The Duffer Brothers were supposedly inspired by Sixteen Candles In Stranger Things season four, you guessed wrong.

Many fans speculated. Matt And Ross Duffer purposefully let the characters forget Will Byers’ (Noah Schnapp(born March 22nd), which would be a reasonable date considering the series references ’80s movies like the Molly Ringwald classic. In a recent interview, however, creators of the series admitted that the plot holes are not logical.

Matt stated that “Clearly, like the characters of the show we also forgot Will’s birthday.” Variety. “So the debate now is whether we adjust Will’s birthday or we just let it be really sad.”

Ross joked about how they don’t want their fans to find out this error, laughing, “You’re going get us in trouble for forgetting my birthday.” This date was actually written six years earlier than I thought!