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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Bad-parent comparisons; burglars’ lasting injuries; pigeon-lady danger

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  • The parents’ negligence is compared with worse or abusive parents in The Great Santini and This Boy’s Life, preventing a definitive worst-ever answer.
  • The burglars are imagined with severe lasting brain injury in a sentimental sports-documentary parody.
  • A dark hypothetical imagines the pigeon lady robbing Kevin after bringing him to Carnegie Hall; it is a joke about the fictional scene, not an established plot event.