History Recap / StrangerThingsS3E4ChapterFourTheSaunaTest

* Fingore: Hopper nearly cuts Mayor Kline's finger off during the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown

* AdultFear: Heather's parents seem to think they've lost her to some kind of brainwashing. It gets even worse seconds later when they realize she's not only turned against them but is actively trying to convert them as well. Needless to say, both of those options would have been better than what ends up happening.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Vera Lynn's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY We'll Meet Again]]" plays over the creepy last pan shot across a group of Flayed people from Hawkins.

* RealityEnsues: The air vents are too small for Jonathan and Dustin to fit through. Only Erica manages to fit in and even then only barely.

** Erica might act mean to Dustin, Steve and Robin, abut she ''really'' has a valid point that they are endangering her, as the Russians might have equipments to harm them several times over, not mentioning the booby traps that might get activated in the room. And of course, she is proven right (in a way she didn't expect though), as the room is actually an elevator.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Nancy towards Jonathan. After getting them both fired, she tries to brush off losing their jobs like it's no big deal, but Jonathan reminds her that, unlike her, he actually needed that job because he doesn't have a father who makes six figures a year. [[BothSidesHaveAPoint On the other hand, though]], Jonathan ''is'' being dismissive of the unfair and horribly misogynistic treatment Nancy was repeatedly subjected to.

* RewatchBonus: Upon re-viewings of the show and after exploring the [[https://twitter.com/CArapoglou Twitter feed of Caroline Arapoglou]], it's confirmed that Winnie Kline was one of Karen Wheeler's pool friends.

'''Jonthan''': Yeah, the world sucks. Deal with it like the rest of us.

* UndressingTheUnconscious: Hopper wakes up naked under a blanket on his couch after being beaten into unconsciousness by a Russian muscle in the previous episode. He is nursed by Joyce who apparently brought him home and undressed him. Hopper only realizes that fact when he gets up and feels himself without clothes. He looks at Joyce and sternly asks for his clothes while Joyce [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn turns her head]].

* NeckLift: Done by Billy to Eleven.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Tom is fully complicit in the misogynistic bullying Nancy endures (and is also possessed by the Mind Flayer at this point,) but he is completely justified in firing Nancy and Jonathan for exposing the paper to a lawsuit for harassing a paranoid schizophrenic old lady while falsely claiming to be reporters.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Vera Lynn's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY We'll Meet Again]]" plays over the creepy last pan shot across the crowd of altered people of Hawkins.

* FoodAsBribe: Team Dustin bribes Erica with ice cream which she parlays into a “for life” deal in exchange for getting them in the warehouse.

* AirVentPassageway: Downplayed. They ''can'' use it to get to the room they need to but it's a regular-sized air vent and the only person who fits is Lucas's sister Erica. And even ''then'', it's a tight fit.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Nancy and Jonathan's argument after they get fired from the paper. Nancy is absolutely correct that Jonathan can't understand how humiliating and degrading the casual day-to-day sexism was for her to deal with. Jonathan is absolutely correct that Nancy apparently expecting to make star reporter in a month, and being unwilling to play the game with the deck stacked against her to get there was more than a little naive. Jonathan also points out how careless it was that her crusade endangered his position at the paper as well, as he needs the money for college more than she does, as his family has significantly less money than hers. Once they've both had a chance to cool off, they essentially realize this trope was at play and apologize to each other.

* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: After Nancy and Jonathan are fired from their internships at The Hawkins Post, there's a brief shot of Nancy returning home with a small cardboard box in her arms.

* DeathCourse: Discussed. Erica asks if there are any {{booby trap}}s, [[LaserHallway lasers]] or [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]] to be expected on her way across the AirVentPassageway.

-->'''Karen''': It's not easy out there, Nance...People are always saying you can't. That you shouldn't. That you're not smart enough, good enough. This world, it...it beats you up again and again until eventually, [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe I]]...Most people, they just, they just stop trying.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Nancy towards Jonathan. After getting them both fired, she tries to brush off losing their jobs like it's no big deal, but Jonathan reminds her that, unlike her, he actually needed that job because he doesn't have a father who makes six figures a year. [[BothSidesHaveAPoint On the other hand though]], Jonathan ''is'' being dismissive of the unfair and horribly misogynistic treatment Nancy was repeatedly subjected to.

* KickTheDog: Mayor Kline tells Hopper not to give him the "dead daughter sob story" again because he doesn't care.

* TheNoisyStraw: When making demands for her "contribution", Erica is slurping her milkshake with much noise just to make a point.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Nancy's IntrepidReporter shenanigans get her and Jonathan fired; Jonathan lays into her over her entitled attitude, while she [[BothSidesHaveAPoint lays into him over how he's dismissing the horribly misogynistic treatment she'd received]].

'''Nancy''': Oh god, here comes the ''Oliver Twist'' routine.\\

'''Jonathan''': Well you do! You want everything handed to you on a silver platter! I mean, we were interns, Nancy, ''interns!'' What did you expect? That you would make star reporter in a month? Crack the big case?\\
'''Nancy''': Ugh, you sound ''just'' like them, you realize that, right? Just like Bruce and those ''assholes-''\\

* ShoutOut: An almost word for word quote from ''{{Film/Sneakers}}''.
--> '''Robin:''' It's fascinating what twenty bucks will get you at the County Recorders office.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender {{Inverted|Trope}} by Mike when Billy has Eleven by the throat, so Mike whacks the older boy over the head with a lead pipe. Then played straight by Eleven when Billy then menaces Mike, and Eleven throws him ''through a brick wall.'' This is despite the two being broken up at the time, hinting that the break up is not that serious and that she's just trying to teach Mike a lesson about lying to her.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While both Nancy and Jonathan are being shortsighted with regards to the other's perspective in their argument, both have valid points. Jonathan accurately calls Nancy out on not understanding that the firing is a bigger blow to him because he doesn't come from a rich family like she does and needed the money more. Nancy makes the equally accurate point that her treatment at the paper was humiliating and burdensome in ways that his wasn't due to the newsroom's sexist atmosphere and his dismissals of her feelings about it are not that different from the staff's attitude.

* ZergRush: Seems to be part of the Mind Flayer's plan. It knows that Eleven can stop it with her powers, so it's creating a small army of altered people, more than she could possibly hope to defeat.

* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Bruce, who is pursuing Nancy at the hospital, calls out for her this way.

* SearchingTheStalls: Bruce searching Nancy in an operation room, going from section to section.

* ThwartedCoupDeGrace: At the hospital, when Bruce is about to finish off Jonathan with a chair, Nancy stabs him in the back with a pair of scissors.

* EpilepticFlashingLights: The light starts flickering menacingly when Billy gets trapped in the sauna.

* DeathCourse: Discussed. Erica asks if there are {{booby trap}}s, [[LaserHallway lasers]] or [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]] to be expected on her way across the AirVentPassageway.