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Things are about to get a little spooky at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
NBC announced Thursday that coinciding with the upcoming final season of Stranger Things, Fallon’s show is rolling out an unprecedented slate of guest appearances from Hawkins’ most famous residents—turning Studio 6B into an unofficial satellite of the Upside Down throughout late November and December.
The crossover kicked off earlier this fall when Gaten Matarazzo stopped by as the first cast member to promote the series’ final chapter. Ahead of the initial batch of episodes (which drop Wednesday November 26), The Tonight Show will also debut a special one-minute Stranger Things recap featuring members of the ensemble.
Joe Keery is then set to appear on the show’s Thanksgiving episode, airing Nov. 27, marking the start of a steady parade of cast members dropping in throughout the holiday season. The biggest spotlight will fall on Millie Bobby Brown, who will step into a co-hosting role with Fallon for the final post-Sunday Night Football edition of The Tonight Show this year on Sunday Dec. 7.
From there, the show shifts into full event-programming mode. 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. Additional cast members joining across the month include Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton and Maya Hawke.
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.