I finally got around to starting the most recent season of Stranger Things last night night and was already familiar with the "Chrissy, Wake Up" scene because of the song.
It’s not supposed to be the most deadly serious scene ever. It’s Stranger Things, not Othello. But it’s not supposed to be a joke. It’s a pretty traumatic moment, both for Eddie and for Chrissy.
It is still effective, but when you’ve heard the song and you know what’s coming, it’s kind of distracting. Instead of just watching the scene, I was waiting for the “Chrissy, wake UU-uuuup! I don’t like this!”
My seemingly sole dissent was thankfully vindicated not even three or so years later with SCTV’s Dave Thomas doing the awesomest riff on the pretentious asshat, who, in this iteration, occasionally smacks himself in the head, a la Strangelove’s self-strangling, along with deep debates with his obsequious love interest Andrea Martin over the pronunciation of “harass”.
