It’s difficult to fully encapsulate how strong the influence of “Stranger Things” has been on pop culture.
Last season’s inclusion of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” skyrocketed the nearly 40-year-old song to the top 10 on the Billboard charts, and in-universe pop culture references are often given a new lease on life after appearing on the popular show.
The show has made reference to “Dungeons & Dragons” since the very beginning, but search results for the tabletop roleplaying game increased by 600 after the introduction of The Hellfire Club in season 4.One of the earliest pop culture popularity bursts occurred during the show’s first season when Kellogg’s Eggo Waffles became the unofficial snack of “Stranger Things.” When Millie Bobby Brown’s character Eleven finally escapes Hawkins Laboratory, she is given an Eggo waffle for breakfast by Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard).
The Eggo is her first taste of the sweet, processed
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