Fuller House‘s final season snuck in a secret Michelle Easter egg that everyone missed. The youngest Tanner sister didn’t appear in the Full House spin-off’s five-year-run, despite producers and castmates reaching out to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (who alternately played the character in the original show) multiple times. As it turns out, the twins are no longer interested in revisiting their acting days as they’ve moved on to a different career path as fashion moguls.

The show used the Olsens’ real-life profession as an inspiration for Michelle’s. As explained in the series’ first season, Danny’s (Bob Saget) youngest kid is now based in New York City as a fashion house owner. For five seasons of Fuller House, this was the enduring reason why she’s never back in San Francisco — even when her sisters, DJ (Candace Cameron-Bure) and Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), were getting married. There were a few references to the character throughout the offshoot’s run, but there’s one sneaky Easter egg about her in the final season that many fans may have missed.

In Fuller House‘s season 5, Thanksgiving episode, “Cold Turkey,” the extended Tanner family gathered in the iconic San Francisco home for dinner. Danny, as well as Jesse (John Stamos) and Joey (Dave Coulier), came in to visit the girls. It’s also the first time that Stephanie is in charge of preparing the food — a responsibility she took quite seriously since it’s her daughter, Danielle’s first time celebrate Thanksgiving. Skeptical about her sister’s skills in the kitchen, DJ sneakily cooked her own recipes in case Stephanie messed up. Upon finding out about this, Stephanie understandably got upset and got in Joey’s red car, wanting to get away from the house. Unfortunately, instead of putting the gear shift on drive, she put in reverse, resulting in the car crashing into the house’s kitchen.

This harkens back to Full House season 3, episode 20, entitled “Honey, I Broke the House” in which a very young Stephanie also crashed Joey’s car into the house while playing in it. The whole Fuller House sequence is almost an exact re-enactment of what happened in the original show; the only difference is that, by the time she got out of the wrecked car, it’s DJ’s youngest kid, Tommy, who first discovered her, when it was Michelle in Full House. Both Tommy and Michelle’s reaction and dialogue are the same — both kids exclaiming “there’s a car in the kitchen!” However, before Tommy could follow it up with Michelle’s signature catchphrase, “you got it dude,” DJ and Steve (Scott Weinger) entered the room.

Given Fuller House‘s premise, Tommy was supposed to be the Michelle of the spin-off, but that was never the case. Unlike Full House, which took advantage of every opportunity to put the adorable Tanner kid at the forefront, the offshoot essentially cast DJ’s youngest son aside. Most of the time, he’s only there for the sake of being there, with no real arc for the kid. It’s wasted opportunity considering how popular Michelle became during the old show’s run. This is the reason why fans of Full House are unsatisfied with how Fuller House tackled the character’s absence. Aside from Easter eggs, not to mention meta-jokes about the Olsens’ refusal to reprise their breakout role, there’s no active effort to incorporate her into the story.