Facts About Stranger Things

The bike chase was inspired by E.T.

In another nod to Spielberg movies, the Duffer brothers added elements of his movies into Stranger Things, one of them being the bike chase in E.T. In the Spielberg blockbuster, Elliot and his friends try to escape the federal agents to get E.T. back to the spaceship, in which the alien uses his superpowers to fly them over a roadblock.

In Stranger Things, Mike and his friends were running away from the military when Eleven helps them escape by having the cars fly over their bikes.