--- title: This Home Alone Legend Will Make You Scream Like Kevin description: If Joe Pesci asks you who your fave movie star is, you know what to do. In this story, he even calls a young man "kid" like in Home Alone. canonical: https://time.com/5747207/home-alone-joe-pesci/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-11T15:04:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:07.332Z og:title: This Home Alone Legend Will Make You Scream Louder Than Kevin og:description: It involves a crisp $100 bill og:url: https://time.com/5747207/home-alone-joe-pesci/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856c46369d3fbdec/698a0746656a3f3569bd95d4/Joe-Pesci.jpg?branch=production&width=661&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 661 og:image:height: 372 og:image:alt: Joe Pesci og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Home Alone Legend Will Make You Scream Louder Than Kevin twitter:description: It involves a crisp $100 bill twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856c46369d3fbdec/698a0746656a3f3569bd95d4/Joe-Pesci.jpg?branch=production&width=661&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Hilarious _Home Alone_ Legend Involving a $100 Bill Will Make You Scream Louder Than Kevin > Sponsored content. 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The LIFE Picture Collection —Time/Life Pictures by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 11, 2019 3:04 PM UTC In [John Hughes’s 1990](https://time.com/4105161/home-alone-1990/) film, [_Home Alone_](https://time.com/5742708/home-alone-facts/), Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, a young boy who, as the title suggests, is [left home alone](https://time.com/4111768/home-alone-25th-anniversary/) at Christmas when his family accidentally goes on vacation [without him](https://time.com/5485740/mom-arrested-home-alone/). As his mother tries to get back to him, Kevin runs wild through the house and uses all his wiles to protect the house from two thieves, played by Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci, determined to break in for a giant Christmas haul. In one of the film’s many memorable scenes, Kevin tries out his dad’s aftershave and when he slaps it on his cheeks, the alcohol in the product burns and he delivers a remarkable open-mouthed scream. This story about a young _Home Alone_ fan and a $100 bill will make you scream like that. As Christmas a.k.a. the [_Home Alone_ season](https://time.com/5027509/you-may-never-see-home-alone-the-same-way-after-hearing-this-viral-theory/) descends, Twitter user @RodBlackhurst shared the story on the social media site. Back in 1992 he was a 12-year old kid and understandably a huge fan of the film, so when he saw star Joe Pesci at the Newark airport, he went to ask for an autograph. “Joe asked me who my favorite actor was,” @RodBlackhurst wrote. “I said he was. He handed me a crisp $100 and said ‘That’s the right answer, kid.’” That just may be the most perfect [Joe Pesci](https://time.com/5746412/golden-globes-2020-joe-pesci-kieran-culkin/) story ever, particularly if you manage to hear the words in his unique voice. Hopefully the stars of the forthcoming _Home Alone_ remake will be as good to their fans. > [](https://twitter.com/rodblackhurst/status/1204201195075751936) > [](https://twitter.com/TheNelGOD/status/1204204287766646784) > [](https://twitter.com/dannyfdonahue/status/1204217818125754368) > [](https://twitter.com/SamMorrill/status/1204382337133404160) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5747207/home-alone-joe-pesci/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5747207/home-alone-joe-pesci/"},"headline":"This Hilarious Home Alone Legend Involving a $100 Bill Will Make You Scream Louder Than Kevin","datePublished":"2019-12-11T15:04:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:07.332Z","description":"If Joe Pesci asks you who your favorite movie star is, you know what to do.","url":"https://time.com/5747207/home-alone-joe-pesci/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856c46369d3fbdec/698a0746656a3f3569bd95d4/Joe-Pesci.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856c46369d3fbdec/698a0746656a3f3569bd95d4/Joe-Pesci.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joe Pesci","caption":"Joe Pesci","creditText":"The LIFE Picture Collection —Time/Life Pictures","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/5747207/home-alone-joe-pesci/","name":"This Hilarious Home Alone Legend Involving a $100 Bill Will Make You Scream Louder Than Kevin"}}]}] ```