Narrative Interlude

 

NARRATOR:  The wise Sir Lobot was the first to join Mace Windu's Jedi Knights, but other illustrious names were soon to follow: Sir Bib Fortuna the Brave,

    Sir Jar Jar Binks the Pure, and Sir Boba the-not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Bib Fortuna, who had nearly fought the Rancor of Dathomir, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Space Slug of Annoat, and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Endor, and the aptly named Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film.

    Together they formed a band whose names and deeds were to be retold throughout the centuries: the Knights of the Jedi Temple.

 

Scene 6

 

    [clop clop clop]

SIR LOBOT:  And that, my liege, is how we know Corscant to be banana-shaped.

MACE:  This new learning amazes me, Sir Lobot.  Explain again how Tauntaun’s bladders may be employed to prevent quakes.

LOBOT:  Oh, certainly, sir.

SIR BIB FORTUNA:  Look, my liege!

    [trumpets]

MACE:  Coruscant!

SIR JAR JAR BINKS:  Coruscant!

BIB FORTUNA:  Coruscant!

YODA:  It's only a CGI model.

MACE:  Shh!  Knights, I bid you welcome to your new home.  Let us ride... to... Coruscant!

    [in medieval hall]

KNIGHTS:  [singing]

    We're Knights of the Jedi Temple.

    We dance whene'er we're able.

    We do routines and chorus scenes

    With footwork impeccable.

    We dine well here in Coruscant.

    We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

 

    [dancing]

    We're Knights of the Jedi Temple.

    Our shows are formidable,

    But many times we're given rhymes

    That are quite unsingable.

    We're opera mad in Coruscant.

    We sing from the diaphragm a lot.

 

    [in dungeon]

PRISONER:  [clap clap clap clap]

    [in medieval hall]

KNIGHTS:  [tap-dancing]

    In war we're tough and able,

    Quite indefatigable.

    Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.

    It's a busy life in Coruscant.

MAN:  I have to push the pram a lot.

 

    [outdoors]

MACE:  Well, on second thought, let's not go to Coruscant.  It is a silly place.

KNIGHTS:  Right.  Right.

 

Scene 7

 

    [clop clop clop]

    [boom boom]

    [angels sing]

OBI WAN KENOBI:  Mace!  Mace, Jedi Knight of the Republic!  Oh, don't grovel!

    [singing stops]

    One thing I can't stand, it's people groveling.

MACE:  Sorry.

    [boom]

OBI WAN KENOBI:  And don't apologize.  Every time I try to talk to someone it's 'sorry this' and 'forgive me that' and 'I'm not worthy'.

    [boom]

    What are you doing now?!

MACE:  I'm averting my eyes, O master.

OBI WAN KENOBI:  Well, don't.  It's like those miserable Prophesies-- they're so depressing.  Now, knock it off!

MACE:  Yes, master.

OBI WAN KENOBI:  Right!  Mace, Jedi Knight of the Republic, your Knights of the Jedi Temple shall have a task to make them an example in these dark times.

MACE:  Good idea, O master!

OBI WAN KENOBI:  'Course it's a good idea!  Behold!

    [angels sing]

    Mace, this is the Holy Holocron.  Look well, Mace, for it is your sacred task to seek this Holocron.  That is your purpose, Mace: the quest for the Holy Holocron.

    [boom]

    [singing stops]

BIB FORTUNA:  A blessing!  A blessing from our master!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Obi Wan Kenobi be praised!

 

Scene 8

 

    [Mace Windu music]

    [clop clop clop]

MACE:  Halt!

    [horn]

    Hallo!

    [pause]

    Hallo!

BESPIN GUARD:  Allo!  Who is eet?

MACE:  It is Mace Windu, and these are my Knights of the Jedi Temple.  Who's fortress is this?

BESPIN GUARD:  This is the fortress of my master, Jabba the Hutt.

MACE:  Go and tell your master that we have been charged by Obi Wan Kenobi with a sacred quest.  If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Holocron.

BESPIN GUARD:  Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen.  Uh, he's already got one, you see.

MACE:  What?

JAR JAR BINKS:  He says they've already got one!

MACE:  Are you sure he's got one?

BESPIN GUARD:  Oh, yes.  It's very nice-a.  (I told him we already got one.)

BESPIN GUARDS:  [chuckling]

MACE:  Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?

BESPIN GUARD:  Of course not!  You are Republic types-a!

MACE:  Well, what are you, then?

BESPIN GUARD:  I'm Bespin!  Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly Jedi Knight-a?!

JAR JAR BINKS:  What are you doing on Coruscant?

BESPIN GUARD:  Mind your own business!

MACE:  If you will not show us the Holocron, we shall take your fortress by force!

BESPIN GUARD:  You don't frighten us, Republic pig-dogs!  Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person.  I blow my nose at you, so-called Mace Jedi Knight, you and all your silly Republic k-nnnnniggets.  Thpppppt!  Thppt!  Thppt!

JAR JAR BINKS:  What a strange person.

MACE:  Now look here, my good man--

BESPIN GUARD:  I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper!  I fart in your general direction!  Your mother was a Rodian and your Boss Nass smelt of elderberries!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Is there someone else up there we could talk to?

BESPIN GUARD:  No.  Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

    [sniff]

MACE:  Now, this is your last chance.  I've been more than reasonable.

BESPIN GUARD:  (Fetchez la vache.)

OTHER BESPIN GUARD:  Quoi?

BESPIN GUARD:  (Fetchez la vache!)

    [mooo]

MACE:  If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall--

    [twong]

    [mooooooo]

    Mon Mothma!

KNIGHTS:  Mothma!

    [thud]

    Ah!  Ohh!...

MACE:  Right!  Charge!

KNIGHTS:  Charge!

    [mayhem]

BESPIN GUARD:  Hey, this one is for your mother!  There you go.

    [mayhem]

BESPIN GUARD:  And this one's for your dad!

MACE:  Run away!

KNIGHTS:  Run away!

BESPIN GUARD:  Thppppt!

BESPIN GUARDS:  [taunting]

BIB FORTUNA:  Fiends!  I'll tear them apart!

MACE:  No, no.  No, no.

LOBOT:  Sir!  I have a plan, sir.

 

    [later]

 

    [wind]

    [saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw saw]

    [clunk]

    [bang]

    [rewr!]

    [squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak]

    [rrrr rrrr rrrr]

    [drilllll]

    [sawwwww]

    [clunk]

    [crash]

    [clang]

    [squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak...]

    [creak]

BESPIN GUARDS:  [whispering]  C'est un lapin, lapin de bois.  Quoi?  Un cadeau.  What?  A present.  Oh, un cadeau.  Oui, oui.  Hurry.  What?

    Let's go.  Oh.  On y va.  Bon magne.  Over here...

    [squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak...]

    [clllank]

MACE:  What happens now?

LOBOT:  Well, now, uh, Bib Fortuna, Jar Jar Binks, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the Bespin Guards, uh, by surprise.  Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!

MACE:  Who leaps out?

LOBOT:  U-- u-- uh, Bib Fortuna, Jar Jar Binks, and I, uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and uh...

MACE:  Ohh.

LOBOT:  Oh.  Um, l-- look, i-- i-- if we built this large wooden Eopie--

    [clank]

    [twong]

MACE:  Run away!

KNIGHTS:  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!

    [CRASH]

BESPIN GUARDS:  Oh, haw haw haw haw!  Haw!  Haw haw heh...

 

Scene 9

 

    [clack]

VOICE:  Picture for Schools, take eight.

GEORGE LUCAS:  Action!

RICK MACULLUM:  Defeat at the fortress seems to have utterly disheartened Mace Windu.  The ferocity of the Bespin taunting took him completely by surprise,  and Mace became convinced that a new strategy was required if the quest for the Holy Holocron were to be brought to a successful conclusion.  Mace,  having consulted his closest knights, decided that they should separate and search for the Holocron individually.

    [clop clop clop]

    Now, this is what they did:  Bib Fortuna--

KNIGHT:  Aaaah!

    [slash]

    [KNIGHT kills RICK MACULLUM]

RICK MACULLUMS WIFE:  Rick!

 

Scene 10

 

    [trumpets]

NARRATOR:  The Tale of Sir Boba.  So, each of the knights went their separate ways.  Sir Boba rode north, through the dark forest of Endor,  accompanied by his favourite Sy Snootless.

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  Bravely bold Sir Boba rode forth from Coruscant.

    He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Boba.

    He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,

    Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Boba!

 

    He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,

    Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken,

    To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away

    And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Boba!

    His head smashed in and his heart cut out

    And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged

    And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off

    And his pen--

SIR BOBA:  That's-- that's, uh-- that's enough music for now, lads.  Heh.  Looks like there's dirty work afoot.

LANDO:  Anarcho-syndicalism is a way of preserving freedom.

WOMAN:  Oh, Lando, forget about freedom.  We haven't got enough mud.

FODE AND BEDE AND WATTO:  Halt!  Who art thou?

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  He is brave Sir Boba, brave Sir Boba, who--

BOBA:  Shut up!  Um, n-- n-- n-- nobody, really.  I'm j-- j-- j-- ju-- just, um-- just passing through.

FODE AND BEDE AND WATTO:  What do you want?

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  To fight and--

BOBA:  Shut up!  Um, oo, a-- nothing.  Nothing, really.  I, uh-- j-- j-- just-- just to, um-- just to p-- pass through, good Sir Knight.

FODE AND BEDE AND WATTO:  I'm afraid not!

BOBA:  Ah.  W-- well, actually I-- I am a Knight of the Jedi Temple.

FODE AND BEDE AND WATTO:  You're a Knight of the Jedi Temple?

BOBA:  I am.

FODE :  In that case, I shall have to kill you.

WATTO:  Shall I?

BEDE :  Oh, I don't think so.

WATTO:  Well, what do I think?

FODE :  I think kill him.

BEDE :  Oh, let's be nice to him.

FODE :  Oh, shut up.

BOBA:  Perhaps I could--

FODE :  And you.  Oh, quick!  Get the sword out.  I want to cut his head off!

BEDE :  Oh, cut your own head off!

WATTO:  Yes, do us all a favour!

FODE :  What?

BEDE :  Yapping on all the time.

WATTO:  You're lucky.  You're not next to him.

FODE :  What do you mean?

WATTO:  You snore!

FODE :  Oh, I don't.  Anyway, you've got bad breath.

WATTO:  Well, it's only because you don't brush my teeth.

BEDE :  Oh, stop bitching and let's go have tea.

FODE :  Oh, all right.  All right.  All right.  We'll kill him first and then have Flameout and Cockons .

WATTO:  Yes.

BEDE :  Oh, not Cockons.

FODE :  All right.  All right, not Cockons, but let's kill him anyway.

FODE AND BEDE AND WATTO:  Right!

WATTO:  He buggered off.

BEDE :  So he has.  He's scarpered.

 

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  Brave Sir Boba ran away,

BOBA:  No!

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  Bravely ran away, away.

BOBA:  I didn't!

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

BOBA:  No!

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  Yes, brave Sir Boba turned about

BOBA:  I didn't!

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  And gallantly, he wompened out.  Bravely taking to his feet,

BOBA:  I never did!

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  He beat a very brave retreat,

BOBA:  All lies!

SY SNOOTLES:  [singing]  Bravest of the brave, Sir Boba.

BOBA:  I never!

 

Cartoon

 

CARTOON PADAWANS:  [chanting]  Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.

CARTOON CHARACTER:  Heh heh heeh ooh...

    [twang]

CARTOON PADAWANS:  [chanting]  Pie Iesu domine,...

CARTOON CHARACTERS:  Wayy!

    [splash]

    Ho ho.  Woa, wayy!

    [twang]

    [splash]

    Heh heh heh heh ho!  Heh heh heh!

CARTOON PADAWANS:  [chanting]  ...dona eis requiem.

CARTOON CHARACTER:  Wayy!

    [twang]

    Wayy!

    [twang]

VOICE:  [whispering]  Forgive me, for I have sinned.

CARTOON CHARACTER:  Oh!  Oooo.

 

Scene 11

 

    [trumpets]

NARRATOR:  The Tale of Sir Jar Jar Binks.

    [boom]

    [wind]

    [howl]

    [howl]

    [boom]

    [angels singing]

    [howl]

    [boom]

    [howl]

    [boom]

    [pound pound pound]

JAR JAR BINKS:  Open the door!  Open the door!

    [pound pound pound]

    In the name of Mace Windu, open the door!

    [creak]

    [thump]

    [creak]

    [boom]

GIRLS:  Hello!

SALACIOUS:  Welcome, gentle Jedi Knight.  Welcome to the Fortress Carbonite.

JAR JAR BINKS:  The Fortress Carbonite?

SALACIOUS:  Yes.  Oh, it's not a very good name, is it?  Oh, but we are nice and we will attend to your every, every need!

JAR JAR BINKS:  You are the keepers of the Holy Holocron?

SALACIOUS:  The what?

JAR JAR BINKS:  The Holocron.  It is here.

SALACIOUS:  Oh, but you are tired and you must rest awhile.  Ugnaught!  Ewok!

UGNAUGHT and EWOK:  Yes, O Salacious?

SALACIOUS:  Prepare a bed for our guest.

UGNAUGHT and EWOK:  Oh, thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!...

SALACIOUS:  Away!  Away, varletesses.  The beds here are warm and soft and very, very big.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Well, look, I-- I, uh--

SALACIOUS:  What is your name, handsome knight?

JAR JAR BINKS:  'Sir Jar Jar Binks... the Chaste'.

SALACIOUS:  Mine is 'Salacious'.  Just 'Salacious'.  Oh, but come.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Look, please!  In Obi Wan Kenobi's name, show me the Holocron!

SALACIOUS:  Oh, you have suffered much.  You are delirious.

JAR JAR BINKS:  No, look.  I have seen it!  It is here in this--

SALACIOUS:  Sir Jar Jar Binks!  You would not be so ungallant as to refuse our hospitality.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Well, I-- I, uh--

SALACIOUS:  Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours.  We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in this fortress with no one to protect us.  Oooh.  It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, making exciting underwear.  We are just not used to handsome knights.  Nay.  Nay.  Come.  Come.  You may lie here.  Oh, but you are wounded!

JAR JAR BINKS:  No, no.  It's-- it's nothing.

SALACIOUS:  Oh, you must see the doctors immediately!  No, no, please!  Lie down.

    [clap clap]

BOSSK:  Well, what seems to be the trouble?

JAR JAR BINKS:  They're doctors?!

SALACIOUS:  Uh, they... have a basic medical training, yes.

JAR JAR BINKS:  B-- but--

SALACIOUS:  Oh, come.  Come.  You must try to rest.  Doctor Bossk!  Doctor Dengar!  Practise your art.

DENGAR:  Try to relax.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Are you sure that's absolutely necessary?

BOSSK:  We must examine you.

JAR JAR BINKS:  There's nothing wrong with that!

BOSSK:  Please.  We are doctors.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Look!  This cannot be.  I am sworn to chastity.

BOSSK:  Back to your bed!  At once!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Torment me no longer.  I have seen the Holocron!

BOSSK:  There's no Holocron here.

JAR JAR BINKS:  I have seen it!  I have seen it!

    [clank]

    I have seen--

GIRLS:  Hello.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Oh.

GIRLS:  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.

    Hello.  Hello.  Hello.  Hello.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Salacious!

CRUMB:  No, I am Salacious's identical twin sister, Crumb.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Oh, well, excuse me, I--

CRUMB:  Where are you going?

JAR JAR BINKS:  I seek the Holocron!  I have seen it, here in this fortress!

CRUMB:  Oh, no.  Oh, no!  Bad, bad Salacious!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Well, what is it?

CRUMB:  Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Salacious!  She has been setting alight to our homing beacon, which, I have just remembered, is Holocron-shaped.  It's not the first time we've had this problem.

JAR JAR BINKS:  It's not the real Holocron?

CRUMB:  Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Salacious!  She is a bad person and must pay the penalty!  Do you think this scene should have been cut?  We were so worried when the boys were writing it, but now, we're glad.  It's better than some of the previous scenes, I think.

FODE :  At least ours was better visually.

LANDO:  Well, at least ours was committed.  It wasn't just a string of pussy jokes.

OLD MAN:  Get on with it.

4-LOM THE ENCHANTER:  Yes, get on with it!

ARMY OF JEDI KNIGHTS:  Yes, get on with it!

CRUMB:  Oh, I am enjoying this scene.

OBI WAN KENOBI:  Get on with it!

CRUMB:  [sigh]

    [clunk]

    Oh, wicked, wicked Salacious.  Oh, she is a naughty person and she must pay the penalty, and here in Fortress Carbonite, we have but one punishment for setting alight the Holocron-shaped beacon: you must tie her down on a bed and spank her.

GIRLS:  A spanking!  A spanking!

CRUMB:  You must spank her well, and after you have spanked her, you may deal with her as you like, and then, spank me.

1G-88:  And spank me.

AURRA SING:  And me.

ZUCKUSS:  And me.

CRUMB:  Yes.  Yes, you must give us all a good spanking!

GIRLS:  A spanking!  A spanking!  There is going to be a  spanking tonight!

CRUMB:  And after the spanking, the oral sex.

GIRLS:  The oral sex!  The oral sex!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Well, I could stay a bit longer.

BIB FORTUNA:  Sir Jar Jar Binks!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Oh, hello.

BIB FORTUNA:  Quick!

JAR JAR BINKS:  What?

BIB FORTUNA:  Quick!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Why?

BIB FORTUNA:  You are in great peril!

CRUMB:  No, he isn't.

BIB FORTUNA:  Silence, foul temptress!

JAR JAR BINKS:  You know, she's got a point.

BIB FORTUNA:  Come on!  We will cover your escape!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Look, I'm fine!

BIB FORTUNA:  Come on!

GIRLS:  Sir Jar Jar Binks!

JAR JAR BINKS:  No.  Look, I can tackle this lot single-handed!

CRUMB:  Yes!  Let him tackle us single-handed!

GIRLS:  Yes!  Let him tackle us single-handed!

BIB FORTUNA:  No, Sir Jar Jar Binks.  Come on!

JAR JAR BINKS:  No!  Really!  Honestly, I can cope.  I can handle this lot easily.

CRUMB:  Oh, yes.  Let him handle us easily.

GIRLS:  Yes.  Let him handle us easily.

BIB FORTUNA:  No.  Quick!  Quick!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Please!  I can defeat them!  There's only a hundred-and-fifty of them!

CRUMB:  Yes!  Yes, he will beat us easily!  We haven't a chance.

GIRLS:  We haven't a chance.  He will beat us easily...

    [boom]

CRUMB:  Oh, shit.

 

BIB FORTUNA:  We were in the nick of time.  You were in great peril.

JAR JAR BINKS:  I don't think I was.

BIB FORTUNA:  Yes, you were.  You were in terrible peril.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.

BIB FORTUNA:  No, it's too perilous.

JAR JAR BINKS:  Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.

BIB FORTUNA:  No, we've got to find the Holy Holocron.  Come on!

JAR JAR BINKS:  Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?

BIB FORTUNA:  No.  It's unhealthy.

JAR JAR BINKS:  I bet you're gay.

BIB FORTUNA:  No, I'm not.

 

Narrative Interlude

 

NARRATOR:  Sir Bib Fortuna had saved Sir Jar Jar Binks from almost certain temptation, but they were still no nearer the Holocron.  Meanwhile, Mace Windu and Sir Lobot, not more than a Peko Peko's flight away, had discovered something.  Oh, that's an unladen Peko Peko's flight, obviously.  I mean, they were more than two laden Peko Pekos' flights away-- four, really, if they had a coconut on a line between them.  I mean, if the birds were walking and dragging--

CROWD:  Get on with it!

NARRATOR:  Oh, anyway.  On to scene twenty-four, which is a smashing scene with some lovely acting, in which Mace discovers a vital clue, and in which there aren't any Peko Pekos, although I think you can hear a Mantigrue-- oooh!