The Best Episodes of Tripping the Rift

When Chode is stuck with a load of G-Y jelly, they must make for Fabulous Heaven. a world inhabited by homosexuals.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Dan Berendsen

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Mark Amato

Whip accidentally takes control of the ship and lands on the planet Kraven, where he becomes a star.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Ken Goin

Chode heads back to his high school reunion, but ends up having to make Bobo a "cool" kid.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Ken Goin

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.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

Chode gets involved in a scheme by Dark Bobo to corrupt an innocent bunch of natives on a primitive planet.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Jeff Westbrook

Chode responds to a request for assistance (sorta) from his grandfather Benito and uncovers Darph Bobo's latest evil scheme.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Mark Amato

When Captain Adam goes missing on the most dangerous planet in the universe, his wife Nancy blackmails Chode into going to rescue him.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

A surprise from Six's past revisits her while she is in jail for a crime she did not commit.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Jackie Beat

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Dode B. Levenson

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Dode B. Levenson

Darph Bobo seeks revenge when Chode steals his identity and credit card. and reprograms the Jupiter to self-destruct.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Ken Goin

The Jupiter 42 crew is unwittingly sold into slavery after a mutiny against Chode.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Ken Goin

One of Chode's old rivals tries to one-up Chode in an x-treme space-boarding event.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Mark Amato

Chode plans revenge when Darph Bobo sabotages his vacation.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Mark Amato

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?

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Bill Rosenthal, Andrew Borakove

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Sy Rosen, Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: John Unholz

After Six takes T'nuk to a male strip bar, she finds that one of her old friends is working there.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

Chode and the crew land on a planet where everyone has guns, and a father and son need reuniting as only Chode can do.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Dode B. Levenson

After choking on a hamburger and having a near-death experience, Chode tries to make up for the things he has done wrong.

Director: Jon Minnis

Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

Gus is recalled and replaced with a new model, while Chode's grandfather shows up for a visit.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Mark Amato

The crew ended up on Floridia 7 and in the middle of an election between Dark Clown Confederation presidential candidates.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

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.

Director: Bernie Denk

Writer: Adam I. Lapidus