Factual error: When Hopper's daughter is dying in 1978, the staff says that the pulse oximeter is dropping. Pulse oximeters were not commercialized until 1981/1983 and not in widespread use until at least the mid 1980's.
Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab - S4-E7
Other mistake: When Hooper was trying to light the alcohol-soaked rag to make a torch, his lighter wasn't working at first. He finally got a flame at the last minute. However, the sparks alone should have been enough to ignite the flammable rag. (01:00:33 - 01:02:03)
Continuity mistake: Eleven makes the helicopter fall from the sky and blow up some army vehicles. Within a cut, it's much earlier in the day as the sun is right above her. Prior to this, it was lower in the sky and returns that way as she and the rest of the crew are driving away.
Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: As Hopper and El sit down to breakfast after she has surprised him as a ghost, he tells her he will bring candy home etc. When the camera is on Hopper, El is leaning on the table, but when the camera is facing her, she is leaning back.
Chapter Three: The Pollywog - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Dart is found in the bathroom cubicle by Will, he drops his walkie talkie when he runs away, but shortly after when his friends arrive the walkie talkie is gone.
Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy? - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Steve is talking to Robin about striking out. Two girls come in and Robin encourages him to talk to them. In the first angle his shirt is lower and you can see his chest hair. Cut to the other side as he flips around to talk to the girls, and his shirt has moved up. (00:24:15)
Chapter Seven: The Bite - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: When Joyce and Hop get out of the car at the fair, you can see Hopper's, Smirnoff's, and Joyce's breath as if it was cold out, despite being a July 4th fair. The grass looks dead as well. (00:30:20)
Revealing mistake: When Steve and Jonathan are climbing the radio tower, just before they reach the top, there is a wide shot, and if you look at Steve, you can see the far background around his body is swirling, revealing the shot to have been filmed in front of a green screen. (00:20:32)
Factual error: Holly is wearing Under Armour when she is escaping from the upside down. Under Armour was created a decade later.
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Dustin's egg tray shows only 1 egg in one scene, but in the very next shot, the tray suddenly has 3 eggs.
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Steve has a Coke can he holds to his face. The can moves around each time the shot cuts.
Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: When Steve is trying to keep Nancy from drinking more alcoholic punch, he pulls on her cup. She pulls away and the punch spills all over her blouse. The spill stain changes significantly from shot to shot. The stains in the second shot are no longer there in the third shot. (00:42:22)
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Mike and Lucas notice a van pulling out of a side street and coming to them, the sky is blue, but in the next shot, it is orange. (00:04:03)
Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: After Mike kisses El on the forehead, Jonathan is in the back grabbing his glasses from his pocket. In one shot, he's grabbing them out, and then the next shot has them at waist-level.
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Audio problem: When Joyce, Alexi and Hopper go to Murray's, Murray points a double barrel shotgun at them and it makes a sound of a pump action shotgun.
Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When the librarian picks up the phone he picks up the one in the middle, in the next shot we see he has the one to the left and when he hangs up it's the one in the center again.
Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: When El advances on Angela and her friends at the skating rink and wallops Angela in the face with the skate, her aim is upwards at the lower cusp of Angela's nose for the impact. When Angela's friends sit her up in the following shot, the area between her eyes is cracked and bleeding instead as she screams in agony.
Chapter One: The Hellfire Club - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Tammy Thompson's voice changes octaves as she sings the National Anthem. At the start, she's in a normal mezzo range. When the camera cuts from her to the back-and-forth dialogue between Steve, Robin, and Vickie, her voice then changes downscale to a very noticeable alto.
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: When Robin takes the chemical container off Erica, in the shot of Erica saying "It could be useful", Robin is holding the container upright. In the next shot, it is being held at a rotated angle, then upright in the following shot. Two shots after that, the container is suddenly rotated again, then back to upright when the shot cuts. (00:17:25)
Chapter Five: The Flayed - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: Eleven and Mike are sitting next to each other at the hospital. Eleven looks to her left in one shot and the camera changes angles. She's now looking straight ahead and immediately looks to the left again.
Answer: This is answered in a later episode so you should watch the entire season, but if you really want to know...SPOILERS She didn't, 1 (Vecna) killed all those children.
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