Here we are, Stranger Things Season 3 9 Deuce Part 5. I can hear you now. “Kent, we already went through all of the blog questions so why are you making us click on another post?” I’m not making you do anything, just simply having some fun. For the past 2-3 years, I have started taking notes while watching things that I am going to blog about. That way I can reference funny lines or scenes, my likes, dislikes, and most importantly, to assist my terrible memory. Without these notes, I wouldn’t be able to do the blog anymore.
The notes are simple, shorthand thoughts. As things are happening, I jot down some of my thoughts in the moment. I thought that some of you may get some laughs from it so I decided to share them. Maybe you will laugh too, or maybe you want to insult me. I’m good with either option. At the end of this, I will also review Stranger Things Season 3 video game. I hope that you enjoy this mess.
Here are links to all 5 Parts for easier navigation.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Ep 1
Jake Busey in episode
Steve’s outfit
Day of the Dead
Erica has a crew
Fat kid cannonball
Billy’s hair and moustache
Mrs. Wheeler wants Billy’s D…… Williams
Busey!!!!! And he’s a perv, so pleased
Another electric powered hammer???? Simpsons did it and someone else did too. Gremlins perhaps?
Suzie is Dustin’s girlfriend from Utah “think Phoebe Cates only hotter”
How is Steve not getting the bitches?
How is Hopper not getting the bitches with his bulking up?
Will is never gonna get bitches…..never!
All these rats are reminding me of Willard, ya know, minus Willard
Exploding rats
Hot Buttered – Simpsons, and Mrs. Wheeler putting on a show
The Suzie silence
Missing Bob and then magnets fall. Kinda want to listen to Cheers theme song now.
Ohhhh REO Speedwagon
Hopper killing it with protective psycho dad
Dustin picking up transmissions from the Russians
Mrs. Wheeler looking nice, but Ted looks comfortable, so he wins
Poor Billy, that is some shit luck, some clue goo on his windshield, and Billy got dragged down….so yeah, Ted won.
Ep 2
Billy escapes to a phone booth. Come on Keiffer, be on the other end…nope
He’s in the Upside Down and an army is marching toward him, led by….Billy
I just wish somebody would point out something odd and another character would say “Yeah, but I’ve seen stranger things”
Hahahaha, the phone call with Mike’s mom. Hopper is so happy and has Honey Smacks
Ohhhhh, some Jim Croce “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” sweet
Hopper, why you gotta make a mess in her store?
Nancy is just the worse and Johnathan should just bail
Wait, did I just see an Orange Julius? Fuck yes I did!
Good lord, Steve and Dustin “she says kissing is better without teeth”
Really digging El’s hair
Max and Lucas advice, I feel like I am watching some Saved by the Bell stuff.
The Thing poster!!!!
Ohhhh shit, Billy backhanded Mrs Wheeler…..or not, but he tells her to stay away and he is fucked up, he is acting like I do my first hour of every day
How does Erica have her own tiny group?
This Robin girl isn’t a bad addition so far
Nancy meets Mrs Driscoll, I wish she was Zelda Rubenstein
The rats are eating her fertilizer, and she got a violent rat as well
Cary Elwes is Mayor Larry Kline. I hope that he wants to play a game. Dr Gordon
In 4 days, Mayor is gonna throw an Independence Day bash. I hope Bill Pullman shows up
El has never been to the mall. Radio Shack, The Gap, JC Penny
Joyce is trying to learn about the magnet stuff
Hahaha, My Bologna at Mr. Clarke’s house. I love that dude.
The captured rat is twitching and having a really bad time. I hope that we are gonna finally get some Thing type shit…well it exploded into a moving Blob ala The Blob and The Raft in Creephshow 2
Billy #2 wants to build. I wonder if we’re gonna get some Field of Dreams shit.
Billy’s arm is FUBAR, he is just bad overall, but at least it isn’t Will
80’s montage to Material Girl makes sense, and El’s final outfit is better than that Blue and yellow monstrosity
They are taunting me with orange Julius….must make one this weekend and then get mad at how badly I fucked it up.
Robin is pretty god damn smart, good for her
Ewwww, girls swapping ice cream cones
El just dumped Mike’s bitch ass, totally worth it, and some “Cold as Ice”.
Ohhhh, Hopper’s new shirt, I could never look good in it, I’m jealous
Joyce is busy with Mr. Clarke…poor Hopper.
Are we the only country that plays “Daisie Bell”? Also used in 2001 A Space Odyssey
Hopper is drunk and pissed, I approve
Billy is back at the Steel Mill or whatever and his coworker is tied up in the trunk. Anytime that you can tie up a bitch and put her in your trunk, I say you do it!
Why doesn’t anybody use tape that is isn’t duct tape?
Ohhh, some sacrifice shit goin on?
Ep 3
Hello Ralph Maccio…you are the best around and no one’s ever gonna keep him down
I would love to see someone sweep the leg this season
Hahahahahaha, Hopper is amazing
El spying on Billy should be good. Loving the visuals of just her and the car and the blackness. Billy turns around and could actually see/sense El. Gooooooood
So is Max the new Barb? Ewww, is El the new Nancy?
I like purple and everything, but Will is a god damn tool
Hopper is the sexiest dude on the show, and he is shirtless and here is Joyce with the magnet shit again. Scott is Mr. Clarke’s name. Joyce believes the lab is behind the magnet shit
“Happy screams” – HA
Billy has a sweet place….with lots of bloody shit
I have a feeling that Busey is so dead by season’s end
Mmmmm peanut butter chocoate swirl
Steve’s standards are reasonable
Will has had enough of this bullllllshit. I want to applaud him, but I just can’t.
Heather is the girl that Billy abducted
El is going fishing for Heather. El see a red door, but will she paint it black? Nope
Hopper and Joyce are at the lab and break in., Joyce has Bob flashbacks
Ohhhh, a camera is watching them
So if you look unhappy, have blonde hair, and carry a duffel bag, you are an evil Russian. That is solid logic. He’s a gym instructor who likes Wham!
Robin is putting the clues together and cracked the code.
Busey’s name is Bruce….fantastic
Hmmmm, Joyce is gonna put her house on the market
Will is having a hissy fit, tearing up pics and breaking the fort
Nancy and Jonathan show up to Driscoll’s, no response. They go to the basement and they hear some shit and it is Mrs. Discoll eating fertilizer
Dustin, Steve, and Robin followed the delivery guy. Definitely dealing with Russians.
Hopper is investigating some noise in the lab and it is some dude we have seen a few times who is giving it to Hopper. Whooped his ass. Dude getting away on bike.
El and Max end up at Heather’s house and Billy is eating with Janet and Tom, Heather’s parents. Heather is there too. That was fun and strange.
Will keeps getting these strange feelings and he can sense the Demagorgan is back.
Back at Heather’s, a little Don Maclean “American Pie”. Janet collapses, Heather cracks her dad with a bottle and they knock him out.
Ep 4
The paramedics are strapping Doris down and she is screaming that she needs to go back. She wants to go to the Steel works.
Tom and Janet are now awake, so that’s good. They are tied up downstairs and the creature is hungry. Sweet. Tom and Janet, you were useless anyway. Now feed Nancy to the creature….please.
Joyce is taking care of Hopper. Hopper is putting the great shirt again.
Mike, Will, and Lucas are issuing a code red to the girls and Dustin. Steve thinks that he can take out the big Russian dude with the gun. Wonderful.
Busey lynching himself with a tie, tremendous.
Just realizing Heather’s dad is also the boss man at the paper. Sigh.
“You know when you drop on a roller coaster?” “Yeah” “Sure” “no”
I’m pretty sure that I said demogorgon earlier and meant Mind Flayer. Deal with it.
Hopper trying to find out who the dude is from Larry. Man, so much info from that scene. So the dude works for Starcourt and they want to buy land in East Hawkins and Larry was banging his secretary. All good stuff. Then we get Nancy. BOOOOOO!
Johnathan is becoming MVP of this episode by giving Nancy the business. Slow clap.
Robin got some blueprints of the mall and the plan is to use air ducts to get in the mystery room. Dustin just told Steve to touch his ass to push him and Erica wants more samples. It’s going to be tough to top that as the funniest scene.
Mike’s plan is to trap Billy in the sauna room and crank up the heat since the Mind Flayer doesn’t like the heat.
Ohhhh shit, they are recruiting Erica to do the air duct. So happy.
“Can’t spell America without Erica”
Larry has a lot of the land deeds in his home safe.
Larry tries to escape.
Is this the episode where everybody hatches their plan? The sauna, continue the story, the deeds, the air duct….
Soooo El wants to just be with girls? Was that the implication?
Operation Child Endangerment – Free ice cream for life
Larry’s wife’s name is Winnie
El, did you have to slam Billy so hard into the wall?
In the boxes in the mystery room, there are some special boxes. There are containers, reminds me of The Rock. And they are sealed in the room and the room is an elevator. Welllll shiiiit.
Nancy is visiting Doris and her heart rate is skyrocketing.
Billy is superfly pissed, temperature is at 220. Billy is saying that it wasn’t his fault. “He made me do it”. Billy is apologizing, Will got the feeling. Billy busts the glass and Lucas hits Billy with a slingshot. The lights are flickering, Billy is transforming. So is Doris. Billy is out and El has pinned him against the wall with some weights. Billy is fighting her though. Big Show time. Mike goes for the save. El just turned Billy into the Kool Aid Man. Oh yeah! Billy runs off as the kids stare.
Heather asks Billy about what happened. “We’ll meet again” while we see the Mind Flayer’s army. Good ending scene.
Ep 5
In the elevators, Erica is giving them the business. Dustin has the idea to climb up and out, but it’s a small climb….
Hopper and Joyce are going to the various properties trying to find the device. They find stairs under a bed and Russian Terminator (RT) is on his way there. They find 2 Russians and RT is on his way down.
So life lesson here, when you have a gun to someone’s head, don’t give them a countdown. Also, RT is named Grigori per the captions. He needs to hit the gym.
Huh, Robin was in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Good for her.
Evil Dead poster plus REM poster. One of those things are cooler than the other.
The kidnapped Russian is named Alexei
El is checking on Hopper, also Mike, stop yelling at your mom when she’s offering breakfast. Ohhhh, Yoo Hoo bottles. Nancy and Johnathan show up there.
Wait, so they have been in the elevator for at least 8 hours, and just now Steve has to piss? Those girls have to have peed by now and most likely Dustin as well.
So they made the escape and the green shit was acidic….duh.
“What’s a good scream?” “Nevermind”
Grigori found Hopper’s F’d up truck. This guy needs to get more work.
Hopper is swearing a lot lately. Hopper is buying a Slim Jim, Funyuns, Coke, Camels, serious business. TODFTHR license plate
Erica’s walkie is finally getting a signal.
Nancy, Johnathan, El, max, Lucas, Will, and Mike are now at Tom’s residence. Lots of cleaning supplies and chemicals
Doesn’t Max or El recognize the meal is still on the dinner table?
Grigori crushed his snowballs. I am sad. I also want snowballs.
Yes, Murray (Brett Gelman) is back. I really love him as an actor
Damn Joyce, you just shut that shit down! Get her a Lucille!
Steve and crew, trying to sneak past all of these fools, really? Steve just took that Russian dude out and won a fight! Yay!
This has to be the most unrealistic part of the show so far, but I am digging it’s silliness. And there is the machine.
Johnathan, never tell a bitch you were wrong. You change the facts until you’re sorta right. John and Nan are going to visit Mrs. Driscoll again, and Tom comes in the room covered in blood. Johnathan smashes a vase, but there is Bruce and he is infected.
Mike is gonna try to make amends with El.
There are a lot of bloody bodies down in the hospital.
Johnathan, you can’t take on Jake Busey. Fool! Bitch just stabbed Bruce with scissors. Not cool Nancy! Tom is now with John and Bruce is Jason Voorhees style stalking Nancy. Tom is taking care of business. Nancy stop hurting Bruce!!! John stabbed Tom in the throat with scissors and I think Nancy killed Bruce. I hope that I am wrong. Both dudes are squirming. They are melting like the rat. God damnit, bye Bruce. I hate being right. The blobs meet and form into………well what the hell you think?
Ep 6
Steve and crew now have the alarms set off on them. Good times. Dustin and Erica escape while Steve and Robin can’t hold the door any longer. Bet they wish they had a Hodor.
Will knows that the MF’er is here.
Good, the creature is pissed at Nancy. I may have an MVP for this episode.
Nancy locks herself in a room but the blob is coming in through the door vent. Johnathan, you ain’t gangsta enough to break the door down foo. The kids are trying to get to them. Come on creature, kill her. Damnit El, quit saving Nancy. So El sends the creature through the window and they watch it go down to the storm drain……so that accomplished what? Oh, Billy and Heather are there. That is what it accomplished.
The last ep was called the Flayed yet no Ramsay Bolton. This is called E Pluribun Unum which the Simpsons once had an episode called E Pluribus Wiggum I think.
Larry is at the county fair and Grigori is there. Uh oh. Larry talking shit to Grigori that he needs back up.
Hop is so full of rage this season. Hopper just raged out and tossed Alexei outside and gave him the keys because he didn’t want to go back out to get a cherry slurpee. Hopper is so proud of himself, and Alexei has started the car and is so happy. Alexei ran into a fence. This was a solid scene.
Lucas and I have the same middle name.
Steve is getting interrogated and had a painful time. Now Robin and Steve are tied together and things won’t improve.
So The Russians are in Hawkins because the door had been open before.
fat Rambo line, classy
Alexei says that breaking in to the place is impossible, and obviously we know that not to be true. Now Erica has a stun rod. Fantastic.
Ohhhh, the doctor is the in Russian base. How exciting. I know that they can’t go hardcore on the torture, but I would be okay with that. Some truth serum..meh.
I like Nancy’s red and black shirt at least. Lucas’ shirt is also solid.
LC! That’s what I am talking about! Lucky Charms for the uninitiated.
Billy has a Metallica poster, so that is pleasing.
We get a flashback of Billy’s past with his mom in California.
I feel bad that Murray has to relocate. Not cool.
Ohhhh, the doctor has brought some tools. I wish it was Tobin Bell.
Steve and Robin are killin it under the influence
Dustin just fucked up the doctor with that stun rod.
Was it just me or did the Billy flashback story seem absolutely cliche ridden?
Is Billy secretly Bray Wyatt? “You let us in”
Soooo El dug too deep and now the flayed are gonna fuck her up. Loving the special effects here.
Flayers gonna Flay
Ep 7
Larry owning the fair. It’s great to see more of him.
So the little girl is smarter than Karen. I can’t vouch for Ted. I think her name is Holly.
“We all die my strange little child friend” – Robin
Alright Johnathan, I see ya playa. Nice axe/hatchet. Yeah Johnathan, man 101, you’re welcome. Nancy always gets a cool weapon I feel every season.
Nancy, why the fuck didn’t you have that shit reloaded? Clearly not a gamer.
Lucas is now hacking away. Nancy, instead of staring, get to reloading dummy.
Back to the Future, good shit.
Mr T, Ghostbusters, Smurfs, GI Joe, Smurfs, Donkey Kong cereals. Good lord, tremendous!
Lucas is thinking outside the box with the fireworks. Maxine, she don’t get it.
Of course Larry sees Hopper at the fair. This all seems like a terrible place to go. Bad plan.
Lucas’ line about Carpenter’s The Thing and New Coke. God damn
So they just left pools of El’s blood on the floor? That seemed unnecessary.
Robin making fun of Nancy……Robin is a keeper.
Steve finally realizing that Robin is into chicks. This whole thing is sad.
Alexei won Woody Woodpecker!
Noooo, they shot Alexei! You bastards!
Ted finally getting some dialogue.
WWE really should have gotten Rusev in this season.
I kinda want a corndog now.
Hopper shot up Grigori, but he is a bad ass hoss.
I would have gotten stuck going down that slide.
Hahaha, Jazzercise sign
C is for cookie!
Does El have more than half of the kills in the show?
Damn, El’s leg is fucked
Ep 8
Here we fucking go
Johnathan manned up and did the thing that nobody else was willing to do.
God damn, I was clenching my fist during that. I would have cried.
We finally have the gang together.
I can’t wait for Dustin’s fireworks to pay off.
Murray found blueprints.
Fucking Erica, hahaha, so mouthy/sassy depending on perspective
And the group has disbanded. That took like 3 minutes.
Murray’s shorts are amazing.
Billy is back! I love when cars don’t start in horror. May the cliche never die.
“Higher and Higher” is a nice touch at the moment
I hope that Suzie is real. It feels like we are due a payoff here.
Nancy is being smart and getting another gun. She is typically dumb, but she likes to get sort of prepared, minus the reloading.
Will is not a great communicator
I have a bad feeling about either Hopper or Joyce making it out of this episode alive. They just had their happy let’s go on a date talk.
Will is by far the most scared of everybody at the moment.
Lucas was clutch with the slingshot.
Nancy taking her shots, missed, but STEVE saves the day.
Ahhhh, Utah. Bout time.
Suzie exists, Dustin wants the code, but she wants to hear it…..
Neverending Story song…..that makes total sense.
Billy lives! I mean, I don’t know his full existence at this point.
This whole opening is very vaginal. If you haven’t seen Dave Made a Maze, you probably don’t appreciate this as much.
Billy just fucked Max, then Mike, and then El up in seconds. That was something.
Billy brings El back to the food court and the MFer has returned as well. YES, there’s my boy Lucas unleashing hell.
Grigori and Hopper are duking it out, naturally.
This is really pretty to see.
Billy taking one for the team….taking more than one. Damn. He went out like a hoss.
Mother dick, did Hopper just get got?
Oh god damnit, not okay.
Oh man, El not seeing Hopper…..still not okay
Stranger Things 3: The Game
I saw this game was on sale at Humble Bundle and I debated between the PC or XBox One version. I save $11 and went for the PC version because it’s a short, 16 bit era, more Genesis than Super NES style game. The reviews for it were very positive and nothing stood out to me as being negative. It has a couch co-op (2 players on the same gaming device) and that’s always a plus for me.
I am probably halfway through the game and I honestly have nothing bad to say about it yet. The music stood out to me fairly quickly and that’s not common for me. This game is 90% from the TV show. I have fought rats, the blobs that they turn into, some Russians, and Mrs. Driscoll. So far, so good. The combat is very simple and intuitive. Each character has a basic move and a special move that uses up one “energy”, think your basic magic bar, I’ve died twice due to getting stupidly overwhelmed. You start back pretty close to where you were. The game has an autosave feature that happens often, which I love.
You basically get to play as most of the “good guys”. Lucas was my early favorite, because he has a range attack and melee is hit or miss at times on this. Once I got El, I haven’t stopped playing as her because she is a beast. I think I have 2 more characters to unlock, and my guess is that they will be Erica and Murray. There are lots of places that requires a small person and there are no midgets in Stranger Things.
The maps are perhaps small to some, but I honestly feel like they are the perfect size for this type of game. There are a few puzzles in the game, but nothing that a 10 year can’t figure out. The library one can be time-consuming so just remember what the first computer or perhaps what the librarian says about how things got switched. If you don’t remember that, expect to hate life.
You get items along the way to help craft trinkets. The group can use 5 trinkets at any given time. Some give the party extra HP or 10% better offense or defense or shock damage for instance. Then there are some character-specific ones, gender, and age-specific ones. I currently have 4 going just to boost El. Things do get expensive, so if you don’t feel like grinding too much for money, buy the wallet type upgrades ASAP to earn more and then you can stash it in your inventory if need be.
You have your main quests such as sneaking into the movie theater, getting stuff to decipher the Russians, or trying to lie to El. You also get wonderful side quests, such as buying shampoo for Mrs. Wheeler so she can get ready for Billy. There’s a lot of comedy and this game treats Will like shit for the first 3 chapters, and it’s hilarious. Then he has his meltdown and has actually become my backup. I think he’s better than Lucas.
For $10 or under, you can’t go wrong. For $20, I still think it is worth it, especially if you like this style of game or want a nice local coop. The Humble Bundle sale ends on Monday I think. This gets my full approval and I’d give it a 7.5 because I’m not expecting a AAA big budget game. For what it is, it’s very good.
Thank you
I just want to thank everybody who helped contribute to this blog this year. It was a nice turnout. I always hope for more people every year, even though it is more work for me, I love to see where everybody’s head is at. I gave into peer pressure and bought the Neverending Story digitally. You bastards win this time! Thank you for reading and keep checking out 9deuce.com because I’m always looking for something to do when it’s not October.
Coming up, we have Wentworth and Orange is the New Black blogs coming out. We will still have Fear the Walking Dead and, of course, The Walking Dead when it returns. We should have Mayans M.C., The Purge, and American Horror Story coming soon. In September, there will be a lot of podcasts released to hopefully get you in the mood…..for horror movies. If you have any thoughts or comments, just leave one. It takes like 20 seconds and I like to have comments.
Also, if you would like to see more video game reviews, let me know. I have been considering it for years. I don’t want to do the work for video reviews and I am not going to be one of those obnoxious fucks on Twitch, but I still like to write and talk about stuff. Just sayin’.