![]() ![]() The Duffers even told actor Dacre Montgomery that they wanted a villain like Jack Torrance when they cast him in the role of Billy. In the next episode, the moment when Billy smashes through the glass window of the sauna door and tries to attack Max with a shard of tile is reminiscent of Jack’s (Jack Nicholson) infamous door breakdown in The Shining. When El tries to find out what happened to Heather using her telepathic powers, the way the red door to Heather’s house materializes in her vision looks a lot like the Shining scene when blood bursts out of the elevator doors, except in reverse. The Duffer Brothers’ homage to Stephen King continues with yet another nod to The Shining. The sailor-inspired uniform Steve is forced to wear while working at Scoops Ahoy - complete with hair-ruining hat - also brings to mind the pirate garb that Fast Times‘ Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold) must sport for his job at Captain Hook Fish and Chips. In one final nod to Cates, in the finale, Steve knocks over a cardboard cutout of her Fast Times character while interviewing for a job at Family Video. Of course, the rest of the group finds this claim difficult to believe. Later, Dustin insists that his girlfriend from Camp Know Where, Suzie, is hotter than Phoebe Cates. ![]() The scene is a gender-flipped recreation of the iconic Fast Times dream sequence in which Phoebe Cates’ Linda Barrett emerges from the pool in a red bikini to the same song. In the season’s first episode, Zac Efron lookalike Billy (Dacre Montgomery) struts by a group of eager Hawkins housewives - including Mike’s mom, Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono) - at the pool in nothing but a red bathing suit as The Cars’ “Moving In Stereo” plays. It doesn’t take long for the parallels with Fast Times to come into play. ![]()
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