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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 10 - The Son also Rises
    5.4/10(21 votes)

    S3:E10

    Chode gets contacted from a long-past ex-girlfriend, and informs him he has a son. Now suddenly a father, he is forced into custody and takes him home to the ship. An unexpected twist takes him from showing he can try to be a good father, to his old self again.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  2. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 5 - Chuckles Bites The Dust
    5.5/10(26 votes)

    S3:E5

    Darph Bobo’s grandfather has just passed on and his dying wish was for his old nemesis, Chode’s granddaddy Benito, to attend the funeral. Benito informs everyone that he’ll attend…over his dead body. But that may be closer to the truth than Benito realises, especially as Granddad Bobo isn’t quite as deceased as he lets on.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  3. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 9 - Witness Protection
    5.7/10(22 votes)

    S3:E9

    Chode is picked up for shoplifting, but Commander Adam is only using him to get to Darth Bobo. To keep Chode safe, Adam sends him off to a far away planet in the witness protection program. On the planet, four housewives, desperate for sex, all try to compete to get Chode.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Jon Minnis

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  4. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 11 - Extreme Take-Over
    5.7/10(23 votes)

    S3:E11

    Chode enters Bob (and the crew) in a space race called "The Fifty MKronig Flaming Colossus." In an attempt to cheat himself into first place in the race, he gets Bob modified in a chop-shop. But he soon finds out that he got more modifications done to Bob than he had wanted.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  5. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 4 - 23 ½
    5.8/10(26 votes)

    S3:E4

    Darth Bobo nous prouve encore une fois qu’il est le clown le plus exécrable en ville. Cette fois, il a kidnappé Sixe afin de forcer Ardillon à tuer le commandant Adam. Ardillon doit non seulement libérer Sixe, mais il doit affronter un avion plein d’horribles serpents venimeux qui pique tout droit dans le désert.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  6. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 8 - Raiders of the Lost Crock of */@?#!
    5.8/10(25 votes)

    S3:E8

    After Six cuts off Chode, he and Gus decide to hit a strip club. At the club, Chode is given a medallion that is supposedly a key to a treasure, but we soon find out its true purpose. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew are stuck in a tractor-beam, and the ship is running out of air...but they can't get away because Chode locked the controls when they left for the club.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Ken Goin

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  7. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 12 - Battle of the Bulge
    5.8/10(20 votes)

    S3:E12

    Chode is suffering from dysfunction, and while single-mindedly trying to prove his manhood, he ends up putting the ship and the whole universe in danger.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Ken Goin

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  8. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 1 - Chode-Eraser
    5.9/10(27 votes)

    S3:E1

    When Darph Bobo and Bernice are informed that their sweet little Babette is with child and Chode is the father, Bernice re-programmes a killer cyborg to travel back in time and dispense with the pathetic, purple pervert before he can do the dirty deed. But hey, don’t worry too much about Chode. In the words of the Terminator…`He’ll live`.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Jon Minnis

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  9. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 6 - The Need For Greed
    5.9/10(28 votes)

    S3:E6

    The crew is broke, but Six gets an e-mail that she is receiving a huge inheritance. Rather than help the crew, she wants to give it away to charities. They suck up to her and make her captain hoping to trick her into giving them some of the money.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Ken Goin

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  10. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 2 - Skankenstein
    6.0/10(28 votes)

    S3:E2

    The evil and accent challenged Prime-Minister of Slovenia plans to kill the country’s Princess in order to take control. For his coup to work, he must first hire bodyguards for her to divert suspicion away from him, and secondly make sure the bodyguards are an incompetent bunch of numb nuts. No second-guessing who gets the job.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writers:Terry Sweeney, Jon Minnis, Lanier Laney

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  11. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 3 - To Ebay or Not To Ebay
    6.0/10(28 votes)

    S3:E3

    Strange things are going on aboard the Jupiter 42. Personal items along with parts of the ship are disappearing. Every one’s a suspect but the finger of guilt is eventually aimed squarely at Gus who has a gambling debt and might be selling the stuff on Ebay to get out of the hole. Question: can a robot with cement shoes drown?

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Ken Goin

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  12. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 8 - Power to the Peephole
    6.1/10(47 votes)

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writers:Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

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  13. Tripping the Rift Season 2 Episode 4 - Ghost Ship
    6.2/10(34 votes)

    S2:E4

    When they run out of fuel, Chode and crew must board a ghost ship to refuel and must confront their greatest fears.

    Director:Jon Minnis
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  14. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 13 - Tragically Whip
    6.2/10(24 votes)

    S3:E13

    Chode takes the crew on a company vacation, since he finds an offer for a free family vacation, but it ends up costing Chode much more than he bargained for.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Ken Goin

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  15. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 9 - Nature vs. Nurture
    6.3/10(45 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

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  16. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 1 - God Is Our Pilot
    6.4/10(76 votes)

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:Andrew Borakove, Bill Rosenthal

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  17. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 2 - Mutilation Ball
    6.4/10(65 votes)

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:Terry Sweeney, Sy Rosen, Lanier Laney

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  18. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 6 - Totally Recalled
    6.4/10(46 votes)

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  19. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 10 - Aliens, Guns & a Monkey
    6.4/10(42 votes)

    S1:E10

    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

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  20. Tripping the Rift Season 3 Episode 7 - Hollow Chode
    6.4/10(26 votes)

    S3:E7

    After Chode refuses to pay a gypsy at a carnival (who just read him his "fortune") she puts a hex on him to make him invisible. But it turns out he is more than just invisible, he is being erased from existence.

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  21. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 3 - Miss Galaxy 5000
    6.5/10(54 votes)

    S1:E3

    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

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  22. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 13 - Android Love
    6.5/10(43 votes)

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Bernie Denk
    Writers:Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney

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  23. Tripping the Rift Season 2 Episode 6 - Extreme Chode
    6.5/10(30 votes)

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Jon Minnis
    Writer:Ken Goin

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  24. Tripping the Rift Season 2 Episode 9 - Santa Clownza
    6.5/10(33 votes)

    S2:E9

    Chode plans revenge when Darph Bobo sabotages his vacation.

    Director:Jon Minnis
    Writer:Mark Amato

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  25. Tripping the Rift Season 1 Episode 4 - Sidewalk Soiler
    6.6/10(52 votes)

    S1:E4

    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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Son also Rises" is the worst rated episode of "Tripping the Rift". It scored 5.4/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Bernie Denk and written by Mark Amato, it aired on 12/20/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chuckles Bites The Dust".