Home Alone Viewers Are Only Just Realising How Kevin Got Left Behind

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Fans are just now realising how little Kevin McCallister was left behind, despite the fact that Home Alone is unquestionably one of the best Christmas movies ever made.

Many folks are relaxing and enjoying holiday favourites now that the holiday season has arrived.

Despite being 32 years old, Home Alone is a popular movie to watch at this time of year.

It centres on Kevin, an eight-year-old youngster played by Macaulay Culkin, who is abandoned at home when his family departs on a joyous trip to France.

The next scene depicts Kevin having to defend the family home from robbers Marv and Harry (played by Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci), who believe they are breaking into an empty building.

After seeing the movie, many viewers have questioned how his parents could have forgotten him. It turns out that for keen watchers, the answer is quietly implied.

Many people assume Kevin is forgotten since he spends the night before the trip in the loft as a punishment for his misbehaviour, but there’s more to it than that.

The video depicts how a storm occurs on this particular night, resulting in a power outage in the home and a reset of the family’s alarm clocks.

The family rushes out the door when the airport shuttle arrives in the morning, and Kate, Kevin’s mother (Catherine O’Hara), asks her niece Heather to count all the children.

It turns out that Heather isn’t very good with head counts.

Buzz, Kevin’s older brother, confuses Heather by yelling out arbitrary numbers.

The neighbour of the McCallisters, Mitch Murphy, then stops by to visit with them and Heather confuses him for Kevin.

The family rushes to the airport in order to catch their trip to Paris, believing they have everyone with them.

The McCallisters would have known they had left Kevin behind, though, if they had checked in with a spare ticket for the journey.

At this moment, astute observers may believe the confusion has been resolved.

As a result, Kevin gets into problems the night before the flight following a disagreement with his brother over a cheese pizza.

During the fight, milk spills all over the table, soaking the pizza boxes, the family, and most crucially, the plane tickets.

The family doesn’t discover Kevin is missing until they are halfway to Paris because Kevin’s father Peter (John Heard) accidentally throws away one of the plane tickets while trying to dry up the mess with paper.

Watching the film again this year, one viewer spotted the tiny – but very important detail – and couldn’t believe they’d missed it so many times before.

They wrote on Twitter: “I’ve seen Home Alone 25 times and it wasn’t until this most recent time I realised the dad threw away a plane ticket when cleaning up spilt milk at the beginning.

“That’s why they never had an extra ticket.”

A second added: “I have watched Home Alone 100 times and this year my husband and I both noticed for the first time that Kevin’s dad throws his plane ticket into the trash with the napkins.”

“I’ve just realised that when Buzz and Kevin fight and Peter throw away napkins HE THROWS AWAY KEVIN’S PLANE TICKET. I’ve seen this a million times and never realised,” someone else said.

As it turned out, Kevin’s family benefited much from his being left alone at home.

The McCallister residence would have been pillaged by Marv and Harry, a.k.a. the Wet Bandits, had he not been recalled and gathered.