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50 things you didn't know about 'Stranger Things'

It was originally called 'Montauk' and set on Long Island

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50 things you didn't know about 'Stranger Things'

It was originally called 'Montauk' and set on Long Island

You've already finished your Stranger Things 2 binge (or binges—we won't judge) and you've got a while to wait until . While you wait, click through to discover 50 things you didn't know about your favorite show.

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It was created by twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer.

They made a movie, , and worked on M. Night Shyamalan바카라 게임 웹사이트s Wayward Pines before writing a script , "What if Steven Spielberg directed a Stephen King book?"

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The show was originally called 바카라 게임 웹사이트Montauk.바카라 게임 웹사이트

It took place on Long Island in 1980, but the Duffers had to change the show's location when they realized it would be to shoot there in winter.

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The Montauk Project inspired the show.

The alleged government experiment took place in the early '80s and involved kidnapping kids from Long Island to experiment on them. You can read all about it .

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The Duffers auditioned 906 boys and 307 girls for the children's roles.

And read parts from Stand By Me in the audition.

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The now-iconic title sequence was inspired by motion graphics designer Richard Greenberg.

He the titles for films including Alien, Superman and The Goonies.

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The Upside Down's real name is the Nether.

But they got so used to calling it the "Upside Down" on set, it stuck, Millie Bobby Brown . The same thing happened with the Shadow Monster in Season 2; it's supposed to be called the Mind Flayer.

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The Duffers cast Gaten Matarazzo after watching his first audition tape.

"When you see someone like Gaten, and he pops the way he does, you바카라 게임 웹사이트re just like, 'This kid, we바카라 게임 웹사이트re putting him in the show, 100 percent,'" Matt told .

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Stephen King "found" Millie Bobby Brown.

Long before the Duffers cast her as Eleven, King his love for Brown on the British show Intruders: 바카라 게임 웹사이트Millie Brown, the girl in Intruders, is terrific. Is it my imagination, or are child actors a lot better than they used to be?바카라 게임 웹사이트

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The Duffers convinced Winona Ryder to play Joyce during a four-and-a-half-hour meeting.

바카라 게임 웹사이트We actually talked very little about the show or the character of Joyce; we were mostly just getting to know each other,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the Duffers told . Ryder joined the project the next day.

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Joyce바카라 게임 웹사이트s hairstyle was inspired by Meryl Streep in 'Silkwood'

Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t Live Here Anymore and Marsha Mason in Max Dugan Returns and Audrey Rose Winona Ryder's performance.

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It was Caleb McLaughlin바카라 게임 웹사이트s idea for Lucas to wear a bandana in Season 1.

"Sometimes our kids have great ideas, and this is one of those times!" the Duffers told .

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Steve was supposed to be "the biggest d*bag on the planet."

"A lot of credit goes to Joe Keery because he was much more likable and charming than we originally had envisioned," Ross Duffer told .

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Matthew Modine helped to create his character, Dr. Brenner.

Dr. Brenner was particularly hard for the Duffers to write because you see the character so little on the show. "He informed it, and I바카라 게임 웹사이트m really happy with where we wound up with him at the end, with something that was discovered during the course of shooting," Matt Duffer told .

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Brown바카라 게임 웹사이트s performance was inspired by E. T.

바카라 게임 웹사이트Matt and Ross were like, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Basically you바카라 게임 웹사이트re going to be an alien,'" she told .

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The Duffers used the fake body of Will to scare Noah Schnapp's mother.

"We took Noah바카라 게임 웹사이트s mom aside, told her we had something to show her, and led her into a dark closet where we had propped up this frighteningly realistic corpse of her son," they . "She was startled at first, and we felt like maybe we crossed a line… But after the initial shock, she loved it."

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Millie Bobby Brown once showed up to set covered in glitter.

It held up production for a half hour, the Duffer Brothers .

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Production did, in fact, use 1,200 pounds of Epsom salts...

...to in the kiddie pool.

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Barb was Shannon Purser's first role.

"I was thinking, this is the biggest thing I've ever done and how cool would it be if I actually got this? And I did!" she tells .

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The Demogorgon is an animatronic.

And it scared the little kids on set, including the twins who played Holly Wheeler and Millie Bobby Brown's little sister. Someone told the kids the monster came from Monstropolis in Monsters, Inc. to calm them down, the Duffers wrote in .

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The movement of the 바카라 게임 웹사이트petals바카라 게임 웹사이트 on the Demogorgon바카라 게임 웹사이트s head never repeat.

바카라 게임 웹사이트They had a life of their own, moving in unpredictable and bizarre patterns,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the Duffers told .

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The show바카라 게임 웹사이트s music is composed by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon, members of the band S U R V I V E.

The Duffers heard their music when it was used in the film The Guest, they told , and convinced Stein and Dixon to quit their day jobs to work on the show full time.

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An average of 8.8 million people watched "Stranger Things " in its first three days on Netflix.

And 361,000 people all nine episodes in its first 24 hours.

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Dustin says "totally tubular" in reference to Max's California heritage.

In 1984, everyone Californians sounded like Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

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Brown cried after filming the scene with Papa in Season 2.

She called it one of the hardest scenes she's ever filmed .

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Dacre Montgomery danced shirtless to 바카라 게임 웹사이트Come on Eileen바카라 게임 웹사이트 in his audition tape for Stranger Things 2.

He also wore a G-string. "I was thinking: Either I'm never going to work again, or somebody somewhere is going to see one thing in me, and they'll give me a chance," he told . The Duffers loved it." I바카라 게임 웹사이트ve watched thousands of auditions now, and it바카라 게임 웹사이트s by far the most bonkers that I바카라 게임 웹사이트ve witnessed," Ross told .

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Millie Bobby Brown almost quit acting before she landed "Stranger Things".

"I felt at one point I couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t do it [anymore], but then I got this and everything changed,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she told .

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Bob wanting to move to Maine is, indeed, a reference to Stephen King.

But Matt Duffer , 바카라 게임 웹사이트Bob definitely does not read Stephen King… he hates that kind of story.바카라 게임 웹사이트

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Ryder helped Schnapp with his performance in Season 2.

바카라 게임 웹사이트There was this one that I was worried about. So I just texted her, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Hey, can you help me with this? Can you come in and talk to me about it?바카라 게임 웹사이트 And she came in like an hour and a half earlier than she was called in for and she brought me in her trailer and she talked to me," Schnapp told . "She gave me tips and guided me how to do the scene. And she was like, 바카라 게임 웹사이트You바카라 게임 웹사이트ll do it. You바카라 게임 웹사이트ll do great.바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트

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Gaten Matarazzo came up with the idea for Dustin's "purr."

It's his Chewbacca impression.

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Brown has CG hair for the flashback scenes in Season 2.

바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s kind of expensive, so thank God it was only for that one short sequence," Matt told . "We wouldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t have been able to do that the whole season."

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David Harbour didn't use a stunt double for Eleven's "psychic tantrum."

Matt a "really intense day of shooting."

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Steve바카라 게임 웹사이트s "Risky Business" costume is a nod to Nancy바카라 게임 웹사이트s love for Tom Cruise.

바카라 게임 웹사이트There바카라 게임 웹사이트s a Tom Cruise poster in Nancy바카라 게임 웹사이트s room,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Matt told . 바카라 게임 웹사이트Apparently, Tom Cruise is just [like], 바카라 게임 웹사이트If you want to use that poster, you can use it for free.바카라 게임 웹사이트 He just loves that picture of himself, I guess. There were no problems getting rights to that.

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Erica Sinclair was supposed to have a much smaller role.

바카라 게임 웹사이트[Priah Ferguson] was just a local hire we made in Atlanta," Matt told . "Erica wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t even supposed to be in [Season 2] as much as she was. We fell in love with this girl... I thought she바카라 게임 웹사이트s very GIF-able, if that바카라 게임 웹사이트s a word."

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The Duffers had to ask "Ghostbusters" director Ivan Reitman's permission to use the costumes.

They were very nervous about the phone call. "His tone was very serious. He seemed very skeptical, and he was like, 'Can you explain why you want to use Ghostbusters in this?' Matt remembers "We had this very nervous speech about what Ghostbusters meant to us... He made us go through the exercise, but he바카라 게임 웹사이트d already decided to let us do it. He was like, 'We바카라 게임 웹사이트re very flattered by it. Of course we바카라 게임 웹사이트d love to have you use it.'바카라 게임 웹사이트

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The best relationship in Season 2 wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t part of the original script.

바카라 게임 웹사이트When we first pitched the season there was no Dustin and Steve bromance,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Ross . 바카라 게임 웹사이트These are two characters that are both a little heartbroken, so we thought that they could help heal each other.바카라 게임 웹사이트

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They used chopped beef and watermelon for the raw meat in the train track scene.

And Sadie Sink was grossed out .

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Sadie Sink was almost too tall for the role of Max.

She told , "At one point, they told me, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Oh, we think you바카라 게임 웹사이트re too tall. I don바카라 게임 웹사이트t know if we should let you read for it again because you바카라 게임 웹사이트re too tall.'" The team behind the show worried she would tower over the boys, but luckily, they grew to match her height.

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Bob was supposed to die much earlier in Season 2.

Ross Duffer they originally planned to kill Bob around Episode 4, but they liked Sean Astin so much, they kept him alive until Episode 8.

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And Will was supposed to kill him.

The Mind Flayer would've killed Bob through Will, the Duffers revealed on Beyond Stranger Things.

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Dart is completely CGI.

Stranger Things 2 had a much bigger visual effects team than Season 1, the Duffers .

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Sean Astin asked for a violent death for Bob.

In the Stranger Things 2 after show, Beyond Stranger Things, Ross Duffer , 바카라 게임 웹사이트We were not going to make it as memorable as we did, and then he kept talking about Jaws and Quint being ripped apart, and I was like, all right man, we바카라 게임 웹사이트ll do it."

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The cast group chat is called 바카라 게임 웹사이트Stranger Texts.바카라 게임 웹사이트

But according to a , they prefer to play board games and cards on set rather than bring their phones.

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David Harbour ships Joyce and Hopper, which he dubbed #Jopper.

He said as much in . Don't we all, though?

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The Duffers asked Warner Bros. if they could direct a remake of "It".

And WB .

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Netflix wanted to shoot Seasons 3 and 4 back to back.

But the Duffers and their executive producers .

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