Home Alone (and even the sequel) is celebrated in the esteemed pizza community for its liberal use of the food, especially in the realm of practical jokes. One of the movie’s most famous scenes involves the precocious Kevin McCallister pranking the teenage pizza delivery boy into thinking a gun-toting maniac was in the house, ready to kill him for…just delivering the pizza, I guess.
Really, it’s merely an example of what could be an early sign of adult violent psychosis for Kevin. But in the context of the movie, it’s just really funny.
Did anyone ever try this prank in reality, though? And did it ever work? I figure you’d have to have some amazing speakers in your house to even come close to pulling this off. Plus the pizza delivery guy would have to be ridiculous dumb not to catch on that he was being duped by a movie. Or at the very least realize that those aren’t real gun shots. However, sound systems can do some really great things, and I have to – I need to – believe that some punk kids have tried it in the years since Home Alone’s release.
