Early in the first film Nick puts a box of Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies on the table, in direct view of the camera. Later the kids use bits of one of the cookies to tame Anty.

* RescueRomance: Russ Jr. and Amy suddenly get very friendly after he saves her life. The fact that he saved her litle brother probably helped too.

** A lot of characters in the first film utter a simple, judgmental, "...Mmm-hm", when they think someone's acting really bizarre, including Russ Sr, the cops, and Mr. Forstein.

* TotallyRadical: Ron sometimes talks like this. Given his age and the time the first film was made, it's not ''too'' off-putting.

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

* 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, the setup of ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' is that he's being honored with a presitigious fictional award that puts him on the level of the aforementioned, ''and'' he's the President of Szalinski Labs by the third film.

* HomemadeInventions
* HopeSpot: The kids find themselves right under Wayne and Diane as they're looking for them, and they call out to them. Unfortunately they can't hear or see the kids, and they walk back inside.

** Ricky nearly kills his friend Nick by playing with the remote-control lawnmower.

!!This series contains examples of:

* ActorAllusion: One episode of the series had as a Running Gag references to "the guy from ''Series/BosomBuddies''" - "Creator/TomHanks?" - "No, the other guy." — i.e., Peter Scolari, who plays Wayne in the show.

** The whole series practically revolves around this. In the first film, Wayne and Diane go to great lengths to keep themselves and other people off the grass, and flip out on a friend of Nick's when he starts to mow the lawn. In the third film, the adults are helpless to do anything but watch as their kids throw an unauthorized party, which leads to teenage boys coming over and trying to make moves on the girls while bullying the boys.
** Inverted in the first film when the kids find a discarded cigarette and Ron and Russ Jr. recognize the brand as the kind their father smokes. They exchange a quiet look, knowing that their father only smokes when he's worried about something.

* 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, the setup of ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' is that he's being honored with a presitigious fictional award that puts him on the level of the aforementioned, ''and'' he's the President of Szalinski Labs by the third.

* BigDamnHeroes: Quark does this twice in the climax of ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids''; first rescuing the kids from the backyard and bringing them inside the house, then in the next scene he bites Wayne's leg seconds before he accidentally eats Nick.

%%* ChildProdigy: Nick, especially in the first movie.

* CuteGiant: Adam, after being turned gigantic in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid.''
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Zigzagged. In the third film Wayne manages his own laboratory with several scientists working for him on various projects. Despite at least ten years passing between the first and third films, not much time is spent examining how the world is changed now that shrinking ray technology exists (aside from a passing line about how the original shrink ray is going to be displayed in the Smithsonian).
* DeadpanSnarker: In the first movie, Ron is often quite cynical. Amy has her moments, too.

* DisasterDominoes: How the plot gets kicked off, every time.

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

---> '''Wayne''': Oh, there must be some mistake. Our children are in the backyard.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: Narrowly averted in all three ''Shrunk'' movies. Played straight, however, in the premier episode of the TV show. In Diane's own father no less.

** Followed by [[BigWhat another]] when Wayne told Diane the Thompson kids also shrank and they're all in the backyard. Then grabs Wayne after he told her he threw them out with the trash. Then faints when Wayne tells the police (Diane called the police to report the kids missing before finding out they were shrunk) that the kids aren't missing, they're in the backyard.

* GilliganCut: In the third movie:
-->'''Gordon:''' Of course, as soon as the kids realize we're gone, they'll be very upset.
-->''*Cut to kids celebrating and cheering*''
* HappilyMarried: Wayne and Diane (although they're having some difficulties at the beginning of the first movie) and Russ Sr. and Mae. Gordon and Patti from the third movie also count.

* HopeSpot: The kids find themselves right under the Szalinskis as they're looking for them, and they call out to them. Unfortunately they can't hear the kids, and they walk back inside.

* IAmAHumanitarian: Averted twice in the series. Nick is nearly eaten by his father when he falls into a bowl of cheerios, and in the third film Wayne and his brother are almost scooped up by the teen girls when they land in a bowl of chip dip.

** And the third movie, and a few episodes of the series.

* MiraculousMalfunction: A stray baseball landing on the shrinking machine is what actually makes it work. Though Wayne is able to figure out why the baseball made the machine functional, and replicate the results.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Wayne, after realizing his kids have shrunk, when he looks at his broom...

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A literal example; Wayne smashes the shrinking machine in frustration shortly after the kids were miniaturized, then sweeps them up along with the wrecked electronics and debris littering the floor.

* ObjectTrackingShot: A complex system at the beginning of ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' makes it easier for the Szalinskis to get their mail.

* OhCrap: A LOT of these throughout the series.

** A notable facial equivalent occurs in the first film: after Wayne noticed the shrunken couch and realized that his shrink ray ''did'' work and, in fact, [[TitleDrop shrunk the kids]], he begins carefully searching for them on the attic floor... only to bump into ''his broom''[[note]]Earlier, frustrated with his supposedly nonfunctional shrink ray, Wayne beat the crap out of it, resulting in bits of it to fly off and on to the floor... which he swept up into a garbage bag... '''along with the kids'''[[/note]].
*** [[FromBadToWorse 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''.

** In the first movie, there's a shout-out to the classic movie ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'' when Amy says to Russell, "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."

** A minor character in the first film that tells Szalinski not to be discouraged after his failed presentation is named Dr. Brainard after ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor''.

* SquareCubeLaw: Obviously broken for RuleOfFunny; otherwise, the kids would be crushed by air pressure by virtue of not having an insectoid exoskeleton.

** In ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', after Wayne and Gordon fell into the onion dip:
-->'''Wayne:''' They're teenage girls, how much could they eat?\\
''[a ''group'' of girls swarm in and dip chips]''

-->'''Wayne (in the first movie):''' I shrunk the kids.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Wayne practically lives by this trope, which is no surprise given his tendency to lose himself in his work and to neglect to double up on the unpredictable nature of his machine. And in the first film, he unwittingly ''sweeps the kids into the trash'' and gets them lost in the backyard.
** It was Ron's baseball that set off the shrink ray in the first movie, though to be fair it was an honest, everyday accident on his part.

* WouldRatherSuffer: Downplayed. In the first film, before the Szalinskis get seriously worried about not being able to find Nick and Amy, Wayne suggests that they might be next door. An incredulous Diane replies that their kids "would rather be at school".

** In the third film, Wayne wishes that Adam preferred science to sports. Wayne comes around, though.

* AutoKitchen

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

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Wayne, [[CaptainObvious of course]].

** The whole series practically revolves around this. In the first film, Wayne and Diane are deathly afraid of stepping on the grass their kids are lost in, for...[[{{Squick}} obvious reasons]]. This fear is ramped UpToEleven when a friend of their son comes over to cut the grass using a remote controlled lawn mower. In the third film, the adults have to sit by as their kids throw an unauthorized party, which leads to teenage boys coming over and trying to make moves on the girls while bullying the boys.
** Inverted in the first film, Russ Jr. and Ron saw one of their dad's brand of cigarettes, and knows that he only smokes when he's really worried about something, giving each other a knowing glance.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: "Anty," the ant.

** A lot of characters in the first film utter a simple, judgmental, "...Mmm-hm," when they think someone's acting really bizarre, including Russ Sr, the cops, and Mr. Forstein.

* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: The tiny people spend most of the first and third movies running from one life threatening situation to another.

* AdultFear

* LighterAndSofter: The Junior Novelization. Most noticeably, [[spoiler: Anty is not involved in the scorpion attack, so she survives; when the kids agree to let her go, she just walks off]]. also, certain events are re-arranged, and the HopeSpot scene is changed so that when they find the back steps to the house insurmountable, ''that's'' when Nick gets the idea to call for Quark, and his fear of the cat is entirely PlayedForLaughs there.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the third film, Adam and Mitch look at a magazine that Adam thinks would get him in trouble with his dad and that the tiny 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 Magazine/{{Playboy}}, though not because of what the magazine turned out to be, but because Adam would think he'd be so upset about it. This is what starts Wayne's character growth in this film and makes him start to realize that he needs to let Adam pursue his own interests instead of forcing him into the sciences; his own son is actually afraid of him finding out he's into sports.]]

* 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 FatSuit initially... then in reshoots [[DyeingForYourArt gained 40 pounds for the role]] to make Ricky look fatter all over.

** In the third film, the two fathers have to dodge giant potato chips when they fall into a bowl of dip.

* GodGuise: In ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', Wayne's brother Gordon pretends to be the voice of God, scaring off all the guests at his daughter Jenny's party. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* ICanExplain: PlayedForLaughs in the third movie after Gordon takes it badly when Wayne shrinks the two of them.
-->'''Wayne:''' Gordon! *choking* I can explain!\\
'''Gordon:''' You can't explain!

* JerkJock: Ricky in ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''.

* NextSundayAD: ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', released in 1997, is set in 2000.

* SequelNonEntity: Nick and Amy were each only mentioned once in ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' (when Adam talks with Diane about going to baseball camp), replaced by cousins Mitch and Jenny. Also justified because Nick and Amy have been adults for quite some time now and live their own lives.

* WildTeenParty: Happens in the third movie, while the parents are shrunk.

* ScareCord: When the scene jumps to Nick's friend Tommy arriving at the Szalinski resident, and when he pulls the veil off the lawnmower.

* RantInducingSlight: Wayne returns home after a miserable day at work to find the kids gone, the window of his attic/lab broken and some of his furniture missing. Distraught of the whole thing he accidentally hits his head on the equipment, and then takes his frustration on his invention and destroys it.

* ShoutOut

-->'''Nick:''' [[HopeSpot Sounds like Mom]].

* ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' (1997): Wayne ends up shrinking himself along with Diane, his brother and sister in law. Now they have to navigate their cavernous home as pre-teen Adam throws a WildTeenParty. Went DirectToVideo.

-->"It's not the first time something like this has happened... to ''our'' family."

* ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'' (1992): In which we meet the newest Szalinski -- Adam, who becomes a very ''big'' baby indeed.

* {{Adorkable}}: Nick in the second movie.

** The whole series practically revolves around this. In the first film, Wayne and Diane are deathly afraid of stepping on the grass their kids are lost in, for...[[{{Squick}} obvious reasons]]. This fear is ramped UpToEleven when a friend of their son comes over to cut the grass using a remote controlled lawn mower. In the second film, their baby grows into a giant that a madman wants to put a stop to with ''military force''. In the third film, the adults have to sit by as their kids throw an unauthorized party, which leads to teenage boys coming over and trying to make moves on the girls while bullying the boys.

* AesopAmnesia: The events of the second and third movies wouldn't have happened if Wayne had treated his shrinking/growing machines as the incredibly dangerous pieces of technology they are.
** Not to mention, the flaw in the growth ray in ''Honey, I Blew up the Kid'' 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.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: On the first two films. They're very well done, too.

** 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. Likewise Adam wouldn't have quite the strength to lift a car.
*** Except picking up a 112-foot toddler would still have been extremely difficult and awkward for a five-foot whatever woman, and she needed to get Adam to hold still long enough for Wayne to shrink them back to normal size.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''.
* 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.

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

** In the second film, giant-sized Diane stops Dr. Hendrickson from shooting her son again by grabbing his helicopter out of the sky.

* BigEater: Adam in the second movie, he eats [[BuzzSawJaw 12 ice cream bars in seconds]] and belches pretty loudly.
* BloodlessCarnage: For all the chaos Adam causes stomping around Las Vegas, he doesn't actually hurt anyone or cause that much damage. Then again, it ''is'' a Disney movie.
* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Nick, Amy and Adam Szalinski.
* BoundAndGagged: Nick's way of preventing the babysitter (that he has a crush on) from raising a ruckus about his enormous two-year-old brother in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Las Vegas in the second movie [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial looks nothing like Reno at all]].
* CardboardPrison: In ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''; Adam frequently escapes his playpen even after Wayne's multiple attempts to fix it.

* ChildProdigy: Nick, especially in the first movie. In the second movie he's self-conscious about it and tries to cover up his smarts by taking up the guitar.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Zigzagged. In the second film a well-funded lab and team of researchers are studying the shrinking technology, and in the third film Wayne manages his own laboratory with several scientists working for him on various projects. However, Wayne seems to live rather modestly, and despite at least ten years passing between the first and third films, not much time is spent examining how the world is changed now that shrinking ray technology exists (aside from a passing line about how the original shrink ray is going to be displayed in the Smithsonian).
* 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, as well as Mandy the babysitter.

* DemotedToExtra: Amy only briefly appears in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'', 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.

* DolledUpInstallment: ''Honey I Blew Up The Kid'' was originally a script called ''Big Baby'', originally written by Creator/PaulAlter, a veteran television director best known for directing various Creator/MarkGoodson productions.
* DomesticApplianceDisaster: Wayne let the dinner in the oven catch fire during [[ADayInHerApron his wife day out]] in ''Honey I Blew Up The Kid''. Cue to Wayne and his sons having a meal of peanut butter sandwiches.
* EurekaMoment:
** After using a baseball bat to shoo a bee (which Nick and Russ are riding on)...
--->'''Wayne:''' Wait a second... Nick doesn't play baseball. ''[looks up at his attic/lab, which the window broke]''
** 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.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Nick [[FencePainting "letting"]] Tommy use the lawnmower, which he says he'll do "later".
** Adam is quite the little escape artist, and prone to getting into other people's stuff and breaking it, even by toddler standards. This helps set up what a danger he is once he gets really big.
** There's a lingering shot of the Hard Rock Cafe as Wayne drives home.

** In the second movie, Adam's pocket contents get blown up too. "Have a raisin!" ...that's about two feet across.

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the second movie Nick and Mandy are still shrunk in the car and Adam's stuffed bunny is still huge. Wayne tells a doubtful Diane he'll get the machine fixed to shrink it back, although Adam doesn't seem to mind.

** Similarly, enlarging an object by increasing the open space inside it wouldn't add any weight, the subject would still have trouble breathing or digesting food, and any enlarged objects would become much more buoyant in air, possibly light enough to float away if they're made large enough.

* ImpactSilhouette: The aftermath of Giant Adam leaving the home in the second film.

** And the third movie, and a few episodes of the series. Though in the second movie, [[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]].
* InsufferableGenius: Dr. Hendrickson from ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid''.

* 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.

** Dr. Hendrickson in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid''..

** Similarly, in the second movie, while Hendrickson was no doubt stepping over bounds by holding such a low opinion of Wayne despite him building the shrink machine in the first place, one has to admit that Wayne's constant bumbling and lack of safety measures (taking his toddler to a secure laboratory rather than just hiring a babysitter like he ended up doing later) as well as being indirectly responsible for all the damage the giant Adam causes gives him fair reason for his skepticism.

* MamaBear: Diane's CrowningMomentOfAwesome in ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'':
--> '''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."]]
** And moments before that, when she [[spoiler: also turns into a giant, she stops the helicopter]] Hendrickson is in, trying to shoot her baby with said tranquilizers.

** The sequel, 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.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anytime Wayne gets angry. The two most noteworthy instances come when he takes his anger out on the shrink ray in the first film after it had just ''successfully'' shrunken the kids, and in the second when Dr. Hendrickson announces that the now-enlarged Adam is to be tested, which sends him flying into a ''rage''.

** Then, in ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'', this exchange happens right after Wayne and Clifford Sterling figure out that it's electromagnetic fluxes that are causing Adam's growth spurts:
-->'''Marshal Brooks:''' Would this electromagnetic... would it surround neon lights, too?
-->'''Wayne:''' Yeah, why?
-->'''Marshal Brooks:''' Your kid. He's heading toward Las Vegas.
-->'''Diane, Wayne and Clifford Sterling:''' (''in unison'') UH-OH.
* PapaWolf:
** Russ Sr.

** In ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'', Wayne completely ''flips out'' after he and Diane learn that Dr. Hendrickson had Adam detained and taken for testing without their knowledge, and actually wrestles a police marshal when he nearly dishes it out to the man.
--> '''Marshal Brooks''': We just needed to give the baby more room so he wouldn't hurt himself.
--> '''Dr. Hendrickson''': Of course, the mutated child will have to undergo [[BerserkButton immediate testing]].
--> '''Wayne''': '''[[SuddenlyShouting That's]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting my kid]]''''' '''[[SuddenlyShouting you're talking about!]]'''

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Clifford Sterling]] in ''Honey I Blew Up the Kid''.

* {{Retcon}}: Making objects big is apparently a stumbling block in the sequel, even though not only did the shrink ray work in reverse just fine before, 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.

* SequelNonEntity:
** The Szalinskis have moved between the first two films, so the Thompsons don't make a second appearance.
** Nick and Amy were each only mentioned once in ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' (when Adam talks with Diane about going to baseball camp), replaced by cousins Mitch and Jenny. Also justified because Nick and Amy have been adults for quite some time now and live their own lives.

** In ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'', 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 [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk "ARK OF THE COVENANT"]].
** Nick's taken up playing the guitar in the second film, which makes him look a LOT like Buddy Holly.

* SquareCubeLaw: Obviously broken for RuleOfFunny; otherwise, the kids would be crushed by air pressure by virtue of not having an insectoid exoskeleton. And the baby wouldn't have the strength to stand up when he's 50 feet tall.

* TimTaylorTechnology: Inverted; the shrink ray only works by using ''less'' power. Or at least emitting less heat. A similar issue occurs in the sequel, where Sterling's ray exposes the subject to too much energy too quickly, which Wayne solves by filtering it through a Coke bottle.

-->'''(in the second movie):''' I blew up the baby.
** And at the end of the second movie, Wayne title drops the full name of the first movie.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the second movie, after Sterling fires Hendrickson, a board member at Sterling Labs authorizes Hendrickson to tranquilize Adam anyway, and mentions that the crisis will be used as an excuse to steer the board towards ousting Sterling as director. This is not followed up on in the movie itself, even though it could have been resolved with a throwaway line.

* WouldHurtAChild: Dr. Hendrickson's team in the second film tries to tranquilize giant toddler Adam by firing ''giant tranquilzer darts'' at him. They end up shocking him in the process, causing him to cry in one of the franchises' most [[TearJerker heartbreaking scenes]], and after traumatizing him to tears prepares to shoot him again. Diane is understandably [[MamaBear far less than pleased]] and makes sure they know it.

* GenreSavvy: In the 3rd film Wayne sends the kids in the store before bringing out the shrink machine again, just to make absolutely certain there was no way they could accidentally get hit by it again. Subverted in that he doesn't assume the same thing for himself, even shrugging off his brothers suggestion to turn off the machine the instant they were done with it because "There's nobody else in the house to hit the button" despite it being an errant baseball that triggered the machine in the first movie. Sure enough a random object falls and hits it.

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the second movie Nick and Mandy are still shrunk in the car and Adam's stuffed bunny is still huge. Wayne tells a doubtful Diane he'll get the machine fixed to shrink it back. Though Adam doesn't seem to mind.

** And moments before that, when she [[spoiler: also turns into a giant, she stops the helicopter]] Hendrickson is in, trying to shoot her baby with said tranquilizers. Considering they actually ''shocked'' poor Adam in the process, they're lucky Diane lets them keep their lives.

* Ron Thompson: TheGenericGuy. Has a huge [[{{Jerkass}} attitude problem]], but becomes friendlier as the movie progresses.

* LighterAndSofter: The Junior Novelization. Most noticeably, [[There is no Scorpion attack, so Anty Survives; when the kids agree to let her go, she just walks off]]. also, certain events are re-arranged, and the HopeSpot scene is changed so that when they find the back steps to the house insurmountable, ''that's'' when Nick gets the idea to call for Quark, and his fear of the cat is entirely PlayedForLaughs there.