Get your snack pack that would make Dustin proud ready, because we are less than a week away from the release of Stranger Things 2 on Netflix. Even if you’ve watched it over and over again (and if you haven’t, rethink your life choices, go binge it, or buy it and then come back), there are some subtle but surely important bits that we should remember before sitting down to watch season two. We’ve compiled the Eleven (see what I did there?) things we think you should remember before this Friday.

1 . In episode 1, the boys fought the Domogorgon and in episode 8, they fought the Thessalhydra. While the actions the four boys do in their every day lives might not directly affect the supernatural happenings in the story, they do freakishly resemble certain aspects of what’s happening. While the boys are playing Dungeons & Dragons, Will rolls a seven to defeat the Demogorgon (everyone knows you need at least a 13 or higher) and the Demogorgon gets him in both the game and real life. If that’s any indication of things to come, maybe the enormous beast we’re seeing in promos is the Thessalhydra.

2. Will coughed up a slug. As if we could forget the sudden twist in our happy ending. Everything seems to have ended perfectly: Joyce and Hopper bring Will home just in time for Christmas. But a week in The Upside Down clearly had its affect on him. He coughs up a slug and finds himself back in The Upside Down again… even if it was only for a moment.

3. Mike kissed Eleven. Perhaps the cutest moment in the first season was when Mike awkwardly asked Eleven to go with him to the Snow Ball at school. Despite the fact the Eleven has almost no sense of basic human affection, she has somehow managed to find a friend in Mike. And it’s obvious from the beginning that Mike finds Eleven pretty and is twitter-pated by her (and Lucas and Dustin can see it from a mile away). How will their reunion be after having shared that kiss?

4. Hopper went off with the bad men. One of the great mysteries of the show. After Will is returned to our world and wakes up safe and sound, Hopper leaves the hospital only to be picked up by a group of nicely dressed men in a sleek black car that no doubt belongs to Hawkins Lab and the Department of Energy. He drives off with them and the theories of where he went and what happened are all over the internet. All we know is he went off with them. This could make him a Lando or a double agent.

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5. Karen Wheeler now knows Mike and Nancy were involved in something big. Mike’s mom seems to be the perfect, stay at home mom with perfect hair and a cheerful countenance, straight out of the 80s… seemingly the complete opposite of Will’s mom, Joyce. She’s desperate to have her kids trust her and talk to her but it isn’t until the bad men from the Department of Energy show up that she realizes that they might be in way over their head. If she was a helicopter mom before, who knows how she’ll be after finding her son in the back of an ambulance with a shock blanket around his shoulders.

6. Steve and Jonathon seemed to resolve any disagreements. Let’s be honest: both of these guys aren’t the best. Steve was a first class jerk, smashing cameras and letting his friends call his girlfriend a slut. Jonathon entered the stalker zone when he took photos of Nancy undressing. Both kind of crappy moves, however, the two guys are able to put aside their polar opposite differences to fight off the Demogorgon, and Steve even replaces Jonathon’s camera he broke. Way to go, guys.

7. Dr. Brenner might still be alive. At the close of the final episode, we see a newspaper clipping about Will Byers being brought home. In it, it appears Joyce has revealed the lab and the secrets within and in that newspaper it says that Brenner had “no comment” to make against the accusations. Does this mean he’s alive? Or is the lab just covering for him after the Demogorgon jumped on top of him? Not much is known about Hawkins Lab and the man running it. We do know he’s ruthless and will stop at nothing (not even murder) to get Eleven back. We also know that he did a really crummy job at fighting off the Demogorgon while at Hawkins Middle School… that being said, we don’t know if he lived or died. Not yet, at least.

8. Joyce and Hopper seem to go their separate ways. It’s a safe assumption that Hopper and Joyce might have a bit of a past together, but the wild adventure they go on really seems to bond them together. One would think that they would even end up together (let’s be honest: Hopper is so crushing on Joyce) but it looks like they’ve gone their separate ways once Will returns home: Joyce is celebrating Christmas Eve with Jonathon and Will and Hopper goes to his station’s Christmas party before bringing food to Eleven. One would think that after Hopper helped Joyce find her son, the least she could do would be to invite him over for some runny mashed potatoes on Christmas Eve…

9. Nancy is with Steve. Breaking the stereotypes of high school, it would seem that the studious, straight-A, wonder bread girl and the super popular, party boy with even fancier hair aren’t only hooking up in the bathroom but they also genuinely care for one another. Despite the fact that they had a bumpy patch halfway through season one, Nancy is still dating Steve. Some fans were pulling for Jonathon and might still be. But by the end of season one, Steve and Nancy are very solidly a couple. And after evading the government and fighting off the Demogorgon, I don’t think that there’s much that can get in their way.

10. Hopper knows about Eleven. While everyone else is convinced that Eleven died after fighting off the Demogorgon, it looks like Hopper knows the truth… and might be one of the only ones. Did the men from the lab tell him about her? Did he somehow find out on his own? Or is he just hoping that she’s still out there? Either way, we know that he at least has a suspicion that she’s still alive and he’s bringing her food (and Eggo’s) to keep her alive until she returns.

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11. The door to The Upside Down is still open. It seems that Eleven’s immense power accidentally ripped a hole in our world, connecting it to The Upside Down. You’d think this would be kind of a big deal and instead of sending people in to explore it, they might want to try to close it. But no… Did everyone just forget about that? It was never really a huge plot point until Joyce and Hopper went inside to get Will but we know that it opens both ways: humans can venture in and monsters can come out. It doesn’t look like anyone took the time to try to close that door… which we can only assume will lead to more monsters, more conspiracies, and more awesomeness from Eleven and her fellow band of misfits.

Stranger Things 2 releases in its entirety (yay for binge watching!) on Friday, October 27th on Netflix, just in time for Halloween. Are you excited? Because we are!

Amanda Woomer-Limpert is a writer for The Geekiverse and is just as obsessed with Stranger Things as everyone else you know.

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