What criminal alias do Marv and Harry use in "Home Alone"?

Every criminal duo needs a calling card. In the Christmas classic "Home Alone," burglars Marv and Harry target Chicago's wealthy suburbs while eight-year-old Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McCallister stands between them and his family's house. As these two thieves make their rounds, they leave behind an unusual signature that inspires a name from Marv - but what did they call themselves?

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The answer is: The Wet Bandits

Look, if you're going to rob houses, maybe don't flood them all. Just a thought. But try telling that to Marv, who insisted on clogging every sink and letting the water run in each house they hit. "That's our calling card!" he proudly tells Harry from their van. "All the great ones leave their mark. We're the Wet Bandits!" His partner's response? An exasperated "You're sick, you know that? You're really sick."

It takes a special kind of magic to turn two burglars into beloved movie villains, but Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci nail it. Pesci's Harry thinks he's a criminal mastermind, strutting around with his gold tooth and hot iron. Meanwhile, Stern plays Marv like a kid who just really wants to make his mark on the world – even if that mark is property damage. Together, they're just competent enough to break into houses but dim enough to get absolutely wrecked by a third-grader's elaborate traps.

When they returned in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," they'd traded water for adhesive. The "Sticky Bandits" were born when Marv had his next brilliant idea: covering his hands with tape to steal from charity collection tins. Apparently regular stealing wasn't flashy enough.

No other "Home Alone" movie villains ever quite matched up. Sure, they tried, but there's something special about the original duo. They're like your uncle's dumbest friends who decided to become criminals – threatening enough to create stakes, but stupid enough that watching them slip on micro machines and take paint cans to the face feels like karma rather than cruelty. The police eventually caught them by following their trail of flooded houses across Chicago's suburbs, because of course they did.

In the end, that's what makes the Wet Bandits perfect. They're not evil masterminds or cartoon bad guys – they're just two idiots who picked the wrong house and got their butts handed to them by a kid who was basically Kevin from "We Need to Talk About Kevin," but in a fun way. Sometimes the best villains are the ones who defeat themselves. Usually by flooding every house they rob.