Erica quotes from Stranger Things

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

Holy shit - you're a nerd!

Erica

Come again?

Dustin

You... are... a... nerd!

Erica

Okay, you better take that back, nerd!

Dustin

Can't put the truth back in the box.

Erica

But it's not the truth.

Dustin

Let's examine the facts, shall we? Fact one: you're a math whiz, apparently...

Erica

That was a pretty straightforward equation.

Dustin

Fact two: you're a political junkie...

Erica

Just because I don't agree with communism as an ideology...

Dustin

[Holding up her backpack] Fact number three: you LOVE My Little Pony.

Erica

And what does My Little Pony have to do with this?

Dustin

Let's recall the ponies' latest adventure, shall we? The evil centaur demon Tirek turns Applejack into a dragon at Midnight Castle, and then Megan and the other ponies have to use Moochik's magic to defeat his rainbow of darkness, saving them from a lifetime of enslavement. All the pink in the world can't disguise the irrefutable fact that centaurs and castles and dragons and magic are all standard nerd tropes. Ergo, 'My Little Pony' is nerdy, ergo, you, Erica, are a nerd.

Erica

And how do YOU know so much about My Little Pony?

Dustin

Because I'm... a nerd. [Finishes shutting off the fan] Let's go... nerd.

Dusty-bun?

Erica

"Dusty-bun"?

Where have you been?

Dustin

I'm so, so sorry. I--I've been really busy uh, trying to save the world from Russians and monsters.

Of course you have.

Mike

This isn't about saving Derek. It's about saving Holly. Vecna took her. And yeah, now he's after Dipshit Derek. But we have a plan. A plan to both save Dipshit Derek and find Holly. But the plan is... It's a bit insane. But after it's over, I don't think Tina's gonna wanna talk to you ever again.

Erica

Well, why the hell didn't you just start with that?

Derek

Mr... Whatsit?

Will

His real name is Henry.

Robin

AKA Vecna.

Erica

AKA One.

Derek

That's too many names.