STOP EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING!
A glaring plot hole in the first Home Alone film seems to have an explanation.
Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister has to defend himself from burglars after his parents accidentally leave him home alone during the Christmas holidays.
His parents are unable to contact him after a storm causes a tree to fall on the phone line near their home, but later on in the film Kevin is shown ordering a pizza (the arrival of which leads to one of the most memorable film scenes ever).
Of course people were a bit confused by this, but one Reddit user phire, commenting in a sub from last year, had their own solution.
‘I always assumed the tree actually severed the main trunk line to the whole town, but local calls within the same exchange still worked.’
Well, Huffington Post had a chat with Hank Hultquist, AT&T’s Vice President for Federal Regulatory Affairs to find out whether the pizza order could have been possible because it was a local call.
He said: ‘Everything is changing now because of all this phone capability is moving into the cloud, but in 1990, that was absolutely a plausible scenario.
‘When you’re trying to call from Paris, now you’re relying on a whole series of connections including undersea cables, any one of which could have a problem, which would prevent you from reaching some particular telephone number.’
Well that's that sorted...phew!
...ok back to work!
