Music & Pop Culture
1985 song that surged back onto the charts in Max's life-saving anthem in season 4.
What is Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God)?
This boy and girl are the show's central couple, starting their romance after meeting when she excapes Hawkins Lab.
Who are Mike and Eleven?
Joyce Byers works at this store in season 3, where she and Hopper start investigating the strange behaviour of magnets in Hawkins.
What is Melvald's General Store?
This terrestrial amphibian with a monstrous twist that is Dustin's pet.
What is Dart (a juvenile Demogorgon)?
Eleven's term for Mike's friends upon first meeting.
What are "mouth breathers"?
This clash song becomes Will Byers' signature tune as a connection to his family.
What is Shuold I Stay or Should I Go?
Dustin calls this baseball-cap-wearing teen his best friend, especially after they fight monsters together at the junkyard and Starcourt Mall.
Who is Steve Harrington?
This California town becomes home to Eleven, Will, Jonathan, and Joyce at the start of season 4.
What is Lenora Hills?
This fiery weapon, first used by Steve, becomes an iconic improvised monster-fighting tool for the group.
What is the nail bat?
Game Max beats the boys at.
What is Dig Dug?
The tabletop role-playing game the kids play in Mike's basement.
What is Dungeons & Dragons?
This fiery, skateboard-riding girl becomes close friends with Eleven and dates Lucas.
Who is Max Mayfield?
Before becoming Vecna, Henry lives in this eeire house that later becomes a key location for the Hawkins teens.
What is the Creel house?
This returning Russian prisoner teams with Joyce and Hopper to infiltrate a secret U.S. base hunting Eleven near Hawkins.
Who is Yuri?
Song Will uses as a distress code in season 2.
What is "Should I Stay or Should I Go"?
In season 3, Dustin and Suzie perform this theme from a 1984 fantasy film over the radio to get a vital number.
What is Never Ending Story?
These two teens start as an unexpected pair when they team up to find Barb and later become a well-known Hawkins couple, even while dealing with working at the local paper.
Who are Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers?
Lucas joins this school group in season 4, which causes tension with the rest of the Party.
What is the basketball team?
Military General this character leads the quarantine of Hawkins, blaming Eleven for the spreading Upside Down corruption.
Who is General Newby?
Book inspiring the Mind Flayer's name.
What is "It" by Stephen King?
This Journey song, featured in trailers and season 4, helps set the epic '80s rock tone for the show's later battles.
What is Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)?
This group name refers to the tight-knit core of Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will, whose loyalty to each other drives much of the story from D & D nights to Upside Down rescues.
Who is the Party?
Dustin builds this tall radio setup to reach his friends over long distances in season 3.
What is Cerebro?
This local radio station in season 5 where Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley work, using it as a base to broadcast coded messages.
What is WSQK 94.5 FM, nicknamed "The Squawk"?
Clown that haunts Bob Newby's nightmares.
What is Mr. Baldo?