Stranger Things Fans Spot Easter Egg for Season 1 Finale

Eagle-eyed Stranger Things Fans spotted a Season 1 Easter egg that came to fruition in the series finale.

As the fifth and final installment of the hit Netflix series debuted on the streamer on Wednesday, December 31, fans around the world thanked Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer for the way the co-creators honored the series’ roots in its conclusion.

And one smart fan noticed an image seen in season 1 that looks strikingly similar to the hive in the Abyss from the finale.

“So you’re telling me we already saw this in season 1?” they wrote in a YouTube short after the finale aired.

Their video included a mashup showing Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) looking at the massive creature from The Abyss from Season 5, Volume 2, and flashes to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) in Mike’s basement looking at something under a Dark Crystal movie poster for season 1, episode 2.

The Abyss is almost identical to the drawing in Dark Crystal poster.

“It’s a dark crystal poster. I was wondering why this scene in the “abyss” seemed familiar! Which adds to my theory that Mike is writing/telling/dreaming a story about how things would have been after his best friend disappeared,” another fan wrote on Facebook in a similar discussion.

The dark crystal is a 1982 fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, and features animatronic characters created by Henson.

In an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, the Duffer brothers talked about their Easter eggs and other gems from the season finale.

Ross explained that Dustin’s (Gaten Matarazzo) “rebel promo speech” also had special meaning.

“A lot of it was inspired by Eddie [Munson] — even at the end, where he tears up the diploma and knocks over the principal, which Eddie said he wanted to do,” Ross said. “A lot of it is about honoring Eddie and what Hellfire was. »

Joseph Quinn’s guitar character, Eddie Munson, was introduced in the fourth season of the hit Netflix series, but apparently sacrificed himself to the Upside Down to protect Dustin from the Demobats at the end of that season. This sacrifice meant that Eddie never graduated from high school.

When Dustin graduated in Season 5, his speech was a nod to Eddie previously saying that when he walked across the stage, he planned to make fun of the principal, “snatch that diploma off him” and “run like hell.”

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“Everyone has assumptions about who Eddie is, all of which have been proven wrong. Dustin’s pitch is that because of everything that’s happened, he’s brought people together who never would have been able to interact in the first place and enriched their lives because of it,” Ross said. “I think a lot of people in this world are unfairly judged simply because of how they look or how they’re perceived. We love the idea that so many of the characters transcend what you might initially think of them.”

Stranger Things is available for streaming on Netflix. The dark crystal can be broadcast on Pluto.