With less than 24 hours to go before Netflix launches “Vol. 1” of Stranger Things’ final season, Jimmy Fallon is once again tapping the Hawkins crew for a little promotional firepower.
The Tonight Show has unveiled a new minute-long “Stranger Things Recap Rap,” featuring all of our favorite Hawkins kids speed-running the series’ mythology ahead of its long-awaited endgame.
The new segment, which just dropped on the NBC late-night show’s social channels and was slated to air on at the top of The Tonight Show Tuesday evening, brings together Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, and Maya Hawke in a new rapid-fire rundown of four season’s worth of Demogorgons, portals, and Upside Down mayhem.
Fallon first introduced the bit during a guest appearance from Millie Bobby Brown ahead of Stranger Things’ second season, while multiple cast members participated in a different “recap rap” before the show’s fourth season.
The new clip is the first-leg in a month-long promotional crossover that’s turning Studio 6B into de facto Hawkins HQ. Joe Keery is booked for Fallon’s Thanksgiving episode, with Millie Bobby Brown set to co-host on Dec. 7.
NBC says a full week of Stranger Things guests will appear later in December, with Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and series creators Matt and Ross Duffer all making appearances.
Netflix, meanwhile, is spacing out the show’s final drop across the holidays. The first batch of episode drop Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET, while “Vol. 2” debuts Dec. 25, with the series finale arriving Dec. 31.
Fallon and The Tonight Show have a long relationship with Stranger Things. In addition to hosting various cast members individually over the years, Fallon conducted one of the first major group interviews with the ensemble — just a month after the series premiered — when he sat down with Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin in the isummer of 2016.
The latest recap rap leans into that history, serving up one more promotional victory lap as Stranger Things heads into the last stretch of its blockbuster run.
