On further research, Stranger Things may have been alluding to the profanity added to E. T. (1982) to get it a PG rating. I remember it being somewhat shocking at the time.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/parentalguide#advisory-profanity …
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If you grew up in the midwest in the 80s, you know that all the cool guys looked like a busted John Cougar Mellencamp.
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Miami. Cool guys looked like redneck Ron Ely. Some had bad mustaches and perms. Stranger Things Guy's chest hair was terrifying. Like cotton balls and glue.
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The non-busted looking ones made it to Miami.
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I like your profile name, BTW
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Most kids I see in TV shows sound older than their age. But I don't see _Stranger Things_ as being particularly out of line. K & I watched it and enjoyed it about as much as we would any other mass market, slightly SFnal TV show.
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Original question is about anachronisms. On further research, they may have been alluding to the profanity added to E.T. to earn it a PG rating.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/parentalguide#advisory-profanity …
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Uh, hate to shatter your illusion, but we both knew and were well versed in use of the word.
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Sorry you were raised by a street gang.
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The Golden Acres cyclists were feared. I had the Schwin, so of course I was the natural leader.
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all my friends cussed all the time man, i dunno. i didn't cuss until later, but once i started i couldn't fucking stop
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Big difference between 12 and 15 in this respect IMO, and between 1983 and 1989+
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Really. I refused to cuss until about 13-14, but shit was not a big hurdle and I grew up in a small Midwest town. I didn’t think they overdid that aspect
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There’s always that kid, and a buddy of mine was him, who way over does it for a while til you josh him enuf to dial it back a bit.
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