Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal

“Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal …..(Fires)..And a Happy New Year..(Fire)” The historic lines spoken by Kevin Mc Allister – Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone 2. One of my all time favorites and I can still laugh watching the movie even after watching it in full length so many times. The dialogue”Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal” is in fact taken form a film in which a man kills his partner suspecting that she is a cheat. Kevin is seeing the movie in the hotel Plaza New York and records the sound for “future usage”.

Home Alone sequel was planned after the huge success of the first one in the series. From the start of the film Kevin is in trouble. First his cousin Buzz plays a prank on him during a concert in school, that results in a huge disaster. As with the first in the sequel the family is preparing for Christmas vacations. The whole family is on the air port to board a flight to Florida, Kevin is to change batteries in his “walkman”. Batteries are in his father’s bag. While replacing batteries Kevin separates from others and follows a person who is wearing a jacket similar to his father’s. Kevin ends up in New York and considers it the best thing that has happened to him. As he chooses Hotel Plaza to stay, the concierge becomes suspicious of him prompting Kevin to play “Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal” with very satisfactory results!

Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal