History Film / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

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

* ProductPlacement: Early in the 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.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The junior novelization is actually drastically different from the film, with one of the major differences being an example of this trope for [[spoiler: Anty]].

* BeneathNotice: Because the children have been reduced to 1/4 of an inch tall, they are barely visible and their voices are too quiet to be heard by the parents looking for them even, when they are standing right over the tiny teens.

* ShoutOut:
** 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."
** The original shrink ray's display seems evocative of the digitizing laser's in ''Film/{{Tron}}'' (and the equipment is even tested on a piece of fruit).
** The scientist that tells Szalinski not to be discouraged after his failed presentation is named Dr. Brainard after ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor''.

Stay-at-home inventor Wayne Szalinski (Creator/RickMoranis) 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 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.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Okay, Wayne isn't ugly but is very short and nerdy and yet he is married to a fine looking woman like Diane.

* ChildProdigy: Nick is definitely book-smart for his age and has quite the vocabulary.

* IAmAHumanitarian: Nick is nearly eaten by his father when he falls into a bowl of cheerios.

* HopeSpot: Early on, the kids whistle to get Quark's attention. It works, and he leaves the house to find them, but gets scared away by the Thompson's cat Spike.

* ILied: [[spoiler:Mae told Russ Sr. that Russ Jr. didn't make the team, which Russ Sr. was upset over. Later in the movie, while talking to the cops, Mae slipped that Russ Jr. actually quit but was afraid to tell his dad.]]

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: (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.

'''Wayne:''' No, it's ''my'' fault. I start working on something I don't think about anything else. I should have been more careful with the machine. I'm sorry.\\

* KickTheDog: The Thompson's cat scares Quark away when the kids whistle for him to come help them.

-->'''Nick''': Hey wait! I get it! FRENCH CLASS!

* MistakenForQuake: The movie has what Ron mistakes for an earthquake actually turn out to be a remote-controlled lawn mower. As the kids are a quarter of an inch tall, this means things have gone FromBadToWorse.

* NeverARunaway: The Thompsons notified the police about their sons being missing, unaware that they have shrunk. One of the cops assume they might have runaway due to their dad apparently being too hard on his eldest son, but tells the cops that both their sons are happy and could never have runaway.

-->'''Russ Sr.:''' What do you mean "you can't imagine"?!

* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: The Thompsons have ample grounds for a lawsuit, but obviously do not file one.

** Two of the kids take a "ride" on a bee. They are flown all over the yard, which to them is 3 miles long. Despite the fact that in comparison size that bee is traveling at well over two hundred miles per hour, they do a remarkable job of hanging on. Maybe it's the lack of wind resistance.

'''Nick:''' We have to get dad. He'll know what to do.\\

* BrokenGlassPenalty: Ron tries to make a run for it after breaking the Szalinski's window, but Russ Jr. catches him and drags him back over to apologize. On the flip side, Ron's baseball fixes the problem with the shrink ray.

* ChildProdigy: Nick is definitely book smart for his age and has quite the vocabulary.

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

* FencePainting: Nick convinces his friend Tommy to pay ''him'' for the privilege of mowing the Szalinskis' lawn because he gets to do it with a cool remote controlled lawnmower.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Anty again. When the scorpion attacks the protagonists, he grabs one of the scorpion’s legs and he dies protecting the kids.]]
* HollywoodScience: Shrinking an object by reducing the open space inside it wouldn't remove any weight, and the SquareCubeLaw would mean that the shrunken characters wouldn't be able to move at all. They also probably wouldn't be able to breathe or digest normal-sized food and would stand a good chance of embedding themselves in most materials they stood on.

* Amy Szalinski: TheChick. Popular girl who likes boys and shopping.

* ''[[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rick-moranis-returning-honey-i-shrunk-kids-reboot-1279000 Shrunk]]'' (TBD): A sequel and {{soft reboot}} of the franchise, once again starring Moranis as Szalinski (in his first live-action big screen role in more than 25 years) as well as Creator/JoshGad as his now-adult son, Nick. The director of the original, Creator/JoeJohnston, is also set to return. Despite original rumors, this will ''not'' be made for Creator/DisneyPlus, and be released in theaters first.

* ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids: The TV Show'' (1997-2000): More inventions, more problems for the Szalinskis in this three-season syndicated sitcom. Wiki/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.

* ''Film/HoneyWeShrunkOurselves'' (1997): The the second sequel, 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 and Wayne's niece and nephew throw a WildTeenParty. Went DirectToVideo.

* Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Movie Set Adventure (1990): The very first spin-off was actually a giant playground built in Disney-MGM Studios (today [[Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Disney's Hollywood Studios]]) designed to look like a movie set of the backyard scenes from the film. Closed and demolished in 2016, the land it stood on is now part of ''Ride/{{Star Wars|GalaxysEdge}}'': [[Ride/StarWarsGalaxysEdge Galaxy's Edge]].
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* ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'' (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 ShortFilm. Wayne's being honored as Inventor of the Year, but some demos of his latest inventions go wild...and TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou! (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 pavilion at Epcot.)
* ''Film/HoneyWeShrunkOurselves'' (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 and Wayne's niece and nephew throw a WildTeenParty. Went DirectToVideo.

* ''Film/HoneyWeShrunkOurselves'' (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.

* 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 a part of the machine, and then takes his frustration on his invention and destroys it.
-->'''Wayne:''' I don't believe this! What a day. ''(looks at his machine)'' This is all your fault. Five years and you don't even WORK!

* AdultFear:
** Both sets of parents are worried when their kids go missing. Russ Sr. calls the police and gets an EveryoneHasStandards moment when his wife says Russ Jr. quit the football team and may have run away because of it. As he says when his son is back to normal, he cares more about Russ Jr.'s life than his football career.
** Wayne and Diane go to great lengths to keep themselves and other people off the grass, for fear of stepping on the tiny children, and flip out on a friend of Nick's when he starts to mow the lawn.
** Inverted 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.

Stay-at-home inventor Wayne Szalinski (Creator/RickMoranis) 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.

* ScaryScorpions: Oh dear ''God''.

** Both sets of parents are worried when their kids go missing. Russ Sr. calls the police and gets an EveryoneHasStandards moment when his wife says Ron quit the football team and may have run away because of it. As he says when his son is back to normal, he cares more about Ron's life than his football career.

%%* ChildProdigy: Nick.

''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film. It was co-written by Stuart Gordon and Creator/BrianYuzna (both of ''Film/ReAnimator'' fame), and directed by Creator/JoeJohnston (in his directoral debut).

* {{Fainting}}: Diane faints once a movie (including the theme park attraction) in response to learning about the latest shrinking machine disaster.