--- title: Stranger Things: Parody CollegeHumor video description: Stranger Things gets the CollegeHumor treatment. canonical: https://time.com/4458270/stranger-things-parody/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-18T21:56:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:40.855Z og:title: This Parody Makes Fun of the 1983-ish Things on Stranger Things og:description: An Atari was so over by then og:url: https://time.com/4458270/stranger-things-parody/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Parody Makes Fun of the 1983-ish Things on Stranger Things twitter:description: An Atari was so over by then twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This _Stranger Things_ Parody Wants You to Know That Everything Wasn't Exactly From 1983 by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 18, 2016 9:56 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 18, 2016 9:56 PM UTC [CollegeHumor](http://time.com/4456162/college-humor-game-of-thrones-parody/) created a [_Stranger Things_](http://time.com/4426157/10-questions-stranger-things-still-needs-to-answer/) parody to poke fun at a bunch of the ’80s props from the addictive series. For this “What Year Is It” video, CollegeHumor investigated a bunch of the throwback stuff in the show, and according to the video, some of those toys among other things weren’t exactly timely for the thriller’s official 1983 setting. In this telling, fans will notice highlights from the Duffer Brothers’ world of cool-because-it’s-so-throwback stuff, and the kids are really sweating the details. Apparently, getting excited about an Atari present is unfortunately, so five years ago. (However that’s not a very compassionate take considering that Joyce is a single mom who works retail, and her electric bill must have been through the roof after having so many illuminating conversations with the lighting.) Luckily, the Mike of the group theorizes that there could be a perfectly logical time travel explanation for all of the anachronisms. So it’s not on the same level of intrigue as _Stranger Things_, but what is? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4458270/stranger-things-parody/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4458270/stranger-things-parody/"},"headline":"This Stranger Things Parody Wants You to Know That Everything Wasn't Exactly From 1983","datePublished":"2016-08-18T21:56:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:40.855Z","description":"Atari was so old news","url":"https://time.com/4458270/stranger-things-parody/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Internet","Comedy","Humor","Stranger Things"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4458270/stranger-things-parody/","name":"This Stranger Things Parody Wants You to Know That Everything Wasn't Exactly From 1983"}}]}] ```