What’s your favorite ’80s reference in Stranger Things?
Netflix's sci-fi drama is nothing if not a pop culture smorgasbord from that decade
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(Clockwise from bottom-left): Ghostbusters (Columbia Pictures); Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard in Stranger Things (Netflix); E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Universal Pictures); Gabriella Pizzolo in Stranger Things (Netflix); Winona Ryder in Stranger Things (Netflix); Noah Schnapp in Stranger Things (Netflix) Image: Rebecca Fassola
The long-awaited fourth season of Stranger Things is almost here. And since the Netflix hit essentially doubles as a time machine, transporting audiences several decades into the past, we naturally decided that the latest AVQ&A should ask: What’s your favorite ’80s reference in Stranger Things?
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Going to pitch a show that is just a slideshow of random 80’s products while Killing Jokes’s Eighties plays on a loop.
My favorite is the diminishing returns of sequels. What could be more 80s?
Every 80s reference in Stranger Things is my jam.
How about the non-chain discount store like the one Joyce worked at? Those were around in the 1980s but were pretty much killed by malls, Wal-Mart, and things like Dollar Tree in the 1990s.
How about the fact that a single mother could afford to live in a house and raise two children on a retail salary? Today Joyce would need to have an Onlyfans.
Like, this show is SOOOOO 80s I love 80s references
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I like that The A.V. Club is still doing AVQ&As, but I hope they’re not all promotional (“What’s your favorite thing from this show we like?”).
All of them except that Neverending Story thing. I love Neverending Story but that moment in Stranger Things was a hard crash into a low point the season didn’t manage to recover from. Not so much puncturing the show’s balloon as cutting a bit slash into it that made an unpleasantly wet farty noise as the whole thing deflated.