Bombad Jedi " Bombad Jedi " is the eighth episode of of the television series " " . It is the eighth episode of the series overall . Official description . " In this episode , Padmé Amidala is sent by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine on a secret mission to Rodia to negotiate peace . On her way , she meets up with Onaconda Farr , Padmé ' s friend , whom she affectionately refers to as Uncle Ono . However , Padmé doesn ' t realize that Farr has joined sides with Nute Gunray . Gunray promised Onaconda Farr that if he joins sides with Gunray , Gunray will supply Farr with food and shelter for the people of Rodia . Meanwhile , Jar Jar Binks and C - 3PO try to plan a way to save Padmé from Nute Gunray . Jar Jar disguises himself as a Jedi and tries to save Padmé . With a little help of a sea monster , Padmé is rescued and Nute Gunray is captured . " Plot summary . Padmé Amidala travels to Rodia in an attempt to persuade Senator Onaconda Farr , whom she fondly addresses as Uncle Ono since when he had helped out her father , to keep his allegiance to the Galactic Republic . She brings along C - 3PO and Jar Jar Binks , despite Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ' s advice to rather take along a bodyguard force . But upon arrival , she learns that Onaconda has already pledged allegiance to the Separatists and Viceroy Nute 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 Skywalker ) , but droids spot them and everyone presumes he ' s a Jedi . Jar Jar manages to escape 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 using a key from her boot , roundhouse kicks the droid , steals its blaster and escapes . Padmé rescues Threepio but is dismayed to learn that Jar Jar is the presumed Jedi . She tells Threepio to find a communication station to call for help . Meanwhile , Gunray has arrived in his shuttle 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 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 detonator s and fire a rocket at him . While swimming away , he runs into the " boogie monster " he met previously , which swallows 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 droideka s line up to execute Padmé and Threepio when Jar Jar and the boogie monster burst up from the swamp . In the ensuring chaos , Gunray tries to get away , but his shuttle is pushed into the swamp by the monster 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 his assistance . 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 . 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 the only episode of season 1 to have Ahmed Best , the original voice of Jar Jar , in the said role , as BJ Hughes voices Jar Jar in " The Gungan General , " " Blue Shadow Virus " and " Mystery of a Thousand Moons . " However , Ahmed reprises his role again in the season 3 episode " Supply Lines " and for the season 4 episodes " Gungan Attack , " " Prisoners " and " Shadow Warrior . " 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 . Also , when he emerges from the water , he puts it on quickly and easily . According to story editor , Henry Gilroy , the part where Jar Jar appears to vanish leaving the Droids to find nothing but a the Jedi robes is a homage to the scene in A New Hope where Darth Vader slays Obi - Wan . Nute Gunray ' s arrival bears a heavy resemblance to Darth Vader ' s visit to the Death Star II in . Both shuttles are escorted by two fighters that break off as the shuttle enters a hangar . Both Vader and Gunray emerge from the shuttles to meet a subordinate and an array of grunts . The Kwazel Maw design is based on an unused Ralph McQuarrie design for a swamp slug creature on Dagobah .