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Netflix Original: Stranger Things (1 Viewer)

My neighborhood was pretty sweet as a kid in the 80's.  I lived a block away from the city park and 2 blocks from the city pool.  Spent all summer on bikes, swimming and playing wiffle ball.  My skin would turn about 20 shades darker for 5 months that was spent mostly outside and shirtless.  I won't be shocked if skin cancer is in my future.  The neighborhood was a hodgepodge of kids of various ages.  My best friends lived in other neighborhoods, but I hung out with some older kids on my street during the Summer.  There was the large family of home schooled kids who were all a little odd.  There was the really older kid next door who taught me all about girls through the posters in his room and late night HBO.  There was the rich kid up the street who had the sweet driveway basketball court we would play at until dark.  And then there was the river and the woods where we would run around and swim when we were bored with the pool and its 10 ft high diving board.  Winter snows were a festival of sledding.  My house was right at the top of a hill. 

This was the house, lived there from ages 3-12.  We finally moved to a bigger, nicer place when I went to Jr. High.  The two story house to the left (North) wasn't there and that entire lot was my yard and the neighborhood wiffle ball field.  I loved that yard.  It was all fenced in and we usually had a dog or two running around in there.  So many great memories.

 
  • Hot Tub Time Machine
  • Goldberg's
  • Ready Player One
  • Stranger Things
What other recent shows, books, or movies are set in the 80's and pay homage?

 
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Jayrod said:
This was the house, lived there from ages 3-12.  We finally moved to a bigger, nicer place when I went to Jr. High.  The two story house to the left (North) wasn't there and that entire lot was my yard and the neighborhood wiffle ball field.  I loved that yard.  It was all fenced in and we usually had a dog or two running around in there.  So many great memories.
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Here's the house I grew up in The house with the brown door, second floor.

Slightly different environment than yours. :D

The neighborhood went through a tough time but is making a huge comeback as the hipsters are moving in. Probably about $800k for that house right now.

 
Thats pretty Huxtable right there.  My neighborhood was/is more wooded then either of you guys by the looks of it.  The good news is we all made the best if where we were and are still here to laugh about it.

 
Pik, Fanatic, Jayrod and some others sound very much like where I grew up.  0-10 I lived in a middle-class neighborhood with small houses ...most people would consider it lower middle-class now.  No one had central air and brick homes were "big time".  Houses were 900sf-1100sf, but that was pretty normal in the late 50s-mid-60s (born in '58) .  We had a giant field a street away that was in-behind a small, local shopping plaza (small grocery store, drug store, and McCrorys  - also had a Lawson dairy (famous for their dip and chip chop ham) and King Kwik (first Icee I ever had) close by.  

We had bb gun fights in those fields, played "war" and build crappy forts with scrap wood we could get together.  I had the best yard for sports and most all of the guys were 5-6 years older than me - so they put up with me in order to use my yard, plus their moms probably made them :D .  I had the nasty old lady next door (left) that would take any ball, frisbee, etc that went into her yard ...anyone else have one of those?  (note:  if you looked at the pic - the left 3rd of our house wasn't there when we were - it was a carport and yard - so the yard was a lot better than it looks for sports - and everything looked bigger as a kid.)

Wiffle ball was huge.  BTW - the "official" wiffle bat was great ...the wiffle balls with the holes ...no so good .  ALWAYS play with the wiffle balls with NO HOLES.  They curve better and they go further.  We played yard tackle football, jarts, whatever.  We could ride our bikes about a half mile away to the town park (big) with ball fields when we wanted to up our game and play on real fields.  We played street 2-hand touch football - and actually did plays where it was about going to the left corner of the chevy and button-hook.  

Our local little league was awesome - and always hosted the state championship - fences with advertising signs, manicured grass infields, real dugouts, announcing systems, 

 
This makes me remember "going deeeep" in my buddy's yard......one one one vs the neighborhood stud.....buddy launches it....I diiiiiive......head-first into an elm tree.  Bad day.  Baaaaad day.  Oh well, kids bounce back.

Not like today, right snowflakes?!@?!

 
facook said:
This makes me remember "going deeeep" in my buddy's yard......one one one vs the neighborhood stud.....buddy launches it....I diiiiiive......head-first into an elm tree.  Bad day.  Baaaaad day.  Oh well, kids bounce back.

Not like today, right snowflakes?!@?!
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My buddies parents went away for the week. They were from India and kinda strict with time in regards to the kids. Kid and his lil bro always had to go inside at 9pm no matter what.

  I was twelve and everyone in our crew was ten to fourteen during this particular story.  With my buddies parents not there to bug us, we played wiffleball non stop that week.  No meals, video games, fires, or crimes that at all. It was epic.  I still have the statistics somewhere from that summer.  We kept about fifteen categories. 

One day that week we played from 10am until after midnight. We put plug in lights on the roof of his house so we could keep the games going. 

Sometime around 8pm my 15 y/o cousin arrived by bus with a couple of bottles of Jack and Jim he picked up in the city.  I wouldn't touch the stuff, but most of the other kids at least had some with their sodas as usual. 

  By ten pm my cousin (who was not athletic and usually never played in our very competitive games) and another kid were very wasted but decided it was time for them to join the game. We put one on each team figuring they would be auto outs and keep the games integrity.  The game ALWAYS meant alot to us obviously.

  What happened next still can't be explained to this day. The two (worst players ever) drunk kids matched each other hit for hit for the next hour.  My buddy and I who usually had a pitching duel when we faced each other were getting MASHED by these drunks.  

  All of the kids in attendence (most were at least buzzed) thought this was both the coolest and funniest thing they had seen in a while.  They started heckling us pitchers and getting really rowdy while egging the drunks on. My buddy and I were both furious that our seasons era and ratio (whip) were both getting destroyed. Everyone else was having the time of their lives.

  I don't remember exactly what the final score was but I do remember my drunk no talent cousin, hitting a walk off grand slam, and giving me the win.  My buddy who surrendered it was so angry that he cut the lights during the celebration and sent everyone home.

  I somehow snuck my buzzed lil brother (11 y/o?) and drunk cousin past my mom that night.  We all slept in the basement thank god. What a crap show. I'll never forget that night, I wish I could remember the music we played.  Possibly Metallica.  That was 1988.

 
I remember being 12. 13, 14, and telling my mom I was crashing at Brad's house for the night. Me and about 12 other kids did. And Brad's mom had no idea. Why? Because we snuck out and ran around the neighborhood. We came home after sun up and had to hide behind the garage while his mom got ready for work and leave for the day, sneak in and then crash for a few hours. 

 
TheFanatic said:
I remember being 12. 13, 14, and telling my mom I was crashing at Brad's house for the night. Me and about 12 other kids did. And Brad's mom had no idea. Why? Because we snuck out and ran around the neighborhood. We came home after sun up and had to hide behind the garage while his mom got ready for work and leave for the day, sneak in and then crash for a few hours. 
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We couldn't do that because 80's moms didn't have jobs in Cranston.

 
PIK95 said:
No google in the 80's.  Totally realistic imo.  We would always call relatives and friends with questions.  The hard part was fighting over the one phone line with brothers and sisters.

I think the science teacher being with a hot girl on a Saturday night in the 80's was WAY more unrealistic then faceless monsters fwiw.
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Our Jr High School science teacher actually pulled some tail.  I recall the day he came in wearing the same clothes as the day before, and we weee JUST old enough to know what was going on. 

That must have been 1986? Maybe 85

 
Koya said:
Our Jr High School science teacher actually pulled some tail.  I recall the day he came in wearing the same clothes as the day before, and we weee JUST old enough to know what was going on. 

That must have been 1986? Maybe 85
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I don't doubt it at all.  The types like the guy on the show was never pulling that off lol.

 
PIK95 said:
I don't doubt it at all.  The types like the guy on the show was never pulling that off lol.
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Yeah. Good ol' Mr. Mady was like a shorter more buff Tom Selleck. Back in the day when the gay porn stache was just a stache.

 
I finished season 3 today.  

My whole family enjoyed it.  It was made to binge.  

A few more laughs than the other 2 seasons but the pace of the 8 episodes was solid as was the normal good writing.

If you enjoyed Seasons 1 and 2, I think you will find some level of enjoyment from season 3.

Please do not read the spoiler if you have not seen the full season.

I am 95% sure Hopper is alive for 2 main reasons

1) his death by lightning was not shown

2) I feel like "The American" in the closed cell at the very end in the Russian prison was referring to Hopper
 
NewlyRetired said:
I finished season 3 today.  

My whole family enjoyed it.  It was made to binge.  

A few more laughs than the other 2 seasons but the pace of the 8 episodes was solid as was the normal good writing.

If you enjoyed Seasons 1 and 2, I think you will find some level of enjoyment from season 3.

Please do not read the spoiler if you have not seen the full season.

I am 95% sure Hopper is alive for 2 main reasons

1) his death by lightning was not shown

2) I feel like "The American" in the closed cell at the very end in the Russian prison was referring to Hopper
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I thought the first season was awful due to all the slow character development, but enjoyed the second season. Haven’t watched the third season yet, but I’ll check it out.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I am still trying to parse his comment about slow character development in a season that had only 8 episodes.  I mean how much faster can the writers do it?
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It was just ultimately boring to me and hated watching it. I almost didn’t watch season 2 because I didn’t want to sit through more or season 1. I was pleasantly surprised.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I finished season 3 today.  

My whole family enjoyed it.  It was made to binge.  

A few more laughs than the other 2 seasons but the pace of the 8 episodes was solid as was the normal good writing.

If you enjoyed Seasons 1 and 2, I think you will find some level of enjoyment from season 3.

Please do not read the spoiler if you have not seen the full season.

I am 95% sure Hopper is alive for 2 main reasons

1) his death by lightning was not shown

2) I feel like "The American" in the closed cell at the very end in the Russian prison was referring to Hopper
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Is this a post credit scene or something. Granted it was 1am when the last episide was on, but I dont remember that scene. 

 
AcerFC said:
Is this a post credit scene or something. Granted it was 1am when the last episide was on, but I dont remember that scene. 
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yes, they had a long during credit scene.  Fire up the last episode and just forward to the end.  It starts maybe 10--15 seconds after the episode ends.  Look for snow flakes on your screen, that will tell you that you are close.

 
Osaurus said:
It was just ultimately boring to me and hated watching it. I almost didn’t watch season 2 because I didn’t want to sit through more or season 1. I was pleasantly surprised.
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I was not questioning your opinion of the show.  You are the foremost authority on that.  Love it or hate it, only you can judge that.

I was only wondering how much faster character development could be in an 8 episode season.  The comment made no sense to me in terms of how TV shows are written.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I finished season 3 today.  

My whole family enjoyed it.  It was made to binge.  

A few more laughs than the other 2 seasons but the pace of the 8 episodes was solid as was the normal good writing.

If you enjoyed Seasons 1 and 2, I think you will find some level of enjoyment from season 3.

Please do not read the spoiler if you have not seen the full season.

I am 95% sure Hopper is alive for 2 main reasons

1) his death by lightning was not shown

2) I feel like "The American" in the closed cell at the very end in the Russian prison was referring to Hopper
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Just finished it, binged the whole thing today.  Really enjoyed it

and yeah agree with your spoiler theory, thought the same thing 

 
I have watched 6 of the 8 episodes so far.  I sort of don't want to finish it, because then I'll probably have to wait 3 years for the next season... Stranger Things: The College Years

 
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