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 Doodnik Sharpelz
Biographical information
Homeworld
Ojom[1]
Physical description
Species
Jillsarian[2]
Gender
Male[3]
Eye color
Black (pupils)[4]
Skin color
Orange[5]
Chronological and political information
Affiliation(s)
Doodnik's Café[4]
[Source]

"I've seen many different ways of making a photon fizzle, but no one did it better
than Doodnik."
―Dexter Jettster[src]
Doodnik Sharpelz was a male Jillsarian who worked as a bartenderand chef on
the planet Tyne's Horky. Originally from the planet Ojom, he left
his homeworld before 19 BBY and found bartending work on Tyne's Horky
alongside his old friend Dexter Jettster. By 15 BBY, he had opened Doodnik's
Café in the world's eponymous mining town, where he worked in the kitchen and
entertained such customers as the local crime lord Kleb Zellock. In that year,
Sharpelz hired the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to work for him as waiters, but the
incompetence of the duo prompted a furious Sharpelz to fire them both on their
first day.

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Biography Edit
"Out, out, out! And don't come back!"
―Doodnik Sharpelz, after firing C-3PO and R2-D2[src]

Doodnik angrily reacts to C-3PO's hijinks.

Doodnik Sharpelz was a maleJillsarian who was raised by adoptive natives on
the planet Ojom.[2] He was friends with the Besalisk Dexter Jettster, and,[1] before
the year 19 BBY,[6] the two of them left their homeworld and found employment
as bartenders on Tyne's Horky,[1] a mining world located on the galactic frontier.
[7]  Working together, Sharpelz and Jettster prepared such drinks as photon
fizzles, giva jumbos, and circuit cider.[1]
By 15 BBY,[8] Sharpelz had made a deal with the Dirconite mercenary Kleb
Zellock and become part-owner of a restaurant[2] and tapcafe[5] in a lawless
mining town also called Tyne's Horky.[3] Although the Jillsarian was the
proprietor[5] of Doodnik's Café, Zellock, as the leader of the planet's criminal
underworld, used the establishment as his base of operations.[9] Sharpelz worked as
a chef in the kitchen, and in 15 BBY, he hired two waitersthrough the Intergalactic
Droid Agency: the protocol droid C-3PO and the astromech droid R2-D2.[4]

When the droids arrived at the eatery one morning, Sharpelz immediately put them
to work.[3] He grew frustrated when the two had trouble remembering orders,
repeatedly tripped over each other,[4] and proved to be the worst waiters that the
locals had ever seen.[10] Late in the day,[3] C-3PO spilled some powder on Sharpelz's
face, and the chef angrily sent him to serve Zellock. When the crime
lord's henchman Yorpo Mog tripped over R2-D2 and landed in Zellock's food,
Mog threw the astromech across the café. R2-D2 crashed into both C-3PO and
Sharpelz, and the chef responded by immediately firing his new waiters, tossing
them out into the street, and telling them never to return.[4]

Personality and traits Edit

"Go and look after Mr. Kleb. He owns a piece of everything in town, including this
place. Give him any trouble and I'll melt you down into spittoons!"
―Doodnik, to C-3PO[src]
Doodnik Sharpelz was a gruff and greasy chef with orange skin,[5] black pupils,
[4]  and four brawny arms.[5] He employed all of his upper limbs while preparing
food, during which he was able to perform four different tasks simultaneously.
[4]  Hardened by fringe life,[2] Sharpelz was intolerant of incompetence in his kitchen
and was quick to anger. He threatened to melt C-3PO shortly before furiously
firing both the protocol droid and his astromech companion. Sharpelz took care to
provide good service to Kleb Zellock, who owned a stake in the café, but he did
not take care to keep the establishment clean.[4]
Sharpelz came to Tyne's Horky full of gastronomic dreams.[2] A skilled bartender,
he mixed a photon fizzle that Dexter Jettster believed was unrivaled.
Circuit cider was another of his signature drinks. Sharpelz always served giva
jumbos in bowls, although Jettster could not figure out why. All in all, Jettster
thought his comrade a fine fellow.[1]

Behind the scenes Edit

"Because of their obvious similarities, I wanted to imply some kind of connection
between Dexter and Doodnik when I was writing this piece. At one point, I think I
might have even considered making them brothers, but in the end I decided to leave
things more vague."
―Gregory Walker, on the development of Dining at Dex's[src]
The character of Doodnik first appeared in "The Lost Prince," the fifth episode of
the Star Wars: Droids animated television series. Written by Peter Sauder and
directed by Raymond Jafelice,[4] the episode first aired on October 5, 1985.
 Doodnik is also in The Lost Prince: A Droid Adventure, a children's book
[11]

adaptation of the episode,[3]and brief mentions of the character have been made in
several other Star Wars publications throughout the years.[5][9][10]

Dexter Jettster: Not quite Doodnik Sharpelz's brother

Author Tim Veekhoven has surmised that Doodnik and his café influenced the
designs of Dexter Jettster and his diner, which were seen in the 2002 film Star
Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.[12] The short story Dining at Dex's, written
by Gregory Walker and published online
through StarWars.com's Hyperspace feature in 2009, describes Doodnik as an old
friend of Jettster. Walker tied the two characters together due to what he believed
were obvious similarities between them, and he originally considered making them
brothers, thereby establishing Doodnik's species as Besalisk. He ultimately left
their relationship vague and did not reveal Doodnik's species,[13] although he did
name the character's home planet as the Besalisk homeworld of Ojom.[1]Despite
striking visual differences between Doodnik and the Besalisks, Walker yet believed
that Doodnik could plausibly have been a member of that species.[13]

Doodnik was finally established as being a member of the Jillsarian species in

the 2013 article The Droids Re-Animated, written by Abel G. Peña and Rich
Handley for the StarWars.com blog. The article also provided the character with a
last name: Sharpelz.[2] Peña and Handley had wanted to make the
Jillsarian retcon for years, but with the release of Dining at Dex's, Peña was
concerned that it would be difficult to disassociate Doodnik from the heavy
implication that he was a Besalisk. As the Besalisk connection had not been
airtight, however, he ultimately went with what he has described as a "near-
flawless" connection and a "perfect" retcon. Peña also praised Walker's work and
asserted that he would have made Doodnik a Besalisk if he had not known about
Jillsarians.[14]

Appearances Edit
▪  "Dining at Dex's" on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from StarWars.com and
unavailable) (Mentioned only)

▪  Star Wars: Droids—"The Lost Prince" (First appearance)

▪ The Lost Prince: A Droid Adventure

Sources Edit

Wookieepedia has 3 images related to Doodnik Sharpelz.

 ▪ The Essential Guide to Characters
▪ Star Wars Encyclopedia (under "C-3PO") (Indirect mention only)
▪ C-3PO: Tales of the Golden Droid
▪ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
▪  C-3PO in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
▪  Jessica Meade in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
▪  Kleb Zellock in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
▪  R2-D2 in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
▪  The Droids Re-Animated, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) (First
identified as Doodnik Sharpelz)

▪  From Boonta to Baobab: Droids and the Star

Wars Prequels on StarWars.com (backup link)

Notes and references Edit

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5  "Dining at Dex's" on Hyperspace (article) (content removed
from StarWars.com and unavailable)

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5  The Droids Re-Animated, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)

3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The Lost Prince: A Droid Adventure

4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8  Star Wars: Droids—"The Lost Prince"

5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 197 ("Doodnik")

6. ↑ In Dining at Dex's, Dexter Jettster is working at Dex's Diner and recounting his days

with Doodnik Sharpelz. The diner's 19 BBY destruction is featured in The Last of the
Jedi: Underworld.

7. ↑  Tyne's Horky in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)

8. ↑  "Star Wars Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO"—Polyhedron 170

9. ↑ 9.0 9.1  Kleb Zellock in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)

 10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 C-3PO: Tales of the Golden Droid

11. ↑  "A Star Wars CELibration"—Star Wars Insider 27

12. ↑  From Boonta to Baobab: Droids and the Star Wars Prequels on StarWars.com (backup

link)

13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Hyperspace New Short Fiction: "Dining at Dex's" & Xim Week & new Alex
Winger story now online! on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted
by NarbFlick on December 30, 2009, 5:00 am; accessed January 27, 2012)

14. ↑ What's This? More Droids from Handley and Peña? on the Jedi Council
Forums (Literature board; posted by Halagad_Ventor on July 11, 2013, 5:30 pm; accessed July 12, 2013)

External links Edit

▪  "Droids Animated Adventures Encyclopaedia" – Sompeetalay's Source
Blog, Tim Veekhoven's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link
on Archive.org)

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