Funny / The Book of Boba Fett

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Season 1

Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land

• Though the inside of the Sarlacc is a nightmarish experience for Boba, there is a Black Comedy moment where he finds a Stormtrooper next to him. Considering that there was no Stormtrooper present at the Pit of Carkoon in Return of the Jedi, it implies that this unlucky trooper accidentally fell into the Sarlacc a while ago, possibly from a search party looking for the missing droids. Even with no Imperials present, the misfortune of Stormtroopers will find its way to any Star Wars TV series.
• Boba Fett comes to to find Jawas looting his armor. When he tries to fight back, he's promptly knocked unconscious. It's starting to almost seem as if Mandalorians just take a collective penalty fighting Jawas.
• After an Aqualish delegate gives a long speech in its own language to Boba while delivering tribute, Boba quietly asks Fennec whether she understood any of it. When she confirms she didn't, he muses they need a protocol droid.
• The next in line is the Trandoshan representative, who also happens to be one of Boba's former bosses, a fact that does not go uncommented on.
  8D8: Presenting Dokk Strassi, leader of the Trandoshan family, protectors of the city center and its business territories.
  Boba: That's weird. I used to work for him.
  Fennec: It's even weirder for him.
• Subsequently, when Strassi's pitch ends with him wishing that Boba "never leaves Mos Espa", Boba has this quip:
  Boba: Even when a Trandoshan pays you a compliment, it sounds like a threat.
• Boba's confusion when the mayor's majordomo asks him for a tribute.
  Boba: I'm the crime boss. He's supposed to pay me.
• Even funnier is Fennec's response, casually asking Boba if he wants her to kill the guy.
  Boba: He works for the mayor.
  Fennec: Is that a no?
• When Boba refuses to be carried into town on a palanquin, Fennec says that he needs to respect the local customs. A little while later, the staff of the brothel offers to clean and maintenance Boba and Fennec's helmets while they wait for the owner. Boba overrides Fennec's refusal and agrees, quipping that they need to respect the local customs.
• A short while after, the helmets are returned... with Boba's full of credits in tribute.
  Fennec: Yours is shinier than mine.
• Just their first view of the brothel. After decades of Tatooine being portrayed as a harsh desert world filled with gangsters, monsters, and seedy cantinas, it's both funny and disconcerting to see two tough characters walk into what looks like a fern bar.
• While the assassins are attacking Boba and Fennec, Boba's cash-filled helmet rolls away, and Jawas promptly run towards it to steal the money.
• While the Tusken Raiders are beating up the recently captured Boba, we get a shot of the leader drinking water from a gourd as if it was a nice cup of warm tea.
• The fact that the Tuskens who are beating him up are juveniles. After escaping the belly of what can reasonably be described as an Eldritch Abomination, the legendary Boba Fett gets mugged by Jawas and then treated like a piñata by a bunch of kids. His expression as he tries to defend himself is a mixture of fury and resigned "This really isn't my day."
• As the would-be assassins make their getaway, Boba launches a rocket to blow one to bits, then gives Fennec her marching orders: "Alive." After cornering the remaining two, Fennec kicks one off of the roof before taking the remaining one alive.
• Also, when Boba blows up the escaping assassin with the rocket, the explosion and smoke completely envelop the body and nothing is left behind (since this is a Disney show, gore isn't allowed), making it look like Boba just deleted the assassin from existence.
• After returning to their camp with the head of the sand monster, the young Tusken regales the rest of the tribe with his version of the story, clearly taking all the credit for himself. The rest of the tribe crowd around him excitedly... except for the chief, who wordlessly hands Boba a black melon full of water, in a way that says "nice job killing that thing". You wouldn't expect that bemused skepticism could carry through a mask...

Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine

• Fett's droid keeps singing the praises of the assassin, who is from the famous Night Wind clan. Fennec, on the other hand, is clearly unimpressed.
  Fennec: Overpriced. You're paying for the name.
• When the assassin refuses to answer who hired him, even with the threat of losing his head, Fennec decides to drop him into the Rancor pit. He spills his guts out after that, only for Fennec, rather mockingly, to point out that the pit is empty. Not quite, though: to rub the humiliation in more, a little mouse pops out of a corner.
• Fett, in full armor and with his heavily armed companions, brings the chained assassin to the Mayor's office and is met with a bored receptionist who asks if he has an appointment. When the receptionist begins looking for his name in the appointment list, Boba and Fennec exchange looks as if thinking "Is he serious?"
• There's something darkly hilarious about Fett going to all the theatrical trouble of dragging the assassin around, interrogating him, and then bringing him in front of the mayor of Mos Espa as evidence of the attempt on his life... only for the Mayor to just have the assassin shot dead right there, and then pay Fett a bounty for bringing him in.
• The Twin Hutts are carried through town on a litter by several attendants. As the scene drags on, the attendants are visibly struggling to hold up the weight of two full-grown Hutts. The litter itself is also noticeably sagging, and looks like it's close to collapsing. According to Temuera Morrison, those extras were actually holding up the litter, and were actually struggling even with just the cardboard stand-ins.
• The brother Hutt uses a live rodent as a rag to wipe off his sweat. The poor thing can be seen wiggling in protest the whole time.
• The basic concept of the Tosche Station throw-down.
  • A marauding swoop gang terrorizing the local cantina's patrons gets thrashed by a lone random guy clad in pajamas who looks like he took an acid bath not too recently, armed with only a sparring gaffi stick and a Tusken cycler rifle. He walks right back out after helping himself to a drink as nonchalantly as he entered.
  • As Boba leaves, everyone in the cantina is staring at him in shock... except for the bartender, who's simply cleaning up the shattered glass on the counter as if brawls like this were commonplace.
  • Funnier still is that the only thing the gang had done wrong was just biking in view of the Tuskens — Boba only clobbered them to steal their speeders to use in the train attack.
  • The cantina has no external windows, but Boba still throws the last biker through a glass partition. Even better, that biker was pretty much out of the fight anyway. One gets the impression Boba did it simply because no Bar Brawl is complete until someone goes through something approximating a window.
• Who would have thought that watching Tusken Raiders learning how to ride a speeder could be so hilarious?
  • When Boba first comes back with the speeders, he proudly presents them as a gift to the chieftain — before realizing a group of Tuskens has gotten started on scrapping his hard-earned loot, making him scramble to make them cut it out.
  • Boba gives the Tuskens a lengthy explanation of how the controls work: moving the handlebars forward makes it go, pulling them back makes it stop. The language barrier and the Tuskens' masks makes it hard to know if they actually understand what he's telling them. He climbs off and asks who wants to try first. One Raider climbs aboard, starts the engine... and goes flying backwards.
    • Which may have been the results of an accidental act of sabotage by the other Tusken who was fiddling with the footpedals earlier.
  • Even better you can hear an excited yelp from the Tusken, as if he's enjoying it regardless.
  • Boba even bounces on the bike like a child on a play horse, trying to show them that it's similar to a bantha, before conceding "Maybe not".
    • The "like a bantha" line was a Throw It In! from Temuera Morrison.
  • When Boba asks who would like to go first, the Warrior and another Tusken exchange looks with each other, and the Warrior gives a nod that says "You do it." to the other Tusken. That guy is the poor bastard who ended up driving off in reverse.
  • For full comic effect: Boba has an enthusiastic smile while demonstrating how the bike works.
  • All the Tuskens riding around on speeders at low speeds like children being taught how to ride a bike.
  • The poor Tusken who has the job of jumping between the bikes falling again and again. Eventually he succeeds, and sits down, only to then lean over a bit too far and fall out again.
  • One of the times that the Tusken falls off the bike, the camera quickly cuts to another Tusken on a speeder bike visibly bumping over something, implying that the first Tusken fell and then got run over.
• The little droid operating the train's Screw This, I'm Outta Here moment when Boba hops into the compartment. Its little beeps seem to say "I don't get paid enough for this shit."
• While the Tuskens are plundering the train, Boba asks the Pykes' leader, who is their prisoner, if they were transporting spice. The Pyke claims, rather unconvincingly, that he doesn't even know what spice is. Cue the Tuskens opening a box right next to them to reveal a large quantity of spice inside, with the Pyke looking rather sheepish after being caught in the lie.
  Boba: Are you carrying spice?
  Pyke: What do you mean by "spice"?
  Boba: Sansanna spice from the slave mines of Kessel.
  Pyke: What does spice look like?
  (Tuskens drop a box that springs open, a cloud of glittering orange dust billows out)
  Boba: Like that. This is not looking good for you.
  • All the while, the Tuskens are doing a Worthless Yellow Rocks, casually tossing the spice while keeping the guns and water.
• The Tusken chieftain gives Boba Fett a lizard as a gift. Boba is rather perplexed by this but doesn't want to offend him, so he thanks him for it. The chief then sprinkles spice on Boba's face, and the lizard jumps up his nostril. Boba, genuinely confused, still sheepishly apologizes for swallowing his gift before the chieftain explains the lizard's role and the Mushroom Samba kicks in.
• When he returns to the tribe the next morning, the lizard pops back out of his nose at the chieftain's beckoning, and Fett comments that he thought it was part of the dream.

Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa

• While briefing Boba about the businesses once under Jabba's protection, 8D8 refuses to say the latter's name, leading to this exchange:
  Boba: He's dead. He can't hurt you.
  8D8: I was concerned that you would feel insulted.
  Boba: Why would I feel insulted?
  8D8: Because you were threatened.
  Boba: [in a tone that screams, "They think I fear a dead man?"] ... Well, now I am insulted.
• We see a table full of all kinds of fancy dishes, enough food to feed six to ten people, and the only two present are Boba and Fennec. Boba has to tell the astromech serving them to not bring anymore. It's almost as if the kitchens aren't aware their new boss isn't a Hutt (or the Twi'lek who gorged himself into a gluttonous quasi-Hutt to take after his former master). That being said, Fennec has her feet kicked up with barely a care as she chows down on a meat leg, even telling Boba to enjoy some of the food.
• The Twins offer a Rancor as a peace offering. The Rancor is on a barge being driven by its trainer. The trainer, worth noting, is played by Danny Trejo, who spends the entire scene in the background standing proudly with the wind blowing in his hair. It's a very Spy Kids moment in a very not-Spy Kids kind of scene, and Rodriguez giving a little showcase for everyone in the audience to point and cheer at his friend.
• It should be noted that the rancor is on a large sled held up by repulsor lifts, yet the Hutts are still on their litter, which still looks like it's about to break in half, and the bearers still look like they're about to drop dead from the strain. Apparently, the only reason for there being no repulsor lifts on the litter is that the Twins are huge dicks.
• The Twins decline Boba's offer to return Black K to them and suggest he sell the would-be-assassin back to the gladiator pits. Boba instead offers Black K his freedom and the advice not to work for scum again. Krrsantan, rather than walking away, opts to take off at a run, as if he's afraid Boba will reconsider.
• Boba Fett, armored badass and the new Daimyo of Tatooine, is gifted a new Rancor for the pit... and suffers an immediate Cuteness Overload, treating it like a big scaly puppy and wanting to learn how to ride it.
  [Boba touches the creature gently; it recoils a little bit and rumbles]
  Boba: [softly] Woah. Easy. Yes, you are... that's a g — I think he likes this! [...] Yes, awww, what're we gonna call you... yesss... [...] Easy, boy, easy...
  [he looks over with a playful expression when rubbing the rancor on a certain part of its face]
  Boba: Is this the spot? Heh... ooh, yes... you like this —
  8D8: Excuse me, Lord Fett —
  Boba: Not now, I'm busy!
• As heartwarming as it is to hear the trainer's speech about rancors being peaceful if treated well, it can also be very familiar if you've ever adopted a stray dog from a rescue shelter, especially a pitbull.
• Boba tells one of his young employees to keep his eye on the Pykes... and then realizes that employee has a cybernetic eye. He apologizes, meaning it as an expression. The young man is not offended and laughs it off, saying not to worry because he's proud of it.
  Boba: Keep an eye on them. (Beat) Sorry, it’s an expression.
  Skad: You don’t have to be sorry, mate. I paid a lot for this. I’m proud of my eye.
• There's a certain humor to Boba Fett arriving at the mayor's office with his entourage riding very colorful swoop bikes that look more like Vespas than choppers. And one of them has too many mirrors.^note Probably a reference to the real-life British "Mod" subculture.
• The Mod-Speeder gang, with their colorful chrome bikes and cybernetic enhancements, would fit in perfectly in a Cyberpunk setting. They are jarringly out of place on the dusty streets of Tatooine. That they turn out to be a fiercely loyal gang of Hypercompetent Sidekicks makes it only more amusing.
• The Mayor's majordomo tells them that there are no appointments for the next few weeks...so Fennec casually reveals the blaster pistol at her side and suggests he think very carefully about his next words.
  Majordomo:... Actually, I may be able to rearrange some of the appointments that aren't as time-sensitive as yours.
• Boba is slightly disappointed by the above, given his avowed intention to rule with respect, not fear.
  Boba: That was a bit heavy-handed, don't you think?
  Fennec: Do you want the appointment or not?
• Then there is his rather flabbergasted response to the majordomo locking the door and sneaking out the back.

Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm

• Of all people, Boba Fett gets a Not So Stoic Adorkable moment as he sets his bantha free, baby-talking at it and telling it to go find its own kind and make "baby banthas."
• A chef droid turns out to be Multi-Armed and Dangerous, swinging six cleavers simultaneously in a style reminiscent of General Grievous. Boba is preparing to fight it with his gaffi stick... only for Fennec to pop up behind it and cut its head off.
• The rat catcher arrives, a waist-high droid with big ears and a butterfly net, and immediately tries to hide when it realizes Boba and Fennec are in the kitchen with it. Boba struggles to catch the small droid as it scrambles through every tight space in the kitchen.
  • When he finally catches it and tells it who he is, the poor little bugger practically shits its circuits and shuts itself down.
• When the Not Quite Dead sarlacc grabs hold of the Slave 1, Fennec manages to launch one of the seismic charges, letting it roll down into the pit and into the sarlacc's mouth. Boba's reaction? A deadpan "Don't touch my buttons." Fennec's face as she slowly turns to look at him absolutely sells it.
• Black Krrsantan (who absolutely despises Trandoshans, even more than the average Wookiee) sees a group winning at the tables at the Sanctuary, and gets annoyed enough to start a brawl, eventually holding one aloft in his clutches and poised to rip him apart. Garsa Fwip, not wanting any dismemberment in her cantina, smooth-talks the big guy — even calling him 'Santan — by bringing up his past as a fearsome gladiator in the fighting pits and saying that he, "still a champion", has nothing to prove with such violence... and also, if he lets him go, she'll erase his bar tab. Krrsantan considers this for a moment, then rips the lizard's arm off anyway, because he wants to.
  [The entire crowd cries "ohhhh!" in horror; Garsa groans, annoyed, while Boba looks on with bemusement. Krrsantan pays a nearby employee and leaves.]
  Boba: [Shrugging] It was worth a shot.
  [Garsa shrugs back, as if to say, "what're you gonna do?"]
  Garsa: Hit it, Max.
  [Max Rebo launches into a new number]
  • The Curb-Stomp Battle ends when the final Trandoshan smashes a bottle over Krrsantan's head from behind. The looks on both of their faces (Krrsantan seeming to be too insulted and bemused by it to even be explosively angry, and the Trandoshan having a perfect Oh, Crap! look) are hilarious.
• Boba's reaction to his rancor suddenly making its presence known to the crime families is giving it a scrap of food and saying his pet seems hungry. It's not even spoken like a death threat, just a simple man realizing that his pet wants food. And then he asks all the terrified crime families to sit back at the table like it was nothing. Carefully calculated intimidation, or just more of Boba's surprising Fluffy Tamer qualities popping out?

Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian

• Din Djarin is hunting for a Klatoonian criminal named Kaba Baiz, walking into a butcher shop full of Klatoonians. He speaks to the local Boss, who denies ever having seen his quarry. The Mandalorian sets down the bounty puck, showing that he is well aware that the Boss himself is Kaba Baiz. It's rare that Racial Face Blindness is turned around so blatantly.
• Din kills Kaba Baiz to collect his bounty, then steps out of the office to be confronted by his workers. Mando gets out of it by pointing out that there's a whole pile of credits in the office that suddenly doesn't have a rightful owner, and the workers very quickly take the offer, filing past Mando to loot the place.
• The Armorer utterly curb-stomping certified One-Man Army Din Djarin is worth a few laughs. At one point during their training session, the Armorer uses her hammer to ring Din's helmet like a bell, then quickly grabs its lid with her tongs (with the implied threat that she could remove his helmet at any moment if she so wanted). Din is left staring at her in shock for a few long seconds.
• Following the destruction of the Razor Crest, Din has been reduced to using commercial transport to travel between planets. When he tries to board a ship to Tatooine, he's stopped by a security droid that informs him he can't board with his weapons. Din tries the "part of my religion" line, but the droid insists he check them. He's forced to place all of his weapons, including the Darksaber, in a storage container for the flight.
  Din: [to the security droid] I know everything that's in there!
  • The Security Droids, it's worth noting, are RX-series droids. Good to see they're still involved in the commercial transport industry.
  • They won't let him take his weapons into the cabin of the ship, but they let him take his jetpack as a carry-on.
  • Then, after he gets off the flight, he opens up the box, finds everything there, then sighs in annoyance on realizing he's gotta spend just as much time putting it all back on.
  • It's gotta be said again that Din... has to put the Darksaber... into checked luggage.
• Peli Motto attempts to catch a Womp Rat preying on her smaller droids. It does not go well.
  Motto: It's got me! It's chewing my leg!
• Peli's personal sidearm is perfectly fitting for her character: a cobbled-together blaster rifle with a blunderbuss barrel.
• Peli's droids are not excited to see Din again. At one point, Peli reacts as if her R5 used a slur to refer to him.
• The exception is one cute little BD droid which helps Din by providing light for his work. Except that the droid's light is built into his head, and every time he gets distracted by something, the light looks away. Din's reactions invoke the feel of a father annoyed by how his child is holding a flashlight for him.
  • The introduction of the BD droid is worth mentioning as well; it cutely walks into frame, clearly looking for something, and viewers are given just enough time to realize that it's a BD droid before it gets savaged by a womp rat.
• Din tells Peli that he's returned Grogu to his own kind. Peli isn't happy to hear this.
  Peli: Why the hell would you do that? I could have made good money off that thing. Open a petting zoo.
• Peli Motto claims that she once dated a Jawa. It's not entirely clear if she's being honest or messing with Din. When she says it in front of a pair of Jawas, one of them immediately hits on her, only for her to politely turn him down.
  Peli: Oh, that's okay. I'm working on me right now. Just go get the parts. [to Mando] Furry.
  • She seems somewhat fixated on their "furriness", implying she has seen what's under those robes. Also:
    Peli: Lot of issues.
• Peli cheerfully thumps the N-1 starfighter in classic "Used Car Salesman" fashion...and a panel promptly clatters to the floor.
  • Plus the Running Gag during the Hard-Work Montage of a nest of alien critters that's taken up residence in the fighter; they only leave altogether when they fire up the engine.
• Once again, Din has a run-in with Carson Teva. Once again, he fails to bullshit his way out of trouble, and resorts to booking it. You just know he's thinking "Not this shit again." And Carson lets him go this time, just because he doesn't want to fill out any paperwork.
  • Given that Teva brings up an incident where Din's old ship was involved with an incident involving Imperial Remnant forces on Navarro (of which Din has been involved in no fewer than three), it sounds as if Din wasn't even going to be in trouble, and equally just wanted to avoid dealing with the associated paperwork.
  • Din's solution to the awkward questions? Accelerate so fast that Carson's wingman thinks he jumped to hyperspace.
    Carson: He didn't jump, kid. Those were his sublight thrusters.
• Having tested out his new ship, what does Din describe the experience of flying it as? "Wizard". Looks like they brought it back after all!
  • He flies it through Beggar's Canyon on the test run, and they still haven't fixed the barrier Anakin smashed through in The Phantom Menace!

Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger

• Cobb lays down the law on a group of Pykes doing a drug deal in the deserts of Mos Pelgo. He warrants that they probably have some kind of special arrangement in Mos Espa (note: as of the Mayor skipping town, they actually don't), and that anything goes in Mos Eisley.
• Din arrives to visit Grogu, asking R2 where Luke Skywalker is. Meanwhile, a small army of construction droids are hard at work building a temple. Din notices a few of them building something next to him, and suddenly realizes the implication that it's going to be a while.
  Din: Is that a bench?
  • When the episode cuts back to him, Din is lying flat on the bench, having been left to wait for a long time.
• Luke Skywalker and Grogu are meditating when a one-eyed frog hops by, breaking Grogu's concentration. Eventually, his stomach gets the better of him, and he levitates the frog over for a quick snack. Luke opens his eyes and just gives him a look. Not even an angry one, yet Grogu lets the frog go.
  • Luke then proceeds to use the Force to levitate all of the frogs in the vicinity. Grogu has a massive Oh, Crap! as he sees more of what he could do if he focuses on his training. His eyes get huge! And while his big smile as he takes in the spectacle of the frogs is genuinely adorable, you just know there’s some part of the little glutton’s mind thinking “all of these for me to eat!”
• Luke goes for a walk with Grogu. Given that Luke is slightly taller than Grogu, they accomplish this by having Luke walk with a normal stride and use the Force to lift and boost Grogu along every time he falls behind.
• When introducing him to the training remote, Grogu thinks it's a ball and rolls it back to Luke. You can hear a soft chuckle come out of the latter.
  Luke: No, that isn't how it works.
• As Fennec is explaining that the Mayor skipped town to avoid the Mob War, his majordomo jumps in to claim it was a scheduled vacation. She just gives him a Death Glare, and he slinks back to the wall.
  • Just that they, for some reason, decided to bring the Majordomo to the meeting, though it's just as likely because they had nobody left to keep guard over him.
• As Din travels to Mos Pelgo, he flies past a Jawa Sandcrawler adorned with a huge Krayt Dragon skull tied to its prow, implied to be the same dragon he helped kill in "The Marshal". The skull is nearly a quarter the size of the Crawler. It's unclear if they plan to sell it or if they just thought it looked cool there.
  • It gets funnier when they cut to Din and Cobb sitting at the bar, and we see they decorated the interior with the Krayt Dragon's rib cage. The ribs reach up so high you'd almost mistake them as support beams for the ceiling.
• Cobb claims that Din can get away with anything because of that smile of his. The camera cuts to Din, where it is entirely unclear, obviously, whether or not he's smiling under the helmet. Somehow, the implication that he might be makes the line even funnier.
• As part of the training, Luke urges Grogu to jump as high as he can. Grogu gives a pathetic little hop so small his robes barely clear the ground.
  Luke: [genuinely disappointed] Really? That's all you've got?
• Luke wonders, like many fans, if Yoda's style of talking was how all of his kind spoke or if it was just him (since Yaddle is shown to speak normally, it's probably either unique to Yoda or at least isn't the default syntax of his species).
• Cobb's silent reaction of utter exasperation and annoyance when Scott keeps verbally antagonizing Bane (even after Cobb has warned him to stand down and let him handle it). You can almost hear him thinking "Dude, I got this! Back off already!"
  • While still dark, the fact that Cad Bane only shoots Cobb once but then unleashes a torrent of violent shots onto Scott for apparently genuinely annoying him. Evil Is Petty at its' finest.

Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor

• An X-Wing asks for clearance to land in Peli Motto's hangar, which she assumes is a New Republic pilot on official business. She quickly orders her droids to cover up some dubiously-legal engine parts, all while loudly claiming that she'd just that second filed to register with the New Republic.
  Peli: Quite a coincidence if you ask me!
  • As Peli approaches the landed X-Wing to greet the pilot, the tarp that one of the pit droids threw over some questionable materials slides off the other side. Noticing this, the droid tries its best to act casual around the contraband.
  • As Grogu's the only one in the X-Wing's cockpit, Peli makes a show of asking if the Jedi taught him how to fly. One of her droids chirps at this, prompting Peli to explain that of course she knows R2-D2 actually flew the ship.
  • R2 tells Peli Grogu's name. Her verdict?
    Peli: That's a terrible name. Sorry about that, pal. There's no way I'm calling you that.
• Din and Bane both offhandedly inform their respective sides that Freetown changed its name. Cue two scenes where every hero and villain is deliberately going out of their way to use the new name in a sentence.
• When Boba learns that Cad Bane is acting as The Heavy for the Pykes, he scoffs that he thought he smelled something. Bane doesn’t take it lying down, either. When Boba calls Bane a remorseless killer, even though it’s a deadly serious scene, Bane still snarks “if that ain’t the qacta calling the stipling slimy.”
• After the unsuccessful "negotiation" with Cad Bane, the majordomo attempts to offer his perspective on their predicament. Boba quickly grows tired of his verbosity.
  Boba: I wonder how much he'd pay for the Twi'lek.
  Majordomo: (beat) Understood. I shouldn't have interjected.
• After a tense and emotional scene where Din refuses to leave Fett behind to certain death, the Mayor's majordomo cheerfully interjects with an alternative. After an entirely unnecessary digression about how he went to school on Coruscant ("Not that I think I'm better than you, of course"), he offers to negotiate on Fett's behalf. This is after negotiations have explicitly and repeatedly failed. Fett's body language screams You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!.
• Despite Fett's obvious exasperation, he does allow the Mayor's majordomo to deliver his terms of surrender to the Pykes that have him and Din Djarin surrounded. Fett sends him out with a data pad he's typed them out on. As he starts to read them to the Pyke Lieutenant, he realizes, to his growing dread (and the Pykes' rising anger), that Fett's "terms of surrender" basically amount to "Sod off or I'll kill you". Then Fett and Djarin jet in from the roof to do just that.
  Majordomo: "I! Boba Fett" — [he gestures behind him to where Boba is camped] — "speaking as daimyo of the Tatooine territories, formerly held by Jabba the Hutt... do present the following offer"!
  [Continues reading. His face immediately falls, and he swallows and looks back to the Sanctuary]
  Majordomo: Ah... [Breathing heavily] Perhaps we should discuss what you'd be willing to —
  Pyke Goon: Read it!
  [He nods, with a miserable expression on his face]
  Majordomo: "...Following offer: nothing."
  [He glances back and forth at the goons approaching him]
  Majordomo: Ah... "you will leave this planet"... "and your spice trade"... "if you refuse these terms," — [he clears his throat] — "the arid sands of Tatooine will once again flourish with flowered fields, fertilized with the bodies of your dead."
  [The goons look incredulously at each other; they raise their weapons]
  Majordomo: His words.
  • Immediately preceding this, he reacts with humorous good nature at the Pyke's racial slur of "tail head."
    Majordomo: [laughing, point to his lekku] Oh, because of these... haha! An enchanting sobriquet of which I never tire!
• Drash and her Mod gang are pinned down in an alleyway, and are rescued by Fennec. The ensuing exchange seems oddly... flirtatious.
  Drash: Thank you.
  Fennec: Manners! I like it. You're welcome. [rides off on her speeder bike while Drash stares and smiles]
• When Krrsantan rejoins the main group, his return is heralded by a couple of hapless, screaming Pykes as they’re tossed into the main street by the rampaging Wookie. We then see Krrsantan arrive, still being flung onto by several helpless Pykes who he quickly turns his attention to. The last Pyke gets tossed away, and then immediately shot by Krrsantan for his troubles.
• Peli turns up on a robo-rickshaw looking for Mando to show him the returned Grogu, unaware of the pursuing gun droid and apparently unconcerned by Mando's battered appearance. Or why Mos Espa is so loud.
  Din: Turn around!
  Motto: What?!
  Din: Turn around!
  (blasterfire and explosions)
  Motto: I can't hear you!
  (Scorpenek appears and opens fire, causing the Pit Droids to point in alarm)
  Motto: TURN AROUND!
• Din spends the ensuing chase clinging onto the back of the rickshaw for dear life.
• Motto gets the rickshaw droid to drive faster by hitting him with a thrown wrench.
• The rickshaw droid crashes and sends the rickshaw's contents flying through the air. While Motto is sent flailing through the air, her pit droids tuck-and-roll by collapsing into their storage mode, and Din uses his jetpack to do a flying-catch of Grogu; the little guy cries out, albeit not sounding particularly alarmed as he seems to have faith his dad will catch him.
• Grogu uses the Force to yank out a ball joint from one of the Scorpenek droids, a much bigger application of his "take the ball" game, then is sent rolling with a squeal because the part weighs almost as much as he does (once again, Grogu’s squeal doesn't sound distressed, more like he's just having fun).
• Grogu at several points stares blankly into the chaos of the battle raging around him, barely perturbed. You can almost imagine he's thinking "man, I missed this".
  • How much of Mando's son is Grogu? He has the choice between a shiny whirring stick... or chaos? He picks chaos.
• Motto takes a moment to flirt with the Majordomo, complimenting his lekku and calling him "pretty face."
• While going after the fleeing Pykes, the Rancor grabs one and pauses, before lifting him up so his master can reach. Boba shoots the guy, and the Rancor snorts before yeeting the poor sod far into the distance behind them, complete with Wilhelm Scream. The rancor later devours a Pyke who can only scream in terror as they become a nice snack for the beast - and the Pyke leader later implies that far more of his troops met their ends in the belly of the rancor than what we saw.
• When the rancor is bearing down on Peli and The Majordomo, they both scream in fear. The Majordomo's scream is an octave higher than Peli's.
• When Din is trying to deal with the Rancor, Peli tries to reassure Grogu that he'll be fine because "Your old man is crafty!" Cue the Rancor trying to bite Din's head off, and if not for the beskar helmet, it might have succeeded.
  Peli: Oooh, spoke too soon.
• Motto dodges the rancor again, then looks down to assure Grogu she's fine... only to realize her arm is empty.
  Motto: Where'd he go!?
• Boba complaining that everyone is forcing him to be polite using his bad arm, since his bacta tank is occupied. Fennec simply says that's the price of being in charge, with the only alternative being that they'll shoot at him instead.
• Boba tosses a melioorun to Krrsantan. Skad jokingly complains about only the Wookie getting a reward, so Fennec asks if he wants to share. Krrsantan just angrily roars, leading to laughs all around.
• The final scene before the credits sees Din flying away from Tatooine with Grogu in the repurposed droid-port of his N1. Grogu starts tapping on the dome to get Din's attention, and taps harder when Din replies with a series of terse "No"s. Din eventually gives in and fires up the super-fast sublight acceleration, but warns Grogu it's the last time he's going to do it as Grogu raises his hands in joy. He's already back to being a tired dad whose kid is bothering him on a long trip.
• The concept still of the berserk Rancor climbing the tower has him holding a Twi'lek slave girl in one claw like it's King Kong.
• An alternative title for this episode: Space Dad and Space Aunt cause havoc... also featuring: Havoc Causing Space Child.

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