--- title: Home Alone Rant About Over the Top Decorations Goes Viral description: A woman's very strong feelings about the over the top Christmas decor in Home Alone has gone viral. canonical: https://time.com/5470173/home-alone-viral/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-04T14:48:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:16.914Z og:title: Home Alone Will Never Be the Same After You Read This Epic Rant About Details You Probably Missed og:description: It has gone viral og:url: https://time.com/5470173/home-alone-viral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cbde803982817d8/698870f40a4a22acfd9c7066/home-alone_79f5a892.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3005 og:image:height: 1690 og:image:alt: Home-Alone-Facts og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Home Alone Will Never Be the Same After You Read This Epic Rant About Details You Probably Missed twitter:description: It has gone viral twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cbde803982817d8/698870f40a4a22acfd9c7066/home-alone_79f5a892.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Home Alone_ Will Never Be the Same After You Read This Epic Rant About Details You Probably Missed > Sponsored content. 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But Twitter user Claire Reilly has plenty to say about another aspect that has nothing to do with Kevin’s knack for inflicting pain on the Wet Bandits – the decorations. She feels strongly that the McCallisters spread their Christmas cheer too far – even including the kitchen appliances, the wallpaper and a hunter green telephone. And so she decided to speak her truth, kicking off her tweetstorm with a plea. “Can we talk about the McAllister’s house in Home Alone for a second? Like, of COURSE you’re going to be a target for Christmas bandits if your house is ENTIRELY Christmas themed! Okay, yes, they have a lot of Christmas decorations up, but that is JUST THE START…” > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779456682713089) What follows next is a screed about the decor filled with hilarious captions calling out the house for being decked out in too many festive things. Her thread has been a lot of fun for Twitter users, who are chiming in with observations of their own. Some people admitted they had totally missed these details in the 1990 classic. > [](https://twitter.com/%5FStephenH/status/1069808160951590913) Revisit _Home Alone_ by taking a tour through all the yuletide touches with the thread in its entirety below. > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779484088328193) > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779459547398144) > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779463481651200) > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779476068716545) > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779470477737984) > [](https://twitter.com/reillystyley/status/1069779484088328193) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5470173/home-alone-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5470173/home-alone-viral/"},"headline":"Home Alone Will Never Be the Same After You Read This Epic Rant About Details You Probably Missed","datePublished":"2018-12-04T14:48:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:16.914Z","description":"A woman's very strong feelings about the over the top Christmas decor in Home Alone has gone viral.","url":"https://time.com/5470173/home-alone-viral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cbde803982817d8/698870f40a4a22acfd9c7066/home-alone_79f5a892.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cbde803982817d8/698870f40a4a22acfd9c7066/home-alone_79f5a892.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Home-Alone-Facts","caption":"Home Alone facts","creditText":"Twentieth Century Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5470173/home-alone-viral/","name":"Home Alone Will Never Be the Same After You Read This Epic Rant About Details You Probably Missed"}}]}] ```