Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Scene 5 Summary

  • It's now 1:00 PM and the kids are traversing the yard. They reach a muddy river, complete with dead bugs and general grossness.
  • Suddenly, Nick has an idea. Quark, their dog, has really good hearing (as all dogs do), so they can signal him by whistling and hitch a ride until they reach the house. They climb a blade of grass and commence the whistling.
  • Inside, Mama and Papa are calling neighbors and friends about the kids. No luck. They open the door and let Quark outside to do his doggy business.
  • The kids are still climbing when Quark emerges. He heads over, but gets chased away by the Thompson's cat. What a coward.
  • The commotion causes the kids to fall off the grass, landing Nick right in the middle of a ripe flower. And he's allergic to pollen.
  • Meanwhile, the two mamas meet each other in the yard and ask about the location of their respective children.
  • The kids hear their parents shouting their names before hearing a much scarier sound—a swarm of bees. Nick gets snagged and Russ jumps on the back of the bee in an attempt to save him.
  • The two kids hold on desperately as they fly through the yard.
  • Incidentally, both of their dads try to knock them out of the sky. Mr. Szalinski even uses a baseball bat.
  • The kids are eventually launched off the bee. Diane is heading out to look for the kids, so she tells Wayne to give the house purchase paperwork to her clients, the Boorsteins, when they drop by. Because that won't go wrong.
  • As he stands there, holding the baseball bat with which he almost murdered his son, Wayne looks up at his broken window and starts thinking…