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Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.
— Stranger Things • 2016
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is Hopper in one sentence: a burnt-out small-town cop who treats the morning as a ritual and anyone who wants business out of him before caffeine as an intruder. The joke is that the slacker is about to be proven wrong, and he is the one who takes Will's case seriously. Fans quote it as the polite version of not talking to me yet.
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In context
Spoilers for Stranger ThingsShow the scene
Stranger Things, season one, "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers" (2016). It is the morning after Will vanishes on his bike in Hawkins, Indiana, in November 1983, and the town does not yet know a boy is missing. Police chief Jim Hopper wakes, gets ready for work and arrives at the station, where he trades gruff remarks with the staff and answers with this line. He is in no hurry until Joyce Byers comes in to beg him to find her son. The score cue under his waking-and-dressing sequence is titled "Coffee and Contemplation".
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- Stranger Things Wiki: Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will ByersMusic section and plot summaryReference checked
- Stranger Things Wiki: Jim HopperMemorable Quotes listReference checked
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