Keep the Door Open Three Inches
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Keep the Door Open Three Inches is a command used by the character Hopper in Stranger Things season three directed at his daughter Eleven as she frequently had dates in her room with Mike. The line was then used in the finale in a tear jerking note to his daughter.
Origin
On July 4th, 2019, Netflix released season three of Stranger Things. In the finale, after the death of her father Eleven reads Hopper's heart to heart speech notes (shown below). The video clip was uploaded to YouTube four days later.
Spread
On July 4th, after the release of season three Twitter users revealed that the line has become known as tear-jerking. Twitter user @loraskuk[1] tweeted about how the line made them cry much like Tony Stark's line "I love you 3000 times" in Avengers: Endgame (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 3,900 likes and 1,000 retweets in six days. The next day, @upsidebangtan[2] shared a photo of someone crying in bed looking at their phone and paired it with a quote from Hopper's speech (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 7,100 likes and 2,500 retweets in five days.
That same day, Twitter user @urlocaldumbass_ tweeted a video of a boy crying and paired it with a quote from the note (shown below). The tweet garnered over 5,100 likes and 1,400 retweets in five days.
#strangerthings #strangerthings3 “but please, if you don’t mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches" pic.twitter.com/TJvvwIy27B
— 🌟 spoilers (@urlocaldumbass_) July 6, 2019
Various Examples
my mom watching me cry over a letter written to stop two 14 year olds to keep the door 3 inches open while making out #StrangersThings3#StrangersThings pic.twitter.com/kKWgQnIrs8
— not lizzette🐥 (@lizzetteeeeee) July 6, 2019
Hopper: "Keep the Door open 3 inches "
— Niranjan (@sonu_k7) July 5, 2019
Entire Stanger Things Fanbase: #Strangerthings #StrangersThings3 #StrangerThings3 pic.twitter.com/Jyk1K3QNTv
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External References
[2] Twitter – upsidebangtan
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