By George & Josh Bate
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – Episode 6
Bryce Dallas Howard returned to the director’s chair this week for an episode of Skeleton Crew featuring fun parallels to The Goonies, Harry Potter, The Clone Wars, Ahsoka, and more.
Check out every Easter Egg, Hidden Detail, and Reference we noticed in Skeleton Crew – Episode 6: Zero Friends Again below…
The kids falling down a slide at the beginning of the episode is very much like a similar sequence in The Goonies.
One of the aliens on the landing pad greeting Jod is a Xi’Dec. This species first appeared on Canto Bight in The Last Jedi.
Jod says to the pirates that he has a score that will get them “the entire kriffing galaxy.” ‘Kriff’ was a curse word that first appeared in the Legends novel Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn.
The Trash Crabs are similar to the Noti from Ahsoka (although with more villainous motivations). If you look closely, you can see they’re made of all sorts of different parts, including a protocol droid’s leg, a stormtrooper helmet, and the top of a C1-series astromech droid (the same kind as Chopper from Rebels).
Captain Brutus’ base is a former Republic Haven-class medical station. These stations appeared in The Clone Wars. Most notably, a Haven-class medical station played a role in the Malevolence arc of The Clone Wars in which Anakin and Ahsoka had to defend one as General Grievous tried to destroy the facility after learning thousands of clone troopers were being treated there.
The queen Trash Crab was created using a stop-motion miniature by Phil Tippett and Tippett Studio. The creators of the miniature model included an R2-D2, C-3PO, and K-2SO in the design.
The big Trash Crab is named Tet’niss the Mama Crab. This is because the model featured many sharp, spiky protrusions that the animators kept jabbing themselves on.
The Trash Crabs leading the kids back to Tet’niss the Mama Crab reminded us of the spiders leading Harry and Ron to Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
