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After working together as a stand-up act, recording artists, and movie stars since the early 1970s, the duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong split up in 1985. But they left behind a legacy of stoner-friendly movies like Up in Smoke waiting for each new generation of comedy/cannabis enthusiasts to discover. (Renting them too often, however, risks blowing your cover as a drug dealer, this episode implies.) In the newspaper we see Dr. Brenner reading in 1979, we can see four horoscopes, two of which contradict the other two. The first two are advising keeping one’s ideas to oneself, while the other two are advising seeking input from others. All seem to be about “clever thoughts,” “fantastic” ideas, and “ingenious plans.” Interestingly, “idea” is also one of the crossword puzzle answers. What does it all mean? Uhhh…you tell us? Magic 8-Ball The mini pegs are a little small and fiddly when you get to the denser template images. Plus, pushing them in can make the tips of your fingers tender. And pulling the pegs out to change the template can be just as time-consuming as putting them in. But again, it’s a nice mindless activity that requires gentle concentration plus you get to re-use the templates again. Haunted by Billy’s death, Max is going through a hard time as Stranger Things 4 opens. She has trouble communicating with her friends, especially Lucas, but she has found a way to console herself via Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” the first single from her great 1985 album Hounds of Love. Though a much bigger hit in the U.K. than the U.S., the song helped solidify her fandom in the States among cool alternative kids like, well, Max, and its recent surge to the top of the iTunes chart suggests it could win her a whole new generation of fans. For the curious, Hounds of Love is a great starting point, but you really can’t go wrong with any of Bush’s albums. Since scoring her first No. 1 hit in the U.K. at the age of 19 with “Wuthering Heights,” Bush has determinedly done her own thing and expected listeners to follow. Sometimes that means waiting out long hiatuses. She remains active — and even performed her first concerts since the ’70s in 2014 — but hasn’t released an album of new material since 2011. Nancy’s had a Tom Cruise poster up in her room for a few seasons. While she seems a little embarrassed by it when Robin points it out, dismissing it as “old,” the poster actually puts her just a little ahead of the curve, culturally speaking. Risky Business made Cruise a star in 1983, but, in just a few months, Top Gun would make him a superstar in 1986. Nothing to be embarrassed about here, Nancy.
You’re bigger than Madonna to them,” Dr. Owens tells Eleven. That’s a big statement in 1986, given that the artist had already released “Like a Virgin” and was on the verge of releasing her third album, True Blue. Ghostbusters (again)As El attempts to regain her powers, she is shown concentrating on crushing a “Coca-Cola Classic” can. New Coke, with its modified formula and less desirable taste, had just been introduced in 1985, but by this time in 1986, the company had realized their marketing blunder and reintroduced the original recipe with the “classic” branding. Be Kind, Rewind Eddie reads to The Hellfire Club an article from Newsweek regarding the dangers of teens becoming obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons. The cover appears to be from the March 3, 1986 issue picturing Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos and including a reference to the space shuttle Challenger disaster just three months earlier: “NASA’s Fatal Mistake.” The article in question, however, was probably adapted from a September ’85 Newsweek piece entitled, “Kids: The Deadliest Game” about the perils of D&D. A cardboard cutout of Freddy Krueger, villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, greets customers at Family Video. This is both an era-appropriate bit of set dressing — home video helped turn Freddy into a horror superstar — and a tip of the hat. Vecna, Stranger Things 4’s big bad, resembles a cross between the Cenobites of the Hellraiser series and Krueger (with a touch of the aforementioned Iron Maiden mascot Eddie thrown in the mix as well). Vecna’s hallucinatory approach to claiming his prey is especially indebted to Krueger, but instead of invading his victims’ dreams, Vecna would appear to bring the dreams directly to them. Dustin will even make the connection himself in a future episode. (Look for Nightmare star Robert Englund to show up later in the season, too.)
But one is Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade,” which also wouldn’t immediately seem to fit the “dream” theme until you realize it was originally known as “Now I Lay Me Down to Weep,” which suddenly sounds…much more sinister. “Red Sails in the Sunset” seems to be the outlier here, as we can’t figure out how this might fit the theme. Stranger Things Season 4 Episode 6: “The Dive” verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Stranger Things made its name on ’80s pop-culture references and homages to the ’80s movies, TV shows, and books that inspired it, and its fourth season proudly continues that tradition. While the show has over time evolved into something bigger than the sum of its ’80s references, knowing a bit more about the various cinematic, musical, and fashion nods in this 1986-set season makes the whole experience more enriching. You don’t have to recognize every last reference to enjoy the show, but a little context never hurt anyone’s appreciation of anything — and if it leads viewers to, say, discover the music of Kate Bush and want to hear more, all the better. With that in mind, here’s an episode-by-episode guide to the season’s key references, from “Running Up That Hill” to Lite-Brite. “Chapter One: The Hellfire Club” Suzie’s computer of choice — and the others’ introduction to this strange thing called “the internet” — is the Amiga. Commodore’s successor to the Commodore 64, it first became widely available in early 1986, making Suzie and her family early adopters. Though initially successful, proving competitive with both Apple and IBM’s offerings of the era, it proved unsustainable, particularly after Commodore’s 1994 bankruptcy. Robin wants Steve to watch Doctor Zhivago with her, but Steve shuns movies on “double VHS.” Because most standard play VHS tapes held 120-160 minutes, the 1966 film’s 3 hour runtime would have necessitated switching tapes at some point, a thankless procedure in the pre-DVD ’80s era.
You should be able to re-use the holed template as there is normally a little colour left on the edge of the hole if you look carefully.
But all of the little niggles are easily overlooked as the nostalgia and Stranger Things theme totally wins the day. This is the kind of retro gift that adults are going to love just as much as the teens!!! Having the 4 different light modes adds to the fun. With certain modes suiting certain templates more. The flashing mode was the most annoying and we tended to like white light and rotating flash the best for the templates we used. Murray and Joyce fly to Alaska, and El faces serious consequences. Robin and Nancy dig up dirt on Hawkins’ demons. Dr. Owens delivers sobering news.” Cerebro
A senior at Hawkins High, where Mike and the others are mere freshmen, Eddie is the school’s resident Dungeon Master/drug dealer. He’s also a heavy-metal enthusiast, so it’s probably no coincidence that he has the same name as Iron Maiden’s mascot. Eddie’s introduction is sandwiched by a pair of menacing songs from the Cramps’ 1980 album Songs the Lord Taught Us. Is “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” its name taken from a 1957 movie starring Michael Landon, some kind of clue? (Probably not, but it’s a cool song.) New Yorkers Should Line Up Behind the City’s Janitors New Yorkers Should Line Up Behind the City’s Janitors Pretty strong Hellraiser body horror vibes when we see Vecna in his realm in the Upside Down, right? We wrote much more about Vecna here. Stranger Things Season 4 Episode 3: “The Monster and the Superhero”
Although we only see El’s hero diorama being presented in class, Will is seen carrying into school a poster board emblazoned with the name Alan Turing, the British scientist who despite his heroics in World War II was prosecuted for his homosexuality and chemically castrated. The Evil Dead
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Combine ham and pineapple and you have yourself a Hawaiian pizza, right? Only sort of. “Hawaiian” pizza can be traced to Greek-born Canadian pizza restauranteur Sotirios “Sam” Panopoulos, who drew inspiration from Chinese dishes that mixed fruit and meat. He applied that mixture to pizza in 1962 and it spread from there, making its way into pizza chains across the world in the decades that followed (and dividing pizza enthusiasts ever since). Erica Sinclair has to be brought up to speed in the supernatural history of Hawkins, so she asks the veterans to explain by using the phrase, “Be kind, rewind.” As video store employees, Robin and Steve would be proud; customers were always encouraged to rewind their movie rental tapes before returning them for the next person to borrow. Perhaps Robin’s crush in the school band should also have heeded that advice! Skittles A plane brings Mike to California – and a dead body brings Hawkins to a halt. Nancy goes looking for leads. A shaken Eddie tells the gang what he saw.” Ocean Pacific Suzie’s family home is filled with activity and screaming kids, including a pint-size aspiring filmmaker making a movie while wearing a pencil-thin mustache reminiscent of the kind favored by cult-favorite filmmaker John Waters. It’s a funny, if unlikely, influence to find its way into a family of devout Mormons, especially since Waters wouldn’t make anything resembling a family-friendly movie until Hairspray in 1988.
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