Random Thoughts I Have While Watching Stranger Things Season 2

So I’m only on the first episode of Stranger Things Season 2 right now….

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Imagine a time when you could scrape together a few coins and buy something, or spend two hours in an arcade.
The scene in the drug store has me questioning my own reality.

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Bob walks in and asks if they have any trick-or-treat pumpkins in colors besides orange. This is a ruse to get Joyce in the back room so they can make out. It initially also struck me as funny because trick-or-treat pumpkins were all only orange until at least the late nineties/early 2000’s, judging by my own memory of being a kid in the nineties. But as Bob leaves the store room, he points at a green trick-or-treat pumpkin and says, “There’s a green one.” So, are they in some alternate universe 1984 where some trick-or-treat pumpkins are green? Or am I remembering a childhood in an alternate universe where trick-or-treat pumpkin design progressed more slowly (and possibly also coinciding with the Berenstain vs. Berenstein Bears alternate universe, or maybe it’s the other way around)?
The drug store scene also had me marveling that back in the eighties, a single person could apparently work one minimum wage cashier job, support two kids, have money for cigarettes and a VCR, and not have to get a second, third, or fourth job like many people only trying to support themselves do today.
Mad Max is awesome.
When is Nancy going to dump that douchebag Steve?
Arcades! They were cool but so is a PS4 and not having to put on pants and leave your house to play video games.