A Young Hope

"A Young Hope" is the 2nd episode in the sixth season of the Cartoon Network American animated series Clarence. The episode premieres September 27, 2021, a day after the preceded episode "The Restraining Order". This episode is a parody retelling of the first film of the Star Wars trilogy, Episode IV: A New Hope.

Plot
On a rainy day, the Wendles, Jeff, Sumo and Amy scroll through several television stations, but are not interesting to watch. Clarence and Chad retell the stories of the "Intergalactic War" trilogy, starting off with Chapter 4.

A Rebellion ship gets boarded by Enemy troopers from an Imperial Destroyer, led by Darth Taser (Belson). On the Rebel ship are droids E3-XPO (Jeff), L2-R2 (Clarence) and Rebellion leader Princess Lena (Mary). Lena sends a message to Oke-Doke Eachokey through L2, which is interrupted by the troopers who capture her, leading L2 to flee with E3 in an escape pod. The robots have landed on a desert planet called Azizon, which led to being kidnapped by Dinkies who sell them to a farmboy Clark Earthjumper (Sumo) that wishes to join the Rebellion fleet for fame. Clark discovers Lena's message inside L2, causing him to leave the farm, bringing the robots with him. Looking for an allotted amount of time, he decides to give up, until being found by Oke-Doke Eachokey (Seymour), who takes them to his hut. Her message explains that L2 is containing plans to the Death Station, which must be sent to her father on her home planet of Aberon. Oke-Doke gives him his own lightsword and promises him to train him on the way there. He almost accepts the offer realizing his aunt and uncle expect him home for the harvest, Clark returns home, which he finds unfortunately has been devastated with his aunt and uncle killed in the process.

The four travel to Cackleton's cantina where they hire rouge smuggler Palm Alone (Chad) and his Furrie companion Chihuahua (Chimney), who agree to take them with their ship, the Century Hawk. The group spots troopers heading their way, forcing them to flee into space, on their way to Aberon. Arriving thee, they find it blown up by Dark Taser, followed by getting caught by the Death Station's tractor beam and into the hangar bay. Tricking some troopers into the ship, Palm and Clark disguise themselves to rescue the princess, with Chihuahua brought along. After freeing her, along with exiting though a trash compacter in the process, they head back to the ship. Oke-Doke turns off the tractor beam and starts to head back as well to join the others, until being struck down by Taser before he could, forcing the others to go on without him.

The Hawk arrives to the Rebel base on a hidden planet, where they analyze the plans and find a weak spot. Clark, joined with the Rebel troopers, leads an attack the Death Station, but unfortunately loose some men on their assault. Oke-Doke's voice tells Clark to use the Force to hit the port. Suddenly, Taser shows up to fire at Clark, but Palm arrives at the last minute and sends his ship drifting off into space. With guiding by the Force, Clark fires into the port, destroying the Station, and they return to base to celebrate their victory.

After Chad wraps up the story, everyone is amazed of the story, followed by Sumo turning the TV back on to find out that the wrestling match is on.

Development
Showrunner Xavier Mosley had the concept of having Clarence parody the original Star Wars trilogy. He was inspired by Family Guy 's take on the trilogy, and wanted to do the same with Clarence.

There was originally supposed to be a three-episode series with the following episodes retelling The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, with following episodes as "Taser Strikes Back" and "Return of Earthjumper", respectively. Unfortunately, the idea was abandoned and only one episode was made.