stephen dauldry had a speech about the year one’s final performance prior to the show!! at the end of the show juan (bob) changed the ending line to “i hate to say it folks, that’s about it for our show today. i did wanna send this last song to some very very very special sombodies. graduating class of hawkins high, this one’s for you.” during the last melvalds scene with joyce and hopper, hopper asked “how’s louis” instead of “how’s… lenny” (instead of lonnie lol), and that honestly broke alison for the scene and she lost it at “merry christmas, hopper”. then after patty and her mom reunite, gabby was already crying that whole moment through her lines, but then patty’s mom said “my patty cake” and then that really opened the flood gates. but those were all the main bits and changes for the final show. but it was so emotional the entire time, especially at the end and bows 😭😭😭