History Series / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

** Seasons 2 and 3 manage to be [[UpToEleven even wackier]].

It continued where the first movie left off and follows the misadventures of the Szalinski family, as Wayne's inventions would usually cause some sort of incident that had to be resolved by the family. Later episodes introduced more and more supernatural elements in an attempt to compete with shows like ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', much to the annoyance of fans of pure science fiction.

It continued where the first movie left off and follows the misadventures the Szalinski family as Wayne's inventions would usually cause some sort of incident that had to be resolved by the family. Later episodes introduced more and more supernatural elements in an attempt to compete with shows like ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', much to the annoyance of fans of pure science fiction.

* AlternateContinuity

* FantasticComedy

* HomemadeInventions

* IncredibleShrinkingMan

* {{Slapstick}}

* ActorAllusion: A Running Gag is people mentioning the sitcom ''Series/BosomBuddies''and remembering Tom Hanks was on the show, but nobody remembers who the other male was. He was played by Peter Scolari who is playing Wayne in this series.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: All four actors playing the Szalinskis are considerably more photogenic than their film counterparts, but most obviously Diane, who is played by a woman barely old enough to play the mother to a teenager, and is often depicted as the ParentService "hot mom" (in contrast to in the films, where she is more of a put-upon housewife).

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In one episode Wayne dismisses the concept of magic in preference to his super science, upsetting a trio of witches. Even after the witches start casting spells on him with no sound scientific explanation to justify the phenomenon, Wayne stands his ground that all magic is automatically fake and proceeds to engage in a [[TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar magic vs science battle]] with the witches.

* BaseballEpisode: Season 2's "Honey, I'm Rooting for the Home Team". Ironically, Nick is playing the sport, despite the fact that in the movie, Wayne clearly says that Nick doesn't play baseball.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Bigfoot nurses Amy's sprained ankle in "Honey, He's Not Abominable". He also has a wife, who is a Yeti.

* CatsAreMean: Averted with Bianca's cat Persephone, who switches minds with Diane in one episode. In Diane's body, Persephone acts playful and naive, and learns English by watching TV at the Szalinskis' house.
* ClipShow: "Honey, It's a Blunderful Life." Wayne gets knocked unconscious and finds himself put on trial by Morpheus to decide if he's worthy of ever waking up again.
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: The Thinky-Ring from "Honey, You Drained My Brain", which turned the wearer into a psychic vampire that grows smarter by draining the intelligence of other people, not to mention addictively evil. Diane went so far as to call the ring her "precious," a reference to ''The Lord of the Rings'' (the novel; this was years before the movie version), and when Nick wore it he dressed up in a black robe and used the shrink ray to enlarge his cranium.

* CucumberFacial: Diane and Amy use what they think was facial mask in the beginning of one episode, but was really a concoction Wayne made for peeling coconuts. As the mask [[AteTheSpoon dissolves the wooden spoon]] used for mixing, they scream in horror as they hurry to rinse it off.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: The first episode, "Honey, We've Been Swallowed By Grandpa", has Wayne, Diane, and Amy shrunken and ending up in Diane's father's body.

* FountainOfYouth: An age machine allowed an elderly couple to relive their childhood, the problem, their reverse aging wasn't stopping, as well as Wayne and Diane were at the same time rapidly aging.

* HalloweenEpisode: "Honey, Let's Trick or Treat" from Season 2. Wayne's Szalinski Scan-O-Caster can bring text to life in the form of sophisticated holograms, but a book about urban legends accidentally gets scanned. As a Halloween party approaches, all sorts of urban legends come to life and prey on the townspeople.

* LogicBomb: Mercilessly skewered in "Honey, The House is Trying to Kill Us." Wayne calls F.R.A.N. out for violating her prime directive, resulting in her violently self-destructing, complete with ExplosiveInstrumentation... and [[GenreSavvy then Wayne calls her on the obvious trick, pointing out that computers sputtering sparks and shutting down after violating their prime directive only happens on cheesy sci-fi shows]], before using the opening her fakery offered to shut her down for real.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: "Orson Hughes" from "Honey, It's a Billion Dollar Brain." is very clearly meant to be Creator/HowardHughes. The plot point of Wayne being named in Hughes' will due to having met him in the desert decades ago is clearly based on the story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Dummar Melvin Dummar]].

* TheNthDoctor: Done strangely with Quark the family dog; in the series he's a different breed from the movie. but a plot of a season 2 episode has him mutate and the side effect of the antidote makes him the same breed he was in the movie.

* PutOnABus: In "Honey, It's the Ghostest with the Mostest," Mr. Jennings is shown replaced by a relative. He's back in Season 3's "Honey, It's a Billion Dollar Brain."

* RapidAging: Happens to Wayne and Diane in the episode "Honey, We're young at heart" when the "Szallinski zip enhancer" gives a bit more of their youth to an elderly couple next door than they had planned and conversely causes said couple to [[FountainOfYouth de-age rapidly]].

* ShoutOut: To ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', when a boy named Kenny is killed in the episode "From Honey, with Love", and Nick notices before being corrected (it was really a midget assassin). Subverted, since Nick only says Kenny's name and not the actual quote for when Kenny always gets killed.

* UrbanLegends: The HalloweenEpisode features a bunch of ones, including the HookHand and the SewerGator, being brought to life as HardLight holograms. The big twist is that Nick's newest friend (David Foaf) is himself an urban legend, being the '''f'''riend '''o'''f '''a''' '''f'''riend alluded to in all the stories. Wayne has to invent a new blaster to disrupt the holograms and send them back where they belong.

* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: In "From Honey, with Love," secret agent Dalton Pierce contracts Wayne for this very purpose.

* ActorAllusion: A Running Gag is people mentioning the sitcom "Bosom Buddies" and remembering Tom Hanks was on the show, but nobody remembers who the other male was. He was played by Peter Scolari who is playing Wayne in this series.

* ShoutOut: To SouthPark, when a boy named Kenny is killed in the episode "From Honey, with Love", and Nick notices before being corrected (it was really a midget assassin). Subverted, since Nick only says Kenny's name and not the actual quote for when Kenny always gets killed.

* GroupHug

Lasted for three seasons with 65 episodes under its belt (as it was a Disney show, that was the allotted number of episodes a show could have back then, despite this show being mostly syndicated). Peter Scolari was also praised for his portrayal of Wayne, the character originally played by the beloved Creator/RickMoranis, to the point that some fans felt he was ''better''.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: "Honey, We're Past Tense" has the family going back to prehistoric times. They encounter not only both cavemen and a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' but an overgrown monitor lizard which gets identified as a ''Tenontosaurus'' (a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** For a Disney show, there was a lot, such as the ColdOpening of "Honey, You're Living In The Past", where Wayne's new invention allowed anyone who used it to remember something from the past, which was shown on a screen, and when Nick uses it, Wayne accidentally punched in the time that was [[{{Squick}} 5 minutes before Nick was born]].
** Season Three's "Honey, We're On TV!" has the in-Universe ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'' pastiche where its kid main character named "Cooter Cleavage."

* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: In "Honey, We're Stuck in the 70's", this is said of Pintos and the U.S. switching to metric.

* [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Deathbwinger The Adorable]]: In "Honey, The Bear Is Bad News", when Wayne is coerced into tweaking the Fwuffy Bear toy, he gives him updates such as voice recognition, and finally downloads everything he programmed into Fwuffy, but unfortunately, the Legion virus was downloaded into Fwuffy along with the data, making him evil.
-->'''Fwuffy''': [[BabyTalk Destwoy! Destwoy!]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: "Orson Hughes" from "Honey, It's a Billion Dollar Brain." is very clearly meant to be Howard Hughes. The plot point of Wayne being named in Hughes' will due to having met him in the desert decades ago is clearly based on the story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Dummar Melvin Dummar]].

* LogicBomb: Mercilessly skewered in "Honey, The House is Trying to Kill Us." Wayne calls F.R.A.N. out for violating her prime directive, resulting in her violently self-destructing, complete with ExplosiveInstrumentation... and then Wayne calls her on the obvious trick, pointing out that computers sputtering sparks and shutting down after violating their prime directive only happens on cheesy sci-fi shows, before using the opening her fakery offered to shut her down for real.

* Homage: ''Several'' episodes are obvious homages to famous or recently popular movies -- ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', and ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' to name a few, as well as the FantasticVoyagePlot in the first episode and the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' spoof.

* Homage: ''Several'' episodes are obvious homages to famous or recently popular movies -- ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', and ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' to name a few, as well as the FantasticVoyagePlot in the first episode and the Franchise/JamesBond spoof.