The championship basketball game is being played at the Hawkins High School gym, yet the initials SHS are painted or stained onto the court, near the sideline.
The name of the high school whose gym was used for filming started with an "S," not an "H."
The name of the high school whose gym was used for filming started with an "S," not an "H."
In season 4 episode 1, it is noted that spring break is ending. A few minutes later, Mike says that they have been playing dungeons and dragons for the entire semester. However, semesters almost always end at the end of December and May, never in March/April.
The 3-point line wasn't introduced in high school basketball until 1987.
Though set in 1986, the Motorhead patch on Eddie's jacket did not exist until the release of their "Hammered" album in April 2002.
Erica Sinclair states she plays a level 15 rogue when confronting Eddie before playing Dungeons and Dragons with the Hellfire Club. They're playing Advanced D&D in 1986. The rogue character class wasn't formally introduced until 1989 with the second edition of the Player's Handbook. She should have stated she was playing a thief. In addition, the term "rogue" referred to the overall group of the thief class and its subclasses, not to an individual character class.
Play With Me by Extreme was not released until 1989 and this episode is set in 1986.
At the pep rally before the championship basketball game, Jason gives a "shout-out" to his girlfriend Chrissy. Although the slang "shout-out" was occasionally used in the underground hip-hop scene in the 1980's, it did not become a mainstream phrase among teenagers until the 1990s. (OED dates the first printed usage to 1990.)
The Byers family is living just north of Los Angeles and the landscape should be at its greenest in March, but the terrain around their town is all brown and dry.
When the mathematics teacher hands out the test results, there is a quick shot of one of the tests. Oddly enough, all the answers for the problems in the left hand column are written in the right hand column, and vice versa.
On the math test shown, the teacher marked the answer to problem 2 as correct, even though the student made an error (wrong sign for the 'b' factor).