Stranger Quotes

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mike: I think it's kinda cool. It's like you have superpowers or something, like Mr. Fantastic.
Dustin: Yeah, except I can't fight evil with it.

Hopper: Joyce, this is Hawkins. Do you want to know the worst thing that's ever happened here in the four years I've been working here? It was when an owl attacked Eleanor Gillespie's head because it thought that her hair was a nest.

Hopper: I always had a distaste for science.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Dustin: Where's your hair? Do you have cancer?

Lucas: I'm telling you - [Mike's] stupid plan failed.
Dustin: I thought you liked his plan.
Lucas: Yeah, but obviously it was stupid or he'd be here.

Dustin: We never would have upset you if we knew you had superpowers.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Dustin: So do you think Eleven was born with her superpowers like the X-Men or do you think she acquired them like Green Lantern?
Lucas: She's not a superhero. She's a weirdo.
Mike: What does that matter? The X-Men were weirdos.

Marissa: You could have at least called and said, "Marissa! Hey, it's not going to work out. Sorry I wasted your time. I'm a dick."
Hopper: Yep. I'm sorry. Uh, maybe we could go out again next week.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mike: She's doing it! She's finding [Will]!
Dustin: This is crazy.
Lucas: Calm down. She just closed her eyes.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mr. Clarke: Science is neat but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving.

Dustin: Do you even know how compasses work?

Nancy: I was just thinking about joining softball.

Nancy: You're supposed to hit the cans, right?
Jonathan: No, actually, you see the spaces in between the cans? I'm aiming for those.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Dustin: Mike, this isn't your fault.
Mike: Yeah, it's Lucas's.
Dustin: It wasn't his fault either.
Mike: It wasn't his fault?
Dustin: No.
Mike: So you're saying he wasn't way out of line?
Dustin: Totally, but so were you.
Mike: What?
Dustin: And so was Eleven.
Mike: Oh, give me a break.
Dustin: No, Mike, you give me a break. All three of you were being a bunch of little assholes! I was the only reasonable one.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Lucas: Will you shut up about Lando?

Mr. Clarke: It's ten o'clock on a Saturday night. Why don't we pick this up on-
Dustin: Do you know anything about sensory deprivation tanks? Specifically how to build one?
Mr. Clarke: Sensory deprivation? What is this for?
Dustin: Fun.

Nancy: I knew you were acting weird. I thought it was because of Will.
Mike: I knew you were acting weird. I thought it was because of Steve.

[blueray]

Mike: She didn't mean to hurt you. It was an accident!
Lucas: An accident?
Dustin: All right, accident or not... admit it, it was a little awesome.
Lucas: Awesome?
Dustin: Yeah, she threw you in the air with her mind!
Lucas: I could have been killed!
Mike: Which is exactly why we need her. She's a weapon!

[bettername2come]

Dustin: I'm sorry. You ate my cat.

[absnow54]

"Jonathan, how was the pullout?"

I cackled.  

[Last Time Lord]

3 hours ago, absnow54 said:

"Jonathan, how was the pullout?"

I cackled.  

If nobody else posted this one, I would have.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mike: I'm not prostituting my sister!

Murray: I talked to a Big Buy ex-employee who said some little girl shattered the door with her mind.
Hopper: I heard that story. Did you hear the one about the fat man with the beard who climbs down chimneys?

Dustin: [Max] skateboards so she's pretty awesome.

Jonathan: You're not a freak.
Will: Yeah, I am.
Jonathan: You know what? You're right. You are a freak.
Will: What?
Jonathan: No, I'm serious. You're a freak. But what? Do you want to be normal? Do you want to be just like everyone else? Being a freak is the best. I'm a freak.
Will: Is that why you don't have any friends?
Jonathan: I have friends, Will.
Will: Then why are you always hanging out with me?

Mike: You already took away my Atari.
Mrs. Wheeler: Didn't wanna lose more toys, you shouldn't have stolen from Nancy.
Mike: I didn't steal. I borrowed.
Mrs. Wheeler: Oh, and you didn't curse out Mr. Kowalski last week either, right? Or plagiarize that essay? Or graffiti the bathroom stall?
Mike: Everyone graffitis the bathroom stall.

Edited November 16, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[blueray]

Lucas' sister: "code shut your mouth"

 

Hopper: "oh and this is Eleven, she's been living with me for the past year" Or something like that.

Edited October 29, 2017 by blueray

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Hopper: We don't take risks. All right? They're stupid, and...
Eleven: We're not stupid! 

Hopper: How's that for a compromise?
Eleven: Compromise?
Hopper: C-O-M-promise. Compromise. How about that's your word for the day? Yeah? It's something that's kinda in-between. It's like halfway happy.

Mike: Why are you Venkman?
Lucas: Because I'm Venkman.
Mike: No, I'm Venkman.
Will: Why can't there just be two Venkmans?
Mike: Because there's only one Venkman in real life. We planned this months ago. I'm Venkman, Dustin's Stantz, you're Egon, and you're Winston. 
Lucas: I specifically didn't agree to Winston.
Mike: Yes, you did!
Will: I don't think he did.
Lucas: No one wants to be Winston, man.
Mike: What's wrong with Winston?
Lucas: What's wrong with Winston? He joined the team super late, he's not funny, and he's not even a scientist!
Mike: Yeah, but he's still cool.
Lucas: If he's cool, then you be Winston.
Mike: I can't!
Lucas: Why not?
Mike: Because -
Lucas: Because you're not black?
Mike: I didn't say that!
Lucas: You thought it. 

Dustin: We gonna do this? 
Lucas: Not right now. We look like morons.
Dustin: Maybe she likes Ghostbusters?
Lucas: Of course she likes Ghostbusters, but that's not the point.

Joyce: Why would [Will] lie to me?
Hopper: He's a kid, Joyce.

Dustin: So we were talking last night, and you're new here, so you probably don't have any friends to take you trick-or-treating, and you're scared of bullies, so we were thinking that it would be okay if you come with us.
Max: "It'd be okay"? 
Dustin: Yeah. Our party's a democracy, the majority voted you could come.
Max: I didn't realize it was such an honor to go trick-or-treating with you.
Dustin: We know where to get the full-sized candy bars. We figured you'd want in.
Max; That's presumptuous of you.
Dustin: Yeah. Totally.

Eugene: You see these hands? 
Hopper: Yeah. 
Eugene: You know why they look like that? 
Hopper: Because you're old?

Lucas: If I get another 3 Musketeers, I'm gonna kill myself. 
Dustin: What's wrong with 3 Musketeers? 
Lucas: "What's wrong with 3 Musketeers?" 
Mike: No one likes 3 Musketeers. 
Will: Yeah, it's just nougat.
Dustin: Whoa. "Just nougat"? Just nougat? It is top three for me. 
Will: Top three? 
Dustin: Top three!
Mike: Oh, God. Give me a break.
Dustin: Seriously, I can just eat a whole bowl of nougat. Straight up.

Hopper: Hey, kid. Give me some of that candy, would you?
Erica: No way.

Dustin: Another full-size [candy bar]. Like, seriously, rich people are such suckers.

Samantha: Nice costume.
Jonathan: I'm going as a guy who hates parties.

Edited November 16, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[MaggieG]

Lucas: "They don't even life in the same universe!"

Regarding He-Man and Barbie (I think) when he walks in on Erica making them kiss.

[tiramisue]

Dustin: I'm on a curiosity voyage and I need my paddles to travel. These books are my paddles.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mrs. Henderson: What's wrong with you? 
Dustin: Nothing. 
Mrs. Henderson: Did something happen? 
Dustin: No. What? No.
Mrs. Henderson: Are you constipated again?
Dustin: No. Mom!

Hopper: Know the great thing about [this triple-decker Eggo extravaganza]? It's only 8,000 calories.

Powell: We found some more by Gilbert's farm.
Callahan: Some real nasty stuff. It was sticky. 
Hopper: All right. Where else?
Powell: That was it, Chief.
Hopper: That was it, or you get tired of looking? 
Powell: It was getting dark. 
Callahan: I mean, it was really dark.
Hopper: They're called flashlights, you dipshits.

Will: Ugh, [D'Artagnan]'s like a living booger.

Dustin: If we take [D'Artagnan] to Hopper, Dart's good as dead. 
Mike: Maybe he should be. 
Dustin: How can you say that?
Mike: How can you not? He's from the Upside Down.
Dustin: Maybe. But even if he is, it doesn't automatically mean that he's bad.
Mike: That's like saying just because someone's from the Death Star doesn't make them bad. 
Dustin: We have a bond.
Mike: A bond? Just because he likes nougat?

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Lucas: Dad? When Mom's mad at you, how do you make her not mad?
Mrs. Sinclair: Hmm. That's a great question. How do you, hon?
Mr. Sinclair: First, I apologize. Then I get your mother whatever she wants.
Lucas: Even when she's wrong?
Mr. Sinclair: She's never wrong, son.
Mrs. Sinclair: That's right.

Max: What is this shit, stalker?
Lucas: Sorry. I just needed a safe place.
Max: A safe place to what? Be creepy?

Nancy: What are you doing?
Murray: Thinking.
Nancy: With vodka?
Murray: It's a central nervous system depressant. So yes, with vodka.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Steve: It's just some little lizard.
Dustin: It's not just a lizard.
Steve: How do you know it's not just a lizard?
Dustin: Because his face opened up and he ate my cat.

Barbie: Oh, He-Man, thank you for saving my life. What strong muscles you have.
Lucas: I knew it!
Erica: Hey! They're in love!
Lucas: No, actually, they're not. They don't even exist on the same planet.

Murray: So, Jonathan, how was the pull out?
Jonathan: Uh, sorry?
Murray: The sofa.
Jonathan: Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was good.
Murray: I bet.

Steve: All right, so let me get this straight. You kept something you knew was probably dangerous in order to impress a girl who you just met?
Dustin: All right, that's grossly oversimplifying things.
Steve: I mean, why would a girl like some nasty slug anyway?
Dustin: An interdimensional slug? Because it's awesome.
Steve: Well, even if she thought it was cool, which she didn't, I just - I don't know. I just feel like you're trying too hard.
Dustin: Well, not everyone can have your perfect hair, all right?
Steve: It's not about the hair, man. The key with girls is just just acting like you don't care. 
Dustin: Even if you do? 
Steve: Yeah, exactly. It drives them nuts.

Steve: Fabergé.
Dustin: What?
Steve: It's Fabergé Organics. Use the shampoo and conditioner, and when your hair's damp - it's not wet, okay? When it's damp, you do four puffs of the Farrah Fawcett spray. 
Dustin: Farrah Fawcett spray? 
Steve: Yeah, Farrah Fawcett. You tell anyone I just told you that and your ass is grass. You're dead, Henderson. Do you understand?
Dustin: Yup.
Steve: Okay. 
Dustin: Farrah Fawcett, really? 
Steve: I mean, she's hot.

Dustin: Why are you winking, Steve? Stop.

Max: [Steve]'s insane.
Dustin: He's awesome.

Edited November 2, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Eleven: I'm sorry, but I have to go back. My friends are in danger.
Kali: Your mother sent you here for a reason, remember? We belong together. There's nothing for you back there. They cannot save you, Jane.
Eleven: No. But I can save them.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Max: No, no, no. Guys, why are you headed towards the sound?

Bob: Hey, where are you going?
Hopper: To reset the breakers.
Bob: Okay, then what?
Hopper: Then we get out of here. 
Bob: No, then the power comes back on. If you wanna unlock the doors, you have to reboot the computer system, and then override the security codes with a manual input.
Hopper: Fine, how do I do that?
Bob: You can't. Not unless you know BASIC.
Hopper: I don't know what that means. 
Bob: It's a computer programming language. 
Hopper: Teach it to me.
Bob: Shall I teach you French while I'm at it, Jim? How about a little German?

911: Have you contacted the police?
Hopper: I AM the police!

Dustin: Unless you know something that we don't, this is the best metaphor-
Lucas: Analogy.
Dustin: Analogy? That's what you're worried about? Fine. An analogy for understanding whatever the hell this is.
Nancy: Okay, so this mind flamer thing-
Dustin: Flayer.
Nancy: Mind flayer. What does it want?
Dustin: To conquer us, basically. It believes it's the master race.
Steve: Like the Germans?
Dustin: Uh, the Nazis? 
Steve: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Nazis. 
Dustin: If the Nazis were from another dimension, totally.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Steve: What is that?
Everyone else: Morse code.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Bob: Bob Newby, superhero.

Eleven: You lie!
Hopper: I don't lie. I protect and I feed and I teach.

Edited November 5, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[bettername2come]

Dr. Owens: Mistakes have been made, yes.

Nancy: Mistakes?

Dr. Owens: Yes.

Nancy: You killed Barbara!

Dr. Owens: Abundant mistakes.

Edited November 15, 2017 by bettername2come

[mledawn]

On 10/31/2017 at 5:56 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Powell: We found some more by Gilbert's farm.
Callahan: Some real nasty stuff. It was sticky. 
Hopper: All right. Where else?
Powell: That was it, Chief.
Hopper: That was it, or you get tired of looking? 
Powell: It was getting dark. 
Callahan: I mean, it was really dark.
Hopper: They're called flashlights, you dipshits.

This made me laugh so hard - Hopper knew they were just like little kids who got bored.

[Runningwild]

I LOLed when Bob (Sean Astin) excitedly asked if there was buried treasure where the X marked the spot (like in Goonies).

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Hopper: Maybe I'll just kill Mike. I'm the chief of police. I could cover it up.

Lucas: Aren't we high enough?
Dustin: Cerebro works best at a hundred meters.
Sadie: You know, I'm pretty sure people in Utah have telephones.
Dustin: Yeah, but Suzie's Mormon.
Lucas: Oh, shit. She doesn't have electricity?
Sadie: That's the Amish.
Will: What are Mormons?
Dustin: Super religious white people.

Mike: This has been fun and all but, uh...
Eleven: I have to go home.
Dustin: We're almost there.
Mike: Sorry, man. Curfew.
Dustin: Curfew at four?
Lucas: They're lying.
Will: It's been like this all summer.
Sadie: It's romantic.
Will: It's gross.
Dustin: It's bull shit.

[bettername2come]

1 hour ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Hopper: Maybe I'll just kill Mike. I'm the chief of police. I could cover it up.

Lucas: Aren't we high enough?
Dustin: Cerebro works best at a hundred meters.
Sadie: You know, I'm pretty sure people in Utah have telephones.
Dustin: Yeah, but Suzie's Mormon.
Lucas: Oh, shit. She doesn't have electricity?
Sadie: That's the Amish.
Will: What are Mormons?
Dustin: Super religious white people.

Mike: This has been fun and all but, uh...
Eleven: I have to go home.
Dustin: We're almost there.
Mike: Sorry, man. Curfew.
Dustin: Curfew at four?
Lucas: They're lying.
Will: It's been like this all summer.
Sadie: It's romantic.
Will: It's gross.
Dustin: It's bull shit.

Not Sadie, Max.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Robin: How many children are you friends with?

Dustin: [Suzie] says kissing is better without teeth.

Dustin: [mumbles] I intercepted a secret Russian communication.
Steve: Just speak louder.
Dustin: I INTERCEPTED A SECRET RUSSIAN COMMUNICATION!
Steve: That's what I thought you said.

Eleven: But friends don't lie.
Max: Yeah, well, boyfriends lie. ALL THE TIME.

Lucas: I don't even understand. Why lie?
Mike: Hopper. He threatened me.
Lucas: Did he say he'd kill you?
Mike: What?! No!
Lucas: So then what's the big deal?

Edited July 4, 2019 by ElectricBoogaloo

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Steve: I guess I don't totally know what I'm looking for.
Dustin: Evil Russians.
Steve: Yeah, exactly. I don't know what an evil Russian looks like.
Dustin: Tall, blond, not smiling. Also look for earpieces, camo, duffel bags, that kind of thing.

Dustin: Dude, you are the worst spy in history!

Dustin: I don't even get why you're looking at girls anyway. You have the perfect one in front of you.
Steve: Seriously, if you say Robin again-
Dustin: Robin. 
Steve: No, don't. No. 
Dustin: Robin, Robin, Robin. 
Steve: Stop, no, no, no. 
Dustin: Robin. Robin. Robin. 
Steve: No. 
Dustin: Robin. 
Steve: No! No, man, she's not my type. She's not even in the ballpark of what my type is, all right?
Dustin: What's your type again? Not awesome?

Lucas: Maybe we should just call [Max and Eleven].
Mike: We can do that?

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Eleven: What about Billy?
Max: What about him?
Eleven: He seemed wrong.
Max: Wrong is kind of like his default.

Hopper: I think you have to lower your expectations.

Dustin: That keycard opens the door but unfortunately, the Russian with this keycard also has a massive gun. Whatever's in this room, whatever's in those boxes, they really don't want anybody finding it.
Robin: But there's gotta be a way in.
Steve: Well, you know I could just take him out.
Robin: Take who out?
Steve: The Russian guard. I sneak up behind him, I knock him out, and I take his keycard. It's easy.
Dustin: Did you not hear the part about the massive gun?
Steve: Yes, Dustin, I did. And that's why I would be sneaking.
Dustin: Well, please, tell me this, and be honest - have you ever actually won a fight?
Steve: Okay, that was one time
Dustin: Twice. Jonathan. Year prior?
Steve: Listen, that doesn't count.
Dustin: Why wouldn't it? Because it looks like he beat the shit out of you.

Larry: Are you insane?
Hopper: I don'tt know. Let's find out.

Larry: I don't know his name, I swear.
Hopper: But you know him.
Larry: He gives me things sometimes.
Hopper: What kind of things?
Larry: Money, presents, gifts.
Hopper: Who is this guy, Santa Claus?

Steve: I don't know if you can fit in here. It's, like, super tight.
Dustin: I'll fit. Trust me. No collar bones, remember?
Robin: Uh, excuse me?
Steve: Oh, yeah, he's got some disease. Chry, uh, it's chrydo, um, something. Yeah, I don't know. He's missing bones and stuff. He can bend like gumbo.
Robin: You mean Gumby.
Steve: I'm pretty sure it's gumbo.
Dustin: Steve, just shut up and push me! 
Steve: Okay. I'll push you. 
Dustin: Not my feet, dumbass. Push my ass.
Steve: What?
Dustin: Touch my butt! I don't care!

Max: I don't know. [Billy] looks pretty normal to me.
Lucas: Normal? How many times have you seen him with a shirt on?
Max: I mean, it's a little weird.
Mike: More than a little.

Eria: And you say this guard is armed.
Dustin: Yes, but he won't be there. 
Erica: And booby traps? 
Robin: Booby traps? 
Erica: Lasers, spikes in the wall? You know what this half-baked plan of yours sounds like to me? Child endangerment.
Robin: We'll be in radio contact with you the whole time.
Erica: Child endangerment.
Dustin: Erica? Hi. Uh, we think these Russians want to do harm to our country. Great harm. Don't you love your country?
Erica: You can't spell America without Erica.

Eleven: What if [Hopper]'s right? 
Mike: What? No, no, no, no. He's just some angry old man who hates joy.

Erica: Commence Operation Child Endangerment.
Robin: Can we maybe not call it that?

Robin: Do you see anything?
Erica: Yeah, I see those boring boxes you're so excited about.
Robin: Any guards? 
Erica: Negative. 
Robin: Booby traps? 
Erica: If I could see them, they'd be pretty shit traps, wouldn't they?

Steve: That's definitely not Chinese food.

Dustin: If you die, I die.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Robin: Is everyone okay?
Steve Yeah, I'm great now that I know that Russians can't design elevators!

Robin: I think we've clearly established that those buttons don't work.
Steve: They're buttons. They have to do something!

Max: Does it still hurt?
Eleven: Only when I talk.
Max: Well, it's a good thing you're not Mike, then. "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." You'd be in constant pain.

Mike: What are they still doing in there?
Lucas: I don't know. Girls just like hanging out in bathrooms.
Mike: Why? 
Lucas: I don't know. 
Mike: They're conspiring against me.
Will: That's what you're concerned about now?
Mike: It's not my main concern. It's just a sub-concern. 
Will: I thought it was already over.
Mike: It's not over, okay? We're just taking a break.
Will: She said she dumped your ass. That doesn't sound like a break.
Max: It wasn't! You guys do realize we can still hear everything you're saying, right?
Mike: Conspiring. I told you - they're conspiring!

Steve: You gotta take it easy on that thing. You're going to drain the battery.
Dustin: The mall just opened. 
Steve: So?
Dustin: So someone could be in range.
Steve: What do you think, Petey the mall cop is going to rappel down here and save the day?
Dustin: All right, why are you such a cranky pants after getting to spend the night with Robin?
Steve: Shh! Jesus Christ. Will you just give up on your creepy dream already?

Hopper: I get it, I get it. You're upset, right? Cause I blew up the car.
Joyce: Yeah, with me in it.
Hopper: Well, I just want to remind you of something, Joyce. I am not a mechanic. 
Joyce: Yeah, clearly. That's why you should've listened to Alexei.
Hopper: Oh, right, yeah. Your new boyfriend, right?
Hopper: Yes. Every man I talk to from now on has to be my boyfriend.

Dustin: I mean, you have to admit, as a feat of engineering alone, this is impressive.
Steve: What are you talking about? It's a total fire hazard. There's no stairs, there's no exit, there's just an elevator that drops you halfway to hell.
Erica: They're commies. You don't pay people, they cut corners.
Robin: To be fair to our Russian comrades, I don't think this tunnel was designed for walking.

Dustin: I very seriously doubt it's something as boring as poison. It's gotta be much more valuable, like promethium or something.
Steve: What the hell is promethium?
Robin: It's what Victor Stone's dad used to make Cyborg's bionic and cybernetic components.
Erica: You're all so nerdy, it makes me physically ill.
Steve: No, no, no. No, don't lump me in with them. I'm not a nerd, all right?
Robin: Why so sensitive, Harrington? Afraid of losing cool points to a ten year old child?
Steve: No, I'm just saying I don't know jack shit about Prometheus.
Dustin: Promethium. Prometheus is a Greek mythological figure, but whatever. All I'm saying is it's probably being used to make something.
Robin: Or power something. 
Dustin: Like a nuclear weapon? 
Robin: Totally.
Steve: Walking towards a nuclear weapon. That's great.
Robin: But if they're building something, why here? I mean, Hawkins. Seriously, of all places. At the very best, we're a toilet stop on your way to Disneyland.

Dustin: Dude, you did it! You won a fight!

Dustin: If I knew Steve could knock out a Russian, that would've been our plan in the first place.

Edited July 6, 2019 by ElectricBoogaloo

[harrisonjames]

"I dump your ass!"

[bettername2come]

Eleven: But the screams.

Max: Yeah, I know, but here's the thing. When Billy is alone with a girl, they make, like, really crazy noises.

Eleven: They scream?

Max: Yeah, but, like happy screams.

Eleven: Happy screams? What is happy screams?

Max: It's like -- I'm just gonna lend you my mom's Cosmo.

Later:

Eleven: She was screaming. Bad screams.

Lucas: What's a good scream?

Eleven: Max said - 

Max: Doesn't matter!

[Last Time Lord]

1 hour ago, bettername2come said:

Eleven: But the screams.

Max: Yeah, I know, but here's the thing. When Billy is alone with a girl, they make, like, really crazy noises.

Eleven: They scream?

Max: Yeah, but, like happy screams.

Eleven: Happy screams? What is happy screams?

Max: It's like -- I'm just gonna lend you my mom's Cosmo.

Later:

Eleven: She was screaming. Bad screams.

Lucas: What's a good scream?

Eleven: Max said - 

Max: Doesn't matter!

My two favorite exchanges of the entire season. 

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mayor Kline: Let me explain something to you. This man is a moron. He's driving around in a yellow convertible, for Christ's sakes. He sticks out like a sore thumb.

Kline: I'm sorry. I I have a bad temper. I'm going to therapy.

Alexei: Tell that stupid man [cherry and strawberry are] not the same in the slightest and I would like the cherry I requested.

Hopper: I get him his cherry Slurpee, then what? He wants a helicopter to charter him to his own private island.

Dustin: So when we set fire to the hub, we drew the Demodogs away so El could close the gate. But now, for some insane reason, the Russians appear to be trying to reopen it, which just destroys everything we risked our lives for.
Erica: By "we," you're including Lucas?
Dustin: Yes, of course.
Erica: So all that shit you told me, Lucas was there? 
Dustin: Yeah. 
Erica: My brother, Lucas Charles Sinclair?
Dustin: Yes!
Erica: I don't believe you.
Dustin: Wait, so you believe everything about El and the gate and the Demodogs and the Mind Flayer, but you question your brother's involvement?
Erica: That's correct.

Erica: I'm just being realistic. I mean, we've made it about 0.3 miles in nine hours. Then we had to walk three hours down that tunnel, so I'd estimate ten miles back to the elevator, which should take us approximately twelve and a half days.
Dustin: Did you just do all of that in your head?
Erica: I'm good with numbers.
Dustin: Holy shit. You're a nerd!
Erica: Come again?
Dustin: You. Are. A. Nerd.
Erica: Okay, you better take that back, nerd.
Dustin: Can't put the truth back in the box. 
Erica: But it's not the truth. 
Dustin: Let's examine the facts, shall we? Fact one: you're a math whiz, apparently.
Erica: That was a pretty straightforward equation.
Dustin: Fact number two: you're a political junkie.
Erica: Just because I don't agree with communism as an ideology-
Dustin: Fact number three: you love My Little Pony.
Erica: And what does My Little Pony have to do with this?
Dustin: Ah, let's recall the ponies' latest adventure, shall we? The evil centaur team and Tirek turn Applejack into a dragon at Midnight Castle and then Megan and the other ponies have to use Moochick's magic to defeat his rainbow of darkness, saving them from a lifetime of enslavement. All the pink in the world can't disguise the irrefutable fact that centaurs and castles and dragons and magic are all standard nerd tropes. Ergo, My Little Pony is nerdy. Ergo, you, Erica, are a nerd.
Erica: And how do you know so much about My Little Pony?
Dustin: Because I'm a nerd. Let's go, nerd.

Russian military guy: Who do you work for?
Steve: For the millionth time, I work at Scoops Ahoy!  Look at my outfit! Look at my outfit! You think I just wear this? You think I'm a spy in a sailor's uniform?

Steve: You guys know what ice cream is. Everybody loves ice cream. I don't know if you have Russian ice cream or if that's considered gelato. I don't know what's what, but whatever you guys want, seriously. USS Butterscotch, I mean, you gotta try it. It is out of this world, I'm telling you!

Max: Okay, can you guys settle an argument for us? Who do you think should decide El's limits? Mike or Eleven?
Mike: The way that you frame that is such bullshit.
Max: It's not bullshit, Mike. This is your whole problem. And it's also precisely the reason why she dumped your ass.
Nancy: El dumped you?
Mike: Yeah, because she is conspiring against me. She's corrupting her.
Max: No, enlightening her. The fact is she's not yours. She's her own person, fully capable of making her own decisions.
Mike: She's risking her life for no reason.
Nancy: For no reason? Mike, the flayed are out there doing God knows what. 
Lucas: Killing, flaying.
Will: Transforming into monsters.
Nancy: And El's not stupid. She knows her abilities better than any of us. 
Max: Exactly, thank you.
Nancy: And she is her own person. 
Max: Exactly. 
Nancy: With her own free will. 
Max: Exactly. El has saved the world twice and Mike still doesn't trust her.

Murray: I don't understand what he's saying. 
Joyce: I thought you were fluent.
Murray: Oh, I'm sorry. Are my free translation services not good enough for you? Because you can just go ahead and file your complaint right up my ass!

Hopper: The key, is there a way to turn it off?
Murray: [Alexei] could turn it off. "Could Edison not turn off a lamp? Could Bell not hang up a phone?" Cocky bastard. "But-"
Hopper: But what?
Murray: But he is now naked. Sorry, exposed. Compromised.
Hopper: Hey, I will get you there. I will get you to your key.
[Alexie laughs]
Hopper: You want to ask him what the hell's so funny about that?
Murray: He says he likes your courage. You remind him of a fat Rambo. But he says that even thin Rambo couldn't get there.

Erica: Do you even know how to drive?
Dustin: How hard can it be? Max did it.

Dustin: What the hell is that?
Erica: A deadly weapon. It could be useful.
Dustin: For what?
Erica: What do you think? Taking down commies, saving your friends.

Robin: Steve, are you okay?
Steve: My ears are ringing, and I can't really breathe, my eye feels like it's about to pop out of my skull, but, you know, apart from that, I'm doing pretty good.

Joyce: This is Antique Chariot's partner, Wheelbarrow.

Robin: There was a code! We heard a code!
Russian military guy: Code? What code?
Robin: "The week is long. The silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow in the west." Blah, blah, blah. You broadcast that stupid spy shit all over town, and we picked it up on our Cerebro and we cracked it in a day. A day! You think you're so smart, but a couple of kids who scoop ice cream for a living cracked your code in a day and now people know you're here.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Dustin: [Steve's] pupils are super dilated.
Erica: Maybe he's drugged.
Steve: Boop!
Dustin: Steve, are you drugged?
Steve: How many times do I have to tell you, dad? I don't do drugs. It's only marijuana.

Steve: Ooh, can we make a pit stop at the food court? 
Robin: I would kill for a hot dog on a stick.

Dustin: Okay, it's official. I'm never having kids. 
Erica: What are we doing here? 
Dustin: We're laying low, cooling off - like Oswald.
Erica: Oswald was found in a theater and shot to death.
Dustin: A week later.
Erica: The point is his plan didn't work.
Dustin: Only because it was a setup. 
Erica: What? 
Dustin: He was just a patsy. 
Erica: Tell me you're joking.

Dustin: Do you have any batteries? Double A?
Erica: Why would I have batteries?
Dustin: I always carry batteries.
Erica: Then what's the problem?
Dustin: I need eight.

Robin: I wasn't totally focused in there or anything, but I'm pretty sure that mom was trying to bang her son.
Steve: Wait, wait, the hot chick was Alex P. Keaton's mom?
Robin: Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Steve: But they're the same age.
Robin: No, but he went back in time.
Steve: Then why is it called Back to the Future?
Robin: He has to go back to the future because he's in the past. So the future is actually the present, which is his time.
Steve: What?

Mike: How do you even drink [New Coke]? 
Lucas: Because it's delicious.
Mike and Max: What?!
Lucas: It's like Carpenter's The Thing. The original is a classic, no question about it. But the remake - sweeter, bolder better.
Mike: You're insane.
Lucas: So you prefer the original Thing?
Mike: What? No, I'm not talking about The Thing, I'm talking about New Coke.
Lucas It's the same concept, dude.
Mike: Uh, actually, it's not the same concept.
Lucas: It is the same concept. 
Mike: No, it's not.
Lucas: Yes, it is!

Robin: Interrogate me.
Steve: Okay. Interrogate you. Sure. When was the last time you peed your pants?
Robin: Today.
Steve: What?
Robin: When the Russian doctor took out the bone saw.
Steve: Omigawd.
Robin: It was just a little bit though.

Steve: What do you think?
Robin: About?
Steve: This girl.
Robin: She sounds awesome.
Steve: She is awesome. And what about the guy?
Robin: I think he's on drugs and he's not thinking straight.

Murray: It doesn't get more American than this, my friend. Fatty foods, ugly decadence, rigged games.
Alexei: They are rigged, these games?
Murray: Yes.
Alexei: They do not look rigged.
Murray: That's just it, my dear Alexei. They have been designed to present the illusion of fairness! But it's all a scam, a trick, to put your money in the rich man's pocket. That, my dear friend, is America.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Mike: The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins to stop El, to kill her, and pave a way into our world.
Nancy: And it almost did. That was just one tiny piece of it.
Hopper: How big is this thing?
Jonathan: It's big. Thirty feet at least. 
Lucas: Yeah. It sort of destroyed your cabin. Sorry.
Steve: Okay, so, just to be clear, this big fleshy spider thing that hurt El, it's some kind of gigantic weapon? 
Nancy: Yes. 
Steve: But instead of, like, screws and metal, the Mind Flayer made its weapon with melted people. 
Nancy: Yes, exactly. 
Steve: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm just making sure.

Erica: You're just going to waltz in there like it's commie Disneyland?

Dustin: You need something with a high enough frequency band to relay with the Russians' radio tower. But for that to work, you need someone who has both seen their comms room and has access to a super-powered handcrafted radio tower, one preferably already situated at the highest point in Hawkins. Oh, wait. That's me.

Joyce: just because it wasn't your plan doesn't mean it was a bad plan.

Suzie: Dusty-bun, where have you been?
Dustin: I'm so, so sorry. I've been really busy trying to save the world from Russians and monsters.
Suzie: Of course you have.

Robin: You put your mom down as a reference?
Steve: Yeah. Why not? She's, like, super well-respected.
Robin: You're such a dingus.

Robin: Uh, just to be clear, we weren't fired, you know. The mall burned down and, like, killed a bunch of people.

Keith: Three favorite movies. Go.
Robin: Uh, The Apartment, Hidden Fortress, Children of Paradise.
Keith: You, go.
Steve: Favorite movies? 
Keith: Did I stutter?
Steve: Uh, Animal House, for sure.
Keith: Eyes on me, Harrington.
Steve: Yeah. Uh, Star Wars.
Keith: A New Hope?
Steve: A new what now?
Keith: Which Star Wars? 
Steve: The one with the teddy bears, the one that just came out. The movie that just came out. The one with the DeLorean and Alex P. Keaton, and he's trying to bang his mom. Yeah, those are my top three. Classics.

Hopper: There's something I've been wanting to talk to you both about. I know this is a difficult conversation, but I care about you both very much and I know that you care about each other very much. And that's why it's important that we set these boundaries moving forward, so we can build an environment where we all feel comfortable trusted and open to sharing our feelings. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place, in a cave, you might say - a deep, dark cave. And then I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life and for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I've been feeling distant from you, like you're you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off. But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. And I guess if I'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came in here, to try to maybe stop that change, to turn back the clock, to make things go back to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just not how life works. It's moving, always moving, whether you like it or not. And, yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad. And sometimes it's surprising. Happy. So you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from them, and when life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave. But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches.

[bettername2come]

Robin: We all die, my strange little child-friend. It's just a matter of how. And when.

[Taryn74]

On 7/5/2019 at 6:15 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Steve: I don't know if you can fit in here. It's, like, super tight.
Dustin: I'll fit. Trust me. No collar bones, remember?
Robin: Uh, excuse me?
Steve: Oh, yeah, he's got some disease. Chry, uh, it's chrydo, um, something. Yeah, I don't know. He's missing bones and stuff. He can bend like gumbo.
Robin: You mean Gumby.
Steve: I'm pretty sure it's gumbo.
Dustin: Steve, just shut up and push me! 
Steve: Okay. I'll push you. 
Dustin: Not my feet, dumbass. Push my ass.
Steve: What?
Dustin: Touch my butt! I don't care!

That had me dang near crying.  I love Steve/Dustin so much.

[Gothish520]

On 7/6/2019 at 8:15 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Mike: The Mind Flayer, it built this monster in Hawkins to stop El, to kill her, and pave a way into our world.
Nancy: And it almost did. That was just one tiny piece of it.
Hopper: How big is this thing?
Jonathan: It's big. Thirty feet at least. 
Lucas: Yeah. It sort of destroyed your cabin. Sorry.
Steve: Okay, so, just to be clear, this big fleshy spider thing that hurt El, it's some kind of gigantic weapon? 
Nancy: Yes. 
Steve: But instead of, like, screws and metal, the Mind Flayer made its weapon with melted people. 
Nancy: Yes, exactly. 
Steve: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm just making sure.

Erica: You're just going to waltz in there like it's commie Disneyland?

Dustin: You need something with a high enough frequency band to relay with the Russians' radio tower. But for that to work, you need someone who has both seen their comms room and has access to a super-powered handcrafted radio tower, one preferably already situated at the highest point in Hawkins. Oh, wait. That's me.

Joyce: just because it wasn't your plan doesn't mean it was a bad plan.

Suzie: Dusty-bun, where have you been?
Dustin: I'm so, so sorry. I've been really busy trying to save the world from Russians and monsters.
Suzie: Of course you have.

Robin: You put your mom down as a reference?
Steve: Yeah. Why not? She's, like, super well-respected.
Robin: You're such a dingus.

Robin: Uh, just to be clear, we weren't fired, you know. The mall burned down and, like, killed a bunch of people.

Keith: Three favorite movies. Go.
Robin: Uh, The Apartment, Hidden Fortress, Children of Paradise.
Keith: You, go.
Steve: Favorite movies? 
Keith: Did I stutter?
Steve: Uh, Animal House, for sure.
Keith: Eyes on me, Harrington.
Steve: Yeah. Uh, Star Wars.
Keith: A New Hope?
Steve: A new what now?
Keith: Which Star Wars? 
Steve: The one with the teddy bears, the one that just came out. The movie that just came out. The one with the DeLorean and Alex P. Keaton, and he's trying to bang his mom. Yeah, those are my top three. Classics.

Hopper: There's something I've been wanting to talk to you both about. I know this is a difficult conversation, but I care about you both very much and I know that you care about each other very much. And that's why it's important that we set these boundaries moving forward, so we can build an environment where we all feel comfortable trusted and open to sharing our feelings. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place, in a cave, you might say - a deep, dark cave. And then I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life and for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I've been feeling distant from you, like you're you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off. But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. And I guess if I'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came in here, to try to maybe stop that change, to turn back the clock, to make things go back to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just not how life works. It's moving, always moving, whether you like it or not. And, yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad. And sometimes it's surprising. Happy. So you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from them, and when life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave. But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches.

Just watched this again last night with Mr. Gothish. He's happy it's going to be a good while until new episodes come out and I start bugging him to watch again, lol. I'm completely in love with this show! 

On 7/5/2019 at 10:46 PM, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Robin: There was a code! We heard a code!
Russian military guy: Code? What code?
Robin: "The week is long. The silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow in the west." Blah, blah, blah. You broadcast that stupid spy shit all over town, and we picked it up on our Cerebro and we cracked it in a day. A day! You think you're so smart, but a couple of kids who scoop ice cream for a living cracked your code in a day and now people know you're here.

As a life-long evil Commie despiser, this was so immensely satisfying.

Edited August 16, 2019 by Gothish520

[bettername2come]

4x01 The Hellfire Club

Mike: (chasing Dustin) C'mon, just talk to me! Tell me things!

4x02 Vecna's Curse
Argyle: Got me stressed out. It's not even my girlfriend.

4x03 The Monster and the Superhero
Steve: (regarding Max driving) No, no, never again. Please, anybody but you, no.

Mike: Jail? You're gonna put her in jail?
Police receptionist: A detention hall for juveniles.
Mike: That's jail!

Dustin: I'm missing collarbones not eyes. 

4x04 Dear Billy
Steve: I could've taken you out with this lamp!

Robin: Holy shit, there's a little ballerina in here.
Steve: She's giving you an academic scholar vibe?

Max: If you think I'm going to spend what is likely the last day of my life in the armpit that is Mike Wheeler's basement, you're out of your mind. Either take me where I need to go or tie me down, which is technically kidnapping of a minor. And if I live to see another day, Steve, I swear to God, I will prosecute. Open the door. 
Steve: Uh, no.
Max: I know a good lawyer.

4x06 The Dive
Suzie: Not only was I breaking the law, I was dating an agnostic. An agnostic!

Mike: Can you print this?
Suzie: No, my skills end at IP geolocation.

Dustin: What say you, Eddie the Banished?
Eddie: You're asking me to follow you into Mordor which, if I'm totally straight with you, I think is a really bad idea. But the Shire...the Shire is burning. So Mordor it is.

Eddie: She's in charge!
Robin: Are you kidding? I made that shit up.

4x07 The Massacre at Hawkins Lab
Nancy: There's a six-year-old in the house, I know where I keep my guns!

Dustin: How many times do I need to be right on the money before you guys just trust me?!
Steve: Jesus Christ, this kid's got to get his ego in check.
Eddie: It's his tone, right?

Edited June 3, 2022 by bettername2come

[Taryn74]

On 5/30/2022 at 6:27 PM, bettername2come said:

Dustin: I'm missing collarbones not eyes. 

That made me laugh so hard!

On 5/30/2022 at 6:27 PM, bettername2come said:

Mike: Can you print this?
Suzie: No, my skills end at IP geolocation.

As did this.

[bettername2come]

4x08: Papa

Owens: Well, that went very well, I thought. You eased her into it, nice and gentle, just like we talked about. Not ominous at all.

Nancy: He showed me things that haven't happened yet. The most awful things. I saw a dark cloud spreading over Hawkins. Downtown on fire. Dead soldiers. And this... giant creature with... a gaping mouth. And this creature wasn't alone. There were so many monsters. An army. And they were coming into Hawkins. Into our neighborhoods. Our homes. And then... he showed me my mom. And Holly. Mike. And they... they were all...

Eleven: Why are you doing this?
Brenner: Because there's no other choice.
Eleven: There is a choice.
Brenner: Only one that is right.
Eleven: And you make the right choices?
Brenner: I try.
Eleven: Did you make the right choice with Mama? 
Brenner: Your mother was sick, Eleven. She was a danger to herself and to others. She brought a gun into the hospital. She killed a man.
Eleven: Hospital? No. A prison.
Brenner: Everything I have done was for your own good. For your own protection.
Eleven: And Henry? You kept Henry in that lab. With the children. Was that for our good? Was that a right choice?
Brenner: I had no idea what Henry would do. I cared for you. I loved you. I loved all of you.
Eleven: Even Henry?
Brenner: Yes. I was trying to help Henry, to understand him. Yes. Yes, I cared for him.
Eleven: Even after what... what he did?
Brenner: Yes. Because I knew I had failed him.
Eleven: So this morning, you said you believed he was always alive in the darkness. Is that why I was searching the darkness? Was I looking for him? For Henry?
Brenner: No. No. We were focused on the Soviets. You knew that.
Eleven: "Papa does not tell the truth." Henry said that.
Brenner: And now you trust Henry? Henry, who's manipulated you like some puppet? You are the one who released him from his prison. You. And now you are angry with yourself and you're taking your anger out on me and you're risking everything.
Eleven: No. No, you. You have risked everything! You have lied! You made me look for him! The gate. The Mind Flayer. So many dead. And all because of you. Because you could not stop. You could not let him go. I came here to try and understand who I was. To see if I... if I was the monster. And now I know the truth. It is not me. It is you. You are the monster. I am going to open that door, and I am going to leave with Dr. Owens. If you try to stop me, I will kill you.

Eddie: Never change, Dustin Henderson. Promise me?
Dustin: I wasn't planning on it.

Erica: This isn't a basketball game where they blow the whistle when your shoes fall off.
Lucas: Okay, okay, for the record, my shoes never fell off.
Erica: Okay, for the record, it's kinda hard for your shoes to fall off when you're riding the bench.
Lucas: Yet, for some reason, you show up to every game.
Erica: Mmm, except the one that mattered. Plus, Mom and Dad forced me.
Lucas: Bull. Mom and Dad can't force you to do shit.
Erica: Well, even though you're a bench-riding loser, you're still my brother. Just the facts.

4x09: The Piggyback

Lucas: You're wrong about Eddie.
Jason: No. But I was wrong about you. I never should've let you in the door.
Lucas: And I never should have knocked. I thought I wanted to be like you. Popular. Normal. But it turns out, normal's just a raging psychopath.

Max: Are you... Are you real? Di... Did I make you?
Eleven: I'm real.
Max: How?
Eleven: I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer.
Max: What?