Maybe you're thinking of tetras, the aquarium fish.

Isn't he in upstate New York, not the Pacific Northwest?

How was he good-hearted?

Zero Moustafa is the protagonist, not Gustave H.

Uh, the hero is vaguely Middle Eastern or something, played by an American. (Two Americans, in fact.)

We watched this with our two-year-old daughter recently and this scene had her screaming with laughter.

It's debatable that RT really takes place in present-day America. E.g., Baumer plays with a wooden racket….

"We don't serve their kind here … your droids, they'll have to wait outside."

The radio serial got around this issue quite well. If I were adapting Star Wars as a play, I'd use that as a source.