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Tripping the Rift is a Canadian CGI science fiction comedy television show that aired on Sci Fi Channel in March 2004. It is based on two popular short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. Sky One began airing the show in the United Kingdom in early 2005. As of July 27, 2005, Season 2 of the series is airing on Sci Fi.

Setting

Space, our universe, the future. The universe is modelled mostly after Star Trek's, including things such as warp drive, beaming up, occasional time travel, the Confederation and the Volcans, but with plenty of elements borrowed from other sources or original.

Characters

Chode — (Stephen Root
) Chode is a three-eyed, purple alien with green spots, who serves as captain of the smuggling spaceship Jupiter 42. His race believes that one's job should be determined by society and not by the individual. Since he strongly disagrees with this philosophy, he left his home planet as soon as he could. He is fairly stupid and is constantly horny. Chode was raised by a sexually promiscuous single mother. He has a twin brother, Regis Filbrick who was adopted out at birth and is king of the planet Moldania.

Six of One (or just Six) — (Gina Gershon
season 1, Carmen Electra season 2) Six is a sexy android that was designed as a sex slave. She acts as the ship's science officer, thanks to a programming upgrade by Chode. She often gets out of trouble by using her erotic attributes. Six's name is a parody of Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine, and the common phrase "Six of One, Half a Dozen of the other" (although coincidentally there is another sexually charged robotic female character named Number Six
in the current revival of Battlestar Galactica
). It may also be a reference to sex, as they sound similar and 'sex' in Latin means 'six'. Her name could also have something to do with the sex act of "69ing".

T'nuk — (Gayle Garfinkle) T'nuk is the maltempered, three breasted pilot of the ship. She has a highly repulsive alien appearance and a great libido. She was chosen as the pilot because she is particularly good at keeping Spaceship Bob in check.

Whip — (Rick Jones) Whip is a bipedal alien reptile, and Chode's nephew. He serves as the ship's foreman, though he is rarely seen working. As a chameleon, he is able to conceal his appearance.

Gus — (Maurice LaMarche
) Gus is Chode's robot-slave. He is the ship's engineer and exhibits stereotypical homosexual behavior. Though smarter than those around him, he is forced to serve them, as inorganic beings don't have the same rights as organic ones. He has a cynical attitude due to the many failures he has experienced due to his less intelligent organic bosses' actions. His appearance and voice is a parody of C-3PO

Spaceship Bob — (John Melendez) Spaceship Bob is the A.I. that controls the ship. He suffers from agoraphobia, and often has panic attacks at inconvenient times. Only T'nuk's insults can snap him out of his panic attacks.

Darph Bobo — (Chris Moeller) Darph Bobo is the supreme Dark Clown. He wants to take over the universe because he was teased as a child. He has a wife, Bernice, and a daughter, Babette. Both his name and outfit are a parody on the Darths of the Star Wars movies.

Captain Adam — Captain Adam is the captain of a Confederation ship. He has a wife named Nancy and a son named Adam 12. Adam's speech pattern is a parody of James T. Kirk.

Episodes

Pilot

Love and Darph
Oh Brother (Teaser)

Season 1

#God Is Our Pilot #Mutilation Ball #Miss Galaxy 5000 #Sidewalk Soiler #The Devil and a Guy Named Webster #Totally Recalled #2001 Space Idiocies #Power to the Peephole #Nature vs. Nurture #Aliens, Guns & A Monkey #Emasculating Chode #Love Conquers All...Almost #Android Love

Season 2

#Cool Whip #You Wanna Put That Where? #Honey, I Shrunk The Crew #Ghost Ship #Benito's Revenge #All For None #Extreme Chode #Roswell #Santa Clownza #Chode and Bobo's High School Reunion #Creaturepalooza #Chode's Near-Death Experience #Six, Lies and Videotape

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