I don't understand what he's saying.
I thought you were fluent.
Oh, I'm sorry. Are my free translation services not good enough for you? Because you can just go ahead and file your complaint right up my ass!
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[Translating for Alexei, speaking to Hopper] He says he likes your courage. You remind him of a fat Rambo.
Holy shit - you're a nerd!
Come again?
You... are... a... nerd!
Okay, you better take that back, nerd!
Can't put the truth back in the box.
But it's not the truth.
Let's examine the facts, shall we? Fact one: you're a math whiz, apparently...
That was a pretty straightforward equation.
Fact two: you're a political junkie...
Just because I don't agree with communism as an ideology...
[Holding up her backpack] Fact number three: you LOVE My Little Pony.
And what does My Little Pony have to do with this?
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.
And how do YOU know so much about My Little Pony?
Because I'm... a nerd. [Finishes shutting off the fan] Let's go... nerd.
[Eleven takes of her handkerchief she realized that Mike vanished]
Mike? Mike? Mike? [gets up] Mike! [Screams] MIKE!!!
[Offscreen] He can't hear you. [Reveals himself] You shouldn't have looked for me. Because now I see you. Now we can all see you. You let us in. And now, you are going to have to let us stay. Don't you see? All this time, we've been building it. We've been building it, for you. All that work. All that pain. All of it... for you. And now it's time. Time to end it. And we're going to end you and when you are gone we are going to end your friends.
[Screams] NO!!!
And then we are going to end... everyone.
[Screams] GET AWAY!!!
Are you gonna die on us?
We all die, my strange little child friend. It's just a matter of how and when.
So what do you think?
About?
This girl.
She sounds awesome.
She is awesome. And what about the guy?
I think he's on drugs, and he's not thinking straight.
Really? Cause I think he's thinking a lot more clearly than usual.
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.
Robin, that's not true, no way is that true.
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.
Robin, that's exactly what I like about you.
Do you remember what I said about Click's class? About me being jealous and, like, obsessed?
Yeah.
It isn't because I had a crush on you. It's because she wouldn't stop staring at you.
Mrs. Click?
[Robin laughs to herself]
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.
But Tammy Thompson's a girl.
[Softly] Steve.
Yeah? [He sees Robin's expression] Oh. Oh. Holy shit.
Yeah. Holy shit. [She looks down nervously as Steve processes the information] Steve, you OD over there?
Nah I'm just, I'm just thinking.
[quietly] Okay.
I mean, yeah. Tammy Thompson, y'know, she's cute and all but, I mean... she's a total dud.
She is not.
Yes she is. She wants to be like a singer, she wants to move to like, Nashville and shit.
She has dreams.
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-
She does not sound like that.
She sounds exactly like that. That's a great impersonation of her.
No, she does not sound like that. You sound like a Muppet.
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,
SRSteve and Robin together
You'll be holding on, forever!
Exactly!
I know! [They both continue laughing uncontrollably]
[Dustin and Erica burst into the room]
Okay, what the hell? [Steve and Robin look at each other and start laughing again]
[To Nancy, who is bandaging Eleven's wound] Whoa, hey, what are you doing?
Cleaning the wound?
No, first we need to stop the bleeding, then clean, then disinfect, then bandage.
[everyone stares at her]
I skateboard, trust me.
[to Mike and Eleven] There's something I've been wanting to talk to you both about - and I know this is a difficult conversation. But I care about you both very much. And I know you care about each other very much and that's why it's important that we set these boundaries moving forward so we can build an environment, where we ALL feel comfortable, trusted and open to sharing our feelings. Feelings. Jesus. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place - in a cave, you might say. A deep dark cave. And then, I left some Eggos out in the woods and you came into my life and... for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I've been feeling... distant from you. Like you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing board games every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off. But I know you're getting older, growing, changing. And I guess... if i'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came here, to try to maybe... stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just... not how life works. It's moving. Always moving whether you like it or not. And yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's surprising. Happy. So you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from 'em, and when life hurts you - because it will - remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave. But, please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches.
SSuzie
Dusty-bun?
"Dusty-bun"?
SSuzie
Where have you been?
I'm so, so sorry. I--I've been really busy uh, trying to save the world from Russians and monsters.
SSuzie
Of course you have.
SSuzie
I haven't heard from you in a week, and now you want a mathematical equation that you should know so you can save the world?
Suzie-poo, I promise, I will make it up to you as soon as possible.
SSuzie
You can make it up to me now.
What?
SSuzie
I want to hear it.
Not right now.
SSuzie
Yes, now, Dusty-bun.
Suzie-poo, this is urgent.
SSuzie
Yes, yes, you're saving the world, I heard you the first time, but Ged is also saving Earth, see, and he's about to confront the shadow, so this is Suzie, signing off.
Wait, wait, wait! Okay. Okay. Shit. [He starts nervously singing The Neverending Story by Limahl] Turn around Look at what you see...
[Three months after Starcourt Mall's destruction, a commercial plays]
AAnnouncer
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[Will puts his "Dungeons & Dragons" rulebooks in a box]
Whoa, dude. That's the donation box.
I know. I'll just use yours when I come back. I mean, if we still want to play.
Yeah but what if you want to join another party?
Not possible.
[A touched Mike grins. Will returns the smile]
Did you talk to your mom? About Thanksgiving?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got the okay. I'll be there. And then I was thinking maybe you could come up here for Christmas. And Will too. You can come here before or after Christmas or whatever Mrs. Byers wants but I was thinking Christmas Day could be super fun because we'd all have cool new presents to play with and, uh... [chuckles] Sorry, that made me sound like a seven-year-old.
I like presents too.
Yeah, cool. Yeah. I like... I like presents too. [Pause]
Mike?
Yeah?
Remember that day… at the cabin, you were talking to Max?
Um … I don't think I follow.
You talked about your-- your feelings, your heart.
Oh. Oh, yeah, that. Man, that was so long ago. Um … That was really heat of the moment stuff, and we were arguing and… I don't really remember… What did I say, exactly?
Mike… I love you too.
[Eleven moves closer and kisses Mike]
If I get in good with these guys, I'll be in the popular crowd, and then you guys will be too.
Has it ever occurred to you that we don't want to be popular?
So you wanna be stuck with the nerds and freaks for three more years?
We ARE nerds and freaks!
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?
Um yes, I'm- I'm listening-
What did I just say? What did I just say to you?
You said something about sex with-with Linda.
NO! I'm talking about Heidi!
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!
Oh, you're worried about a basketball pep rally, you expect me to believe that?
Yeah, so?
SO we both know what this is about, okay? I'm not buying that bullshit, this is about Vickie.
Absolutely not.
Yes it is! And you know what else I think?
Uh, I really don't care what you think-
I think you gotta stop pretending to be someone else when you're around her, okay? You just gotta be yourself.
You're literally quoting me to me, you do realize that?
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.
It's not the same thing.
Well-
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.
Yeah I'd buy that, except Vickie is definitely not the wrong girl.
We just don't know that, do we?
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!
Ew, gross! Don't say "boobies!"
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]
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