Stranger Things

Season 3

Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?

1. According to director Shawn Levy, season 3 is the most brutal season. He stated that it will "NOT be all summer and fun."
2. According to the director Shawn Levy in an interview, he stated that Stranger Things 3 is set one year after Stranger Things 2. This is because the actors were getting older in real life and look a lot different now that time has passed by. He said it would make sense for season 3 to be set a year after.
3. According to The Duffer Brothers, the third season was delayed by one year to take their time creating the story and carefully execute how it will pan out. They said it would be worth the wait.
4. According to Netflix via a YouTube video, Stranger Things 3 started production on Monday 23rd April 2018.
5. According to David Harbour in a podcast, Murray Bauman (known as Brett Gelman) will make another appearance in Season 3.
6. Stranger Things 3 will air on Netflix on July 4th, 2019.
7. On Monday 16th July 2018, Netflix released the first teaser trailer for Season 3, this trailer including an additional location to Hawkins, Indiana - this being The Starcourt Mall. The Starcourt Mall includes stores such as 'The Radio Shack' that appeared in Season 2 only once when the character 'Bob Newby' was working and was on the phone with Joyce. Furthermore, 16th July 2016 was the date the Season 1 released on Netflix and this trailer being released exactly two years after it.
8. On 27th October 2017, when season 2 premiered the director Shawn Levy renewed the license for Stranger Things: Season 3.
9. Maya Hawke (Robin) portrayed Jo March in 2017's Little Women. Winona Ryder (Joyce) played the same role in the 1994 version of the film.
10. On the 23rd, April it was confirmed that Stranger Things 3 had well begun filming after Netflix released a video breaking the news. It was also revealed that Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer have said they are aiming for a late 2018 to early 2019 release date.
11. Via a variety of Instagram posts by Millie Bobby Brown, on Saturday 3rd November 2018, the Stranger Things crew and cast had a 'wrap' party meaning they have finished filming season 3.
12. Stranger Things 3 show titles confirmed at Brazil's Comic Con: 1: Suzie, Do You Copy? 2: The Mall Rats 3: The Case of the Missing Lifeguard 4: The Sauna Test 5: The Source 6: The Birthday 7: The Bite and 8: The Battle Of Starcourt.
13. Time elapsed between Season 2 airing and new footage from Season 3 trailer: 509 days or 72 weeks and 5 days.
14. Time elapsed since the second series premiere and the arrival of number 3: 20 months and 1 week or 615 days.
15. In an episode of the show "Future Man," the character Wolf, a fan of singer Corey Hart, adopts the name "Corey Wolfhart," and sings dramatically along to Hart's "Never Surrender" at a Corey Hart concert. In the first episode of season 3 of "Stranger Things," Mike, played by Finn Wolfhard, dramatically sings along to the same song.
16. In the first episode Hopper is shown watching Tom Selleck as Magnum PI on TV, For most of season Hopper's look will be Magnum's: Hawaiian shirt, jeans, cheesy mustache.
17. The song "Moving In Stereo" and the colour of the swimsuit of the lifeguard who comes off shift is a reference to the film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" where Phoebe Cates' is a lifeguard dressed in a red swimsuit and Judge Reinhold's character is fantasizing about her while "Moving In Stereo" plays.

Chapter Two: The Mall Rats

1. "I can do anything I want. I'm the chief of police" is a direct quote from Jaws. Sherriff Brody says the exact same line to Matt Hooper.
2. Infected rats are seen to transform into dangerous red ooze that becomes part of the monster that terrorizes a small town, much like the killer red mass in The Blob (1958).
3. When Joyce Byers arrives at Mr. Clarke's house, he is listening to "My Balogna" by Weird Al Yankovic. Joyce Byers is played by Winona Ryder, who starred in Reality Bites, where she danced to "My Sharona" by The Knack, which Weird Al parodied with "My Balogna".
4. To add to the "My Sharona" connection with Winona. Winona starred in "Reality Bites" with Ethan Hawke, who is the father of Maya Hawke, who plays Robin alongside Joe Keery's Steve.

Chapter Three: The Case of the Missing Lifeguard

1. The medieval-sounding music Will plays when he starts the D&D game is from the Podling dance scene from Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" (1982).
2. This is not the first time Eleven has spied on Mike. She previously spied on him in the episode The Pollywog when she disobeyed Hopper's rules and left the house and went to school and spied on him and Max when they were in the gym.
3. The coke bottle 11 uses isn't from the 80s in fact the 80s bottle was longer with red paint.

Chapter Four: The Sauna Test

1. The line "It is fascinating what 20 bucks will get you from the County Recorders office." is nearly identical to a River Phoenix line from Sneakers (1992). In each instance a set of blueprints is purchased for a high-security area/building that must be accessed by the protagonists at least partly via air-ducts. The film also shares similarities to the show with plots involving conspiracies centered around Russian agents and code-breaking with a business being used as a front for criminal activities.
2. Jordan lake is in Chapel Hill NC. The Duffer brothers are from Durham NC.
3. First and only use of the F word in the series as of seasons 1-3.
4. Doris Driscoll's hospital room is number 403, which is this episode's numbers: episode 4 of season 3.

Chapter Five: The Flayed

1. Hopper threatens to shoot Grigori in the back of his head, to which Grigori replies "No. You won't do that. Because you are policeman. Policeman have rules." This exchange is quite similar to John McClaine's first conversation with a terrorist in Die Hard (1988).
2. Though introduced in the previous episode, it is shown here just how many similarities Grigori shares with The Terminator from The Terminator (1984). His muscular build, jaw line, hair cut, half-finger gloves, weapons, gait, clothing, foreign accent, relentlessness and motorcycle are all reminiscent of the characteristics/behaviors exhibited by a Cyberdyne Systems T-800 Model 101. Additionally, when Hopper questions Mayor Larry about the man's identity, Mayor Larry defiantly says "He's Arnold Schwarzenegger."

Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum

1. E pluribus unum means from many, one.
2. You can indeed call Murray Bauman's reveal phone number. It's a real number that leads to a very real fake answering machine message, where the character yells at you for calling.
3. Steve refers to Michael J. Fox as "Alex P. Keaton", a character Fox played in the TV show Family Ties.
4. The scene where Robin and Steve are tied up together in the chairs is similar to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when Indiana and his father are captured by the Nazis.
5. Mayor Kline is reminiscent of Mayor Vaughn from Jaws.
6. In the scene where Steve and Robin are tied up to a chair and are lying on the floor in the underground base, a recreation of John Harrison's score for "Day of the Dead" (1985) can be heard in the soundtrack.
7. The end scene is reminiscent of the shunting scene in the movie Society (1989).
8. Steve and Robin were mostly likely dosed with LSD based on their behavior and the connection between Stranger Things and project MKUltra, which the first season of the show is loosely based around

Chapter Seven: The Bite

1. In the cold open at the amusement park mayor Larry Kline says he "spared no expense". Dr. John Hammond says the same thing about Jurassic Park, an amusement park featuring dinosaurs. Creators said season 3 has elements of Jurassic Park.
2. This episode has a nod to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. When the characters (Dustin Steve and Robin) are in the shopping mall they slide down the center of an escalator while escaping the russians. Which is done in Dawn of the dead while the characters (peter and Roger are doing their (shopping)

Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt

1. Stranger Things 4 will begin production at the end of 2019, according to Noah Schnapp.
2. Strangers Things 4 will likely release late 2020 or possibly early 2021.
3. Dustin refers to the hill he has his radio tower on as Weathertop. This is a direct reference to the Fellowship of the Ring. It's the hill where Frodo is stabbed by the chief Nazgul. In elvish Weathertop is Amon Sul. It was destroyed during the kingdom of Arthedains war with Angmar.
4. Gaten Matarazzo and Gabriella Pizzolo did their own singing and the cover of 'Never Ending Story' is available for purchase and streaming.
5. During the scene at Family Video, Steve knocks over a cardboard cutout of Phoebe Cates, the actress Dustin compares Suzie to throughout the season.
6. The news clip after the three month flash forward mentions satanic practices while showing the game Dungeons and Dragons. The 80's was a time of "satanic panic" where some people thought games like Dungeons and Dragons and heavy metal bands were linked to teenagers worshipping Satan.
7. "Griswold family, do you copy?" Is a reference to the National Lampoons: Vacation movies
8. At the end scene there is a Firestarter poster at the Family Movie. This is a nod to Stephen King's book of the same name & a reference & parallel to El's powers
9. Despite their relationship drama in the past, this is the only episode where Steve, Nancy and Jonathan share a scene. Jonathan and Nancy's characters never talk to Steve throughout the entire season.
10. The kids watch a screening of Back to the Future at a new shopping mall, and the story then leads into a climax in the parking lot--which is what led to the time traveling in that film.
11. The bathroom that Steve and Robin purge in resembles the men's room in The Shining in which Jack meets Grady.
12. The scene in The Gap, where the monster uses his tentacles, is quite similar to the basement scene of War of The Worlds (2005) where one the aliens uses his tentacles to track Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Some camera movements are exactly the same.
13. There is speculation that Hopper is still alive. During a mid-credit scene, two Russian soldiers grab a prisoner, but is told not to get "the American". Some thinking Hopper was captured right before the explosion. Others say since we didn't see him die, that means he isn't actually dead and did get away.
14. Marks the return of the Demogorgon
15. The American prisoner at the end could elude to multiple characters. The first is obviously Hopper, who somehow could've survived the explosion. The 2nd, is Dr Martin Brenner played by Matthew Modine who was the head scientist & man Eleven calls "Papa" from S1.
16. The Russian that Hopper fights already resembles The Terminator. Their climactic fight now resembles that film as well: the two of them get into a fight to the death, and ultimately the heroine has to destroy him. Her love interest is killed in the fight as well.
17. In the scene with the Demogorgan, you can see that its body is more humanoid than in seasons prior.