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Dustin’s Demodog. Dart starts Stranger Things is very remi-
off as a very small and almost niscent of how the aliens at-
lovable creature but eventual- tack the bus in Super 8 . The
ly he transforms into a large 1979 film, Mad Max, is about a
and scary Demodog. Another policeman whose mission is
movie that was referenced in to stop a violent motorcycle
season one that is also refer- gang. In Chapter One, it is an-
enced in season two is Polter- nounced that Max is the gam-
geist. In Chapter Five, Eleven er behind the handle “Mad
blindfolds herself to transmit Max.” The arcade employee
herself into the void via televi- even calls her “road warrior,”
sion to see what her friends which is the name of the se-
are up to. In Poltergeist, the quel.
television set works as a medi-
um for Carol Anne as well. Alt-
Television show references
hough released in 2011, Super
from both seasons are very ra-
8 is set in 1979 and follows a
re, but the high school and
group of friends who witness
friendship vibes that Stranger
a train crash and investigate
the
unexplained
events
Things gives off is very remi-
in
niscent of Freaks and Geeks.
their small town. In season
Freaks and Geeks was a 1999
two, Dustin, Lucas, Max, and
drama set in 1980. It follows a
Steve go to an abandon junk-
group of teens and their life in
yard and bus. The way the De-
high school. The two groups
modogs attack the bus in
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