The John Carpenter film was reviled in its time but went on to become a sci-fi cult classic. Less impressive for its time, perhaps, is the poster for 1982’s The Thing on Mike’s basement wall. – Max has an Endless Summer poster in her bedroom, which makes perfect sense. – And of course he’s having a blast singing along to Jim Croce’s “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” during his moment of parental victory. – Hopper is enjoying a delicious bowl of Honey Smacks cereal, which was formerly known as Sugar Smacks before that was determined to maybe not be the best thing.
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– The army of people implied to take human forms of their hosts, including Billy, is very evocative of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the original movie of which was also a Cold War story about the terror of Soviet, collectivist invasion, and the Philip Kaufman remake is pretty damn good, too. – They also are shown in flashback to hug his face, a la Alien, which has been the Mind Flayer’s M.O. – The strange beings backlit in blue approaching Billy sure feel like an intentional nod to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a movie this show has thrown PLENTY of love to over the years. Stranger Things Season 3 Episode 2: The Mall Rats – The exploding rats in the abandoned mill feels like a riff on “Graveyard Shift,” Stephen King’s 1970 short story about mutating rats in a forgotten sub-basement waiting to devour poor bastards. – The Hawkins Post editors are kicking around an idea on Iran, no doubt focusing on the attempted release of American hostages in Lebanon in 1985, but it almost felt like an accidental homage to current events. – Other great music cues in this episode include the Stray Cats “Rock This Town,” Cutting Crew’s “(I Just) Died in Your Arms,” The Cars’ immortal “Moving in Stereo,” and the insufferable, miserably awful garbage that is “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon.
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Plus some Stranger Things viewers might be wishing the same thing for Hopper and Joyce rather than for Bob himself. Interestingly, Bob is shown in a flashback lamenting the breakup of Cheers’ starcrossed couple, Sam and Diane, wishing they would “just get back together again already,” but 1984 was only the start of the famous break-up in season 2. – Poor Joyce Byers has to watch Cheers by herself and is missing Bob Newby. This doesn’t mean Billy is referencing that, the show is, Billy wouldn’t know about Stand by Me because that movie wasn’t released until 1986. It’s a deliberate reference to the infamous pie eating contest in Stand by Me. – Billy calling that poor kid “lard ass” is more than just a random bit of bullying, power tripping, assholery (hey, Billy could totally run for President! Yeah, yeah, “keep your politics out of my entertainment” blahblahblah…fuck you). Karen must be on the tail end of her supply since “Coca Cola Classic” returned to shelves by summer of that year. The April 1985 marketing gimmick was famously a failure since everyone preferred the taste of the original formula. – Karen is drinking a “New Coke” poolside as she waits for Billy’s appearance. Are the “Save Downtown” flyers a nod to “Save the Clock Tower” from Back to the Future?
– Radio Shack being out of business feels like a meta joke. – The inclusion of Jake Busey just has to be a nod to Gary Busey, who was doing his “best work” in the ‘80s, right? – Dustin compares his mythical Suzie to Phoebe Cates, which any boy of the ‘80s could you tell you is high praise after Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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