On Christmas Eve, a Associates fan found an easter egg within the episode of the beloved sitcom the place Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) present Joey (Matt LeBlanc) round their new home, and it features a stunning connection to a vacation film basic.
Instagram person Scott Westwood shared a clip of the Season 10 episode, “The One with Princess Consuela,” by which Monica and Chandler invite Joey to come back and go to their new house in upstate New York. However Westwood observed one thing acquainted… the home seems to be identical to the McAllister’s mansion from Residence Alone!
Westwood delivers a forensic investigation of the footage, utilizing clips from each Associates and the 1990 comedy movie and mentioning the similarities. Zooming in on photographs by means of the home windows, Westwood highlights the identical storage on the neighbor’s property and the identical wreath hanging from one other neighbor’s entrance door.
The video has amassed greater than 14 million views and over 600,000 likes. However, most significantly, it reached Daren Janes, who labored because the artwork director on Associates for 209 episodes, together with the episode in query.
“That is hilarious. You caught me,” Janes commented on Westwood’s put up, the place he confirmed the Residence Alone connection.
“I used to be the Artwork Director on FRIENDS & the home was a set. The actors walked within the entrance door, so we noticed outdoors,” Janes defined. “We used the backing from an organization known as Pacific Studios which was made for Residence Alone as a result of it seemed one of the best by means of the door & home windows. Nice eye my good friend!!!!”
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The Residence Alone home has acquired a lot consideration through the years, with the New York Instances simply final week publishing an article on how a lot it will have price the McAllisters to reside there right now. In line with monetary consultants, the six-bedroom home, which is situated in Winnetka, Illinois, would have price the household $665,000 to reside in in 2022 ($305,000 again in 1990).
Followers from all over the world have visited the property at 671 Lincoln Avenue, and in December 2021, Airbnb listed a one-night-only keep in the home, full with Kevin McAllister-style booby traps that he used to take down the Sticky Bandits within the film.
“Many Christmases in the past, the McCallisters went to Paris–nicely, most of us,” learn the itemizing, purportedly written by Buzz (Devin Ratray), who served as host of the occasion. “Although we’re older and wiser now (I’ve even acquired my very own safety agency), we’re by no means too outdated for vacation hijinks.”
The itemizing continued, “So whereas we’re away on trip (all of us, this time), I’m inviting one crew of mischief makers to let their interior 8-year-olds run free in my childhood house.”
In a 2015 interview with Leisure Weekly, Residence Alone director Chris Columbus stated, “We would have liked to forged a home that may work for the stunts and in addition a home that was visually interesting and, if this is sensible, heat and menacing on the similar time. It’s the type of home for those who have been a child, it will be enjoyable to be left house alone.”
Whereas the home was used for lots of the outside photographs, Columbus defined it wasn’t large enough to make use of for all of the interiors. “It was far too small to get the crew within the door,” he stated, noting that many photographs have been filmed on the deserted New Trier Township Excessive College, the place the crew constructed a two-story set contained in the gymnasium.
In line with Parade, in 2012, the then-owners, the Abendshiens, offered the Winnetka home for a reported $1.585 million.
