Robin quotes from Stranger Things

Robin

Hatch said that music can reach parts of the brain that words can't. So maybe that's the key, a lifeline. A lifeline back to reality. It's worth a shot.

Robin

And another one bites the dust. You are 0 for 6 Popeye.

Steve

[Annoyed] Yeah, yeah I can count.

Robin

You know that means you suck.

Steve

Yep, I can read too.

Robin

Since when?

Steve

It's this stupid hat, I'm telling you. It's totally blowing my best feature.

Robin

Yeah, company policy is a real drag. You know, its a crazy idea, but have you considered... telling the truth?

Steve

Oh, you mean that I couldn't even get into tech and my douchebag dad is trying to teach me a lesson? I make three bucks an hour and I have no future, that truth?

Robin

[Pointing at customers walking over] Hey, twelve-o'clock.

Steve

Oh shit, oh shit, okay... I'm going in. Oh, and you know what? [Takes off hat] Screw company policy.

Robin

[Sarcastically] Oh my god, you're a whole new man.

Steve

Right? [Turns towards the customers, who yelp in surprise] Ahoy ladies! Didn't see you there. Would you guys like to set sail on this ocean of flavor with me, I'll be your captain... I'm Steve Harrington.

Steve

I gotta keep in shape for the ladies.

Robin

Yeah, and how's that working out for you?

Steve

Ignore her.

Dustin

She seems cool.

Steve

She's not.

Robin

So I guess that confirms your suspicion.

Dustin

Evil Russians.

Robin

I can't believe I'm about to agree with this strange child, but, yeah, totally evil Russians.

Dustin

[About a ventilation shaft] I'll fit. Trust me. No collar bones, remember?

Robin

Uh, excuse me?

Steve

Oh, he's, uh Yeah, he's got some disease. Chry, uh, It's chrydo, um... something. Yeah, I dunno. He's missing bones and stuff. He can bend like Gumbo.

Robin

You mean Gumby.

Steve

I'm pretty sure it's Gumbo.

Robin

[Unfurls blueprint sheet on table] All right. You see this? This is the route you're gonna take. Then we just wait till the last delivery goes out tonight. Then you knock out the grate, jump down, open the door.

Erica

Then you find out what's in those boxes?

Robin

Exactly.

Erica

Mm-hmm. And you say this guard is armed.

Robin

Yes, but he won't be there.

Erica

And booby traps?

Robin

Booby traps?

Erica

Lasers, spikes in the wall?

Robin

What?

Erica

You know what this half-baked plan of yours sounds like to me? Child endangerment.

Robin

We'll be in radio contact with you the whole time...

Erica

Ah, ah, ah! Child endangerment.

Dustin

Erica? Hi. Uh... We think these Russians want to do harm to our country. Great harm. Don't you love your country?

Erica

You can't spell "America" without "Erica".

Dustin

Uh, yeah, yeah. Oddly, that's, uh, totally true. So, so, don't do this for us. Do it for your country. Do it for your fellow man. Do this for America... Erica.

Erica

Ooh! I just got the chills. Oh, yeah, from this float, not your speech. Know what I love most about this country? Capitalism. Do you know what capitalism is?

Yeah.

Erica

It means this is a free market system. Which means people get paid for their services, depending on how valuable their contributions are. And it seems to me, my ability to fit into that little vent is very, very valuable to you all. So, you want my help? This USS Butterscotch better be the first of many. And I'm talking free ice cream for life.

Erica

Commence Operation Child Endangerment.

Robin

Can we maybe not call it that?

Dustin

Are you gonna die on us?

Robin

We all die, my strange little child friend. It's just a matter of how and when.

Steve

So what do you think?

Robin

About?

Steve

This girl.

Robin

She sounds awesome.

Steve

She is awesome. And what about the guy?

Robin

I think he's on drugs, and he's not thinking straight.

Steve

Really? Cause I think he's thinking a lot more clearly than usual.

Robin

He's not. Look, he doesn't even know this girl. And if he did know her, like, really know her, I don't think he'd even wanna be her friend.

Steve

Robin, that's not true, no way is that true.

Robin

Listen to me, Steve. It shocked me to my core, but I like you. I really like you. But I am not like your other friends, and I am not like Nancy Wheeler.

Steve

Robin, that's exactly what I like about you.

Robin

Do you remember what I said about Click's class? About me being jealous and, like, obsessed?

Steve

Yeah.

Robin

It isn't because I had a crush on you. It's because she wouldn't stop staring at you.

Steve

Mrs. Click?

Robin

Tammy Thompson. I wanted her to look at me. But she couldn't pull her eyes away from you and your stupid hair. And I didn't understand, because you would get bagel crumbs all over the floor. And you asked dumb questions. And you were a douchebag. And-and you didn't even like her and I would go home and just scream into my pillow.

Steve

But Tammy Thompson's a girl.

Robin

[Softly] Steve.

Steve

Yeah? [He sees Robin's expression] Oh. Oh. Holy shit.

Robin

Yeah. Holy shit. [She looks down nervously as Steve processes the information] Steve, you OD over there?

Steve

Nah I'm just, I'm just thinking.

Robin

[quietly] Okay.

Steve

I mean, yeah. Tammy Thompson, y'know, she's cute and all but, I mean... she's a total dud.

Robin

She is not.

Steve

Yes she is. She wants to be like a singer, she wants to move to like, Nashville and shit.

Robin

She has dreams.

Steve

She can't even hold a tune. I mean, she's practically tone deaf, have you heard her? [Robin rolls her eyes, amused] All the time- [starts singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart”] you see me now tonight, you see me-

Robin

She does not sound like that.

Steve

She sounds exactly like that. That's a great impersonation of her.

Robin

No, she does not sound like that. You sound like a Muppet.

Steve

She sounds like a Muppet! She sounds like a Muppet giving birth! [Robin bursts out laughing; Steve starts singing like Kermit] And if you can hold me tight,

You'll be holding on, forever!

Steve

Exactly!

Robin

I know! [They both continue laughing uncontrollably]

Dustin

Okay, what the hell? [Steve and Robin look at each other and start laughing again]

Steve

And then there's Heidi tomorrow night, but the problem with Heidi is that she's going out of state for college. So it's like, do I really want to start another relationship that has no point other than sex? I mean, I just- I don't know, does that make sense to you? [Turns to Robin who's putting on mascara in the seat next to him] Robin! Are you listening to me?

Robin

Um yes, I'm- I'm listening-

Steve

What did I just say? What did I just say to you?

Robin

You said something about sex with-with Linda.

Steve

NO! I'm talking about Heidi!

Robin

Cut me some slack, please! [Steve sighs] Your love life is one of labyrinthian complexity, and it is seven in the morning and we have to go to this stupid pep rally, and I woke up looking like a total corpse!

Steve

Oh, you're worried about a basketball pep rally, you expect me to believe that?

Robin

Yeah, so?

Steve

SO we both know what this is about, okay? I'm not buying that bullshit, this is about Vickie.

Robin

Absolutely not.

Steve

Yes it is! And you know what else I think?

Robin

Uh, I really don't care what you think-

Steve

I think you gotta stop pretending to be someone else when you're around her, okay? You just gotta be yourself.

Robin

You're literally quoting me to me, you do realize that?

Steve

Well, maybe you need to listen to yourself, you ever think about that, smarty-pants? I listened to you and now look at me. Boom, back in business.

Robin

It's not the same thing.

Steve

Well-

Robin

You ask out a girl and she says no; big deal, nothing happens. Maybe your ego's a little bruised, but I ask out the wrong girl, and bam, I'm a town pariah.

Steve

Yeah I'd buy that, except Vickie is definitely not the wrong girl.

Robin

We just don't know that, do we?

Steve

She returned "Fast Times" paused at fifty-three minutes, five seconds. Do you know who pauses "Fast Times" at fifty-three minutes, five seconds? People who like boobies, Robin! Boobies!

Robin

Ew, gross! Don't say "boobies!"

Steve

It's not a big deal, okay? I like boobies, you like boobies! Vickie likes boobies, definitely! [Robin shakes her head] It's boobies! [Shrugs. Robin rolls her eyes]

Dustin

Eddie! Eddie! It's me. It's Dustin. This is Steve. He's not gonna hurt you, right, Steve?

Steve

Right. Yeah.

Dustin

Steve, why don't you drop the oar?

Dustin

He's cool. He's cool.

Steve

[Choked] I'm cool, man. I'm cool.

Eddie

What are you doing here?

Dustin

We're looking for you.

Robin

We're here to help.

Dustin

Eddie, these are my friends. You know Robin, from band.

Dustin

This is my friend Max. The one who never wants to play D&D.

Dustin

Eddie, we're on your side. I swear on my mother. Right, guys?

Max

Yes. Yes, we swear.

Robin

On Dustin's mother.

Steve

Yeah, Dustin's... Dustin's mother.

Robin

I mean, it's just a clock. Right? Like a normal old clock.

Steve

Why is this wizard obsessed with clocks? Maybe he's, like, a clockmaker or something?

Dustin

[Sarcastically] I think you cracked the case, Steve.

Robin

You got an antenna in your head, use it. The Enigma machine won the war. Knowledge is power. So...

Will

So... So, you want to...

Robin

Skip school, play hooky, connect your brain into an interdimensional monster's signal, and save little Wheeler? Yeah, kind of. I mean, your mom is gonna be raging mad, and she's probably right. It is super dangerous, but...

Will

Isn't everything we do super dangerous?

Joyce

I told, I explicitly told you, I didn't want him going anywhere that's not safe. And not only did you take him, you cut off all communication.

Robin

Yes, I mean, in retrospect, that was a bit inconsiderate.

Joyce

Inconsiderate?

Robin

We really should've left a note.

Joyce

Is this funny to you?

Robin

Oh. Sorry. It must be my tone. My mother says I sound perpetually insincere.

Robin

Mr. Whatsit is a very bad guy! He sent the monsters after you!

Derek

SUCK MY FAT ONE!

Robin

Jesus, what?