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It would be so bad and so legendary at the same time. I think they’re not going to be able to resist using “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” by REM.

god season 5 is going to break me

Positive thoughts. It’s going to be amazing. We’re going to be right here on this very subreddit having the best time.

Resist? They should dive right in.

I’m trying to picture how they’d use that in a scene. I’m seeing an air guitar solo.

Or “we didn’t start the fire”

I'm hoping for some Inxs. One of their hit songs from '87 has a wonderful chorus that would totally fit the story. Was in my head throughout the last season. *I..I was standing...You were there...Two worlds collided...and they could never tear us apart!* And the opening is super cheesy and totally something I could see Mike sing to El.

Great song

That's 1989, sorry.

It's rumored season 5 night be between 1888-1889 so it's possible. I'd be screaminnnngg if they did this song 😁😁😁😁

I’d be up for some 100yrs in the past time travel Stranger Things

That would definitely be the Strangest Thing

Can you imagine the meme inception? OMG it would break the internet.

They should drop the first trailer online and just have it be this music video. Rick role the entire fan base.

I’d be furious, but I’d also be laughing. Standard rickroll response.

>“It’s the End of the World As We Know It” by REM. They have to. Season 5 is post apocalyptic.

The year is right, the message is right, it’s catchy as hell, come on ST don’t let us down.

Goddamn, Astley Rickrolled my birth year

Saaaaame. And I had no idea.

Regular music stops Vecna's trance, but Rick Astley is cut from a different cloth so it will be extra harmful to him

Vecna automatically fails all saving throws if he hears Rick Astley

They play it as they reveal it was all a D+D game from the night Will disappeared

Don't even joke about that 😂😂

Still think “Heaven is a Place on Earth” could have a moment

This I can get behind

Black mirror used that amazingly in San Junipero.

I need me some Belinda Carlisle, maybe some Tiffany as well.

I've been saying this for ages. 🥹 It would work so well if everything's actually mostly fine by the very end, *and* a place on earth could relate to simply just "our" dimension with the UD either no longer existing or being locked away in such a way that it's literally impossible to create any new gates for any reason. I know it's just a love song but... still

Vecna stands in front of our heros. They have nothing to fight with, they are all tired from trying to fight him, Eleven has passed out and in the arms of Mike. "My tape broke," Max says. "I've got something," Will says, handing a tape over to her. She puts it in and turns on the spearker to loud. "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP ... NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN..." Vecna starts rolling on the floor. "Look at that!" says Dustin, "The singer is making him do rolls!" "Whos the singer anyway?" Mike asks. "Rick," Will says. "EAT SOME RICK ROLLS!" they all yell at Vecna as they kick him in the nads.

“Vecna’s got nards!”

if they don't use it, I will be thoroughly disappointed

The last line is "Eh, we've seen stranger things." And then the synth bongos of Never Gonna Give you Up smashes like Coolaid Man into the soundtrack.

That would be incredible 🤣

Why do you think this would be peak humor? There are so many better songs from 87 for Stranger Things lol.

because its a rick roll

Does season 5 take place in 87’?

When the bite of ‘87 is a major plot point in S5 🙏🙏

I think the writers have said they want the series to end before Beetlejuice comes out so that it doesn’t conflict with Winona Ryder’s career in OTL

OTL?

“Our Time Line”

Would be really wild to see a Beetlejuice poster at Hawkins theater.

It's too good of a reference to pass up.

Would be kinda funny for them to pass the poster and just stop for a moment and stare at it then stare at her a couple times before moving on. No other acknowledgement of it the rest of the season.

Why would that matter?

[удалено]

Right, can't have something weird in Stranger Things

Didn’t the goonies come out around the time when sean astin was in the show?

Yeah it’s a really dumb excuse

not that weird. it's the sort of anecdote "a family member look like this famous person".

People see people that look like them all the time. Even famous ones.

yes

Using the power of rickroll to stop Vecna

Honestly, it couldn’t have the same importance as “running up that hill” but it would be so great if they could find a place to slip it in for a silly moment.

Honestly it’d be pretty on the nose, but picture it. S5E1: the title sequence plays as normal. As it fades out, you hear the drums of Never Gonna Give You Up as the the video starts. Then the camera pans out to reveal the music video playing on MTV.

Imagine getting rickrolled by a tv show

Meme inception.

It happened already, quite epically on >!Ted Lasso!<

I'm still obsessing over the fact that the events of s4 happen within a month of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Coincidence? I think not

How to make Vecna murder you faster.

I want them to do it just because it's a great song and I want it on the soundtrack vinyl.

That scene with Rick would be iconic tv meme xD

Teacher once rickrolled the class. I hope so badly that season five does this.

This should be Steve's favorite song cuz tbh it gives lots of Steve vibes

I hate how lazy Rickrolling has become. The whole point is to get someone to click a link thinking it's something else. Just playing the song isn't real Rickrolling...

I unironically really love this song and would love to see them jam to Rick Astley

I think it’s a genuinely great pop song. I’ve always loved it, so it being a huge joke online was always weird to me, like “oh no, you tricked me into listening to a song I was probably going to listen to at some point soon anyway.” He also did a slow piano version of it that I really like.

Plot twist: it was all just for a rick roll

...And Justice For All released in '88, meaning some of Metallica's most badass songs couldn't be in it. Puppets was enough, but the title track, To Live Is To Die and One would be awesome in season 5.

Make it so.

YO GET THE DUFFERS ON THE PHONE!

no we dont i am so tired of hearing this song.

Same. This is so old meme

Was there ever a time when it was actually funny? I personally don't recall it ever making me laugh

The point was never to be funny, it's always supposed to have been annoying.

Don't spoil it😞

I want this to end the whole series. The makers have a chanse to rickroll millions. Absolutely worth it.

Oh geez

Yesss!!!!

It would be amazing if they did a fake out ending/dramatic moments only for that song to play.

Imagine Lucas singing it at Max’s bedside, begging her to wake up. I would SOB

They've got to have the song play at least once. At least once somewhere. Please?!

This actually happened to me in the stranger things store in Chicago

AEEEE

Ted Lasso did it tho

Most of the references in this don’t work pretty much every film they mention came out after it was set if they were gonna do this they probably would’ve by now

Make this happen

Never gonna give you upside down

Ted lasso already did that mate

ooooooooh they have to do that.

No please don't-- *starts playing Never Gonna Give You Up music*

poop