Limmy's 'Stranger Things' Problem
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- Stream air date 08/06/22
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They should have my dad with stone wash jeans and a perm threatening to leave my mum to make it authentically 80s.
We're still waiting for dad to come back with milk
Then mum gets smashed on babycham
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@@trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952 Excellent channel name. Subtle! He does, indeed, make libs cry--actual leftists, on the other hand, advocate mass armed uprising of the international working class, which would finish the c**t off quick! Imagine when Trump kicks off! Lmao they'll be celebrating from the White Cliffs Of Dover to fucking Kolkata!
I know you MAGA types are all about free speech and fully support my expression, as I do your own right to free speech.
He's my dad now. Get over it. 😠
On a serious note. We always knew they were better off apart.
The 80s were bleak. Nobody walked their dog in the 80s. Dogs just ran about the place shitting everywhere. Swings in the park were lethal, if you fell off them you landed on a mix of concrete and broken glass. Broken glass and dog shit. That was the 80s for me.
You have summed it up perfectly. It was dog shite smeared in fresh, open lacerations and puncture wounds on your shins.
I remember a man boiling his own puke in a saucepan and making a porridge out of it in the 80s. It was acceptable
@@Manhandle730 and people walking into your arsehole and blowing snots into bags and selling at 1p a piece
You know what the 80s was for a lot of black folk here in America? Crack epidemic and sorrow.
@@campfortson4387 so a lot of fun in the sun?
There's never a dad who still wears a jacket he bought in 1971, or a middle aged man with cheap jeans and a leftover 50s haircut. Or a mum who was stuck in how she looked in 1968. Stuff like that.
Idk I feel like that was present in season 1, the Byers family had furniture and clothes that were clearly kept around since the 70s, hairstyles from then too. The really 80s fashion was exclusive to the richer kids, later seasons ditched this for flashier visuals and a more cartoony mood.
You would think after numerous near death experiences all them kids by now would have severe PTSD and not stressing about minor high school drama.
True enuf about kids fae Glaskie but whit about Stranger Things
Maybe getting wrapped in high school drama is a way to overcome and repress the PTSD :P
It's scripted, NOT REAL
That's a literal plot point of the new season centred around the character Max
Only a handful of the kids have near death experiences, and usually only one if they do...
"I don't sit to watch shows wanting to hate it"
Right Limmy I believe you
He doesn't, he's just scotish lol.
Bro hates on everything.
@@cyraxx604 nice generalisation there pal keep it up
@MF ZEN what do you mean I personally can't wait for a new superhero film every 3 weeks
@@QbiKz there’s plenty more movies than just superhero flicks getting released lol
The only kids in the 80s who dressed like that were rich kids, all the regular kids just wore hand-me-downs from the 70s.
I love when I feel less alone because of Limmy. I love when we're both correct.
I totally agree. It's like an ultra concentrated dose of cartoonish 80s caricature
wait, wait... would you mind saying that in uh, more words? Like saying that point in a few paragraphs? Not long enough for me to understand (joking about Limmy in the clip)
Yes that's the least believable thing about the series. Not the demonic monsters from a parallel world and children with telekinetic powers.
I like the way Will's family had all clothes and furniture from the 70s because they were poor. Will clearly had hand me downs from 15 years of cousins. I was born in 81 but in all my photos from the 80s I've got big flares and massive collars
Same
@TTFPouyii England and Wales. In 1985-8 I was wearing flared trousers from my cousins who were 10 years older, so they had them in 1975-8.
@TTFPouyii most kids had them when I grew up in the 80s because most of our clothes were hand me downs or from jumble sales or car boots
@@SunburntHands snap
"Can he f*ck!!!" That last bit had me dying 🤣 😂
The German netflix show "Dark" from 2017 did the 80s look perfectly.
That show did everything perfectly
Holy hell, I had this thought almost verbatim half a minute before reading your comment
Bad boy show
didn't overdo it. US productions just cant help themselves but overplay everything. Crank it up to 11.
The Goldbergs and Stranger Things are similar to me. Created by guys who technically were around in the 80s, but wont really actually remember it, or not well. The Duffer Brothers were only born in 1984. They are romanticizing a childhood they never really had.
Yep, spot on. it went from seasons one thing of a story set in the 80s and doing it quite well to an exaggerated caricature of the 80s. , season 3 and 4 is like 80s the theme park
This is Limmy, he's a very special little guy. He's gonna be living with us now
Avoiding dog shit on the pavement while wearing corduroy trousers, skin tight t-shirt and a coat knitted by my grandma. That's all I remember of the 80s.
The problem I have with the show, is that noone in it seems sufficiently scared and worried, and are constantly cracking jokes and one liners even in most serious life or death situations. Love the over the top 80s theme though.
MCU effect
limmy is a strange thing
Tbf the majority of folk watching it haven’t experienced the ‘80’s.’
Us young ones are drawn to this wonderful period of ancient history, it seems like a wonderful period of time to have lived through, and I feel this series portrays that.
I hope future series set in the 00’s show scenes of kids listening to ‘Fallout Boy’ and playing Brain Training on their Nintendo DS’s
2020s nostalgia show will just be everyone stuck at home with covid watching Limmy.
Nobody would believe that JNCO jeans were really a thing
1880's?
@@vollsticks based
If stranger things did an episode in scotland would it have bagpipes blaring the whole episode and eevryone in Tartan eating haggis
6 hour adventures: kids in a smoky pub, sitting at a separate table drinking red lemonade and crisps. The 80s on Sundays
My wife and I watched 80 movies from the 1980s that we hadn't seen before during lockdown - we were bored. I picked up on a few things that are relevant to what Limmy's saying here:
1. The 80s we think of didn't really begin until 1984 or so. American Gigolo (1980) has the Giorgo Moroder soundtrack that feels 80s but all the outfits and general feel is 70s. ET feels very late 70s too.
2. In real life, most houses don't change very much from decade to decade, unless the owners are wealthy. Most non-wealthy people had homes that still looked like they were from the 1970s until at least the middle of the 80s.
3. Similarly, fashion trends that we know of as 80s were initially practiced by young people and wealthy people. Older people who didn't live on the American coasts were not wearing Miami Vice suits, etc.
Stranger Things' problem is that it's full 80s, everywhere, at all ages and socioeconomic brackets, all the time.
You perfectly put into words my exact sentiments. Well said.
Well said 💪
Benny Harvey RIP. miss you big man, gone but not forgotten.
Funny thing I was an extra for stranger things when they shot something in LA a long time ago, and as they were fitting me in bright short shorts and a sweatband I told the head wardrobe people “oh so you guys are going for a cartoonishly 80s look” and they got really angry and scowled at me the rest of the day. It’s irritating and distracting.
It’s the same thing that pisses me off about costume dramas, that they don’t wash the clothes with the techniques they would have used at the time, so all the fabrics look way too made today.
"Way too made today" that is the weirdest grammar Ive ever seen.
this is probably the dumbest complaint i’ve ever seen
Peaky Blinders the worst offender for this
"Aye, have ye no seen it by yet?" - Mel Gibson, Braveheart (A Scotch Movie)
Scottish*
@@ConnorMcCartney95 What's Scot for "whooosh"?
That would be a brilliant sequel. When sloth was turned away and how he ended up living on the streets and chunk ate himself to death.
Should have ended after season 1. AS SHOULD MOST SERIES.
Not really
@@ConnorMcCartney95 Typical Scotchman. Contrarian.
at least give them a chance to get going!! 3 seasons to quit while they're ahead, 6 to squeeze everything out. that being said, the simpsons is great for 10, seinfeld sucks for the first couple and then is good for 8 more
@@benjaminmorris7159 Seinfeld was only bad in the first season, was consistently great after then
Bojack horseman has a god awful first season. It only gets good during season 2.
“By yet” it really is amazing how he continues to innovate with the English language
Love the way he opened that Goonies pic and it quickly undid everything he'd just been saying. Crossed the pic off real quick 😂
Goonies had that for the main kids but not everycunt in the film dressed like they were to sell a halloween costume.
Also all the Stranger Things images he pulled up had them in plain t-shirts
Completely agree. I enjoyed the show but was 80s overkill, far more than the other series. I put up with it but when they read through film titles on the computer it was so obvious. And they are definitely pushing certain styles etc to do brand collabs/promotions with companies.
The main problem all these "period" shows have is that the clothes are always brand spanking. They need to age them for authenticity.
For me, what made 1 and 2 so good was the mystique of the underworld. The Stephen-King-esque combination of the 80s being a utopian other-land of long ago, and the dystopian unknown lurking beneath that paradise. Once the underworld had been entirely revealed, the show should have ended. But no, moneymoneymoney.
Exactly this. Really enjoyed the mystery of season 1. Gave up on it all once I realised that had all vanished in season 3.
The further his hair receeds the more miserable he gets
I thought the same thing. Uber 80s. Now kids are ruining Kate Bush for me.
Kids being introduced and listening to Kate Bush is ruining it for you? That's the literal definition of gatekeeping but okay.
@TTFPouyii So you don't want people of other generations to enjoy your music? No music is off limits to ANY generation. You're probably going to want to murder me when I tell you I was born in 2005 and listen to Pink Floyd XD
@@thisyoutubehandleisdumbasfuck I bet you're not like the other girls in school.
I couldnt have put it better myself , when I was a teenager in the 80s , I wasn't living in an advert advertising the 80s
Sounds like someone who wasn’t around in the 80s was told to make it 80s
It's because they're not referencing te 80s, they just reference a condenced 80s pop culture verson of it. 80s were pretty grim in the UK too.
I'm with Limmy, I hate this crap
Aye man, 80s wuz shite. When I think of 80s I think of Thatcher, and poll tax bailiffs at my door fighting with my dad.
@@thebigb3ard Same, apart from fighting with your dad.
Noel Gallagher once said that 80s Britain was a Toilet
It's nostalgia for people that weren't even there.
(So.....not nostalgia then?)
A lot of people think the '80s was like a Whitesnake video,
it really wasn't.
The '80s were horrible.
It definitely pushes “THIS IS THE 80S” all the time, you’re totally right- watched a few things recently that did the time period right without covering the screen with gadgets, posters, clothes etc…one set in the 90s last night, V/H/S94 did it well, the cartoon F is For Family does it’s time period really well…can’t remember the 80s set thing I was thinking of now though lol! It’s so silly when these period pieces push too many things from the period because in reality it’s always more subtle-think about right now, 2022, people still wearing clothes that aren’t different to 10 or 20 years ago, people still driving cars 10-15 years old, plenty houses that haven’t changed in the last 4-10 years, no one suddenly thinking “damn I need my sofa and walls to look sooo 2022 right now!…” I grew up in the 80s and I wasn’t walking down the street seeing everyone rolling on bmxeswirh Rubik’s cubes blasting the ghostbusters song iut their cars and everyone having mullet haircuts…
Speak for yourself. I wear metal effect lycra and a gas mask.
Something else that's been ruined for me. Thanks Limmy.
Maybe don't be easily swayed by the opinions of others, or come to the realisation yourself without limmy pointing it out. If it really is ruined for you.
To all the people that can't tell, I was kidding.
@@LukeAddison good save.
@@LukeAddison NOT !
80s were fairly drab, dirty jeans and one jumper, a few richer people wore benetton, houses were shabby, cars rusty and often from the 70s.
Dirty jeans and one jumper😅That really made me laugh,& encompasses a whole decade & Generation X’ers
@TTFPouyii you had a stylist?
Got to consider this is made for a crowd that were not apart or even near to 'the 80s' ...so they laid it on thick. Hard for anyone who already got it to sit through. Feels OTT. Did for me at least
You're spot on Limmy!
The big neon sign in the video shop is what triggered me likesy, an' that
Pure bealin wi ye big man!
nice geogaddi pfp daddy
@@batman20x63 hahahah boards of canada
I think the Rubiks Cube on the counter got to me most.
20 year olds playing 15 year olds killed it for me. Stranger things should have ended at season 2.
I kinda see where he's coming from, but at the same time I think it's intentionally on the nose. It's obviously very stylised and over the top but I think thats the point. I try not to take Stranger Things too seriously and just have fun with it
Personally, I don't mind an exaggerated/stylised version of the 80s
Realistically, it's the same with dramas set in the 40s etc too
It besomes a problem when the show loses its hear like season 3 and 4.
10:08 When Limmy says please please please, please please please please please. The subscribe button animated lol
Thanks for the funniest ten minutes I've experienced in a long, long time
Old man try’s to understand current generations 80s revamp series
Born in 71, so a got ma Nat king Cole for the first time in the mid 80’s so a canni complain
Limmy shouldn't have tried to prove his point by bringing up Goonies; one of the most eye rollingly '80s' movie ever made
He tried to compare Strangers Things clothes to actual 80s Goonies film clothes. Realised the goonies were even more 80s stylised and did a massive backpedal by slagging off the Goonies. Well done Limmy.
No they weren't. The clothing was pretty simple except the plaid. It was nothing like the neon shite.
I saw a hellfire club t-shirt in Primark about 4 weeks before season 4 aired...sigh
I think this season is far better than season 2 and 3 and its all mostly watchable but having said that, i think season one was plenty and thats all wee needed
strong agree, season 1 was a banger and there was no reason to do any more than that. Well except money innit.
Limmy was a bitter old man during the 80's so that's probably why he doesn't hold it in high regard.
Totally with you man! Plus they’ve all ages that much, it should actually be set in the 90’s now. Another point. If something is set in a certain decade. Bands and fashion from the previous decade would spill over.
You're actually spot on. Stranger Things is more 80s than the 80s.
But what’s wrong with that? My kid loves it. The references make it fun, so what if they’re contrived? Nowhere did it say “you are now about to watch a realistic representation of the 1980s”
@@AdrianRowbotham It just gets a bit much. Even if they just keep everything the way it is; but dial the 80s down by like 50%. The show is good enough on its own merits without having to force you into the 80s as much as it does. Its probably more of an issue for people who are closer to the 80s. A 10 year old isn't gonna give a fuck though for sure. Won't even notice it.
Is drake still grooming that young un
She’s dating Jon bon jovis son now
When he says they're trying to appeal to twitter/ social media, what he is really witnessing is them trying to appeal to the younger audience.
It’s not just you dear sir. I think we’re of a similar age, and living through/growing up in the 70s/80s, we weren’t soaking every little detail and nuance up for future reference… we were just THERE, alive in the 80s, and that was it. I know you probably have a good memory for all sorts of stuff from the 80s, and I think that’s part of the problem with Stranger Things. I’ve never been able to get past the first episode of the first season, for all the same reasons you’ve mentioned here. I don’t know, maybe if one is a younger viewer, all the overt 80s shite is appealing, but it just feels laboured, far too obvious…. ersatz even? I adored the 80s, and have fond memories, but more often than not, I remember lots of run down stuff, friends with hard working parents with meagre incomes, simple, dare I say scruffy homes, hand me down clothing, much of which was pure 1970s. Anyway, I’m waffling on, but yes, I can’t get into Stranger Things. I just watch the stuff I loved at the time, and that’s more than enough to ignite my 80s senses.
Great use of the word 'ersatz' 👏
Chapeau
You need to watch the German Netflix series Dark. It's not *solely* set in the '80's; nor does it take the pop-cultural overload route (arcades, contemporary music, Ghostbusters etc--indeed the closest concessions are Walkmans and what looks like weird off-brand Masters Of The Universe toys) but if you thought ST was dumbed-down populist lowest common denominator shite then give Dark a go. I don't want to say anything to spoil it but suffice to say it's a fucking brilliant time-travel paradox series. And that's a fucking gross simplification. It's great and knocks Stranger Things into a cocked fucking hat.
(I think we're of a similar age too, btw)
Winona ryders incessant wailing in season 1 resulted in me lasting 3 episodes. not returned to it, no intention to.
Scruffy is a great word to describe the decade for me alright. Great breakdown
@@vollsticks You made me think of something so very 80s... off-brand knock-offs of everything. Far more than they do now. Almost no-one I knew had an actual Walkman, just off-brands, and the cheap shops all had bootleg toys and games and that. Same for clothes and trainers. You don't see any of the Stranger Things kids wearing Nicks, or listening to music on a Matsui player.
They should have taken the astetic of Sons and Daughters
"engagement" is the word you're looking for @Limmy 4:50
I never thought the first person I would hear share my opinion about Stranger Things (and other 80s nostalgia shows and movies) would be Limmy.
You know you fucked up when you made Limmy go full goblin mode
I think Dark on Netflix did the 80's thing a bit better, less oversaturation of gimmicks.
In fairness dark is in a totally different league to everything else, especially stranger things
@@Leonards-leopard I would have to agree. I didn't rate the third season so much but it was definitely in a different class to ST.
Dear Limmy,
Please pass judgement on a live Sting jazz performance. This would help validate my displeasure for such self indulgence.
Best wishes,
Mark
47 and 3/4
This is exactly what I've ben ranting to my mates about it! Precisely this!! Spot on 😂🙏
...the goonies costumes were so much wackier then stranger things...
Some were, key characters. Not every single one was decked out though.
yeah, he lost with that point lol
The most 80s film is Lost Boys
if the showrunners put more effort on the actual plot instead of "oh look nostalgia!!!! wasn't it so good when you were young??" as an aesthetic, then it would be watchable. season 4 had a lot of nostalgia aesthetic and not much of anything really
Goonies. Goony Goony Yum Yum.
"They can fkn have fun wi' that" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
I felt like with the previous seasons it felt like something that was made in the 80s rather than something made today trying to capture the nostalgia. It did feel like an authentically 80s film back then. The new season is really overkill though, way to much well known music and things like that being forced into it. I suppose in the earlier ones it felt a lot more natural.
It feels like Limmy is reading my thoughts
I's intensely exhaling out me nostrils ah this one, Limmy.
*Thumbs up!*
You’re spot on Limmy
It's not supposed to look like the 80s, it's supposed to look like an 80s coming of age teen film.
Why bother setting it in the 80's at all then? Why not just do a coming of age movie set today?
@@caldw615 Cos mobile phones fuck up storylines. Why do you think so many shows and films are set in the 70s or 80s now? It's not always nostalgia or cos it fits the plot better, often it's to get mobiles out of the picture. IHow many times in things set nowadays have you seen stuff like them trying and failing to get a signal, or having their phones get taken, or lost, or broken? Smartphones... working ones, with a signal... would wreck many plots.
@@thelastmotel Not really, the show already established that the Demogorgon's fuck around with electronics anyway like the TV, radio, cars and house phone so mobile phones being a factor wouldn't change much.
Also in older movies the cliché is always "car won't start" so the no signal thing just gets replaced by that anyway unless it's set in like the late 1800's or early 1900's
Good writers could still write a story like this even with mobile phones and cars working as they still wouldn't fix all horror elements. Like if you phone the police saying a monster is chasing you they'd just think you were on drugs or if you posted video evidence of the monster online people would think it's edited for an ARG or viral campaign.
@@caldw615 There's more to smartphones than that, to create problems in stories. The internet... cameras... social media...
@@thelastmotel Again thinking about Stranger Things how do you think a bunch of kids uploading a monster video to facebook or UA-cam would go?
"Lol nice FX"
"Is this marketing for a new film?"
"FAKE!"
"Is this an ARG?"
Nah, you're spot on. Today's 80's is more 80's than the 80's were.
I've heard stranger things from him
Would he prefer them to just throw in an iphone now and again to bring people back to reality?.He's finally gone senile everyone, we did it!.
I 100% agree. Not just with ST but with a lot of modern TV/Movies set in the 80s go right in your face with the 80s culture, music, clothing esc where as movies that just so happened to be made in the 80s felt more genuine. Not saying this is the case for all modern stuff with an 80s setting (or any decade setting for that matter) it's just it's quite abundant and super in your face.
Also last I checked with mass loads of poverty, Cold War still going on, war on drugs, Soviet Afghan War, Grenada and a Certain British Prime Minister at the time. The 80s wasn't quite the glits and glamour it's made out to be.
I like a lot of stuff from that decade btw
I love stranger things but Limmy makes a great point
Goonies will never be the same
spot on
It's how millennials picture the 80s. I spent most of it in my cousin's 70s hand-me-downs
Some millennial were born in the early 80s so can remember the late 80s.
This show is how Gen Z picture the era as it is aimed at children.
7:36 limmy possessed by vecna
idk i haven't seen the show
He's not being cynical lol, I remember watching The Blacklist, and there was a story arc involving a mysterious locked room, and they flashed hashtags about it up on the screen when they showed the door
It makes me laugh that younger people seem to think the 80s was this world made of dayglo fabric and neon lights. It was just like that in the 'I love the 80s' tv shows, and movies from the era. The 80s for most regular people was exactly the same as the 70s, but with more cheap plastic toys, some of us owned a flourescent ski jacket or something, and if you went to a cafe or arcade there might be a neon sign on the door or around the ceiling or whatever. The entire world wasn't walking around with a sinclair zx spectrum, listening to acid house, wearing dayglo lycra cycling shorts everyday, bathed in a neon glow as we walked down the street with a light-up 'billie jean' floor lol
I remember a while back when Stranger Things collabed with some beauty brand for volumizing hairsprays..."BECUZ 80s".
Is Limmy me? I feel exactly the same about so much these days. Like I can see the market think laid bare.
Surfed since I was a kid. Bought a couple of Quicksilver t shirts for the first time in ages, for the nostalgia.
My ads have been plastered with Stranger Things Quicksilver bullocks. You can basically buy the whole collection of all those pricks wear. Lim is spot on wi this shite as always. Spot on boy.
If you were truly nostalgic you'd have bought Fat Willy's Surf Shack gear.
He is spot on
Proved he was talking shite when he looked up the goonies pic and then quickly closed the tab
Spot on!
They should have me not being alive to make it the 80’s
Movie merchandise tie ins. Clothing and toy sales. Imagine people dressing like they did in the 80’s in a program set in the 80’s. 😂
Maybe I'm just thick as shit but I can't keep up with the new series. No idea what's going on
It’s because each episode is the length of a film
@@Leonards-leopard That certainly doesn't help, aye
Limmy IS spot on here. And yet, that's not even the worst thing about season 4.
good point. anyone over 30 in the eighties was listening to music from when they were 20, like any person
this is the most accurate review of heard stranger things. Awkward comedy acting is spot on so cringy and annoying. They fucked the finale as well.
thing is, it wouldnt be a plain green tshirt, it would be florescent green