Stranger Things Season 2 gets a full breakdown! Every Stranger Things Easter Egg you missed! Thanks to MVMT Watches for sponsoring our video. Go to and use the offer code “NewRockstars” for $15 off your purchase!
Stranger Things 2 on Netflix is full of 80s references to the work of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Stephen King, Richard Donner, John Hughes, and more. Erik Voss explains all the influences on Eleven, Dustin, the Upside Down, the Demogorgon, Dart, Paul Reiser and Sean Astin’s characters, and the new kids Max and Billy. How does Stranger Things’ second season reference E.T., Alien, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Jurassic Park, Stephen King’s IT, Stand By Me, The Goonies, The Shining, The Thing, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jaws, Top Gun, and Indiana Jones?
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yes iv been waiting for this
Dustin and steve were amazing together
13:08 i died lmao.
Alien
Before Elle finds 008 or collie, there is an 8 ball in the background of 008's hideout as well as the scene of action 8 news before the intro of the episode starts.
Edit: oh they mention it later on
I see what u did there at the start, a good old eleven refrence. 😉
Lol I love how he said weekend of stranger things 2!!! 😂😂😂 I finished that in a straight nine hour binge!!!
I also think that the fact that the monster worked as a hivemind, is a reference to many of GRRM's stories, probably including A Song of Ice and Fire, in which the weirdwood trees and the Children of the Forest work as a hivemind, probably trying to get control over humanity, as they are the oldest race in Westeros
Mouth breather
I can't be the only one that noticed in the Trick or Treat episode Joyce ( Winona Ryder ) was dancing with Bob who was dressed as Dracula. Winona Ryder played Nina in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
What about Kali's gang of punks? I thought the were supposed to be at the very least a visual referrence to Return of the Living Dead
Yup, I was literally crying about the bracelet thing. 🙁
billy reminds me buffalo bill from silence of the lambs
another missable detail is that the training between khali and 11 is like the xmen first class scene with Xaviar teaching Magneto how to fully use his powers to move a large object
Groovy !
Nancytheslutwheeler
#JusticeforBenny
The introduction to Billy is a direct homage to the intro of Buddy Revel in 3 O'Clock High.
That Billy and Mrs Wheeler scene reminded me of The Graduate
Looking way to much into it …
The reason that eleven says five 1 5 is because in the first season when mike should meet eleven he gives her a watch and says 2 1 5
22:53 Awwwwwww
https://youtu.be/E-GubNZUqSI
Stranger Things 2 score album
Amazing 😉
Can't believe that they left out that El had hair similar to "Ellen Ripley" and even wore overalls
The Mr.Mom reference also has a D&D connection. Taliesin Jaffe was an 80s child actor and he played the middle child in Mr.Mom. He is also in a online streaming D&D campaign on Geek and Sundry called Critical Role. I don't know if it was an accidental or deliberate reference, but it's still pretty cool.
"Are we in for a spinoff with Kali and her crew? Heh, hope not."
That was incredible.
Wasnt the thing in Will a big reference to the exorcist?
RIP MEW MEW ;(
I watched order of the phoenix harry potter literally on sunday, and I thought about Will's connection to the mind flayer right away. Glad someone else caught that too!
Is it bad that I saw season 1and season 2 in 2 days?
I don't think we called Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC back in the 80's. I'm thinking they changed in the early to mid 90's.
E.T. is the best movie reference in the Stranger Things world.
how is that final kiss so powerful!!! how!!!?
In the s1 the boys loose to the demigorgon and will it’s captured by it. I’m s2 e1 they beat the hydra. Hydra is something with many heads much like the shadow monster even though they r not heads there are multiple things. In the dnd game they beat it. And they beat it by the end of s2
Not all of these little things are references dumbass.
Another missable detail was when Billy was getting ready for his date and a track from the Metallica album 'Kill em All' played on his boombox. As well as a poster of the albums cover art on his bedroom wall.
Anyone bring up Hopper getting viciously "loofa"ed with brooms after the Hawkins staff bring him and Will back to the lab? That scene was a nod from Silkwood starring Meryl Streep.
Bob will be remembered 😩
Kali AKA 008 AKA… Mama? 21:47
Jeez Louise ! Not everything is a node or reference to something.
The basketball scenes remind me of 80s movie Teen Wolf.
Ep.6 – Before Nancy and Jonathan hook up, 100% hommage to the Indy / Willie moment in Temple of Doom.
I like your videos but I really feel like your reaching really hard for most of these "references"
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does anybody notice he goes from #78 to #72 and then back to #80
Just because eleven has a sheet over her head doesn't mean it's a nod to ET.
Steve pulled the Christmas lights out of a box when they were cleaning out the shed!!!!