Scarfie Things, the Otago University Students' Association's 124th Capping Show, has a central sketch which revolves around a group of flatmates losing one of their members after a night partying.
Capping show executive producer Jerome Cousins said there were ``supernatural powers'' and `` a lot of weird things going on''.
However rather than being set in the 1980s, the show will be set in 2008.
Winona Ryder's Stranger Things character would make an appearance, as an overly possessive mother.
Mr Cousins said the sketch show jumped from one scenario to another and was ``a bit like Monty Python's Flying Circus''.
``There's lots of memories and nostalgia.''
Since 2008 was the year Sir Edmund Hillary died he also made an appearance in the show, and there were lots of quirky characters including the head of the Campus Watch.
There were 16 actors in total, all of whom were also involved writing the show.
There were another eight writers, and the show would feature video sketches this year.
Favourites such as the Otago ``Sexytet'' and the Selwyn Ballet were returning this year, and there would potentially also be a spot open for the Indian Students' Association to do a Bollywood sketch.
More than 300 sketches had been written for the capping show at the beginning of the semester, but that number had been whittled down to between 15 and 18, Mr Cousins said.
Fourth-year student Shaun Swain, who was directing the show along with Otago graduate Nick Tipa, said the cast was completely new.
In other years there had been a lot of theatre students, but now students from a lot of different disciplines were having a go.
Mr Swain said he had heard rumours the ``Knox Farce'' was returning, but he could not confirm that yet.
Mr Cousins said the big event coming up for capping show organisers would be the 125th, which fortunately coincided with the University of Otago's 150th anniversary.
Scarfie Things will be running from May 16 to May 19 and from May 21 to May 26 at the University of Otago College of Education Auditorium on Union St East, from 7.15pm each night.
