History YMMV / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[Creator/JamesHorner James Horner's]] jazzy score.

* AngstWhatAngst: It is truly a marvel how calmly the characters react to everything that would be seen as terrifying in real life. The kids weren't really scared when they got shrunk and almost died a few times, and the adults take the news of their kids being shrunk rather better than most adults would. This is especially noticeable when Wayne almost accidentally eats Nick in his bowl of Cheerios, as Nick doesn't look even the slightest bit traumatized that he almost got eaten, and Wayne doesn't look the slightest bit traumatized that he almost ate his son.

* AngstWhatAngst: It is truly a marvel how calmly the characters react to everything. The kids weren't really scared when they got shrunk and almost died a few times, and the adults take the news of their kids being shrunk rather better than most adults would. This is especially noticeable when Wayne almost accidentally eats Nick in his bowl of Cheerios, as Nick doesn't look even the slightest bit traumatized that he almost got eaten, and Wayne doesn't look the slightest bit traumatized that he almost ate his son.

* SignatureScene: Nick falling into Wayne's bowl of Cheerios and nearly getting eaten. In fact, every single trailer and commercial shows the scene with Nick almost getting eaten, even the trailer for ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.''

* InformedWrongness: As the title of the movie indicates, the film constantly pins most of the blame of the kids being shrunk on Wayne, as if he was careless about the kids' safety. However, from what the movie shows, it was actually Ron Thompson's fault they got shrunk because he was the one who hit his baseball into the Szalinski's attic window and caused the shrinking machine to automatically shrink any object in its view, along with the kids. Even though he built the shrinking machine, Wayne had very little to do with the kids being shrunk, and the kids do mention that Wayne has forbidden them from going in the attic when he's at work. Meaning that he was cautious of the kids' safety and didn't want them going near his invention, and the kids wouldn't have been shrunk if Ron hadn't broken the Szalinski's attic window with his baseball in the first place.

** Not to mention Amy's near drowning before Russ is able to resuscitate her with CPR. After she wakes up Nick can't hold it in anymore, and he hugs her as tears start pouring from his eyes. Seeing how scared he was at how close his sister was to dying is enough to get anyone misty-eyed.

* TheWoobie: The kids are obviously woobies, but Nick is easily the most because he gets the short end of the stick the most out of the kids. He's one of the first kids to get shrunk, he falls into a flower and almost gets taken away by a bee, his sister almost dies from drowning, he and Ron get attacked by a scorpion, he's the first kid to get sucked out of the burrow by the lawnmower, and he falls into a bowl of Cheerios and almost gets eaten by his father. The fact that he's [[FridgeHorror a kid who went through these trauma inducing experiences doesn't make it any better]].

* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: When Big Russ [[spoiler:volunteers himself to have the shrink machine tested on so as to guarantee that it actually works before being used on the kids again, once returned to normal size,]] his hat doesn't fit his head anymore. This could either be because [[spoiler:his head itself didn't completely return to its original size—the usual way the joke is interpreted—or another humorous way is because it took Big Russ being shrunk and then restored to full size to realize that his hat ''never actually'' fit his head]].

* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: When Big Russ [[spoiler:volunteers himself to have the shrink machine tested so as to guarantee that it actually works before being used on the kids again, once returned to normal size,]] his hat doesn't fit his head anymore. This could either be because [[spoiler:his head itself didn't completely return to its original size—the usual way the joke is interpreted—or another humorous way is because it took Big Russ being shrunk and then restored to full size to realize that his hat ''never actually'' fit his head]].

* AngstWhatAngst: It is truly a marvel how calmly the characters react to everything. The kids weren't really scared when they got shrunk and almost died a few times, and the adults take the news of their kids being shrunk rather better than most adults would. This is especially noticeable when Wayne almost accidentally eats Nick in his bowl of Cheerios, as Nick doesn't look even the slightest bit traumatized that he almost got eaten, and Wayne doesn't look the slightest bit traumatized that he almost ate his son.

* IdiotPlot: The plot would have never happened if Wayne Szalinski wasn't such an AbsentMindedProfessor and actually understood completely the risks of his [[ShrinkRay shrinking machine]], which was still a prototype. Ironically, in the first film, it wasn't actually Wayne's fault that caused the events to occur later in the film, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom it was the next door neighbors' son who unwittingly was responsible for said events to happen.]]

** Mae Thompson, one of the parents, is Creator/KristineSutherland.
** And Wayne in the TV Show is the ''[[{{Garfunkel}} other]]'' guy from ''Series/BosomBuddies''.
*** Also in the TV Show, Creator/JewelStaite is [[AlphaBitch Tiara VanHorn]].

** The episode "Honey, We're Young at Heart" has a Little Mrs. McGann played by Creator/BrittMcKillip in one of her first acting roles before she was [[WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes Baby Lola Bunny,]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Cadance]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}} Harumi.]]

** Also from the movie, Nino Rota's score for ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'' was borrowed from, leading to Rota's estate also suing (and also settling with Disney). The end rcedits have now been amended to credit both composers.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The instrumental theme of the first movie includes an obvious pastiche of Raymond Scott's [[StandardSnippet "Powerhouse B"]], to the point that Scott's estate sued (and latter settled with Disney) because of the similarity.

** Russ Sr.'s annoyance with Wayne got a lot funnier with Matt Frewer playing a MadScientist in ''Series/OrphanBlack''.

** Mae Thompson, one of the parents, is [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Joyce Summers.]]

*** Also in the TV Show, [[Series/{{Firefly}} Kaylee]] is [[AlphaBitch Tiara VanHorn]].

* TheWoobie: The kids are obviously woobies, but Nick is easily the most because he gets the short end of the stick the most out of the kids. He's one of the first kids to get shrunk, he falls into a flower and almost gets taken away by a bee, his sister almost dies from drowning, he and Ron get attacked by a scorpion, he's the first kid to get sucked out of the burrow by the lawnmower, and he falls into a bowl of Cheerios and almost gets eaten by his father. The fact that he's [[FridgeHorror a kid who went through these trauma inducing experiences doesn't make it any better]].

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The forest-like lawn and even Anty still hold up amazingly well years later.