Star Wars: Skeleton Crew fans were thrilled after discovering an “impressive” Easter egg in the new TV show

New Star Wars series Skeleton crew contains an Easter egg reference to one of the most infamous moments in franchise history and fans are loving it.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the first episode of Skeleton crew.

The series, which stars Jude Law, is a coming-of-age story that revolves around four children lost in the Star Wars galaxy and trying to return home.

One of the children in the series is Neel, who resembles Max Rebo, better known as the keyboard-playing blue elephant from the band seen in Jabba the Hutt’s palace Return of the Jedi.

In the first episode, Neel’s younger siblings are seen watching a holographic circus performance on a table. Eagle-eyed Star Wars fanatics immediately noticed that the holograms were identical to those seen by Chewbacca’s son Lumpy in the 1978 TV special.

The holiday special has become an infamous medium in Star Wars history. It has only been officially broadcast once on television, but was subsequently released on physical media, although George Lucas distanced himself from it.

Oddly enough, it also marks the official debut of iconic Star Wars character Boba Fett in an animated segment, which has since been repackaged as a short film entitled The story of the loyal Wookiee.

Those who spotted the reference are deeply impressed that it made it to the final show.

One fan said: “Wow I forgot Star Wars had circus dancers. Skeleton crew deserves credit for recreating something so well when the only real source for it is The holiday special YouTube is… impressive. Extremely impressive.”

Another added: “Disney is slowly integrating The holiday special “Bringing (the same special that George Lucas hates with a passion) into the Star Wars canon is the best thing Disney Star Wars has done.”

A third wrote: “Just watching the first episode and lost it when Neel’s siblings were watching the circus performers from there Star Wars Christmas Special.”

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In conversation with Weekly entertainmentSkeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts called the Easter egg “one of my favorite parts of the whole show.”

“And I’m glad it’s in the first episode just so we can get it out of the way. I’ve just always been fascinated by this strange little circus hologram.”

Watts also confirmed that the recording was recreated, adding: “We initially wanted to see if we could get the original footage, but it’s such low resolution because it was a TV special.”