College Humour Asks What Year Was Stranger Things Set In?

According to SymphonyAM and, more importantly, the fact that people can't stop talking about it, Stranger Things is a smash-hit for Netflix. The show, which pays homage to classic sci-fi and coming-of-age films from the late-'70s to mid-'80s, is set in 1983. While the show does an outstanding job of recreating the look and feel of 1983, some of the items that appear in it aren't accurate to the time.

Now, the comedy site College Humor has put together a new video in which they point out several of those inaccuracies, such as Dungeons and Dragons figurines not being manufactured until 1984, 1982's The Thing not being available on VHS until 1984, and the TRC-214 CB radio not being released until 1985.

A love letter to the supernatural classics of the 80's, Stranger Things is the story of a young boy who vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.

Stranger Things stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer, Cara Buono, Charlie Heaton, and Matthew Modine.

Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (Wayward Pines, Hidden) serve as writer, directors and co-showrunners of the series, and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen via their 21 Laps entertainment banner (The Spectacular Now, Night At The Museum, Real Steel, Date Night). Shawn Levy also serves as director.

The original series Stranger Things is now available to stream on Netflix.