Bombad Jedi

"Heroes are made by the times."

- Moral

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

Official description
''Jar Jar Binks is a Jedi Knight? So think the Separatists when comically heroic Gungan and C-3PO fight to save Padmé Amidala from doom at the hands of evil Viceroy Nute Gunray.''

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: while she bluffs the droids into thinking the Jedi has rescued her already, she slips out of her manacles, grabs 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, upon seeing Onaconda's expression, Padmé tells Gunray about 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"
 * CC-7567 "Rex"
 * Dooku
 * Onaconda Farr "Uncle Ono"
 * Nute Gunray
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Ruwee Naberrie
 * Palpatine
 * Silood
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Ahsoka Tano
 * Yoda

Creatures

 * Can-cell
 * Kwazel Maw

Droid models

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

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Battle of Bothawui
 * Mission to Rodia

Locations

 * Core Worlds
 * Coruscant sector
 * Coruscant system
 * Coruscant
 * Republic Executive Building
 * Chancellor's Suite
 * Mid Rim
 * Bothan sector
 * Both system
 * Bothawui
 * Bothawui asteroid belt
 * Chommell sector
 * Naboo system
 * Naboo
 * Outer Rim Territories
 * Arkanis sector
 * Tatoo system
 * Tatooine
 * Jabba's Palace
 * Doldur sector
 * Tyrius system
 * 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
 * Gold Squadron
 * Pirate
 * Senator

Sentient species

 * Arcona
 * Bith
 * Gran
 * Gungan
 * Otolla Gungan
 * Human
 * Clone
 * Neimoidian
 * Togruta
 * Rodian
 * Yoda's species

Vehicles and vessels

 * Airspeeder
 * All Terrain Tactical Enforcer
 * H-type Nubian yacht
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
 * Munificent-class star frigate
 * Sheathipede-class transport shuttle
 * V-19 Torrent starfighter
 * Venator-class Star Destroyer
 * Resolute

Weapons and technology

 * Blaster
 * DC-15A blaster
 * DC-15S blaster
 * E-5 blaster rifle
 * Defensive dome
 * Homing torpedo
 * Laser
 * Laser cannon
 * Phase I clone trooper armor
 * Thermal detonator

Miscellanea

 * Jedi cloak

Languages

 * Aurebesh
 * Galactic Basic Standard
 * Rodese

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.

This is currently the only episode to have Ahmed Best, the original voice of Jar Jar, in the said role, as BJ Hughes voices Jar Jar in "The Gungan General" and "Blue Shadow Virus."

Continuity

 * When Jar Jar is putting on the Jedi robe he says "Mesa eyeball stuck in da sleeve", yet the Jedi robe shown in the episode has no sleeves and looks more like Count Dooku's cape, minus the clasp.

Notes and references
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