Timstuff said:My goal is to make him be an annoyance to Obi-Wan and Qui Gon, but entertaining for the audience. I think that's what Lucas' original intention for the character was, it's just that he horribly botched it up in execution.
I don't know. From the outset Qui-Gon calls Jar Jar an idiot, tells him to go away and ends up spending most of his interaction with the character saying only "Don't touch anything" "Don't do that again" etc. And Obi-Wan just says "wtf is this?!".