6.3/1068 votes#1 - God Is Our Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2004
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
6.3/1056 votes#2 - Mutilation Ball
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/11/2004
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
6.3/1048 votes#3 - Miss Galaxy 5000
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/2004
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
6.4/1045 votes#4 - Sidewalk Soiler
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/2004
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
6.8/1045 votes#5 - The Devil and a Guy Named Webster
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/2004
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
6.0/1039 votes#6 - Totally Recalled
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2004
Gus is recalled and replaced with a new model, while Chode's grandfather shows up for a visit.
Director: Bernie Denk
Writer: Mark Amato
6.6/1040 votes#7 - 2001 Space Idiocies
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/15/2004
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
6.0/1038 votes#8 - Power to the Peephole
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/22/2004
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
6.1/1038 votes#9 - Nature vs. Nurture
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2004
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
6.1/1038 votes#10 - Aliens, Guns & a Monkey
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2004
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
6.4/1040 votes#11 - Emasculating Chode
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/20/2004
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
6.3/1037 votes#12 - Love Conquers All... Almost
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/27/2004
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
6.3/1037 votes#13 - Android Love
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/3/2004
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
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"God Is Our Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Tripping the Rift" season 1. It scored 6.3/10 based on 68 votes. Directed by Bernie Denk and written by Bill Rosenthal, Andrew Borakove, it aired on 3/4/2004. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Mutilation Ball".