Bombad Jedi

"Heroes are made by the times."

- Moral

"Bombad Jedi" is the eighth episode of the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Official description
''Jar Jar Binks is a Jedi Knight? So thinks the Separatists when comically heroic Gungan and C-3PO fight to save Padmé Amidala from doom at the hands of evil Viceroy Nute Gunray./On a diplomatic mission to Rodia, Padmé is captured by the evil Nute Gunray. Sensing Padmé in trouble, Jar Jar disguises himself as a Jedi and attempts a daring rescue of his fellow senator.''

Plot summary
Padmé goes to Rodia in an attempt to persuade Senator Onaconda Farr, otherwise known as Uncle Ono from when he helped out her father, to keep his allegiance to the Republic. She brings along Threepio and Jar Jar, despite Palpatine's advice to rather take along a bodyguard force. But upon arrival, she learns that Onaconda had already pledged allegiance to the Separatists and Viceroy Gunray is delivering supplies as the Republic could not. Already, there are battle droids in his city. The droids lock Padmé up, manacled, as Gunray ordered as a precaution before he personally comes for her.



Jar Jar and Threepio get into even more trouble when droids come to arrest them. Though Jar Jar's bumbling with the magnetic crane destroys the droids, he also destroys their ship, ruining their chance to contact help. He puts on a Jedi robe Padmé had stored in the back closet (most likely belonging to Anakin), but droids spot them and everyone presumes he's a Jedi. Jar Jar manages to escapes to the water down below, where he promptly has to run from a marine monster, while Threepio is taken off to be scrapped. Word of a Jedi around gives Padmé an idea: she bluffs the droids into thinking the Jedi had rescued her already, while she slips out of her manacles before grabbing a droid's blaster, and escapes.

Padmé rescues Threepio but is dismayed to learn that the Separatists think Jar Jar is a Jedi. She tells Threepio to find a communication station to call for help. Meanwhile, Gunray has arrived and tells Onaconda that the supplies will be delivered after Padmé is executed. Onaconda tries to protest but Gunray insists, declaring that Rodia is under his protection now. Onaconda then realizes that Padmé was right, and that he has made a bad mistake siding with the Separatists.

Jar Jar goes to rescue Padmé, only to be spotted and shot at. He again dives into the water as droids throw down thermal detonators and fire a rocket at him. While swimming away, he runs into the "boogie monster" he met previously, which is about to swallow him up as the rockets are about to explode. Thankfully, the beast saves him thanks to its thick hide, and Jar Jar declares it his friend. Threepio manages to send out a message before being captured. Gunray has a trio of droidekas line up to execute the two when Jar Jar and the boogie monster come up behind them. In the ensuring chaos, Gunray tries to get away, but his shuttle is destroyed and Padmé holds him at gunpoint. Onaconda appears behind Padmé, his own blaster at the ready, and Gunray orders the Rodian to shoot her. However, Padmé turns to her old friend and suggests he tell Gunray their "little secret", that Onaconda planned to trap Gunray all along. Onaconda agrees that he is with the Republic, and places Gunray under arrest.

A Republic cruiser arrives with reinforcements to take Gunray away, while Onaconda thanks Jar Jar (whom he calls "Master Bombad") for being either the bravest or most foolish Jedi he has ever met. Palpatine, via holoprojector, promises supplies to Rodia. Onaconda asks Padmé if she can ever forgive him, but she replies that it is the Republic who should ask him for forgiveness. Far too often they forget that their most important allies are not always the most powerful.

Cast

 * Ahmed Best - Jar Jar Binks
 * Dee Bradley Baker - Onaconda Farr / Gree
 * Tom Kenny - Nute Gunray / Silood
 * Catherine Taber - Padmé Amidala
 * Matthew Wood - Battle droids
 * Anthony Daniels - C-3PO
 * Tom Kane - Narrator
 * Ian Abercrombie - Chancellor Palpatine

Characters

 * Padmé Amidala
 * Jar Jar Binks
 * Boogie
 * C-3PO
 * CC-1004 "Gree"
 * Onaconda Farr "Uncle Ono"
 * Nute Gunray
 * Ruwee Naberrie
 * Palpatine
 * Silood
 * Yoda

Creatures

 * Can-cell
 * Kwazel Maw
 * "Boogie"

Droid models

 * Astromech droid
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * B1 battle droid
 * B2 super battle droid
 * B2 super battle droid commander
 * Droideka
 * LM-432 crab droid
 * Protocol droid
 * 3PO-series protocol droid
 * Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Mission to Rodia

Locations

 * Naboo
 * Rodia

Organizations and titles

 * Confederacy of Independent Systems
 * Trade Federation
 * Trade Federation Viceroy
 * Galactic Republic
 * Chancellor
 * Grand Army of the Republic
 * Clone trooper
 * 41st Elite Legion
 * Pirate
 * Senator

Languages

 * rodese
 * Aurebesh
 * basic

Sentient species

 * Gungan
 * Human
 * Clone
 * Neimoidian
 * Rodian

Vehicles and vessels

 * H-type Nubian yacht
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
 * Sheathipede-class transport shuttle
 * Venator-class Star Destroyer

Weapons and technology

 * Blaster
 * Defensive dome
 * Homing torpedo
 * Laser cannon
 * Thermal detonator

Miscellanea

 * Huttese
 * Jedi cloak

Goofs

 * When Jar Jar is putting on the Jedi robe he says "Mesa eyeball styck in da sleeve", yet the Jedi robes shown in The Clone Wars have no sleeves and look more like Count Dooku's cape, minus the clasp.

Behind the scenes
Quinlan Vos was originally slated to appear in an early draft of Bombad Jedi. He was to be working undercover and actually using his force abilities to make it look like Jar Jar was a Jedi. He was eventually cut, because at the early stages of production the studio didn't have the ability to include many new characters because of the time it took to create a digital model.

Notes and references
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