Stranger Things Chapter Three: The Pollywog (2016– ) Online

2016– Winona Ryder David Harbour Finn Wolfhard Shawn Levy

Original Title :: Chapter Three: The Pollywog
Genre :: TV Episode / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Year :: 2016–
Directror :: Shawn Levy
Cast :: Winona Ryder,David Harbour,Finn Wolfhard
Writer :: Matt Duffer,Ross Duffer
Type :: TV Episode
Time :: 51min
Rating :: 8.7/10

Stranger Things Chapter Three: The Pollywog (2016– ) Online

Dustin finds a slug in his garbage and believes it is a pollywog. He calls the creature Dart and becomes obsessed with it. Bob tells Will that he had nightmares in the past and only resolved his fears the day he faced his fear and asked to go away. When Will sees Dustin's creature, he recalls the slug he had spat out in the bathroom. Nancy convinces Jonathan to tell the truth about Barb's fate to her parents. Will has another episode and decides to face the shadow monster in the Upside Down.

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
	Winona Ryder	-	Joyce Byers
	David Harbour	-	Jim Hopper
	Finn Wolfhard	-	Mike Wheeler
	Millie Bobby Brown	-	Eleven
	Gaten Matarazzo	-	Dustin Henderson
	Caleb McLaughlin	-	Lucas Sinclair
	Noah Schnapp	-	Will Byers
	Sadie Sink	-	Max Mayfield
	Natalia Dyer	-	Nancy Wheeler
	Charlie Heaton	-	Jonathan Byers
	Joe Keery	-	Steve Harrington
	Dacre Montgomery	-	Billy Hargrove
	Cara Buono	-	Karen Wheeler
	Sean Astin	-	Bob Newby
	Paul Reiser	-	Dr. Sam Owens

Hopper (David Harbour) reads Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables; he also is shown reading this to his daughter Sarah in the season 1 finale, Stranger Things: Chapter Eight: The Upside Down (2016).

During the scene when the kids have the pollywog in the a.v. room and it gets out of the trap and escapes, you can hear the score from the movie Gremlins (1984).

On Google Assistant, there is a game where you talk to Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and it's based on this episode. The only change between the game and this episode is that in the episode, Dustin doesn't talk to a stranger on his walkie, while in the game, he doe, with the stranger of course being the person playing the game.

Bob gives a pep talk to Will and tells him about a scary clown 'Baldo' who offered him a balloon at a fair and would scare him every night when he was a kid. This is a reference to Stephen King's Novel and Movie 'IT' and 'Pennywise' the clown. Also he mentions he grew up in the city of Maine where the story of 'IT' took place, indicating that he had an encounter with Pennywise.

When Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) are talking in the parking lot, another student places a cassette tape in a Walkman. He is listening to "Clean Cut American Kid", by legendary punk band Ill Repute from Oxnard, CA. "Clean Cut American Kid" was a radio hit for KROQ, one of the nation's top alternative radio stations in the 1980's, based out of Pasadena, CA. The song was featured on "Rodney on the ROQ, Volume III", which included other top punk bands Vandals, JFA, Channel 3, and The Bangles.

Along with the many other references to the Alien franchise, Dustin's cat, Mews, looks exactly like Ripley's cat, Jonesy. Even featuring a shot of it hissing in the presence of danger.

Dustin names his creature d'Artagnan, after his Three Musketeers candy bar. This means he must be familiar with either the novel or one of its numerous film adaptations as well. D'Artagnan is not actually one of the title characters, as he does not become a Musketeer until late in the novel. The Musketeers in the title are Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

Both Winona Ryder and Paul Reiser have been involved in the Aliens franchise. Paul (Tulnukad (1986)), Winona (Alien: Resurrection (1997)).

The name of the actor on Stranger Things 2 Ep 3 listening to "Clean Cut American kid " by: III Repute on the walkman is Matthew H Seal J.r.

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Leceri

In The Pollywog, we get to see what it was that Dustin found lurking in the trashcan at the end of Episode 2: a large tadpole-like creature, clearly a refugee from the upside-down, that Dustin subsequently adopts and names Dartagnan. What Dartagnan will eventually grow to become is anyone's guess (a big frog?), but the chances are that it won't be nice (a big, man-eating frog?).

We also learn how Eleven came to be under the protection of Jim Hopper, living in his grandfather's woodland cabin for the past year, away from prying eyes. Eventually, however, prolonged solitary confinement proves too much for the girl and she breaks Jim's rules by going in search of Mike (Finn Wolfhard).

A great third episode boosted by some nifty CGI creature effects and ending on a marvellous cliffhanger, The Pollywog sees the second season finally getting into its stride. The characters are all present and correct, the plot thickens, and the pace quickens. I can't wait to see how all of this pulls together (next episode in 5 seconds, 4, 3, 2, 1.).

Mysterious Wrench

Dustin finds a slug in his garbage and believes it is a pollywog. He calls the creature Dart and becomes obsessed for her. Bob tells to Will that he had nightmares in the past and only resolved his fears the day he faced his fear and asked to go away. When Will sees Dustin´s creature, he recalls the slug he had spat out in the bathroom. Barb convinces Jonathan to tell the truth about Barb's fate to her parents. Will has another episode and decides to face the shadow monster in the Upside Down.

"Chapter Three: The Pollywog" shows basically Dustin and his pet Dart. What will happen to Will that decided to follow Bob´s advice is the great question to be resolved in the next show. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Chapter Three: The Pollywog"

Nuadador

These are nicely crafted episodes. We get to see the evolution of El and how she is trying to have her own voice. It's hopeful that very soon she will connect with the boys. The scientists from that facility are becoming more and more dangerous. Enter the little reptile (or whatever, Dart) and we have a common cause for the guys. The chief continues to investigate but he has about had it. He should have realized along the way that El was not going to continue to stay put. She feels that she is being lied to and won't follow the rules anymore. Reality versus fiction continues to haunt Will. I hope that some of the other reviewers soon begin to deal with the specifics of these episodes instead of simply putting the same thing down with no thought. I guess it's to not watch anything but to be in the face of those who find this show quite a bit of fun.

Mariwyn

Stranger Things is back to being the plot-driven series we have all been excited about. I love that the stakes are higher, and the monsters feel more horrific. In fact, the end of the episode made me get chills because I didn't expect such detail. However, there is something off about this season so far. It's not bad. It's just different. I love that they took risks by putting last seasons main faces -- Eleven, Mike, Joyce, and even Jonathan and Nancy -- to the background and put other characters in the forefront -- like Will, Lucas and Dustin, and Steve. The only character I believe has stayed in the spotlight is Hopper, which is good because he is the most complex character in the entire series. I miss that last season's faces don't get as much screen time, but I love that the series is growing and maturing, evolving.

Bundis

The goofiness of the reptile/creature is exactly why fans love this show. While they are clearly trying to push off Eleven and Mike's reunion as some big moment, they need to stop forcing it down our throats. It is getting ridiculous. If they want to make it sound like a big story and a once in a lifetime romance that is fine, but spare fans from seeing Eleven reduced to nothing more than a lovestruck tweener.

Outside of that this was actually the strongest yet in Season 2.

Whitebinder

Best web series I have ever seen..thumbs up for great story,screenplay,cinematography,background score,CGI and last but not the least acting.Actually acting and 80"s nostalgia are the USP of this series.All child actor are fabulous.Hats off to The duffer brothers and co. for such a fascinating creation.

Gldasiy

Chapter 3 continues its heavy doses of nostalgic homage/parody/borrowing (whatever you want to call it) with it's use of the Gremlin-like creature that Dustin discovers in his trashcan. This appears to closely resemble the creature that Will coughed up at the end of Season 1. Meanwhile Eleven gets fed up with being cooped up and ventures back out into the world. Nancy & Jonathan devise a scheme to test whether the government agents really have left the town. Joyce discovers that Will's visions might not just be in his head.

A modest improvement over the first two episodes, this one actually manages to create a little tension with the use of Dart and the FBI's overarching wiretap of the town.

I'm not a huge fan of this will they/won't they relationship between Mike & El though. It's a very cliched plot device that should be reserved for less interesting young adult dramas. I hope that this isn't what this is turning into.

Thozius

So Bob was leading Will to face the monster with this stupid Mr Baldo story. It's too much of a coincidence for anything else to be true. With that last cut of Bob's face, there's something sinister about that smile... The Pollywog is such a "Stranger Things" thing, it made me smile. And a bit like the Gremlins, it's not hard to work out there's something ugly hiding behind the surface, especially as Will's negative feelings, throwing him into the Upside- down, was triggered by it. Dustin is charming as usual. He's hilarious, there's no way the library scene wouldn't cause you to crack up.

There are some things that didn't work so well. Nancy, John and Steve have a love triangle emerging, a cliché which isn't welcome. Steve's "do you love me scene" is the kind of melodrama Stranger Things usually avoids. The "Pollywog gets loose in a school" is also a bit too cliché. And while the Eleven/Mike scene near the end is touching, this kind of holding back of their inevitable meeting to halfway through the season is unnecessary. We know they're going to meet each other at some point so this all feels a bit like padding.

These are minor quibbles though. The Pollywog is an entertaining, funny, touching and at times intense hour of television.

August

This episode is not the most interesting in the series or anything, but there are a few things in the episode that are very important for you to get later on in the series. Such as the pollywog and the fact that it grows up to some of the biggest monsters that have shown up in later episodes of the series. So despite this episode not being all that interesting, it is one that you totally need to watch to get the full story

Authis

There's just one thing that really impressed me about this series and that is the high IMDb rating given to this heap of garbage.

I say this because I find it utterly amazing that the reviewers who rated this steaming pile of excrement with 9's and 10's must surely ALL be under 12 years of age, and yet they have somehow managed to write reviews that, for the most part, are well worded, grammatically correct and with very few spelling errors. So - well done, kids!!

For anyone over 12 years of age - please, just stay right away from this stinker Show.

Dianalmeena

Duffer Brothers Creaters Of This Show Revealed This Story In a Recent Interview That How They Came With The Idea Of This Show,So They Said As A child We Were Not So Bright In Our Childhood,Pepole Used To Love The Shows Like Twin Peaks,The Sopranos,The Wire We Never Liked Them Because We Could Not Understand Them Because They Made Sense,So That's When We Thought We Would Create A Show For Pepole Like Us,Who Don't Want To Understand Logic Just Want To Enjoy.So We downloaded Some Great Movies Of 80's,It Took Us Whole Night To Do Cut,Copy Paste All Those,Key Of Success Was To Bring All The Logics Out Of them Otherwise it Won't Work,But something Was Missing,After All The Hard Work We Had Done it Still Had Some Flaws Some Things Were Making Sense.We Wanted To Make It Perfect Like Blue Crystal Meth Of Heisenberg,So Next Morining We Went Out,we Brought Some 12 Year Old Kids From Neighbourhood And Made Them Watch The Show, All the Things They Liked We Kept them,The Things They Did Not Understood We Removed Those Parts,And It Was Done. The Modern Era Masterpiece(Claimed By Fans) Was Made, Now We Got lucky We also Had Netflix In Our Side,After it Was Released And Went Viral,people Were Outside Our House shouting Nostalgia,Nostalgia,Give Us More Please.So We Renewed This Show For 4 Seasons.And We Want To Thank All the people Like Us Who Can Not Understand Artistary Of The Wire And Complexity Of Westworld ,Game Of Thrones Is For Them all about Nudity and Dragons,Breaking Bad Is So Boring For Them,Don't Worry Guys We Got Your Backs. You Can Watch Stranger Things And You Will Also be able To Show Off Infront Of Others,And If someone Ask You Why You Like This Show Just say" Nostalgia Dude".

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