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(627) The Duffers made a short film based on the card game Magic: The Gathering when they were at school.

(628) Millie Bobby Brown's ability to cry convincingly was one of the factors that helped her get the part of Eleven.

(629) Millie Bobby Brown invented the super intense glare Eleven has when she's about to ruin someone's day with some telekinetic fury. "I’ve never forgotten it, because it was so intuitive," said Shawn Levy. "That this little person had such fierce power — that’s what took me aback. That same day the Duffers [brothers Matt and Ross, who created the show] and I knew she was the one."

(630) Dacre Montgomey had a gym enhanced Hollywod six-pack when he was cast as Billy Hargrove but decided lose the abs and became a little chubbier because he didn't think it was plausible for an ordinary teenager in 1984 to look too shredded.

(631) Sean Astin and Winona Ryder got on great shooting Stranger Things 2. Both were very young when they made their start in Hollywood so they could relate to one another.

(632) There is a lot of singing on the Stranger Things set - which is probably not surprising given the musical stage background of several cast members.

(633) Spotify made the season one album cover twist upside down when the Stranger Things theme plays.

(634) The chapter titles at the start of each episode of Stranger Things are to make it feel like you are digesting a Stephen King novel.

(635) Dustin's "totally tubular" refrain (in deference to Max being from California) has a number of potential origins. One alleged source is the movie Hocus Pocus.

(636) Joe Keery said the biggest danger he encountered in Stranger Things was the extra tight jeans that Steve Harrington had to wear. These were a pain to get in and out of.

(637) The mousey hair of Joyce Byers in season one is said to be based on Meryl Streep in the film Silkwood.

(638) It is not clear why Will Byers was able to survive the Upside Down and Barb Holland was not. The only explanation is that Will was much better at hiding.

(639) The Lovecraft story that has the most in common with Stranger things is the 1920 short story From Beyond. The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

(640) Hopper's police deputies are named Powell and Callahan. Powell is a famous character in Die Hard and Callahan is a probable reference to Father Callahan from Stephen King's Salem's Lot.

(641) The school bullies Troy and James did not return in season two. James. Troy and James served their function in season one but, moving forward, there probably wasn't really a compelling narrative reason for these characters to be in Stranger Things anymore.

(642) Stranger Things has some similarities to Paper Girls - a comic by Brian K Vaughan that began in 2015. Paper Girls is set in 1988 and is about four girls who live in a small Cleveland town. While out on their morning paper round on bikes, they stumble into a perplexing science fiction mystery that launches them into alternate realities and the past and future.

(643) Mike pretends to be sick in season one so he can blag a day off school and be with Eleven. This appears to be a reference to the cult John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off - where Matthew Broderick's Ferris pretends to be sick so he can get off school and have a fun day out in Chicago.

(644) Ross Duffer said they wanted season two to end on a happy note with the Snow Ball but still be slightly sinister all the same because the Flayer has surely not been vanquished for good yet. "They’ve shut the door on the Mind Flayer, but not only is it still there in the Upside Down, it’s very much aware of the kids, and particularly Eleven. It had not encountered her and her powers until that final episode. Now, it knows that she’s out there. We wanted to end on a little bit of an ominous note."

(645) The raptors in Jurassic Park were a big influence on the DemoDogs in season two of Stranger Things.

(646) Dart proved to be a complex and time-consuming challenge for the design and effects teams on season two because the creature goes through four cycles of evolution and development. They were essentially having to design four different creatures.

(647) It is never really explained in Stranger Things 3 why Hopper hasn't moved to a more normal house yet and still lives in the cabin. It isn't as if he has to keep Eleven a big secret anymore.

(648) The 1978 remake film Invasion of the Body Snatchers was very influential when it came to the Demogorgon. The alien organisms seen in that film have a weird plant flesh quality.

(649) Millie Bobby Brown said that at her Stranger Things audition she was asked about eighties movies. Despite her tender years she proved to be surprisingly knowlegable when it came to classic films made before she was born.

(650) The Duffers said that when they were casting Max Mayfield they tested a few girls who were too young. They had sort of forgotten that the other kids in the cast were a year older now than they were in season one.

(651) Sadie Sink's chances of getting the part of Max were apparently in slight jeopardy at one point because they feared she might be too tall. In the end this obviously wasn't a problem. When you watch Stranger Things 2 you never get the impression that Sink is towering over the other youngsters in the cast.

(652) Elle is the name of a character in the video game Silent Hill: Homecoming.

(653) Caleb McLaughlin said that he plays a lot of video games on the set of Stranger Things. A distraction is sometimes necessary for when shooting is interrupted by bad weather or logistical delays.

(654) The famous 2013 video game The Last of Us features a little girl named Ellie. Given the Duffers great love of horror and post-apocalyptic video games it wouldn't surprise you if Eleven's name was inspired by a game.

(655) When the first season came out, Winona Ryder was somewhat baffled to be congratulated on her miraculous 'comeback' as if she had not acted in anything for decades before Stranger Things came along.

(656) Georgia made a great production base for Stranger Things because the area had an eclectic mix of scenery from gorges to forests to Spielbergian towns.

(657) When they did their first press interviews for Stranger Things, Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown genuinely seemed to have no idea if there would be a second season when they were asked about the show's future.

(658) Matt Duffer said they almost didn't do the bike chase sequence in season one because they thought it would be far too on the nose as a reference to E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial.

(659) Matt Duffer believes that Stranger Things would be nowhere near as effective if had more episodes. "We didn’t know how to make the story thirteen episodes. I feel like it starts to tread water. It was important, and it felt like a movie, and in order for it to feel like a movie, we had to keep it on the shorter side."

(660) The production designer Chris Trujillo said they went to great lengths to make Joyce Byer's furniture look second hand. "A lot of that is approached from understanding the characters on a socioeconomic level. You’ve got your stressed out, working class, single mom [character], so her house is not going to have the most up-to-date furniture from 1980 or ‘81. For that kind of set, we like to think about when that furniture would have been bought and what level of wear and tear it would have. And understanding that more than likely, she hasn’t redecorated since 1975."

(661) Some fans wondered how Mike could hide Eleven in the Wheeler basement without his mother Karen failing to notice that anything was askew. Matt Duffer explained it this way - "She’s happily oblivious. She has no reason to think anything. My mindset is, when we were growing up, and we were making these really bad nerdy movies, we would just wander off. We were left alone all day. They didn’t come into our world. We didn’t want our parents coming into our world. To me, Mike and his friends spend an obscene amount of time in his basement playing these never ending Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. Karen just doesn’t come down there. She has no reason to be concerned."

(662) The production designer Chris Trujillo said it was important on Stranger Things not to make the eighties trappings too cartoonish and cliched. "It’s particularly tricky with the ‘80s because everybody has a very specific and sometimes outlandish sense of what the ‘80s look like. It’s all either neons or these big shoulder pads and big glasses. And obviously you need to show those things but it was definitely tricky to find a balance where you’re not distracting an audience by blasting them with the most obvious touchstones of what we think of when we think of the ‘80s. Firstly, we try and understand who these characters are on a really basic level and we kind of go from there."

(663) The Duffers made an inauspicious and rocky start to their career when they wrote and directed a science fiction horror film called Hidden in 2012. Hidden sat on the shelf and was only released three years later in 2015. It failed to spark much interest and largely sank without trace. Hidden grossed only $310,273 from a limited release and the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes was a respectable if hardly spectacular 53%. The Duffers were hurt by the lack of exposure Hidden endured and feared that their career might be over before it had even begun. "Yeah, it was unbelievable to us at the time, and then that ended up going from a dream experience to crashing and burning. We didn't know what the hell else we were going to do with our lives, this is all we knew how to do. We felt like we'd been preparing to do this since we were little kids. Looking back on it, for us, it was using that low point as an advantage. I don't think Stranger Things would exist without it, because it was us being disillusioned with movies, the things we fell in love with, and then seeing this other opening in television that, if we really want to tell the kind of stories we want to tell, maybe we were just looking in the wrong place."

(664) Shawn Levy, who is old enough to remember the eighties, thinks that decade was a better time to live than today. "The world felt safer. The world, and it breaks my heart to say this, but the world was safer. And I know that a lot of us yearn for the relative innocence of that. And I do think that the show transports us back to a cultural and global climate that was fundamentally more comforting. It was fundamentally less scary."

(665) The colour for the Upside Down scenes in the season one finale was toned down so that the lights of the hazmat suits would be heightened.

(666) Shawn Levy said that casting Gaten Matarazzo was an absolute no brainer. "The second Gaten walked in, we were like, Okay well we’re done looking for Dustin, because he’s in the room with us right frickin’ now. I remember that being the most un-debatable casting decision. He has the greatest face on planet Earth, and he has such a natural comedic instinct that we needed in that group. We knew Mike was going to be something of a leader. We knew Lucas was dealing with suspicion and anger. So we needed a force of pure positivity and levity, and Gaten walked in with that."

(667) Hopper must resort to microfiche in the library in season one when he reads old newspaper clippings to research Dr Brenner and the laboratory. This is a flat piece of film containing microphotographs of the pages of a newspaper. In the days before the internet, you had to do research the old fashioned way. That meant a trip to the library and either books or microfiche. Believe it or not, microfiche is still in use in some places as it is a convenient way to store old information and files without having to go to all the trouble of reproducing it digitally.

(668) Eleven's character in season one is a well worn trope in fantasy films. She is someone who is special but, because of extraordinary circumstances, doesn't understand the normal everyday world and finds it confusing. Examples of this trope include (obviously) E.T, but also the artificial boy in D.A.R.Y.L., Johnny Five in Short Circuit, Madison the mermaid in Splash, and Jeff Bridges in Starman.

(669) Stranger Things action figures are now available to buy.

(670) Target released a DVD of season one which was made to look like a VHS tape that had seen better days.

(671) A Stranger Things Monopoly game was released by Hasbro. The promo text went like this - 'Fans of the Netflix Original Series can enjoy an awesome unboxing experience with artwork inspired by the show. Players race between the tunnels under Hawkins to buy as many properties as they can. Instead of Houses and Hotels, this edition of the Monopoly board game features Forts and Hideouts – and the Hideouts glow in the dark. Look out for the Upside Down cards -- they can provide special powers and change a fortune! The last player with money when all other players have gone bankrupt wins.'

(672) You can purchase an Eleven nose bleed candle in which you put a red candle in a candle holder of Eleven's face (which doesn't actually much resemble Millie Bobby Brown if truth be told) and then when the candle melts Eleven has a nosebleed. This item is quite hard to find now - which probably isn't a great loss.

(673) There is an eggo card game based on Stranger Things. Want the promo text? Of course you do. 'Play as your favorite characters from the hit Netflix series Stranger Things with the Stranger Things: Eggo Card Game! To begin, players choose to play as Will, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Eleven, Hopper, or Barb and draw four Eggo cards with a variety of suspenseful outcomes. Cards can either send a player's character to the Upside Down, make an opponent draw 2, reverse the order of play, summon the Demogorgon, or cause a rift that sends everyone who was Right Side Up to the Upside Down, and vice versa! To win and escape the Upside Down, get rid of all your Eggo cards before the Demogorgon attacks — or be toast!'

(674) Paul Reiser said he found it quite hard to make Dr Owens seem ambiguous at first in season two. The first scene he shot was when Owens is examining Will Byers in the lab with Joyce. Reiser felt he made Owens too insincere and smarmy in his first takes. "I’m like - You know what, I don’t trust me!"

(675) Gaten Matarazzo has worked with charities that provide help for those with cleidocranial dysplasia.

(676) The passage from Anne of Green Gables that Hopper reads to Eleven in season two is - 'I would feel so sad if I was a disappointment to her -- because she didn't live very long after that, you see. She died of a fever when I was just three months old. I do wish she'd lived long enough for me to remember calling her mother. I think it would be so sweet to say 'mother,' don't you? And father died four days afterwards from fever too. That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits' end, so Mrs. Thomas said, what to do with me. You see, nobody wanted me even then. It seems to be my fate.'

(677) The Duffers originally planned for Bob Newby to only appear in a couple of episodes.

(678) Shawn Levy said that when season two was in production he was amazed at the amount of people who still asked him if Barb Holland would be back. "I’m like ‘No, you saw, she had like a creature, slug, worm, snake, coming out of her mouth. I don’t know that there’s a bounce back from that!’"

(679) The production on season one took five months to complete.

(680) Sadie Sink said that her superstitious nature manifested itself during her auditions for Stranger Things. "I was so superstitious during my auditions for Stranger Things that after each audition I would put each audition scene on the car floor and refused to pick them up until after the process was over."

(681) Stranger Things was released about half-way through production on Stephen King's IT. The director of the film said it was pure coincidence that Finn Wolfhard was in both productions and that he'd never heard of Stranger Things when he cast Finn.

(682) Nancy is the name of the heroine in Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street.

(683) Eggo waffles were invented in San Jose, California, by three brothers, Tony, Sam, and Frank Dorsa. Eggos first appeared in supermarkets in 1953.

(684) The scientist who perishes in the Upside Down in season one is named Shephard. A character named Shepherd appears in the 1984 horror film C.H.U.D.

(685) The Duffers said that Gaten Matarazzo completely informed the character of Dustin Henderson. "We didn’t really even know who the Dustin character was until we found Gaten. He was sort of a generic nerd with glasses kind of a character - he was a stereotype. He was not a three-dimensional character. And then we saw Gaten’s take, we fell in love with this kid, flew him out to Los Angeles, and met him. Gaten completely informed that character."

(686) Ross Duffer said that, despite only appearing in a few episodes, Barb Holland was one of the most discussed characters in the writers room. Although they loved the character and felt sympathy for Barb they wanted to sacrifice her to convey how dangerous the Upside Down was.

(687) The sensory deprivation water tank in the school in season one is not fiction. If you had enough salt, a kiddie pool, and a blindfold you could in theory have a workable sensory deprivation chamber.

(688) The first sensory deprivation water chamber was invented in the 1970s.

(689) The party after the official premiere of season two had a Hawkins fair theme.

(690) In the pilot scrip for Montauk (as Stranger Things was called back then), Jonathan Byers worked in the local cinema.

(691) Tangerine Dream often include their own version of the Stranger Things theme in their live sets.

(692) Waitresses at the Stranger Things 2 premiere were dressed in special Eggo yellow uniforms.

(693) In a poll, Stranger Things came top out of Netflix shows which can be enjoyed the whole family.

(694) When she wore the sea Trek diving helmet in the Hawkins Lab water chamber scene in season one, Millie Bobby Brown said it was surprisingly difficult to scream (as Eleven has to do in these scenes) wearing the helmet.

(695) The Duffers believe that horror rooted in science is more scary than horror rooted in the supernatural.

(696) When Bob Newby is killed by the DemoDogs in season two, he was supposed to emit a giant geyser of blood. They obviously decided not to do this in the end.

(697) The Demogorgon has some obvious physical similarities with the Imps in the Doom video game series.

(698) During Barb Holland's demise in the swimming pool in season one, the scene where she spits up some icky goo had to be shot fourteen times.

(699) Shannon Purser later got a part in the TV show Riverdale so she didn't do too badly in the end despite the brief nature of her contribution to Stranger Things.

(700) Shannon Purser enjoyed shooting Barb's death scene. She had to cling to the diving board of the Harrington pool with crew members pulling at her legs to suggest a struggle between Barb and the Demogorgon. One of the unseen crew members pulling at her legs was Shawn Levy.

(701) The pool set was covered with glycerine and slime for Barb's death sequence to give a nightmarish and gloopy sense of a place that had slipped into the Upside Down.

(702) The Palace Arcade has a poster for Crystal Castles. Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983.

(703) The Duffers said that Pac-Man was the game they played the most on the Palace Arcade set.

(704) The Palace Arcade has a poster for Q*bert. Q*bert is an arcade game developed and published for the North American market by Gottlieb in 1982. It is a 2D action game with puzzle elements that uses isometric graphics to create a pseudo-3D effect.

(705) The Duffers cited the short lived sitcom/drama Freaks and Geeks as an (unlikely) influence on Stranger Things. Freaks and Geeks is set in a high school in the early eighties.

(706) A 1986 film called The Manhattan Project features a teenager who attempts to expose the nuclear secrets of a lab that is disguised as a medical company. This film is not very well known but it does share a number of similarities to Stranger Things.

(707) The arcade scenes at the beginning of Stranger Things 2 were designed to foreshadow what was to come. "We were hoping to do with the arcade what we did in season one with D&D," said Ross Duffer, "which was to do a bit of foreshadowing for the whole season, with Lucas getting Princess Daphne, and the monsters in Dig-Dug. We were hoping to roughly set up where we were going to go in the next nine hours."

(708) There is a very minor vehicle anachronism in season two when we see some girls at the school leaning on a Mustang car that only came out in 1986.

(709) The spectacular and atmospheric sequence where Will Byers experiences a spooky Upside Down electrical storm outside the Palace Arcade was one of the first scenes the Duffers came up with when they were writing Stranger Things 2.

(710) The store that Joyce works in during season two has a fancy dress Annie hairpiece for sale. This is presumably a sly joke based on season two newcomer Sadie Sink playing the character of Annie on stage.

(711) Joe Keery said he found it surprisingly emotional shooting the party scene in season two where Nancy lets Steve know that she doesn't love him.

(712) Finn Wolfard had some mint tic tacs before the scene near the end of season one where Mike kisses Eleven on the cheek. He wanted to make sure his breath was super fresh.

(713) In the season one finale you can see some newspaper articles on the wall in the police station. The headlines of the articles include The Boy Who Came Back To Life and Coroner Arrested for Falsifying Autopsy.

(714) The season one episode The Bathtub seems to be the first episode of the show where everything happens on the same day.

(715) When Dustin locates the missing Dart in the school in season two, you might notice the word EVIL scrawled on the wall. This is a less than subtle visual clue that Dustin has made a big mistake adopting Dart.

(716) The Duffers said they don't actually like the game Dragon's Lair very much. "Dragon’s Lair we played a lot as kids," said Ross Duffer. "It’s a fun game to look at — it’s not a very fun game to play. Everyone who played it as a kid had the same experience: It’s outrageously expensive, it looks really cool, it draws you in like a magnet, and then it just takes your money and is very frustrating. All these barcades are popping up now, and I was at one recently and they had Dragon’s Lair there. And no one is playing it because it’s not a very good game. But it’s still 50 cents! It’s 2017 now, and 50 cents is a lot less, but it still felt like it was ripping you off. It’s such an impossible game."

(717) The Joy Division song Atmosphere can be heard in season one. You can hear it at the start of The Body.

(718) Some of the houses in season one don't have television aerials. This is a mild goof.

(719) The Duffers said the ramifications of Barb Holland's death in season one eventually played a bigger part in the story of season two than they'd originally planned.

(720) When Nancy breaks down in the Holland bathroom in season two, the photographs she is surrounded by are genuine family photographs of Shannon Purser as a child.

(721) Billy Hargrove is dressed like Jack Burton in John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China at the end of Stranger Things 3.

(722) Randall Havens as Mr Clarke has 53 lines in season one.

(723) The music you hear when the school sensory deprivation water tank scene takes place in season one is Fields of Coral by Vangelis.

(724) Dustin has a digital watch in season one that wasn't actually released until 1991.

(725) Gaten Matarazzo carrying Millie Bobby Brown into the school classroom in the season finale was impressive because Gaten had an injured ankle at the time. He was apparently the only one of the boys who was strong enough to carry Millie and run at the same time.

(726) Dustin Henderson has a Castroville Artichoke Festival t-shirt in season one.

(727) Near the end of the finale of season one, the boys mention that the game of Dungeons & Dragons they've been playing didn't have the longest campaign. The subtext is that Stranger Things had eight episodes - which is short by television standards.

(728) The eagle-eyed might notice that Dustin Henderson has Ghostbusters sneakers at the dance in the season two finale.

(729) Max has an Endless summer poster on her wall in season two. The Endless Summer is a 1966 American surf documentary film directed, produced, edited and narrated by Bruce Brown.

(730) In the second episode of season two, Eleven escapes from the Upside Down by means of a hole in the wall (that she uses her powers to make larger). Eleven emerges into our reality in the same place that the Demogorgon infiltrated the school in season one.

(731) The hazmat suits in season one are somewhat anachronistic because they have LED lights not native to 1983.

(732) A popular fan theory is that the Upside Down is an alternate reality ravaged by nuclear war.

(733) Near the start of Stranger Things 2 you see Steve and Nancy working on an essay and reading it through. A real essay was knocked up by the crew so that the two actors would find it easier to react and have something that looked real. The essay was so terrible that you can see Joe Keery and Natalia Dyer struggling not to laugh.

(734) Linnea Berthelsen has more lines in The Lost Sister than any other character in Stranger Things 2 has in any single one episode.

(735) Near the end of season two, Dr Owens gives Hopper half of his sandwich in the diner. This is an Easter egg relating to the 1982 film Diner. In that movie Paul Reiser played a character who was always asking people if they were going to eat the last half of their sandwich.

(736) There is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure in the Wheeler house in season two that didn't come out until 1988.

(737) Walkie-talkies were popular with kids in the eighties, even if they were just talking to each other in the same house from upstairs. They were fun to use.

(738) The opening to Stranger Things 2 managed to fufil one of the ambitions of the Duffer Brothers in that they had always wanted to shoot a car chase.

(739) The radio Hopper and Eleven keep in contact on in season two is tuned to broadcast channel 11.

(740) Dustin seems to have a Buzz Lightyear doll in his room in season two. This is clearly an anachronism.

(741) The Peterbilt truck that features in Dig Dug is an in-joke referencing (Dig Dug's director) Andrew Stanton's Pixar film Cars.

(742) We see the quiz show Family Feud on television in the Ives house in Stranger Things 2. Family Feud was hosted by Richard Dawson. Dawson played the evil game show presenter in the 1987 film based on Stephen King's book The Running Man.

(743) Nancy goes a party at a girl named Tina's house in Stranger Things 2. In Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street, the central character Nancy had a best friend named Tina.

(744) Ross Duffer said that Dacre Montgomery's audition had exactly the qualities they were looking for because they needed Billy Hargrove to be unpredictable and crazy. "It was great. It had that kind of edge and energy you needed for Billy. This is a guy who can be fun one second, and in the next, you’re terrified for your life."

(745) The presence of Sean Astin altered the structure of season two because the Duffers decided give him a more important role in the story and more scenes on the strength of Astin's performance.

(746) Eleven's hairstyle and some of her clothes in Stranger Things 2 were based on a cover illustration for the 1981 children's fantasy book Ronja Rövardotter by Astrid Lindgren. The illustration depicted a girl in the woods with curls in her hair.

(747) When Steve Harrington climbs up to Nancy's bedroom in season one, this is a homage to Wes Craven's Scream (where early on we see Neve Campbell's boyfriend do the same thing).

(748) Joe Keery was still working as a waiter to make ends meet when he was cast as Steve Harrington.

(749) A ginger cat takes a disliking to Eleven in season one. This could be an Easter egg because there is a ginger cat aboard the Nostromo in Alien.

(750) It appears that some plot threads initially intended for season two were used in season three. One such plot was Billy Hargrove becoming possessed by the Upside Down.

(751) IMDB voters have the season two finale The Gate ranked as the greatest ever episode of Stranger Things.

(752) The car chase sequence with Kali's gang that begins season two was filmed in Atlanta. Digital effects were added in post-production to make it appear as if the chase took place in the city of Pittsburgh.

(753) When they shot the car chase which begins Stranger Things 2, the production crew found it impossible to find a tunnel in Atlanta that was sufficiently long enough for their needs. "You just cannot find a bridge anywhere even near Atlanta," said Matt Duffer. "You actually can’t even find a tunnel. That tunnel was actually about 20 feet long. It was ridiculous. It was the tiniest, puniest tunnel, and we just ended up extending it with computer graphics."

(754) Millie Bobby Brown was actually eleven years-old when she played Eleven in season one.

(755) Dustin Henderson unwittingly adopting a potentially dangerous creature from the Upside Down was pretty much one of the first ideas the Duffers had when they started writing Stranger Things 2.

(756) A Stranger Things fan theory is that the Upside Down is some sort of time travel portal to a ruined future.

(757) Winona Ryder was born in 1971 and in 1983 would have been about the same age that the main child characters are in season one.