To hype up fans for "Stranger Things" Season 3, Ellen DeGeneres aimed to underwhelm viewers as much as possible with "Normal-er Things."
The premise was so unoriginal that it was kind of original, and Ellen needed to make sure her viewers understood how groundbreaking her "Stranger Things" spin-off was.
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View Story"No one has seen this yet," Ellen said. "This is just my idea. No one else has it."
Cue the Don LaFontaine voice that introduced all movie trailers pre-2008: "From the mind of Ellen DeGeneres comes a show where things seem strange but everything's perfectly normal."
"Where's Will?!" said one kid who looked a lot like Lucas from the Netflix hit. "I'm right over here," the not-so-missing friend replies.
"It's one normal thing after another and nothing goes unexplained," according to the narrator, who also stressed "Normal-er Things" is still up for sale.
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View Story"So someone call me. Anyone, call me and I'll talk about it," Ellen said after. "Because we haven't sold it."
Maybe Crackle will jump on it.