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Caroline Darney

Grogu getting a new ride in The Mandalorian made Din Djarin even more of a stressed-out dad

Din Djarin

Grogu, more affectionately known as Baby Yoda, has captured the hearts of  The Mandalorian fans — and the Mandalorian himself — since his cute face popped up in November of 2019. Well, we’re now in the third season of the streaming Disney+ series, and 22 chapters later, he’s still the absolute best.

Our favorite Mandalorian, Din Djarin (the incomparable Pedro Pascal), has morphed into an exhausted dad as he tries to keep Grogu from stealing fruit from markets, eating a frog-woman’s eggs or squeezing the very cute Anzellans repairing his favorite droid.

In the series’ latest episode, Chapter 23, Din Djarin and Grogu are reunited with their former droid pal, IG-11. Well, kind of.

If you remember, IG-11 was the bounty hunter droid that Mando stopped from killing Grogu in Chapter 1. It later was re-purposed by Kuiil to be a nanny droid whose mission was to protect our sweet green baby.

After IG-11 (voiced by Taika Waititi) sacrificed itself so the group could survive at the end of Season 1, Din Djarin made it his mission to once again bring it back to life.

Without the proper circuitry, however, IG-11 defaulted to the old murderbot settings. Not ideal. Enter the Anzellans, who came up with a pretty great fix: Let Grogu control the now-dubbed IG-12. What could go wrong?!

“Grogu is too young to operate heavy machinery.”

Immediately, our guy Mando knows this is a disaster in the making. Grogu, with a newfound voice, disagrees. It’s peak comedy and also the cutest thing we’ve ever seen.

Although things got much, much tenser later in the episode, everyone loved the entire sequence from seeing the Anzellans again (Bad baby! No squeezies!) to Grogu mashing that YES button all through the market.

 

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