WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BOY????

well he's a liar is one of the things... lol but no that's not really his fault but still, naughty

Steve gives Dustin terrible dating and hair advice while tossing raw meat around...

Max calls Lucas a mormon and Billy gets more buff and (Im assuming) racist by the second...

Mike is a good friend but more importantly for this episode he's a smart friend

Jonathon did indeed enjoy the pullout and from the grin on her face we can assume Nancy did too

Owens proves himself worthy of some of our trust... while insulting the mind flayer by calling him a virus... word

Bob makes me cry

Hopper makes me cry

Lucas and Max make me cry

Steve makes himself live bait

No but seriously Lucas deserves Max more than Dustin does (sorry not sorry) but really Dustin you're acting a little incel and Lucas is actually getting to know her

and once again we end on a cliff hanger of Hopper being in apparent mortal danger...

and this would be the worst time ever to make a hard left into a completely different genre and show so let's hope they don't do that for the next episode (what? they did what? right now? it couldn't have been placed somewhere else or split up into different scenes instead of making us sit through an entire episode wondering if Hopper was going to die? oh cool cool cool)