History Recap / StrangerThingsS3E3ChapterThreeTheCaseoftheMissingLifeguard

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Hopper is on the receiving end of one at the hands of the General's enforcer, who easily and brutally neutralizes him.

* BigStormEpisode: A thunderstorm rages through Hawkins throughout the episode, so the characters go about their business trekking through the rain in raincoats.

* {{Gasshole}}: Eleven has a vision where she sees Mike and Lucas burping and farting.

* TrophyWife: Trophy Girlfriend variation. Dustin, when discussing how perfect Robin can be for Steve, tells him to let go of constructs like popularity and focus on find a girl that he genuinely likes and likes him back rather than one that makes him look cool.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Averted. When Joyce starts freaking out about a minor, random bit of weirdness and wants to go to the secret government lab, Hopper ... pretty quickly agrees due to the weirdness they'd already been through in the past. Instantly subverted as he's being sarcastic, and he sets the conditions for going there the same as she had set for their "not-date". It's only when Joyce takes a flashlight and some bolt cutters from his storage shed that he realizes she's serious and decides to go with her.

-->'''Will:''' You're destroying everything, and for what? So you can swap spit with some stupid girl?
-->'''Mike:''' El's not stupid! It's not my fault you don't like girls!
-->[both freeze, visibly stunned by Mike's response]

* [[TrophyWife Trophy Girlfriend]]: Dustin, when discussing how perfect Robin can be for Steve, tells him to let go of constructs like popularity and focus on find a girl that he genuinely likes and likes him back rather than one that makes him look cool.

* RunningGag: For the third episode in a row, Nancy ignores the red light over the darkroom and bursts in while Jonathan is developing pictures, ruining what he's workig on.

* WhamLine: Though there are debates about its meaning, quite a lot of viewers were shocked by the "It's not my fault you don't like girls!" line, with many people seeing it as Mike implying that Will is gay. Whether it turns out to be true or not, way back in Season 1 Joyce told Hopper this was how sole of Will's classmates made fun of him, calling him "queer" (which was a common insult for shy, geeky types like Will).

With El and Max looking for Billy, Will declares a day without girls. Steve and Dustin go on a stakeout, and Joyce and Hopper return to Hawkins Lab.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Averted. When Joyce starts freaking out about a minor, random bit of weirdness and wants to go to the secret government lab, Hopper ... pretty quickly agrees due to the weirdness they'd already been through in the past.

* BinocularShot: When Dustin and Steve are spying on the mall.

* HystericalWoman: Mike and Lucas talk about women "acting on emotion, not logic", this pissing off Max and Eleven.
* MaleGaze: The camera lovingly pans over the lycra-clad ladies of the [[WorkoutFanservice Jazzercise class]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: Don [=McLean=]'s ''American Pie'' was playing while Heather's mom passes out on the floor and Tom is beaten by both his daughter and Billy. The perfect All-American Family is being dragged to their final doom.

* WhamLine: Though there are debates about its meaning, quite a lot of viewers were shocked by the "It's not my fault you don't like girls!" line, with many people seeing it as Mike implying that Will is gay.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Don McLean's ''American Pie'' was playing while Heather's mom passes out on the floor and Tom is beaten by both his daughter and Billy. [[spoiler: The perfect All-American Family is being dragged to their final doom]]

* MaleGaze: The camera lovingly pans over the lycra-clad ladies of the Jazzercise class.

* SpinTheBottle: How El and Max decide who to spy on.

* TapOnTheHead: Averted as Heather whacks a wine bottle against her father's head, but it fails to knock him out, forcing her to drug him instead.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Joyce starts freaking out about a minor, random bit of weirdness and wants to go to the secret government lab, Hopper ... pretty quickly agrees due to the weirdness they'd already been through in the past.

With El and Max looking for Billy, Will declares a day without girls. Steve and Dustin go on a stakeout, and Joyce and Hopper return to Hawkins Lab

* BinocularShot

* SlippingAMickey: Billy appears to have slipped something in Heather's Mom's drink causing her to pass out.
* SpinTheBottle
* TapOnTheHead: Averted as Heather wacks a wine bottle against her father's head, but it fails to knock him out forcing her to drug him instead.

* MaleGaze: The camera lovingly pans over the lycra-clad ladies of the Yoga class.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Joyce starts freaking out about a minor, random bit of weirdness and wants to go to the secret government lab, Hopper ... pretty quickly agrees.

* MaleGaze: Steve can clearly be seen staring at one of the Yoga class members rear end.

* SpinTheBottle

* Male Gaze: Steve can clearly be seen staring at one of the Yoga class members rear end.