When Kevin almost gets hit by the Wet Bandits’ van, Harry tells him he needs to watch out for traffic. However, Harry is in the wrong here because one of the rules about driving is "always yield to the pedestrian, they have the right-of-way." The iron Marv pulls down has round holes, but the imprint it leaves on his face has rectangular ridges rather than round. Since the ridges on his face are caused by the holes in the iron, the shapes should match. The movie that Kevin watches on video tape is not a real film, but footage specially created. It was called Angels with Filthy Souls. Along with other similar era references in the movie, this is a play upon the movie Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) starring James Cagney. Kevin uses it on the pizza boy and later Marv. Both times, Kevin was successful in scaring them away. When Kevin walks up to the church at night, there is a door clearly in the very center of the building. When Kevin is shown inside the church, there is a baptistery in the center where the door was on the outside.

When the McCallisters are leaving in the morning and Mitch Murphy is speaking with the van driver, he is mouthing the driver's lines (the first time the driver speaks). The nail Daniel Stern stepped on was actually made of rubber because he could actually crush it with his foot and feel no pain. Kevin wakes up the next morning and calls for his mother but is disappointed to find that he is still alone. Kate then arrives and the two reconcile before Peter and Kevin's siblings arrive, having caught the flight that Kate did not want to wait for (while Kevin's uncle, aunt and cousins are still in Paris). Buzz becomes glad that Kevin didn't burn the house down. When Kate asks Peter to find an open store to buy some milk, Kevin reveals to them that he had gotten groceries for Christmas (milk, eggs, and fabric softener), but more or less "just hung around" while his family was away. Kevin does not disclose his encounter with Harry and Marv, though Peter finds Harry's gold tooth on the floor and wonders what it is. Kevin's Daisy Red Ryder air rifle (notable by the distinctive shape of its trigger-guard and lever), has an additional pump-action mechanism which The Daisy Red Ryder has never had, and which would be unnecessary besides, due to the lever. Right after Marv hits Harry with the crowbar, due to the tarantula being on his chest, the Michael Jordan poster can be seen in Buzz's room on the door all intact. However, Kevin had previously cut the poster out to make him look like a person at the party the previous night and had him going around on a train.Home Alone was a huge success upon release, and alongside movies like Die Hard, it's on heavy rotation during the Christmas period. The success of the movie also led to Macaulay Culkin returning for Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. The original plan for Home Alone 3 would have revolved around a teenage Kevin, but following Macaulay Culkin's decision to drop out of acting in the late 1990s, the third film focused on a new kid defending his home instead. The movie underperformed and the following two entries were TV movies.

In the film that Kevin is watching, Angels with Filthy Souls, Johnny shoots Snakes with a Thompson machine gun. Snakes is standing in front of a door with a glass window. At the short range that Johnny shoots him, at least some of the bullets would have gone right through Snakes and broken the window.As Kevin flies through the air outside the front door after he sleds down the stairs, you can see the rollers on the bottom of the toboggan.

But this battle plan is more than just a decorative piece. It’s a symbol of Kevin’s resourcefulness and determination to protect his home. As you follow his footsteps, you’ll relive the excitement of his epic battle against Harry and Marv, also known as The Wet Bandits. When Kevin and Buzz are first seen fighting over the pizza Kate rushes over to break it up, in the next shot when Peter is throwing away the napkins, Buzz is seen running his hands through his hair, and Kate is calmly speaking with Kevin, and in the next shot after Aunt Leslie asks Fuller if he's okay, Kate is seen attempting to break up the fight again and yells at Kevin. Buzz tells Megan that they live in the most boring neighborhood in America where nothing dangerous will ever happen. However, earlier in the movie he seemed to really think that Old Man Marley was a real serial killer living there, although he could have just been trying to scare Kevin and Rod. The food was the easy part, and one of my favorite ways to follow through with a theme. I didn’t serve any food that felt like it didn’t fit it. We did “Little Neros” Cheese pizza and Ice cream sundaes, both items are KEY in Home Alone and Home Alone 2. I created my own small pizza boxes for the guests to take home a couple of extra slices and I love how it carried on the theme. I served Jeni’s Ice cream with all the fixings as well, “two scoops, make it three…” When Marv is hit in the face with the iron, if you look closely before he falls down you can see that the iron hits him on the forehead, but when he sits up, the iron has left an imprint that covers his entire face.When Marv is climbing the basement stairs, his bare foot comes down on a nail which then makes him fall off the stairs. However, the shadow of his foot appears next to the nail rather than over it. Kevin wakes up to find the house empty as the family's flight takes off. Upon realizing he is home alone, he is overjoyed to find that his wish came true and begins doing whatever he wants, such as jumping on his parents' bed and getting into Buzz's belongings, including his BB gun. He then eats junk food as he watches Angels with Filthy Souls, a film that he was prohibited from watching the night before by Uncle Frank; however, the film's shooting scene ultimately startles him, that he paused the movie and calls for his mother. When Kevin is sliding down the steps the sled is lined-up with the stairway, when he goes out the door, the sled is now lined-up with the doorway. He should have just crashed into the wall and not gone out the door.