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.
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/He’s a menace (in the most affectionate way possible 🥹) #Grogu
— sophie 🐝 |ᶠᵃⁿ ᵃᶜᶜᵒᵘⁿᵗ (@dreamer_sofie) April 12, 2023
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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grogu in the ig-12 suit annoying din the whole time pic.twitter.com/vz50AtvRUO— kami (@bokatvn) April 12, 2023
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“no.” “what do you mean no?” grogu annoying din with ig-12 is my new favorite thing pic.twitter.com/1mEcF1LFxs— v (@chrrywitch) April 12, 2023
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grogu in his ig-12 unit when din tells him to stop eating pic.twitter.com/bAVS18Fb7B— amy ★ (@astraldjarin) April 12, 2023
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–din seeing grogu operate the ig-12 suit pic.twitter.com/n1Yf4IQQJV
— julia MANDO SPOILERS (@djarinwidow) April 12, 2023
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grogu pressing the “yes” and “no” buttons in IG-12 pic.twitter.com/VtxgAFZWLJ
— lyss (@pascalsdimple) April 12, 2023
Grogu in IG-12 is the hardest I’ve laughed all year
— Ghost Mutt (@TyeTyeee) April 13, 2023
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din when grogu started operating ig-12
pic.twitter.com/CMVxVBFL5z— laura (@sharpcbjects) April 12, 2023
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this whole scene was GOLD😭💀i’ve missed din’s fired sighs and him being done with everyone and everything😭we’ve had so little of din & grogu this series it’s so nice to get these kinda scenes again pic.twitter.com/xdP9DLzo4Y— kit/katie | misses tlou :( (@leia_romanova) April 12, 2023
OMG THIS DUO I CAN'T 🥹, BAD BABY IS BACK#TheMandalorian #Grogu pic.twitter.com/v1SPDQN099
— sanmeyo (@sandeep_sanmeyo) April 12, 2023
I've been grumpily yelling "'Yes'…what?!" And "'No?' what do you mean 'no?!'" like Din Djarin did at Grogu all day. Tired Dad Mando is my favorite version of him #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/tgVVqWrSz0
— Kim Horcher (@kimscorcher) April 13, 2023
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Loved seeing tired dad Din Djarin once again pic.twitter.com/mL9i2J1jFw— rey🎆 (@winter__captain) April 12, 2023
Din Djarin always the DAD. 😂#Mandalorian #Grogu pic.twitter.com/q51UJTKeAN
— MIDDLE AGED BLACK WOMAN 🏳️🌈**LISA "L"** (@JohnverrellL) April 12, 2023