Home Alone - Timeline

[Pro Bot]

This is the timeline for the Home Alone film series, including the six Home Alone movies, the Angels with Filthy Souls short, the :'DRYVRS web-series, Daniel Stern's in-universe response video to the first episode of :'DRYVRS and the Google Assistant advertisement featuring Macaulay Culkin.

Timeline Reasoning
In Home Alone, the calendar in Kevin's house matches December 1990. He is 8 years old.

In Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, Kevin is 9 years old, placing it in 1991. The videos showing the family's previous Christmas can be taken to occur directly after the events of Home Alone. Marv does state that Kevin shows up whenever he's about to rob somewhere, implying that he's met him more than once prior to this film, but it's vague enough that it can still work.

There are two references placing this film in 1992. The ledger at the Plaza Hotel and the New York Post that Harry has, which was dated December 24, 1992. Matching with this, Kevin is stated to be 10 years old. However, there are numerous references to the first film as having occurred last year.

1. Kate McCallister references Kevin's wish from the first film coming true a year ago.
2. Kevin tells the airport workers that his plane can't leave without him, as he was left on his own last year and it nearly wrecked his Christmas.
3. Kate tells the police that Kevin was left at home by accident last year.
4. Harry asks Marv if he remembers what happened last year when they approach the stairs.

These can be instead taken as references to Home Alone 4.

1. Kevin wished that he was an only child and got to experience being one while at his father's girlfriend's house.
2. Kevin wasn't technically left home alone in the fourth instalment, but he might as well have been.
3. Same as above.
4. Harry could be referencing when Marv encountered Kevin during Home Alone.

In Home Alone 3, there is an explicit January 8th date through dialogue. January 9th is a Tuesday in the film, which places it in 1996.

In Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, there is an event marked December 18th. It is stated to be on the weekend, which matches with Sunday December 18th, 2011.

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Timeline
193?
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Angels with Filthy Souls

198?
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:'DRYVRS 1x02, "Bob's Direction Home" (0:01:02 - 0:01:13)

1990
December 21
Home Alone (0:00:00 - 0:12:57)

December 22
Home Alone (0:12:58 - 0:34:27)

December 23
Home Alone (0:34:28 - 0:51:22)

December 24
Home Alone (0:51:23 - 1:32:09)

December 25
Home Alone (1:32:10 - 1:39:00)

1991
December 22
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (0:00:00 - 0:15:42)

December 23
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (0:15:43 - 0:42:08)

December 24
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (0:42:09 - 1:00:40)

December 25
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (1:00:41 - 1:23:10)

1992
December 22
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (0:00:00 - 0:10:24)

December 23
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (0:10:25 - 0:39:59)

December 24
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (0:40:00 - 1:18:49)

December 25
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1:18:50 - 1:55:48)

1996
January 7
Home Alone 3 (0:00:00 - 0:03:27)

January 8
Home Alone 3 (0:03:28 - 0:14:45)

January 9
Home Alone 3 (0:14:46 - 0:27:56)

January 10
Home Alone 3 (0:27:57 - 0:34:43)

January 11
Home Alone 3 (0:34:44 - 0:55:39)

January 12
Home Alone 3 (0:55:40 - 1:36:39)

2011
December 16
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (0:00:00 - 0:15:18)

December 17
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (0:15:19 - 0:28:00)

December 18
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (0:28:01 - 1:23:32)
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (1:27:43 - 1:28:05)

December 19
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (1:23:33 - 1:26:23)

December 25
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (1:26:24 - 1:27:42)

2015
December
:'DRYVRS 1x01, "Just Me In The House By Myself"
Home Alone Wet Bandit Resurfaces and Responds to Kevin MacCalister's Threatening Video

2016
????
:'DRYVRS 1x02, "Bob's Direction Home"

2017
????
:'DRYVRS 1x03, "I Sing The Brother Electric" (0:00:00 - 0:01:01)
:'DRYVRS 1x03, "I Sing The Brother Electric" (0:01:14 - 0:08:20)
:'DRYVRS 1x04, "Scare Tactics"
:'DRYVRS 1x05, "Transfer of Power"

2018
December 20
Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant (0:00:00 - 0:00:36)

December 21
Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant (0:00:37 - 0:00:58)

2021
December
Home Sweet Home Alone (0:00:00 - 0:11:42)

December
Home Sweet Home Alone (0:11:43 - 0:


Viewing Order
Angels with Filthy Souls
Home Alone
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 3
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
:'DRYVRS 1x01, "Just Me In The House By Myself"
Home Alone Wet Bandit Resurfaces and Responds to Kevin MacCalister's Threatening Video
:'DRYVRS 1x02, "Bob's Direction Home"
:'DRYVRS 1x03, "I Sing The Brother Electric"
:'DRYVRS 1x04, "Scare Tactics"
:'DRYVRS 1x05, "Transfer of Power"
Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant
Home Sweet Home Alone

 

[iceman109]

Could Angels with Filthy Souls technically be another universe considering it's a movie?

 

[Pro Bot]

Yep. In the context of this timeline though, it's a piece of fiction. It was included on the blu-ray release of Home Alone.

 

[iceman109]

What about Detective Pikachu?

 

[Pro Bot]

We'll see. It might be part of the Pokemon anime continuity.

 

[iceman109]

Is Pokémon even supposed to be set on Earth?

 

[Pro Bot]

Is Pokémon even supposed to be set on Earth?

Well, they reference the concept of a Frenchman in Detective Pikachu, so France exists within that continuity apparently.

 

[Pro Bot]

Just for the sake of interest.

Detective Pikachu is set around "12", whatever that means. Is it set in December or is it set in 2012? They have normal calendars elsewhere.