Hahaha, I never knew I needed that until now!

If you wanted to cut out the head gag, you could just reuse one of the close ups of
BB-8 looking at whatever he is working on, add some flashes from the left side of frame to imply he is working on it, some spark noises and maybe some BB beeps, then cut to the internal shot of the cockpit showing he fixed it. Then you’d need to cut the shot of the electricity covering BB-8 as he comes back up.

To me the head gag didn’t bother me as much because I can believe he just did that to temporarily complete the current so Poe could fire. What I found silly was how that one appendage could have so many smaller appendages attached to it. I think cutting that shot and maybe giving BB-8 a more glitchy sound effect rather than the “Wow!” might help make it work better.