#stranger things americantendo

[stranger-chichka]

Americantendo?👀For Dustin’s birthday?👀

[doriandrifting]

El at Surfer Boy be like:

[lordystrange]

I didn’t even realise until now that the scene in Suzie’s room is so gay byler!

Like the point of Will joining Mike when he makes up the story about ’Americantendo’ is to show the viewer how ’in sync’ those two are. It’s like they share a brain! (And usually Will has it but in they may have forgot it in Suzie’s house because after that scene they are both kinda dumb *affectionate*)

(That quote is about byler btw)

[stranger-chichka]

"The chances of success are 20-to-1." Vecna is 1. Byler is 20. Vecna has 15 points left. 20 and 15. 20:15 = 8:15 p.m. Eight fifteen. (still have no clue what 15 means, @aemiron-main what are your thoughts though?)

The words "wise" (=Will the Wise) and "heart" (="You're the heart" + we see Mike as Paladin on Will's drawing) that are associated with Will and Mike are used together after "the passion", hmmm.

Right after Eddie says "There's no shame in running. Don't try to be heroes. Not today." And here are the lyrics from the song "Heroes" by David Bowie (I guess there's no need to explain what the song is and how it's connected to Byler). + running is also associated both with Mike (based on his playlist) and Will.

And the shame was on the other side

We can be heroes just for one day

We can beat them forever and ever (Vecna means "forever")

Ok idk if this is anything but just noticed how they kept referencing Nintendo throughout s4

Murray talks ab the kids playing Nintendo

Erica says Lucas will have to buy her a Nintendo

Cali crew tells Nina Project is actually for a Nintendo contest

Will says they can Nintendo for the rest of their lives

Why is the Nintendo a reoccurring theme?!!?

[eddiemunsongf]

argyle peaked when he made eye contact with mike and monotoned “ive heard a lot about your sister” while jonathan quietly choked beside him

[strangerthings-intheupsidedown]

Argyle = the love of my life

[girls-are-weird]

vaguetweeting stranger things 4 ep 6: "the dive"

(originally at my twitter @girls_are_weird)

christ, jace. there's no remedy for you, is there?

omg they have like seventeen kids. this is some TLC shit. 🤣

okay, when do we get to the part where jason is gruesomely killed?

AMERICANTENDO. 🤣🤣🤣

compasses and electromagnetic fields. feels like coming home. 😊

watergate? russiagate? i raise you a snack-size gate. 😉

"what is mordor?" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

give the man an oscar, lol

"what's the internet?" OH MY GOD 🤣🤣🤣

that... is not how IP addresses work but okaaaayyyy

where's this callahan been all my life?

BLESS YOU, DUSTIN, THAT WATERGATE JOKE NEEDED TO BE MADE

STEVE WHAT THE FUCK--

okay, i... have no idea how they're going to wrap this up in three episodes. i guess that's why they needed those three episodes to be, like, extra long? 🤔

[stranger-chichka]

Nintendo theory 2.0: how Mike & Will's lie about Nina Project being a video game console aka America's answer to Nintendo aka Americantendo is a coded Byler foreshadowing

We know that the games are Mike and Will's thing. DnD is their love language (credits to @howtobecomeadragon). But Nintendo also represents their relationships (read my and @nadia-zahra's Nintendo theory to understand this post better). While visiting Suzie so she could help the boys in finding the location of Nina Project they lie to her by telling they're actually looking for the location of a new video game console.

We see Mike & Will consoling Lucas, but Nintendo (well, Americantendo) is a gift for Dustin's birthday and we don't have any interactions with Mike, Will and Dustin this season at all. I suppose in s5 El focuses on Max and is going to spend more time with Lucas while Will & Mike focus on Dustin and his trauma after Eddie's death + we are oblivious to how it affected Mike, but they'll definitely are going to deal with it together, and Will is gonna console them.

America = Mike in this context, because patriotism is associated with the Wheelers. "We're all patriots in this house."

2 days. Each day 10 bucks. Another week = 7 days. 3 000 miles = +-46 (4+6 = 10) hours or 2 days. Spring break (which lasts one week = 7 days).

Goddamn Nintendo and Duck Hunt (is it a reference to Alexei?) A new video game console.

Burn in hell -> Hellfire -> DnD -> games -> Byler

Stupid = love, because " Only love makes you that crazy, sweetheart. And that damn stupid" and "Hey, Will. If we go crazy, we go crazy together, right?"

"love" is "evol" backwards. Almost "evil". Hellfire and other DnD clubs are compared to evil by Jason. But also evol is commonly used as an abbreviation for "evolution" (the gradual development of something). Mike and Will's relationships evolve throughout seasons from friends to...lovers in s5?

" - What if you wanna join another party? - Not possible."

"It's 16-bit." 1+6=7.

Is it Mike's response to Will's "It was a 7" coded love confession? 7 is L turned upside down. L in "The First I love You" is not capitalised when it plays during Milkvan scene in s3. "It's basically America's answer to Nintendo," right????? + Erica tells capitalism is the thing she loves the most in America. Capitalised and capitalism. I guess it's called wordplay, but I may be wrong. That's what Dusting likes to do. Demogods. Watergate. Bat-tle. Again, It's about Mike and his feelings, where L is capitalised. He didn't sign none letter for El with "Love, Mike" but maybe that's how he signed the one for Will? Love with capital L.

"It's top secret" (Mike about his feelings toward Will) and "Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds." It's Suzie who was singing these lines in that exact room our Cali gang is with Dustin on the hill they're standing in at the end of s4. And someone mentioned that "Without heart, we'd all fall apart" rhymes.

And Dustin already knows the location. He 1) is a compass genius; 2) wears a "KNOW WHERE" cap for almost the whole s3 + the shirt with a compass and a t-shirt that says "don't bug me, I'm reading" where reading = understanding (credits to @bylrndgm); 3) a "THINKING CAP" with 2 lightning bolts (=electricity=love) in s4. Mike says they are looking for the location of the console to give it to Dustin on his birthday. Dustin's birthday is May 29, 1971 -> 05/29/1971 -> 5+2+9+1+9+7+1 = 34 -> 3+4 = 7.

+ this scene with Erica and the Scoop Troop asking her helping to open the door (Mike being in the closet symbolism) is worth your attention if you haven’t seen it.

+ her calling the operation COKE which ties up with my other post.

[stranger-chichka]

Ohhhh, I always skip the russian plot every time I rewatch some scenes but these parallels you’re found with Enzo, coded messages and especially “word from America” JUST WOW, BIG BRAIN!!!

As I wrote about it already just wanted to add that not only “Smalltown boy” is the first song in Mike’s playlist, we literally see a word “boy” behind him while Argyle is rambling about a small woman.

And yes, the idea of Mike aka America giving his answer to Will aka Nintendo in Castle Byers would have so much sense considering the fact Jonathan was telling about building it during the shed scene in s2. The same scene Joyce mentioned Will’s birthday which is forgotten in s4. The same scene Mike’s telling about the day they met and how it was the best thing he’d ever done. But wat if, just what if, America’s answer to Nintendo happens in the Wheelers house? It’s also called a castle in s1 and I was wondering about Mike giving Will that letter he wrote about their DnD campaign after Will’s “It was a 7” that you’ve theorised about. That would be exact answer to Will’s coded “I Love you”, since capitalised L is 7 turned upside down and Erica in s3 says she loves capitalism the most in her country.

Btw, I’ve made two posts on that Nintendo metaphor and a few posts on Erica and how she foreshadows Byler, be free to check them out and if you already did it would be fair giving me some credit 🥴

The Nina Project—“Americantendo is America’s answer to Nintendo.”

AKA Mike’s response to Will’s confession about wanting to play Nintendo for the rest of their lives...They've told us “the secret location”.

I realized that Hopper and Joyce’s plot contains a lot of metaphors and foreshadowing for Byler. Joyce receives a coded message from Hopper disguised as a message "from Enzo". "Who sent this? A friend?" Murrary asks. (It parallels Will giving Mike a coded painting from someone else and Mike saying that they're "friends.") Every time Dmitri hears from Joyce, he says that he "has word from America."

Mike, as the recipient of a coded painting, is "America".

Erica tells us something about Mike and Will this season.

Before Erica answers the door for Jason, she’s painting a model dragon scene, and its foreshadowing Will's painting. Of course, it's interrupted and in hindsight, we can see that the scene is a joke about that.

She's been covering for two days.

And looky there, we're missing two days of time after Mike's love confession that was built off of Will calling him “the heart" in reference to the painting he lied about. We know virtually nothing about the drive back to Hawkins, besides the fact that El has not talked to Will and only talked to Mike a little.

It costs 10 bucks per day. Mike and Will are two 10s according to their shoes at Rink o Mania.

“Another week” has two interpretations—either because Mike/Will spent the week of Spring Break hiding the truth (Mike about loving El and his sexuality and Will about the painting and his feelings), the jig is up for someone at the beginning of S5, or we're gonna spend one more week with them still hiding the truth, and the response to “Nintendo Forever” will come at the end of that.

Erica also gives us our Nintendo reference. She wants it with Duck Hunt.

"Duck Hunt is a shooter game in which the objective is to shoot moving targets on the screen in mid-flight. It was released as an arcade game in the Nintendo VS. series in April 1984 and was later included in the PlayChoice-10 arcade console. The console supports two light guns, allowing two players at once."

Okay, so whatever happens to them, it's going to happen at the same time..I’m pretty sure this is a reference to them “finding the light” to fight Vecna (and maybe his cult 🤨).

Now, let's jump ahead a little to the story of "Nina, or Madly in Love" an alternative version of the one referenced by Dr. Brenner at the Nina Project, because the music they play is actually from the opera version.

"As the opera opens, Nina, the Count’s daughter, has gone mad due to a broken heart. We learn that she was to marry Lindoro, with her father’s approval, but on their wedding day a richer and more powerful suitor turned up, and the her father broke his word. Lindoro challenged his rival to a duel, and was killed.

Nina goes to the crossroads at the same hour every day to wait for her lover. The villagers come to comfort her, and sing her favourite song. Nina sings in anticipation of meeting Lindoro, but when he fails to appear, Nina leaves flowers at the waiting place and returns to the village.

The Count's valet appears with good news: it turns out Lindoro is still alive. Giorgio tells the Count that Lindor is at the castle gates hoping to see his darling. The Count greets Lindoro with tears of joy. Lindoro tells him that he was seriously wounded and nursed back to health by a friend. He has stayed away until now, believing Nina married his rival. He is aghast to hear that his beloved has lost her mind.

The lovers are reunited, and Nina is restored to sanity."

This parallels a lot of Mike's experience in S1. Believing Will to be dead, but him being found at the crossroads of the gates (the library). Mike finding a "more powerful suitor" while Will was gone. Mike regretting that day on the hill with all the flowers. El finding Will at Castle Byers. "Lost her mind" = Love making Mike crazy. Argyle also asks Mike what makes him think Nina is a small woman, which is a joke because Mike's favorite song is "Smalltown Boy" on his spotify playlist. This could be another point to the theory about him getting Vecna'd since it might require the group on the hill with the flowers to sing his favorite song. Argyle also says, “It would take a big tree to hide a small woman….”

Since the Nina Project is about recovering a memory, Mike is going to unrepress his memories of the day he thought Will died--likely including that unreleased bike scene of Mike crying. Mike and Will are going to be lovers reuniting at Castle Byers together, either in a shared memory if they're being Vecna'd, or later in the Upside Down after fighting him. There, Mike is going to give us "America’s answer to Nintendo.”

And what do you know--an American flag.

All “friends” welcome.

[stranger-chichka]

Totally!!! As far as we're on the same page with America being associated with Mike I found it interesting that the song called "American pie" is playing after the he-is-back scene where Will was destroying Castle Byers. Especially considering Ted's phrase "no sweetie pie" in s4. And we even see the American flag while El & Max are leaving the Holloways.

+ the photo which made El recognise Will in s1 is the one with the party holding a trophy. Mike says the reason they didn't take the first place but the third that only time was totally political.

The Nina Project—“Americantendo is America’s answer to Nintendo.”

AKA Mike’s response to Will’s confession about wanting to play Nintendo for the rest of their lives...They've told us “the secret location”.

I realized that Hopper and Joyce’s plot contains a lot of metaphors and foreshadowing for Byler. Joyce receives a coded message from Hopper disguised as a message "from Enzo". "Who sent this? A friend?" Murrary asks. (It parallels Will giving Mike a coded painting from someone else and Mike saying that they're "friends.") Every time Dmitri hears from Joyce, he says that he "has word from America."

Mike, as the recipient of a coded painting, is "America".

Erica tells us something about Mike and Will this season.

Before Erica answers the door for Jason, she’s painting a model dragon scene, and its foreshadowing Will's painting. Of course, it's interrupted and in hindsight, we can see that the scene is a joke about that.

She's been covering for two days.

And looky there, we're missing two days of time after Mike's love confession that was built off of Will calling him “the heart" in reference to the painting he lied about. We know virtually nothing about the drive back to Hawkins, besides the fact that El has not talked to Will and only talked to Mike a little.

It costs 10 bucks per day. Mike and Will are two 10s according to their shoes at Rink o Mania.

“Another week” has two interpretations—either because Mike/Will spent the week of Spring Break hiding the truth (Mike about loving El and his sexuality and Will about the painting and his feelings), the jig is up for someone at the beginning of S5, or we're gonna spend one more week with them still hiding the truth, and the response to “Nintendo Forever” will come at the end of that.

Erica also gives us our Nintendo reference. She wants it with Duck Hunt.

"Duck Hunt is a shooter game in which the objective is to shoot moving targets on the screen in mid-flight. It was released as an arcade game in the Nintendo VS. series in April 1984 and was later included in the PlayChoice-10 arcade console. The console supports two light guns, allowing two players at once."

Okay, so whatever happens to them, it's going to happen at the same time..I’m pretty sure this is a reference to them “finding the light” to fight Vecna (and maybe his cult 🤨).

Now, let's jump ahead a little to the story of "Nina, or Madly in Love" an alternative version of the one referenced by Dr. Brenner at the Nina Project, because the music they play is actually from the opera version.

"As the opera opens, Nina, the Count’s daughter, has gone mad due to a broken heart. We learn that she was to marry Lindoro, with her father’s approval, but on their wedding day a richer and more powerful suitor turned up, and the her father broke his word. Lindoro challenged his rival to a duel, and was killed.

Nina goes to the crossroads at the same hour every day to wait for her lover. The villagers come to comfort her, and sing her favourite song. Nina sings in anticipation of meeting Lindoro, but when he fails to appear, Nina leaves flowers at the waiting place and returns to the village.

The Count's valet appears with good news: it turns out Lindoro is still alive. Giorgio tells the Count that Lindor is at the castle gates hoping to see his darling. The Count greets Lindoro with tears of joy. Lindoro tells him that he was seriously wounded and nursed back to health by a friend. He has stayed away until now, believing Nina married his rival. He is aghast to hear that his beloved has lost her mind.

The lovers are reunited, and Nina is restored to sanity."

This parallels a lot of Mike's experience in S1. Believing Will to be dead, but him being found at the crossroads of the gates (the library). Mike finding a "more powerful suitor" while Will was gone. Mike regretting that day on the hill with all the flowers. El finding Will at Castle Byers. "Lost her mind" = Love making Mike crazy. Argyle also asks Mike what makes him think Nina is a small woman, which is a joke because Mike's favorite song is "Smalltown Boy" on his spotify playlist. This could be another point to the theory about him getting Vecna'd since it might require the group on the hill with the flowers to sing his favorite song. Argyle also says, “It would take a big tree to hide a small woman….”

Since the Nina Project is about recovering a memory, Mike is going to unrepress his memories of the day he thought Will died--likely including that unreleased bike scene of Mike crying. Mike and Will are going to be lovers reuniting at Castle Byers together, either in a shared memory if they're being Vecna'd, or later in the Upside Down after fighting him. There, Mike is going to give us "America’s answer to Nintendo.”

And what do you know--an American flag.

All “friends” welcome.