No-Life's Home Alone

No-Life's Home Alone is the second No-Life special and the twenty third installemnt of Spyman's Cosmos overall. Originally planned to be released on Christmas of 2017, it ultimately premiered a year later, on December 25, 2018. It was created by The Philmer and co-written by him and Dr Saturn, making it the first video in the history of Spyman's Cosmos to be written by more than one person.
The special is inspired by the movie Home Alone and focuses on No-Life, being forgotten by his parents and staying alone in the house for Christmas. Coincidentally, at that time, two criminals target his house to rob it, which forces No-Life to fight them and defend his home.
== History ==
After the premiere of A Christmas Carol by No-Life in 2016, The Philmer didn't plan making any sequels, as the video was supposed to be a standalone, not connected to any universe. However, with time, he started thinking about making Christmas specials every year. This ultimately changed on June 28, 2017, when Us vs. Us 2/4 premiered, introducing No-Life into the bigger Spyman's Cosmos universe and thus connecting his special with it. On the same day, The Philmer was messaged by Dr Saturn, who came up with an idea for a possible second No-Life special titled No-Life's Home Alone. He offered it to be a collaboration, meaning they would both write it and it would be released on The Philmer's channel. The latter however, proposed splitting it into two parts, with the first one premiering on his, and the other one on Saturn's channel. The works on the script started on the same day.
However, Dr Saturn stepped away from the project at the beginning of August to focus on his own, later cancelled, Christmas series called ADVENTure. Before that, he did manage to make the intro for his part though. Sadly, due to private problems and starting the animation too late, The Philmer did not manage to finish the video for Christmas of 2017 and though he planned to finish it all on the night of Dcember 24/25, he gave up due to being sick. This ended up for the better, as many of the frames made that night were rushed and they were later remastered next year.
After re-thinking many things in his life, including his failure on No-Life's Home Alone, The Philmer swore to himself that he will release the video in 2018, no matter what. The production was restarted on November 13, 2018 and lasted until December 24. Due to his voice changing a lot throughout the year, The Philmer also decided that it will be his first video with voice acting and so he dubbed the two main villains. Eventually, despite some editing issues, the special premiered on December 25 of that year and received very positive opinions.
== Synopsis ==
No-Life's back in another Christmas special! This year, when his family goes to Paris and accidentally leaves him alone, he has to face two sneaky criminals - Tobias Sanders and Larry Mealey, who choose his house as their next target. 
== Plot ==
On December 23, 2018, No-Life is awaken by his father, who says the exact same thing as Ghost of the Past Christmas last year, making No-Life scared and confused, which leads to his usual screaming. No-Life's dad tells him to get up and pack his things, as the family is going to their Auntie Florence from Paris for Christmas. No-Life gets into an argument, but eventually gets up. While looking through the window of his room, he's looking at the snow falling and thinks of how much fun he could have with his friends right now, only to realize that he hasn't got any friends. Instead of breaking down though, he decides that he doesn't care and goes downstairs to watch television.
During commercials, No-Life's mom enters the room and unplugs the TV, asking No-Life if he's ready to go. He replies that he's not, as he doesn't want to go anywhere, so his mother rushes him, saying that grandma and grandpa are about to arrive. Right when they do, No-Life says a bad thing about them, which angers his dad, who tells him to go to the attic and wait until he's called, so he doesn't cause more trouble. When No-Life's dad is packing the luggages into the car trunk, he is observed by someone with binoculars, hidden behind the bush. When the family drives away, the people behind the bush are revealed. They are two robbers - Tobias Sanders and Larry Mealey. Tobias explains his plan to his a little dumber friend Larry. Despite being embarassed by Larry's constant stupid questions, Tobias says they will come back there at night.
Meanwhile, it turns out that No-Life is still on the attic, having been forgotten by his family. Complaining about his long waiting, he decides to go downstairs, despite all. There, he realizes that he's been left alone and can do whatever he wants and his crazy extacy is shown. At night, when he's watching TV, the doorbell rings, so No-Life goes to open the door, thinking that it's the Playstation 4 he ordered. To his surprise, behind the door are Tobias and Larry, who were checking if the house is really empty. No-Life shuts the door in front of them and realizes they are criminals. He knows that they'll try to steal anything that's valuable to him, so he promises to defend the house. 
Tobias tells Larry to prepare the plungers to climb up the wall, but as Larry doesn't know what the plungers are and Tobias can't really explain it, he decides to climb up himself. However, when he does, he is quickly hit by No-Life and his keyboard and falls down, deciding that they should try enter by the back door. He tells Larry to break the door with a crowbar, but he fails, so Tobias does this by himself as well. After entering, he is told by Larry to be careful, but he doesn't listen and soon slips on toy bricks. Then, they both want to attack No-Life, who's on the staircase, but he knocks them down with his potato gun and comes back upstairs. When they arrive under his room, he plays a clip from That Really Old Cop Movie, which the robbers confuse as actual policemen and get nervous. Larry carefully opens the door, making a can of red paint fall down and splash onto his hair. Tobias comments how sadistic "that child is", which leads to another argument with his co-worker. While they're focused on themselves, No-Life attacks them and makes them unconcious, eventually locking in his room.
He then comes downstairs and watches Home Alone in TV, noticing that he's just had a similar adventure as the main character. After it's over, he remembers about the criminals and just when he enters the room and finds the rope they were binded with on the floor, he sees them not that far away, escaping with his piggy bank and, most importantly, computer. Because of that, he jumps out of the windows and starts chasing them. They get into their car parked a few blocks away and when Larry starts the engine, No-Life jumps in front of the car. Being frightened, the criminals accidentally drive over him and think they killed him. No-Life however somehow sneaked under the car and held onto the back door. When jumps inside the van, he's met by both criminals and quickly realizes that no one is driving, so he jumps out with his computer, leaving the villains for their own. They soon hit a wall in a backstreet.
Eventually police arrives and No-Life meets Policeman Henry, who's impressed by the fact he was able to catch the criminals that the police wasn't able to for a long time. He also says No-Life will receive a 15,000 zlotys reward, but first needs to make a report on police station. After four hours, it's already dawn and when No-Life comes back home, he finds his family there. His mom says that they came back because of bad weather conditions and right after that, she enters the house and notices the mess, left after the battle with criminals. No-Life screams after getting a computer ban for the next year and the video ends.
== Cast ==
Character 	Voice actor
No-Life 	The voice of Angry German Kid
Tobias Sanders,
Larry Mealey	The Philmer
No-Life's parents	Text-to-speech voices
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* No-Life
=== Secondary ===
* Tobias Sanders (debut)
* Larry Mealey (debut)
* No-Life's Mom
*No-Life's Dad
=== Episodic ===
* No-Life's Grandma
* No-Life's Grandpa (debut) (voice)
* Policeman Henry (debut)
*Policeman Henry's partner (debut) (cameo)
* Henry (debut) (cameo)
* James (debut) (cameo)
* Ghost of the Past Christmas (mentioned)
* Auntie Florence (mentioned)
* Rose (mentioned)
* Mangle (easter-egg)
* Dr Rex (easter-egg)
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Just like its predecessor, the special was supposed to have a Polish version. When asked about it by his friend in December 2018, The Philmer answered that there will be one. However, it ultimately wasn't made due to very little time for recording the dialogues. Instead, The Philmer made Polish captions on YouTube.
* Originally, Policeman Henry was supposed to be voiced by Dr Saturn, but he refused, due to being sick. However he did end up in the role a year later, in How No-Life Stole Christmas.
* As mentioned, it was supposed to be a collab between The Philmer and Dr Saturn, split into two parts. At one point, Saturn's part was supposed to be No-Life Alone in New York, as a parody of the Home Alone sequel.
* At one point, The Philmer thought about using two villains from BSoD's Gang as the robbers.
*Don't Stop Me Now by Queen was actually supposed to play during No-Life's extacy scene. He even references the reasons why it was deleted - the fear of copyright strike and the fact that a child like him shouldn't know that song.
* After renewing the production in 2018, there were plans to make No-Life do a Fortnite default dance after defeating the criminals. The idea was thrown away due to requiring a lot of work and being cringe.
* Originally, the chase after Tobias and Larry was supposed to be longer and would feature a Pac-Man parody sequence and crashing into a few houses in the neighbourhood. In one of them, The Philmer's avatar would be seen.
=== Continuity ===
*No-Life's Dad wakes No-Life up with the exact same line Ghost of the Past Christmas used to wake him up in A Christmas Carol by No-Life.
=== References ===
* The ad playing when No-Life is watching TV is a Christmas commercial of Merci. For a few years, it has been an inside joke between The Philmer and his friends, who often used to quote it with grammar mistakes.
*There's a small reading corner in No-Life's living room, with a few books on the bookshelf. The books are called: Acrobat, The Scarlet Star, AHL, Acrobat 3, Mr. Justice, Elastico, Flaming Heroes, The Flare, Nature-Man, Team Y, Team Y: Bonus Stories and Acrobat 2. These were all planned or already released books for The Philmer's FJM Shared Universe, also known as FJM Novels Universe.
*When No-Life opens the fridge to take out cake, there are also two cans. One signed "Majonez", which literally means just "mayonnaise" in Polish and the other one "Zajebisty", which means something along the lines of "dope" and "fucking awesome". The latter is a nod to an old Polish video called Pasztet Zajebisty (Dope Pâté), which was a popular meme.
*U-Tub is a parody of YouTube.
*When No-Life plays a clip from That Really Old Cop Movie, there are plenty easter-eggs.
** First one is the number of views, likes and dislikes. All the numbers are considered "nice" by the meme community.
** Another one are the other, proposed videos. From up to down, their titles are: Hey Vsauce, T-series is gay, APOLOGY VIDEO *not clickbait*, B000000bz and Attention all Fortnite gamers.
** The last one are two comments. One coming from a user called Mangle_Mango, which says: "The lead actor is so handsome". The other comes from a user simply called Dr Rex, who says: ":("
*** This is a reference to the running gag that is Dr Rex's crush on Mangle.
*The "Boom" after the van crashes into a wall is a reference to Dr Saturn. It appeared in some of his very old videos and the exact image was easy to get, as he released these videos in a compilation on YouTube.
* A voice-over during the end credits says "Coming up on BBC 0, Doctor Who Christmas special. Wait... Mr. Chibnall, what the heck?". This was a commentary on then-current situation of Doctor Who, as the new showrunner, Chris Chibnall, did not make an annual Christmas episode, breaking the 13 years old tradition, lasting ever since the show's revival in 2005. Instead of that, a New Years' Day special was made.
** BBC Zero is also a parody of BBC One - the station broadcasting Doctor Who.
* The credits feature a lot of easter eggs, crediting random people, that obviously didn't have anything to do with the production. Among them, there were: Magda Gessler (the host of a popular Polish cooking show Kuchenne Rewolucje), Jesus Christ, Nicholas Coppernicus and Joseph Stalin.
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