Stranger Things finds new avenues for nostalgia with Saturday morning cartoon collection
The video was released ahead of the show's fourth season and features work by multiple animators
The most recent season of Stranger Things was released all the way back in the summer of 2019, which, at this point, seems like an entirely different era in human history. With a fourth season now set to arrive next month, Netflix has found itself needing to both make us care about the show again and remember what happened in it by any means necessary.
To do so, it’s decided to get a bunch of different animation teams together to show us what various moments from the show’s past would look like if the Hawkins kids were made from ink and paper.
Stranger Morning Cartoons includes six shorts that recreate scenes from the series in animation. There’s a season one recap (RIP Barb) by Blind Pig and another clip showing Hopper and Eleven descending to the laboratory portal in season two by Will Barras and Hush London. There’s also a collaboration between Hush and Claudia Brugnaletti that depicts Will shifting dimensions in an arcade from that same season’s opening episode, and Hopper writing a letter to—and reliving memories of his time with—Eleven by Humouring The Fates. (This last studio created an earlier homage to Stranger Things in 2019 that reimagined it as an ‘80s anime series.)