Original title
Tripping the Rift
Released
3/4/2004
Origin country
CA, US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
CinéGroupe
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
39
The continuing comic saga of a bizarre gang of misfits who live, work and play on the starship Jupiter 42, which is controlled by a neurotic A.I. known as Spaceship Bob. The ethically-challenged shipmates travel through the galaxy taking on one epic adventure at a time all while looking to make a quick buck and avoid getting thrown in jail.
Presumably a test for the networks, this 5:56 pilot introduces some of the characters that will come to be featured in the regular series, including Chode, Gus, Six (of One), and Darph Bobo. The pilot features different voices than are on the regular series. There are currently two versions of this pilot known, with this one featuring the voice of Patrica Beckmann doing the voice for Six. This is the only "episode" known that features blatant nudity of Six.
What begins for Chode and crew as a routine mission to protect a pissed-off princess will soon become a filth- splattered saga of dismembered royalty, indestructible clown assassins and desperately horny housewives. What vile act has Chode committed to bring down the ultimate wrath of Bobo? Can Gus, Six, T’nuk, Whip and Bob stop a time-traveling killing machine from ruining a booze-soaked birthday party? How much does a lap- dance cost at the Grope-A-Cabana on Omicron 9?
The original short released on the internet. This pilot introduces some of the characters that will come to be featured in the regular series, including Chode, Gus, Six (of One), and Darph Bobo. In this release, the voice of Six is played by Terry Farrell (of DS9 fame). This is the only "episode" known that features blatant nudity of Six.
Season 2 DVD extra talking to cast and behind the scenes.
Outtakes and Bloopers included on the season two DVD's.
The original short released on the internet. This pilot introduces some of the characters that will come to be featured in the regular series, including Chode, Gus, Six (of One), and Darph Bobo. In this release, the voice of Six is played by Terry Farrell (of DS9 fame).
Chode and Gus embark on a time travel adventure to find out how the begining of time happened. Was it God or the "Big Bang" that create the universe? During their adventure, Chode alters the universe forever, but was this cosmic change a good one? Will Chode and Gus meet God, or will they meet their end?
The Mutilation Ball Championship game is coming up. The Confederation is set to take on The Dark Clowns. They haven't beaten the Clowns since their star player Malek retired. Chode and crew are assigned to find Malek and get him to make a one time comeback. In exchange for Chode's service the Confederation would drop all charges against him.
Chode enters Six in the Miss Galaxy 5000 pageant in order to make $1 million. Chode and Darph Bobo are judges (having stolen the real judges ID badges). However, Darph Bobo's daughter, Babette, is also in the contest --- and is killing off all of her competition.
The episode starts with hot Chode-on-android action, showcasing Chode's disinterest in Six's satisfaction. Their sexual games are discovered by Whip, who turns blind. Chode watches a commercial about shield devices available on a nearby planet, where he decides to go to make a bargain. On the planet Snozzle, polluting is punishable by the death penalty. After getting a free package of Clownzooka chew and spit gum, Chode is arrested and convicted of polluting after spitting his gum on the street. Chode is sentenced to death by public electrocution. While Six wants to rescue Chode, the others are more interested in letting him fry.
When the crew and ship plunge into a black hole, Chode is forced to sign a deal with the Devil to escape (and get an 80' plasma screen TV in the process), but comes to regret the arrangement.
Gus is recalled and replaced with a new model, while Chode's grandfather shows up for a visit.
Chode gets involved in a scheme by Dark Bobo to corrupt an innocent bunch of natives on a primitive planet.
The crew ended up on Floridia 7 and in the middle of an election between Dark Clown Confederation presidential candidates.
After a firefight with Darph Bobo the crew is forced to make an emergency landing on the planed Muldavia 5 (It's not the one with insatiable nymphos either to Chodes chagrin). On the planet Chode finds his long lost (and to him unknown), identical twin, HRH King Regis Philbrick ruler of all Muldavia. The twins decide to swap places, to try out each others life style. Chode soon finds the boring dreary side of being ruler with all the handshaking and baby kissing, and Regis sees the dangers of fighting dark clowns.
Chode and the crew land on a planet where everyone has guns, and a father and son need reuniting as only Chode can do.
Whip is abducted by Darth Bobo and Chode heads down to rescue him. Chode ends up losing a tentacle in the process and must now questions his masculinity as a result.
After losing a load of cocoa butter that he was transporting, Chode needs to repay the cost of the cargo. There's a one million gold piece prize up for grabs, so Chode decides to try to play matchmaker and set up Commander Adam's son and Darph Bobo's daughter.
After Six takes T'nuk to a male strip bar, she finds that one of her old friends is working there.
Whip accidentally takes control of the ship and lands on the planet Kraven, where he becomes a star.
When Chode is stuck with a load of G-Y jelly, they must make for Fabulous Heaven. a world inhabited by homosexuals.
Darph Bobo seeks revenge when Chode steals his identity and credit card. and reprograms the Jupiter to self-destruct.
When they run out of fuel, Chode and crew must board a ghost ship to refuel and must confront their greatest fears.
Chode responds to a request for assistance (sorta) from his grandfather Benito and uncovers Darph Bobo's latest evil scheme.
The Jupiter 42 crew is unwittingly sold into slavery after a mutiny against Chode.
One of Chode's old rivals tries to one-up Chode in an x-treme space-boarding event.
Trying to avoid two aliens holding them up for an insurance scam, Chode inadvertently crashes the ship at Roswell, N.M. in the 20th century.
Chode plans revenge when Darph Bobo sabotages his vacation.
Chode heads back to his high school reunion, but ends up having to make Bobo a "cool" kid.
When Captain Adam goes missing on the most dangerous planet in the universe, his wife Nancy blackmails Chode into going to rescue him.
After choking on a hamburger and having a near-death experience, Chode tries to make up for the things he has done wrong.
A surprise from Six's past revisits her while she is in jail for a crime she did not commit.
When Darph Bobo and Bernice are informed that their sweet little Babette is with child and Chode is the father, Bernice re-programmes a killer cyborg to travel back in time and dispense with the pathetic, purple pervert before he can do the dirty deed. But hey, don’t worry too much about Chode. In the words of the Terminator…`He’ll live`.
The evil and accent challenged Prime-Minister of Slovenia plans to kill the country’s Princess in order to take control. For his coup to work, he must first hire bodyguards for her to divert suspicion away from him, and secondly make sure the bodyguards are an incompetent bunch of numb nuts. No second-guessing who gets the job.
Strange things are going on aboard the Jupiter 42. Personal items along with parts of the ship are disappearing. Every one’s a suspect but the finger of guilt is eventually aimed squarely at Gus who has a gambling debt and might be selling the stuff on Ebay to get out of the hole. Question: can a robot with cement shoes drown?
Darth Bobo nous prouve encore une fois qu’il est le clown le plus exécrable en ville. Cette fois, il a kidnappé Sixe afin de forcer Ardillon à tuer le commandant Adam. Ardillon doit non seulement libérer Sixe, mais il doit affronter un avion plein d’horribles serpents venimeux qui pique tout droit dans le désert.
Darph Bobo’s grandfather has just passed on and his dying wish was for his old nemesis, Chode’s granddaddy Benito, to attend the funeral. Benito informs everyone that he’ll attend…over his dead body. But that may be closer to the truth than Benito realises, especially as Granddad Bobo isn’t quite as deceased as he lets on.
The crew is broke, but Six gets an e-mail that she is receiving a huge inheritance. Rather than help the crew, she wants to give it away to charities. They suck up to her and make her captain hoping to trick her into giving them some of the money.
After Chode refuses to pay a gypsy at a carnival (who just read him his "fortune") she puts a hex on him to make him invisible. But it turns out he is more than just invisible, he is being erased from existence.
After Six cuts off Chode, he and Gus decide to hit a strip club. At the club, Chode is given a medallion that is supposedly a key to a treasure, but we soon find out its true purpose. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew are stuck in a tractor-beam, and the ship is running out of air...but they can't get away because Chode locked the controls when they left for the club.
Chode is picked up for shoplifting, but Commander Adam is only using him to get to Darth Bobo. To keep Chode safe, Adam sends him off to a far away planet in the witness protection program. On the planet, four housewives, desperate for sex, all try to compete to get Chode.
Chode gets contacted from a long-past ex-girlfriend, and informs him he has a son. Now suddenly a father, he is forced into custody and takes him home to the ship. An unexpected twist takes him from showing he can try to be a good father, to his old self again.
Chode enters Bob (and the crew) in a space race called "The Fifty MKronig Flaming Colossus." In an attempt to cheat himself into first place in the race, he gets Bob modified in a chop-shop. But he soon finds out that he got more modifications done to Bob than he had wanted.
Chode is suffering from dysfunction, and while single-mindedly trying to prove his manhood, he ends up putting the ship and the whole universe in danger.
Chode takes the crew on a company vacation, since he finds an offer for a free family vacation, but it ends up costing Chode much more than he bargained for.
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