So, someone (Santa or whoever) granted Kevin's wish to have his family back-though, by defeating the robbers, he's poetically earned it. The polka band has safely escorted her back to Chicago, though not without torturing her ears (we can assume). That, of course, is the moment when his mother arrives-calling out to him as she enters the house. After running the gauntlet with those burglars, it seemed like he earned his way out of his solitude. When he wakes up the next day, he's disappointed to discover that Santa hasn't given him his family back. (Maybe Kevin even salted them to eliminate the ice trap he'd set for the burglars? We don't know for sure.) He apparently does quite a bit of cleanup-since his mom doesn't slip on the stairs when she later arrives.

One trap not used in the final version of the film but used in the novelization (in place of the electric sink scene) featured Kevin putting superglue on a piece of cloth that Marv would try to use to clean his face, and when it naturally got stuck, he yanked it off so hard that he also pulled his beard off in the process.After the burglars have been taken out of commission and arrested, Kevin's left with an empty home.

At one point, John Candy was going to make a cameo.

It was originally scripted that Kevin was going to rain more paint cans down the stairs.

John Hughes originally wrote Kevin to have a gun, but was convinced to change it to something that could be taken onto a flight, which eventually resulted in the famous Talkboy.Columbus was considering editing out Trump's scene, but eventually left it in after test audiences responded positively to it.

Trump, the hotel's owner at the time, only agreed if he could appear in the film.

Wag the Director: The reason Donald Trump has a cameo is because Chris Columbus wanted to film in The Plaza Hotel's actual lobby.

Technology Marches On: Kevin would have discovered Uncle Rob being out of the country much sooner by reaching him or his townhouse from a cell phone.

Real-Life Relative: The hotel operator, with whom Kevin makes a reservation pretending to be his father, is played by Chris Columbus's wife, Monica Devereux, while his daughter is the little girl in the toy store.

The Other Darrin: Maureen Elisabeth Shay replaces Angela Goethals as Linnie McCallister.

The trailer has Harry No-Sell most of the tools (with only a change in expression to show for it), only for a massive wrench to knock him down in the movie, Harry collapses when the first set of tools fall on him, with the wrench falling as a mere punctuation mark on the scene.

Missing Trailer Scene: The trailer showed one of Kevin's traps involving a bunch of tools falling on Harry.

Also, the part where Kevin sets the traps up is cut. However, the scenes were the families rush to leave the house and Kevin getting separated the airport, as well as Kevin exploring New York City, are butchered.

Freeform has a new cut as of 2021 that restores the edited out traps at Uncle Rob's house.

Despite this happening about a year before he announced his presidential bid, that didn't stop viewers (particularly Trump's own supporters) from alleging political motivations five years after the fact, including (not surprisingly) Trump himself, who blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (who wasn't even prime minister at the time) for the edits! Freeform and VH1 have retained the Trump cameo.

Since at least 2014, Canada's CBC Television has cut the scene featuring Donald Trump's cameo where Kevin asks Trump where the hotel desk is.

The tool chest squashing Harry and Marv.

Marv getting hit with the second, third and fourth bricks.

When ABC Family / Freeform airs the movie, the following traps from Uncle Rob's house are cut for commercial time (or to shorten the violence):.VH1 retained it in a July 2021 airing, however. Most network broadcasts since 2001 cut out the scene where Kevin visits the World Trade Center's observation deck.Devin Ratray likewise had let his hair grow to shoulder length between films, and it had to be buzzed to the same length as before.Joe Pesci had a rather thick head of hair at the time that had to be shaved bald.The film was already two hours long, and he was afraid that people would accuse this film of being a remake rather than a sequel. Chris Columbus cut the scene for two reasons. Deleted Scene: A deleted scene featured Kevin having a similar aftershave scene in the Plaza like in the original.

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