Spoilers for Arrested Development Season 5 Episode 3. The dense history of Arrested Development gags is woven like a tapestry throughout the series’ episodes. The show’s fifth season sees the return of beloved running jokes from “no touching! to “anustart,” but only one of these returning gags manages to also be a tie-in to the narrator’s latest film release. Arrested Development Season 5 includes a reference to Solo: A Star Wars Story, and naturally, it involves George Michael.
The connection between Solo: A Star Wars Story and Arrested Development may not seem obvious to those unfamiliar with the series, but fans won’t be surprised to hear the show’s narrator make mention of a “Han Solo origin picture” in the third episode of the latest season. The show’s narrator, Ron Howard, happens to be the director of that very same Han Solo origin picture, brought on after Phil Lord and Chris Miller left the production, per Variety.
The Easter Egg occurs in episode 3 of Season 5, following George Michael as he revisits the Bluth model home and goes through what the narrator refers to as “total regression!” He goes through a box of old artifacts, including the high school production of Much Ado About Nothing that he and Maeby almost shared a kiss in, and a DVD copy of Les Cousins Dangeroux. As his regression continues, he decides to don a helmet and return to an old passion of his: recreating scenes from Star Wars for the internet.
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The original scene, in which an old tape of George Michael’s lightsaber practice abilities gets accidentally shown to his family, was inspired one of the first ever viral videos of the internet, known as “Star Wars Kid.” The scene was one of many mortifying experiences that occurred during George Michael’s childhood, but his embarrassment would only grow as the tape managed to pop up in the…
