Tripping the Rift

Tripping the Rift is a CGI science fiction comedy television series. The universe is modeled largely after the Star Trek universe, with references to "warp drive" and "transporter beam" technology, occasional time travel, the Federation and the Vulcans. The series also includes elements borrowed from other sources such as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Battlesta... Read all

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Cast:Stephen Root , Maurice LaMarche , John Melendez , Gayle Garfinkle , Rick Jones , Terrence Scammell , Pauline Little , John Stocker , Mark Camacho , Harry Standjofski , Susan Glover , Ellen David , Richard M Dumont , Holly Gauthier-Frankel , Rikee Madoff , Danny Blanco Hall , Walter Massey , Pier Paquette

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ God Is Our Pilot

Thu, Mar 4, 2004

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

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Mutilation Ball

Thu, Mar 11, 2004

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.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Miss Galaxy 5000

Thu, Mar 18, 2004

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 judges 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).

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Sidewalk Soiler

Thu, Mar 25, 2004

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 an sentenced to be electrocuted on live Pay-TV.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Devil and a Guy Named Webster

Thu, Apr 1, 2004

Chode takes the Devil to court.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Totally Recalled

Thu, Apr 8, 2004

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

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ 2001 Space Idiocies

Thu, Apr 15, 2004

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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Power to the Peephole

Thu, Apr 22, 2004

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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Nature vs. Nurture

Thu, May 6, 2004

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

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Aliens, Guns & a Monkey

Thu, May 13, 2004

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

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Emasculating Chode

Thu, May 20, 2004

Darph Bobo kidnaps Whip, then slices off one of Chode's tentacles during a light saber 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.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Love Conquers All... Almost

Thu, May 27, 2004

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

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Android Love

Thu, Jun 3, 2004

During girls-night out at the strip club The Full Moon, Six bumps into Ten, a male sex slave who once saved her life. 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.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Cool Whip

2004

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

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ You Wanna Put That Where?

2004

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.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Honey, I Shrunk the Crew

2004

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.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Ghost Ship

2004

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.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Benito's Revenge

2004

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 71/2 Flags.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ All for None

2004

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.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Extreme Chode

2004

Chode bets his life-long rival Adam Shatner that Whip can beat Adam12 at the Intergalactic X-Games hover-board games. If Whip wins, Chode gets Adam's ship. If he loses, Adam gets Six.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Roswell

Wed, Sep 14, 2005

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.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Santa Clownza

2004

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'.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Chode & Bobo's High School Reunion

Wed, Sep 28, 2005

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.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Creaturepalooza

2004

Commander Adam 1 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.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Chode's Near Death-Experience

Wed, Oct 12, 2005

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.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Six, Lies and Videotape

2004

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.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Skankenstein

Thu, Sep 13, 2007

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 re-animating her in Dr. Skankenstein's long forgotten secret laboratory.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Chode Eraser

Thu, Sep 6, 2007

Babbette Bobo is pregnant, apparently by Chode, so her mother Bernice sends the Arnie 1.000 android two months back in time to erase Chode before the deed is consummated.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ To eBay or Not to eBay

Thu, Sep 20, 2007

While visiting an on-line casino, Gus makes some debts. Soon after-wards, all of the least beat up stuff on the Jupiter 42 starts disappearing...

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ 23 1/2

Thu, Oct 11, 2007

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.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Need for Greed

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Six receives an E-mail 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.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Chuckles Bites the Dust

Thu, Oct 18, 2007

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.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Hollow Chode

2007

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.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Witness Protection

2007

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 housewife's in the neighborhood.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Raiders of the Lost Crock of */@?#!"

2007

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.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Son Also Rises

2007

Dinia, an old flame of Chode 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.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Extreme Takeover

2007

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.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Battle of the Bulge

2007

Chode is suffering from erectile dysfunction after drinking saltpeter-infused beer, and while singlemindedly trying to prove his manhood, he ends up putting the ship and the whole universe in danger.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Tragically Whip

2007

Chode finds an offer for a free family vacation, and mis-uses it in order to take a "company vacation" - but it ends up costing Chode far more than he bargained for.