– Other great music cues in this episode include the Stray Cats “Rock This Town,” Cutting Crew’s “(I Just) Died in Your Arms,” The Cars’ immortal “Moving in Stereo,” and the insufferable, miserably awful garbage that is “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon. Plus some Stranger Things viewers might be wishing the same thing for Hopper and Joyce rather than for Bob himself. Interestingly, Bob is shown in a flashback lamenting the breakup of Cheers’ starcrossed couple, Sam and Diane, wishing they would “just get back together again already,” but 1984 was only the start of the famous break-up in season 2. – Poor Joyce Byers has to watch Cheers by herself and is missing Bob Newby. This doesn’t mean Billy is referencing that, the show is, Billy wouldn’t know about Stand by Me because that movie wasn’t released until 1986. It’s a deliberate reference to the infamous pie eating contest in Stand by Me. – Billy calling that poor kid “lard ass” is more than just a random bit of bullying, power tripping, assholery (hey, Billy could totally run for President! Yeah, yeah, “keep your politics out of my entertainment” blahblahblah…fuck you). Karen must be on the tail end of her supply since “Coca Cola Classic” returned to shelves by summer of that year. The April 1985 marketing gimmick was famously a failure since everyone preferred the taste of the original formula. – Karen is drinking a “New Coke” poolside as she waits for Billy’s appearance. Are the “Save Downtown” flyers a nod to “Save the Clock Tower” from Back to the Future?
– Radio Shack being out of business feels like a meta joke.
– The inclusion of Jake Busey just has to be a nod to Gary Busey, who was doing his “best work” in the ‘80s, right? – Dustin compares his mythical Suzie to Phoebe Cates, which any boy of the ‘80s could you tell you is high praise after Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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