History Film / HoneyWeShrunkOurselves

* KickedUpstairs: Happen incidentally as Wayne became the CEO of a modest science lab, with his brother Gordon directly heading the various projects. Wayne is completely out of his depth with budget and investor meetings, while Gordon is not the brilliant scientist Wayne is. By the end of the movie he promotes the more personable Gordon to CEO so he can go back to the actual science work.

* LuredIntoATrap: A literal example, when the tiny parents are chased by a giant cockroach, they evade it by luring the creature into a roach motel, where it gets trapped in the adhesive inside.

* NoAntagonist: The major conflict stems largely from Wayne's machine accidentally shrinking Wayne as well as his brother, wife, and sister-in-law, and the adults subsequently finding themselves forced to get their kids' attention. Sure, Ricky and his friends are definite jerks, but they're neither outright evil nor that crucial to the film's plot.

* FloatingInABubble: At one point, in order to bypass the staircase, the parents split up into pairs and ride soap bubbles from the banister down to the living room floor. The wives go first and manage land on the floor without too much fuss. The husbands aren't so lucky (see DisasterDominos above).

** One of the girls turns on the heat in the house just as Gordon and Wayne are floating by a vent inside a soap bubble, causing them to rise up with the hot air toward a very pointy chandelier. The bubble pops, sending the dads falling into a bowl of onion dip, right as the girls are chowing down on potato chips.

** Remembering what happened the first few times his kids were near his inventions, Wayne makes up an errand to get them out of the house before he turns on the shrink machine. Considering he accidentally shrinks all the adults, Wayne made the right call.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end of the film, after finding the shrunken parents and taking them to the attic to be enlarged, Adam and Mitch discuss the possibility of leaving them tiny and continuing to live free. Jenny is tempted for a moment, too, but thankfully, they decide against it.

--> '''Gordon:''' "YOU ARE ''DEAD MEAT'', MISTER!"

** One of the girls turns on the heat in the house just as Gordon and Wayne are floating by a vent inside a soap bubble, causing them to rise up with the hot air toward a very pointy chandelier. The bubble pops, sending the dads falling into a bowl of chip dip, right as the teens decide to chow down on potato chips.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: 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 for Kids.'' 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.]]

** JerkJock

* PapaWolf: Gordon, when he sees the jocks bullying Mitch. Not that he can do anything about it at the time...

** The girls are eating Lays potato chips during the party, when the two fathers fall into the dip bowl. Also, Diane and Patti are standing in front of a giant box of Trix cereal when Ricky tries to kiss Jenny.
** The copy of Sports Illustrated for Kids Adam hides from his parents.

* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Jenny to Ricky.
* SoftWater: Well, french onion dip, but a bowl of the dip prevents the husbands from falling to their death after the bubble they were riding in pops.

* NoAntagonist: The major conflict stems largely from Wayne's machine accidentally shrinking Wayne as well as his brother, wife, and sister-in-law, and the adults subsequently finding themselves forced to get their kids' attention. Sure, Ricky and his friends are definite jerks, but they aren't that crucial to the film's plot.

* NoAntagonist: The major conflict stems largely from Wayne's machine accidentally shrinking Wayne as well as his brother, wife, and sister-in-law, and the adults subsequently finding themselves forced to get their kids' attention. Sure, Ricky and his friends are definite {{Jerkasses}}, but they aren't that crucial to the film's plot.

** Subverted with Gordon, but he does try to strangle Wayne for getting them shrunk.

** Mitch's pills. Mitch offhandedly comments that he didn't take them, and mentions that the lack of immediate effects means he's probably fine. He ends up passing out, providing one of the biggest AdultFear moments in the film.

* LighterAndSofter: The first movie had the real AdultFear of the kids drowning, getting eaten or cut up by a lawnmower in their own backyard. In the second, Diane was worried about her baby getting injured while innocently rampaging through the city. Here, it's more of a BottleEpisode where the worst fear is about Mitch taking his medicine.

* AdultFear: Seeing your child in potential danger yet literally being able to do ''nothing about it.''
** Patti and Diane are freaked out when an ill Mitch collapses after seeing their tiny forms on the kitchen counter. They see where the medicine has fallen on the counter, and desperately try to get it to him. Unfortunately, the bottle's too big and all they can do is watch as Jenny and Adam revive Mitch.

* CreepyCockroach: A truck-sized one tries to attack the tiny parents.

* GiantFood: The two shrunken fathers have to dodge giant potato chips when they fall into a bowl of dip.

** Remembering what happened the first few times his kids were near his inventions, Wayne makes up an errand to get them out of the house before he takes out the shrink machine. Considering he accidentally shrinks all the adults, Wayne made the right call.

* YankTheDogsChain: When the tiny parents reach a windowsill and see their car parked in the driveway, they hope the kids will see it and realize the parents are in the house. But then the brakes give out and the car rolls out of the driveway and across the street, right before the kids return from the store.

''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' is the 1997 DirectToVideo sequel to ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'' and the third film in the ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' franchise. It was directed by Dean Cundey, written by Karey Kirkpatrick, Nell Scovell and Joel Hodgson, and was released on March 18, 1997.

* RealityEnsues:
** Wayne apparently has a court order preventing him from using the shrinking machine (which he breaks, naturally). Considering what happened [[Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid the last time]], it's understandable.
** Mitch happily thinks that he doesn't need to take his regular potassium vitamins for his medical condition. Come a few hours later, he's feeling very ill and begging Adam desperately to help him find the bottle his mother left on the counter.

''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' is the 1997 DirectToVideo sequel to ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'' and the final film in the ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' franchise. It was directed by Dean Cundey, written by Karey Kirkpatrick, Nell Scovell and Joel Hodgson, and was released on March 18, 1997.

The last movie of the ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' franchise, ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' is a DirectToVideo 1997 film that features Creator/RickMoranis reprising his role of Wayne Szalinski. This would be his last on-camera role of any kind until he was announced to return for the SoftReboot sequel, ''Shrunk'', in 2021.

Wayne has shrunken his children. He's blown up his youngest child. Now, the adults get a turn. Wayne accidentally shrinks himself and his brother while trying to keep a prized possession. Then, their respective wives get shrunken. Now they have to figure out how to restore themselves to natural size, as their teenage kids are running amok in the house!

* MadeOfIron: The parents have several very long falls (from their scale), but don't suffer so much as a scratch.

* CallBack: Once again a stray ball triggers the shrink ray.

** While the kids dealt with a {{Scary Scorpion|s}} in the first movie, here the adults run from a vicious cockroach.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Wayne finds roach droppings, but explains that they are hard, meaning they're old so the roach is probably long gone. Then he pokes a fresh one...and they hear a skittering sound behind them.

The last movie of the ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' franchise, ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' is a DirectToVideo 1997 film that features Creator/RickMoranis reprising his role of Wayne Szalinski.

* SequelNonEntity: Nick and Amy were each only mentioned once (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.

The last movie of the ''Honey, I…'' series, ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' is a DirectToVideo 1997 film that reprises the role of Creator/RickMoranis as Wayne Szalinski.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end of the film, after finding the shrunken parents and taking them to the attic to be enlarged, Adam and Mitch discuss the possibility of leaving them tiny and continuing to live free. Jenny is tempted for a moment, too, but thankfully, they quickly decide against it.

* WildTeenParty: Of the milder sort, while the parents are shrunk. Jenny tries to shut the party down when it goes off the rails, but Ricky takes charge and overrules her. She apologizes to her parents for going against their wishes.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end of the film, after finding the shrunken parents and taking them to the attic to be enlarged, Adam and Mitch discuss the possibility of leaving them tiny and continuing to live free. Thankfully, Jenny quickly talks them out of it.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Mitch's [[TechnoBabble "hypokalemic paralysis"]] requires him to take his meds. When he doesn't, Jenny has to force-feed him potassium in the form of bananas so he doesn't pass out.