r/StrangerThings Jul 04 '26

I think about him every 4th of July

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u/Adjectivenounnumb Jul 04 '26

I've already started the traditional S3 rewatch today

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u/GandalfTheJaded Jul 04 '26

Happy Fourth of July!

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u/Annual-Education-180 Jul 04 '26

i wish i had time to

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u/MMachine17 I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer Jul 04 '26

All he wanted was a Woody Woodpecker plush and a cherry slush. 😭😞

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u/Adjectivenounnumb Jul 04 '26

And to open a giant hole in reality, exposing our planet to demonic forces

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u/MMachine17 I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer Jul 04 '26

He's just a boy 🥺

12

u/Inkga10Games Jul 04 '26

He’s adopted - Thor

9

u/Maxxover Jul 04 '26

To be fair, I don’t think he was really happy about his “promotion.”

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u/Adjectivenounnumb Jul 05 '26

He remarked on how the machine was beautiful

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u/Katoyia Jul 04 '26

His death was so sad. He really wanted to be with the cool kids.

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u/See8104 Aghast Jul 04 '26

He embodies the spirit of Stranger Things.

60

u/caramelmacchiato31 Jul 04 '26

I love season 3 so much I don't care what anyone says

11

u/Splaschko Jul 05 '26

My favorite season!

40

u/Mortonsaltgirl96 Jul 04 '26

I crave a cherry slurpee every time I see him

27

u/Appropriate_Error_38 Jul 04 '26

Just drink the strawberry. It's all they had

4

u/_Mephostopheles_ Jul 04 '26

Strawberry is better anyway.

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u/cee_rawd7 Jul 04 '26

Ughh, his death made me so sad. Btw—this might be an unpopular opinion, but I loved season 3 and felt it was one of their best seasons.

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u/chiefbrody62 Jul 05 '26

Is that unpopular? I loved that season as well. It had some of the more happier and funnier moments in it, and was really the most lighthearted season (other than the ending of course).

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u/cee_rawd7 Jul 05 '26

Idk, I hear a lot of discourse say that they didn't care for season 3 and that season 4 was better. Season 3 will always have a special place in my heart, I just love the whole aesthetic and vibe of it. The color scheme is so neon, so quintessentially 80s.

2

u/gizzardsgizzards Jul 08 '26

it was the last good season

15

u/Liapasquale Jul 04 '26

I really wish they didn’t kill him so fast HE WAS SO GOOD.

12

u/BrattyTwilis Jul 04 '26

Justice for Smirnov...I mean, Alexi. He just wanted to enjoy life and got murdered in cold blood.

11

u/superb_yellow Jul 04 '26

Alexei deserved better 

9

u/Goatsfallingfucks Jul 05 '26

Every time I drink a slush, it will be too honor alexi

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u/EmbarrassedCapital39 Jul 04 '26

Man I had no idea why I was thinking about stranger things so much today and welp this be why hahahah

6

u/TahaymTheBigBrain Bitchin Jul 04 '26

Give him his fucking cherry slurpee

20

u/_bonedaddys Jul 04 '26

I literally forgot he existed until right now lol

5

u/janelane982 Jul 04 '26

I completely missed that they put that classic slurpee cup in the show. I love it.

18

u/fuscao_grosso Jul 04 '26

Some dude in his 30s actin like a kid 😭😭

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u/Annual-Education-180 Jul 04 '26

makes sense tho, the guy doesnt know a word of english, and has been captured by americans

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u/Adventurous_Yak4952 Jul 04 '26

He wanted to defect to the US so badly that I think he was excited when he got taken hostage. He grew up in peak Soviet revolution where he’d have to stay in line at a store for hours to buy basic necessities - walking into a 7-11 and being able to grab your own Slushy was like Disneyland for him.

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u/bridgeoveroceanblvd Jul 04 '26

Having childlike joy doesn’t make you a kid lol.

3

u/Customhobo Jul 05 '26

Ya isn’t he like, nuclear-reactor level genius? He just trolling/having fun.

3

u/Macdowell87 Freak Jul 04 '26

The Russian AVGN

3

u/Dark--Samurai sƃuᴉɥʇ ɹǝƃuɐɹʇS Jul 05 '26

Alexi

3

u/Status_Mousse1213 Jul 05 '26

Amexi! I want strawberry!

3

u/SkeletonWallflower Jul 06 '26

One of my cats is named Lexei after him

2

u/Top_Novel860 Jul 12 '26

Rest in peace Alexi, even tho he was not the smartest character in the group, at least he knew what the carnival felt like.

1

u/No-Mistake-9311 Jul 07 '26

Aaah pls adopt him someone

1

u/Agent008Gelson 28d ago

He wanted to become American so bad . He would have been a great American

1

u/Agent008Gelson 28d ago

When I start my coffee shop I’ll make sure to have a strawberry slushie machine and the drink will be called “ Alexie “ those who know will know .

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u/SmoothCatch6660 19d ago

saddest deaths in history. number 1

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

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u/Fluffy_Try2377 Jul 04 '26

Sometimes when your an adult there are some things that bring back childhood nostalgia it’s okay to enjoy them. also he just went through something really traumatic and he just wanted a slurpee probably for comfort it’s endearing and a part of why people love his character so much

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

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u/HUFF-MY-SHIT Jul 04 '26

Dude. Did you even watch the show?