User blog comment:Dorkpool/Stupid Horror Characters/@comment-25052433-20141013191507/@comment-4849011-20141015132803

Has anyone else seen the Leslie Nielsen spoof Spy Hard? There's a scene in which they take the scientist that the villain (played by Andy Griffith) wants to kidnap to a safe house where one of their top experts can help protect... um... wow, it's been so long I can't even remember the gender. In any case, the "expert" is a spoof of Kevin McCallister (the character played by Maccaulay Culkin in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York). While Kevin was bright, this rip-off was pretty much a barely verbal goof. When the evil spies came to the house, his traps failed miserably. His first trap was to strew tacks on the floor close to the door. One spy told the other one, "Oh, be careful!  There are tacks on the floor," and one of them grabbed a nearby broom and swept the tacks away. I enjoyed the first two Home Alone movies (and like parts of the third), but it was funny how epically the traps in Spy Hard failed.