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Tripping the Rift

Thu, Mar 4, 2004
  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

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  • Stephen Root
    Stephen Root
    as Chode (voice)
  • Maurice LaMarche
    Maurice LaMarche
    as Gus (voice)
  • Jenny McCarthy
    Jenny McCarthy
    as Six of One (voice)
  • John Melendez
    John Melendez
    as Bob (voice)
  • Rick Jones
    Rick Jones
    as Whip (voice)
  • Terrence Scammell
    Terrence Scammell
    as Darph Bobo (voice)
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Episodes

3 seasons · 39 episodes

Ended · 39 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    God Is Our Pilot
    Aired · Fri, Mar 5, 2004 · 30m

    Chode and Gus take a time travel trip to the beginning of creation and mess up the nature of the universe.

  • E2
    Mutilation Ball
    Aired · Fri, Mar 12, 2004 · 30m

    The Confederation forces Chode and the crew to kidnap former Mutilation Game star Malak and bring him out of retirement for a game against the Dark Clowns.

  • E3
    Miss Galaxy 5000
    Aired · Fri, Mar 19, 2004 · 30m

    Chode enters Six in the Miss Galaxy 5000 pageant after getting himself instated as one of the judges (as Fritz Feltchman). Darph Bobo has also gotten himself a judge's pass (as Marvin Wankerstein) and enters his daughter Babette as a contestant. Even T'Nuk enters, coached by Gus. When contestants end up being murdered, evidence incriminates Six (though the murder weapons are all clown related).

  • E4
    Sidewalk Soiler
    Aired · Fri, Mar 26, 2004 · 30m

    Just before beaming down to the planet Snozzle, an irresistible packet of Clownzooka Chew-n-Spit gum materializes at Chode's feet. When he spits out the gum planet-side, he is immediately arrested for soiling the sidewalk and sentenced to be electrocuted on live pay TV.

  • E5
    The Devil and a Guy Named Webster
    Aired · Fri, Apr 2, 2004 · 30m

    Chode takes the Devil to court.

  • E6
    Totally Recalled
    Aired · Fri, Apr 9, 2004 · 30m

    Gus is recalled by Baltar Industries and replaced by a new Gus XP model while Chode's grandpa Benito comes to visit.

  • E7
    2001 Space Idiocies
    Aired · Fri, Apr 16, 2004 · 30m

    Chode is hired to place a giant monolith on the primitive planet of the Kubrickians. When it turns out to be a scheme by Darph Bobo to enslave the planet, Six convinces Chode to go back. The fact that the planet houses a heap load of gold also helps to sway Chode's greedy little mind.

  • E8
    Power to the Peephole
    Aired · Fri, Apr 23, 2004 · 30m

    Having been trapped in a plasma storm for nine days, the Jupiter 42 crew takes a holiday detour to Floridia 7 (a.k.a. the "Spring Break Planet") and are immediately forced by Dark Clown presidential candidate Klak Klownman to find and/or fabricate some dirt on his Confederation opponent, George Goodfellow.

  • E9
    Nature vs. Nurture
    Aired · Fri, May 7, 2004 · 30m

    On the run from Darph Bobo, Chode meets the twin he never knew he had, King Regis Philbrick, ruler of the planet Moldavia. Naturally the two of them swap places.

  • E10
    Aliens, Guns & a Monkey
    Aired · Fri, May 14, 2004 · 30m

    With Bob critically damaged, Chode crash lands the Jupiter 42 on the extremely violent planet Harmonia VII and goes in search of replacement parts.

  • E11
    Emasculating Chode
    Aired · Fri, May 21, 2004 · 30m

    Darph Bobo kidnaps Whip, then slices off one of Chode's tentacles during a lightsaber duel. Feeling like he's lost his masculinity, Chode retreats into his quarters leaving Whip, Bobo's slave, and T'Nuk in charge of the ship.

  • E12
    Love Conquers All... Almost
    Aired · Fri, May 28, 2004 · 30m

    Chode steals T'Nuk's idea to win a peace prize (and a million Kronigs reward) by hooking up Darph Bobo's daughter Babette with Commander Adam's son Adam 12 so the war between the Confederation and the Dark Clowns would have come to an end. Naturally the two commanding officers and their wives strongly disagree.

  • E13
    Android Love
    Aired · Fri, Jun 4, 2004 · 30m

    During girls-night at strip club The Full Moon, Six bumps into Ten, a male sex slave who once saved her live. To help him and his companions escape from bounty hunter Francis Boba Fett III, Six takes off with the Jupiter 42 shuttle called "Surrender Dorothy." An enraged Chode immediately replaces her with a new sex droid, Angel.

Season 2
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Cool Whip
    Aired · Thu, Jul 28, 2005 · 30m

    Feeling unappreciated, Whip takes control of the ship (thinking he's playing a video game) and soon crash lands on a planet whose entire population seems to worships him.

  • E2
    You Wanna Put That Where?
    Aired · Thu, Jul 28, 2005 · 30m

    The crew travels to gay planet Fabulous Heaven to get rid of a stolen shipment of G-Y Jelly. There, Chode is soon thrown in jail for having illegal heterosexual sex with Six.

  • E3
    Honey, I Shrunk the Crew
    Aired · Thu, Aug 4, 2005 · 30m

    Darph Bobo finds out his credit card is being used by Chode. He retaliates by taking over the Jupiter 42 and setting it on self destruct. Whip then comes up with a desperate plan to get Bobo's password out of his brain by going in there using his new Inschrinkerator gun.

  • E4
    Ghost Ship
    Aired · Thu, Aug 11, 2005 · 30m

    The Jupiter 42 is out of fuel and has to pass through the Bermuda Quadrant in order to get to a fueling station. On the way they run into the ghost ship USS El Dorado.

  • E5
    Benito's Revenge
    Aired · Thu, Aug 18, 2005 · 30m

    Chode's grandpa Benito and a few of his pals have escaped from the Fun City Retirement Home, where the old folks' brainwaves were being used to power an amusement park. Naturally Chode does not believe this, sends them right back and visits 7 ½ Flags.

  • E6
    All for None
    Aired · Thu, Aug 25, 2005 · 30m

    The crew walks out on Chode and find new jobs on a Cruiseship in space. Meanwhile, Chode hires a group of illegal alien aliens to run the Jupiter 42.

  • E7
    Extreme Chode
    Aired · Thu, Sep 1, 2005 · 30m

    Chode bets his life-long rival Adam Shatner that Whip can beat Adam 12 at the Intergalactic X-Games hoverboard games. If Whip wins, Chode gets Adam's ship. If he loses, Adam gets Six.

  • E8
    Roswell
    Aired · Thu, Sep 15, 2005 · 30m

    When two Alien Greys try to scam Chode into paying for an accident they caused, he escapes through a time warp. This leads both ships to travel back in time and crash land on Earth near the lackluster town of Roswell.

  • E9
    Santa Clownza
    Aired · Thu, Sep 22, 2005 · 30m

    The crew takes a holiday at Gillabus IV and find the entire planet celebrating the holiday of Clownza. Realizing the festivities are part of one of Darph Bobo's schemes, Chode invents his own rival holiday, "Peacester."

  • E10
    Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion
    Aired · Thu, Sep 29, 2005 · 30m

    At their high school reunion, Chode regains his former status of the King of Cool, Darph Bobo is again the King of Dorks, and T'Nuk the Queen of Bullies.

  • E11
    Creaturepalooza
    Aired · Thu, Oct 6, 2005 · 30m

    Commander Adam has crashed on Vitalius IV, a planet inhabited by just about every scifi monster ever created. His wife Nancy forces Chode to go rescue him by injecting an earwig that will consume his brain within 24 hours.

  • E12
    Chode's Near Death Experience
    Aired · Thu, Oct 13, 2005 · 30m

    Chode nearly chokes to death on a hamburger and resolves to change his selfish ways. Meanwhile, God and the Devil bet on which one of them will have to take Chode when his time comes.

  • E13
    Six, Lies & Videotape
    Aired · Thu, Oct 20, 2005 · 30m

    Six is arrested for several counts of robbery. The real culprit turns out to be Haffa Dozen, the woman Six was modeled after. When T'Nuk goes undercover as a prison guard to break Six out, she mistakes Haffa Dozen for Six.

Season 3
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Chode Eraser
    Aired · Fri, Sep 7, 2007 · 30m

    Babbette Bobo is pregnant, apparently by Chode, so her mother Bernice sends the Arnie 1000 android two months back in time to erase Chode before the deed is consummated.

  • E2
    Skankenstein
    Aired · Fri, Sep 14, 2007 · 30m

    Chode gets his crew a job as royal bodyguards to the princess of the black and white nation of Slovenia. Despite their presence, the princess falls victim to foul play anyway, so they set about reanimating her in Dr. Skankenstein's long forgotten secret laboratory.

  • E3
    To eBay or Not to eBay
    Aired · Fri, Sep 21, 2007 · 30m

    While visiting an online casino, Gus makes some debts. Soon afterwards, all of the least beat up stuff on the Jupiter 42 starts disappearing...

  • E4
    23 ½
    Aired · Fri, Oct 12, 2007 · 30m

    Darph Bobo concocts a convoluted plan to get rid of Chode and Commander Adam at the same time. He kidnaps Six and demands Chode murders Adam within 23.5 minutes. However, Jack Hour of the Alien Terrorist Unit offers to help rescue Six from Intergalactic Airlines flight 69 instead. Once aboard the plane, they find it booby-trapped with deadly snakes.

  • E5
    Chuckles Bites the Dust
    Aired · Fri, Oct 19, 2007 · 30m

    Darph Bobo's grandfather, Chuckles Schlomo Bobo, has kicked the bucket. One of his last requests is for his arch-nemesis, Benito McBlob to give a eulogy at the funeral. So, it's up to Chode to convince his grandpa to leave the retirement home and say something nice about the man he hated most.

  • E6
    The Need for Greed
    Aired · Fri, Oct 26, 2007 · 30m

    Six receives an email announcing a hefty inheritance. The crew all wants a piece of the action and come up with a mutinous plan to support Six as their captain instead of Chode.

  • E7
    Hollow Chode
    Aired · Fri, Nov 2, 2007 · 30m

    Fortune teller Gypsy Rosaly puts a curse on Chode after he refuses to pay her. Back on the Jupiter 42, Chode has turned invisible and immediately begins to take advantage of the situation. After a while it becomes apparent that the curse is causing Chode to be erased from existence all together.

  • E8
    Raiders of the Lost Crock of */@?#!
    Aired · Fri, Nov 9, 2007 · 30m

    Chode heads down to the Grope-a-Cabana to "catch some snatch" and takes Gus along. There he acquires a medallion that could lead to the treasure of the Pyridians. Meanwhile, the Jupiter 42 and the remaining ship are locked in a tractor beam.

  • E9
    Witness Protection
    Aired · Fri, Nov 16, 2007 · 30m

    Commander Adam forces Chode to testify against Darph Bobo in a murder case and puts him in a witness protection program until the trial. Settling down on a suburban planet under the name of "Chance," Chode becomes the object of desire for all the desperate housewives in the neighborhood.

  • E10
    The Son Also Rises
    Aired · Fri, Nov 23, 2007 · 30m

    Dinia, an old flame of Chode's, contacts him and informs him of their son, Chode Jr. Soon, Chode is provided custody and has to take the boy on board, giving him Whip's room. Whip has to sleep in the broom closet.

  • E11
    Extreme Take-Over
    Aired · Fri, Nov 30, 2007 · 30m

    Chode desperately wants to win The Fifty Million Kronig Flaming Colossus Race. Whip proposes to have Spaceship Bob souped up at his friend Sergio's chop shop. Chode also strikes an endorsement deal with Pucker Up hemorrhoid ointment. Things take a turn for the worse when the upgrade installs a virus into Bob's mainframe.

  • E12
    Battle of the Bulge
    Aired · Fri, Dec 7, 2007 · 30m

    When Chode's libido fails to "rise to the occasion," he tries various ways to correct the problem, including doing the nasty with Six in public. Unfortunately, their escapades on the control panel end with the ship accidentally firing lasers at a death star. The expanding star threatens to destroy all in its path. Can the crew save the day or will this really be, "Chode's last stand"?

  • E13
    Tragically Whip
    Aired · Fri, Dec 14, 2007 · 30m

    While the others are being scammed and brainwashed, Whip is out drinking, doing hard drugs, and sowing his wild oats with a bunch of like-minded horny teenagers. Only Gus can pull Whip out of his self-induced state of bliss in order to help him bring the crew safely home. But what's a lecherous lizard to do, have a screw or screw the crew?