‘Skeleton Crew’ Easter Egg Highlights - Episodes 1 & 2

Skeleton Crew’s premiere episodes featured quite a few Easter Eggs the Star Wars community was thrilled to discover.

‍Spoilers Ahead for Episodes 1 & 2 of Skeleton Crew

‍Our favorites:

• Neel’s family is seen watching a hologram of acrobats in the pilot. This is a recreation of the dancers from 1978’s infamous Star Wars Holiday Special using the original choreography

• The jackets the children wear for school have Tionese symbols on them. The only place Tionese characters have appeared in Canon previously is in The Last Jedi’s sacred Jedi texts - indicating that the planet is either very old or more mysterious than we thought.

• The racer Fern trades jibes with is named Bonjj Phalfa - a direct reference to Harrison Ford’s character, Bob Falfa, from George Lucas's American Graffiti

• Wim mentions that Jedi temples can sometimes lower down into the ground in times of danger - something we saw personally on Lothal during Star Wars Rebels.

• Port Borgo, the pirate port SM-33 takes the children to in Episode 2, was first mentioned in Legends in Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy and was originally near Mandalore.

• The Teek made his heralded appearance as the ferryman on Port Borgo after his original role in The Battle for Endor.

• Wim calls his credits “dataries” which is an older term for “credits” used by Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace.

• The adorable winged creatures seen in the port’s cages are Fuzzballs, designs from Captain EO, the George Lucas film starring Michael Jackson that aired at Disney Parks until 1998.

Our sources:

• Alex Damon (Star Wars Explained) compiled a more thorough list of Easter Eggs and even translated all of Wim’s storybook pages

• Inverse dove into the implications of references to The Mandalorian

• Laughing Place put together 25 of their favorite references including some from the pilot’s first scene

• ScreenRant’s list pointed out a reference to George Lucas’s early work

• Star Wars Holocron wonders if The High Republic has made its way into the show

Skeleton Crew continues next week with Episode 3 on Tuesday, December 10th only on Disney+!