Swinging paintcans, electrified sinks, a drop from a zipwire … in The Unofficial Science of Home Alone, James Acaster and Guz Khan are fall guys for the Christmas classic’s brutal booby traps
Throughout the show, the experiments end up being markedly pared back. When Acaster is on the receiving end of a can of paint, the plan is to take it to his baking-tin-clad chest rather than the face. A piece of steak will be used like a meaty oven glove to protect him from the red hot doorknob. Khan will don a rubber suit to stop him from being electrocuted and avoid being given third-degree burns to the skull by topping his head with a damp nappy.
For the zipwire stunt, the plan is to wrap Khan and Acaster in shedloads of bubble wrap – after testing it out on the dummy once more. The on-site doc is proudly listing the minimal medical supplies he’s had to utilise thus far on the shoot , while the crew hoist aloft a mannequin loosely adorned with air-filled plastic sheeting.
Fortunately, not every part of The Unofficial Science of Home Alone involves potentially flamboyant injury. At one point, Khan and Acaster order numerous pizzas so they can recreate the moment where Kevin terrifies a delivery boy by playing him audio of a gangster calling him a “filthy animal”. But instead of using the clip from the original – again, presumably for legal reasons – they play a series of recordings of Acaster impersonating a cockney wiseguy.
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