Stranger Things 3: 11 Best Chief Hopper Moments Of The Season

11. You Don't Mess Around With Jim

In one of the season's greatest callbacks, after successfully putting some much-needed-distance between Mike and Eleven, Hopper celebrates with a joyous rendition of Jim Croce's 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim'.

In season two, this song was very memorably played by Hopper to Eleven right after she had moved in with him. It became the soundtrack to their entire father/daughter bonding montage shortly after. So seeing Hopper gleefully shouting along to the classic in this moment is not only overtly funny, but it's also subtly poignant.

As is explicitly stated later in the season, Hopper feels a distance growing between Eleven and himself as she grows up. He blames this on Mike's constant presence, to the point that he believes that simply getting rid of Mike will solve the problem and everything will go back to the way it was.

Of course, it won't, but in this moment, Hopper is elated at his success and Harbour's balls-to-the-walls performance both in terms of physicality and in terms of the singing in this scene is wonderful to witness.