--- title: Stranger Things Kids Dance Battle on Jimmy Fallon description: The Stranger Things cast put on dancing shoes for some interpretive dance attempts on Fallon. canonical: https://time.com/5008853/stranger-things-dance-battle/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-03T15:35:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:28.344Z og:title: The Stranger Things Kids Did the Best Dance Battle on Fallon og:description: Caleb McLaughlin has some impressive moves og:url: https://time.com/5008853/stranger-things-dance-battle/ 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: The Stranger Things Kids Did the Best Dance Battle on Fallon twitter:description: Caleb McLaughlin has some impressive moves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The _Stranger Things_ Kids Doing a Dance Battle on Fallon Is as Wonderful As You'd Expect > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 3, 2017 3:35 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 3, 2017 3:35 PM UTC The [boys of _Stranger Things_](http://time.com/4994339/stranger-things-season-2-explained/) — that is, young actors Finn Wolfhard, [Gaten Matarazzo](http://time.com/4532104/most-influential-teens-2016/item/gaten-matarazzo-14/), Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp — are becoming pretty good at this whole publicity tour thing. Their latest visits have been to the set of Jimmy Fallon’s _Tonight Show_, and on Thursday night they even showed off some very intriguing interpretive dance moves while promoting their [super-popular](http://time.com/5008471/stranger-things-2-neilsen-ratings-binge/) Netflix series. In a _Stranger-Things_\-themed dance battle, the kids and Fallon were each served up an unusual kickoff phrase using a “dance move generator” (with prompts like “toastin’ waffles” and “flashlight with a mind of its own”), from which they then needed to come up with a solo dance. While Wolfhard performed the act of toasting and consuming waffles, costars like Matarazzo took the prompt as more of a general suggestion and worked in some impressive choreography. And McLaughlin might have stolen the show with his approach to “breaking through the goo.” (Schnapp struggled a bit in understanding what “trying to fix an 80s TV” might really entail, to Fallon’s chagrin.) But you’ll have to watch to the end for what Fallon calls the “Upside Get Down,” an impromptu group dance with charms all its own. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5008853/stranger-things-dance-battle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5008853/stranger-things-dance-battle/"},"headline":"The Stranger Things Kids Doing a Dance Battle on Fallon Is as Wonderful As You'd Expect","datePublished":"2017-11-03T15:35:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:28.344Z","description":"The Stranger Things cast put on dancing shoes for some interpretive dance attempts on Fallon.","url":"https://time.com/5008853/stranger-things-dance-battle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television","Stranger Things"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/5008853/stranger-things-dance-battle/","name":"The Stranger Things Kids Doing a Dance Battle on Fallon Is as Wonderful As You'd Expect"}}]}] ```